My leg feels weird.

Jeez Louise, I can't wait for friday. It's the first week of school, and the work is already keeping me up until (or past) midnight. But I guess I prefer it. I like to feel productive.

I had a charlie horse a couple days ago. My left leg still feels weird. Bleh.

My Naval ROTC application is very near finished. I have to type up a second optional essay, get my recruiter to approve it, and then, tigercats are go! I have to get a ton of transcript requests, though--for Tulane, Baylor, AFROTC, NROTC, and the recruiter. iA, Dios Mio!

Interact and StuCo had our first joint social yesterday, "Fish Floats". It had a much better turnout than we expected, but it was quite unorganized.

That's about it. I've been pretty boring over the past two days.

Senior Year Bucket List (ongoing)

School officially starts tomorrow, and I figured I should make my "Bucket List". I'm so Morgan Freeman. Completed items are in red.

1. Go to the Renaissance Festival. 10 bonus points if it's on my birthday.
2. Walk into the Band Hall one last time (I quit after my sophomore year, and have been afraid to re-enter)
3. Pull a Senior prank... I have one in mind, but I can't tell you.
4. Watch the Bucket List. With a large amount of high schoolers.
5. Convince someone else to take part in Bucket Listing.
6. Get a tacky bumper sticker
7. Eat at McDonalds before prom
8. Grow a Chia Pet
   
9. Go to Comedy Caberet. Act like it's an opera.
10. Photocopy my butt
    
11. Fly a kite. While "Let's Go Fly a Kite" plays in the background.
    
12. Make a quilt from all of the t-shirts that I'll never wear after high school.
    
13. Give a freshman (other than my brother) a ride
14. Ride the Kemah "Boardwalk Beast"
    
15. Read a book for fun. Does not count if it's required or for a scholarship.
    
16. Get a picture that I personally took in the yearbook
17. Eat ice cream for breakfast
18. Paddle-boat in a creek
    
19. Go to Homecoming
20. Run with scissors in a school hallway
    
21. Learn how to play a piece by Bach on the organ
22. Find the "maximum capacity" of a practice room
    
23. Tailgate at an AP Test. People did it last year. I'm unoriginal.
24. Eat breakfast at IHOP.
    
25. End the feud between Interact and StuCo
26. Host a Star Wars marathon
27. Organize a service project
28. Catch Senioritis
    

Registration Tomfoolery

School officially starts on Monday, and yet, I feel like I've been in school for two weeks. Seriously--here's a schedule of what I did today:

• Woke up at 6:30 am; left for dermatologist at 7:30
• Dermatologist appointment at 8:00 am (Received two additional medications for acne. Gross.)
• Got a mango smoothie from Jamba Juice
• Worked the Interact booth from 9:00 to 9:55 am
• Set up risers and had a Choir officer meeting from 10:00 am to a little before noon
• Worked the Interact booth from noon to 2:00 pm
• Took and printed ID pictures for StuCo from 2:00 pm to about 4:45 pm
• Went home, attempted to read Atlas Shrugged, and uploaded a bunch of junk to my computer

By the way, the ID picture taking area is SUPER FUN. Here's the result:

This is a picture of a poster that's in the cafeteria. Something about eating healthy.

So, uh... we ate too much free candy.

Another picture of the cardboard cutout that my dear friend brought.

Wall mural?

Yessssss.

And here's a productive use of the ink ribbon:

Registration and Rivalries

Today and yesterday, I worked at the Interact booth during high school registration. For those that live under a rock, Interact is the Rotary-funded community service organization for high-schoolers that organizes crazy-cool events such as the annual "Battle of the Bands". Other organizations that had a booth at registration include StuCo (Student Council) and TSA (Technology Students Association?)

Historically, Interact and StuCo have a little unofficial "rivalry" that really has no ground and is quite petty. It's probably based on the fact that Interact has attracted mainly band people, and StuCo appeals to mainly choir/theater people. I still have yet to figure out why it's so segregated. Anyway, this year, one of my goals or "bucket list items" is to bridge the gap between the two organizations. And thus, we are having an event the first Wednesday of school called Fish Floats, in which freshmen and upperclassmen that bring freshmen receive free floats of assorted flavors, and listen to a schpiel about Interact and StuCo. Product placement, yeah!

Anyway, sitting behind a table for more than four hours gets boring. So we shot pencils at some balloons that StuCo had with a pencils launched from one of TSA's toys. Here's a video:

And here's a picture of me with the Frankenstein cut-out that my dear friend brought to spice up the Interact and TSA booths: