Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween, everyone! I know I haven't posted for a while...and I'm sorry 'bout that...but I've been so busy lately...oh, but today I wore my Stargate SG-1 jacket to school. Other people liked it, and I don't even think they knew about Stargate...but hopefully I have influenced them to watch it...




And Happy Belated Birthday, Aunt Aral!

Rained Out

Hm...something about this comic is so familiar...

Oh, yeah! This happened to our band! Yesterday, we practiced indoors in the morning, had a few hours of break, then came to the school...practiced for a few hours...then, what? The TOB was cancelled in medias res? We gave up our Saturday for nothing? Well, not totally. In my bus, which contained the drum major, we started singing our show! It was quite funny...and afterwards I got to hang with other band members and watched a large portion of the Rocky Horror Picture Show (the person who was driving me home had to leave so she could get home before 11:00). I’m hoping that’s the last time I watch that movie, but who knows? They’ll probably make me finish watching it...at least I had fun hanging with them...


By the way, I forgot to tell you of another pain I gained during marching band practice, last Wednesday. I was rushing back to a set we were practicing...when...BAM! One of our French horn players ran right into me, practically knocking me to the ground! It actually didn’t hurt too much, but I just starting crying...sort of because of the pain...but mostly because of the shock. They had to lead me to the sidelines because I didn’t want to sit out. After I showed them that I could breath calmly, they let me back out onto the field, just in time to learn a new visual. While I was on the sidelines, our drum major said to me “Don’t worry, you’ll make it, trooper. And if need be, you can always whack him with your slide...” or something like that. But I can guarantee you he said “trooper”.

Affliction in the Gluteus Maximus

Okay, you all know the violent natures of most Goa’ulds? Well, this Goa’uld, unfortunately, is not excluded from this characteristic. If you attack me vocally or physically (poking, prodding, and hugging fall into this category if the action is extremely annoying to me), I will attack back.

So, during band practice, the Tok’ra earned the right for me to give her a “gentle” kick in the leg (I mean it to be gentle, but strangely I always get a larger “OW!” then intended). For what reason, I can’t remember. It was obviously so horrible, my mind naturally represses it from my memory...anyway, my leg flies in the Tok’ra’s direction, when suddenly her arms shoot down and grasp my ankle. See where this is going? Although probably not intentionally, she in some way pulls my leg towards herself, thus causing me to loose my balance and fall to the ground, butt first. Okay, now, where did I tell you we were? Band practice...right? What’s at band practice? People, instruments, drill books, cases...with nice edges...in fact, I know exactly who’s case I fell on. Of course, I shall not disclose her name in this blog, but I’ll tell ‘ya, she was a saxophonist, with a nice rectangular case. Let me tell ‘ya, that hurt! And even now, after practice, it still hurts! Currently, I’m going through a lot of pain, sitting and typing this blog for you! I think it’s bruised or something...but the Tok’ra is typing up the Western Cultures notes for me in order to make up for the great pain she caused me...(I took the PSAT today and missed the first four periods of school; math = easy; English = ...I’ll try to read the dictionary by the next time I take that test...).

Oh, but wait! There’s more pain! After practiced as we had just started to head home, I remembered I forgot to tell the people who put the long ranger away (Freshmen duties; the Tok’ra and I set it up, and two other people put it away) to put the towel that had been used to keep it dry on the rafters. So, I accordingly jump over the rope, and enter the band shed, and hang up the towel for them. All this moving has irritated the bruise I gained at the beginning of practice, so I hold it in pain as I head back to my mom’s van, and go to jump over the rope...only problem is, I don’t jump high enough. Can’t you picture it? Just like a cartoon...or something from American’s Funniest Videos...the person goes to jump over a rope, their feet hook on to the rope as they move forward, and...BOOM! Face into the damp grass (light rain during the entire practice)! No, it didn’t hurt at all...I just couldn’t stop laughing...it was so funny...the Tok’ra and the Nox didn’t really appreciate the humor of it...but oh, well. They didn’t comprehend the comedy of the bruised butt, either. Oh, well. I guess you had to have been there...

By the way, we won our Homecoming game 7 to 6 (Note: the opposing team is apparently really bad, but you know what? So are we...)! It was suppose to be on Saturday, but due to rain, it was changed to Monday.

Happy 20th Anniversary, Nox and Jaffa!

Game Review: Final Impression: Sly Cooper 2: Band of Thieves

Well, this Saturday was band, band, and band. We had a two hour practice in the morning, less then an hour break for lunch, then went to the away football game. Our school lost horribly at its away game (in which some band members had fun swapping instruments...due to our boredom since we had to rest our chops for the TOB; I think we lost 28 to 0...something like that). After that, they gave us bag lunches (or rather “bag dinners”) and we practiced our visuals until the TOB. We came third out of third again, but our score improved. Also note this is the first season our band has been a category 3 band in 17 or so years (or something like that). If we were in category 2, we’d be easily winning these TOBs. Anyway, I hope we make it to ACCs (Atlantic Coat Championships)...my section leader promised me a bag of Smarties (total of 60 in a bag!!) if we do.

Oh, and I finished Sly Cooper 2: Band of Thieves sometime during September...anyway, it’s a great game! It’s much improved from the first game, and the plot is very absorbing. I highly recommend it. However, I do recommend you play the series...it gives more meaning to the next one...saur_kid’s review should give you an idea of how great it is...(thanks Aunt Ori for getting it for me!). It’s kind of late and I don’t feel like elaborating more on it, so just play it. It’s a WONDERFUL game.

And in fact, I’ve started on the Sly Cooper 3: Honor Among Thieves game! So far it’s very interesting...I really enjoy the fact that they have connections to the other games...which is why I recommend playing all three in order. I obviously have the first two games if anyone has a Playstation 2 and wants to borrow them ;). Also, another neat feature is that there are more characters you get to play as, and more things to do rather then just jumping roof top to roof top, such as flying an airplane in Holland and speeding through the waters of Venice in a boat. Not to mention it has the most awesome thing in the world in the game: a grappling hook equipped camera. It is SO cool! It's one of the power-ups you can purchase for Bentley (one of the three main characters; the "brains" of the group). It can self-destruct, distract guards, and grappling hook! The cool thing is that you can go around the area, and use the grappling hook to get around and to take out guards! It is just SO cool...I wish I had one...