Not much to say here.  I'm done with school and I'm happy.

That's all for now.

Still here in case anyone was wondering.

Currently Playing How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb By U2 City of Blinding Lights see related

I'm hooked on the currently playing.

I bought the new U2 album yesterday, and I can't seem to stop listening to it.  If you haven't bought it yet, buy it, download the songs, or wait for another month...

School's out until Monday, so I have a lot of free time.  Most of that is gonna be spent with family, though, and I'll be down by "the shore" tomorrow at my grandparents' house.  For future reference, "the shore" is short for the Jersey Shore.  If you hear "the beach" it probably is referring to Long Island, probably Jones Beach.  The plan for tomorrow is as follows: have lots of turkey and fall asleep watching a football game.  Oh yeah, and I'm gonna listen to my iPod a lot.

Last night was rather eventful.  I had an early dinner with David, Max Kelly, Quinn, Kenta, Cheung, Katrina, Serena, Elaine, and a few Brearley sophomores, along with our Chinese teachers.  Needless to say, this was at a Chinese restaurant.  After dinner I went with Max and David to Loeb's house where I stayed for a while.  A bunch of my classmates were there and we basically just talked for a while.  That's something we need to get our whole class to do before we graduate, just sit down and talk.  I went out with them for a while before they decided to head over to someone else's house and I went home.  I had a good time, and that's all that matters to me at the moment.

Currently Playing How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb By U2 Vertigo see related

This was a good day!

First off: Our JV team swept the top 10 spots at NYSAIS.  Dylan Trotzuk '08 won the race.  Dylan has become the story of the season, having gone from the 5 runner on the freshmen team to being the top JV runner in a matter of 2 weeks.  As for me, I ran a 19:39.6, which is my best time by far.  I finally beat Paul Needham '07, and it was real funny how I did it.  Every time I pulled up, he'd sprint away.  At one point, he cut me off, and at another point he actually shoved me to the side of the course.  Right after that last one was where I passed him: the course widened, he went the left and I went to the right and picked it up.  By the time he saw me, I was cutting back in and there was nothing he could do.  I got passed by Joseph Myrie '08 at the end, but I passed Jonathan Yip '08 at the beginning of the last straightaway, and I passed Doug Moss '05 at the finish line, beating him by two tenths of a second.  I heard more cheers directed at me than I had ever heard, possibly because I was beating Paul.  Paul finished 10th, putting all of our runners across the line before any other school even had one across.

Second: Our varsity team did really well, going 1,2,3,4,8 but still sweeping the race because runners 5, 6 and 7 were from incomplete teams.  Chris Williams '07 ran 16:12.  Dwayne Alexis '07 (maybe you are reading this right now) finished second with 17:11.  Kenta Heinsdorf '07 got the chance to run varsity today.  He ran a good race, right up until his leg basically gave out on him.  I think he's gonna be okay, though.  I rode back on the bus with the bottom three runners of the varsity team, and we all got to talk. [sarcasm]Thank you Kenta for draining the battery in my iPod.[/sarcasm] Yeah, it was a good time.  That's the end of the season, at least for me.  If all goes well, I'm gonna be working at the Federation meet next week, and that should be fun.

I've gotten into slam poetry.  Take that, combine it with ACS, DDR, and a few other things, and I'm starting to turn into Jimmy Zhao '04.  A few things though that will keep me from being him: I probably am not gonna go to Harvard (though I don't have to decide that one for a while), and I will never be a Mets fan.

There's a lot of other stuff I could be talking about right now, but I don't feel like it, so I'm outta here.

I have 50 dumplings sitting in a freezer.  Tomorrow, my mom's going to boil them, and I'm going to bring them in to school for a dumpling sale.  Jimmy would be proud.

I have nothing to do.  I got basically all of my homework done already, so I'll probably continue on my workshop piece (which I am completely rewriting, by the way) or just do something else.  Meb finished second in the marathon (YAY!) and Radcliffe won her race.  Not much else is going on, seriously.  I haven't been this bored since Columbus Day weekend.