Ouchies and Boardem

There is not really much to say right now. My back is sore and I don't know what to do. I went to Mr. Rocko's yesterday and I had a rehearsal during the day but that was about it. Nothing major happened during rehearsal except that the Pig wasn't there and he never said he wasn't going to be there. I am worried a little bit about school because I have a Computer Science test and a Biology quiz on Tuesday but I haven't studied yet. I'll study Computer Science with Mr. Rocko during spare tomorrow since he is in my class. I will have to study for my Biology quiz tomorrow evening. I got 60 % on the last quiz so I have to study really hard for this one since I need to raise my mark. I also have a Math test approaching and I need to catch up on some Math tomorrow evening. That on top of rehearsal after school. I really don't know what I am supposed to do.

Cookies, Cravings and weird stuffs

So today Mr. Rocko and I went up to the mall to buy some chocolate for our computer science teacher (Mr. Rocko owed her some chocolate). While we were there Mr. Rocko bought some cookies. The cookies drove everyone around us crazy. Some little grade 10's kept bugging us for cookies and the grade 12's were talking about stealing cookies so we hid them and got B-ray to lock the door for us. That was the cookies and cravings part. Now comes the weird stuffs. Mr. Rocko and I came up with our master plan to steal a fair ride. Mr. Rocko called up his alien buddy, Mr. Q, and got him to agree to pick up the ride with his medium UFO and bring it to Mars. Then we were talking about the Zombie Mr. Rocko's and the zombie chickens who eat Zombie meese, unflavored on weekdays, flavored on holidays and weekends. Mr. Rocko said the zombie Mr. Rocko's were banned from future shop for 3 days because one of them tried to park his jet pack on the roof. Since they live within walking distance of future shop, they also live within walking/jetpack distance of a couple of banks. We planned to meet Mr. Q at the the mall at 5:00 pm his time which was 9:26 pm our time. So that was what happened on this Friday. Friday's are always crazy around here.

Better Days

So life has gotten better in terms of the Little Shop of Horrors and the Director. The director was a lot nicer at the last rehearsal. She left me on my own without calling out the cues and she was really pleased with how well I did the cues. I guess that is weight off her shoulders to know that her lighting director is competent. There was an incident with Jane today. She was telling her friends about how we keep chocolate in the office. She didn't realize I was standing behind her at the time. And then she went into the office to check if there was any candy in the stash. There was some but I didn't even let her check. Mr. Rocko gave her a talking to and she gave some serious attitude. We had the day off from rehearsal today and I only had to go to one class because Math was cancelled and during computer science we were setting up for an assembly. As well Mr. Rocko changed the teams name to the Nerd Squad. Don't ask me why. Anyways I finally figured out how to finish my program so I feel a lot better now. Anyways the stress is off although I didn't finish my homework for Math Class. Oh well. Life is finally starting to look up. Except that I have to spend all of Saturday at school.

Amazing

The amazing thing about these images is that the time stamps prove they were taken only about 9 days apart. What's even more amazing is the knowledge that last week we had snow on Monday and then it was 25 ° C on Friday. This must truly be the affect of global warming to have such drastic changes in such short periods of time.

Finally some rest

So the Director gave us Wednesday. Thursday and Friday off last week. We had Wednesday and Thursday off because the actors were just working on their songs and we had friday off because there was no rehearsal friday. I was actually home early for once. I also got my midterm report card on friday and my average so far for this semester is almost 88 %/ But there was a problem with my computer science mark because it was higher than it should have been. Anyways its good that I am keeping my marks up because I need 85 % to keep my scholarship for university. While it was nice to have a couple days off, there was a downside. I had to go into school saturday morning because we were trying out the new equalizer. It sounded great but it was nothing to loose sleep over. Speaking of loosing sleep, I have a Biology test on Tuesday. I've studied hard for my test but tests always make me nervous. I have to do well to make up for the 60 % I got on my last quiz. I got so low because I was working on other stuff and had no time to study for the quiz. Another thing about Friday, no one went into the office for once. Someone went into the office three times last week during third period. We know because they stole chair's from the office. We suspect it was Jane because she was pissed off about quitting the team and everything else. Anyways I really don't know what I am going to do now because I am so board. There is nothing to do around here.

Yay Finally A Day Off

Finally we have a day off from the Little Shop of Horrors and our evil director. Today she came in complaining about how I "Wasn't following the cues." It's kind of hard to follow cues when she changes the cues on the fly every single rehearsal. Tonight we are only needed for pictures and then we can leave. My first afternoon off in almost three weeks. More on Jane as well. Apparently she did not enjoy being on the AV team all this time. Bullshit. If she had a problem she should have said so.

Random Breakage

So my brother was walking out the door this morning when he noticed the door wouldn't close. I came to help him shut it and when he pushed the door closed again the whole cross piece (with a piston to slow the closing of the screen door) broke off from the wall. I examined the break (that make me feel so important) and not only was one of the screws pulled out from the wood entirely, but the metal around two of the screws had broken apart entirely. Seems to me that they had rusted through which is pretty crappy considering that we only had the door replaced a couple of years ago. Someone has really shitty manufacturing. Someone needs to go to university. I am just bitching because my dad went off to my cousins wedding and wouldn't let me go. Or should I say is about to leave in like two minutes. I have to go to school soon and I am tired because I have another rehearsal of the Little Shop of Horrors tonight. I simply can't leave the Pig to run the lighting.

Universities that try to much

The universities that suck the most are the universities that try to much. One university that I applied to has pretty much insured that I would never even consider accepting their offer of admissions. For one they offered way to quick, only a week after I applied. Second of all they have become the annoying fly. They constantly send me e-mails, letters, flyers, even telephone me to ask if I have any questions or to tell me about all the events they have going. I really don't care. It wouldn't bother me so much if they only sent one letter or flyer but it is the mere amount of their communications that puts me off. In my eyes it shows a certain desperateness if they are going to such lengths to attract students. I think that universities that try to much such as this one should take a good long look in the mirror and give themselves time to think. Cub Carson. They might just figure out why they are not attracting many students.

Rabid Aquatic goats

So I wrote a math contest today. In preparation for the contest I was looking through old contests. One of the questions had to do with survivors on an island building a driftwood shelter for their goat. Now my question to my good pal Mr. Rocko upon reading this was "Why the heck do they have a goat in the first question. Sadly Mr. Rocko was no help, only telling me to "figure it out mathematically." Now today I was writing the contest and there was a question about a couple of islands surrounded by water filled with... rabid aquatic goats. What is with them and goat? Well this afternoon I was telling Mr. Rocko how in order to be 100 % prepared for the contest you would have to study every single thing to do with math. His comment was "Ya, everything about Math and everything about goats." Anyways this was just a brief interruption from "The Little Shop of Horrors," or as a classmate called it "Little Shop of Whores." In her defense she thought that Mr. Rocko actually said Whores. We had another rehearsal tonight and while we managed to avoid Death Wishes, we found out that one of our speakers was blown. On top of that Mr. Rocko and I had to leave before the end of rehearsal since the Director never told us it was a full run through today. I had to leave the Pig on the lighting board. It should have been pretty easy, a simple fade to blackout and fade up in one scene, a blackout at the end. Apparently not. We were standing by our lockers when we saw the lights blacked out and the Director, apparently forgetting I had to leave, calling up to me about the lighting, particularly about something that was done wrong. The Pig can't even handle the simplest tasks. But on the bright side, having him screw up immediately makes me look all the better to the Director. On the bad side, we have to go in on Saturday to play around with the sound and we have a full technical rehearsal the Saturday after. Not much time left for myself anymore.

Somebody Quit

So we have had an interesting last couple of days. On the weekend one of the team members, Jane, sent Mr. Rocko a really weird e-mail that left Mr. Rocko severly disturbed. Then said member said on Monday that her younger brother sent the e-mail because she let her little brother reply to her e-mails for her. Mr. Rocko started joking around with her about forwarding the e-mail to all of his contacts and she got severly pissed off, enough that she said she was quitting. Personally I am glad that Jane left since she was a real bitch. Somebody said that they was glad that she quit and the Director will probably be glad that she quit as well. Obviously she wasn't much liked around the team and the cast of the play. Mr. Rocko thinks she flipped because she really sent the e-mail herself and was pissed that Mr. Rocko would invade her privacy by showing it to everyone. Don't know why she thought he would keep it a secret though. Mr. Rocko already told her there was no point in her telling something to just him since he would just tell me anyways. Foolish little witch. With Jane gone and Mat completely unreliable these days, the play could be in trouble.

The Killing Died down

It's a friday night and as usual I am stuck at home by myself while everyone else is out having fun. Not that I mind overly much. I haven't actually been home for that long since I had another rehearsal after school today. The rehearsal wasn't that bad since the Director didn't complain as much. Mr. Rocko no longer feels the need to kill the Director although he did mention jumping from the upper caf at one point, but only if the Director complained too much. I also got my offer of admissions from QU today. That means I got accepted at all the universities I applied to. Mr. Rocko is still waiting to find out if he got into the Radio and Television program at RY. RY is only about an hour and a half from the university I am going to so I will still be able to visit Mr. Rocko some days. I wasn't feeling well earlier today but my stomach is feeling much improved. And people say friday the 13 is unlucky.

The Teen Years

The teen years can be some of the most troulbling years. Luckily for me those years are almost over. Midterm report cards come out next week for the final semester of my final year of high school. I don't have much to worry about. I'm getting ok grades and I was accepted into the Computer Science program at the University I wanted to go through. But now I have to worry about getting high enough marks to make an 85% admission average in order to retain my scholorship. Normally that wouldn't be to hard except that I am having trouble with Geometry and Discrete, only a 77%, and that is one of the required courses for my program.
I am also doing lighting as part of the Technical crew for the school play. So far it has been nothing but a disaster. The sound is never good enough, the mics keep cutting out, the light's aren't bright enough, and we are still short two spotlights. Every single day the director complains about something. Mostly because Jane never pays attention and has to be told what to do every single second. Yesterday she had to ask me if she should throw out the garbage that was on the table. And then there is Mat who is consitently unrealiable. I talked to Mat earlier today and he said that he may or may not be able to attend the rehearsal today after school. My friend, Mr. Rocko, is the Technical Director and he is just about ready to either murder the director or just walk. Doing either would leave him in a lot of trouble with somebody. Apparently not only does the director complain about the technical stuff to our faces, but she also complains about the technical stuff behind our backs to other teachers. Mr. Rocko is just about ready to have a melt down.