Hi, my name is Emily, and I'm totally *head forward* STOKED to be here.
This weekend was amazing. Thursday night, I spent 3 hours at Marble Slab and even helped close up! That was fun. After that, I went to Becca's house. We listened to "Rent," "Tick, Tick...BOOM!" and "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee." I LOVE musicals. I was up until 5:30 AM and woke up at 7:00, so I had a super exciting time with that.
Friday, we were supposed to leave at 8:30, but we left at 9:15 instead. Typical academic team lateness. Justin and I sang "Tomorrow" from Annie in the hallway, so that was fun. We were supposed to take the OW van down to Gainesville, but, apparently, it's unsafe to have 11 people or more in a 15-seater van, so we had to take the mini-bus. Mrs. Cook doesn't have a CDL license, but Dr. Mosely (from Rocky Bayou) does, so he drove the bus and Rocky Bayou rode with us. On the way down, they were all in the front studying, and then there was us. Kara, Austin, Terry, Ben, and I were watching "Minority Report." Adam was watching "Saw." Ruthie was sleeping/text messaging. Brittney was sleeping. Jake was listening to music. Then we went to Firehouse Subs for lunch. After that, all the sophomores were doing something (I'm not quite sure what), and Ruthie and I were talking in ridiculous accents, trying to get the Rocky kids to join us. They didn't, but Justin, Luke, and Carlos talked to us. That was really fun. We got to our hotel and had time to put our stuff in there and listen to some of my CD's. I love my CD's. After that, we went to UF for 5 rounds of questions. We played Eastside B, then we had a BYE, played Lincoln B, played Fort Walton, and played some other school (I don't know their name). We won all 5 of those. We went to Moe's for dinner, and I listened to Ben's iPod. He has some good music. I gave Kara a piggy-back ride back to the bus. We went back to the hotel and listened to Grease, singing along with every song. I love Grease. Oh, I forgot to say who was in my room. There was me, Kara, Becca, Ruthie, and Brittney. 5 girls, a king-sized bed, a pull-out couch, and a rollaway bed.
We had to be awake, have eaten breakfast, packed, and in the lobby with all our stuff at 8:15 in the morning! That was really interesting. Getting ready was even better. 5 girls, 1 bathroom, all of us trying to get dressed. Saturday, we still had 4 rounds to do. We played Florida State University School (lost), another school (won), Cedar Shoals (won), and another school (won). William Frederick Beyer, III was there. He's pretty much my favorite moderator. We're old pals. He loves me. At the FSU tournament, he said I answer all the trash questions, and I proved him correct at UF last year, FSU, Valencia, and UF this year. He read for 3 of our rounds. After those 4 rounds, we had lunch. About half of us went to Leonardo's for pizza, but all the cool people stayed to go to the arcade downstairs. We played DDR, and I totally pwned Becca (of course, I was on Beginner, and she was on Standard, but whatever). Then I got a smoothie (mmm) and a chicken sandwich. I like chicken. We had an 8-1 win-loss record, so we were tied for first in our bracket, so we made it into he playoffs. We lost the first round of that to Plant City by 20 points. They got a bonus about Rent and knew who directed the movie (Chris Colombus), because he directed Harry Potter 1 and 2. They didn't know who wrote it (Jonathan Larson), the name if the stripper (Mimi Marquez), or the name of the computer nerd (Tom Collins). It really upset me,a dn I felt like crying. I knew every answer, and the worst part was that I knew the toss-up that lead to that bonus, but I was timid. We decided that when we think we're up against a good team, we're timid, afraid to mess up. There were so many questions that we knew that we didn't answer. But, oh well, it's over.
On the way back to Niceville, we had a party in the back of the bus. It was really fun. Yeah.
Today, I went and saw "Rent" (FINALLY!) with Jonathan Webster. He said if he didn't like the movie, he was going to cut my head off, so this could be my last entry. I thought it was amazing. If you haven't seen it yet, you need to. After the movie, we saw Justin and Jessica at Johnny Rocket's so we talked to them far a little while. That was fun. On the way home, I went to Target and bought the "Rent" soundtrack and "All The Right Reasons," Nickelback's newest CD. I just really had a good weekend.
Yesterday was my parents' anniversary. That was weird. My little sister won a spelling bee yesterday, so she's going to State in February. I'm really excited for her.
On a sadder note, today (December 4, 2005) is my 2-year anniversary of bing single. It sucks, but I did a thing on MySpace, and it said that this week, I will get a boyfriend, make 20 new friends, get A+'s on all my tests, and fall in love. So, I won't be single for much longer, because I totally believe in those things. I really hate being single. It's not even that I want a certain person (although, right now I do). It's just that I want to feel like somebody out there cares about me, not like they like me and they're my friend, but that they really care about me. I haven't felt that way in a long time. I just really need to feel that, but I probably won't for another two years. I don't know. It just seems like everything in my life is falling apart at the same time, and theings that have always been there are made worse by the fact that everyone around me isn't experiencing them. Maybe MySpace isn't lying this time. I sure do hope it isn't.
Friday, we were supposed to leave at 8:30, but we left at 9:15 instead. Typical academic team lateness. Justin and I sang "Tomorrow" from Annie in the hallway, so that was fun. We were supposed to take the OW van down to Gainesville, but, apparently, it's unsafe to have 11 people or more in a 15-seater van, so we had to take the mini-bus. Mrs. Cook doesn't have a CDL license, but Dr. Mosely (from Rocky Bayou) does, so he drove the bus and Rocky Bayou rode with us. On the way down, they were all in the front studying, and then there was us. Kara, Austin, Terry, Ben, and I were watching "Minority Report." Adam was watching "Saw." Ruthie was sleeping/text messaging. Brittney was sleeping. Jake was listening to music. Then we went to Firehouse Subs for lunch. After that, all the sophomores were doing something (I'm not quite sure what), and Ruthie and I were talking in ridiculous accents, trying to get the Rocky kids to join us. They didn't, but Justin, Luke, and Carlos talked to us. That was really fun. We got to our hotel and had time to put our stuff in there and listen to some of my CD's. I love my CD's. After that, we went to UF for 5 rounds of questions. We played Eastside B, then we had a BYE, played Lincoln B, played Fort Walton, and played some other school (I don't know their name). We won all 5 of those. We went to Moe's for dinner, and I listened to Ben's iPod. He has some good music. I gave Kara a piggy-back ride back to the bus. We went back to the hotel and listened to Grease, singing along with every song. I love Grease. Oh, I forgot to say who was in my room. There was me, Kara, Becca, Ruthie, and Brittney. 5 girls, a king-sized bed, a pull-out couch, and a rollaway bed.
We had to be awake, have eaten breakfast, packed, and in the lobby with all our stuff at 8:15 in the morning! That was really interesting. Getting ready was even better. 5 girls, 1 bathroom, all of us trying to get dressed. Saturday, we still had 4 rounds to do. We played Florida State University School (lost), another school (won), Cedar Shoals (won), and another school (won). William Frederick Beyer, III was there. He's pretty much my favorite moderator. We're old pals. He loves me. At the FSU tournament, he said I answer all the trash questions, and I proved him correct at UF last year, FSU, Valencia, and UF this year. He read for 3 of our rounds. After those 4 rounds, we had lunch. About half of us went to Leonardo's for pizza, but all the cool people stayed to go to the arcade downstairs. We played DDR, and I totally pwned Becca (of course, I was on Beginner, and she was on Standard, but whatever). Then I got a smoothie (mmm) and a chicken sandwich. I like chicken. We had an 8-1 win-loss record, so we were tied for first in our bracket, so we made it into he playoffs. We lost the first round of that to Plant City by 20 points. They got a bonus about Rent and knew who directed the movie (Chris Colombus), because he directed Harry Potter 1 and 2. They didn't know who wrote it (Jonathan Larson), the name if the stripper (Mimi Marquez), or the name of the computer nerd (Tom Collins). It really upset me,a dn I felt like crying. I knew every answer, and the worst part was that I knew the toss-up that lead to that bonus, but I was timid. We decided that when we think we're up against a good team, we're timid, afraid to mess up. There were so many questions that we knew that we didn't answer. But, oh well, it's over.
On the way back to Niceville, we had a party in the back of the bus. It was really fun. Yeah.
Today, I went and saw "Rent" (FINALLY!) with Jonathan Webster. He said if he didn't like the movie, he was going to cut my head off, so this could be my last entry. I thought it was amazing. If you haven't seen it yet, you need to. After the movie, we saw Justin and Jessica at Johnny Rocket's so we talked to them far a little while. That was fun. On the way home, I went to Target and bought the "Rent" soundtrack and "All The Right Reasons," Nickelback's newest CD. I just really had a good weekend.
Yesterday was my parents' anniversary. That was weird. My little sister won a spelling bee yesterday, so she's going to State in February. I'm really excited for her.
On a sadder note, today (December 4, 2005) is my 2-year anniversary of bing single. It sucks, but I did a thing on MySpace, and it said that this week, I will get a boyfriend, make 20 new friends, get A+'s on all my tests, and fall in love. So, I won't be single for much longer, because I totally believe in those things. I really hate being single. It's not even that I want a certain person (although, right now I do). It's just that I want to feel like somebody out there cares about me, not like they like me and they're my friend, but that they really care about me. I haven't felt that way in a long time. I just really need to feel that, but I probably won't for another two years. I don't know. It just seems like everything in my life is falling apart at the same time, and theings that have always been there are made worse by the fact that everyone around me isn't experiencing them. Maybe MySpace isn't lying this time. I sure do hope it isn't.