Hopes, Dreams, and School
This weekend has been probably the busiest and most enjoyable weekend in... well... a long while. Every minute was filled and frankly right now... I quote from someone way more poetic and elegant than I... I feel expired. Friday was Ashley’s Masquerade party, Saturday was Saman’s 18th birthday party, and then Sunday, I had to help Mom prepare for her Chemistry exam for Monday... while doing my school work. This weekend was a nonstop flurry of exasperation and exhilaration to which there is no end for a senior IB student.
First came the Masquerade party on Friday. It was something I’d been looking forward to for such a long time. And come friday 7th period math... wow... no concentration for me at all... I don’t remember what we were doing... something actually neat like finding the area of a bounded function rotated around a line of some sort... it was pretty... uh... interesting? That’s how it is with the math I’m in... it’s really cool (sometimes...) but I don’t really see that much practical application or real world... anyways, Friday’s schooling came and went very slowly. It seemed to be like an asymptote... always approaching a point (in this case, the end), but never quite reaching it. wow, I just says asymptote... I’m such a dork, ha ha.
I convinced Saman to lend me his V costume (cape, hat, and mask), ... which turned out to be a good idea. I had black shoes, socks, pants, gloves, and a shirt... to add to the effect. When I got to the party and was decked out, Alex came in and asked who I was... to which I responded “V”. :-) I could stick out my tongue and nobody could tell. Unfortunately, it was hard to eat with a full on mask, so it came off and I could have food and drinks. Heh... sad enough to say, the masquerade party turned out to have most of the twelve to fifteen people taking off their masks over the course of its entirety. But nonetheless, it was kickass :-). We danced on the lawn which someone described as feeling like poo (she didn’t have on any shoes), huddled in a semicircle around the heat lamps, and did something with an orange I didn’t think was possible... Someone brought an orange and asked me what to do with it. I suggested that you eat it, ...and... I was wrong. We rocked out to some CDs, an iPod mini, and my iPod. I need to make a better dance party playlist... oh well... most everybody rocked out to my techno / dance stuff. As it got later into the night, the party started to diminish. People started to leave and eventually it was a few of us around a bonfire. Just us, in that moment of time that seemed to last forever, around an incinerating brick, under a starry sky, Melissa and I sat together. Both of us happy, both of us content to sit there with each other in the peaceful night. It would have been cold if it was just one, but we were two, and we were warm together around the glowing embers of the once surrounded but now less crowded bonfire. My heart felt warmer that night...
Saman’s party was fun, but not in the same way as Ashley’s. Jackie came down... or up as she would say... from Mesa for it. And she stopped by my place before we headed to G’s party. We exchanged christmas gifts and ended up watching my gift to Jackie: pirates of the caribbean: dead man’s chest. We didn’t get to finish it, but it’s ok because I’ve seen it so many times... but still wouldn’t mind seeing it again. Saman’s party officially started at 5, but people were coming all the way into the night. I was there at 5, naturally. Saman’s mom brought some food for us and we chowwed down before trying to play some board games. But with people continually coming... they kept getting interrupted. Garet brought over guitar hero and two guitars. I quickly learned that playing Halo and DDR greatly help you in kicking ass at guitar hero. :-). Saman tried to get everybody (now like 20 people) upstairs to watch Thank You For Smoking (<- so so funny...). He eventually ended up not paying attention and got a grapefruit to his master of ceremonies.... he was on the ground for about 3 minutes. But hey,... that’s what you get for not paying attention and if somebody is getting payback. The night drifted on and people were leaving periodically. It seemed somewhat deja vu ish... Eventually, Saman, Matt, Fernando, Waseem, and I were the only people left. We had our own bonfire outside (also deja vu ish) and had some guy time. Come three in the morning... we went to bed....
And then came Sunday, the last day of a great weekend. Mom and her fellow classmate, Maria, called for me to help them with chemistry. I got up around noon, and we stopped at around 6... I got to cook for three people, one more than my previous max. It was so great! I cooked spiced eggs with fried onions, garlic, and some broken up peppered sausage. Yummy! I love cooking so much... I just never know what to cook most of the time >_<... oh well... I’ll learn eventually. So the day became evening, and Maria left, some time was spent thinking and being my nervous self... And then I called Melissa :-). She is so cool and awesome. Her finals are next week... I scottsdale matched phoenix in that scheduling... We talked, not really about anything in particular, school, movies, music, books, history, random facts... just fun stuff :-). ...An hour and 45 minutes later... I was now ready to start my homework. And... then I read something that totally broke my concentration and hopes for doing school work entirely... but lifted by spirits :-). Hell... I couldn’t even play Halo... I was getting sniped! (<- something that always happens the other way around...). But I did my homework and went to bed a little later than I wanted... but whatever.
Optimistic and hopeful, both the best feelings and worst feelings at the same time...
First came the Masquerade party on Friday. It was something I’d been looking forward to for such a long time. And come friday 7th period math... wow... no concentration for me at all... I don’t remember what we were doing... something actually neat like finding the area of a bounded function rotated around a line of some sort... it was pretty... uh... interesting? That’s how it is with the math I’m in... it’s really cool (sometimes...) but I don’t really see that much practical application or real world... anyways, Friday’s schooling came and went very slowly. It seemed to be like an asymptote... always approaching a point (in this case, the end), but never quite reaching it. wow, I just says asymptote... I’m such a dork, ha ha.
I convinced Saman to lend me his V costume (cape, hat, and mask), ... which turned out to be a good idea. I had black shoes, socks, pants, gloves, and a shirt... to add to the effect. When I got to the party and was decked out, Alex came in and asked who I was... to which I responded “V”. :-) I could stick out my tongue and nobody could tell. Unfortunately, it was hard to eat with a full on mask, so it came off and I could have food and drinks. Heh... sad enough to say, the masquerade party turned out to have most of the twelve to fifteen people taking off their masks over the course of its entirety. But nonetheless, it was kickass :-). We danced on the lawn which someone described as feeling like poo (she didn’t have on any shoes), huddled in a semicircle around the heat lamps, and did something with an orange I didn’t think was possible... Someone brought an orange and asked me what to do with it. I suggested that you eat it, ...and... I was wrong. We rocked out to some CDs, an iPod mini, and my iPod. I need to make a better dance party playlist... oh well... most everybody rocked out to my techno / dance stuff. As it got later into the night, the party started to diminish. People started to leave and eventually it was a few of us around a bonfire. Just us, in that moment of time that seemed to last forever, around an incinerating brick, under a starry sky, Melissa and I sat together. Both of us happy, both of us content to sit there with each other in the peaceful night. It would have been cold if it was just one, but we were two, and we were warm together around the glowing embers of the once surrounded but now less crowded bonfire. My heart felt warmer that night...
Saman’s party was fun, but not in the same way as Ashley’s. Jackie came down... or up as she would say... from Mesa for it. And she stopped by my place before we headed to G’s party. We exchanged christmas gifts and ended up watching my gift to Jackie: pirates of the caribbean: dead man’s chest. We didn’t get to finish it, but it’s ok because I’ve seen it so many times... but still wouldn’t mind seeing it again. Saman’s party officially started at 5, but people were coming all the way into the night. I was there at 5, naturally. Saman’s mom brought some food for us and we chowwed down before trying to play some board games. But with people continually coming... they kept getting interrupted. Garet brought over guitar hero and two guitars. I quickly learned that playing Halo and DDR greatly help you in kicking ass at guitar hero. :-). Saman tried to get everybody (now like 20 people) upstairs to watch Thank You For Smoking (<- so so funny...). He eventually ended up not paying attention and got a grapefruit to his master of ceremonies.... he was on the ground for about 3 minutes. But hey,... that’s what you get for not paying attention and if somebody is getting payback. The night drifted on and people were leaving periodically. It seemed somewhat deja vu ish... Eventually, Saman, Matt, Fernando, Waseem, and I were the only people left. We had our own bonfire outside (also deja vu ish) and had some guy time. Come three in the morning... we went to bed....
And then came Sunday, the last day of a great weekend. Mom and her fellow classmate, Maria, called for me to help them with chemistry. I got up around noon, and we stopped at around 6... I got to cook for three people, one more than my previous max. It was so great! I cooked spiced eggs with fried onions, garlic, and some broken up peppered sausage. Yummy! I love cooking so much... I just never know what to cook most of the time >_<... oh well... I’ll learn eventually. So the day became evening, and Maria left, some time was spent thinking and being my nervous self... And then I called Melissa :-). She is so cool and awesome. Her finals are next week... I scottsdale matched phoenix in that scheduling... We talked, not really about anything in particular, school, movies, music, books, history, random facts... just fun stuff :-). ...An hour and 45 minutes later... I was now ready to start my homework. And... then I read something that totally broke my concentration and hopes for doing school work entirely... but lifted by spirits :-). Hell... I couldn’t even play Halo... I was getting sniped! (<- something that always happens the other way around...). But I did my homework and went to bed a little later than I wanted... but whatever.
Optimistic and hopeful, both the best feelings and worst feelings at the same time...