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ugh. So, the thing I worked on with Galaxy and Arjun on Sunday, it's this ghost scene from Pride and Prejudice for English. And on Sunday, Arjun was all "Give what we have so far to me, I'll type it up and add stuff and then send it to one of you and you can add stuff" and so on. Well, I came up with the "We can pass it around and add stuff", but he volunteered to type and add first. So he sent it to Galaxy on Monday, and it was crap. I'm sorry. But everything he wrote was completely out of character and he changed so much stuff that we had already written, and it was just very bad. So Galaxy tried to fix it and add stuff back and we asked him for the original we wrote just because "we wanted to see something" (i.e. change everything back to how it was) and then this afternoon I started changing stuff and I edited everything closer to how it was and I edited later stuff as well and I was pretty pleased with how it was. It needed editing still and probably more things added, but it was better than it was. But then. Then. I went to send it to Galaxy and I saved it, except I forgot that I opened it from the email attachment she sent it to me and didn't choose save to computer, so saving it did nothing, and I didn't realize it until I already closed Word. ugh. So pissed at myself.

So yeah. Today has not been my day. (Actually, the math test third period went very well, as far as I could tell, so at least there's that. And English is always excellent, when we're not writing essays.)

Ah, speaking of English, today she tried to rush us through what we were learning because she didn't think we'd have time, but we ended up with like... 15-20 min at the end of class (that sounds like a lot, but it was a block period, which is 1 1/2 hours long, so yeah) and she was saying that we should start this other thing she didn't think we'd have time to get to but she said that she didn't want to teach us anymore. So then someone was all of a sudden, "We could watch Colin Firth dive into the lake!" because Mrs. Moore is totally in love with Colin Firth (she has magazine clippings of him on the wall of our English class. It's excellent) and she was all "OH! WE COULD TOTALLY DO THAT!" because she was saying we wouldn't have enough time to finish the whole thing in class, but she wanted to show us that scene, so she did, and it was excellent. I mean, I've already seen it, of course, but it's always excellent seeing it, and Galaxy's never seen the BBC version so she was especially giddy about it. And now on Saturday we're potentially watching all 5 hours of it in a row, since I've only seen it in chunks, never all straight through (and also I think I've become more obsessive since the last time I saw it), provided we can find a time that works for us.

Oh, and also, I wanted to mention, because it'd be appreciated here, that yesterday when everyone came over Zi was one of the people over and he was looking through the DVDs I have up above my TV and then he saw Firefly and was all "...is this? OMG YOU HAVE FIREFLY!!!" And it turns out he's this huge fan of Firefly and loved the show and loved Serenity and everything, and it was hilarious and awesome, because I'm not used to finding people who love shows like Firefly like I do that I haven't forced to watch the show myself. So yeah. It was awesome.

I found myself getting sucked into Lost tonight, which is kind of odd. I haven't been as into it recently. But I don't like Charlie as much as I did back at the beginning of the first season, and that makes me sad.

New layout because I am obsessed. brokenrecord__. I've been wanting a new layout for like a month but I haven't really been... into anything enough to make anything, I guess. Don't know how long this will last because it's kind of different from what I usually have, but I like it for now.

Anyways, today consisted of not doing much. I did practice my audition music some more and I think my music actually might go all right. I'm fucked for the scales, but last year when they asked me for one scale I played several notes from an entirely different scale before being all "er. Wait. No. Let me try again." and even then I still messed it up. And I still ended up getting in. So, I think the music's more important than the scales. We'll see. I'm trying not to get my hopes up.

I also read Nick Hornby's A Long Way Down today, and it was excellent. I want to read more of his stuff.

Tomorrow I may be doing something with Emma and Mukul and possibly other people? We're not very good at working out the details. But I assume it will happen. I want to try to get us to see Brokeback Mountain, because I think Emma is actually interested in seeing it, and I think it would be fun to force Mukul to see it. Hey, there's more man-on-woman sex than man-on-man sex! I think we could convince him with that. And at some point, I really need to go to the animal shelter. sigh.