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I finished the band website Saturday afternoon, finally. So relieved that it's done. It's here if you'd like to take a look at it. Finished the assignment for my college counselor. I've also started How the Irish Saved Civilization, and if I could concentrate when reading it, I think I'd actually like it. I like that sort of history and such, and while I can see why most of the rest of people at school would hate it, it's kind of up my alley. The only problem is that it's kind of confusing, so you have to make sure to read it carefully, which I'm not, so I'm like... eh, 1/5 of the way through it and I'm not entirely sure what's going on. Except that Rome fell. But that's kind of it. Oh well. At least I'm getting through it.

Spent the weekend watching Freaks and Geeks. I love Bill. Before the DVDs, I had watched about 6 or 7 episodes, and I liked Bill well enough, but after seeing almost the entire season... Bill is the greatest character ever. Only have 3 episodes left, sadly. But there are like 29 commentaries, so that'll take me some time to get through. I think I'll watch one or two every weekend, and... yeah. That should last me awhile.

I think I'm going to just forget about the Ruby's night tomorrow. I mean, it's already a hassle to figure out since I need to either find a ride there or a ride home, and eh... I don't think I'm in the mood for it. Plus, I still have work to do, and I don't see myself finishing How the Irish Saved Civilization tonight. And I really, really want to make some more icons, because I have a bunch sitting on my computer, but I have some that I want to do before posting, and I haven't made an icon post in forever. So. Yeah. I think I'll just forget about it.

School starts in 3 days. guh. I'm looking forward to it now, but I know that within a week, I'll be hating it.

Saw the premiere of Prison Break. I've been hearing how good it is for like a month now, and I don't know why, but I just went in with really low expectations, because... eh. It didn't seem like my type of show, and I didn't think it could be as good as everyone was saying. But I ended up absolutely loving it. Really interesting show, though it was very confusing at the beginning, when I didn't have all the characters straight. I'm looking forward to seeing how it all unfolds.

Heh. While I was watching it, Mrs. Bentley called. She e-mailed me back about the website earlier and pretty much raved about it. So when she called she pretty much just told me how much she loved it some more, and that they would take a screenshot of one of the published pages and put it in with the presentation on the parents' night on Thursday. Then she went on to say about how she's Vice President of this California band association thing, the SCSBOA (...or something similar to that. They're like... yeah. I can't really explain it very well), and how their website sucks, and like... she isn't totally sure of it yet, but in spring if she's Vice President again, she'd like to get me to do the website. I was ready to say yes at that, but then she was all "It'd be in the summer, so you wouldn't have any conflicts, and we could pay you. Like, $1000." I was all "...uh... are you expecting me to say no here?" Yeah. That would be really awesome. Hopefully I'll be able to do that.

There was something else I was going to say, but I forgot what it was. Oh well.

Friending Frenzies are love.

Went to the speech therapist today. My orthodontist reccomended I see him because she can't get my bite normal and it's been like 2 years and yeah. It turns out, I swallow incorrectly. I didn't even realize that I was doing it wrong (or that there was a wrong way to do it). But apparently the way I do it presses against my front teeth so it undos what the braces and rubber bands are supposed to do. But it's easy to fix, he said, so I may actually get to get my braces off in a few months. That'll be crazy. I liked him a lot more than my orthodontists. He was nice.

After that, Mrs. Bentley came over to work on the website. She's the band director at my school, if I hadn't mentioned that before. So yeah, that seemed like it'd be weird. It wasn't too bad, really. I have an idea for how I want to make the website look. I'll make a mock-up either tonight or tomorrow and post it here to see what people think.

Weapons of Class Destruction is airing tomorrow on UPN! I haven't been watching the repeats (well, I would if I had a Nielson box! But it makes no difference what I watch, and I've been lazy), but I'm definitely planning on watching this ep. I haven't seen it in awhile, and I've had the urge to watch it recently. So yay, looking forward to that. :D

Heh, I'm only at 59 out of 100 icons. I think I'll just upload them as I make new icons. I realize that when I got a paid account, I planned on finally using other people's icons (before I never did because I only had 3 spaces, and it was easier just to change them everytime I made a new icon post), and now I even have up to 100 but I still haven't. No real reason, though. There are plenty of people's icons I love far more than my own. I just haven't really felt like it. I'm weird.

Lastly, thanks devianna for showing me that code. Thanks to that, I managed to get my tags to work. :)

Mrs. Nichols came over to install the software for the website and show me how to change stuff and all. I talked to my mom afterwards and she's going to e-mail Mrs. Bentley about it and then try to get me out of doing a mock-up. Because, I mean, I don't see the real point in it. I'm going to meet with her anyways to talk about what she wants and what I think and stuff and like... I can do a lot of stuff in PSP that I may not be able to do in the site and I'd use PSP to make a mock-up, and... yeah. So. We'll see. Plus, I have a lot of other stuff I really need to be doing instead.

I watched Moulin Rouge again last night. You'd think I'd cry less the second time watching it, but I definitely cried more. guh. You'd also think that watching it again would help the obsession wear off, but I think I'm even more into it than before. sigh. I need to make icons of it sometime. I also need to stop getting so obsessed with things.

Tagged by spike_buffy: List five songs that you are currently digging... it doesn't matter what genre they are from, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good but they must be songs you're really enjoying right now. Post these instructions, the artists, and the five songs in your blog. Then tag five other people to see what they're listening to.

1. The Music and the Misery - Fall Out Boy
2. Kill the Messenger - Jack's Mannequin
3. New Day - Mêlée
4. Stay Where I Can See You - The Starting Line
5. Aside - The Weakerthans

I'm bad at tagging people and remembering who's already done this, so just... do this if you feel like it.

I'll do the shipper meme thing later today. Right now, I'm going to go watch the episodes of Arrested Development I recorded from Friday night.

gah. I had to wake up at 7 this morning for an orthodontist appointment. Evil. And they're going to make me see this speech therapist/jaw therapist thingy to see if they can get my bite to how it should be. eck. I'm really tired of braces. On the awesome side, though, when I was at the orthodontist, the radio station started playing Save the Last Dance for Me. It wasn't the version that's in QaF 122, but it was still pretty cool.

My last SAT class is today, but I managed to convince my mom to let me skip it. It was really easy, too. I mean, I told her that all we're doing today is finishing this math packet I already finished and then having a party, which is true. And she was all "Oh, that just makes it easier for me" because she has these Wednesday night meetings to go to and now she won't have to be late to it today. Of course, I didn't mention that the main reason I want to skip it is because I have one last essay due today that I really don't want to write. But woohoo, no more SAT class for me! :D Now I need to get a start on my summer reading, though.

On Friday night I guess I'm sleeping over at Tiffany's house with Jackie (...and Tiffany). We were planning to have Annie come too, but it turns out she can't make it. Tiffany talked about trying again before the school year starts so we can have one with Annie, too. But yeah, that should be fun. I haven't seen Jackie since the band beach party, or Tiffany since... I don't know. Warped Tour or the volunteer orientation.

blah. It's 9:15 AM and usually I'd still be asleep but once I've woken up I just can't get back to sleep. I'm going to be dead tonight, but for now I'm wide awake. Maybe I'll make some icons or something.

Edit: Dude, so. Like, a year ago at the end of the schoolyear I really wanted to be the person who did our band's website because it's really, really ugly. And I think someone like Soan even asked our band director for me and she was all "Well, Mike Nichols's mom is doing it now and he'll still be in band next year so she'll still do it for next year." But then now, I mean he's leaving so his mother won't be helping out with band anymore, and then my mom's now on the like... band parents board thingy and was asked to find a parent to do the website and my mom told me and I was all "OMG I WANT TO DO IT" and she was all "Oh, but Mrs. Bentley wants it to be a parent" and I was all "...blah" but then she said she'd see if she could convince Mrs. Bentley to let me do it and have my mom be totally responsible for it in case I like... screw it up somehow. And she said yes! So yay, I get to be the webmaster of the band website and make it all less ugly and wheee. :D ...um, the only crappy thing is now I'm afraid of what I've gotten myself into, since like... junior year and I'm going to be busy like whoa. But, whatever. I'll deal with it. And I can make it less ugly! It's so freaking ugly now. So yay. I'm mostly happy about this. (...and in any case, it's always something to put on my college applications.)