Life is Good

And so, the wheel of time turns, and all who ride inside of it get dizzy. Some even wake up and realize they haven't updated their blog in nearly a month. And then they feel awfully guilty and worry that their audience may have drifted permanently away. After that, they remember that they quite possibly have no audience at all to begin with, and they're just writing out loud. "Oh, woe is us!" they lament. "If only people would leave a comment when they read our collective blogs. Then, maybe, we might have confirmation and be pushed to keep publishing new posts at more frequent intervals!"

Or so I sometimes conjecture. Of course, this situation is completely hypothetical and has no basis in reality whatsoever. Yes. Of course. Completely hypothetical. This isn't any kind of pseudo-subtle hint. Not at all.

What's that? How's my life been going? Oh, it's been swell. I've been doing lots of different things. One weekend, I went rock climbing in Joshua Tree with my brothers. That was buckets of fun. The next weekend, I got to see two dear friends get married, and everyone got to sigh with relief, grin, and mutter that it was about time. This upcoming weekend, I will get to celebrate my sister's ninth birthday with her.

And I will officially be twice as old as her. Let me just say that I've been waiting for this ever since she was born. I'm figuratively bouncing off the walls. Or rather, my mind is figuratively bouncing off the inside of my skull. All parts of it. 

The next big milestone is when she turns sixteen, and I'll be twenty-five. There's a certain neatness to those two numbers. *shudders* But that's years (seven of them) away, and I'll cross (and burn) that bridge when I get to it. 

In the meantime, I'll keep studying for school. Speaking of school, it's been going quite well recently. Finished the first bout of tests last week. I think the only one of my seven classes that didn't have a test in the past two weeks was TaeKwonDo. 

I certainly did better on some tests than I did on others, and the highlight had to be my psychology test. I received 106 points; perfect score and then some. I think mine was one of two such tests. Did I ever mention how much I love extra credit questions? 

So yeah, school's going well, and I already have some more tests coming up in a couple of weeks, so hopefully I'll keep up the studying. Lots of reading to do, and I mean lots. It wouldn't be too bad if there were twenty-seven hours in a day. But alas! It's not to be so. 

Oh, on another school-related note, I gave my first speech two days ago, and I think it went swimmingly. It was supposed to be three minutes, but the professor said he would start docking points the longer it went over, and that it should really be between two and a half minutes and three. So that was good. My subject was rock climbing. He also said that whoever went first would likely get a more lenient grade. 

So guess who went first? Oh yeah, you're looking at him. Or, er, reading at...him?

Anyways, in other news, I finally bought a bicycle, which made me super happy. Ever since I came to Vanguard, I've had everything I needed for a bike: baskets, gloves, helmet, light, lock, pump...heck, I even have goggles (which are very spiffing, by the way). All I needed was a bicycle. And now I finally have one. I bought it brand new from Target, but it was worth it. Now I can go on bike rides and go turn in a job application to the climbing gym a couple blocks away. Yup, I'm excited.

And another thing! I was in the school library the other day, and noticed a bookshelf with a delicious-awesome sign that said "free." I asked about it and - wouldn't you know it - all the books on it were free! To keep forever. And ever. 

I ended up walking away with eight new books. Way exciting. 

Now off I go to get back on that pesky wheel with those hypothetically-dizzy people who hypothetically like comments.