Pretty senior picture!
This week was possibly one of the longest weeks I've had in quite a while. Despite the burden of my research paper being lifted, the burden of dropping calculus grades and numerous pages of reading for English have started to take their toll. These next two weeks, and last week, are really big weeks for scholarship deadlines and deadlines for basically everything in my life. On Thursday I turned in my paperwork for National Honor Society and for the Presidential Scholar program (wish me luck!). On Monday, I have two scholarships that are due, the first day of track, and our midwinter band concert. The scholarships I'm not so excited for; however, the first day of track and our band concert will prove to be interesting.
Track is most definitely my favorite sport of all those I have tried. Pole vault is my favorite event even though it just barely edges out hurdles and sprints which are both tied for 2nd/3rd depending on how you score it. Earlier, the last weekend of January, there was a pole-vault clinic at University of Mary and that was really fun to go to. Since then, every Monday has been open gym for vaulters at the gymnastics gym, also a really fun experience.
Band has been interesting as well the past well six months I guess. Mandan band festival followed by Sax and Perc festival, Jazz tour, U Mary jazz festival, Woodwind festival, our last pep band, and now our second to last concert. Our last pep band was bittersweet, fun because it was pep band, but sad because it was our last and also Mr. Fogderud's last. This picture has soo many picture crashers! Oh well, all in all it's a pretty good picture of the four of us. Props to Daso for his photography skills.
Gov is starting to get hectic, soon our national question preliminary drafts are due and we have a test coming up on AP material soon, but the date escapes me at the moment. When I was in class the other day I counted the books that I had with me and they amounted to the grand total of ten, TEN books!! Three of those are mine, brand spankin new from Barnes and Noble courtesy of their Bargain priced section and their Publishers' Remains. Finding any book for less than five dollars is a win in my book on any day.
A little bit of serenity among the madness.
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
-Aristotle
