Rain

Only one word or phrase can describe today....BLAH!

Woke up this morning at 5:20 after having the best night's sleep in two weeks, and knowing that this morning's cross country practice wasn't mandatory I really wanted to just go back to sleep. However, as I stood there contemplating whether I should plop back down on my comfy bed and sleep another hour or so, I thought to myself, "What would that accomplish?". So I willed myself to go to practice. It was alright; an easy 5 mile loop.

First hour was AP Biology, so I did the usual take-notes-in-my-sleep routine. I know I'm screwed when it comes time to take our first test in that class, because even though I have notes, most of the words are unreadable because I wrote them when I was more than half asleep. Guess I'll just have to bust a move the night before and hope I learn something.

AP Chemistry wasn't as bad, but it surely didn't make anything better. Mrs. Ray still seems to skip around a lot, and she somehow manages to hand out packets to the whole class without me seeing her do so, and then discusses the packet. Meanwhile, I'm sitting there, clueless, thinking "WTF is she talking about?!" Hmm....whatever. I have friends in that class that can help me out. I'm not saying I'm going to cheat or anything *cough*.

Sociology was fun as always. Mr. Burr adds an extra something to make that class fun; an X-factor perhaps you could call it. Plus lunch, my favorite subject. Although, I have to admit the protein bars are getting old, but hey, they're a nice meal replacement and I get my chocolate craving satisfied and protein.

Adv. Math and Trig isn't worth mentioning except for the fact that we got a butt-load of easy homework...which I like to call busy work. Here's where my day gets a little more interesting (emphasize the word "little", because this really isn't interesting at all).

After school cross country had it's mandatory practice, which today was a run-off. Everyone ran the 5k (3.1 miles, or something like that) course and whoever got in the top seven got to be on varsity and wear the nice, new blue uniforms. I ran my first mile in 5:50 and finished the third mile at 20:04 or something like that. Pretty good, considering that during that summer I ran the same course in 24:21, which means I shed four whole minutes off my 5k time. Coach Butler's goal, and my goal too, is to get our 5k time under 18 minutes. Very possible at this rate.

Well, anyway, I got 5th place on our team, behind Andrew, Anthony, Ryan, and Josh. So I get to run varsity at our Carthage meet this Thursday so I'm super stoked about that. However, it seems that sleeping with my air conditioning on last night has gotten me a small cold. A runny nose is the worst torture anyone who has to sit in class for 80 minutes at a time can have. Luckily it didn't get too bad until after our run-off. By the way, in case you're wondering how I got a cold from leaving the AC on all night; it's sort of broken so it just keeps going and going and going, like that stupid energizer bunny. So it just got colder and colder until I woke up at 430 this morning to turn it off. Sadly, I sleep tons better when it's cold, but I won't be leaving it on when I sleep for awhile as to allow myself to get over this damned cold.

Good news just popped into my head! No practice tomorrow before school, which means I get to sleep in and have a real breakfast (since I can't eat before I run). That also means I get to stay up a little later tonight without feeling guilty or dreading it in the morning. However, there is some bad news. You see, I've pretty much told you everything interesting and non-interesting about my day (mostly the latter), so I'm going to have to put an end to this blog post.

Later,

Seal

P.S. You're also probably wondering why the title to this blog is "Rain". Well it's simply because I love rain and it's supposed to have been raining since yesterday and guess what? No freakin rain. Just thought I'd add that little tid-bit.