Halloween and More

the inspiration for my Halloween costume

Before I even start talking about the past few weeks, I'd first like to say how glad I am that today is the first day of a four day weekend!!!!! Let me explain why I must use five exclamation points to convey the extent of my excitement. Well, basically for the entire first quarter of school, there are no days off, just five day weeks after five day weeks, with no end of sight. But then suddenly, once that quarter is over (as it was yesterday), there are multiple days off every other week. Next week is only three days long, and then two weeks after that is Thanksgiving week, which is only two days long! It's nice to have a rest after all the homework that has been piling up at school recently. I mean, yesterday, I had a test and two extremely difficult "quizzes." Weirdly enough, though, I somehow managed to have homework in only one class over this weekend, which makes it even better.

Now that I have that delirious rant out of the way, I can talk about what has actually happened the past few weeks. Yesterday and the Friday two weeks before it were the first Science Olympiad pizza nights of the year, which is pretty exciting. It was kind of the commencement into this year of Science Olympiad. At the first one, we watched Adjustment Bureau, and this time we watched the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean, both of which were surprisingly good, especially the latter. I was not expecting the Pirates of the Caribbean movie to be that great, seeing as two of the three main characters weren't in it, and the last two weren't the best movies... but I was pleasantly surprised. The same cannot be said for the third Transformers movie, which my family rented from the library to watch. That movie was one of the worst I've ever seen, and I've seen some pretty bad movies. I was laughing in places that I'm pretty sure were not supposed to be funny - it was that bad. I didn't think anyone could get worse than Megan Fox, but I was sorely mistaken.

In other news, as I'm sure you know, last Monday was Halloween. Since my dad had been out of the country on a business trip the weeks prior to that weekend, we didn't get our pumpkins until the Saturday before Halloween. Of course, it had to be raining that day, but other than that, I had a good time. Per tradition, we went and got freshly made donuts from this cider mill, which were delicious, as always. Because of the bad weather, we had to adjust our traditions a little and eat the donuts and drink the apple cider in the car, rather than outside as we usually do. After that, we drove to the pumpkin patch that we have been frequenting the past few years and everyone picked out a pumpkin. Since we were so late in the season, there weren't many options available, but I found a pretty good one that would suit my purposes quite well. We were going to carve the pumpkins sometime that weekend, but you know how things go - we didn't get around to it. I had even picked out what I wanted carved ("When I rule the world, I plant flowers" - a quote from A Very Potter Musical), but as of yet, it has not been done. Halloween itself was pretty interesting. I dressed up as Ron Weasley from A Very Potter Musical (I know, such a surprise), complete with a red wig and sweat band around my head, where I stored my dowel rod wand. No one knew who I was, but it doesn't really matter, for all the cool people have watched A Very Potter Musical. At one point, I thought that I would have to go alone because my sister had too much homework and there was this whole confusion of whether or not my friend was going, but it all got straighten out, and I went with my friend. We didn't stay out the whole two hours, but I still managed to get a lot of candy, most of which I donated to my sister out of kindness and pity (also, I don't really like candy, but let them think it was out of the kindness of my heart).

Other than homework and studying for tests, that has pretty much been my life for the past few weeks. Oh, there's one more thing - on Monday, I'm taking my driver's test, so if everything goes well, I might have my license very soon!! I'm not really sure what I'll do with it, since the only places I would drive is school, which my sister already does, but it'll be nice to know that I can, if I wanted to.