The one act shan't be progressing this year; I found this out after watching my classmates get trampled into the ground on It's Academic. Good thing we're not the number-one school in the nation anymore. Still, I saw Shane give a wrong answer, and that was worth anything.

I need to get a life so I'll have more to write about. I really am reconsidering the convent thing, though, lack of Catholicism nonwithstanding. Or maybe going hermit. Living under a mountain, contorted lotus-style on a filthy rug, radiating warmth and knowledge in the mountains of war-torn Yugoczechistania, giving lepers shoes for their exodus through the snow, eating bird bones twice a year, sipping absinthe for voluntary preemptive penitence, and sipping honey while conversing with the gods so that knowledge and enlightenment will always be sweet. Yes, I think I could stand living like that. Maybe I could even learn French, or Greek, or make a larger dent in Gaelic. As for Spanish...

That's going to be one frightening IB exam, considering the state of my class: Katie gets to work, dictionary in hand. I attempt to do the same without a dictionary. Kelly does no work of her own, makes conversation, and swipes Katie's paper. Bethany talks to Bobby and copies off Kelly. Eventually, I get frustrated and copy off Bethany. Bobby sees Bethany and copies her as well. Helga sits in the back of the room, condemning us for being cheaters, while copying off someone else and whining at the prof. She just doesn't understand how to differentiate between cheating and altruism...

Its all too easy to picture us come exam-time. We'll have an elaborate code of sorts ("Scratch your head twice if the answer is 'a' and tap your pencil four times if its in the subjunctive...") that Katie, as the brains of the operation, will be at the center of, and we'll use it to distribute information amongst ourselves. Altruism at its best. Oh yes...

I bought photo junk earlier in the day and am ready to tackle the drama album as soon a I get my copies back. This means I am now penniless save about eight dollars. Time to start saving lunch money and hoping the Gorgons don't mind cheap birthday presents...

Adieu.