Current mood:	cheerful
Current music:	1776 - Duh.

Stuff
Ah. Finally catching my breath after quite the interesting past few days.

Friday was fun - I'm officially never going to be in an LHS drama again - part of me is upset, but part of me is happy to be nudging my feet ever so slowly to the back door of my LHS experience. Another plus - I NEVER, in the foreseeable future, will have to fake a Southern accent again. Besides, I can only be upset about what didn't happen, not what did, since the cast seems really good as it stands. Sigh. Oh, now I'll also be able to do my schoolwork, etc. Yeah. That.

Whatevs. Saturday we drove up to Massachusetts because my dad had a Harvard Business School reunion, and it was pretty neat. I saw Grover Norquist (The Dark Lord, as some were calling him, because of his position as premier Republican lobbyist in the nation) in person, but didn't say hi. He looks really nerdy, way nerdier than you'd expect The Dark Lord to look. Also met people from Russia, Australia, and Mauritius. Bizarre grouping.

After that lunch where I met those crazy Harvard alums, I met with a girl from the Harvard Quiz Bowl team, and she introduced me to the awesome world of college Quiz Bowl. It seems amazing, and I can't wait to get there. Seriously, I AM happy to be edging towards the door.

I read Heart of Darkness while in Boston, and man oh man is it dark. Lovelovelove the characters, everything about it. But it's really dark. No mysteries in the title, seriously. Vive Kurtz! Seriously, I have to see Apocalypse Now now. (Haha, Now now.)

On Sunday (still in Boston), we went to a matinee of 1776, which kicked ass. We had to get tickets from people who canceled, and David and I ended up in the front row. My parents ushered and got free tix! It was a great production, and just a great show. Since seeing it, my family has spent way too much time debating whether it could be done as a high school show and how much gender-bending would be appropriate (the one character we're not yet in agreement on is Rutledge, but you could totally genderbend the whole NJ, NY, and DE delegations).

Today, we toured MIT, and didn't find out a lot of new information. Good college, etc. And yes, you read that right - I didn't go to services on Yom Kippur. So sue me. I'm not a religious person, and my family isn't religious either.

~M. :-)