Hello.

Went to the new grocery store in Pacifica. It was really cool. Am going to Mrs. Conway's charity event on Saturday. 1 P.M. to 3 P.M. Then I am going to Jon's birthday party on Sunday. Busy busy.

The gala.

The gala went about like I thought it would. It was really boring. I didn't even bother to go outside of where the children were hanging out more than about five or six times times, not counting bathroom breaks, and two of those were performances, while all of the rest were food runs for various purposes. So, in the end, all I really did was get noticed by Mr. Gallegos, which is a good thing because I want to get into the Camerata next year. But other than that, nothing really.

This weekend

This weekend is the annual GGP gala auction thingy. Also known as: that day where all of the orchestra people spend an afternoon doing almost nothing in the back, occasionally going outside of the back to play. Apparently it's like, some big fundraiser or something.

My thoughts on pokemon black/white

One thing that I find most interesting about the new Pokemon games is that even though before now most Pokemon had no animation, didn't move or do anything else, it now has a full animation that loops for all Pokemon. Not just the new ones. All 649 Pokemon. For some interesting reason, even though it looks kind of strange at first, the new animations seem so natural once you start seeing familiar faces, they have a very similar character to what they had. I find that very cool, personally.

Blag entry.

Insert blank blag entry here. I have no idea what to write, so for today, imagine your own.

Swimming

Swimming is now over. I have no more swimming until the start of the new school year. That is cool. I still have Japanese, though. And most of my other subjects. But still. I'm done with COSMOS application stuff. I'm done with my totally awesome short story, which I will probably upload at a later time.

Today

Today, Mom has no art class. So good for her. Um... I think I did well on my midterm for my Japanese class yesterday. I felt pretty good about it, and I did better on my reading than I did on my singing last year, so in the end, I think I did well.

The con

I think I had quite a lot of fun at the con. The LARP was based on the play Hamlet, and as I have never read Hamlet, I was Guildenstern. I could spread rumors, look trustworthy, stab people, or do a general physical check (which could include stabbing people, but for less damage). The other guy who hadn't read the book was Rosenkrantz. Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern played virtually identically. In the end, I nearly killed the queen, died and went insane. Hamlet killed Claudius. Hamlet and Ophelia married, and all was good. Hamlet was the new king. I get the feeling that the ending to our LARP was nothing anywhere near the same as the ending of the original play. Oh, and for going insane, I dragged a tree around everywhere and hid behind it.

FogCon

I'm going to a convention this weekend, and am looking forward to it quite a bit. It's a fantasy writer's convention, and it's going to have a lot of gaming stuff at it. Games of Magic, people with Pokemon (Pokepeople?) there might be a LARP that were going to, plus all sorts of various panels for how to write good settings and the like. All in all, it sounds like a fun little convention to spend a weekend at.

Pokemon black/white

Yay! New pokemon game! With no f-ing Zubats! But now we have Woobat instead. Thankfully, it cannot learn supersonic by level up, so it's not nearly as annoying as a Zubat. Wild double battles with two of your pokemon can now be encountered, which is something I've wanted since I first saw double battles in Ruby/Sapphire. The new starters aren't nearly as stupid as they first looked upon announcement. Well, the pig thing still looks pretty stupid, but the other ones don't, so that's good. I'm liking the game, and the fact that you can now register more than just key items to the y button. More later.

LARP yesterday

I had, as usual, quite a bit of fun yesterday at LARP. We did a mission that took forever as our first one. And by forever, I mean forever. It was like an hour and a half long or so. There was this stupid ghoul that. Just. Wouldn't. Die. It kept on reviving this evil thing that had two death rays (that we later learned was a troll sired by a demon, something I don't really want to think about too much. It also killed me with the death rays. Twice.) eventually, it decided to carry one of the goodies to a cave, and as it was the only surviving baddie five times over by that time, its leaving was the end of the mission. Finally.

There was a guy who was fading out of existence if he didn't go to the king's tomb before the end of day, and another guy had been kidnapped by the ghost troll thing and was going to die if we didn't save him, so by a unanimous vote in the party, we agreed to do Small Things, so that we could save the guys who were dieing. I did a ritual to Volcan in hopes of getting a fireball. Adding on the stuff that I sacrificed last month, plus the two mana and pair of wakizashis that I sacrificed at that time, I managed to get a blessing that gave me a fireball. In exchange, however, I could only use it on a volcano, it costs one mana, lasts for only one encounter, and I have to sacrifice one mana a day to volcan to keep it. That's fine. I told Chris that I want my character to sacrifice an additional mana a day towards getting the mana cost for using it removed. Hopefully, by next month, I will have an ability that lets me use fireballs so long as I am over a volcano, and sacrifice one mana to volcan a day.

After doing Small Things, the next mission that we did was this temple that had some sort of magic on it. I, forgetting about insanity, used my fireball (The island that Chris's LARP takes place on is volcanic) and burned all of the ogres. Then we fought against harpies, and those didn't last very long either. Then we finally got to the ruins, which were being guarded by a phoenix, who would only let Chaotic Good characters through. Fortunately, I was Chaotic Good, so I got in myself and got a magic item from the many treasure chests. So I now have a longsword that glows in the presence of ogres, gives me jumpstart heal and shock touch with the blade, and can only be wielded by humans. (I was the only one who didn't already have one who was a human, so I got it.) Coolness. Oh, my insanity made it so that I think I can't use any of my powers if I don't drink this green sauce sold in some of the inns in the town every five minutes during an encounter. Thankfully, one of the members of the party who is an innkeeper was sympathetic to my cause, so he gave it to me for cheap.

During the remaining part of the day, I was asked a number of times by people what the flaw of my weapon was. I told them it didn't have any. One guy said normally he would try and steal it, but he's an elf and so can't use it. I ended up dieing again, lost a level again (In other words, I went up no levels yesterday) and got to keep my insanity. Yay. Thankfully, the innkeeper jumped at the chance of having a blacksmith at his inn, so he is now paying me with the green sauce that is the source of my power. LOL.

Today

I don't have to go anywhere. I can just kind of hang around and do my school work. That is a good thing, especially considering the fact that the next time I nobody has to go anywhere is going to be next Friday. Yay.

Hail.

God, I don't feel like doing anything today. I know I'm going to swimming tonight, but I don't think I'll be going to game night. I'm just going to be feeling tired and wet afterwords anyway.

Japanese

Next week is my second Japanese test. I feel fairly confident that I'll do well, so I'm not too worried about it. I alsoo found a cool way to type in japanese text on a regular keyboard. あなたをみますか？ Pretty cool, huh?

Orchestra

Yesterday I had orchestra. We were told in sectionals that Mrs. Hasbun heard that we sounded really good. And then she had us playing a significantly easier piece than what we were doing before. I'm on the 4th part, and I have no idea who'll play it with me. But that's fine with me. In orchestra, Ms. Lim told us how good the senior cellos sounded. I called out "We rock!" When she asked why that was, and Gabriel said: "No, Ian, you live under a rock." My response? "I thought you already knew that, Gabriel." I got him there.