Rat traps are evil, dangerous, scary, and malfunctionous

i had an epiphany, if you will, a few minutes ago concerning harry potter and one of my friends. i realized that the personality of one of my friends is actually much like that of harry. i'm not talking about the cliche hero bravery type thing. what i'm talking about is much more complicated than that, something no one who hasn't read the books, or maybe even someone whose read one through four, but not five, could understand. you have to be really familiar with the books and able to get inside the characters heads to understand the full weight of harry's personality and realize this. i, of course, most definitely qualify for that. the only other person i know who does, outside my family, would be corey. and alex. anyway, it was a fanfic that made this realization snap into place for me- Being Noble by Poseida, if anyone's interested. the quote i'm closing with is hers.

As for the more concrete events of today- i went to science challenge. our beautiful car, beautiful in theory, anyway, went kaput, quite literally. it should have worked, though. we did pretty well on the science bowl and outdoor earth science- go rob lowe! and i had fun playing mancala for logical reasoning. what else did we do? nick, flip, and rob kept playing with the rat traps during lunch. the rat traps scared me, as they could probably break my fingers, so i stayed away while they were doing that. what else? oh! while we were waiting for the bus afterwards, we discovered a creek next to the building, and we went down there to 'look for fossils' (i must give ashley m. credit though, she actually was asking mr. ashley the names of fossils she found and being interested in it) which evolved to 'skipping rocks' which evolved to 'throwing huge rocks in the creek' which evolved to 'out and out war between both sides of the creek'. now that was fun.

show choir- was odd. i only walked in for the last ten minutes, so all i have is this vague impression i got from amy that there was fighting and gossip, but the gossip wasn't about members, it was about barton (?), but they had a counseling session and everybody cried and by the time i got there it was all better? it was just an odd feeling. and i hope everything really is better, because it was less than a week ago that i almost had convinced abby that there was no more gossiping or fighting and she was thinking about coming back.



Happy endings...aren't about not having bad parts--they're about having enough good parts to make all the bad parts worth it.