Oh and i missed my guitar lesson. Can it get worse?

Well

"A wonderful aspect is in place today and this will have a particularly beneficial effect on your emotional state right now. The alignment of planets in air will also mean that any communication difficulties that you have been experiencing lately will fade away by this afternoon."

Coughbullshitcough.

Quite the opposite actually. Not my day. Hit my head on a fence, twisted my ankle, teeth hurt, hopes crushed.... but hey. Andy called me hardcore.

I'm So Far Ahead

This is annoying. I'm so far ahead in APUS that I don't have any more homework I can possibly do. I'm so far ahead in economy, I don't have anything else I can do. The only class I'm not ahead in is algebra, and if I could, I probably would be. I haven't had homework for the past 2 nights. I went back and started to re-read The Ballard of Jim Shelley, cause I don't have a book with me, and I'm bored out of my mind. But I figure I might as well blog. Hmmm...about the race yesterday?

Yesterday was the first race in a long time I had been nervous. I never really got nervous once I started racing in high school. I remember once in track this year at Allen Johnson I was pretty nervous, but it all wiped away within split seconds of the gun going off. It held with me the entire race. I was shaking on the line, even though I knew we would crush the other teams. As the gun went off I expected the adrenaline burn to go away and my body to feel light as a feather...like it always does. But it didn't. That burn was still there, and I was still worried sick. I tried to hang on to the pack for about the first mile, and I kept second guessing my self. Maybe they're going out slow, and I'll be screwed in the end. Maybe I'm going out too fast. Until I slowly but surely dropped to the back on the pack. After the first loop of the course, I had grown accustomed to the burning sensation, and realized it wasn't going to go away. I tried to charge up the little rise on to the soccer field, but that damn blister on my toe cut open and started bleeding. Or I assume that's where it did.

I really lost the pack at that point. I dropped behind DV-S and the rest of the pack, and barely managed to hold my own against some lee kids. My nerves were psyching me out. I had that constant burn, and I kept trying to slow my self down. I think the only thing that really snapped me out of it was that voice that I hear at every race, spurring me on. I think if it hadn't been for Mrs. Todd I would have been screwed that race. I may not have listened to her advice for once in my entire career, but she gave me the needed boost. Coming down the hill of the tennis courts I started to prepare my self to hit the hill. Then...hey wait a second. Oh dammit! We have to go around the fence. I flat out got annoyed there, and tried to surge down the hill, and up to Banksta and DV-S. Unsuccessfully unfortunately, and when I hit the hill, I wished I hadn't taken that little surge. I couldn 't force my muscles to work any harder. Even with Mrs. Todd shouting encouragements, I couldn't bring my self to do it. When I topped that hill, it was all I could do to keep running.

I took Bair's advice and took 7 surging steps over the top of the hill and gained considerable distance on two of the guys trailing me. In an attempt to prepare for the next hill, I slowed my turn over, and lengthened my strides out, trying to catch my breath. Then I hit the two mile and heard 14:17. Oh Hell no I though. No way no way no way am I going that slow. I sped up my turn over, and went into race mode. Charging up the hill and surging over the top of it into the woods. The second I hit the trail, the wood chips gave out and I slid a considerable distance off the trail. Without even bothering to check the cuts on my legs, I made a bee line to the next part of the trail, and took the last 2 runners between DV-S Banks and me. Surging out of the woods, I held onto the back on DV-S and Banks, trying to take a seconds break, and when the hill turned down I took off. Kyle slapped me on the back, and yelled encouraging things at my back, spurring me further ahead. Until I was flying down the hill, purple and sky blue rushing beside me. I managed to catch 4 people on the down hill, and when I looked back up, I saw another navy blue jersey.

This is my lucky day I though for a second. Before taking off in a mini surge towards Bani and the 3 guys between us. Coming down the short dip I took one of them, and then up onto the baseball field, I took another. And when I finally got to Bani, that nervous feeling hit harder than ever. What if he's baiting me, I thought. And then that famous pre quote that Eric Clopper managed to mangle floated across my mind, and I took Bani and the remaining Waynesborro guy beside him. Charging up the hill and dumping everything I had into that last 50 meters. Which didn't happen to be much. As I crossed the line, I was handed a 16th place card. Yes I thought, 16th again, and hey....wait a second...I was 9th....I beat two people on the team....yes!!! I managed to pull out 7th on the team. Varsity.

Not half bad. I still don't know my time, and I won't know until friday. But I'm feeling pretty good about that race. Although I really felt it this morning when I tried to get out of bed. My calves were aching, like I'd run up a bunch of hills or something. Hmm must have been some crazy dream.

So, I ran a chicken shit race. If you dont know what i'm talking about go watch without limits. We dont know our times yet. But I got 7th. Woo!

So you know whats cool? I can do a mobil blog post now. Although it would have to be very short. Like it is now. But this could be interesting :)

Tri-Meet

So, today is our first tri-meet. I'm not the least bit nervous. Hell I've run over 100 races. But I'm a little worried about that nasty hill. The hill I've decided to call Andy because he wanted to name it after himself, and it's fun to make dirty jokes with. I know that hill is going to kill me. I know it is, I'm just hoping I can recover well. I mean, I surge down hill like crazy, and this course has a lot of downhill running, so hopefully I can use that to my advantage. Anyway... I can blog with my phone now, so I'm going to go get ready for the meet. I'll send my time and everything when I finish.

You're Getting Closer. Oh. Nope.

So that last post was number 500. Kinda impressive. Kinda not really. Anyway....I'm so bored in economics. I don't have time to start another lesson, so I'm wasting time playing bowman. I love that game. "oh, you're getting closer, oh oh....nope you got an arrow in your face." I found my ring luckily. It was in my Pumas in Bairs room. I keep thinking someone is going to walk in here and kick me off. Thank God for auto save. So...I tried to bribe Thor yesterday. But it didn't work, he was just a jackass. I said I'd believe in him if he made it rain during our workout. Right when we finished, it started pouring....Jerk...then again, we did have nice cool weather. I need to get back to blogging everyday, but I'm spending wayyy to much time on APUS. Was that workbook meant to be easy?

We have a meet tomorrow.... woo....at least I'll have a chance to run with everyone in the group ahead of me. The only person ahead of me on saturday was Kyle. Mmm...or maybe I'll just run another 21. I hate these key boards. All the frickin' keys stick, and they feel like someone was eating pop corn while they were typing. : P Ick ick ick. I want to bring a laptop, and use their internet. Oh, for anyone who cares. There's a new line of recordings from me with my new mic. www.purevolume.com/zeitghast. They record with really high treble...but whatever. During Layla, I forgot the whole song shifts down a half step, so that's where there's sling of wrong notes in the middle.

Yes only 4 more minutes of class. Eww then I have Algebra. That sucks. But then lunch, and APUS. Woo! Day just get's easier after algebra. But I do have that nasty hour and a half of algebra. Grrr... but easy day in practice. Up down up down up down. Hah...I have a bag of powdered lemonade. Gotta be careful when I pour that into my water, with our schools drug problems and everything. Oh well...anyone in their right mind can see it's not a drug. And anyone in their right mind can see I don't do drugs. Although everyone thinks I smoke pot. I seriously asked most of the people that knew me a little bit less than like Andy and Aleina, and Nat, and such, if they though I was a stoner. Most said yes. Okay what the hell...?

Time to go

The Wall

Todays meet went...better than planned I guess. I'm still not satisfied. At all. I feel like crap actually. I put everything into that race, although I could have done more in the last mile, and my body aches all over to prove it. But for what? I got a 21:24. Grrr.... That makes me 9th on the team behind Bryant, Dan, Keith, Andy, Hayden, Bani, Parker, and Kyle. I guess the fact that it was 95 degrees out didn't really help. I ran a 6:02 first mile, and my second was something along the lines of that, but my third must have been really slow. I still managed to place 16th out of the "developmental" race. What the hell is developmental? That sounds like an insult more than anything. When I finished, it was so hot it felt like the oxygen was like...evaporating out of my lungs, and I couldn't get enough air, and my head started hurting really bad. For a second I couldn't see, and then I fell into some shade, and the effects diminished....somewhat. Anyway, it sucked. The girls team did really good, with two of their freshmen coming in like...top 25. Maria -my forensics parter- got something like 18. In the varsity race. Jesus.

Musings of a Bored Zach

Damn...I hate this keyboard. But hey, I'm on lesson 7 out of 10 on economy. Yeah... I know, I slowed down. I'm only doing 1 per day now. They still haven't graded any of my tests, and I don't have access to the midterm -which is 3 lessons behind me- because they haven't graded any of my tests. And as of right now, I am incapable of logging in. It's rather annoying. I guess the site is just messed up. The whole thing is really slow. So...today is picture day. Ewww. I hate picture day. I hate pictures actually, and I hate people taking pictures of me. Jesus, the login page still hasn't loaded.

Did I write about XC yesterday? I don't think I did, but I'm too lazy to go and check. XC sucked. It made me hate running. We had to run up that beast of a hill 5 times minimum and 9 max. I was hurting after 3 and dead at 5. When I walked up to coach he was like "did you do 6?"
"what are you crazy? no. 5"

"Go do one more."

"what?!"

"one more"

Grrr.... I turned around and threw all my energy at the hill. Yeah. That lasted about 10 second out of 80. By the time I hit the top my muscles were all going "fuck you brain you get down here and work!" and it was all like"Just 10 more meters!" That was unpleasant. When I got to the top just ahead of Jubilee my muscles were all shaking and complaining -they actually didn't stop till I went to bed-. And Bair told us to run down, get a drink, and meet him at the hill. Oh hell no I thought, he isn't that crazy....is he? I was feeling slightly relieved when we got out. Not strides....but hey...hey wait....we're walking towards that hill. Hey stop we're getting too close. Hey wait a second lets talk about this.
'Bair...hey coach....we're getting uh...we're getting a little close to that hill." Dan said
"I'm here to prove a point" Bair said

"You don't need to prove a point, we got it!' said Dan

"Now we're going to run about a third of the way up this hill, 2 times, and the first time, you're going to run with your head down, and your arms behind your back, and the second with your arms pumping and your head up."

It took all of the no longer remaining energy in my muscles to push my self up the hill, especially with the handicap of my arms behind my back and my ead down. I hit the top -well...the middle rather- and just had to tell my self one more. I didn't even feel that last one, I just did it. When we were all grouped at the top, coach told us to just take a cool down lap around the school.
"that's more than I can do" I muttered under my breath. I stood at the top -the middle rather- of the hill just trying to find the energy somewhere in my body. Bair came up to me, and was like "hey you look done for the day."

"hah... I was done a long time ago." I replied, and he laughed

"that's good enough for now, go in and stretch, and if you're aching go to the trainer and whirlpool."

I didn't even have the energy to go to the trainer, I just called my mom, and laid down on his floor.


That's my story. We're running at the farm today. Hopefully we'll just run the course because that's easy. GAH!! I still can't log in! Come on. Humph... I have APUS today. At least that's a good class. I have...3 good classes and one bad. Algebra is bad. Grrr... But AP and event production, and economy are good. Well, as good as school gets that is. So I just got my picture taken, and I look so stoned. It's amusing. She wouldn't take the picture till I smiled, but I can't smile, so she made me hold that fake smile, and on three I just dropped it. Look just like I do every year. Stoic. And stoned. I've given up on Economy for now. I think I'm just going to read...or something to amuse my self. Today is wednesday....so I have forensics practice tomorrow....and I also have event production. Oh yeah...I planned that one. So I can actually eat lunch.

I like this tomb. I'm actually going to keep that typo. I like this room. Mainly because it's empty. Well except for Andrew, but he doesn't count. No one ever walks in here, or disturbs me, or anything. It's great. Except when I start towards Algebra. It drives me crazy having to fight through the crowds of people. Too bad next semester will be like a normal year. Latin, Chemistry, English, and AP/Event. Hmm...know what else is good about this room? These computers...except they keyboard. They are staff computers...so none of the crap restrictions you get on student ones. You can even access some of the banned websites. Some.

Anyway, I'm going to go read.

Good Day

Hah kind of strange when you think about it. Good day. Thats a rare occurrence on a school day. First block was amazing, cause guess what. I don't have one! Hahaha suckers. Second block I actually got some work done. Gasp. It's so easy that I can't stay motivated. Algebra II is so boring, and I'm surrounded by morons, but it didn't really make any impact on my day. Heh, event production makes me happy. While the whole rest of the class was stuck doing book work, Andrew and I got to do drama work, like move shelves and boxes and stuff. It sounds boring, but we find it amusing. Us theater geeks.

Anyway, I got my forensics partner today. Looks like it's going to be really good. Maria is really nice to work with, and I could see Walton twiddling his fingers in excitement. It's this skit about a crazy guy who meets this famous actress in hollywood and is really annoying. And she finally flips out on him, and he gets all sad, and it's sickening how pathetic it is. Fun stuff. First rehearsal is thursday.

Mmm

Jack White has awful tone live.

Thought I'd point that out. But he's an amazing performer. I forgot to post so...I'm failing at making up for it. I've been writing more songs recently. Styled more like System of a Down mixed with the white stripes first album of heavier stuff.

Yeah...not sure what else. Been playing lots of music, and reading.

Night

We Won

Again. Although just barely. We're bound to lose sometime this year.

Xc time trail sucked. I ran a 23:12.... although last year I did like a 28:30...so that's not bad. I'm still 9th on the team. That means William and Mary. Wooo and I was sick. So I'm hoping it'll get better.

You know? I love driving around with Andy.

Not So Bad Eh?

It only took me two hours to do all my Algebra and most of my APUS work for the next 4 days. I still need to finish the geography thing, and post that....research thing once Tueting gets back to me. You know that's really not so bad. Although it's probably the easiest we'll have it all year, I'm done for now.

So, I burned my self making jello, and now I feel like an idiot. Hot water spilled all over my arm when I was pouring it into the bowl. Grrr...it's all inflamed and angry now. Figures, I wouldn't like being submerged in hot water. Anyway, I'm going to go try and eat my jello, because that's why I made it, and bask in the glory of having my homework done.

No Time

Once again, I have no time to post because my internet is about to shut off, but I think I'll just save this and continue later.

I had quite the ordeal this morning with guidance and economy. I went to class first thing, and they told me I wasn't on their roster, and to go to guidance. Unfortunately, guidance refused to make schedule changes for the first 2 days of school. So they sent me away. I went back to BSA and they said they couldn't do anything for me, so dejectedly I walked back and explained what had happened to the lady guarding the door, and she asked me to go get a schedule from outside the library where they issue replacements. I laughed as soon as I got it. 2nd block 1'st semester "guidance" I thought to my self no way in hell can they turn me down now. Before she even opened her mouth, I held out my schedule and she laughed and quickly slipped inside to ask if I could come in. After a few minutes she slipped me in and asked me to wait. I finally was called into Mr. Meyers office, and all he did was give me the website, password, and my username, and told me to go to the lab in guidance. Now how east was that? Jesus...come on. I'm not really complaining though.

Online economy is so easy, it's like a joke. I had 30 minutes of my 90 minute block remaining, so I figured I'd try and start. I opened the first lesson, and while talking to Lizzy and DeVier-Scott
I managed to finish my reading and take a quiz. And just a few minutes ago I finished section 2 which they say is the longest while IMing two people, talking on the phone (although only briefly) and listening to heavy metal. Joke joke joke. But you know what. I actually am learning something, and at least I'll be done soon. Anyway, I can't post this...so bed time.

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