a funny thing happened on the way to the forum

My apologies for using a "z" in the previous post title. It was really uncalled for. One of these days I am going to have to try bubble tea again ~ maybe now that I am used to all this food I will like it. I mean, now I love "shrimp & pineapple" flavoured pizza from Pizza Hut. mmmm...

Anyway, in a couple hours I need to register for courses online. It will be at 10 AM for you guys or something, but it gets to be like 1:00 AM for me, w00t. Of course I gotta get up next morning for choir practise. We are doing a "Phantom of the Opera" medley in a church with a real organ. It will be sweet, as long as I don't mess up the drums or any of my solos.

Speaking of practising, Ms. Liu got really, really angry today at our collective incompetence and thus spontaneously ended choir practise for the day. I only went to like 2 classes: Chinese(but with added Kenta) & History, where I sang the national anthem. In the morning we worked on the drums/piano parts, and afternoon singing practise went from 1 'til about 5:30.

Scott was randomly at my house when I got back, or just got there after me with Kevin & some DVDs they had rented. He left his lunch box.

Wednesday I pretty much forget. I must have, like, went to class and the likes. Probably studied some Japanese & Chinese as well. The evening was fun because I played a lot of piano. I am starting an easy Prelude and Fugue. mmm

Thursday featured sleeping in (10.5 hours) followed by Rotary. There was an excellent speaker. They made me give a speech at the end, and I just said some nice things & it was well received.

Afterwards I went to hang out at 101 with Anna. She certainly smokes a lot, just like my host father. We read stuff at the bookstore. I found the textbook for Japanese that I was looking for, but SWEET JESUS JEEBUS it was expensive. I am going to ask someone how much it costs at the bookstore ~ I don't feel like placing an international call.

Anyway, we hung out for a while. Somehow, had subway for dinner. I tried to make the guy sing the anthem, but he said he "didn't have free time at that point." There were lots of foreigners there for some NVidia conference. There was like this line of Taiwanese people with noisemakers and they would all clap them when you walked by, to "generate excitement." They didn't do it for us, so I berated one of the guys. You could get your picture taken with their attractive girls in makeup to demonstrate some printing technology or something, but we weren't on the guest list so no go. It was still pretty random.

I may try to grab 2 hours of sleep before I sign on to webreg. rock on