Lunch

Lunch has been very frustrating this year. It's a bit to hard to explain so I drew a diagram and formula.Dylan wants to sit with Jake.
Jake wants to sit with Austin.
Austin wants to sit with Hayley.
Hayley doesn't like Dylan.

The Musicals Club

After school last Wednesday, Dylan and I had to show Alex Phantom of The Opera, so we went to Alex's house. Dylan had to leave at the very beginning because his cat was dying. Alex and I made puppy chow to soothe down the grief while he was gone. When he came back we finished the movie. We are planning on doing it again this tomorrow with Fiddler on The Roof. Which brings me back to my first post. By the way, I'm planning on upgrading Kings Quest VII by editing the resolution.



The old boxy Alex.







The new foxy Alex!



I showed that to Eden last night and made up that catchy phrase on the spot. (I'm so proud of myself)

Oh Ye Hater of Crosswords

Lots of the teachers this year have been giving me frequent word searches that don't help me learn. I wrote Mrs. Smith a letter last year on the back explaining why I didn't do it and she gave me a zero. Thinking Mrs. Propst would be more forgiving, I wrote her a letter and a poem about the Salem witch trials on the back. She responded with a note saying "Joel, sometimes you have to do things you dislike in life." and a zero. Mr. Warsnack will give me the grade, but calls me the hater of word searches now. Earlier this year he saw I had a word search out and he told me not to do it because it was evil. I still prefer this to the word search.Can you find the word hate in this puzzle? (It really is there.)

Mission Accomplished!

I've got goal 1 and 2 accomplished. The bible study got started and people seem to think I'm being talkative and kind of strange. I had much more people this week since Lauren brought lots of friends. I was the only one talking for a bit but pretty soon Lauren said something good and so did Chris which got other people started. I let Mr. Mullen talk and he didn't get out of hand so we got a chance to pray. I've been enjoying cross country and doing well! I miss you Eden. I just had a lot of little things to say.

First Day of School

Well I had a pretty good first day. I feel like I was a lot more sociable. It probably helped that I had came strait from camp. Someone said that my personality seemed different. I hope that's a good different. I had a bunch of crazy schedule changes which resulted in me taking design class and algebra II twice. Lunch is still kind of weird. Tomorrow I'll try sitting somewere else. In my goals for the week I wrote to tell jake that he had lucius locks. I'm finished with that. Got some other goals I could try? Post a comment!

Someone Was Waiting in My Room!

When I got home from camp I was putting away some things in my room and who should be sitting there but Cazette. Or a giant poster of her at least.
Thank you Mama (you can find anything at Neighbors). Anyway, I liked the play. I had a hard time trying to see out of binoculars that I found could be focused after the show. Afterwards we went to Mary Pap's house with the Ladwigs who brought a bassoon player's daughter from the show with them. We started out kind of awkward but eventually started laughing like crazy when I thought Mary had said Bilbo instead of Hilda. It ended up being Hilda and her husband Bill (Bilbo) who stoped by to eat some food and show us their new car. We ended up playing the dictionary game late into the night. Last week at camp was OK. I didn't learn much because there weren't really any chapels. It seemed to be mostly about experience. I guess I was being much more social this year because I said goodbyes to about everyone. This year of camp was probably my best.

Goals for This Year

There are a few things I wanted to accomplish this year.

1. Start some kind of bible study before school
2. Spend less time on the computer
3. Doing whatever without thinking about what other people will think
4. Sing Suo Gan as a solo in Bel-Canto (I was inspired by Joel's Chinese song)