today was fun. actually listened during econs, until i fell asleep (but that wasn't till the end of the lesson, and shoojee says he'll wake me up next time.) i'm turning into a nerd, today kel and i went to the library and borrowed six books for the china essay, but we were good and returned them after school after photocopying the parts we wanted. so the library is not devoid of china books. and we borrowed 5 books for the imperialism essay, 3 weeks in advance. but those we're hanging onto for now because they're really good books and we're going to check with rolly whether he's going to photocopy any of those, before photocopying them ourselves. and shoojee was amazed today when he walked into the ts after school and saw me all alone there, reading one of the china books. he was all "aps are you STUDYING?" in this majorly astounded manner. hmmmph. anyway after lysistrata, i fully intend to do the study-group thing. i badlybadly need it.

what else.
oh yeah, of course: the party at kitson's. didn't get my secret window watching today, because no one was interested. they were all going to paradigm to play zombies (and incidentally i kept thinking it was froggies instead of zombies. about three times i said froggies instead of zombies and confused/amused people.) anyhow i was considering joining them there after going home to change, but i figured i didn't want to be a real-life zombie there so i slept for a while, and woke up at seven! which was really quite late, and by the time i showered and changed and cabbed over to kitson's, it was almost 8. anyway devoured a lot of cheese pizza, almost started playing risk before kitson started freaking out when sophia spilled her juice all over the board, and timmy dropped the grey box and the grey troops were all over the grey floor in the dark and the wind was blowing them everywhere. so he packed up the risk and banned us from touching it. some host he is. went down and played badminton for a bit, and then went to the playground and basically spent the rest of the time there. climbed the big spiderweb thing, and halfway my fear of heights kicked in although the thing's really not very tall and i've climbed the one at west coast park before which is about 3 times the height. stood there and debated whether fear of heights is vertigo or altophobia or "something more guttural", to quote timmy. anyway, i checked and yeah it's acrophobia. guttural enough, i suppose. i always thought it was vertigo though, it sounds so much more height-related. oh we dunked kitson in the pool! and wiggy got dragged in and shoojee got semi-dragged in. and then drenched kitson was going around waving water at everyone, so kelly told me to threaten to hug him and he'd be scared away, and i did but he didn't run away scared so i just hugged him anyway. didn't really mind getting my clothes wet, but i wish i'd brought a change of clothes so that i could've actually jumped in the pool. it's fun to get dunked. ohh and mark and timmy were ogling this caucasian girl with a fairly hot bod. she was wearing a really nice black halter bikini and funky black shorts, so i joined in the ogling from the top of the spiderweb. it's fun to ogle girls with guys. i have a healthy appreciation for the female body, i reckon. but the i think (and mark disagreed) that girl's face left much to be deserved. in any case, quite a bit of fun although we never did end up playing truth or dare/i have never. well, truth or dare merely progressed to two boring truths from me and timmy. but the juvenile activities of the night were fun nonetheless. drinking games can come later.
i will post pictures of kitson being dunked, as soon as i can be bothered to do so.

i am going on a self-imposed no-icecream diet until lysistrata is over. i'm getting breakouts all over my face. it has to be because of my high daily ben&jerry's consumption. didn't eat the ice-cream at the party either. although that's possibly because of my snobbish dislike for any ice-cream that's not haagen-dazs or ben&jerry's or a few others. certainly a snobbish distaste for the walls/marigold variety. i never liked those. too sweet and milky. nothing beats a good pint of b&j chocolate fudge brownie. icecream i can be unabashedly snobbish about, right?anyway when one is on a no-icecream diet it is not good for one to talk at length about ice-cream, so instead i will go read "beyond the chocolate war" (gah what a tasty title.) and then i will go to sleep. a lot depends on how tomorrow goes.