Aida

Woo! Last night, Katherine and I went to see John Paul College's final show of Aida. It's somewthing written by Elton John I think about Egyptian love affairs. I knew like six people in it so it was pretty awesome. :D

Katherine and I were at my place then Brittany's dad came and picked us up. We went inside eventually, and Charlee and Miki were in it at the start, and about everywhere else as dancers. It was intense! Haha. Afterwards, Miki was crying so much it became really awkward.

I want my school to do Aida!

Baby Alicia

Baby Alicia. She's tough, she's loud, she's new. She's plastic.
Her name is actually Grace Faith Bayside, but I hate it, and already told Alicia Backholer I'd name it after her.

Yeeeep, a few days ago I had the renowned Health and Human Development baby to take care of. This year the school got a new state-of-the-art model, 2008, full pro. I had it on Monday and Tuesday, until Wednesday morning. 48 hours of epic fake baby.

Gone are the days of the key-in-the-back-to-make-it-shaddap thing, we got a waterproof wristband this time that you have to sensor to the baby so it recognizes you as the parent. I got 96% of good care over the two days - missed a feeding, a diaper change, roughly handled it and let its head drop back. Oops.

Dare I say, that one of those weren't my fault? The missed feeding happened on Tuesday during Maths when it cried and wouldn't shut up, so Clare and I took it outside because my wristband wasn't working. When it's recognized, it makes a chiming noise, and the chime didn't take, so I didn't know what the hell was going on. Also, I think the diaper change may not've been my fault MAYBE. Because on Wednesday morning I managed to chime it, but it was still crying, and nothing worked, but I think I may've been half asleep and tried changing it and putting the same nappy back on. Oops.

The simulation was supposed to start at 9, but after Fiona had it on the weekend, it charged for two hours and it started at 11am on Monday. It didn't make a peep till 12:30 and Mrs. Cooper kept poking her head in and telling me off for not holding it properly. Haha! Oh well!

I eventually figured out what cry means what, as you do, and that after lots of feeding/changing, which is almost ALL it does, it'll be silent for a few hours and go to sleep. It made really weird breathing noises every 8 seconds. On Monday night, it only woke me up once, at four, which I think was really peculiar. It was silent for 5 hours.

Tuesday night was a bit different, it woke me up 4 times and cried 10 times during that block, but I didn't really mind. It's just annoying when you're in the shower and have to turn it off to feed it for 20 minutes, naked. Judging by the hours of silence thing I mentioned, I figured it'd do that again when I showered Wednesday morning, so I showered at 4:30 again. I agree with Casey - you eventually just give up on sleep.

DO. HEALTH. AND. HUMAN. DEVELOPMENT.
IT IS SO MUCH FUN.
^____^

Is this jumping the gun a bit?

I just rearranged my room for two hunger-inducing hours to get a 2nd desk in here to plug in and utilise my new Macintosh computer. I don't even have the monitor(s) yet. Is this jumping the gun a bit?

The dresser's in my wardrobe to make room for a desk; moved some boxes under my bed to make room for the dresser; moved my bed (vertically, temporarily) to slide the boxes under there; moved my mattress to move my bed; moved my chair and vacuum to move my mattress... it goes on.

I'll need to buy some monitors off Andrew for el cheapo.
Arrivederci.

S Block

It's the second day of the semester. I'm not at school today cos I'm fairly sure I've pulled a muscle in my back.

That building that spent an extra 2 months in the making (finished by May, my foot) at school was finally ready... at the last second yesterday morning. Early morning. It's been named S Block, although the woman who organizes the building names and timetables and such didn't realize that we already have an S Block. It's the sport shed. So bye bye, sport shed! You're becoming part of Q Block!

Anyway, the building is pretty radical. It's mostly a senior science block, with a large science room in the back, two smaller ones, and two general purpose classrooms with a foyer. Nobody took into account that the foyer needed a room number as with the other rooms, so now a lot of the rooms have changed after they printed the timetable, although it says 'final'. As all Bayside kids know, a 'final timetable' is never final.