The common tests are over. I have a bad feeling about them. These are not the droids you are looking for. I worry that my selective negligence in studying certain topics will result in me being disappointed in a couple of weeks time. On the bright side, even if I don't do as well as I hope, they don't count for that much in the final grade. On the downside, if I do well, they won't count for much in the final grade.
Yesterday, by amazing coincidence, I met Mark on my way home. This was an amazing coincidence, because I did a number of things that day that were required for such an event to occur. First, I stayed back for lunch in school, and then stayed back some more to look at a book about dogs. I definitely do not do that very much. Second, I decided to take the longer route past AJC to the bus stop, instead of the... other one. Third, I happened to be almost out of view of the gates when Mark saw me. Had I been slightly faster, or him slightly slower, we wouldn't have even known that the other was there.
So anyway, I feel bad for the AJ bio students.
Faced with a weekend of nothingness in terms of responsibility, I started reading Neil Gaiman's Stardust. It's not a very long book, and I finished it in about seven hours or so. I hadn't seen the movie, so I can't comment on what they should or shouldn't have left out.
The book was nice. Ingenious use of magic, flying ships... some classic fairytale stuff. It had been a really long while since I read a non-Tolkien fantasy, and there are some marked differences. Tolkien's stories are all pretty epic, while Stardust was much more personal. I won't spoil the story for anyone who intends to read it eventually, but I'll say that the eighty-first lord of Stormhold is a real jerk.
Awesome.
-Joe