Hallelujah!

We got gas today for 80.3 cents.  Whoopee!

And THAT was expensive!  Update on December 16th... it was something like 69.4 this weekend!

62.4 now!

DUDE!

So it's Chaos season... our school has been turned into a backstabbing, deceitful, dangerous nest of treacherous, conniving spies, who enjoy betraying each other to their cut-throat enemies.

(Impressive adjectives, n'est pas?)  By Chaos I mean chaos, and by chaos, I mean Chaos.  Ha ha.

What I really meant by that cryptic and unintelligible message was that the annual school game of Chaos just started this week.  Each person is given the name of another person at the school.  The objective is to eliminate that person from the game by killing them.  The way you do that is to find that person away from the arms-reach of anyone else and tag them.  Then once you have done so, you have a funeral for them (kidding.)  They give you the name that they had, and the game goes on.  The only safe zones are the washrooms.  The only safe times are during classes.  If you're on school property at any time of day, watch out.

There are several strategies and types of players in the game.  I will now outline a few.

1.) The Alliance Maker.  This person goes around and makes pacts and alliances with as many people as possible.  They help their alliances kill their target to receive help with killing their own.  However, alliances are broken off as easily as they are made.    

2.) The Stalker.  Generally, the stalker is a much more cautious person, who concentrates on staying safe.  They take several days to stalk their target, all the while making sure their target doesn't realize that they're stalking them.

3.) The Aggressor.  The player who concentrates as getting as many kills as possible.

4.) The Super-Aggressor.  There's always one of these in every game.  The Super-Aggressor is a whirlwind killer who seems unstoppable, burning through victims like a forest-fire.  This player is usually a grade twelve student, as they are more experienced in playing.  The Super-Aggressor usually lasts only a few days, as they do not concentrate on keeping themself safe.

5.) The Teacher.  Teachers play too, and only last a little while due to their more isolated position.  Teacher strategies include calling students aside for meetings during lunch, pulling them out of class and talking to them until the bell rings, and sneaking up on people.

6.) The Faker.  Freaks people out by acting suspicious and pretending that they have people that they do not.  This keeps people from looking out for the real killer, and generally ends with the death of the Faker's target.

7.) The Safe One.  Doesn't kill, doesn't try to kill.  Just concentrates on being safe.  These are the people who usually win, as the game can go on for months and months.

8.) The Grade Nines.  Clingy, Giggly, Paranoid... enough said :)

Anyway, I love chaos.  And I got killed yesterday.  Fun fun!

In which a bunch of small children invade our school and I procrastinate the afternoon away

So, today is a day off school for most people.  Or, as I should say, most sane people.  I happen to be musical, and insane, so I was swept up into Not Sleeping In and Coming Into School to Play Music on my Day Off.  

Ahh, grade eight day.  I happen to love it.  For some reason I take joyful pleasure in shepherding kids around our school, and watching them get lost in our 2 and 1/2 hallway school.  I love telling them that our "swimming pool" had needed to be chlorinated so we would have to skip that part of the tour, and telling them all about the "arcade" and the "bowling alley" in the basement- off limits today, unfortunately.  And watching their faces as they see how much grease is on the pizza is priceless.

So, why didn't I stay today after playing music for them?  Probably because I thought I would end up doing homework all day... what a laugh!  I sure need to kick my butt into gear or my math grade is going to drop right back down to the fifties.  My problem is that I do not have the focus for it.  It doesn't make sense to most people: here's a girl who can practice violin for an hour and a half every day of the week, but cannot stand to sit down and answer a few problems. I just don't like math, that's all.

At least I stayed at school for the doughnuts.