man... crazy day. it all started last night. shoulda been studying for all the tests i had today, and dont get me wrong. i made an attempt, but attempt being the key word. cuz about 5 min into it i was snoozin. so the outcome, stress during all the tests i had to take. coupled by the fact that i have a boys state application due on monday, the wrriten exam for my pilots license also needs to be done sometime soon, and i wanted to do that tomorrow, but i dont foresee that happening. o well, ill just have to shove it to monday. along with the rest of my life. thatll be the new phrase. "ill just shove it to monday" its the weekend man! life isnt suppose to be like this. its suppose to be laid back and chill. lately yea right. welcome to adulthood. or an upperclassmen, which is like a pre requisite to becoming an adult. well screw that. i dont like it. i guess the tests didnt go too bad today. it was just all that studying for my written exam that just about drove my fist through the wall. i seriously wanted to punch something. if i saw an airplane right now, i might just kick it. flying has been my passion and obsession, but ive never had to study for something im very passionate about. last time i liked a girl, i didnt study her. i'd be crazy if i did. im beginning to think im crazy for studying flight. almost takes the fun out of it. but i kno in the end it will be completley worth it and ill discredit everything ive just said. but for now, im not feelin the whole studying thing. ive had to do it too much lately and its just weighin me down. i just realized that after all that venting, none of it was drama related. i guess thats either a good thing or a bad thing. on the one hand, it means my life is fairly drama free, but on the other hand, it means my life lacks socially. or so it would seem. but i kno it doesnt so ill stick with the first idea. good thing. no drama. sweet. like that. the end.

Well today was interesting... school sucked tho. nothing new there. i got LOADED with homework. the worst part was that i had to work tonight. and i knew that the whole day so when each teacher cheerfully gave me my assignments, the cringing intensified. i'd told myself that i had to put the homework on priority as soon as school was over. i dont know what it is about me, but i just cant seem to do that. it would have been a heck of a lot easier to do that too had it not been for a text i received from michael asking me if id like to backseat an IFR flight he was doing at 4, which conveniently enough, fit perfectly in and gave me enough time to be on the ground before work- well perfectly if you dont count homework. Flying is my life tho, and im sure this was a life test that i failed. haha o well. it was worth it. watching michael freak out as he's flying through cloud layers and unexpected no gravity moments at the discretion of Brian made the flight anything but boring. and just as expected i was back on the ground with just enough time to grab a bite to eat and get to work and change clothes. then i got home and had to get to that stupid homework. i started it about 10 and finished all of it about 5 min ago. so as you can see by the post time, it was about an hour and a half worth of hw. gotta love that junior year. sucks that an hour and a half is a normal homework load. cant wait to graduate....

so tahoe was fun. i guess it was better than i thought it was going to be. but i went in with a good attitude which helped quite a bit. got there on saturday and went snowboarding on the crapiest slope (if you could even call it that, it was more like a small steep hill). i attempted to teach my sister to snowboard and she did alright, but the only good i saw come of it was scoring points with a couple of other girls at the resort that i ended up hangin out with . they were from oakland, but i got their numbers so if im ever in that area. haha yea right. anyway that night i headed to squaw valley. drove there by myself cuz none of the other adults were in shape or had enough energy to ski. i get there. get out of the car. reach in my pocket. and low and behold no dice on my wallet. that pretty much sucked. had to drive alllll the way back to the lodge and didnt get to go that night. o well. i was tired anyway. probly a good thing i didnt go. the next day was a BLAST. we woke up and headed to a snowmobiling place. i was skeptical cuz i figured we would be on snowmobiles that could only go like 5 mph or something gay like that. man was i wrong. it was the most fun i could imagine. zippin hella fast across the trails and then hittin straight aways on this frozen lake. it was awesome. we went all the way to the top of this mountain and had the greatest view of lake tahoe i think that there is. it was like a "get down on one knee and propose to your girlfriend" kind of a view. quick trip back down to the bottom of the mountain and head back to the lodge. my dad decided he had enough energy to ski with me that night, so we headed back to squaw valley (and i definitely remembered my wallet this time) and hit the 3.2 mile lighted slope they have at night. and man was that CRAZY AWESOME. we did the long run twice and i hit the jump park a few times. it was alright, but just more assurance that im a speed freak, not a trick guy-comes with being a pilot. and today im back home. so that was the weekend. pretty cool. a few quotes to define the weekend.....


"this will be the universal sign for 'be flexible' "
"Hannah! snow plow!!... here she comes-there she goes"
"these lifts were not designed with men in mind"
"he knows we're on vacation right?"
"aaahhhhh the French"
"look mom, a bucket of water... no its not. its ice melt.... exactly"
"DONT CRUSH THE CHIPS"
"i was trying to figure out why he was offering us flita ritos"