4:33 Monday Afternoon   Dreary Beauty The rain looks like a translucent curtain. I had to go outside and dance in it. I miss Mandy. I talked to Joe today and he said something that symboled her decline. I vow to call her. 3 Days And Counting because counting things down makes them go slower, and i really don't want to be 17. Today wasn't good, but it was interesting. (I'm being positive!) I was asked to clean up the darkroom today, put away the chemicals and whatnot after developing. I managed to get the developer in the container with little spillage. I was proud. It's difficult to pick shallowxwidexlong dimensioned trays full of semitoxic chemicals and pour them into the relatively narrow openings of plastic bottles (flimsy and light weight and very easily pushed from side to side). So I got a funnel for the stop bath. Yeah, the funnel didn't work. It was too much headweight and the bottle fell over, spilling stopbath into the fixer (where I was continuing to fix the print I was planning to hand in on Wednesday. AHAHAHAHA so much for that). I am such a clutz in photo. First the stuck film, then the thermometer, and now this. Tech went fine, I got two coasters finished. and that other coaster may be okay if it doesn't mind being smaller than the others after some heavy operating. I do not remember interval, as per usual. I do believe it involved me shivering. Chemistry I mindlesslyfollowed James around through the experiment, not really knowing what was going on without Caleb there to explain it. Lunch was pretty pointless. Zeb and I went and got our year 13 badges though, yay. Hyun Woo was psycho and Simon kept throwing things at zeb and missing zeb and hitting me. Art was fine, just playing with photo montage. Got made fun of as usual in maths. I wish I was fast/smart/not american. Marko's pelvic thrusts did not help. Ew. Marko. And simon's badge was on his crotch. I didn't notice until Marko said "Do you know where Simon's badge is?" and Simon did a pelvic thrust and i saw the glint of metal. I thought that we were supposed to be the mature ones. At the end of that, I biked home, got dressed, ate food, and here I am. Wondering if today still has the potential of being good. I suppose it was good because I finished two coasters in tech, and the photo thing could have been worse. Now I'm going to go call mandy.