And don’t you have to introduce yourself to everyone in the room? Grandmère insists that at parties I make sure I greet every guest personally, shaking their hand and inquiring after their health. Lana didn’t say anything about that.
Or about the most important thing of all: What are you supposed to do about your bodyguard?
God. This partying thing is going to be even harder than I thought.
Thursday, March 4, Geometry
Something horrible just occurred to me. I mean, something even more horrible than the usual things that occur to me, like that Rocky might be suffering from childhood disintegrative disorder, or that the mole on my right hip is growing and could turn into a two-hundred-pound tumor like the one that grew on that lady I saw on that documentary on the Discovery Health Channel called 200 Pound Tumor.
And that’s that Lana might be self-actualized.
Seriously. I mean, that shakedown in the stairwell just now—that was almost a beautiful thing. It was CLASSIC.
And okay, she did it in a totally underhanded and manipulative way. But she got exactly what she set out to get.
She CAN’T be self-actualized. I mean, it totally wouldn’t be fair if she were.
But you can’t deny that she knows how to get what she wants out of life. Whereas I am just floundering around, lying to everyone all the time, and definitely NOT getting what I want.
I don’t know. I mean, sure, she’s pure unadulterated evil.
But it’s something to think about.
Alternate exterior angles—A pair of angles on the outer sides of two lines cut by a transversal, but on opposite sides of the transversal.
Thursday, March 4, Earth Science
Just now Kenny asked me if I would recopy our viscosity lab handout. He got Alfredo sauce all over it while filling in the blanks last night during dinner.
I guess it’s a small price to pay for not actually having to know what viscosity is.
HOMEWORK
PE: WASH GYM SHORTS!!!
U.S. Economics: Questions at end of Chapter 8
English: Pages 133–154, O Pioneers
French: Rewrite histoire
G&T: Cut black velvet knee-length skirt to micromini for party. FIND BERET!!!!
Geometry: Chapter 17, problems on pages 224–230 Earth Science: Who cares? Kenny will do it.
Thursday, March 4, the Grand Ballroom, the Plaza
A lot of people showed up for the Braid! auditions. I mean, a LOT.
Which is weird when you consider that none of the Drama Club people can even audition for Braid! because they’re too busy rehearsing for Hair.
Which means that all of the people who showed up today were theater neophytes (which means “beginner or novice,” according to Lilly), like Lilly and Tina and Boris and Ling Su and Perin (but not Shameeka, since she’s only allowed that one extracurricular per semester).
But Kenny was there, with some of his wonder-geek pals. And Amber Cheeseman, her school uniform sleeves rolled up to show off her apelike forearms.
Even The Guy Who Hates It When They Put Corn in the Chili showed up.
Wow. I really had no idea there were so many aspiring thespians at AEHS.