6:00 – I wake up, forcefully. Then I fall back asleep. Then my mom walks in and makes my dog jump on me and bite me until I get out of bed. Okay, I’m out of bed, but I’m still asleep…

Why would anyone wake up this early on a Saturday morning? Because. To go where? To school. Which school makes you wake up on a Saturday morning at 6:00AM?! The one in Moses Lake…

Yeah, it was the Math is Cool State competition and the team had to wake up early enough to get to Moses Lake by 9:00 for the registration stuff. Of course, the drive from Spokane to Moses Lake takes aprox. two hours, so, eh. I was dropped off in downtown Spokane and then later picked up by Mr. Sleeth who was driving the van. Anyways, not much happened in the car ride over, which was very surprising. Why? Simply because there were four junior highers sitting in the same van along with four high-school peoples. As you can tell, that does not make a very good combination. Yes, they were annoying at a few points, but overall I thought they showed much more maturity than Robert did on the ride back…*cough* oh by such a higher ratio, too *cough*. We got to Moses Lake and into one of their bigger high schools where they hold the Math is Cool match every year. I don’t know the name but it’s a high school…with 70% being a C- for their grading scale. We start our testing, and from the beginning I knew we were not going to make it. After the testing, we went out for lunch at McDonald’s (yech…) and ate. Matt Seeman got a toy with his happy meal and started to play around with it outside. It was one of those toys that winds up and then moves around in circles on the ground or something of that nature. We didn’t care, we just went and kicked it. Holy cow was Matt mad when he saw his toy fly about 50 yrds. into the street…actually he wasn’t mad…he was pissed.

We headed back towards the high school to finish up with the awards ceremony and the such. We get into the parking lot and Mr. Sleeth decides to park his van in such a way that it takes up four parking spaces. Hey, who cares? We got out and Robert saw a bumper sticker promoting John Kerry for elections. He goes over and rips it off of the car, leaving a shiny rectangle of where the sticker used to reside. (By car, I mean someone else’s car…)

Anyways, about the awards – Robert got first place in the second division with a score of 18 points. I had 7, Nick had 4, and Rhett had 2. As for our team, we didn’t get anything. 5th place…bummer. We suck. St. Jo’s got 1st again. We dislike them. We strongly dislike them. We want them to live happy lives knowing that something, someday is going to happen to them. Yup, something…I’m ranting again, sorry.

That’s about all. We came back to Spokane disappointed but hyper. Our main food that day consisted pretty much of snacks that the English department gave to us. As for our drinks, we had pure caffeine…or whatever they put into those energy drinks. ME WAS TEH HYP3R!!!