I finished my science fair project last night. Five days before it was due. Go me.

I did the entire board in two days. Normally it takes me a week. I don't think I've done so much work in four days before. It took giving my relatives a cold shoulder and the loss of some good meals, but hey, it was worth it. Now I don't know what to do with myself and have lost momentum and can't bring myself to work on my other normal homework. Also, I now get to freak out about band auditions Wednesday. I'm really nervous about it because although originally I wanted to move up really badly, I don't want to have to change my biology class because the teacher's really good and I have friends in that class, and I'm not entirely willing to take my chances with another class. But I don't want to purposely do badly, because it's still a test grade, and I sure don't want to get downgraded a band, either.

Well, in any case, it's still nice to not have to freak out about my science fair project for a while. But if I advance (lol) I would get right back to work for another two months and redo my board and improve as much as possible before district, and then repeat again for another months before regional, although I DEFINITELY wouldn't win in either place. Plus my catergory is Environmental Management, which is probably the second worst catergory to compete in after Chemistry, which was my catergory last year. The problem is that all the really, really smart kids and a big amount of mediocre kids (aka me) do that catergory as well. It's only really a good catergory if you're really good and concerned about winning grand, because it's like a known fact (at least to me) that if you're in Environmental Management, the judges will love you because it's considered the most relevant to modern science. Which I guess is true, and is important when some of these kids are actually signing over rights to manufacture their inventions en masse/use their breakthrough discoveries/shaking hands with Obama/getting a full scholarship (all of which have actually happened) on a scale that is very much situated in 'the real world' which is not about catering to us low-life catergories like Chemistry and, like, Computer Science or what have you.

Also, I found videos of kids from the international fair presenting their projects. I am jealous. Very, very, very jealous. I have no idea how people are even that smart at all, let alone high school kids.

Okay, science fair rant over. My aunt, uncle, two cousins and two grandparents came over on Wednesday and should be leaving Sunday. It's not been as bad as I thought, since I had the science fair to exploit as an excuse to keep myself locked up in my room for so long. We're going to a hockey game tonight, although I just went to see one on Monday. At least this time I won't be in the nosebleeds (but then again I won't have a free all-you-can-eat line).

Okay, I'm done for now. I'm procrastinating my WHAP notes really badly, and they're due Monday so I really need to get back to work, science fair project completed or not.