getting paid for hiking

wow! i just made a sweet 47 dollars for riding around in a van, talking to interesting people, petting dogs, adn putting out a few boards... i guess the limitations for the biology department's use for manual labor are endless, i was aparently helping with something called Summer Ventures that goes through the eduacation department of App. and not only did i get paid for this fun in the sun, i also got out of school! hyper-cheute! (sp, all you french speaking types). though the office people were a little sniffy about it... i had to get this form signed by all my teachers and everything...
the plans for tomorrow are set! me and mum are going with the rest of my AP Bio class to the Asheboro Zoo (though to my family it is just The Zoo). so far elaine and autum are riding in the jeep with me and mum ( we're carvaning) and maybe jacob (great, cause he's really fun). i promised my mother a beaver shaped pocketbook (you know the kind of back pack purses that look like animals? well, she decided she wanted one) but only if she's nice to the other horrid ickle teenagers :) since we last went they've added the Austrailia exibit and for once we're going to be going through the Africa part when things are awake :) apprently they all cop out for a snoze at midday. don't blame them really... i could use a nap myself about that time :)
Naomi is getting inducted into the National Honor Society tomorrow, so go her! Han and i were in it this year, and han is going to be there to induct our beloved. mum's kinda peeved that she won't get to go, but i told her we had it covered with han , after all, family is family. i understand her not thinking it is the same because han is, after all, the sister, not the mother, but i still think anybody with the same genes counts. come to that, i'm kinda peeved i'm missing it too........
this week is so crammed full of stuff to do: i had this today, i have zoo tomorrow, erm... wed is blank, thursday is capping practice (nome is capping me, i won her from han... looong story :) ) and the final concert of the year (i'm playing piccolo for the concert band, and my usual alto for the jazz portion) friday is the actaul capping ceramony and senior awards. and then, this sat, we are playing for a wedding reception. Wink's daugther is getting married and she wanted a swing band, so Wink so slyly suggested us! in return, the jazz library is getting several new pieces, paid for by Mr. Winkler (out of his pocket, not the school's paucity of arts funds). hopefully we can get some rhapsody in blue and my funny valentine, as well as some other classic jazz standards that my other half will have heard nothing about (rolls eyes) and no, i'm not dating anyone, we all call kile and i half alto, because him and i are sharing lead (half instead of first?)... i guess you'd have to be in band to get that one... anyhoo... i'm out of school, and see no point in going back, since i went through all that trouble to get that form signed, and mum could use a hand around the facilites... so i'm going to check out now, with grace, a bow, an apology for not having updated this thing sooner, and the remains of lunch thrown helter-skelter about the keyboard :)