Regional science fair was yesterday down at Fair Park (like always). The main judging was in the morning, and we managed to arrive fashionably late, heheh. Well, for once, we actually got special awards judges, so that was pretty cool. At around noon, they let us off, so Kevin (H.), Stephen (L.), and I decided to go downtown for lunch (; we were already in the area). Well, I found out that I absolutely cannot drive downtown, hahaha. We got lost both on the way there and the way back; they said we were lost, I said it was an "adventure," heheh. (We were lost!) =P But anyways, we ended up at the West End Marketplace (Mall) eating at the foodcourt, then chilling at the Tilt arcade afterwards. Man, I was soooo sleepy, I fell asleep in the chair of one of those Daytona racing games, hahaha. Yea, I didn't get much sleep the night before; everything just took a lot longer than expected. I thought it'd only take an hour or two, but it ended up taking all night.

But anyways, yea, then we went back to the convention center and waited outside for them to post the results. They like to tell us that they'll post it at a given time, then they post 'em late... happens every year; they must like torturing kids, haha. Kevin & I got first place in team life science again (after last year's outrage). Typically, this would mean that we get a direct trip to ISEF (the international science & engineering fair), but the PISD, which would normally foot the bill (for us) has been getting cheap lately, so I had to wait til today to find out what the deal was. But yea, we had to stick around several more hours for grand prize judging. Kind of pointless, really- they never give grand prize to teams anyway. =/

I got home around 7:00ish, plopped down and fell asleep instantly. I slept for like 14 hours- most refreshing. Daylight savings time though, blehhhh.

Today, after lunch, I had to go all the way back down to Fair Park for the meeting about advancing to state. Since the PISD decided to give us the free trip to ISEF already, they didn't really wanna foot the bill to send us to state also. I was perfectly fine with that; I mean the point of state is to make it to ISEF anyway, and they were just saving us the pain in the butt. But Kevin decides he wants to go, and I was just like, "You really wanna go? ugggghhh... fine, whatever..." Now I've gotta drag my butt down to Arlington next weekend to present, several times (since they're not putting us in hotels).

Oh, and I had to miss chinese school to go to that meeting today, grrrr... I like never miss chinese school! I brave heaven & hell, and screw myself over in the process to make it to chinese school. I don't really know why... it's not like it's particularly fun or anything; must be the principle of the thing.