Spix's Macaw it is. This book focuses on conservation, history, trade, and much more about this wonderful little bird. The paper is do some time after Christmas break.

I am having trouble Christmas shopping. My brother Jason says there is nothing he needs. Well I sure as hell want a gift from him so he is getting one from me. I will just need to pester him a little more. I know there is something he would like to have even if he does not "need" it.

I got the part of  Planchet in the play. i am very pleased with the part, it is pretty funny and easy to learn. We should be putting the preformance on sometime in Febuary.

I really want to right here more often but I am pretty sure my rat fink father still reads it. Yes he stole my lap top and looked up my new name. Loser

Ok Xangers. I get to do a research paper on a thing. I have to read one book and it must have a single topic such as coal, tulips, cod, spix macaw, oil, or model T. One of my friends is doing it on salt, another on lobsters. I have a book totally on tortoises. It covers wild life, diet, art, architect, food, medicine, religion, trade, and more. I also have one on the spix macaw. Does anyone know of a book that fits my description? As of now I am doing the macaw but I am still open to ideas.

By the way this is for my History of Ideas class. thanks   

Good Lord! I am just missing getting on Honor Role! I have never done so well at Gunston before. I am getting primarily B’s and A’s. I should be getting my report card any day now.

Jordan is about to start at Radcliff which is great but will really put a dent in our finances. I guess the $350 worth of birds I just got may not have been the best thing to have done now. Oh well what was will be. The little puppy Ellie is doing great and really developing her own personality. She is so cute.

I am having some trouble at the moment with Tess but hopefully that will work its self out. She has always had some difficulties and right now I think she is lonely more than anything. Next year she will be in collage and I think that will do her a world of good. Till then I will just try to be the best friend I can be.

I was sitting in my work shop Friday during “In celebration of books day” and I noticed a girl across the room. She was not flashy or all done up, but I think that may have been what got me to notice her in the first place. She had a simple beauty that looked very real, not like some of the other girls who cover them selves in make up and short skirts. She just looked modest but very attractive. Nothing flashy or fake. Simple.

Play practice starts Thursday. It will be the Three Musketeers! A COMEDY! Not like last year’s Crucible. That was painful. I can hardly wait to start. This is going to be a LOT of fun.

The new pup, Ellie, trying to get Riley to play while Sadie takes a nap.

GOD has a since of humor, and I don’t find it funny.

So I am a big bad SOLOPHMORE, Greek for “wise fool”. I say to my self

“Bennett you got it made. First hot freshmen girl you see you take. Yeah that’s right I am going to be a big dog now!”

Why do things go so wrong? Why oh why? I start this year and classes are not so great but I will live. Now to fined that freshmen beauty. But before I can start my hunt all the freshmen some how know my name and there are like half a dozen freshmen girls all following me. I get stopped between classes to be in formed that

“Hey Julia really likes you”

Who the Hell is Julia? I get on the computer at night and I can’t talk to my friends because I am being bombarded by these silly girls asking me

“Do you like living in Centreville?”

“So I hear you like birds. Is that true?”

“Did Shelly talk to you today?”

“Can I wear your hat?”

“Do you um… like me?”

I DON”T KNOW YOU! HOW SHOULD I KNOW IF I LIKE YOU?

So I blame GOD. Yes I was a pig but really GOD. This is a bit extreme. Don’t you think?

How Ironic that I now find myself hiding from freshmen girls. I do not understand it. I guess they all get together before school started and agreed that the first goofy sophomore with braces, running around banging coconut halves together with his friends pretending to ride horses, and resoling with the dog they wanted to date.

Dear Lord I am scared. How am I supposed to get a chance to talk to the girl I am interested in with these entire pest on my tail all day?

I hope someone finds this VERY funny because I am not amused at the moment but I am sure I will laugh soon.

Bennett

MAN! My English teacher is going to drive me crazy. She is an old kindergarten teacher and has not yet realized that there is a significant difference between that and high school. I was right on the money with Chem. It is BORING. The teacher is from India so what he has done is memorized the entire text book word for word. It is true! I can I can take my finger and move it along the page following every word he says and his book is closed!

Latin is just two girls and I. It’s hard but what really gets me is that I have no one to talk to. Some may think this better for the learning environment but when the teacher has her eye on all of you at the same time it can be a bit nerve racking. Photography is great but it is just two other guys and one girl with me. I wish I had some of my friends in there with me. It is a class where you are aloud to talk and I am stuck with two guys I don’t know or really want to know and Anna. Anna is a great friend but we are in all the same classes and some times it is nice to talk with your other friends. Geometry is a very cool class but you need to pay close attention to stay on top of things. Luckily the teacher is a real funny guy who I get along with great. I love History of Ideas. Mr. Kaylor is easily my favorite teacher and his class is always a pleasure to attend.

I do not mean to wine so much but I really miss a lot of my friends who are not in my classes and all my junior friends are now in B lunch so I do not even get to see them then.

Things will get better. I hope. Bennett