Updates

On Tuesday, March 17, we faced High Tech 1 in BRITE. There was an issue where Alex responded to a question at the same time when time was called. That was resolved with the higher-ups at BRITE just giving a new question as if the situation never arised. I can see the High Tech people were pretty disappointed considering this was their best team; however, JP has officially advanced the furthest that it ever did in BRITE: we are now officially semifinalists, and we will be facing South Brunswick next Tuesday.

Last Wednesday, we went back on the Challenge. First, we played Jewish Ed. Center. I have to admit that they were a lot better than I expected because we were actually behind on points for a while; however, we managed to pull through at the end. A very similar issue arouse when a question in Complete 180 was asking for Tyra Banks' reality show, to which they replied "America's Top Model" only to try to retract it and say "America's Next Top Model" (the correct answer). Taping was temporarily halted, and once again, the question was thrown out, but this time the new one was bounced to us, and we did not appear to know the answer. Still, we managed to win against them, which led us to our game against Bergen County.

We actually almost won against BCA. The MC round ended with a score of about 150 BCA to 135 JP. Then, after Lightning Round, the score was 185 BCA to 180 JP. Then, after the third round, we actually managed to pull ahead with a score of JP 280 to BCA 245. However, BCA pulled a 180 in Complete 180, and the final score was BCA 335 to JP 325. I would have liked it better if we won, but I guess I can take comfort in that JP has probably come the closest that any NJ team ever did in actually beating Bergen.

My Life is Turning Up

Last Tuesday, we beat Summit High School in BRITE. Thus, we are now advancing to the quarterfinals. I have to say that I was quite impressed with their sportsmanship, especially that of their coach. I could tell that he was not terribly impressed with the performance of his own team, but still he moderated with as much fairness as he possibly could, quite unlike CBA's coach.

My French teacher finally responded to my e-mail day before yesterday about my predicament with the girl who told me that she does not appear to be interested in me. Today, I talked with my teacher after school for a pretty solid half an hour. If anything, my teacher convinced me that I'm not quite as unloved as I thought for the longest time. Even though I feel better than I did that night, I still feel that I'm not going to be over this for a while though. The trouble is that I've never really been this much in love with anyone besides this girl. Yes, she is the second girl I've been infatuated with, but I was over the first rejection with hardly any trouble at all. Somehow, I don't really feel any sort of emotional attraction to anyone else at all.

Anyway, at this point, I think I've officially earned the right to feel good about myself for a change. My motto (for now) is, "I may lack a girlfriend, but that doesn't change the fact that I kick ass at everything I do." Because it's true.