Prom. And more!

This has been one heck of a past 24 hours. I got to the school and we do the Grand March (an old tradition, we walk around the gym all dressed up and stuff in front of the parents). The best part? Someone pulled the fire alarm. But that didn't seem to matter. We kept going anyway. Weird.

After was the evening. We went down to the Aston hotel nearby and we had a good night. Dinner was good (a whole buffet). Honestly, though, the best part was I got to be a gentleman for the whole night. Like, for example, while waiting for food (the line was apparently so long it was a fire hazard), one of the doors were open, and there was a draft, and my date said it was getting chilly, so I took off my jacket of my tux and put it on her. It was fun.

And then the "music" started. I have never hated rap more. Seriously, there were only four songs throughout the whole night that sounded like something I wanted to go up and dance to, the four slow songs that were played all night (which I did dance to. Yes, I danced). The rest was mostly rap (and of course, the YMCA). We needed better music.

After we got back, we watched the grad slideshow DVD thingy. The only pictures of me in it were grad napping pictures. Those who do know what it is can laugh at me, those who don't know really don't want to know. Oh well. I have pictures of me.

Then I slept for four hours, and then had to get up again for the other thing I need to do. Yeah, that chess tourney. I actually had an energy drink kind of thing in the morning, and it helped a bit. I won my first two games (the first one was a lot closer than the second), lost the next two, and won the last one (I'm kinda proud of that one. I was able to succesfully trap my opponent's queen there.). Overall, I tied for 4th with two other people, which got me a nice medal. The thing that surprised me most is how organized it was, though. Tournaments almost never start anywhere close to on time. This time, we started only about 10 minutes late, which is a miracle in itself, but we actually started the other four rounds on time. I was amazed.