I'm writing this five days after the fact so I'm gonna try to remember. Today I didn't have classes but still had to go to school for the awards ceremony. So I got up and got ready for that. I wore my blue short-sleeve button-up that I always wear and some khakis.
The actual awards ceremony was not that great. I rode with my dad to get there because we didn't want to waste gas taking four different cars. That also meant I was late because my dad is the slowest driver ever, even when he says he's going to rush. So I got there a couple minutes late and everyone else was already in the gym seated. I had to squeeze in on the end next to Claybob.
So yeah, the real reason the ceremony wasn't all that great was because I wasn't mentioned much. I wasn't expecting much but that doesn't mean I wasn't hoping. I got called up for the one thing I knew I'd get. The Copper Dome Scholarship from SEMO. That's literally a guaranteed scholarship. You still have to have decent grades and ACT scores but still basically guaranteed. At least I got called up for something. I was lowkey hoping to get one of the mystery awards or whatever but I didn't. Stupid teachers didn't think to refer me.
After that I brought my tablet in from my dad's car to get it wiped. My dad held the door open for me so I wouldn't get locked out of the school. Mrs. Lang, who I don't think likes me very much, was the one to wipe it.
She said to come back in fifteen minutes so I went out to the commons where they were doing some alumni thing or something, I don't know. There was only one alumni there and she gave a little speech. Lily's dad and Ian's dad also congratulated me. I think both of their names are Todd. Anyways, they also had food there so I had some grapes, strawberries, cheese, and Gardetto's. Pretty good. Then I got my tablet back and my dad and I left.
When we got home I turned my tablet on and stuff to make sure it was alright. It was. I finally had Aristotle and all the blocked stuff gone. Then I realized Windows still wasn't activated. So I was getting kind of worried about that because I needed to be in the administration's network or something and I couldn't do that anymore because the tablet wasn't a part of the administration anymore. So I spent forever trying to do that. I eventually got it by running the command prompt as an administrator and finding the product key to put in and activate. All works out in the end.
Then I went outside and walked in the creek. I found two longnose gar in a little area and followed them around for a while. Then I went back to the house to get my underwater camera to try and take cool pictures of them. I found out the water wasn't as clear as it looked and you couldn't even see a foot in front of you in the pictures. But yeah, I was probably out there for well over an hour. They were pretty cool. Both about 2 foot long, one reddish and one gray. Then one of them started swimming downstream and the water got really shallow and it beached itself. I got all of this on camera. So I decided I was going to help it. The best solution I could think of was getting a bucket to push it the rest of the way down the stream because there was no way I was touching a gar. So I ran up to the house, grabbed a green five-gallon bucket from the garage, and got on the Mule with Opal because I wasn't running back. The bucket ended up working and I saved it. Then when I got back to the house and started researching gars I figured out that they can basically breathe water and air. So I wouldn't have had to rush that much. Still saved it.
Pretty eventful day, but also not very eventful at all. 5/10.
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