today i fell asleep with my eyes open while calculating averages at mameco. the only other time i achieved this was in third period physics. another amazing thing i accoplished was while carrying a tray with three layers of 4" tall cans on it along a railingless balcony a can fell and almost turned into a deadly projectile but with my mad skills i managed to stop it with my foot.

i like to read books. i am almost done with the two towers and it is great. i am compiling a list of books i would like to buy it is very exciting.

things that are great:

i am alive and well

i do not have to go to mameco on thursday or friday

i still don't sleep now that i am out of school

tope (you will see, keep reading)

so uhh yeah some words mistro:

diffident DIF-uh-dunt; -dent, adjective:

1. Lacking self-confidence; distrustful of one's own powers; timid; bashful

2. Characterized by modest reserve; unassertive.

He lived naturally in a condition that many greater poets never had, or if they had it, were embarrassed or diffident about it: a total commitment to his own powers of invention, a complete loss of himself in his materials. --James Dickey, "The Geek of Poetry," [1]New York Times, December 23, 1979

This schism is embodied in Clarence's two sons: cheerful, pushy, book-ignorant Jared, a semicriminal entrepreneur who has caught "the rhythm of America to come" and for whom life is explained in brash epigrams from the trenches, versus slow, diffident Teddy, the town postman[HA!], uncomfortable with given notions of manhood, uncompetitive ("yet this seemed the only way to be an American") and disturbed that others misstate "the delicate nature of reality as he needed to grasp it for himself." --Julian Barnes, "Grand Illusion," [2]New York Times, January 28, 1996

Minny[mouse?] was too delicate and diffident to ask her cousin outright to take her to Europe. --Brooke Allen, "Borrowed Lives," [3]New York Times, May 16, 1999

Diffident is from the present participle of Latin diffidere, "to mistrust, to have no confidence," from dis- + fidere, "to trust." The noun form is diffidence.

Synonyms: shy, timid, modest, coy, demure.

i thought this next one was a color, boy was i wrong!

tope (tope) verb tr., intr.

To drink (liquor) habitually and copiously.

[Of uncertain origin, perhaps from obsolete top (to drink) as in "top off".]

tope (tope) noun

A small shark with a long snout (Galeorhinus galeus).

[Of unknown origin.]

tope (tope) noun

A usually dome-shaped monument built by Buddhists. Also known as a stupa.

[From Hindi top, from Prakrit or Pali thupo, from Sanskrit stupa (head).

Some pictures of,

tope, the fish:

http://www.seatrek.org/curriculum/reference/species/tope.htm

tope, the building: http://www.buddhanet.net/sanchi.htm

"There are the tope strategists, who chartered the brand's

repositioning and the agency folks who turned out snappy creative, not to mention a cadre of bottlers pushing Sprite in the retail trenches." Karen Benezra, Brandweek's Marketers of the Year, Adweek (Dallas, Texas), Oct 20, 1997.

i hope you look at these pictures, they are great.

i gotta go get some mail for my jousting club, see ya (i hope)

byeness