So here's the mandatory Convention update!
I am really glad I went, it was a really good break from being here and it was so wonderful to be back home and be with some of the people I love the most. Even if I didn't sleep and now am so exhausted I'm dizzy...

Friday, Jordan picked me up and we roadtripped in what is now being called the slowest trip home ever, but it was good and we bonded. And I found out some REALLY CUTE things. So I was like 3 hours late for my first hall duty with Kathy, because I am a horrible person. So then I went to my second hall shift--blocking the pathway with a dude. I got yelled at by St. Paul's Deacon for not going there, but what does he know? His boss is Polska! (Polska in that picture is clearly labelled as a Hobo) He also said "If I ever become a dick when I'm a priest, kick me in the ass" and it was sweet. I was FREEZING though so some lady brought me a blanket and I got coffee because I'm just sweet like that. Then I went to do HANDpainting because I'm even sweeter like that. Even if that one horrible girl said that Liz was a better artist then me :( You know what? My dancing bananas really dance if you move your hand! Plus I drew some REALLY HOT fencers on the hands of Michelle and...ADAM!!!!

I was SO excited to see Adam (this will lead to an old school fencing post) even though he's secretly a really bad person. :( And really old too. 20 = mad old, Janet!!!

Then we got a pizza and party room 505--Zdenka, Juanita, being sworn at in spanish by Trudy, and talking to Ramone and Joey and Kevin and then calling Liz and waking her up...it was such a party. Plus, we had our own bathroom, shower, and pizza.

Saturday Liz got the Manus Christi! I'm so proud of her! Breaking the streak! Teen Mission didn't win the Ed Argy because FC killed him. Ya know, under MY presidency, no one knew we killed him. Lunch was good--MY ROLL TASTED LIKE A HOT PRETZEL!! Our table was so much better then the other one. :p Then we went to the unity/"adaptation" session, and then "who's in your carpool?" where Joey made me volunteer! And then of course...FATHER GARY'S SEX TALK. Terrific, as usual. I love you Liz. Then we went to Casa di Pizza for the best chicken fingers EVER and FC came! And we drove through Buffalo and I was freaking out and people hated me. On the way back, we were obnoxious like always because we rule. Then Cotillion. It was fun, I was tired though but everyone looked SO wonderful. The guys gave us flowers and sang a LOVELY song for us. They got teddy bears and at least Joey liked his a lot. Then the elevators broke down= good times. It was not as much of a party night because we were dead.

Sunday was brunch [St. Andrews, Kendell, and SS. Peter and Paul in Hamburg (Adam)] were rejected to the way back because SOMEONE UP THERE (Dan Greer) doesn't like us. We embarrass him (he also shut down the hand painting, because he's Dan Greer) The new Bish came, and he seems pretty cool. "They're coming for us! Hide!" ~ the Bish. Father Sadjak won the priest award and he went to WYD with us. Liz, and Katie (from girl scout choir) won Manius Christi, and Maligros won a big award (*does the hand thing*). Mass was good, not as good as last year, but good. No Polska this time. Or FC, or Bish, or songs that I knew, or "Mission Impossible" Our Father. Or Dave! My brother's religion class came and so did my mom. I handed out bookmarks. It was good times.

Then I went home for 45 minutes. They were awesome minutes. I saw my puppy and my couch and it was just wonderful. Then my mom drove me to Jordan's and Jordan drove me back...here. That's when I took a nap because I was going to pass out.

So much work. I'm going to die.
~Zdenka

PS...cool people go to Canada for ice cream with people who write for the Wall Street Journal!
PPS...these pictures are old, but new ones will come, some day.