Rubik's Cubing and Flagpoling

School's started (fun, fun) and I'm getting back into the routine of waking up at six after a long night of doing English homework, eating breakfast (oats and milk), performing the necessary morning ablutions (teeth brushing, showering, etc.), and heading off for school, lunch bag in hand, backpack on back, and heavy heart in chest.

But it's too early into the school year to be posting about all this dull stuff.

You see, what I really wanted to talk about is a few of the interests that I've picked up to add to my already sizable repertoire of cross country running, dodge ball, front flips, Ultimate Frisbee, reading, writing ... the list goes on and on.

Just to get this out of the way: NO! I don't pick up interests just because I have too much time on my hands.

(Don't lie. You were thinking that.)

I'm actually very busy getting A's in school, running cross country afterward, and doing my best to survive my Honours and AP homework.

But I digress.

(Just kidding about the AP classes by the way. I really do have a life.)

So, without further ado I am proud to announce my new interest:

RUBIK'S CUBING!

And yes. Really. Rubik's cubing. That same thing that took you five months to solve the first layer, the same thing you spent hours, days, weeks stressing over, the thing you eventually quit 'cause you didn't want to lose any more hair.

That thing.

Guess what? It only took me two and a half days to figure it out.

So maybe I did use YouTube to figure it out. And so maybe it takes me an average of three minutes to solve it. So what? It's still fun and I only got it a week ago.

So. That pretty much wraps up my life right now. School, homework, cross country ... and rubik's cubing.

Oh... and yes, in the beginning of the post I did say I've pick up "a couple new interests". You see, my other major interest right now is flag poling. The full-on flagpole too. Not the wimpy, half flagpole, cheat thing. The. Real. Full. Flagpole.

So far I can only hold it for 0.0009 seconds (the photo is faked). But I'm learning. I'm getting there. And sometime in the future I plan on beating the world record of 39 seconds, and get myself titled world's most jacked man in the meantime.

But that's still a long way down the road.

And --  man, I look so white in these pictures. Really need to start on a new interest.

The beach.