This Weekend's flight

Jerry said a spot was open on Saturday so I was thinking that if no one took the spot, I'd go up with him and then go up again on Sunday. My mother is not too happy that I'll be missing her best friend's daughter's birthday, but what's that old saying? Oh yeah, I'd rather be flying. I'm torn. I really liked the challenge of the crosswinds, but I kind of want to get my third supervised solo out of the way. I either want nasty nasty winds or dead calm. Near winter it gets to be both, sometimes on the same day, or in the same hour! Let's just hope if it's dead calm and I solo that the winds don't pick up a whole lot. We were working in 17Knot winds gusting to 20. I don't think I could do it alone. Actually no, I could. I just don't want to. If there is one thing I've learned about this pilot business, it's that you have to go in thinking you can do it. You've got to be headstrong and have a pair cause if you lack confidence, only bad things will happen. I don't know if it is good or not, but I'm a very confident person now. Sometimes I think I'm too confident and my friends get annoyed with it. Half the time I talk to them about flying they sit there with blank expressions and say, "I have no idea what you just said." I feel bad for a couple of them. They have no clue what they're going to do after high school. I find it sad that so many people are going to stay around here. I shouldn't worry about it considering I know what I'm doing. Or what I want to do. My SAT scores should be back soon. I got my ACT scores and my math section was scored a 21. I'm pissed. The NROTC cutoff is 22. GAR!!! I'm banking on my SAT scores. Who knows, maybe they'll take me anyway. Keep your fingers crossed.