Too many things rhyme
Last night I read 90 pages in Great Expectations and wrote a reading log about it. Next period I believe we will discuss the book... riveting. I found a new background for the Gunn wepbage; it looks like redwood instead of striped red and black lines. Today is going by rather fast, which is good. Thursday is my mellow school day (unless I have a Bio test). Class is over. Sharks game on today at 4:30pm. I'm outta here.
Noah - 11:19 AM - 2 comments
Days to AP: 70 or "I guess stop signs don't matter if you're an asshole."
Intro Java... I have finished my "assignment" for today... *cricket*
Apparently today is Service Day, and while I am not involved I go to classes with considerably less people (who are actually helping the community... in some way).
Today is Thursday. It feels like Friday. Everyday feels like Friday and every night feels like Thursday. After school is over, time melts backwards to the day before the start of the weekend and I am hurled into a time warp that leaves me dazzed and confused. Today is Friday, tonight is Thursday night, and tomorrow is Friday. However, tomorrow night is actually Friday night. Time is going backwards and forwards. Last night was Thursday night and today is Friday. Calendars confuse me.
Wednesday, February 27, 2002
Test
The Evolution test did not represent what I know about evolution. It didn't. Once again I was not given an appropriate amount of time for the things I had to do. I'm sure there are people in my class that didn't have trouble with this, and they're probably going to get an A. This was not the case with me though. I understood what was going on in various scenarios, but I didn't have time to explain it. I thought the goal of this semester was to fix the problems of last semester. One of the main ones that people complained about was the test time. Argh! I don't care if there isn't more time, as long as there isn't so much crap I have to write or think about on the test. When I start to get rushed I don't think. Sometimes I even realize things RIGHT after I turn the test in. In these situations, if I were given a minute or two more, I would have corrected my answer. Another problem about last semester was the fact that we didn't know exactly what to study for. The same f'n problem exists this semester, if not more so. I studied a lot for that test, did it matter at all? A little bit, but I not only studied things that were not on the test, but also I didn't study stuff that came up repeatatively on the test.
It feels like Friday today, again. Every other day feels like Friday, except the following day is not the weekend, only a painfully boring or frustrating day of school. Thus once again proving my theory that I am living a week every 48 hours. When I'm 22, I will actually be 40. When I'm 27, I will actually be 62. When I'm 32, I will actually be dead.
Me taking the test:
Scrolling through MC, getting some wrong, thinking, "This isn't so bad."
Getting to essays, staring blankly at the paper, thinking, "WHAT THE *#$@!"
Several minutes pass, the test is halfway over, I realize what the *#$# is going on but I don't have time to write it.
Next essay, I realize what is going on instantly, I answer the question, read the next question, and realize that I answered the second question first without realizing it. I try to start writing the answer to the second question (only to repeat myself) when I realize I should just change the numbers on my answer and redo the first one. I do that, and then briefly answer the first one (again) not mentioning many things that I was thinking about because there is virtually no time left. I go back to MC and fill in answers for ones I skipped, then I go to the last essay question (only worth a 6th of the combined total of the previous two) write some gibberish and Mr. Nik picks up my test.
I didn't do anything for any other classes yesterday not because I didn't have to (because I did) but I had to study for Bio.Now I have to change the background to the redesigned Gunn webpage because some people didn't like it.
Noah - 9:17 AM - 2 comments
Tuesday, February 26, 2002
Attendance
"You would be amazed how fast attendance would take if I didn't have to repeat myself."
After three minutes of coding in Intro Java I am done with my assignment for today. If you know C++ then you know a lot of Java as well. There are people in this class that have never programmed (before taking the class) and thus we go slowly. I am not troubled by this, however, as *five minute pause involving Noah talking to others* I know what I'm doing. This unit for math so far is frighteningly easy so far, which is good. Easy math equals easy tests equals A for Noah. Maybe I should have took Analysis.
Nathan said Mr. Nik read my Evolution Scenario thing in his class as an example of a good one. Yay! Does that mean I actually understood it? Apparently so. I would explain it, but it takes too long. A lot of stuff in evolution takes a lot to explain, which is either a good or bad thing. Good, because there is a lot to mention on an essay on the test, but bad because it takes a long time to think about it, and it is very hard to explain in some cases.
I have to go to the language lab today to do that crap with the answering questions in Spanish and recording them on to my tape. This time Sra. Stroessner gave us the picture we have to describe before hand because she wants us to get better grades. Basically, she did this because she feels sorry for the class because she gives us all bad oral grades because we suck at speaking Spanish (grammatically correct and all). Thus, I wrote exactly what I'm going to say on the back of the sheet she gave us... well, over a minute of what I have to say. I have to write the rest.... now!
Save it for Queen Doppelopolus, you doppelgangers or Punctuated equilibria?
I spent an hour this morning doing all the bio reading. I understand it better, but not well enough. I know there will be some tricky questions on the test and I won't recognize what is going on or why something happens. Sigh. I guess I will go over all the significant terms regarding evolution and come up with examples of them this afternoon. If I remember all these terms and their examples throughout the test I should do better. At least if I recognize something I will be able to describe it and give examples...
Noah: "Did yesterday feel like Friday?"
Brendan: "It felt like I was going back to school."
Noah: "You've been smoking crack in school?"
*pause*
Brendan: "One day I'm going to shut off these computers for the heck of it."
Noah - 8:51 AM - 0 comments
Monday, February 25, 2002
"What is he talking about?"
"I don't know. It's French... it's crap."
Apparently the maximum amount of pages for the Bio lab was three. I thought it was two, and thus I erased many things to not go over the limit. Argh! As for the worksheet, I will have to do it today and study.
I need to study vocabulary words. I must improve my vocabulary. It isn't necessarily _bad_ right now, but there is much room for improvement. How am I going to do this? I don't know. Anyone have any ideas? I don't use a theasarus when I write because that would make my choice of words seem trite, commonplace, hackneyed, banal, and-err... I don't think that would help me enhance my vocabulary.
Fight Club is full of thought provoking quotes. I was watching it last night at around 2 before I fell asleep...
"On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero."
Noah - 11:01 AM - 11 comments
Four pages about one sentence or Yes, that is correct
Well, I can't exactly say that I did everything I planned to this weekend. It was not an unusual one because I left everything to do on Monday morning. Of course, starting my English essay at 3pm after the Gold Medal Hockey Game helped me but I never got around to even looking at the review sheet for Bio, and the test is on Wednesday. I completed the Bio lab by around 12 though so this last hour I have been editting my essay and having trouble printing it. Finally it is printed though, and it is four pages about one sentence. What is that sentence? Who the FUCK cares? (no that isn't the sentence).
I'm actually pretty tired and my back hurts greatly from this chair. I hate this chair, that is why I used my other crappy chair, but now it is broken and I'm using the really crappy chair. Yes, that is correct. I was going to write more on this post but everything slipped out of my mind in the past five minutes. No doubt from being tired, but also because of Eva and Scott warning me on AIM. Damnit you guys! No wonder I am always warned, I talk to people who are warn-o-friggan-holics. I am mad at myself for procrastinating on the only things I had to do (and not doing one) as well as doing them badly in a last minute type fashion. This does not surprise me at all, however, as I have expressed quite clearly before that I always leave things until the last minute. If I get that thought out of my head maybe I will start doing things on the first minute, that is, doing them NOW! I am somewhat satisfied though, because I was actually able to get two of the three things completed (even if they do suck).
I can't believe that it is Monday. It feels like Friday morning, the start of the weekend. This week is going to eat me alive. It is the start of a LONG span of holiday-less school weeks that are going to kill me. I feel like after spending so much time working through the night that I will have lived my life by the time I am 19 at which point I will retire and spend my relaxing retirement years awaiting the death that engulfs me at age 22.
Saturday, February 23, 2002
My broken chair is now really broken
Look at what is wrong with the picture on this page. It is really interesting when you see it. It takes a little bit of time to notice it though. Bizarre!
Noah - 9:41 PM - 4 comments
There are so many different kinds of super heros out there these days
I don't usually remember my dreams, but this morning's dream is an exception. I don't remember what time I went to sleep, or what the beginning of my dream was, but at some point I was dreaming about people ice skating. Not normal people, however, after several hours of combat with some sort of leprechaun type figure and someone else, these ice skating people turned out to be cyborgs. The guy cyborg died protecting the woman one, but then the woman one became evil. She found out how the evil side wasn't so good though, and the woman cyborg tried to escape. In the process, however, she accidentally spread the evilness throughout the air in forms of flying monster thingies. It wasn't long after that that I was bowling with the commander of the evil forces. He was really confident and he beat me, but the former evil woman cyborg kicked his ass and he got pissed. For some reason after this I was with a group of spies trying to break into the house of a Japanese business man because we were trying to find evidence in order to arrest him for some reason. Did I mention there was a ton of ninjas in his house, as well as a gigantic pillbug that some of my fellow spies had NO idea what do do with? Anyway, as you can imagine, it wasn't long after this that I was returning home from school with my dad, except I was riding my bicycle, with no shoes on. Twice on the way home a yellow car tried to run me over and I had to swerve out into the street. I never found out who this guy was. Damn! I think I was talking on AIM in my dream when I woke up.
Perhaps the reason I remember a lot of my dream is that I set my alarm clock to 9am. Thus, for about 2.75 hours, my alarm clock was going off every 10 minutes waking me up just to put it on sleep for another 10. I finally turned the whole thing off at 11:45am to have another hour of my dream.
It's weird because I rarely remember what I dream about.
Noah - 1:03 PM - 3 comments
Thursday, February 21, 2002
The Good, the Bad, and the Irelevent
The Good:
*TV (hockey, cartoon network, etc.)
*Improvement on SAT scores
*Not going to math review session = not being stuck at school
*Burrito!
The Bad:
*English essay due Monday
*Bio stuff = homework due tomorrow, lab due Monday, test on Wednesday
*Not going to math review session = being less prepared for test tomorrow
*Not getting CW to compile Java
The Irelevent:
*Wondering if the practice AP test in Spanish tomorrow will be graded
*Pondering what will be on the math test
*Elective fair tomorrow
*Sleep
Noah - 3:08 PM - 3 comments
Wednesday, February 20, 2002
So tired
I was so tired this afternoon and I should have went to sleep. However, I insisted on watching Canada beat Finland in hockey. The only surprise for me in today's games was the Sweden losing 4-3 to Belarus. That just wasn't supposed to happen and I don't think anyone is more surprised than Team Belarus. Right now I'm watching the Skeleton event, which is some crazy skyte. But enough with the sports crap, I'm tired and tomorrow is Thursday which is usually a sleepy day. Tomorrow will be a somewhat longer sleepy day because I am going to the math review session for the math test on Friday. Do these reviews help me? I'm not sure. I only went to one the first semester and I got my lowest test grade on the following test. Coincidence? Probably not. Perhaps the reason why I went to the review session is because I didn't understand the material, and as a result I was not able to achieve a proper grade to my standards on the test. I think I understand this unit, but I'm not sure. I did decently on the two quizes we had, and I have always done better on tests than quizes in that class. I don't even have math tomorrow, so what do I actually have to do? I tried to get Java to work with my version of CodeWarrior but I never figured it out. No, I don't think I have to do anything by tomorrow.
Skeleton is crazy! I think I will stay at school tomorrow until 3:50pm... so I can get home in time to watch the Women's Hockey Gold Medal game (U.S. vs Canada). Yes, must not miss...
Monday, February 18, 2002
"As" not
I have came to the realization that I am not using my Blog by the means of which I should be. For I have not been expressing my ideas and believes through articulate writing but rather discussing and responding to my daily schedule and obligations. My writing skills have improved with time not because I have been reading, but because I have been writing. Whether it is chatting on AIM, ICQ, or an online RPG I have been organizing my thoughts in words, text, and symbol. This process of channeling what I would say or express through speech or actions into writing has indeed helped me. I have also realized that since I am a writer, not a reader, I should be writing on a regular basis instead of merely chatting, thus the creation of this blog and the blogs before it. Yet I have lost all my concentration do to this. I have been impeded by my irritating school responsibilities and distracted by technology. I long for the time that I can sit in silence and write literature that expresses and maintains an idea or theory so well that it provokes the reader so much that it changes the way they think and live. I cannot do this now because frankly I'm not skilled enough. Looking at my previous blog posts saddens me for my abilities now and the ones to come in the field of literature are not evident. I said before that I am a writer not a reader, which is a shameful thought in itself. If I am not a reader, then how can I write well enough to do anything important? The thing is, I can't. Clearly I need to read more. My vocabulary and reading comprehension skills must improve. I find myself with a short attention span for books, especially ones that don't interest me (ones that if I read I would probably learn a lot more than from anything else). This distaste for what I need definitely hampers my progression. It is possible, however, that writing and reading is just not my thing. It doesn't interest me, I'm not particularly good at it, so why should I bother? I don't know. I don't know a lot of things. I won't learn a lot of things, and if I do I will forget them.
This year so far hasn't exactly been thought provoking in the field of literature. In film lit we just watched movies and wrote essays. I didn't learn anything and I didn't improve my skills. This semester will be more challenging I can already tell. I had to read my entire book today and take notes on it. The more I read the less I read of it. I skimmed a lot of it and took notes on important events that I saw. I didn't even write anything for the last 40 pages because I didn't even skim it. Sigh. If I prevent myself from doing one thing I start doing something else. This entire post was supposed to be without the word "as" but I believe by omitting that I must have started some other consistency. Oh well, maybe consistencies in writing characterize writers. I guess I have my own style, like anyone else. Then again, that isn't true. My style changes with my mood or the situation I am in. Multiple personalities it is. That is what you get from participating in role-play games. You become the characters you create. When you're not playing, you are a mix of all the characters. You are yourself, but a certain mood might instigate the activity of a certain personality. That is rather disconcerting, how could you trust such a person? How could you know who they really are? You might think you're talking to one person but instead you're talking to five. How do THEY know who they really are?
I have some interesting habits when it comes to using a computer. Whether it is a good one or a bad one, I have the habit of saving constantly. If I am typing in a word document or posting something online I press command S or command C (control S and C when I'm using a PC) every time I make a tiny change. I could be writing an essay, and save the document every time I write another sentence or two. Is that paranoia or obsessive compulsion? Does it matter? It is interesting because I often play a game where there is no save. You can't take back anything you do. Things just happen and there is no way to change them. Of course, I'm talking about Clan Lord, and since it is an online game I have to be aware of the fact that my modem disconnects every 6 hours (because of some PacBell thing). Thus, my brain thinks in stages of 6 hours because of playing Clan Lord. In fact, when I am taking tests at school and I am on a roll (let's say I just answered five questions correctly) I often think to myself, "I hope my modem doesn't disconnect!" Now that is pretty weird.
Yes! 853 words without "as" (if it is in quotes it DOESN�T COUNT!)
Noah - 10:02 PM - 5 comments
Sunday, February 17, 2002
20
*cracks knuckles*
What do we have here? A four day weekend? Yes, perhaps that is why the last time I thought about school was 5 seconds after I turned in my history test on Friday.
I don't usually explain the "title" (bold letters at the top) of my blog posts but on Friday I asked Kaija if she felt like she had gone to school (because I really hadn't) and she answered, "Twenty."
Anyway, now it is Sunday, almost Monday. In short, I have to read my book for English, do some Bio worksheets, do math homework, and a SHIT load of Spanish.
A grizzly bear with a chainsaw. Now there's a killing machine! Speaking of which, why do the Simpsons have a board game called "Edna Krabbapoly"? LOL!
Thursday, February 14, 2002
Immortal Sails
I just realized I don't remember things I learn in school, at all. I guess I remember them if I use them often (for example Math) but I remember almost nothing about Chemistry (which I took last year) because I simply haven't applied that knowledge (only to a limited extent in Biology).
Anyway, the history presentation is done, over, finished, completed, GONE! Now I have a history test tomorrow... and a spanish quiz. That's not so bad. What else do I have? Uhh... Hmm. Math homework... can't think of anything else. Time to procrastinate.
Noah - 2:59 PM - 3 comments
Sunday, February 10, 2002
Suspiro
I have been in this situation before. It is early Sunday morning and I have a ton of things to do for school. I didn't do anything on Saturday which leaves me the next 24 hours. I have to read my book for English and take notes on my reading. I pretty much have a thesis already even though I'm not halfway through the book. I am required to take notes on my reading so I guess I will just write down passages that prove my thesis. I also have to find a poem for English written by an English (Bri'ish) author for valentines day, as well as study vocab words for English.
That is what I have to do for one of the six classes I have tomorrow... I have to do a worksheet for math and do some reading for bio. Actually, I don't have to do the reading which means I probably won't have time to and thus I won't do it. Another thing like that is trying to get Java to work on my version of CodeWarrior. I haven't even tried it yet and I should.
Bio, Math, and Java are the easy part of my homework schedule for today. It gets harder for Spanish and History. For Spanish I have to do all the pages that I should have done throughout the week in Tri�ngulo. I also have to write an essay and pick 20 vocab words that I turn into Se�ora Stroessner so she can quiz me at the end of the week on them. I guess I will do what worked last time. Since we wrote the words that we gave to her in English, for the quiz she simply gives us back the sheet and asks us to write the definition of each word we chose in Spanish. What I did, which I still consider clever, was put the words in alphabetical order of what they are in Spanish, so if I got confused while taking the quiz I would automatically be able to understand something by looking at the order of the words I put. Anyway, the point is I have to pick 20 words that I don't know (since I have had her as a teacher for about a year and a half now she pretty much knows which words I know and don't know) from a section of Tri�ngulo. For history, I have a project about the 1920s due on Thursday. I talked about it briefly on a previous post but since then I haven't really done anything, and Elle has left the group (she dropped the class) so it is just Peling, Elaine and I. We are going to work on it tomorrow at 5pm so what I think I NEED TO DO is do everything in my other classes before then. I also should sometime today go to the library and get some books on the 1920s. That and search the internet for stuff because honestly I haven't done shit for research.
My left hand thumb really hurts right now. It feels like there is a shard of glass sticking into it. I think I'm going to check that out right now under a strong light (chances are there IS a shard of glass imbedded into my skin) but before that I will leave you with an observation:
When I switched to blogger instead of geocities I did more than just change the layout of my journal; I changed the content as well. Where I talked about sports in the past I have talked about school in this blog. While I am an avid follower of sports, I do not talk about them much here. That is just how it has been... better check out my thumb now.
Thursday, February 07, 2002
Torstai or You be at 100% again holmes
I have some stuff to do before my brain submerges into the weekend. School stuff... I list this kind of stuff here because it is a good recording of what I am busy with or what I have to do. Anyway, I usually list "stuff" by class period, and thus it looks like this:
(this list contains things I have to do by tomorrow, and omits everything else)
A: Nothing (no A period on Fridays)
B: Math worksheet re: mathematical induction
C: See if I can get Java to work on my version of CodeWarrior
D: Study for Bio quest
E: Nothing
F: Study for vocab quiz. Write excerpt from a Spanish poem on a note card, explain what it means to me in Spanish, and draw a picture on the back.
G: Nothing, but we watched a Charlie Chaplin movie called Modern Times yesterday _and_ today. It was the same movie. I think Mr. Cheung really likes it.
I forgot to talk to my web page design teacher about my grade today. I was occupied with the project I am working on which is re-designing the front Gunn web page. Four groups of two are doing this in my class and the pages will be looked at and one (or perhaps multiple ones) will be chosen to be the new web page. I don't want mine to be, so maybe I should make it suck. Yes, that is it... Why am I always warned on AIM?
Riemukas Torstai! Sit� p�iv� takana huomenna on. sit� viikonloppu!
Noah - 5:59 PM - 9 comments
Siz-ave Ferris or You got skiz-rewed like a mug, yo
I received my report card yesterday. Everything was good or better than what I expected (somehow got an A- in Spanish instead of a B) except for the fact that I was marked a B+ in web page design. I didn't doubt for a second that this was an error. Not to be arrogant or anything, but I had never cut that class and I had completed every project. Also, I recall checking my grade not long before the semester break and it was something like 98.5%. Anyway, I sent an e-mail to my web page design teacher but didn't get a response. I talked to her the next day and we checked my grade out on her computer. It turns out she didn't give me credit for the last project (one where we used some Javascript in a website). What had happened was that I was sick one of the days we worked on it, and when I came back it was due. I asked her if I could show it to her the following day and she considerately allowed me to do so. So, the following day after class I show her my web page and she says it is fine and everything is completed. Now back to the present. She says that I didn't show it to her and that I took off after class that day. I know this is wrong, because I vividly remember showing it to her. The people who sat around me remembered that as well. Somehow, she did not. She told me that she looked for it on my F drive (the drive that students save their files on) and didn't find it. I logged on to my account on a computer and surely enough the project was in my F drive. I showed it to her and asked her if she remembered it and she said that she didn't. She then said she would check the server to see if I had created the files before it was due (or something like that). Anyway, of course I did so I think this should all be cleared up. I left the class (it was the end of the period) and later checked back in after school but she was not there.
We'll see what happens tomorrow.
In another case of things getting messed up, yesterday when we recorded some stuff for Spanish in the language lab, we didn't actually record. That is, my Spanish teacher pushed the wrong buttons, and we did the entire thing as if it was being recorded but nothing got picked up on anyone's tape. *#@$! So, we did it again today. That shiz-ucked like a mug, without a doubt.
The Bio quest is on Friday instead of Thursday for some reason. We didn't cover that much material this unit so it shouldn't be too difficult to study... tomorrow... at 3am... I mean, tomorrow right after school! Yes, that is it...
Ugh.
Noah - 12:26 AM - 3 comments
Tuesday, February 05, 2002
You got shiz-ocked like a mug, yo
Do what now? Next period is that Spanish lab thing where I have to describe that shnitz. I don't really want to think about it. What I could do is go over the drawings once again and make sure I know exactly what I'm going to say for each series. I don't want to though. It doesn't matter worth anything. Hell, I don't even know if this thing will be graded. It has no bearing on my life, more specifically my future. So why make a big deal out of it? Well, I'm not. Maybe I'm obsessing a little. Hmm.
I forgot what I was about to do. Oh yeah, I was going to mention something about what I posted the other day. I said something about how a good way to understand me is to know that I am the kind of person who would write out a description for each Spanish cartoon thing and then memorize it. What I didn't say, however, is that I would wait until 2am to start that instead of doing it in the afternoon when I was doing nothing at all. I procrastinate so much on everything, but I have realized something in the past several years of going to school. No matter how much I procrastinate, I always seem to _eventually_ finish what I was thinking about doing. Actually, I don't "always" but most of the time. Why put off something until tomorrow if you can do it the day after tomorrow... wait that didn't sound right. What was it Mark Twain said again?
Noah - 2:02 PM - 2 comments
Okay, this is the post I wrote yesterday:
Blogger Pro: Go Pats
What? Oh yeah, where was I...
I was kidnapped. No, wait, that's terrible. Terrible like the math quiz I just took. I told myself I would study for those damn little pesky things and be prepared. So much for that. Apparently they are worth 5% more of our grade this semester and homework is worth 5% less. But why am I talking about school? Because I'm in school right now! Another thing I should have done was read my Bio book. So once again I will to Bio not knowing what the frig is going on. Even though I finished my poem for Spanish on Wednesday, I printed it out last night and it looks something like this. I also have Spanish workbook homework due today that I will do at lunch. After Spanish, of course, is history. Did we have any history homework? Does it matter? I know I have a project in that class about the 1920s due sometime next week. Unlike my BOARD GAME project, which Mr. Cheung KEPT, by the way, because it kicked arse, this is a group project meaning I most likely won't be working on it from 12-6am the day it is due. Elaine, Peling, and Elle make up the rest of the group which means we will get an A, just because it does. Mr. Cheung said since we're presenting first (1920s are before the 30s, 40s, 50s, etc.) we have to set a good example so the other groups don't slack off and make crappy presentations. Yay? No. Blah!
What was up with that comment posted by Mij0rn et al? I tried to delete it but my password for moderating my comments didn't work (I guess Alex forgot to change my password to what I told him to change it to...) so I ended up deleting the entire post. It sounded, though their incoherent rambling, that they were on crack or something. Actually, no. Not something, just crack.
So I'm reading a book about King Arthur written by John Steinbeck (did you know he wrote a book about King Arthur?) and it is pretty damn boring.
I don't want to go to Science right now. Bell rang.
Monday, February 04, 2002
Do what now?
Okay, so earlier today I wrote a post for my Blog but I couldn't actually post and publish it because the network crapped out on me at school right after the bell rang. I'll post what I wrote tomorrow but until then I believe I have some work I am going to do for school. Part of the Spanish AP exam is describing a series of 6 pictures out loud in detail using vocabulary. This is to see if we're competent... in Spanish. They grade you on the level of competency you show, or something. Anyway, we're "practicing" (in quotes because it is part of our grade) doing this tomorrow in the language lab. The fortunate thing for me is that we already have the 6 pictures. In fact, we have 4 different 6 picture series. Tomorrow we will be asked to describe one of the four, and of course we don't know which one it is. I guess if you don't know me well, a good way to describe what kind of a person I am is to describe what I am going to do to prepare for this. Clearly, the most sensible thing would be to skim through the pictures and get an idea of what is going on. I like to be prepared, however, and thus even though I really don't want to, I guarantee I will end up writing very long "scripts" for each sequence of pictures that I will then memorize so I know exactly what to say tomorrow. On the AP exam, this is impossible to do because they give you say two minutes to look over the pictures before you describe them. That's why I will fail the AP exam, but for now I will cram pointless information into my brain.
We have an assembly tomorrow so I get out of school an hour later. Assemblies SUCK! I think of them as a complete waste of time and having seen all of the assemblies this year and half the ones last year (I had a B period prep for a semester last year = kick arse because I didn't have to go to assemblies) I stand by my opinion. Do what now?
Here is the post I deleted from uhhh... whenever it was that I posted it originally:
I have updated this blog twice in the past two weeks. Two weeks ago was the week before finals. Everything for every class was due that week. I didn't even both to update my blog to say what I had to do. Last week was finals... on Saturday I took the SAT... on Sunday I worked on a Bio lab... until about 4am on Monday. I am only taking two different classes than last semester, English Masters and Intro Java. English Masters will require much more work than Film Lit did but I expect to get an A. I have Mrs. Kuiper again and I can tell how she incorporates films into all her classes. For example, tomorrow and probably the rest of the week we will be watching the movie Excalibur . Intro Java is virtually the same as Computer Math but we're learning Java instead of C++, and class is more than twice as large.
I do not think any of my grades in any classes changed from the end of first quarter to the end of the first semester. To me, that is a good thing. Grades blah blah blah second semester, blah blah blah blah, and blah blah blah blah, but blah blah blah. So, what do I have to do today... read a little of The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights, by John Steinbeck... do some math homework... read some Bio... and write a Spanish poem.
I want a Game Boy Advance.
