100th post!!! wow!!

So the first two days of school are ova! now the read work starts (crai).

Getting up in the morning so far hasn't been too hard. though I've finally fallen asleep past 11:00 both nights. this surprises me, but hey, 2 times isn't amazing yet. Yesterday I was freakily giddy, same with monday, but like school should have crushed that out of me. it was like an insane emotional high. maybe my body anticipated negativity so poured all of my happiness reserves into me, and it was overkill. what ever it was, that was messssssseeeeddd up. The pepfest was weird and when the guy was like "I've got the spirit, yes I do, I've got the spirit, how bout you" it sounded like instead of the spirit he was saying "despair" so I was truthfully able to answer that for the first time. hell, i had enough despair for everybody in that room :]

The teachers are sort of unusual this year. I have: a dyslexic teacher, a blind teacher, a veeeeery layed back egotistical teacher, a nerd and a first time (classroom) teacher. okaaay. Yeah, there's nobody I hate yet, so that's good. but my health teacher is just... a health teacher, well more like gym.

Looking forward to gov. Not looking forward to gym (don't have it yet anyway), band and math.

yeah.

IT WAS COLD TODAY. YAAAAAAY X A BILLION. it was so refreshing! so crisp! so cleansing! so perfect, so right! It set my soul singing and my senses dancing! yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!! coldness for all and for all a good autumn! C:

Sitting in Hallow tree at the park is reeeeeaaaallly fun to read in. great view, relatively comfy, and dude, you get to sit in a tree. yayz? so now i do that like bi-daily. fun fun fun!

Numbered

This post is going to be orderly numbered. because i feel orderly and numbered today.

1. first of all i'd like to give a big cheer to today, which was one of the only a-days that didn't make me want to a. tear my own hair out. b. sob uncontrollably into a random passer-by's shoulder. c. go on a homicidal streak. d. curl up into a ball under my desk with my hands over my neck. (think of the tornado protection position.) I felt like I learned some stuff in science (LE GASP) and math (maybe that's because i paid closer attention than usual. by a rule of thumb, you only need to listen to .4 of the stuff that math teachers say to get an A-B, on average.) Band, which was looking like a dark and bleak horizon seems okay now. i did my playing test and i got a 90, which pisses me off but i won't go into details (my anger doesn't have to do with the fact that i got an A-, i don't give a ****) LRT, we watched all of the photo stories and they made the annual "scare people out of being in enriched classes" speech. Basically it was like "don't join enriched language arts unless you want all of your grades to suffer, your family to die, never to sleep again, and to go into tax debt." and "don't join enriched physics unless you want to get cancer, lose a limb, become clinicly depressed and lose all freetime". I've decided that i'm joining both. goodbye cruel world. anyway, that was a looong #1. my day wasn't bad. it was productive.

2. Math was rather funny today, there were just a couple of funny things people said.
-Ninja turtles: somebody asked the math teacher what his favorite artist was and he said maybe De Vinci. then somebody told him that it couldn't be de vinci because that was a ninja turtle. he was surprised to hear that and even more surprised, and furious to hear that all of the ninja turtles were named after artists. his response was. "my god. Oh my god! Oh my god!" and you could hear all of the christians in the class muttering "gosh... it's gosh" so many people hissed that it sounded like a nest of snakes.
-Compartments: Phisoa and mira will get this. Somehow the topic got to counting cards in Vegas and a girl in my class was like "gosh, that would be really hard to count them. you'd need like, different compartments in your brain to sort the information" I almost cracked up. compartments in your brain to sort information? that sounds familiar. Oh and also, the guy next to me was like "not unless your Adrian Monk" and everybody started talking about Monk, which is awesome.

3. I beat like Delirium on ITG (a harder version of DDR) on hard. yay! God, ddr is my winter sanctuary. and i forgot about it till know so it feels so nice again. I haven't run around (or something of the like) since gym class. Running around outside on the ice and snow while wearing so many layers that you feel like a marshmellow, in winter boots=no. maybe some of you guys can, but i'd probably break my neck.

4. I'm just adding the grace notes to my solo for solofest. I like it, surprisingly. It's Serenade by Jos. Haydn. (sound familiar? he was the answer to one of our AT questions the first meet i think.)

5. Speaking of AT, that was pretty awesome. though they are so frikkin paranoid this year. they didn't let other teams in to look at our meet, a parent had to be in the PARTY room to make sure we didn't commit arson, no running(what ev.s), etc.

6. I finished the collage in art. that was awesome. now we get to make fonts.

7. that is all. good day.

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Well winterfest was fun, even though I almost had to be dragged there, it was totally worth it. on those brief and luckily swift journeys into the dance room, i once again began to lose faith in the future of humanity. people just scare me. also edina day scared me, actually. people are told that a certain day is "city spirit day" and they all dressed up! all of them! remarkably few exceptions! And apparently, I have no spirit, i'm dressed in emo clothes and "you guys are so weird!" Whatever. maybe i can't argue with those.

today me and mira went to ragstock just to look around and see what kind of clothes they had and we both got new hats! not that they'll ever replace our "british caps". Mine is sorta really dark blue/green/black plaid. Anyway, ragstock is cool, but shopping still sorta sucks X]

On friday we used the Bunsen burners (yay, fire!) and we kept on ruining the flame in the attempt to get the "cone effect" right. So basically, by the end we had vented so much gas that we were all feeling sort of light headed, (great day to have the math quiz next period, I think i screwed up one of the proofs because i forgot a theorem). Oh, and I asked the science teacher what kind of gas it was and her plain and quite intelligent response was "It's gas."

we're doing a freaking documentary in LRT about ourselves. i do NOT want to show my stoopy, intelligence-challenged, mainstream-obsessed LRT class anything about my life. we have to have like 10 events. My life is like boring in the way that nothing extreme has happened to me. Maybe i'll make up some injuries that i got. "yeah, then i was in a bike crash and i fractured my... esophagus." There's just nothing interesting! I have 3 /10 right now. The only good part is that you get to add your own music to it. but it has to be clean. that's challenging.

I <3 start of the quarter. there's like no homework! hallelujah!

Colds should be freakin illegal

ick. my cold came back just in time for school. joy. i mean, who wouldn't want a sore throat and runny nose to go hand in hand with school induced fatigue and suffering?

I need to do my science current events. But i don't want to. really really badly. Le sigh. I'll start it after this blog post. Today at school wasn't actually that bad. I woke up 20 minutes earlier than I needed to (and like an hour after i should've fallen asleep) and in post-sleep delirium, I thought that my my mom was in there waking me up telling me that she had checked my planner and that all of my projects were due today. What a nightmare. Skipping breakfast was sad-face but i didn't get hungry (i ate my connect time snack purely out of knowing that i'd be hungry for lunch, guess what. I wasn't). Span was easy and the teacher seemed somewhat unprepared. which is fine with me. i read Inkheart because I don't have anything else to read.

I believe that my sandwich from lunch deserves an honorably mention on my blog. It was like gross bread plus way to much in the way of peanut butter and jelly. It was more of bread-coated slime. I wanted to pull it apart slowly and watch the bread slowly disintegrate, but mira threw it away for me. sad-face.

anyway, today was good, but tomorrow is going to SUCK. BADLY. DDDDAAAAANG. sciencesciencescience ick ick ick ick. I want to skiiiiiiiiiipp. there is no reason left for me too liiiiiiivvveeee.... and i like exageratiiinnnngggg...

AT on friday, w00t. I don't know who we're up against, but we'll crush them all!! (preferably stupid and confused 7th graders that don't know up from down. we could own them!)

I'm not getting any better at guitar hero. but what evs. medium is just fine for me. oh, sit ups in gym on wednesday! what better way to start the day than a grueling sit-up test? well, just about billions upon millions of things. on that topic, last night I turned on my audio book, turned off the light and lay down. To find that I wasn't the least bit tired and it was like 10:30. I'm used to going to bed like at twelve, but I woke up early the morning before so that I'd be prepared. But nooooooooooo. So I like jumped right back up and actually like did sit ups and stretched, and ran around my room a few times. I know, weird. it helped a bit and I can at least say that i fell asleep before 1. insomniac.

wish me luck on my current events.

so. life goes on. sadly.

Easier Said Than Done

So now my cousin and uncle are here from California, and my brother left on a band trip, so they're staying in his room. My mom stripped my brother's bed and asked me to remake it with clean sheets. Sure. I can make a bed, those are very elementary skills. Well it turns out I don't have very elementary skills. Let's just say... I hate contour sheets. And pillow cases. They're never quite big enough. it's almost as frustrating as listening to my science teacher spout crap.

besides me moaning about how I can't even, like, make a bed, it turns out my guitar hero skills are hurting pretty bad. but it was hilarious. Me and my cousin "tried" to play guitar hero last night and it was quite humorous. First of all, the guitars were like sucking, like the green button wouldn't work, or the "little red light" would turn off and we'd have to press a button to get it on again because the red light has some sort of essential significance. We finally got it working, but then either my cousin or the guitar messed up and we named our new band 'AAAAAAAAAAAAAA' which might describe people's reaction when they hear us play. next we had to choose our characters. well it turns out theres some unwritten rule that none of the girl characters on guitar hero can bother dragging on a shirt in the morning so I went with some messed up character, that looks like a chinese school girl who fell in multiple vats of neon dye. And he chose some charming guy with a mohawk and no shirt. sheesh, these people need some clothes. Then we started playing, he got the bass part on easy, which is the easiest you can go, and I got the guitar part on medium, which is as medium as you can go. we did okay until he chose the guitar line. Once we failed 98% through the song. that should be illegal.

the teachers pretend that they're nice and don't give you homework (except for the science teacher) except for I have a bunch of projects due very soon after we get back

Science: normal homework, like test review. and the freaking Current Events project
LA: Book speech and project, like a diorama, i think i'm doing.
SS: Book project and WW2 project, low stress, but deceivingly so.
It doesn't help that in gym we're going to have our fitness tests. leave me alone. /emo\
I am so happy that math isn't that kind of class. It's great because the only thing that isn't like "1-25 5-6" is quizzes and tests and I don't study for those.

Today i am going to do the LA thing! And yes, I am putting off current events till last. because it's crud

Insanity? I think not!

-I often forget to eat dinner. it just slips my mind. I've just realized how weird that might be. i often remember the next day, so kudos to me for that. maybe i'm not completely weird.

-Band concert was mildly entertaining and even more entertaining watching in band class. It was really annoying though, before it, because it so so strict. we weren't allowed to play, be in the hallway, be in the brass room, etc. so when I was hanging out with kat and emily the teacher came in and said "no playing, blah blah blah. Just sit and be happy" and we all look at eachother. I'm like okay! and we all sit on the ground and I pretend to be happy, scaring kat. So then we said, screw them and stood up and were sad. My shoes were less annoying than other ones i've had to wear but by the end they started digging into the top of my foot. rawr.

twomoredaystwomoredaystwomoredaystwomoredaystwomoredaystwomoredaystwomoredays

-Haha, the 7thgraders have their anthologies due tomorrow and friday. suckers. That assignment was really annoying.

Two tests tomorrow. yikes.

this is a really uninteresting post because nothing has happened.

boooring.

Weird music, random post

I'm just going to post about random things. Well nothing happened during lunch today, because it was the day of rest and we didn't even have knowledge masters.

So my brother got this cd from his friend that I doubt he has even heard, but I took it and am obsessed with a few songs on it. One is really weird, and I don't know why I like it so much. I wonder if you can send nicotine through speakers. That would explain it. It's a bit too screamy for my liking. But considering I like it, I'm being a bit contradictory.

Science today was a nightmare as usually, we got like a billion hand outs and a bunch of homework. The science teacher was being just as stoopy and our homework assignments were stoopy too. I hate predicting things about something that I don't know about at all. Like... lima bean seeds? We did the freaking seed lab last year!!! Once again, it's stoopy! We were just like "it's going to have 4 3 mm leaves and it's going to be shorter if there's less light." Yay. So I raised my hand like for 5 minutes and the teacher told us to hold our thoughts till the end. So in the end people started asking questions and she answered so I put up my hand again, she ignored it and went on. So I walked up and asked her the question (a bit more angrily than necessarily, but she wouldn't notice if somebody yelled in her ear.) "how are we supposed to find a newspaper article about light and color?" and she was like "there could be one about lasers... or... yeah." and I was pretty pissed so i was like "so we just hope that a newspaper article is posted about lasers?!!" and she was like "you find one" so I whirled around and sat back down. But I seriously didn't think she noticed how angry I was.

Our math teacher told us about when he was swimming with sharks and pretending to be a pirate in math class. He put his white board marker in his mouth. But he didn't fulfill his promise to do math stealthily in honor of Ninja Day. It was more of a review day. He's awesome. And during work time we got just about every family guy episode summarized by the guy who sits next to me. It was really weird, not to mention distracting.

Yeah... ummm. I finished New Moon! omg@theending. It was erm... surprising!! But it wasn't the kind of ending where you're like "nooo" and are sad. It was just like "holy crap! okay!" Oh, E2, you know what I'm talking about. There's going to be a Twilight movie coming out. I can't imagine the book making a good movie. No way.

Genesis is awesome! And less weird than the other stuff mentioned! Yay!

Ummm. I think I'm done. Yeah pretty much. Okay.

GAK!

It's like OVA! noooooo! MEA was shear bliss! (minus like hours of homework) I want to have free time without homework hanging over my head! I want to liiiveee! I want to be freeeeeeeeee! I want to murder Science class with a blunt ax!!!

Here's a list of what I want to acheive without having to worry about homework or like anything at all!

-staying up really really late
-Reading all of my awesome books
-listening to the coolest audiobook ever while sketching
-painting downstairs
-hanging w/ friends, going to movies, wading in the gigantic puddles at the park etc.
-taking walks w/ ipod
-writing ALL of my story ideas
-sleeping until 11
-playing the flute just to make pretty celtic low music, not all of this crappy music theory suckfest.
-posting on my blog
-Sighing and frowning less than a billion times a week.
-Be able to look at my calendar and only see Slatish and actual holidays and cool things like "library books due" or "freetime, have fun!"
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School is really getting to me!!! (shrieks) (rips at hair) (anguished, distant scream of "AND IT'S STILL THE WEEKEND")

I didn't go to the retreat

Because I was sick today, dizzy when i stood up and I had a stomach ache and my throat was sore. :-p I finished To Kill A Mocking Bird, it wa better than i expected.

New Take On School 2

(Read New Take on School before this one, and while your at it I have another new post down there too)

Heres my new take on all of my B-day classes:

History (SS): Taught by the same cool teacher as LRT. There is nobody I know in it, so that's really annoying. I just sit there during socializing time writing in my notebook. D-:. But Social Studies ha always been my best subject since like 6th grade. I like it!

Gym: It's okay... I have some friends in it, it's not too bad but I hate the fitness testing. At least we get to go outside and get some fresh air a lot!!

Spanish: Umm, it's okay, we mostly just play games for extra credit. Everything is pretty easy and I have two of my friends in my class so that's okay.

LA: I don't have any of my friends in the class but there are some cool people. My teacher seems really cool luckily. I sit at a desk with a hole big enough for a pencil, all the way through! It's pretty awesome... And yes, I'm talking about the quality of a hole in my desk because theres not much else to talk about.

There we go. I'm done.

My New Take On School

Okay, so I wrote a school rant before school began, so here's a post-school rant.

Band: *Shrug* It's okay, I mean, i have some friends in it, my teacher isn't unreasonable, the music is okay and if it sucks then I can laugh about it with my stand-buddy (mira). Not much wrong with it.

Science: This is where I start losing faith in the human race. My science teacher is the picture of ineptitude where I thought she was just mean. It took us 30 minutes just to write the daily notes!! And the daily notes just say what we're going to do in class (why do we have to write that down??) and frankly, they don't help anybody, they seldom make sense and just about make we want to rip my own head off! Plus, the stupid room is designed so that you can't see like a sliver of sky. You look out into the courtyard so you'd think, yeah you'd be able to see the sky, but nooooo they cover the upper parts of the windows with a bunch of whitish crap so you have to lean low next to the window just to see it a bit of sky. It's like your in a freaking cage, It's really annoying!

Math: My teacher is awesome and actually makes math interesting, but it's really confusing sometimes. But it's okay, because a lot of other people think its confusing too. It also seems that the homework is so much easier than the actual lesson. I'ts weird.

LRT: I like it, we're learning about immigrants and stuff and my teacher is pretty cool, even if the rest of the class is a bit sub-par. The subject is actually intresting and there's minimal homework. It's definitely a sanctuary in the land of madness (I don't have art, so something has to substitute for it.)

I'll post more tomorrow about my B day classes, because i'm sure you're all soooo interested.

Poem About School

I posted this on Phisoa's poem comments, but I'll posted again. Oh and this is for kwano because she told me to post more.

T'would rather die
Than school supplies, buy.
T'would rather suffer Natazi's wrath,
Than sit a lesson of math.
T'would rather be open with defiance,
Than be quiet in science.
T'would rather tear off my own limb,
Than run a mile in gym.
T'would rather have my head be hanging by a strand,
Than have a playing test in band.
T'would rather vanish,
Than go to spanish.
T'would rather poke out my eyes with a comb.
Than miss the bus going home!!!

AUGH! (Curl Right Up & Die)

This was it. This was the CRUDiest day where all you want to do is Curl Right Up and Die. It was Fcoefyob, according to the Slatish. Let's organize my day into sections:

Morning: You can never really understand the simple poetry of going back to sleep if you wake up in the morning and you're really tired until you are deprived of that privilege. That is the CRUDiest feeling ever. But it helps once you turn on all of the lights and splash your face with cold water. All that I had for breakfast was a peice of raison bread and yogurt. My FACS teacher would be angry. It took more time that I would have liked to pack my breakfast.

Bus: My new motto for this year is "everybody hates everybody else" because everybody was sitting in their own seat because they didn't want to share with anybody. So it ended up being me and two of my friends in the same seat with only ONE guy in the seat right next to us. Pah!

Homeroom: It was all good and fine, my teacher was pretty cool. I got my locker, and it hates me already, it doesn't like open very easily!

Band: That was all nice too, I have the most amount of friends in that class, but it's not a very talky class, sadly. We'll have to do a lot of practicing this year. Ick.

Science: My science teacher (and I'll be more civil than usual here) was a bit boring at least. We also had to do weird things that nobody understood and she didn't explain. She talked the whole time. It was boring. (like write weird numbers and letters inside parentheses after words.) But I have a cool lab group. I've heard some less than nice things about my teacher and I can beleive them. Did I mention she talked the whole time and it was really boring? I mostly zoned. The guy behind me wrote "BORING" on his graphing calculator. I quite agree. Did I mention she talked the whole time and it was boring?

Math: Freaking awesome, i usually don't like math but this was pretty dang cool. My math teacher was awesome. He'll like go on little tangents, like about his keyboard or somethin. My favorite class probably, which is really high praise coming from me because math is usually really boring.

Lunch: Umm they have cameras in the lunch room now. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.

LRT: The teacher was really um an angry kind of guy but he wasn't too bad. We're learning about immigration, which is cool.

In conclusion. tomorrow I hope is really fun and isnt CRUDish. But I think I'll like 2nd semester better because I won't have gym and i'll have an elective.

Non scholae, sed vitae discimus!

The title of this post is a latin motto meaning along the lines of "(I) do not learn for school, but for life" So here are some wonderful latin phrases. I plan on decorating my planner and accordian folder with the latin versions. It would be cool if we all did! Heres some cool ones I found (on wikipedia, you just search latin phrases or whatever) on insights on the justice system, success, evil and education. They're pretty awesome.

palma non sine pulvere

"no reward without effort"

respiciendum est iudicanti ne quid aut durius aut remissius constituatur quam causa deposcit nec enim aut severitatis aut clementiae gloria affectanda est
"the judge must see that no order be made or judgment given or sentence passed either more harshly or more mildly than the case requires; he must not seek renown, either as a severe or as a tender-hearted judge"

Sapere aude
"Dare to be wise"

Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes
"If you can read this you have too much education."

Sic semper tyrannis
"thus always to tyrants" (Attributed to Brutis after he stabbed Caesar)

stamus contra malum
"We stand against evil"

supero omnia
"I surpass everything"

te audire no possum, musa sapienum fixa est in aura
"I'm sorry, i can't hear you, i have a banana stuck in my ear""

tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito
"you should not give in to evils, but proceed ever more boldly against them"

Vox poluli
"voice of the people"

And there's a bunch more! This is only like P-Z phrases. But yeah, that's how i'm going to personalize my school stuff.

Oh god, school

Wow, today is the day we get our schedule, and our picture, and turn in all sorts of paperwork. Then school starts sometime early September. That ticks me off.

I mean come on. It's like a big 9 month joke.

Science: Since when is playing around with various solids liquids gasses and powders an essential part of our education? Plus we don't learn anything, they're just like "see if you can made this thing float!" And we're like YEAH we can, after 3 hours of guess and check. Then you get freaking graded on it. How is this important enough to take up an 1 hr 30 minutes every other day??? Plus homework!

Social Studies: What were these people on when they made unenriched SS in 6th, enriched in 7th and unenriched again in 8th??? They make a point of noticing that some people move at a faster pace than others in SS and could use a challenge, they dangle it over their head for a year, then take it away! Why? So they know that it's good for some people to have this experience, so why doesn't it go on? did they just have all the grades in a hat and pick out 7th for the one that gets enriched SS?

Math: Math is the one of the only things i can actually see a point in! But it bores the heck out of me? To me math should be called "Looking at Window and Clock + Homework at End"

LA: All of the books are about sad minority girls who you feel sorry for, until you read the 6th book in a row about them! We get it, some people lives suck and I have empathy for them. Oh, but wait, lets tear apart the story until its demoted from the wonderful work of art that it is into boring technical pieces that every story has to follow called the "climax" and "Exposition" but no, that's not enough. You need to have compound sentences and phrases, then interjections, verbs and nouns. Then prefixes, suffixes and don't forget vowels and consonants. God, could it get more complicated?

Gym: Three words: Let's play kickball! Or four words if a certain gym teacher was teaching you. He might need to count it on his fingers. And don't forget those annoying jock boys who do crazy things and get away with it.

Art: Ah, art. The blissful sanctuary in a school of madness. We don't even get it in 8th grade unless you sign up. I have.

Band: Ok, this actually has some sense. Unless you have a certain bad teacher. Maybe just because the only good teacher QUIT. gak.

Teachers: Ok, in total I've had threeish reading teachers, one who hated my guts. One who looked really sad every time she looked at me and had a really terrible way of grading and one who was a student teacher and didn't seem to like being in front of the class. Waste of time. I want all of those 45 minutes back! That's a lot of time! I feel older just thinking about it! Then there was a FACS teacher that was so bad that she might have been fired! Don't get me starts

Kids: Hockey sweatshirts, sparkly lip gloss and abercrombie everything pretty much sums it up. 7/8ths are dullards who think that school is just a social event and don't do their homework, or ask me how to spell "Pleasant", DURING spelling test.

There, was that a big enough rant?

Edit: I have an evil science teacher.