Written: February 1, 2007 at 2:04PM EST
I am so amazingly happy! First off, the second semester started yesterday and my classes are amazing!
Period 1/2A - Gym
Period 1/2B - Chem Lab
Period 3/4 - Chemistry
Period 5/6 - Algebraic Trigonometry
Period 7/8 - Lunch/Activity
Period 9/10 - American History
First off I have Mrs. Steigerwald, for chemistry, she’s so nice and the class isn’t too hard…so far, but from what I’ve heard, she makes it fun.
Then for Algebraic Trigonometry, I have Mr. Cook, he seems a bit eccentric, but cool and he makes the class easy to understand and it goes by so quickly.
Then finally, for American History, I have Mr. Vanzile. The class goes by so quickly and it doesn’t even seem like we are working!
Aside from the idiots I am forced to be with all day, my classes are pretty good, and I have my 7/8 lunch back! (I hate eating at 10).
And now for the best part:
I got a 100% on my English 11 Final Exam!!!! 16 pages on The Scarlet Letter and its critique of Society. Then I got a 97% on the Regents. I am kind of upset about the grade, but that furthermore proves I am an English Snob. 
:D
And more for egotism, Mr. Gaylord, my English teacher last semester said I was probably the top student in the class!
Anyways, what goes up, must come down… and now I will go enjoy my “ha-ha I beat you” attitude, until something goes awry and things go back to normal. 
Written: January 17, 2007 at 8:41PM EST
Anyone who uses Wordpress needs this plugin, it is the Twlight: AutoSave plugin. A cookie is created while you are typing an entry, and then when something goes wrong and your mile-long entry is gone in a flash, Twilight: AutoSave has your entry stored within a cookie which is accessible for a week (long enough to go back in and save it!)
Anyone ever mess with Movable Type?
Rose has had been talking, (well writing about would be a better way to state that) about it, so i decided to mess with it today. BAD experience. First off, It took quite a long time to get the program (I guess thats what it would be called) installed, then running. Then I attempted to export the database from wordpress and import it. Guess what! It didn’t work. I’m quite content with wordpress, but I am still interested in Movable Type. If anyone knows of a tutorial or walkthrough of how to convert wordpress posts to MT posts, please share with me.
EDIT: I already know about MikeT of Codemonkeyrambling’s tutorial. It failed to work for me.
Anyways, on a more non-techy note, I am half-way through finals week. I was able to finish my speech, and managed around 8 minutes in length (pretty good without using notecards). Tomorrow, Friday, and Monday are the days I am dreading the most. Spanish finals, days of preterite, imperfect, subjunctive, and perfect past tenses and then future, subjunctive, imperfect the oh so wonderful tenses of the present and future! I am dreading it. I was planning on taking Spanish V and VI next year, but I’m not too sure anymore, considering my poor ability to remember tenses, but luckily I can understand and somewhat speak and write it.
Out of curiosity, which of these appeals to you more?
The one on the left is our families dog, Sasha, and the dog on the right is our my sister’s friend Robby’s dog. There was a poll on MyYearbook and Sasha won by close to 83%. I just want to see if the same views hold true elsewhere.
Written: January 13, 2007 at 2:45PM EST
DONE!
The stupid essay that I spent forever working on is FINALLY done. 17 pages of The Scarlet Letter and Nathaniel Hawthorne. I can’t lie and say I enjoyed working on it—because I didn’t. In fact, I have a vast majority of my stuff done and the rest of the semester should be smooth sailing.
As for finals, heres the crap they’re making us do
Spanish IV
- Speaking - 5 situations
- Grammer
- Translation
- Writing
- Listening
English
- Final Essay (Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter
- Final Speech
- Listening & Essay
- Regents (23rd and 24th)
Note Taking
- Finish Notes
- Finish Worksheets on Theory
- Finish Makeup Dictations
- Final Exam, Wahoo! Monday
Drawing and Painting II
- Finish Billiard Balls in Oil
- Finish Rose in Oil
- Finish Judy Garland in Acrylic
- 100 word essay - EASY!!!
So the next week shouldn’t be too bad, but I will actually have classes when the next semester starts. Instead of
Pd 1/2 - Spanish IV
Pd 3/4A - Note Taking
Pd 3/4B - Gym
Pd 5/6 - Lunch/Activity
Pd 7/8 - American Literature
Pd 9/10 - Drawing and Painting II
I will have
Pd 1/2A - Chemistry Lab
Pd 1/2B - Gym
Pd 3/4 - Chemistry
Pd 5/6 - Algebraic Trig.
Pd 7/8 - Lunch/Activity
Pd 9-10 - American History
Should be a nice change, but It’ll take some getting used to. I’m a creature of habit.
Written: January 6, 2007 at 5:21PM EST
The semester’s almost over and like I thought, the workload has suddenly increased. This weekend, a five-to-seven page essay on Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Scarlet Letter. It’s not that bad, but the fact that it determines whether or not you get out of high school increases the stress factor. Right now, I have three pages done and I’m not even half way done with the essay yet. I just want it to be over!
So, I am off to smash my head into something hard, (then finish my essay :sad:)
Written: November 26, 2006 at 7:12PM EST
I swear, my computer doesn’t like me anymore. For the last couple days, its been working fine, then I start to work on this layout, and I get the dreaded… BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH. It said that my local webserver has crashed, and windows will recover following a restart.
I restarted, but then wouldn’t you know it, it decides not to turn back on! So I quite annoyed at that point, turned it off, and stomped away. I went and cleaned my room a bit and came back a little while later, still didn’t work. Finally after leaving it alone for a couple hours, it turned back on, but was being kinda weird. I ran a defrag and all the other stuff you supposed to do, hopefully its fixed… I don’t have the money to go get it looked at in depth.
GRR. I hate it when programs/computers that are working fine suddenly decide to turn on you. I swear, the creators of Murphy’s Laws and the computer people have some evil conspiracy to make my life miserable…
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Tomorrows the last day of volleyball and I have the strangest feeling we’re running the mile tomorrow, we’ll see. Should be interesting with my newly discovered shin splints. I don’t even get to pick what I do in gym for the next unit, its a mandatory, Fitness For Life. Joy!
Written: November 8, 2006 at 2:27AM EST
Ok, so things have been somewhat uneventful lately. I seem to have fallen into a rut…
- Wake up. Eat breakfast go to school.
- The wondrous School Crap. (Spanish, Note taking or PE, Lunch, English, Art)
- The Even better bus ride home (Nothing better than being crammed by people who smoke/don’t bathe).
- Come home, eat my leftover breakfast, pass out
Now you see my point
Anyways, I’m looking forward to Friday, I’m going to New York City with my art class. Should be interesting. We’re heading to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art. It should be a lot of fun (minus the getting up at 5:00 to catch the bus at the school at 6. :\ Oh well.
I plan to take tons of pictures (allowed in The Metropolitan Museum) and around the city!
Only downside to all this is Thursday. We have to run The Mile for gym. Kinda sucks, but what can you do?
<RANT>I SWEAR I’M GONNA LOSE IT IF THE PHONE DOES NOT STOP RINGING!</RANT>
Come next Thursday, I get to go see Don Quijote with my Spanish IV class. I get to miss an entire day (Periods 1-10) which will be pretty cool! I can’t wait. Hopefully this rut will vanish.
Written: October 14, 2006 at 4:14AM EST
I’m not generally superstitious, but today was HORRIBLE!
First off, I woke up late, so I was rushing around this morning. After rushing to get ready, I ran to the bus (and almost missed it). I arrived at school and went to spanish, it went fairly well, but I kept making stupid mistakes. On to notetaking, I realized I forgot my stuff for the class, and of course the day I forget it, we need it. Luckily, my friend Megan let me use her book and Mrs. Sisti (my teacher), didn’t freak out at the fact that I forgot my stuff.
Next I had lunch/Activity. I helped Megan make some Halloween Party invitations in MS Word and when I went to get a pen, it exploded. The ink was really sticky, and when soap was added, it turned purple and would NOT come out!
English followed and he decided to give us a pop-quiz on vocabulary words. Instead of it being normal “give the definition” style, it was write a sentence using it exactly as it is given. The words we had were…
Literal
Figurative
Denotate
Connotate
Potentate
I was able to get literal and figurative, but I completely drew a blank of Denotate, Connotate, and Potentate, and because there were only 5 words, each was 20%, always good to miss 60% on a quiz!
Finally it was time for art, so close to the end of the day! For about a week and a half I have been working on a charcoal still life. Today I was working on it and I messed it up. The shading was really bad and the teacher wasn’t too happy =\
When school was finally over, I rushed outside, caught the bus and came home. I then heated up my leftover rice and fell asleep and woke up at around 8 to say goodbye to my grandma and aunt - as they are going to Myrtle Beach.
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Sorry if this post seems kinda mopey, but today sucked… seems to be a pattern lately… Oh Well
Written: October 6, 2006 at 1:49AM EST
Wow, don’t worry, I’m really not as bad as that makes me sound…
Anyways, today was one of those days where EVERYTHING (and I mean everything), that can go wrong WILL go wrong. Let me start at the beginning (which in my case would be last night). Following my orthodontist appointment, I came home and figured I’d take a half-hour nap and then work on my homework. So around 5:30, I layed down, and the next thing I knew it was 6:00 AM. I had slept through and forgot to finish my homework. So I rush around to get ready and “attempt” to get the homework done. Rushed to catch the bus, and there were no seats. Great!
I soon arrived at school and just as period 1/2 started, I finished. We went over it, and I had gotten most of it wrong! (I guess that’s what I get for rushing). We then took a quiz on the homework and because I rushed, it did poorly on it.
The next period was gym; inline skating for this unit. I went to the one set of gym doors an it was locked. So I rushed to the otherside, and it was locked as well. When I finally got in, class was just starting. She took attendance and we went outside. Myself, following those in front, went into the wrong set of bleechers, and when we finally made it to the correct set, it was getting cold, and starting to sprinkle. I put my rollerblades on (wrong foot first!), then did some stopping/going drills.
Lunch/Activity followed. I made a new notebook for spanish (<sarcasm>so amazing isn’t it!</sarcasm>). While in there, we found out about the schools new policy of locking the doors and that anyone caught without their ID would get an S.O.S. (School on Saturday). Of course, the one day I forget my card at home, they decide to implement this!
The next period for American Literature, I was in the library, and of course, we were required to sign out books, and since I forgot my ID card, I couldn’t sign out a book. YAY.
Art went ok. I worked on my charcoal drawing, and by the time I was done, I managed to get charcoal on my face. Of course it wouldn’t come off!
Caught the bus and came home, and now off to bed, I mysteriously have a headache. Oh well.
And for those of you wondering about the title, its from a Murphy’s Law article at Wikipedia.
‘Murphy’s Corollary of the Power of Negative Thinking: “An optimist is never pleasantly surprised.”‘
Written: September 28, 2006 at 2:13AM EST
Figured it was time for an update, (I really need to get better at this). Anyways…
During the summer, I had come to believe that when school started, there would be TONS to blog about. It’s pretty safe to say I was wrong. I am counting down until the end of school, sad I know (it started about 3 weeks ago). Since it started, I have been drained and I don’t know why! My classes are cake, but still I come home and sleep until the next day, then its a scramble to finish the homework. A vicious cycle in my opinion.
For this unit in gym class, I decided to take canoeing just to get my S out of the way. (For those who didn’t know‑probaly many people‑in order to pass gym class, you need to take 9 units and for each you gain a letter. So to get your credit, you must get FITS and FIT to finish gym. 2 Fitness, 2 Individual, 2 Team, and 1 Swimming. ) I don’t really mind canoeing, but today was a pain. We were at the dam near my house, and we had to canoe/kayak across the resavoir and navigate through an obstical course.
(Because I have nothing better to do, heres a diagram)
(<sarcasm>Great quality I know</sarcasm>)
I did the kyaking part just fine, but then by the time enough canoes had made it back, everyone already had a partner, so I went alone. Until you do it alone, you don’t realize how hard it is to steer one by yourself!
When I got back to school, I was extremely tired. English then art followed. I FINALLY finished my charcol self-portrate. I HATE doing self portrates (or people in general). The teacher actually hung it up in the multi-media center! (Stupid Mr. Malloy criticizing it, I’d love to see him do one at all!)
Oh well, I’m sure you love reading about days when nothing out of the ordinary happens.
For those of you who were wondering, the title was taken from Chumbawamba’s song “The Big Issue,” one of my favorite songs. I couldn’t think of anything, so I resorted to stealing. Oh well
EDIT: How could I forget this. So dumb, yet so strangely entertaining…
Written: September 21, 2006 at 1:33AM EST
Wow, it has been a rather uneventful few weeks (as I’m sure you can tell). But I figured I’d write about it anyways
Sunday - I came home from Cooperstown, it was actually a nice getaway (rather it was until I ran into my schools soccer team… but anyways). I came home and wrote my 400 word journal entry on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s quote and finished “most” of my spanish packet. There was a short marathon of “A Different World” and I watched it (Don’t know why, but I enjoy that show). By the time it ended I had a splitting headache, and fell asleep.
Monday - Due to my need to watch that marathon, I was extremely tired. I had my rice with hot sauce as usual (A Great Breakfast huh?!). Then went to school. The day itself was rather uneventful, except for the fact that it was hot and sticky inside the school (always fun!). I went to my classes as normal, and in note taking we had a test. Basically we had to convert sentences for superwrite to english, not too hard, but I forgot some symbols for “like”, “we’re” and “of” (of course I remember them AFTER the test was over .
For those of you who are curious as to what we did, heres an example of a paragraph.
This paragraph says (if you couldn’t figure it out)
A Blue Light
I need a bright blue light for our stage play. I will find a light for our play, or you can find a light for me. As you know, you are a fine aide. Your blue light is right for my easy play. I will use your light right here.
Anyways, the rest of the day went fairly normally.
Tuesday - I had stayed up late again Monday night so again I was tired. I went to spanish, like I normally do; and because there is a rule at the school where teachers are not allowed to keep windows open at night; the school was extremely HOT (due to the heat from Monday being trapped in the school). It was horrible all during period 1/2. Salvation came when there was a fire drill and we were allowed to go outside. I then had canoeing the next period. We were to capsize kayaks and re-enter. That I am not going into right now o_O. Lunch 5/6. English 7/8, we were assigned another stupid journal. A pain in the butt, but what can you do? Finally 9/10, I worked on my self portrate (I HATE IT), then I got to leave period 10 to go help Mrs. Harrington put up a Rachel’s Challenge bulletin board. Then after 9/10 ended, I was able to show off a few of the websites I’ve made. They looked pretty amazed at some of them (especially this one, featuring people from my school). It was kinda cool to get praise. I got home around 3:30 and went to start on my journal and spanish paragraph. I sat in my bed and started writing, I began to doze off, and the next thing I know, its 6:15AM!!!
Today - I forgot to do my spanish and english homework! I was rushing around trying to get ready. Around 6:45, I sat down in the living room and started working on my spanish essay (due period 1/2). I got a couple words down, then we had to leave. I worked on it a bit more on the bus, then in the spanish room. I taked to my teacher about a shooting that occoured in a town near ours, then I finished my essay. We used Auralog in the computer lab, then I went to note-taking. During notetaking, I found out I forgot my english journal at home. Luckily, I hadn’t written very much in it (for the entry that was due today, but still). So next period (lunch), I typed it out in the computer lab (and it took me 20 minutes to type it compared to 40-60 minutes to write it by hand - go figure). So after I finished, I had an hour to do whatver, so I had my friend Tom and his sister Kaylee test it out. On to english, wouldn’t you know it, he had us write three entries in a row without handing it, and the day I forget the journal, he collects them! I tell him, I wrote the entry, but forgot the journal, it was alright, but its amazing how true murphy’s law is. Then to art, I worked on my self portrate and I got the ear right! (but thats about it ). Rode the bus and came home.
Hmm, now that I look at it, its a faily long entry for a not to interesting few days. Oh well.
