Thursday, January 8, 2004

   Let me see what I can manage for tonight....
Let me just start by saying that any and all typos in this post are probably due to the gloves that I am wearing. I am wearing gloves becuase the temperature around here has dropped, and my room does not yet have heat. We've definitely got to get working on that. >.> (I like the gloves though, they've got Spongebob on them, and when you move them, the picture changes. ^-^)

So let me see, where to begin. School, I guess. I'll go through my schedule, that seems to help. Today was a day E.

F Period: Honors English II. I got the unpleasant news that unless I want to get an Incomplete and be tossed in Study Hall, I need to have in my possession on the day of the Midterm every single test and quiz we've taken since the beginning of the year.

Now, our teahcer has offered after every one of those test and quizzes to hold them until our exam. We all just assumed that was for our own good; so that we could study for the exam. We were only partially right. Having kept some of them, we put ourselves at risk of losing them, and thus getting an Incomplete; a possible failure, I think it equates to. I just didn't think it was fair. My friends and I have agreed, if she fails us because of that, having not warned us of this at the beginning of the year, that we would take it up with our Principal.

G Period: Honors World History II. Our teacher was out today, and instead of leaving an assignment or a movie for us to watch, he gave our sub the go-ahead to just flat-out teach us. Mr. Currie, who was substituting for our history teacher, is a History teacher himself. Several people in my class thought that he did a much better job of explaining things than our regular teacher. While I did enjoy his style of teaching, as I did indeed understand it better and taking notes was easier; Mr. Currie didn't have the same bizarre quirks as Mr. Lacey, our regular history teacher.

So, yeah.

Period H: Honors French III. My test today on French painters didn't go so well. I managed to identify most of the paintings, but struggled on both the painters of the pieces, and the periods of art. If I made just one mistake in the chronological order, pretty much all of them would be wrong.

I think I got all of the maybe 8 multiple choice question though.

A Period: Off. I borrowed a friend's Bible to study for our Gospel test in Theology today. After looking over the first few chapters, and then all of them, I realized that I already knew the stories and teachings. I closed my book and helped a friend look for his wallet. He found it in his binder, where I'd thought that it would be. Lucky guess, I suppose; considering he had said that he put it in his binder....

Lunch: When I get the chance, I hurry along my lunch and then go to the computer lab a.k.a. "Nerd Lair" to play Yu-Gi-Oh with one of two friends. I lost today for the first time in a while, right at the last second too. He drew the last piece of an instant winning combination and I was defeated. I didn't do too bad considering he kept resetting the game (almost).

Period B: Chemistry. We reviewed for our exam. Nothing that I didn't already know.

Period C: Theology II. I aced teh Gospel Test, easily finding all of the passages that we were assigned to find in Matthew. Each quarter we're given a different Gospel to read. Eventually we (read: I) will read them all. My classmates rely on study guides off of the Internet to locate their answers. This is the second that I have taken and aced so far. I was the only one in my class to ace it, I believe.

Period D: Photography. We listened to more oral presentations and got a sheet of things that we would have to know for the exam. I don't think that it will be much of a problem; all we have to do for the essay is describe the steps to developing black and white film (or maybe is was photographs, I don't remember) which I did a great deal in the darkroom. Besides, Mrs. Kainz adores me.

And that was my school day, pretty much. I went down to Sacred Heart (the bus drops us off near its parking lot). Walking across the parking lot (which has to got to be a good hundred yards or so long) in a bitterly cold wind is not fun.

I hung out there for a while and talked with a few of my friends once they were dismissed. Then my dad showed up and we went home. I didn't do my painting critique for French like I had intended, instead I went to OB and MyO and such.

I brought my laptop down to the Drop-In in order to work on my critique, but ti just didn't happen. By the way, childproof outlets are a major pain to plug things into, especially a three-pronged laptop power adapter. It turns out I left some papers at home that I thought I needed. I watched "The Emperors Club", I think it was called. It was an intellectual movei, much like "Finding Forrester", "Good Will Hunting", and "Dead Poets Society". I liked it, but the others just didn't grasp its significance. I actually used my movie critics intuition and guessed what was to happen. I guessed right. *shrug* I'm not one to judge movies, but I can usually tell what is going to occur. Lucky me, I guess.

I came home at 10:00-ish and did my critique. It is a fine piece of work, in my opinion. I think that it will fetch me a good grade to make up for my abysmal performance on today's French test.

My room is quite chilly, so my parents forced my sister to give me one of the space heaters from her room. She had three, and I had none. I guess it was fair in their eyes that I get one of hers. Anyways, the heater smells bad and doesn't actually heat my room, but I suppose I can't really judge the difference now that I've been sitting here for about an hour.

Hmm...fencing practice tomorrow night, and the JV tournament on Saturday. I've finished all of my major projects, so I guess the only thing to do is last out the two days of review. And then the weekend, and then.....exams.

I'm not particularly worried about exams. Much of my work this year has been stuff I learned before. I took some chemistry in eighth grade. I've had religion since Kindergarten. I know the photography material. Algebra II I learned in eighth, maybe even seventh, grade. English will be my major stumbling block, though. I just can't think the way that I am supposed to in order to understand. And knowing my teacher the way I do, there will be nothing plesent about that test. Her idea of a "freebie" is vocab that only a few people understand. I am not one of the few. Some of the words I know how to use in context, but others I can't even determine their part of speech. :p

History will be okay, I know most of the material. French...eh...we'll see how it goes. This is the first year that we haven't really had chapterly tests.

On another note, the Seventy-Five Cent Empire has taken a new swing. Tim and I, co-dictators of the Empire have managed to start collecting dues from our so-called vassals. I'll keep you updated on further developments....

Another note, W.H.A.T.E. is apparently unkillable. After about a month of no posting, it came back and multiple posts have been made in it already.

Okay, it's quarter after 12. I'm going to bed soon, but first I'm going to sign onto AIM and see who's around.
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