Thursday, May 12, 2005

Missed it by this much.

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Shin- Only if they have flipping sweet suits.

satan665- Think of Slaughterhouse-Five like a comic bookk..

Without pictures. :o

Godel- *does so* Ow, that hurt.

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In English we've been doing poetry during testing. Normally that would be great, but I'm not in one of those moods that motivates me to write these days. Instead, I cranked out twelve tiny poems (we had to do ten different styles plus one we weren't taught in-class. I did one extra), and because we're presenting these in a little book, I decided to cover up the poems' ugliness with Adobe Photoshop ugliness. Yes, along with the uninspired poems come uninspired backgrounds to go along with them. For the most part I took random art off of Google and DeviantArt, resized it, threw words on it, and moved on.

There's only one that I really approve of. The rest are poop.

Along with this project, I have to finish our Baby Books for Health by Friday, and then there's some in-class thing for History that I just know I'm going to end up doing outside of school. Additionally, there's another project for English that's not due until the thirty-first, but we have to finalize our subjects by the sixteenth. That one's a two-person project, which I'll probably do with the person I always do projects with, but I might yet mix it up and do it with someone else. Someone equally useful to have around, and equally fun, but different.

So I guess I'm getting into the swing of relentless schoolwork that will be omnipresent in high school.

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My friend who was planning on getting Guild Wars is all heartset on getting World of Warcraft now, for whatever reason. Something about riding tigers around. So we had two separate debates about it today, and after school I made up a list of 25 reasons Guild Wars kicks World of Warcraft's ass, along with visual aids that will strengthen the impact.

This person used to be online a lot, and though things are different now, I still miss her dearly, and would like to have her online again. Guild Wars can help with that, and WoW could, if it weren't for the monthly fee.

*stabs whoever came up with monthly fees*

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We had this weird sub in Art today, who was actually quite hilarious.

First, we had to stand outside of the classroom for five minutes, complaining about where where the teacher might be. Then, suddenly, out of nowhere, this crazy short man with glasses opens the door and tells us to get against the back wall. The rest of the class, being the talkative little bastards that they are, kept chattering, and the guy kept rambling on about how he won't start until everyone shuts up.

Once they settled down some, he started going down the roll sheet. He sat everybody in "new" seats, for reasons unknown, entirely in alphabetical order. We tried explaining that we weren't technically students as much as teacher assistants, but he didn't care, so we went along with it.

Some kid said something smarmy, and the teacher went over to the phone and "called" the office and warned them about him. I put 'called' in quotes because he didn't really call. He pretended to push numbers and had a fake conversation. This was obvious from our angle.

Eventually, we all got seated. For whatever reason I wasn't on the chart, so I was last, and got to sit where I always sit anyway. The table happened to be covered in babies, though.

Somewhere around here he stated that he served for twenty-something years in the Air Force, taught at the school a while back, then went to the high school, then became a sub, and is "DEAF IN ONE EAR, HALF-DEAF IN THE OTHER, AND BLIND IN MY RIGHT EYE." He also informed us that the reason kids aren't learning as well these days is because of lack of discipline. He's good at telling people to be quiet, and he can say it in four other languages.

Though English obviously wasn't the first one he learned how to say it in.

So then we spent the rest of the period filling in the blanks of what he wrote on the board. Sample:

_ _ _ - The human quality of mimicking nature or life through painting, drawing, sculpting, or any other form of creative expression.

I knew what it was by the time he wrote "nature." This is, after all, an art class.

He wrote incredibly slowly, too.

Then it took forever for us to get out of class, but once we did, we ran a mile, took a two minute break, then another lap. Fast as we could.

So yeah, it was one of those days. The kind that was just strange enough to make you laugh hysterically the second you get your seatbelt on during the ride home.
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