Monday, February 4, 2008

So how is everyone today? Good, I hope.

Last Friday was a school dance. Rave style. It was lots of fun, just because it was rave style (a safe rave, of course). It wasn't terribly large and the provided water ran out about an hour and a half into the dance so people we lining up at the drinking fountain.

Today we had a late start at school due to ice. It was somewhat frustrating because this is our third late start and each time I've gotten up and ready at my normal time only to find out that we have a late start. Today it got so far as I was just about to leave when I was told I didn't have school at a regular time. I could have spent that time sleeping in! Actually, I did end up sleeping in for about an hour after reading out of my politics book for another hour. I wish people would tell me that we have a late start BEFORE I get out of bed.

In other school-related things, classes are going fairly well (why wouldn't they? I have the same classes!). Actually my new Spanish class is a grand total of 9 people. Quite large, isn't it? It's kind of strange to be in such a small class.

After school some friends and I went and worked out at the school gym. It's open every day mostly for the sake of wrestlers and football players, none of which any of my friends (or I) are a part of. We go for the heck of it. Which pleases the teachers immensely. I feel kind of weird saying it but I love working out. I'm not one of those super buff people or anything and I don't spend hours in the gym every day (that's unhealthy). Actually, when you think about it, it's not all that strange. Exercise releases endorphins in your brain, making you feel happy. Like chocolate. Man, I can be such a geek sometimes.

Well, enough of my rambling. This is a gigantic post, as far as my posts go. If you read this far, wow. I leave you in peace now. Until next time!
Comments (0) | Permalink

Saturday, January 26, 2008

A Sigh of Relief
Well, well. What do you know; it's the end of the semester. Yay! It doesn't feel like it though. Maybe it's because I have the exact same classes I had this semester next semester as well. Well, for whatever reason, it's over and done with and on Tuesday I can start off with a clean slate.

After school today we had a going away party for our exchange students, R and N (I'm using the initial for their first name for privacy reasons (something I learned while doing journalism)). N has to transfer schools because for some reason her host family doesn't want to drive her all the way to school every day (they live sort of far away). I don't see why they can't do it anymore. They've been doing it all semester and they live on the waterfront, for heaven's sake! It's not like they can't afford it. Oh well. And then R is returning home. It's very sad that she couldn't stay all year.

But in other things...My animation project is having a little trouble getting going. Originaly I was going to do it all by hand. But then I found out that there's 24 drawings in a second. If my animation is going to be 2 minutes, that's going to be something like 2880 drawings! Yeah, not going to work. I don't have that much free time. It was suggested that I do it in Flash or something. But I've never done a computer animation before. I need to talk to the animation advisor and school. I'm sure he could help me out.

I hope all of you did well on your finals and happy end of the semester everyone!
Comments (1) | Permalink

Monday, January 7, 2008

...Y Una Perdiz Picando Peras De Peral
Ha ha. Try saying that ten times fast. Roughly that's "and a partridge in a pear tree" in Spanish. We learned it before break. It's difficult to get down the first time but after a while, it's easy. I'm pretty sure I spelled stuff wrong but I never really got a good look at the lyrics, so don't blame me.

Anyway, today was the beginning of our first full week back from break. What a long Monday. I'm utterly exhausted at this point and all I want to do is sleep...again. But I just got a contact fitting today and I have to leave them in for four hours and I'm not suppose to sleep with them in. Ung. It's probably all for the better. I've got a presentation to write for Spanish...that's due tomorrow. I'm sunk.

I was kinda disappointed though, because today was when I was finally going to get some work on here again. But my appointment kind of ruined that. Maybe by the end of the week I'll have stuff up. I certainly have a lot of it.

We've had our first snow that actually lasted all day today. Well, last night, actually. That was somewhat exciting. There were a lot of accidents, though. One of the buses slid into a light pole this morning. Hopefully we'll have a late start or something tomorrow.

Well, I should get working. Hope you all are adjusting back to school. Til next time!
Comments (2) | Permalink

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Happy Holidays, Minna-san!
I hope you all enjoyed your Christmas! For me it went well. I got up insanely early for some reason and just stayed up. Strange, considering I've been getting up close to noon every day all break....I got some pretty nice gifts and enjoyed watching my brother wear my scarf I got him all day.

We went up to my aunt's house for dinner. Afterwards, my aunts and mom had martinis. Like five of them. Needless to say they were a little tipsy. They decided to call up all the family members and try to get them to sing for them. It was pretty funny. My family is crazy.

I don't know about the rest of you but this year hasn't felt very holiday-ish AT ALL. Not even listening to some festive music put me in the mood. It's probably because I'm so busy over break. Darn you school!

Which reminds me I gotta get working on that.

But in other news....I'm going to try a hand animation project. Or at least, I really want to. I want to make something like a music video for a certain song. We'll see if I actually get around to doing it though. I'm going to do some concept sketches and try to get them up on theO, see what you guys think. Maybe I'll press-gang my friend into letting me use his scanner.

Well, we'll see. I hope you all enjoyed your holidays and will enjoy your new year. Til then!
Comments (0) | Permalink

Friday, December 21, 2007

Sleepy Time is Fun
Hoo! It's almost been an entire week since break started. Time sure does fly, huh?

It's been a pretty busy week too. Tuesday I had a little party. Not as many people showed up as invited (that's expected and is okay with me (my house isn't that big)).

Wednesday was International Club's annual trip to [insert largest local city name here]. I think we all had a lot of fun. Even though it took us two and a half hours to get back home. Traffic, I'm telling ya.

And today...I got my license. I'm so glad that's over. My permit was going to expire pretty soon so today was basically my only chance, or else I would have had to pay the fine to renew my permit and take the test again blah blah blah. But I passed. Yay me.

And here we are, almost to the end of the week. I was hoping to have all my homework and other projects done by tomorrow. I don't want to have to work during the holidays, you know? I guess that's not going to happen. But I'll work really hard tomorrow.

I need to stop stressing. I'm getting a cold because of it.

I hope all of you are enjoying your break. What are you up to these days?
Comments (0) | Permalink

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

A Break...Finally
So Pride and Prejudice went amazingly well, to my great surprise. Seriously, we were running the show an hour over what we should have right up until performances. But opening night it all came together in a flourish of acting skill and grace of the backstage ninjas.

So this week is the down week. A little time to relax until auditions next week. We will be doing Beauty and the Beast (the Disney version) for our musical this year. I have my doubts but this may prove to amaze me as well.

Time to concentrate on grades now. It's nice to have some time for myself. But I've been so exhaused lately. All I want to do is sleep. I feel bad because I fall asleep in Politics and I love that class. But it's the last class of the day and it's usually really quiet in there. I have to try to get more sleep.

Tomorrow is the last day of the week before a four day weekend. I'm really looking forward to it. I'm sure most of you are on break already, or at least are about to be on break. I hope you all enjoy it.

Till next time.
Comments (1) | Permalink

Saturday, November 10, 2007

I Need A Wall....
...So I can bash my head in against it. I'm so stressed right now. Of course, I don't think I have the determination to actually do it but the idea is appealing. I seem to get verbally violent when I'm stressed or upset.

Last weekend, I had a huge Literary poetry assignment. It was 10 poems, a piece of art repersenting each poem, a 100 word paragraph for each peice of art (so 1000 words total), and an in-depth analysis of each poem. And if we just cut and pasted things, we got a C on the project. We only had a week to do the project. It didn't help that we only had class every other day. So I turned mine in two days late (I got a C+ on it and probably would have gotten something close to an A if I had turned it in on time (10% docked for each day late)). I spent 4 days staying up well past midnight doing that project. And what does my teacher give to us today? Another project. Due on Wednesday. We have to act out something like 19 scenes from Oedipus. Not a happy class.

Pride and Prejudice is being performed NEXT WEEK. Everyone is pretty stressed about it. The cast doesn't even have all of their lines down yet. It needs a lot of work. Usually I feel fairly confident about our performances but I'm really unsure about this one. I feel generally useless while I'm there too. I just sat and watched the performance for six hours today. It kinda bums me out, not doing anything.

There seems to be a lot of drama (personal drama, I mean) happening lately as well. My two closest friends decided that they weren't going to be friends any more. One told something he shouldn't have under the trust of my other friend. And for that, they aren't friends any more. And I'm kinda stuck in the middle.

School life isn't that great either. My grades are slipping and and I have requirements to fill that I can't seem to concentrate on.

I'm sorry that I just complained the whole time in this post. I just felt like I needed to get it off my chest to someone. And I can't talk to my friends about it because, well, they're apart of it. You know? I'll try to do better next time.
Comments (2) | Permalink

Monday, October 29, 2007

High Places Scare Me
What a week this is turning out to be. From tomorrow until the end of the week is half days. Unfortunately, as soon as school gets out at 10:35, I have to go to tech training for the up-coming play. We're doing Pride and Prejudice. I personally think it's boring but everyone likes it. Whatever. So who knows how long that's going to take. Training is all week and apparently we're building the sets and painting flats sometime in there. I really don't know how we're going to manage all of this in three weeks. We're not going to be ready. *crosses fingers*

I have a confrence tomorrow with one of my teachers. My parents are freaking out because I'm failing my math class (it's really not as bad as it sounds. Tests and quizes together is 80% of the overall grade. I happened to fail one of my tests (not suprising, as it is that I pretty much fail every math test I've ever taken (and we've only taken three tests, I think)). I think it's all overblown. At this point, I'm not caring much. That seems to be the problem right now.

Speaking of tests, I've got a major one on Saturday. Wish me luck!

So enough of my complaining already. How is everyone? Good, I hope. The weather okay? It's getting really cold again. It doesn't help that the school is incapable of heating a building correctly. Stop COMPLAINING! Okay, sorry.

A friend is hosting a party on Wednesday. Do any of you have plans for the week? What do you plan on dressing up as for Halloween? DO you plan on dressing up?
Comments (0) | Permalink

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Wind
Thusday was a huge windstorm. Not as bad as last year, when there were trees ripped out of the ground and the power was out for four days. Thank goodness, no. The power did go out though, and trees did fall. I had to walk home in the wind. It was actually really fun. The wind would blow so hard that I'd stumble. I realized how much I really miss the outdoors. I tend to stay inside for whatever reason but I enjoy walking in strange weather conditions. Ha ha.

Friday was the International Club's annual bowling night. There were 20 of us, all together. We've never had such a huge group. We carried on S and J's (from last year. I miss those guys) tradition of high-fiving everyone when we made a really good or really bad (uh, what would you call this? A score? A bowl? What?) hit. It was lots of fun.

Saturday I slept in till noon (wow, haven't done that in forever) and basically did nothing all day.

And now it's the end of the weekend. T-T Ah, well. Until next time.
Comments (0) | Permalink

Saturday, October 13, 2007

Sore Feet
So much has happened in the last week. It's crazy. But I'm glad it ended.

Last weekend I went to a Indian (I'm talking East Indies, here) dance show where they mixed traditional dancing with Taiko drumming. You usually wouldn't think that would blend very well but it actually did. The Taiko drummers were very good.

This last week I didn't want to do ANYTHING. Maybe it was because it was homecoming week or something. But I was lazy and didn't do anything. Of course that means that this weekend I have a crap load of homework. The price of being lazy.

I finished Okami! I just have to throw that in. It's even more amazing than I said it was the last time. YOU MUST PLAY.

Go check out my quiz results. I usually don't take them/post results but my result amused me.

Well, I'm going to go back to my hole. Being an introvert and having been around people non-stop pretty much all week has really drained me. So no one will see me for the next day or so. Heh.

I hope you all had a productive week and are doing well.
Comments (2) | Permalink