Showing posts with label school. Show all posts
Showing posts with label school. Show all posts

6.09.2009

FREEDOM!!!

Sort of. It has been a month. School is out and... I have a summer assignment. That I am kind of avoiding while doing my own personal research. I am putting together my Book of Shadows (BOS) and it is kind of long grueling work that can't be done all at once. Information has to be gathered, written down, organized.... I did find a great site for creative ideas. Because normally I just write things down on notebook paper in binders and notebooks. Which means it is basically spread all over everywhere and I have no idea where anything it or what it does....it kind of sucks.
http://www.yourbos.com/
So...yeah...this girl has definitely inspired me to really get to work on it. And I guess it isn't just that I am avoiding doing my summer assignment, because it will get done...its just I really want to get this done to. I think I deserve to be able to have all of the personal religious study I want to. I'm thinking about that as a major actually. A major in religious philosophy with a double minor in English and creative writing....depending on where I go. Or I could be one of those insane people with a double major and a minor.... I know a girl who going to triple major and have a minor for all of them. She seriously scares me sometimes...she looked old when I hung out with her a lot....not sure I want to know what she'll look like at forty. Maybe that is harsh...a little... I don't know. But either way....that is just insane.

Gots to get back to work so...ttfn

4.29.2009

I am not very good at this

So...it has been like four weeks...I think. I'm not planning on checking the dates any time soon. Maybe I should. I should also probably start writing this more often because...well it is Days in the life.....and well...not very day-like.

School sucks at this point. End of the year, and exams are coming up and all of the seniors are talking about graduation and how they have to take exams or not (if they have an A for the second semester they don't have to). And this is really getting on my nerves...I have several more days and I don't want to listen to their optimism. I personally have another year of this crap...and then college.

But for now, I simply have to concentrate on this research paper for English. And seriously, could I have a more boring topic? Sure...parts of it were interesting, but mostly, I just want to get it over with. So after three hours of writing and reorganizing notes, I have a rough draft. Which I now have to turn in to be critiqued by my teacher. Then I have to fix it, and turn it in again with everything we have done so far: A controlling statement, a preliminary works cited, a preliminary outline, note cards (from at least five sources), an outline, a rough draft, and a final copy (5-7 pages, typed, double-spaced size 12-font). I have never had a teacher so finicky as this one. She doesn't like handwritten work at all, saying that it is sloppy and that she can't read most of it. Which I sort of agree with. And I probably should be printing out the rough draft and organizing my notes again to turn it tomorrow. Then I should be getting sleep or some other fickle thing.

But I am not tired and I don't have any drive to do so. Sort of. There is that tiny little prickly thing in the back of my mind that says "print it off...." over and over and over again. I am trying to ignore it.

I made a crocheted a pencil case the other day. I needed something to keep them all together because I despise searching through my purse for what I need. It was pretty simple, really. I used some yarn that was left over from a hat I made my sister the past winter and a G hook.

Row 1: Chain 25, chain 1 more, dc in first chain from the end.
Row 2: Dc to the end (25 st) ch 2
Row 3: This one is a little more confusing. Starting on one side, fdc across, ch 1, turn around and fdc on that side as well. sl st together and ch 2.
Row 4: Dc all the way around, DO NOT CLOSE THE SPACE BETWEEN THE SIDES OF ROW 3! Sl St.
Row 5 - 8: repeat 4. This is sort of like working in the round...I think, but a little different.
Row 9: turn it inside out and sl st the top together, about halfway. On one side slp 3, ch 3, sl st in next 4, ch 3, sl st in next 3, ch 3, sl st 3, ch 2, sl st. Here is where a crocheted flower can go to hook onto the other side, a button can also be sewn on, if you would like. Now sl st 3 more, ch 2, sl st 4, ch 2, sl st 3 and tie off.

This is the end and you now have a pencil case....that kind of resembles a shoe, but for all intents and purposes holds your pencils. Feedback?

3.18.2009

Long Time No Write

I lost track of how long it has been, surely only about a week. I haven't even been busy. Just tired. Nothing exciting has really happened to me lately. Maybe that is why I haven't written. I did take my last ever FCAT for my school career. Science FCAT, junior year, and it is finally over. They gave us 75 minutes for a 40 minute test, if even. We all sat there with our heads stuck up our you-know-wheres and staring around at the gym. Extreme boredom.

Then I had to go to fifth period where we started watching American Graffiti. And we are supposed to review the damn thing. It is a very boring movie. Then the next period was Fat Man Little Boy which may or may not have an 'and' in it, but that is how Ms. Wallschlag (sp) says it. And that was followed by none other than World War Two...:IN COLOR. I think that is supposed to be exciting, but it really wasn't. This was all on Monday.

Tuesday, we did nothing because all of the seniors were testing, and Mr. Johnson was out. Giant sighs. In Art we watched Sandlot, but I have never been one for baseball movies. We finished it today, thank goodness. My writing teacher got pissed off at the world and she spent the entire period in a huff. She can be so b****y at times.

And today, we did nothing at all. Mr. Johnson was back, but he needed to get grades in so it was busy work galore. Watched August Rush at lunch, I have it in mind to finish it at home, get it on Netflix or something. We also finished Sandlot, which was partly watched on Monday, but... I was not in attendance because the state was wasting my time. I also found our that I have to do a research project on an aspect of life from the twenties. I was thinking either woman's advances or advances in technology. I'll figure it out eventually I guess.

3.10.2009

An Average Day For Me

I had so many things to do, I downright forgot to right...or type...last night.

So this is how I spend my day...my absolutely mundane day.

6:40 Wake up, go to the living room and pretend to watch the news.
7:00 Get read for school. Oh...how dreary.
7:20 Done getting ready for school. Watch Fox & Friends for the next ten minutes.
7:30 Go out the the bus, she arrives about five minutes later
8:10 Arrive at school. I then head directly for homeroom. Why? you ask? Because I have no life.
8:30 School actually starts. I have Latin first period.
9: 29 The bell for next period rings, I head to Analysis of Functions and Analytical Geometry....better known as an extra math class that I DON'T NEED!!!
10:20 Head to English...we are currently reading The Great Gatsby. We are only in the first chapter. But Mike is in that class. He is kind of cute, if a little slacker-ish (not that that is a word)
11:12 Lunch time.... I head for the soda and snack machines, and then off to the art room for a movie. No, I am not the only one.
11:52 Class actually starts, and we are joined by everyone else. I love the class, not so much the people in it.
12:39 Writing class. One more essay is going to drive me up the wall.
1:31 Physics class. My teacher gets off on rants that make us more confused than we were to begin with.
2:23 History class. I actually like this class. I am really good at it, too. Except for the nineteen-thirties. Not so good then. There were way to many Acts and Administrations. And they all sounded similar and did similar things. Pulled a 90 on the test though....
3:15 Get to go home. Sort of. I ride the bus...as mentioned above. It is about an hour ride.
4:10 I arrive home. My little brothers are still there, so I sit quietly and contemplate my day. When they leave, I watch some TV and between then and 10 I will have eaten and finished my homework.
10:00-anytime later I finally get to sleep.

And now you have a relatively intimate look into my day. Sounds like fun, right? NOT!!!