Second day of school was today! Woo-hoo, I guess. I didn't have to go in until third period which is SUCH a blessing. I LOVE sleeping in in the mornings. I can wake up when my family is leaving and then get ready and then go to school in peace. Now, thanks to them Jews, we get a four day weekend. In which I need to write two essays. I've already started one of them though, so it shouldn't be too bad.
School today was awesome. I start classes with an art class and then end them with an art class. So my day is just surrounded in art. I really like my English class so far. Our first assignment is a personal essay about evil. So if anyone is actually reading this, if it turns out okay I'll probably be posting it here. That's not due for another week or so though so I probably won't be starting it anytime soon.
My Forensics class was horrible again. The teacher had us play a game where we throw balls at each other saying our names. Then we had to do Two Truths and A Lie which nobody really cares about. It has the potential to be such an interesting subject if the teacher wasn't so awful. I actually started my work today after school! Normally I would procrastinate all of it until Sunday, but this year I really gotta get my ass into studying mood.
After school today though, I was wearing a DFTBA bracelet I made and somebody that I'm sort of friends with understood what it meant! It made me the happiest person in the world that there is another nerdfighter in my school. One I'm already friends with too! It's awesome!
I'm exhausted right now but I really want to blog before I go to bed, so this probably won't be as long as my usual blogs.
I made a Cream Cheese Pound Cake to celebrate going back to school. Making it seem like a good thing in my brain so I associate school with good memories rather than bad ones. It was delicious! It took an hour and a half to bake it though, and I still have a bit of clean up to do before passing out but that's okay. It was totally worth it.
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Cream-Cheese-Pound-Cake/Detail.aspx
That's the recipe for anyone that's interested. I also added two teaspoons of vanilla extract and some lemon zest. It is sooo good. And I put confectioners sugar on the top. I love baking. I don't do it very often because I'm always so busy, but when I do I have a lot of fun with it and I like making big things. Like the cake.
Okay, I desperately need sleep, so I will most likely be blogging tomorrow. No promises. Best wishes!
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
School, Meh
School starting today was okay. The only class that I will potentially be despising is Forensics and that's because the teacher already really annoys me. She's one of the, oh it's the first day of class, let's all go around and introduce ourselves type of teacher. I also had three teachers stress about how demanding the work load is. They teach a forty minute class every day and then think that one hour of homework for their class is acceptable. There are eight periods a day and if I took an actual class every period I would have eight hours of homework to do a night! Thank goodness I don't though. I have first period free everyday so I get to sleep in! It's such a blessing. It allows me to stay up late, which I would normally do anyway and not be tired when I go to school!
I also went back and visited the teachers from last year that I really liked. They were happy to sit there and talk, and while I was wasting time during my first period free today, we had to go in on time for an assembly and a small meeting, one of my favorite teachers ever waved really enthusiastically as I walked down the hall. It made me pretty happy.
I had major printer problems today. It was awful. I needed to print out a graphic organizer for APUSH that's due tomorrow and we haven't used our printer in ages. We ran out of ink and never got new ones so my mom had to stop by Staples on her way home from work and purchase that. Then we were trying to set up the printer and the cord that connected from the printer to the wall was nowhere to be found! We checked in the bag with a lot of miscellaneous cords, we checked in my mom's closet (where our printer was hibernating), and we finally found it behind our towel holder which was in front of the plug area where it used to be plugged in.
After that fiasco, we couldn't find any paper. My mom had brought home some paper in a folder, which she then brought back to work and left there. So we were unable to find any of that until we found a sketchy yellow envelope like thing containing loads of paper in the closet with the printer. After that my computer was just being mean and not responding a lot, but I got my freaking graphic organizer to print, and it looks beautiful and I am happy.
My friend procrastinated all of her APUSH work and this afternoon I furiously scrambled to help her work with it and I edited her essay (I actually only wound up reading it because it turned out to be a pretty good essay and I couldn't think of ways to make it better.)
I spent an hour and thirty one minutes watching Revenge of the Nerds and it was time well spent. I could have been working on the godawful essay that I have to do this weekend, but nope. I watch a movie from the eighties. It was a really entertaining movie. Time well spent.
I kind of can't wait to go to school tomorrow because it's nice seeing my friends again and being able to interact with adults that will actually listen to what I have to say. The work load is also virtually non-existent right now so I am in the loving school mode!
The rest of my day was a nonevent so there's nothing really to talk about there.
This morning I got to actually eat breakfast! I drank tea and watched Degrassi while I waited for Freshman orientation to be over with at twelve. I'm friends with a lot of Freshman so it's awesome having them at my school and actually being able to see them everyday rather than just seeing them on Friday's when I volunteer at an after school program in the middle school.
Oh, I'm also trying to convince my parents to sign me up for Driver's Ed, but it is ridiculously expensive. I really hope that they can say yes so that I can actually learn how to drive. It would really suck if I wasn't able to do it. I just wish that I had the money to pay for it. Oh well.
I also went back and visited the teachers from last year that I really liked. They were happy to sit there and talk, and while I was wasting time during my first period free today, we had to go in on time for an assembly and a small meeting, one of my favorite teachers ever waved really enthusiastically as I walked down the hall. It made me pretty happy.
I had major printer problems today. It was awful. I needed to print out a graphic organizer for APUSH that's due tomorrow and we haven't used our printer in ages. We ran out of ink and never got new ones so my mom had to stop by Staples on her way home from work and purchase that. Then we were trying to set up the printer and the cord that connected from the printer to the wall was nowhere to be found! We checked in the bag with a lot of miscellaneous cords, we checked in my mom's closet (where our printer was hibernating), and we finally found it behind our towel holder which was in front of the plug area where it used to be plugged in.
After that fiasco, we couldn't find any paper. My mom had brought home some paper in a folder, which she then brought back to work and left there. So we were unable to find any of that until we found a sketchy yellow envelope like thing containing loads of paper in the closet with the printer. After that my computer was just being mean and not responding a lot, but I got my freaking graphic organizer to print, and it looks beautiful and I am happy.
My friend procrastinated all of her APUSH work and this afternoon I furiously scrambled to help her work with it and I edited her essay (I actually only wound up reading it because it turned out to be a pretty good essay and I couldn't think of ways to make it better.)
I spent an hour and thirty one minutes watching Revenge of the Nerds and it was time well spent. I could have been working on the godawful essay that I have to do this weekend, but nope. I watch a movie from the eighties. It was a really entertaining movie. Time well spent.
I kind of can't wait to go to school tomorrow because it's nice seeing my friends again and being able to interact with adults that will actually listen to what I have to say. The work load is also virtually non-existent right now so I am in the loving school mode!
The rest of my day was a nonevent so there's nothing really to talk about there.
This morning I got to actually eat breakfast! I drank tea and watched Degrassi while I waited for Freshman orientation to be over with at twelve. I'm friends with a lot of Freshman so it's awesome having them at my school and actually being able to see them everyday rather than just seeing them on Friday's when I volunteer at an after school program in the middle school.
Oh, I'm also trying to convince my parents to sign me up for Driver's Ed, but it is ridiculously expensive. I really hope that they can say yes so that I can actually learn how to drive. It would really suck if I wasn't able to do it. I just wish that I had the money to pay for it. Oh well.
Monday, September 6, 2010
Whew!
Today I have managed to get the worst part of my summer work out of the way. You can be I happy danced! Now I just need to finish Sometimes a Great Notion and read One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest before it become apparent that I haven't already. I think that I can pull it off.
I start school tomorrow and I'm having mixed feelings about that. I'm excited to have structure to my day, and relieved that I won't have to sit around doing nothing. But I also am not prepared to enter what I hear is the worst year of high school: junior year.
And to start off my fantastic schooling I get to write an essay this weekend! Oh boy! That's what I get for putting off my summer work for so long though. My friend is going to come over Sunday and we're going to work on it together and proof read each others essay so that we can make sure we're not turning in anything too crappy.
I'm really happy that I'm going to be able to see all of my friends again and see people whom I haven't seen in months. It'll also be nice to see my teachers. One thing about my school that I love is the teachers. They actually care if you do work and try to teach you. My favorite memory of last year is one day after school, this kid Chris and I went to talk to our English teacher and after talking with her our global teacher came in and we had one huge conversation about pop culture, media, the internet, our families, and anything else that came to mind! I get really attached to teachers, to the point where I consider them to be my friend and I actually enjoy talking to them and finding out about their weekend. It also helps me learn and pay attention in that class if I share a connection with that teacher. It makes me feel as if what they have to say is more important.
I guess that relates to how I model my behavior to match those that I look up to which I talked about a few blog entries ago. I've been working all day again and need to get to sleep at a decent time tonight so that I'll wake up at a decent time tomorrow so I guess this is goodbye until I post another blog post. Tomorrow's post will hopefully be interesting and full of how much I love school! Although I severely doubt that.
I start school tomorrow and I'm having mixed feelings about that. I'm excited to have structure to my day, and relieved that I won't have to sit around doing nothing. But I also am not prepared to enter what I hear is the worst year of high school: junior year.
And to start off my fantastic schooling I get to write an essay this weekend! Oh boy! That's what I get for putting off my summer work for so long though. My friend is going to come over Sunday and we're going to work on it together and proof read each others essay so that we can make sure we're not turning in anything too crappy.
I'm really happy that I'm going to be able to see all of my friends again and see people whom I haven't seen in months. It'll also be nice to see my teachers. One thing about my school that I love is the teachers. They actually care if you do work and try to teach you. My favorite memory of last year is one day after school, this kid Chris and I went to talk to our English teacher and after talking with her our global teacher came in and we had one huge conversation about pop culture, media, the internet, our families, and anything else that came to mind! I get really attached to teachers, to the point where I consider them to be my friend and I actually enjoy talking to them and finding out about their weekend. It also helps me learn and pay attention in that class if I share a connection with that teacher. It makes me feel as if what they have to say is more important.
I guess that relates to how I model my behavior to match those that I look up to which I talked about a few blog entries ago. I've been working all day again and need to get to sleep at a decent time tonight so that I'll wake up at a decent time tomorrow so I guess this is goodbye until I post another blog post. Tomorrow's post will hopefully be interesting and full of how much I love school! Although I severely doubt that.
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Damn, Two Hours Late
I have been doing the summer work that I've put off for months all day. This books are painfully horrible. They eat at my soul. They are making me hate reading which is a really hard thing for me to hate. Tomorrow will be the same, me reading the worst books in the history of books. Sorry this sucks so much. I've done nothing all day but read shit, my brain is mush.
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Holy Smokes I Left My House!
Today I went to a back to school party. It was a lot of fun. I kicked ass at Jenga. That game is so addicting. I normally have no patience for board games and I can't play them for very long, but I played five or six games of Jenga. They were good games as well, not really short crappy games.
Other people at the party were playing Rock Band, and doing it very, very loudly. Well I suppose it's all right because it is a party, but none the less I do not like loud things.
I'm not entirely sure why I was invited to this party. I'm not good friends with the person who threw it. In fact I have only seen her once in the past two months because I ran into her getting Chinese food. It was still a pretty awesome party and got me out of the house which is a good thing.
I barely got any sleep last night because my sister had a friend of hers sleep over and they thought that it would be a good idea to do the cliche put shaving cream on the hands thing. They did that at three A.M. and I was awake until about six A.M. but it did give me time to get some of my summer work that I have been putting off for months done. For some reason I work best when I am ridiculously tired. Maybe because I have no idea how horrible what I'm actually doing is.
After that I slept for a few hours and then attempted to do even more of my summer work, because for the next two days I am going to have to work constantly if I want to get that finished by the time that school starts. Even if I do that I am doubting my abilities because I have to read three books in two days. They aren't even entertaining books. They're incredibly boring and I don't understand why anyone would want to read them.
www.goodreads.com is letting me track my progress with the books and I update it constantly when I'm taking a break. It somehow gives me inspiration. It also depresses me when I see how much more I have to read.
Well right now I'm going to go watch Buffy and give myself a few more hours of freedom before I start attacking my summer work with more ferocity than ever. (I feel like I'm awkwardly ending an IM conversation with someone.)
Hopefully I'll find time during my summer work frenzy to blog again tomorrow.
Other people at the party were playing Rock Band, and doing it very, very loudly. Well I suppose it's all right because it is a party, but none the less I do not like loud things.
I'm not entirely sure why I was invited to this party. I'm not good friends with the person who threw it. In fact I have only seen her once in the past two months because I ran into her getting Chinese food. It was still a pretty awesome party and got me out of the house which is a good thing.
I barely got any sleep last night because my sister had a friend of hers sleep over and they thought that it would be a good idea to do the cliche put shaving cream on the hands thing. They did that at three A.M. and I was awake until about six A.M. but it did give me time to get some of my summer work that I have been putting off for months done. For some reason I work best when I am ridiculously tired. Maybe because I have no idea how horrible what I'm actually doing is.
After that I slept for a few hours and then attempted to do even more of my summer work, because for the next two days I am going to have to work constantly if I want to get that finished by the time that school starts. Even if I do that I am doubting my abilities because I have to read three books in two days. They aren't even entertaining books. They're incredibly boring and I don't understand why anyone would want to read them.
www.goodreads.com is letting me track my progress with the books and I update it constantly when I'm taking a break. It somehow gives me inspiration. It also depresses me when I see how much more I have to read.
Well right now I'm going to go watch Buffy and give myself a few more hours of freedom before I start attacking my summer work with more ferocity than ever. (I feel like I'm awkwardly ending an IM conversation with someone.)
Hopefully I'll find time during my summer work frenzy to blog again tomorrow.
Friday, September 3, 2010
New Blogs, Wow!
Today I have created both a tumblr and a blogger. Why, you may ask? Because my life is boring and why not share it with the world.
Today was comprised of me sitting, watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer (I'm finishing season 3) and listening to Lauren Fairweather and Hank Green. Then my cousins, who have been coming over once every other weekend came over and are now on my couch sleeping. It's 12:30 A.M..
There have been a few things that have bothered me today and now I get to go into angry rant time!
Tumblr: Why do some people think that it's a social networking site? It's not. It's not a way for you to talk to your friends and send messages back and forth. Frankly it's really annoying to your followers when you post something new every two seconds. I created my tumblr primarily to follow people and with that comes the obligatory follow your friends. However there is a reason there is a queue feature. So you don't clog your followers feed.
During my angry rant about tumblr I forgot what else I was going to rant about. I feel like it was a good rant as well. Oh well.
There is however something else I want to talk about. How the things that you idolize and the things that you are inspired by affect the way that you act. For instance, I just watched all of the vlogbrothers youtube videos. One of the people who vlog in that site, Hank, is really outgoing and he is really crazy and out there, and flails his arm a lot. After watching all of their videos, I found myself acting like Hank and using crazy arm gestures to go along with everything that I say. Then, after catching up with the youtube channel, I picked up Buffy the Vampire Slayer from where I dropped it for a few weeks and continued watching that. I then found myself acting and thinking like Willow. Which is completely different from the way Hank Green acts. I guess I am a perfect example of something that proves my point? Maybe. I don't know what I'm saying. This entry is done. I don't even understand what I'm saying anymore. Goodbye.
Today was comprised of me sitting, watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer (I'm finishing season 3) and listening to Lauren Fairweather and Hank Green. Then my cousins, who have been coming over once every other weekend came over and are now on my couch sleeping. It's 12:30 A.M..
There have been a few things that have bothered me today and now I get to go into angry rant time!
Tumblr: Why do some people think that it's a social networking site? It's not. It's not a way for you to talk to your friends and send messages back and forth. Frankly it's really annoying to your followers when you post something new every two seconds. I created my tumblr primarily to follow people and with that comes the obligatory follow your friends. However there is a reason there is a queue feature. So you don't clog your followers feed.
During my angry rant about tumblr I forgot what else I was going to rant about. I feel like it was a good rant as well. Oh well.
There is however something else I want to talk about. How the things that you idolize and the things that you are inspired by affect the way that you act. For instance, I just watched all of the vlogbrothers youtube videos. One of the people who vlog in that site, Hank, is really outgoing and he is really crazy and out there, and flails his arm a lot. After watching all of their videos, I found myself acting like Hank and using crazy arm gestures to go along with everything that I say. Then, after catching up with the youtube channel, I picked up Buffy the Vampire Slayer from where I dropped it for a few weeks and continued watching that. I then found myself acting and thinking like Willow. Which is completely different from the way Hank Green acts. I guess I am a perfect example of something that proves my point? Maybe. I don't know what I'm saying. This entry is done. I don't even understand what I'm saying anymore. Goodbye.
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