Journal: Okay, I have to post already. I still haven't even done science Olympiad yet, sheesh, slacker. Now that I'm done yelling at myself:
This week was awesomely hectic. We started end of level testing in Language arts and I missed the second half because of the language fair. It stinks, especially since I could've finished it all on the first day if he would've just let me. *growls in annoyance*
I'm trying out for color guard. It's fun, but it's kind of hard. Not that bad, though. It is early. I wonder what I'm getting myself into. If I get into everything I want, I'll be waking up by 5 a.m., going to color guard practice for an hour and a half, going to school with college classes half the day and 2 language classes, seminary, and color guard as my high school classes, I would also have to take health online, something I started doing last summer by accident and hated until I figured out how to drop it. Afterwards I'm going to play tennis until five then go home and have two hours of homework. At least tennis is only for the first few months, but still I want to do science Olympiad again next year. I guess I like hectic, but I'm not sure if this is a good idea.
I jammed my finger on Wednesday at lunch. I backed up into two stacked chairs, and automatically tried to catch the top one when it fell. I still can't quite bend it all the way, but as of this morning I can finally play guitar again.
Language Fair Was this week. It was awesomely fun. I was rooming with Keena. Another girl too, but I don't think she said a word the whole time. My language bowl team got first. Keena's got out in round one. We promised we'd "avenge them", though. Our school won sweepstakes. After the competitions we went to Espanolandia. It's a pretend spanish-speaking country. I bought a fan and un burrito, I also bought some cake that I still can't decide if I liked or not, and a really tasty fruit drink. Everything was really cheap, because when you exchanged money ten cents equaled one "peso". On the bus ride home I got more blackmail pictures of tyler. He got stuck between two of the seats on the bus. three times. I sound like a stalker or something, but he's my best friends twin brother. I have almost as many rights to annoy him as if he was my brother. My mom also decided I need to learn how to flirt because two boys came up to us in the mall and said "you're hot." and i said to Kylea "I swear, if they say one more word, I'm gonna kick them."
I'm about ready to murder my sister. She's singing really obnoxiously and screechily in my ear. *growls again*
I should probably do science olympiad, too. It was forever ago and I still haven't posted on it. On the first day we drove up. They figured out a way to make me not hyper on the bus ride. they gave me Matt's ipod. I listened to it the entire 6 hour bus ride. Afterwards "my ears hurt." sam:"I'm not surprised. I could hear that music from over hear." "no , not like that. Like I've just had earbuds in my ears for six hours!" I still hadn't even got past the "S's" and I was only listening to the bands I recognized! he had eleven thousand songs on there!
I'm kind of annoyed with one of the girls I was rooming with. I dumped my stuff on one of the beds during the afternoon so I'd have a place to put it, and apparently she decided I was trying to do something or other, I don't remember. She got kinda freaked out cuz she was a senior and she didn't like that a freshman was doing this. Then she didn't even talk to me about it. She told Toshi who asked me about it in front of everyone and made me seem like a freak. We found out that night that Mr. Dickson was signing Me and another girl up for an event last minute.
I placed second in two events, bio-process, and enviro chem. I'm using this as proof that studying is bad for you because enviro chem is the one I found out I was doing the night before, and I hadn't studied much for bio-process because we got third so easy last year. Funny dialogue from Bio-process: Picks up tool and reads question "what is this called?" Jess: It's a ...child-beater. Me: just put that, we have no idea. Jess: they'd wonder about us.
It did have a really pointy part. also, there was a question that said 'how many meter sticks would it take to equal this measuring tape?' it said how long the measuring tape was outside. We looked over after we'd don that question to see two boys pulling out the measuring tape and using the measuring tape to measure it. We started laughing behind our hands I'm all "okay, no matter how badly we do, at least we're not them."
From Enviro chem: The question said "One of these samples came from my garden. Which one and why?" Me: sniffs all the samples. gets a ton of sample 3 up my nose. "I think sample 3 smells the most like garden soil." our answer: sample 3 because it smells like it. We also couldn't use the pH paper right because we realized after that all of the paper that had been exposed to the soil was now covered in mud. not sure how you're supposed to work that one out.
I also got third in pentathlon and random other places for my other events. It was fun. I ended up with 400 dollar scholarship to weber (plus 100 from last year) and 200 for u of u. Then I listened to Matt's ipod for a lot of the way home, and participated for about 2 questions in the "United nations of the back of the bus". I'm going to have to post up the 10 commandments of science olympiad later. Toshi wrote them afterward. I also took some really weird photo booth pictures with two of my friends just for the heck of it.
I'm skipping thought because journal is so long.
Review: Seven Pounds was a stupid movie. It was an okay story, but they didn't do so great on putting it onscreen. I still don't really get the title, either.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Monday, March 23, 2009
Gah!
Journal: OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG! I'm so happy!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah, *breathes hard* excited. I was just doing my rubic's cube to try and calm down. I can almost finish, but i can't remember the last few steps. Anyway, back on topic. I'm really really REALLY excited because, wait for it, drum roll, okay I'm done beuing idiotic for the moment, SUCCESS ACADEMY JUST CALLED AND APPARENTLY AT LEAST 7 PEOPLE HAVE CHANGED THEIR MINDS SO NOW I'M IN!!!!!!!!!!!! *breathes hard again because I was screaming and I did that in one breath*
I'm sosososososo happy!
Also, I was called as Mia Maid President yesterday, nyah! I hope I do good.
Thought: There's two kinds of genius. The one that's the most necessary, in my opinion, anyway, is the one we fail to recognize. There's the type of genius who can just think of ideas of how to make something work, and the kind where you can look at the thing that's working and immediately see how it works. Like in small world (okay, I've kind of got disneyland ont he brain) there's the magic carpets flying, right? I can look up at it and immediately see how it works and in my head I'm thinking stuff like, that's so simple, why didn't I think of that. My brain just comprehends things so I get really good grades in school. When I said to my mom, "that's so cool, who came up with that?" she replied, "probably someone who failed schol because they were thinking of how to make magic carpets fly." It's so true! a lot of times the very smartest people fail because we insist they're wrong, or we can't understand they're logic. Einstein flunked out of school but he was a genius. I think the creating genius is much more vital to society. Any idiot can learn how something works, or what someone thinks if they studay enough, the other genius can do it faster but even without them society would still function, but what about the people who come up with the new ideas, rather than just learning about the old? they're completely underappreciated because they won't just nod and say "oh, of course this is true." like everyone else, but where would we be if no one had thought up these ideas in the first place and we all just learned what was already known? still living in caves, without knowing anything.
Review: I finished Death Note. I guess I should admit that it was totally awesome. It was really smart, but I'm still ticked that they killed L, the best character, halfway throught the book. Yes, I know that's a major spoiler for anyone who hasn't read that part, but too bad. that basically ruined the book for me. I knew he was going to die, but I didn't think they'd kill the best character mid-story! even if it did help the plot a little, come ON, people! L was what I loved most about the books and you killed him halfway!
seriously, though, it was really good. don't let my annoyed review, which has turned into more of a rant, stop you from reading it.
I'm sosososososo happy!
Also, I was called as Mia Maid President yesterday, nyah! I hope I do good.
Thought: There's two kinds of genius. The one that's the most necessary, in my opinion, anyway, is the one we fail to recognize. There's the type of genius who can just think of ideas of how to make something work, and the kind where you can look at the thing that's working and immediately see how it works. Like in small world (okay, I've kind of got disneyland ont he brain) there's the magic carpets flying, right? I can look up at it and immediately see how it works and in my head I'm thinking stuff like, that's so simple, why didn't I think of that. My brain just comprehends things so I get really good grades in school. When I said to my mom, "that's so cool, who came up with that?" she replied, "probably someone who failed schol because they were thinking of how to make magic carpets fly." It's so true! a lot of times the very smartest people fail because we insist they're wrong, or we can't understand they're logic. Einstein flunked out of school but he was a genius. I think the creating genius is much more vital to society. Any idiot can learn how something works, or what someone thinks if they studay enough, the other genius can do it faster but even without them society would still function, but what about the people who come up with the new ideas, rather than just learning about the old? they're completely underappreciated because they won't just nod and say "oh, of course this is true." like everyone else, but where would we be if no one had thought up these ideas in the first place and we all just learned what was already known? still living in caves, without knowing anything.
Review: I finished Death Note. I guess I should admit that it was totally awesome. It was really smart, but I'm still ticked that they killed L, the best character, halfway throught the book. Yes, I know that's a major spoiler for anyone who hasn't read that part, but too bad. that basically ruined the book for me. I knew he was going to die, but I didn't think they'd kill the best character mid-story! even if it did help the plot a little, come ON, people! L was what I loved most about the books and you killed him halfway!
seriously, though, it was really good. don't let my annoyed review, which has turned into more of a rant, stop you from reading it.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Disneyland
Journal: Yes, I went to Disneyland this week. It rocked. We're doing the pin trading thing. I started with Mickey and Peter and ended up with Stitch and a chibi-looking Mulan. My sister didn't think it was Mulan but I'm all "how many other chinese-looking disney characters arte there with crickets?" she hadn't noticed the cricket apparently. Last time we went I got a totally awesome pin. It was a horse pulling a little trolly thing with mickey, minnie, donald, and someone else. I think it was pluto.
We did the Lip Sync contest on Friday. We did "I'll make a man out of you". It was so fun. Especially since it was all girls. The football players did 'ain't no mountain high enough' did you know they actually sing that while they run? they practice next to the tennis courts so I know, anyway, I thought it was funny because we're the two funny ones and it's the most poopular and the most geeky. The football players can get away with anything because they're popular no matter what and we can get away with anything because we don't want to be popular. They're gonna post the winners next week. I don' actually care, I know the timing was slightly off, but only 3 teachers can actually see our lips anyway. we had the coolest coreaography by far.
Thought: I don't even remember what I was gonna put for this. It was good too! dang it. I'll add this in when I think of something.
Review: I'm so tempted to do Death Note, because that is my current obsession, but I'll wait until I've finished it. Instead, I'm gonna do Harry Potter. The books, the movies do not even deserve my attention. To quote my cousin "the books were written by smart J. K. Rowling. the movies were made by idiots." I loved the Hqarry Potter books. that's what really got me started reading. In second grade I was named 'the queen of harry potter' because I was so obsessive. I even had a Harry Potter birthday party, and I remembered most of the books. I even got bored once and decided to memorize the books. that didn't last long, but it kept me entertained awhile. I don't really like that she made dumble dore gay, though. that was weird.
I remember when I finished the 6th book, my mom was still reading it. My uncle came over and was making me crazy. "oh, yeah, Malfoy dies in the 6th book." I ended up blurting out "No he doesn't. dumbledore does." my mother was not happy.
We did the Lip Sync contest on Friday. We did "I'll make a man out of you". It was so fun. Especially since it was all girls. The football players did 'ain't no mountain high enough' did you know they actually sing that while they run? they practice next to the tennis courts so I know, anyway, I thought it was funny because we're the two funny ones and it's the most poopular and the most geeky. The football players can get away with anything because they're popular no matter what and we can get away with anything because we don't want to be popular. They're gonna post the winners next week. I don' actually care, I know the timing was slightly off, but only 3 teachers can actually see our lips anyway. we had the coolest coreaography by far.
Thought: I don't even remember what I was gonna put for this. It was good too! dang it. I'll add this in when I think of something.
Review: I'm so tempted to do Death Note, because that is my current obsession, but I'll wait until I've finished it. Instead, I'm gonna do Harry Potter. The books, the movies do not even deserve my attention. To quote my cousin "the books were written by smart J. K. Rowling. the movies were made by idiots." I loved the Hqarry Potter books. that's what really got me started reading. In second grade I was named 'the queen of harry potter' because I was so obsessive. I even had a Harry Potter birthday party, and I remembered most of the books. I even got bored once and decided to memorize the books. that didn't last long, but it kept me entertained awhile. I don't really like that she made dumble dore gay, though. that was weird.
I remember when I finished the 6th book, my mom was still reading it. My uncle came over and was making me crazy. "oh, yeah, Malfoy dies in the 6th book." I ended up blurting out "No he doesn't. dumbledore does." my mother was not happy.
Friday, February 27, 2009
Guys & Girls
Journal: Okay, I probably should've done this a while ago. I didn't, though. My journal entries are always crappy and short when I don't do them for long enough. That seems kind of opposite what it should be, but in reality they get shorter since I'm only doing the most interesting things. On Tuesday of last week I went to speak the FFA creed. It was actually quite fun. I missed one point on one of the questions. That means I didn't go on, but I got next place. They take the top two, but don't say first or second, so Gust said I could count it as having gotten second in region on my transcript. Cool, but whatever.
Jake can't come to science Olympiad anymore. Yes! He. Drives. Me. CRAZY! He doesn't even seem to realize it. I keep saying things like: (after he touches something) "you're gonna have to burn it now." or (today when he tried to grab a sandwich (don't ask)) "You're still gonna eat that?!" also today, him:"are you gonna eat that." me: "no, it tastes off. probably poisoned or something. You can have it if you want."
Thought: Why do guys do what they do to impress girls? Girls probably do weird stuff too, but it's not as weird to me because I am a girl. but it's so funny, when a guys trying to act all tough in an attempt to impress a girl. Most girls don't like that. Most girls would rather be with soemone who's nice and sweet and who they, as extremely emotional creatures, can understand. Also, and I know this is kind of random and dumb, cologne. Only guys like the scent, it pretty much repels girls, but they wear it to try and attract them? I guess perfume is a bit flowery to be attracting guys, but...
maybe we sould switch odors or something. hehe.'
Also, it makes me crazy when people try to insist guys and girls really are the same. they're not. first of all there's the differences listed above of guys trying to be tough and girls being more sweet. I suppose some people could say it's a society thing, but I doubt it. There's other things as well, like what my biology teacher was saying (he's also the psychology teacher, so there.) but I'd rather not use that example because it's...awkward.
Review: Maximum Ride. The first three books were AWESOME! The fourth book was completely dumb. I only kept reading because it was kind of funny. The whole book was global warming. Seriously,t hat was almost the whole plot:global warming. At one point they were captured, but they didn't even have any kind of fight or anything! The bad guys were defeated by a hurricane caused by, you guessed it, global warming. now that I think about it, you'd think they'd like global warming more, seeing how it helped them escape.
Anyway, it's about a group of genetically engineered kids called 'the flock.' They can all fly and have other various powers. the main character and two others started as being 14, and apparently they still are, but I doubt the books have taken only a year, when you think about all that happened. they certainly took longer than that if you look at fang's blog. Please don't let my crappy review of the books discourage you from reading them. the first three are wicked awesome, the fourth is okay, jsut not nearly so good as I was expecting.
Jake can't come to science Olympiad anymore. Yes! He. Drives. Me. CRAZY! He doesn't even seem to realize it. I keep saying things like: (after he touches something) "you're gonna have to burn it now." or (today when he tried to grab a sandwich (don't ask)) "You're still gonna eat that?!" also today, him:"are you gonna eat that." me: "no, it tastes off. probably poisoned or something. You can have it if you want."
Thought: Why do guys do what they do to impress girls? Girls probably do weird stuff too, but it's not as weird to me because I am a girl. but it's so funny, when a guys trying to act all tough in an attempt to impress a girl. Most girls don't like that. Most girls would rather be with soemone who's nice and sweet and who they, as extremely emotional creatures, can understand. Also, and I know this is kind of random and dumb, cologne. Only guys like the scent, it pretty much repels girls, but they wear it to try and attract them? I guess perfume is a bit flowery to be attracting guys, but...
maybe we sould switch odors or something. hehe.'
Also, it makes me crazy when people try to insist guys and girls really are the same. they're not. first of all there's the differences listed above of guys trying to be tough and girls being more sweet. I suppose some people could say it's a society thing, but I doubt it. There's other things as well, like what my biology teacher was saying (he's also the psychology teacher, so there.) but I'd rather not use that example because it's...awkward.
Review: Maximum Ride. The first three books were AWESOME! The fourth book was completely dumb. I only kept reading because it was kind of funny. The whole book was global warming. Seriously,t hat was almost the whole plot:global warming. At one point they were captured, but they didn't even have any kind of fight or anything! The bad guys were defeated by a hurricane caused by, you guessed it, global warming. now that I think about it, you'd think they'd like global warming more, seeing how it helped them escape.
Anyway, it's about a group of genetically engineered kids called 'the flock.' They can all fly and have other various powers. the main character and two others started as being 14, and apparently they still are, but I doubt the books have taken only a year, when you think about all that happened. they certainly took longer than that if you look at fang's blog. Please don't let my crappy review of the books discourage you from reading them. the first three are wicked awesome, the fourth is okay, jsut not nearly so good as I was expecting.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Parental Advice
Journal: We found the third bunny today! apparently, our neighbors saw it and were keeping it.
I also went to see nira today. My mom made me ride my bike.
I went skiing. well, technically I went snowboarding, but we always call it skiing, not sure why. My uncle came and took us on a black diamond! it actually wasn't that hard.
Thought: Have you ever noticed how little sense some parental logic makes? I'm going to use the 'If all your friends jumped off a bridge' one as an example.
example a:
child: mom, can I go to a movie?
mom: no.
child: please? all my friends are going.
mom: if all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you?
child: No, but I don't want to jump off a bridge. I want to go to a movie.
example b:
mom: listen to your teacher/parents/fill in the blank with random adult.
child: if they tell me to ump off a bridge, should I?
I know the second one was lame, but why must we listen to everything an adult tells us, but not let our friends influence us. adults can be wrong too. (also, here's a link to a joke about parental advice. I thought it was pretty funny.)
review: I'll do this later, my mom's kicking me off.
I also went to see nira today. My mom made me ride my bike.
I went skiing. well, technically I went snowboarding, but we always call it skiing, not sure why. My uncle came and took us on a black diamond! it actually wasn't that hard.
Thought: Have you ever noticed how little sense some parental logic makes? I'm going to use the 'If all your friends jumped off a bridge' one as an example.
example a:
child: mom, can I go to a movie?
mom: no.
child: please? all my friends are going.
mom: if all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you?
child: No, but I don't want to jump off a bridge. I want to go to a movie.
example b:
mom: listen to your teacher/parents/fill in the blank with random adult.
child: if they tell me to ump off a bridge, should I?
I know the second one was lame, but why must we listen to everything an adult tells us, but not let our friends influence us. adults can be wrong too. (also, here's a link to a joke about parental advice. I thought it was pretty funny.)
review: I'll do this later, my mom's kicking me off.
Monday, February 9, 2009
Popularity
Journal: I took the CPT to see if I could get into Success Academy (that's where you only take half the day at high school, and the other half you take at the college). I want more challenging classes because everything is way easy for me. I never study, and I usually get the top scores in the class. The problem is: I never study. If it starts out being to difficult there's no way i can keep up, but if it gets more difficult later I can make myself study. I decided that I'd take the test without studying to see. They encourage you to study. My results: I'm in the drawing. I'm about average in math and way ahead in English. This is against people who've mostly been studying, and taking about half the time it normally takes. The math I'm pretty sure I missed two questions, just 'cause i didn't have aclue how to do them. I figured I had a 25% chance of getting it right so I just guessed. I'm gonna have to ask my teacher how to do them.
Also, I got a new winter coat. It looks cool.
My last piece of very good news is: I got off writer's block on Sunday. I've had it for moths. I don't mean the kind where you don't know how to finish a story, i mean the kind where youve kind of got good ideas, but can't figure out how to actually make anything work. Anything. I've only been writing wtories with others, and even that not very well.
Thought: What makes things popular? A lost of 'popular' people are really jerks everyone hates. or airheads everyone lieks to laugh at. But they're still considered 'popular'. Or people who watch anime, anime seems to be a hugley popular thing lately, but a lot of people who watch it consider themselves geeks ornerds for doing so. Why is that?
Review: Prince Caspian (movie) We watched it on Saturday. It was way good. Something about the griffins' wings looked off to me. I loved when the Telmarines were retreating, Lucy stands there. They're trapped between an entire army, and a litltle girl and they freeze. i don't know about you, but I'd take the little girl. I loved susan's armor, it was awesome. I've got to get myself some. Most of the sets and costumes were very elegant and beautifyl. I liked the movie. It was pretty funny too.
Also, I got a new winter coat. It looks cool.
My last piece of very good news is: I got off writer's block on Sunday. I've had it for moths. I don't mean the kind where you don't know how to finish a story, i mean the kind where youve kind of got good ideas, but can't figure out how to actually make anything work. Anything. I've only been writing wtories with others, and even that not very well.
Thought: What makes things popular? A lost of 'popular' people are really jerks everyone hates. or airheads everyone lieks to laugh at. But they're still considered 'popular'. Or people who watch anime, anime seems to be a hugley popular thing lately, but a lot of people who watch it consider themselves geeks ornerds for doing so. Why is that?
Review: Prince Caspian (movie) We watched it on Saturday. It was way good. Something about the griffins' wings looked off to me. I loved when the Telmarines were retreating, Lucy stands there. They're trapped between an entire army, and a litltle girl and they freeze. i don't know about you, but I'd take the little girl. I loved susan's armor, it was awesome. I've got to get myself some. Most of the sets and costumes were very elegant and beautifyl. I liked the movie. It was pretty funny too.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
I skipped seminary today
Journal: Yes, it's true. I skipped. i didn't ditch, though. I swear. I went down to work on the FFA creed just as the bell rang (we have short days this week.). Gust told me to stay and he'd write a note. we ended up spending the entire period! For part of it we just sat there screaming. my biggest problem is I talk to quiet.
I also got 10th grade registration. I have to turn it in by tomorrow. They did it while I was on my trip, and for some reason no one thought to tell me. *sigh*
Thought: i can't remember! i had a really good one too! now I'm annoyed. i'm going to turn my thought into a rant today.
Why do we have to take certain classes to graduate? why can't it just be 'get certain grades'? For one thing, some people just aren't good at academics. let them take mostly shop classes or something. we do them an injustice by making them take academic ones, it just means they have to do lots of work after high school. and what about P.E.? Okay, fine. I'll take three P.E. classes, but why do they have to be certain ones? why can't I take an aerobics class where I'll actually work out, rather than a different class that's required, where only two people actually have a good time and work out, while everyone else stands around bored because they dislike the game and/or no one will pass them anything because the one time they had the ball they panicked and ran the wrong way. (yes, this is a personal experience.)
Review: Pendragon is awesome! It was funny, because about half the reviews by readers said something like "forget wands and rings. Pendragon all the way!" My favorite was "I'm pretty sure I know longer have nails, because I was constantly biting them during the fourth book." It's really good. It's about A kid (bobby pendragon) who finds out he's a 'traveller' it means he can go to other territories, basically worlds, and he has to try to make sure they don't get destroyed by an evil demon named Saint Dane. If enough of the territories fall, all of Halla (every time and place that ever was) will crumble. i'm on the Pilgrims of Rayne right now.
I also got 10th grade registration. I have to turn it in by tomorrow. They did it while I was on my trip, and for some reason no one thought to tell me. *sigh*
Thought: i can't remember! i had a really good one too! now I'm annoyed. i'm going to turn my thought into a rant today.
Why do we have to take certain classes to graduate? why can't it just be 'get certain grades'? For one thing, some people just aren't good at academics. let them take mostly shop classes or something. we do them an injustice by making them take academic ones, it just means they have to do lots of work after high school. and what about P.E.? Okay, fine. I'll take three P.E. classes, but why do they have to be certain ones? why can't I take an aerobics class where I'll actually work out, rather than a different class that's required, where only two people actually have a good time and work out, while everyone else stands around bored because they dislike the game and/or no one will pass them anything because the one time they had the ball they panicked and ran the wrong way. (yes, this is a personal experience.)
Review: Pendragon is awesome! It was funny, because about half the reviews by readers said something like "forget wands and rings. Pendragon all the way!" My favorite was "I'm pretty sure I know longer have nails, because I was constantly biting them during the fourth book." It's really good. It's about A kid (bobby pendragon) who finds out he's a 'traveller' it means he can go to other territories, basically worlds, and he has to try to make sure they don't get destroyed by an evil demon named Saint Dane. If enough of the territories fall, all of Halla (every time and place that ever was) will crumble. i'm on the Pilgrims of Rayne right now.
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