broken swords and shields and tears that never fall
Death to all! Bwahahahahahah!
In other news... not happy day. Well, mostly not happy day. I had to go to talk to the Evil Secretary Who Is Mrs. Auman (sp?) about that detention I got for a stupid, never before known school-rule. And then I had to go talk to Mr. Wunderley. And littleelf did not know that I had already talked to him, and so she sent me scurrying to his office during lunch. Sigh. Oh well, at least that's cleared up with now... still have DH-free record, whee, go me!
Band is fun. We are playing some of the most AWESOME songs ever--like the 1st Military Suite in Eb by Gustav Holst (did I get the name right???), and Abram's Pursuit, which has the most awesome first clarinet solos ever--not that I suddenly moved up from second to first part and play them; but first-clarinetist!Jeremy sits next to me now (as other-first!Vanessa is in DC for the week), and he gushes to me about it all the time. Jeremy quite awesome band buddy, really. :D
Well... we do have one not-fun song, which is "Sheep May Safely Graze" by J.S. Bach, and the main reason I dislike it is because it is so freaking slow and I end up taking breaths every measure or so--although that could say more about how I'm out of shape with playing the clarinet than anything else.
Speaking of being out of shape, I went running today. :D My cold/flu/thing has been getting a lot better, today was disgustingly warm for January (65 degrees or something?), so I even badgered my dad to cancel that doctor's appointment so I could go out for a jog. Yeah, it was fun... it's nice to get outside and run for the first time in a while, although I took it really easy because I'm still kind of sick and am very much out of shape. Hard to believe that track practice starts in two weeks... oh ugh I am going to die.
The week before exams is always review week, and therefore I have little to no real homework---just mostly forced studying for extra credit or something. Hmm. Um, yes.
In other news, we have a new format for position papers for Model UN. UGH. This is pure and utter insanity, as I have ranted with junior!Oliver with for about two hours now. For example, look at this: Paragraph headings should be ... numbered with bullets (please make the font easy to read for the Chairs). Numbered with bullets? What the heck?? Oi, I think I'm going to make Miss Vanderhart write another letter of complaint to them. UGH.
I have been feeling strangely discontent lately. I'm not sure exactly why... maybe because I was expecting more from my last week here... I know, I know, no one's confirmed this, and no one's told me anything, so it's probably best if I was going to stay here... especially after I spent all that time today tediously writing down spring events in my planner... sigh.
Oh, that reminds me, we got our spring semester schedules today:
1. C32 Crusader Band Vandenburg (Mr.)
2. Gym Lifetime Sports Fieldhouse (but I'm going to see if I can get this switched for a quarter of health--if only Mrs. Garcia was ever in her office...)
3. C31 Western Civ Rhodes (NOOO I DON'T WANT TO BE TAUGHT BY RHODES)
4. B20 Honors Algebra 2 Becksvoort
5. C28 Honors English 2 Brewer
6. B19 Bio 1 Tamminga (whee!)
7. B23 Spanish 2 Johnston (double whee!)
And here're my exams for the next week:
Tuesday: 8:30 - Bio 2
Wednesday: 8:30 - Bible; 1 PM - Honors English 2
Thursday: 10:30 - Honors Algebra 2
Friday: 8:30 - Western Civ; 1 PM - Spanish 2
You know what that means... exam schedule = extremely long study halls = time to work and concentrate on conlang! Whoo!!
In other news... not happy day. Well, mostly not happy day. I had to go to talk to the Evil Secretary Who Is Mrs. Auman (sp?) about that detention I got for a stupid, never before known school-rule. And then I had to go talk to Mr. Wunderley. And littleelf did not know that I had already talked to him, and so she sent me scurrying to his office during lunch. Sigh. Oh well, at least that's cleared up with now... still have DH-free record, whee, go me!
Band is fun. We are playing some of the most AWESOME songs ever--like the 1st Military Suite in Eb by Gustav Holst (did I get the name right???), and Abram's Pursuit, which has the most awesome first clarinet solos ever--not that I suddenly moved up from second to first part and play them; but first-clarinetist!Jeremy sits next to me now (as other-first!Vanessa is in DC for the week), and he gushes to me about it all the time. Jeremy quite awesome band buddy, really. :D
Well... we do have one not-fun song, which is "Sheep May Safely Graze" by J.S. Bach, and the main reason I dislike it is because it is so freaking slow and I end up taking breaths every measure or so--although that could say more about how I'm out of shape with playing the clarinet than anything else.
Speaking of being out of shape, I went running today. :D My cold/flu/thing has been getting a lot better, today was disgustingly warm for January (65 degrees or something?), so I even badgered my dad to cancel that doctor's appointment so I could go out for a jog. Yeah, it was fun... it's nice to get outside and run for the first time in a while, although I took it really easy because I'm still kind of sick and am very much out of shape. Hard to believe that track practice starts in two weeks... oh ugh I am going to die.
The week before exams is always review week, and therefore I have little to no real homework---just mostly forced studying for extra credit or something. Hmm. Um, yes.
In other news, we have a new format for position papers for Model UN. UGH. This is pure and utter insanity, as I have ranted with junior!Oliver with for about two hours now. For example, look at this: Paragraph headings should be ... numbered with bullets (please make the font easy to read for the Chairs). Numbered with bullets? What the heck?? Oi, I think I'm going to make Miss Vanderhart write another letter of complaint to them. UGH.
I have been feeling strangely discontent lately. I'm not sure exactly why... maybe because I was expecting more from my last week here... I know, I know, no one's confirmed this, and no one's told me anything, so it's probably best if I was going to stay here... especially after I spent all that time today tediously writing down spring events in my planner... sigh.
Oh, that reminds me, we got our spring semester schedules today:
1. C32 Crusader Band Vandenburg (Mr.)
2. Gym Lifetime Sports Fieldhouse (but I'm going to see if I can get this switched for a quarter of health--if only Mrs. Garcia was ever in her office...)
3. C31 Western Civ Rhodes (NOOO I DON'T WANT TO BE TAUGHT BY RHODES)
4. B20 Honors Algebra 2 Becksvoort
5. C28 Honors English 2 Brewer
6. B19 Bio 1 Tamminga (whee!)
7. B23 Spanish 2 Johnston (double whee!)
And here're my exams for the next week:
Tuesday: 8:30 - Bio 2
Wednesday: 8:30 - Bible; 1 PM - Honors English 2
Thursday: 10:30 - Honors Algebra 2
Friday: 8:30 - Western Civ; 1 PM - Spanish 2
You know what that means... exam schedule = extremely long study halls = time to work and concentrate on conlang! Whoo!!