'Tis the Season~
Hee hee, I love the little Snow Pea from Plants vs Zombies.
I can't believe Christmas is in three days. I've been so wrapped up in the play and finishing my note cards for English and trying to make heads or tails of AP Calculus, the time just flew by me. Mom finally finished decorating everything last night, and since this is like her red letter holiday, it looks like an elf threw up in here. We have five freaking Christmas trees. Five! Well, six if you count the Charlie Brown tree replica. I would've been fine with just one.... I like the one in the piano/computer room, though. It was the last one we decorated, so we only had two strands of red and blue lights left. It looks like a Red vs Blue tree with violins and music notes all over it. :3
Last Saturday was the big cookie bake-off at our house. Mom and I started early morning and, even though I stopped helping around one to go finish homework, everything wasn't done until late that night. I didn't have the money or the time to go shopping for my friends, so I just made little goodie bags with the cookies and passed them out. Even Mr. Madajski got one, just because he's been extra nice and helpful to me lately with this paper. lol The only exceptions were Becky's Halo movie and the bag of salt packets gave to Jonah.
Having all those note cards finished is such a load off my mind. My issue wasn't that I couldn't find anything on how Holmes influenced forensic science (there's been a crapton written about it), it was the fact that I had to buy a book in order to access the information. Fortunately, since my essay is literary-based, I was able to use the canon for a lot of my cards. Plus I own the Sherlock Holmes Handbook, and it totally saved my ass. A third of all my info came from that book- thank you, Ransom Riggs! Also, no AP Calculus for almost two weeks~! I had a test in there yesterday, and I was considering letting the outcome of it decide whether or not I was going to drop the class, because I have no idea what's going on. But now that I have Christmas vacation to relax, I figured I'd wait until I came back refreshed and then see if it's any easier for me to understand. Besides, I'm very certain I got every question on that test wrong.... Maybe if everyone fails it, Mr. Hover will realize there's something wrong in his teaching method. Like how talking unnecessarily loud and banging on the overhead projector and giving everyone in the room headaches does not help us grasp the concept at all.
Anyway, different subject before I get frustrated, I've got a small reading list for vacation. Most are either short stories or books that are at a lower reading level than my norm.
- Fat Vampire by Adam Rex
- Zombies vs Unicorns by Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier
- Halo: The Fall of Reach by Eric Nylund
- A Case of Identity by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Silver Blaze by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Yeah, just some light reading to keep my brain in shape for when I have to go back to reading Pride and Prejudice for English. I started Fat Vampire last night, and I'm already over halfway through it. At first I thought it was going to be a sort of anti-Twilight novel, but it's really just a story by itself, which makes it better than I expected. I like the overall feel of it so far: the language sounds like what probably goes through a fifteen-year-old boy's head. Even though Doug is kind of a douche, he's by far more entertaining to read about than Edward. He's a nerd, he's awkward around girls, and his friend Jay is way more socially challenged, which makes every scene with the two of them in public hilarious. Then the kids in his school remind me of people I know- like friends of my friends whom I don't hang out with but will say hi to or occasionally talk to in the hallway.
Well then, I didn't expect to write a mini-review for Fat Vampire, but I'm gonna shut up and get off and go read it. X3