This userpic makes my life.
So, yeah, it's the 4th of July and stuff. We had our cookout thing, which would've been a vegetarian's worst nightmare. My sister ended up noticing we didn't buy her shitty hotdogs. Hahaha! We had hotdogs, porkchops, and turkey burgers (My family doesn't eat beef burgers because my dad can't have them.) as the main food. Then we had chips and french onion dip and some strawberry shortcake.
My dad is currently performing surgery on my beloved Bamboo Fun tablet. One of the wires inside broke, and a chunk of the main black casing on the cord got ripped away. I'm not sure as to how this happened; I've taken good care of the tablet, but it's about 2 or 3 years old now.
He just gave it back to me and it seems to be working okay. Yay, now I can work on my Flash animation again! :D I really suck at Flash. I've had it for a while and have made a few things in it, but I'm nowhere near as good as some people I've seen. I wish I could, like, make a cartoon with voices and stuff, but I'm the only person I know who would do the voices, and my range is quite... limited. XD I can do an average female voice, a (really crappy) little boy voice, and a valley girl voice. That's about it.
There are tons of things I need to work on. I need to finish my Touhou fanfic I've got in the works. I'm not particularly proud of this one, but it's better than nothing, I suppose. I really need to start on those summer reading books. UGH. I hate summer reading.
School spoiled reading for me, to be honest. I used to love it. It used to be one of my favorite things ever. I started reading at age 3. Yes, I was just 3 years old. I was pretty much fluent by age 5 and was given other work to do while the teacher taught the class how to read. In first grade, I had to "babysit" the rest of the class by reading to them while the teacher was busy. I didn't like that. In retrospect, I could've (and should've) skipped the first grade.
When I was in elementary school, they had this compulsory program called AR where you had to read books and take tests on them. You also couldn't read books outside of your "level" that was assigned to you based on a test at the beginning of the year. I had an eleventh grade reading level in the fifth grade. :| Finding books in my elementary school library was a total bitch. Once I got to middle school, I stopped reading often. It stopped being fun, and I can probably count on one hand the number of books I've picked up for fun in the past four years.
I'm not entirely sure which books I have to read this year, but they are almost always insufferable. The only summer reading book I've ever liked was The Outsiders in seventh grade. I read it in a day. Ugh, I'll go find the list.
Oh, great, there are three books to read. Who has time for this!? If you read them in the beginning of the summer, you'll forget them by August, and if you wait until July, it's impossible. Fuck this!
One is SHAKESPEARE. I am not a happy girl. Don't these teachers remember struggling to decipher Old English during high school? They make us do so much Shakespeare! We've done Romeo and Juliet and Julius Caesar. Maybe my school just sucks, but I am always among the top 3 students, usually #1, in my Honors English classes, and even I cannot read Shakespeare easily. It's like a completely different language! Reading it on my own with no class discussion? Pffft, you've got to be shitting me! I'm a high school sophomore, not a literary super genius!
My dad is currently performing surgery on my beloved Bamboo Fun tablet. One of the wires inside broke, and a chunk of the main black casing on the cord got ripped away. I'm not sure as to how this happened; I've taken good care of the tablet, but it's about 2 or 3 years old now.
He just gave it back to me and it seems to be working okay. Yay, now I can work on my Flash animation again! :D I really suck at Flash. I've had it for a while and have made a few things in it, but I'm nowhere near as good as some people I've seen. I wish I could, like, make a cartoon with voices and stuff, but I'm the only person I know who would do the voices, and my range is quite... limited. XD I can do an average female voice, a (really crappy) little boy voice, and a valley girl voice. That's about it.
There are tons of things I need to work on. I need to finish my Touhou fanfic I've got in the works. I'm not particularly proud of this one, but it's better than nothing, I suppose. I really need to start on those summer reading books. UGH. I hate summer reading.
School spoiled reading for me, to be honest. I used to love it. It used to be one of my favorite things ever. I started reading at age 3. Yes, I was just 3 years old. I was pretty much fluent by age 5 and was given other work to do while the teacher taught the class how to read. In first grade, I had to "babysit" the rest of the class by reading to them while the teacher was busy. I didn't like that. In retrospect, I could've (and should've) skipped the first grade.
When I was in elementary school, they had this compulsory program called AR where you had to read books and take tests on them. You also couldn't read books outside of your "level" that was assigned to you based on a test at the beginning of the year. I had an eleventh grade reading level in the fifth grade. :| Finding books in my elementary school library was a total bitch. Once I got to middle school, I stopped reading often. It stopped being fun, and I can probably count on one hand the number of books I've picked up for fun in the past four years.
I'm not entirely sure which books I have to read this year, but they are almost always insufferable. The only summer reading book I've ever liked was The Outsiders in seventh grade. I read it in a day. Ugh, I'll go find the list.
Oh, great, there are three books to read. Who has time for this!? If you read them in the beginning of the summer, you'll forget them by August, and if you wait until July, it's impossible. Fuck this!
One is SHAKESPEARE. I am not a happy girl. Don't these teachers remember struggling to decipher Old English during high school? They make us do so much Shakespeare! We've done Romeo and Juliet and Julius Caesar. Maybe my school just sucks, but I am always among the top 3 students, usually #1, in my Honors English classes, and even I cannot read Shakespeare easily. It's like a completely different language! Reading it on my own with no class discussion? Pffft, you've got to be shitting me! I'm a high school sophomore, not a literary super genius!