Seven Days and Seven Nights of Thunder
First of all, no, it’s not raining and there is no thunderstorm going on here. In fact, it feels like a comfortable 70 degrees here in sunny So Cal, and we haven’t had any rain in a while. The subject of this entry came from Kimberly Locke’s new single. It’s been in my head for the past few hours, and the only thing that came to mind for a subject title was that. Anyway, enough of my weather report…
I just found out that Michael Vartan’s new movie, Monster-in-Law, is going to be directed by Robert Luketic, the director of Legally Blonde and Win A Date with Tad Hamilton. I love those movies! I’m a sucker for a well-done romantic comedy, so I’m sure I probably would have gone to see this movie with or without Michael Vartan, but because he is in it, it’s just added incentive. If you look for me during the spring of 2005, I’ll be at the movies.
For anyone who hasn’t seen it yet, the article in Press Telegram about CAMS for which the journalist came over more than once for interviews and basic classroom watching was published on Sunday according to my source. (Ooh, Herbert called me an agent, and I called him my source. How spy-like is that?!) Unfortunately, I didn’t catch it then, but a reduced size of the article was posted at the Press Telegram site here: This School Is Rocket Sciencene has the actual copy from the Sunday edition, could I borrow it? I’d really like to read the whole thing.
Ironically, the grammar of the article is a little off, but I only have the journalist’s copy editor to blame. As for the content, I’m not certain if everything is absolutely true or if everything that should have been included is included, but I figure that discussing our borderline suicidal talk or the fact that sleep is a luxury not a requirement by the time senior year smacks you in the head probably isn’t the best way to attract potential private donors. Congrats (or something like that) to those who were quoted in the article. I find it funny that most of the quoted are seniors, but I think one of the things CAMS teaches is PR skills in the form of BS’ing, so the senior class was probably the best bet to make the school sound better than it probably is. Proof of said BS?
"Everyone strives for the same goals,' student [Camille] Encarnacion said. "It's not as though we go after each other and say, 'Hey, what did you get on that test?"
I wouldn’t say that it is a complete lie, but let’s just say that it isn’t entirely true. We don’t go after each other, per se, rather than bug constantly until the other relents. (Sound familiar, Jaysen?) But, again, this is evidence of our BS’ing skills at work. We’ve been practicing for four years, and now we finally have a real chance to use them. Good job, Camille. You’ve done us proud. Also:
But with a college-like atmosphere comes a somewhat college-like lifestyle late nights working on group projects, for high stakes, under tight deadlines.
Students struggle under pressure, some of it applied by themselves but some of it coming from parents.
"You just want to give up,' said Jontae McCoy, a senior from the Inglewood school district. "It's midnight and you haven't slept for two days.'
"Nobody is as tough on me as I am on myself,' she added. Some students can handle the pressure easily. Others have much more trouble.
"Some people scream. Some people cry,' McCoy said.
Semi-BS: Exhibit B. Jontae was only telling half the truth when she said, “You just want to give up.” Just ask me and Valenjoi. We gave up on physics a long time ago. Soon after that came calculus, government, and, for me, Spanish, but not English. Never English because giving up in that class is just not an option. Just put that paper off until the night before (or the period before for some people like my Lindsay Lohan-obsessed friend who knows to whom I’m referring), and you’ll be fine.
My way of dealing with stress? Passing out over my calculus homework. For a few blissfully stress-free minutes, fatigue takes over and lets nothing worry your sleepy little head. But then an hour or so later, you wake up and realize that the piece of paper stuck to your face is an unfinished assignment. Oh, well. It was good while it lasted.
Now time to research those terrorist groups and analyze poems that I really don’t care about! Yay me! And look, Lan! No cuts! No clicking! Happy? =P
I just found out that Michael Vartan’s new movie, Monster-in-Law, is going to be directed by Robert Luketic, the director of Legally Blonde and Win A Date with Tad Hamilton. I love those movies! I’m a sucker for a well-done romantic comedy, so I’m sure I probably would have gone to see this movie with or without Michael Vartan, but because he is in it, it’s just added incentive. If you look for me during the spring of 2005, I’ll be at the movies.
For anyone who hasn’t seen it yet, the article in Press Telegram about CAMS for which the journalist came over more than once for interviews and basic classroom watching was published on Sunday according to my source. (Ooh, Herbert called me an agent, and I called him my source. How spy-like is that?!) Unfortunately, I didn’t catch it then, but a reduced size of the article was posted at the Press Telegram site here: This School Is Rocket Sciencene has the actual copy from the Sunday edition, could I borrow it? I’d really like to read the whole thing.
Ironically, the grammar of the article is a little off, but I only have the journalist’s copy editor to blame. As for the content, I’m not certain if everything is absolutely true or if everything that should have been included is included, but I figure that discussing our borderline suicidal talk or the fact that sleep is a luxury not a requirement by the time senior year smacks you in the head probably isn’t the best way to attract potential private donors. Congrats (or something like that) to those who were quoted in the article. I find it funny that most of the quoted are seniors, but I think one of the things CAMS teaches is PR skills in the form of BS’ing, so the senior class was probably the best bet to make the school sound better than it probably is. Proof of said BS?
"Everyone strives for the same goals,' student [Camille] Encarnacion said. "It's not as though we go after each other and say, 'Hey, what did you get on that test?"
I wouldn’t say that it is a complete lie, but let’s just say that it isn’t entirely true. We don’t go after each other, per se, rather than bug constantly until the other relents. (Sound familiar, Jaysen?) But, again, this is evidence of our BS’ing skills at work. We’ve been practicing for four years, and now we finally have a real chance to use them. Good job, Camille. You’ve done us proud. Also:
But with a college-like atmosphere comes a somewhat college-like lifestyle late nights working on group projects, for high stakes, under tight deadlines.
Students struggle under pressure, some of it applied by themselves but some of it coming from parents.
"You just want to give up,' said Jontae McCoy, a senior from the Inglewood school district. "It's midnight and you haven't slept for two days.'
"Nobody is as tough on me as I am on myself,' she added. Some students can handle the pressure easily. Others have much more trouble.
"Some people scream. Some people cry,' McCoy said.
Semi-BS: Exhibit B. Jontae was only telling half the truth when she said, “You just want to give up.” Just ask me and Valenjoi. We gave up on physics a long time ago. Soon after that came calculus, government, and, for me, Spanish, but not English. Never English because giving up in that class is just not an option. Just put that paper off until the night before (or the period before for some people like my Lindsay Lohan-obsessed friend who knows to whom I’m referring), and you’ll be fine.
My way of dealing with stress? Passing out over my calculus homework. For a few blissfully stress-free minutes, fatigue takes over and lets nothing worry your sleepy little head. But then an hour or so later, you wake up and realize that the piece of paper stuck to your face is an unfinished assignment. Oh, well. It was good while it lasted.
Now time to research those terrorist groups and analyze poems that I really don’t care about! Yay me! And look, Lan! No cuts! No clicking! Happy? =P