Valentine's Day Means Candy

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone!  Valentine's Day has never been my favorite holiday.  I don't hate it.  I just don't really care about it.  It did mean I got candy today though, so that's a bonus.  Ji had a somewhat large box of candy that she carried around all day and handed out to people, and I got two pieces.  My computer applications teacher gave all of us suckers, and I got a chocolate rose from my parents.

I honestly have nothing else note-worthy to mention from today.  I was dissappointed we didn't get at least a two-hour delay.  The two extra hours of sleep would have been nice.  The roads weren't bad at all though, and basically everything was melted by the time we got out of school.  I'm starting to think we'll never have a snow day this year.  If we don't, I think this will be the first time in my life that's ever happened, which would be weird since it's my senior year.

Presentations, Red Velvet Cupcakes, and Interviews

I think this is the fastest a week has gone by for me in a really long time.  The irony is that I spent most of it sick.  I'm usually complaining about how long days are if I'm feeling really bad, but this time it flew by quicker than normal.

I gave a presentation on synesthesia in AP English today.  I was so nervous.  I actually think I did worse than I did on the presentation I gave in current events last Friday.  Two of us presented today, and mine was a lot shorter.  I feel as if I didn't have enough information, and I definitely stumbled over my words while talking.  I'm glad I'm done with presentations for the foreseeable future.

For some reason Ji got cupcakes today.  She cadets in the guidance office and the secretary just gave her two of them.  For some unexplainable reason Ji didn't want them, and she gave both of them today.  I can tell you that having a red velvet cupcake for a mid-morning snack is pretty awesome.  (Red velvet is one of the very few types of cake I like, and I absolutely love it.)

Tomorrow my mom and I are driving up to Indianapolis for an interview with a college.  At least we're supposed to.  It was sleeting a little earlier, and it's supposed to keep up with that all night.  My mom doesn't want to drive up there if the weather's still bad.  There are only two interview days, and we got assigned the date and time, so I don't know what will happen if we can't go up there.  This isn't my top choice school (and this is for a scholar program, not to get into the school), but it's still a really nice school.  It's definitely still an option, and getting into the program would be nice.  Plus, I hate saying I'll go and then not showing up.  I guess we'll just have to see what the weather does...

Almost Better (Again)

I'm starting to get over being sick (for the third time this winter...), but I still don't feel all that great. I'm amazed the week is going by as quickly as it is.  Usually days drag on when I'm sick.  I'm hoping I'll wake up tomorrow feeling perfectly fine, but I'm not so sure that'll be the case.

Our AP English class is being taped tomorrow.  I'm not really sure why.  The teacher said it had something to do with teacher evaluations, and it's going to be shown to people around the school district.  She's apparently been here longer than any (or at least most) of the other teachers in the schoo district, and they're using her as an example or something.  Anyway, it should be interesting to see how that goes.  She chose us because we're AP and less likey to embarass her I think.  I know no one's going to do something on purpose, but I hope nothing happens that makes her look bad.

We began playing our current events quiz show games/thing in current events again, and we got to keep the same teams.  I'm really glad.  Our grades rely on how well we do on that game, and I don't want to be switched to a team that never wins.  I do feel bad for the ones on the team that always seems to come in last though...

How the Internet Changes Things

This is another blog post posted from my phone.

Do you have things about you that you think most people would be surprised to know about you? I'm so shy that I sometimes wonder what people think I'm like. I don't mean that in an "are they judging me?" way. I just wonder if they would be surprised if they knew what I was like when I'm not shy.

I think a lot of people know I'm a huge Harry Potter fan. I tend to give that away pretty soon. I do wonder if they'd be surprised if they knew sone of the other things I'm interested in though.

Now that people from school are starting to follow me on twitter (and I post links to here and my YouTube channel on there), I don't think it's as surprising anymore. I know at least a few people from school have discovered my videos, and I wouldn't be surprised if some of them had read something on here too.

It's interesting since they might be learning more about me on here then they do at school since I'm so quiet. I tend to forget so many people from school even have twitter accounts now until they mention it. (Good thing I don't talk bad about anyone.) It's interesting, but not necessarily bad in my opinion. It's just one of the ways the Internet has changed the world.

Church Two Times in One Day

You have no idea how nice it is to have a weekend where I didn't have any homework to bring home.  I did have to write a response for English, but I got it done at school on Friday.  It's so relaxing having time where I'm not worried about getting school work done.

I haven't done anything today except go to church, and I'm actually going back to church in a few hours.  Our church is starting this video series thing.  Each week they're showing videos that are on the Catechism of the Catholic Church.  I'm not sure what this week's is on, but I guess I'll find out.  Our priest has said that they're really good, so hopefully he's right.

Other than that I think my day is going to be pretty lazy.  As soon as I get done writing this I'm going to edit a video I filmed yesterday, so that should be up soon.

Church Dinner, Dan Radcliffe on SNL, Etc.

It has been a long day.  I had trouble sleeping last night, and then I woke up today feeling a little sick.  I don't know if I really am sick or it's just allergies.  Whatever it is, my head feels congested, I can barely breath through my nose, and my throat feels kind of scratchy.  It's not too bad though, and I hope it doesn't get worse.

I'm really happy tomorrow's a holiday, and there's no school.  After getting no sleep last night, I really need another night to sleep in before going to school.

We had a dinner after church this morning/afternoon.  It was kind of a welcome to our priest (who came a few months back) and new parishioners.  I was probably there for about an hour, but I came home a bit earlier than most of the others because Ji was coming over to drop off some Friends DVDs and The Hunger Games that she had borrowed.  (She didn't actually ever read The Hunger Games, which dissappoints me a bit.)  We watched Daniel Radcliffe on Saturday Night Live (He was amazing, and I love the Harry Potter sketch!) and some Youtube videos before she left.

Other than that I didn't do much today.  I, of course, did some homework, but that's about it.  I actually got less homework done than I had been planning on because I didn't know that Ji was going to come over, and I didn't know about the dinner at church until this morning.  (Well, I knew it was happening, but not that it was today.)  Since I didn't get much done today, I'm also going to have to do more tomorrow than I planned on.  It's not much though, so hopefuly it won't take long.  I want to be able to enjoy the day off from school.

Beauty and the Beast in 3D

I love two-hour delays!  You won't have to make it up, but you get to sleep in for two extra hours.  There's even still some snow on the ground outside, but it's not much.  I think it's supposed to snow again tomorrow, but I doubt we'll get much.

In current events today we finished playing our quiz show game thing for this week, and our team won again!  It actually seemed easier than last weeks.  The last question was who won the Iowa caucus, which we'd been talking about all week.

After school Haley, Jordan, Rachel and I went to go see Beauty and the Beast in 3D!  We went and ate at Taco Bell first, and then stopped by Walmart.  The movie was amazing!  I loved the Tangled Ever After short that was shown before it.  It was so cute!  (I still haven't seen Tangled all of the way through...)  Beauty and the Beast was amazing.  It's my absolute favorite Disney movie (as most reading this probably know), and there was no way I was going to pass up seeing it in theaters.

I'm not a 3D fan.  3D movies always give me headaches.  But I've been pleasantly surprised with the Disney re-releases in 3D.  Beauty and the Beast was just like The Lion King: the 3D was there, but it wasn't incredibly noticeable.  I don't know how to describe it very well.  It's like there are multiple layers to the movie, but nothing's flying out at you.  It was a completely different 3D than the previews and Tangled short that came before it (which did have some things flying out and such).  With both The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast I didn't get headaches like normal, and I loved getting to see both on a movie theater screen.  If you're a Beauty and the Beast fan, I definitely recommend going to check it out even if you don't usually like 3D.

First Delay of the School Year

It snowed for a good portion of the day today, and we already have a two-hour delay for tomorrow.  I'm so excited to sleep in.  It seemed like I was doing a ton after school today.  I had a lot of homework and other things that needed to get done.  I haven't had time for anything else really.  This is going to be extremely short.  I wanted to post something longer, but I still have a couple of things I want to get done.  There may be a two-hour delay tomorrow, but I don't want to stay up later than normal.  I want two extra hours of sleep!

One Week Into the Semester

It's only the first weekend of the semester, and I'm already relieved that it's Friday.  My sleep schedule is still really screwed up from break, so I'm extremely thankful to have a day to sleep in.  Still, school's going really well so far, and I think it'll be a good last semester.  (I still can't believe it's my last semester in high school...)

My books seem to fall off my desk in AP English a lot...  I attribute this to the amount of books I have to carry to AP U.S. history and AP English.  If you watched the video I uploaded the other day, I talked about the bruises on my arm from carrying the books.  I have to carry a binder, and the books I stack on top of it always seem to slide off my desk.  Anyway, I'm telling you this because my books fell again today (while I wasn't at my desk just like all the other times), and someone picked them up for me.  They missed my planner, and I never noticed it was gone until two classes later.  I ended up rushing back to the room before psychology to get it, and it was laying under one of the desks.  I'm just glad someone didn't pick it up and mess with it.  (Junior year a freshmen got a hold of my calculator that I left in accounting and messed around with it before the teacher found it.)

We had a food day in yearbook today!  That's always a plus.  I was particularly happy because lunch was especially nasty today, so I wasn't as hungry when there wasn't much to eat.

In psychology we started a documentary on Freud.  I'll admit that I've never really known much about what Freud taught.  I'd heard bits and pieces of course, but that was it.  It's really interesting though.  I don't think I agree with a lot of it, but he has some very interesting thoughts.  I think most of it is a valid theory, and I can see how he could come up with this stuff, even if I don't necessarily agree with it.

We finished a current events quiz game in current events today, and my team came in first!  We're apparently playing this game every week, and we'll have the same teams.  He also said we're being graded based on how well we do on the game, so hopefully our team can keep that up!  I don't know how I feel about that type of grading though.  There are four teams, and we apparently get an A, B, C, or D based on what place we get.  I know he has to get grades somehow since it's all current events stuff, but I don't know how fair that really is.  Most of it involved every team guessing and using any clues we could get anyway.  (For example, one question asked what communist country this guy came from.  We could tell his name was Spanish, so we just guessed Cuba and got it right.  It had nothing to do with actually knowing the answer.)

I don't think I'm going to blog all weekend.  It'll be nice to go a couple of days without blogging.  I probably won't really be filming any videos.  I filmed one earlier that I'll put up tonight, and I may film one Sunday.  Overall though I think I'm taking a break this weekend (other than for homework).

A Long Semester

It's only the second day of the semester, and I can already tell it's going to be a long one.  It's not so much that I have senioritis (although it's setting in as well), but I'm ready for the summer.  My classes this semester seem great overall.  I have a decent amount of homework, but they're interesting, and I have friends in all but one class.  I keep telling myself that I need to cherish the short time I have left in high school, and overall, I think that I am.  Still, there are so many moments when I just want it to be summer (or college, which I may regret) already.

This is going to be an extremely short post, since I have things I need to finish up and homework that I need to get done.  It shouldn't be as long of a day as yesterday, but I think it's going to come close.

Working Concessions Makes it a Long Night

Today has been a long day, and this is going to be a short post since it's late and I have a lot to do.  I filmed a video earlier today that talked about my first day back at school, so I won't repeat all of that here.  (Editing and uploading that video is one of the things I still need to do.  I'm getting no sleep tonight!)

In that video I mentioned that I had to work concessions at the varsity basketball game tonight.  That's why I'm so behind on everything.  I was there for about two hours, so now I have to get everything I would have done in those two hours done.  Plus, I have to write down the results of the Iowa Caucus as homework for current events, so I have to stay up to get those results.

Working the concessions was fun, but I was so tired today and it only got worse while working.  I can't wait for my sleeping schedule to adjust back to normal.  (Tonight definitely isn't going to help.)  This was my second time working concessions for Beta Club, and this time definitely went better than the last since I actually had people to talk to this time.  I worked with Ji and some other people from school.  Ji also took some pictures of the game and people working that we can use for the basketball and Beta Club pages of the yearbook.  I think those are the first Beta Club pictures we've gotten except for the ones I took at the induction ceremony.

I need to go edit that video, so I'm not up all night waiting for it to upload and everything.  I'm tempted to just put it off until tomorrow, but I know I'll regret that later.  Hopefully, I'll get to sleep at a somewhat decent hour tonight.  (I laid in bed for three hours last night before falling asleep sometime after one in the morning!)

A Lazy Last Day of Break

Today's the last day of my winter break.  On one hand, break seems to have flown by, and on the other, it feels like forever since school ended.  I'm a little excited to go back and see people again.  I'm even excited for some of the classes I'm starting this semester.  On the other hand, I still have an essay I have to finish writing for AP U.S. history, and I'm not too excited about homework.

I'm spending my last day of break being lazy.  My brother and sister went to the movies with my grandma, and I decided to stay home and do nothing.  I had a lot of trouble sleeping last night, which led to me sleeping in way too late this morning.  I just hope I can fall asleep at a somewhat decent time tonight, so I can wake up tomorrow feeling at least kind of awake.

I did manage to film a book review earlier that will be edited, uploaded, and posted here later today.  I want to watch an episode of Naruto later today, so I can review the story arc soon.  And, of course, I have to finish that essay for school.  So, I'm accomplishing some things today, but overall, it'll be lazy.

Tomorrow is the first day of my last semester of high school!  I can't believe I have less than five months of school left.  That's just insane.

Oh, and it snowed today and actually stuck to the ground!  That's the first time this year!  It's very light and melted quickly, but I still got to see it.  It might still be snowing actually.  I'd have to look outside and see.

I Hate Blood More Than Ever

After tomorrow I'll be on Christmas break!  And there are only five days until Christmas!  Yay!

I had something interesting happen today...  This is a somewhat weird story though.  At the very end of AP U.S. History I scratched my nose, and it started bleeding.  At first I thought it was just a little blood, and it wouldn't be that big of a deal.  Almost right after this the bell rang, which meant I had three minutes to get to AP English.  Around this time I realized my nose was bleeding pretty badly, and I had quite a lot of blood on my hands.  (I'm terrified of blood, so this was particularly worrying for me.)  I rushed down the hall as quickly as possible (one of the many times I've hated how slow people seem to walk in school hallways and randomly stop in the middle of them).

As soon as I got to English I sat my books on my desk and hurriedly told the teacher that I needed to go to the bathroom.  I'm sure everyone noticed, but no one said anything.  I'm so embarassed by it though.  I passed Ji in the hallway on my way to the bathroom, and she noticed and tried to ask what happened, but I rushed by her.  I spent almost half of English class in the bathroom trying to stop the blood.  It sucked.  When I finally got back to class I felt like everyone was staring (not helped by the fact the door was locked and the teacher had to come open it for me), and my teacher asked if I was all right.  My face was probably bright red.  That's an experience I never want to go through again.

As for the rest of my day it was pretty average.  I had two finals today in computer applications and economics.  (I guess it's a good thing I didn't have one in AP English.)  Tomorrow I have one in AP U.S. history.  I'm lucky that I don't have one in AP English or yearbook.  I technically don't in peer tutoring either, but I have to be evaluated, and I'm a bit worried since that's most of my grade.

Hopefully tomorrow will go by quickly, and it will be Christmas break!

A Long Day with Awesome People

It's late, and I'm extremely tired.  However, there are a few things I want to blog about before I forget.  This post will probably be a little disjointed and jumpy.  I'm just trying to get things down before I fall asleep.

I love when Harry Potter comes up somehow in everyday life.  Yesterday my yearbook teacher's daughter was there, and she played The Mysterious Ticking Noise for those of us in the classroom (a lot of the class was over in the computer lab).  No one had seen it before.  I got so excited when I realized what she was playing.

Today Jordan and Haley started writing A Very Potter Musical and A Very Potter Sequel quotes on the dry erase board in AP English.  Everyone kept asking what AVPM and AVPS stood for, and no one really knew what the quotes were.

We had a fire drill during econ today.  Those are always fun during the winter.  We also finished watching a movie called Madison.  I may do a post on it later...

This evening my grandma, Aunt Kate, Aunt Linda, mom, sister Regina, cousin Danielle, and I all went to Red Lobster.  It's my grandma, Aunt Kate, and mom's birthdays soon, so it was their birthday dinner.  It was a whole lot of fun.  We also went by my Uncle Ken and Aunt Linda's before and after.  Four of the male cousins and my brother where there while we were at Red Lobster.  I'm always guaranteed to have a good time when I'm with my cousins.  They're always doing something interesting.

After all of that, my mom, sister, and I went to the mall to do some Christmas shopping.  It was late and I don't like shopping, so I really just wanted to go home.  Then I remembered that Summer works in the mall and had told me earlier she was working tonight.  I have seen her since July!  (I need a car and more time...)  I wasn't sure if she was still there or not, but when we entered the store she works at, sure enough she was there.  She looked up at me and Regina, looked back at what she was doing, and then looked back up and realized it was us.  She immediately started talking loud enough that the whole store could hear.  She hugged me and started telling everyone, "This is my best friend since first grade."  She got so excited.  Haha.  We couldn't stay long, and she had to work.  Still, it was awesome to get to see her.  I don't get to see her nearly enough anymore, and talking using a phone or computer just isn't the same.

A Sick Rant

Remember how I posted about getting sick yesterday?  Well, about an hour after posting that, I got a fever.  I still didn't feel that bad, and I took some Tylenol and it immediately went down.  Last night was miserable.  I hardly slept at all.  I couldn't breath when laying down, and my throat was on fire.  By the time I woke up in the morning, I'd almost completely lost my voice, and it's stayed that way all day.  Everytime I say something the pain in my throat multiplies by ten.

I ended up going to school after consulting both my mom and friend Ji over whether I should go or not.  I would have stayed at home if it weren't for several reasons: my fever had been down all night (I checked several times.), I didn't feel that bad this morning, I had a test in economics and an outline due in AP English, and I've had perfect attendance for three years and I'd hate to screw that up now.  Most of the school day was fine.  I felt a little weak, my nose was a little runny, and my throat was killing me, but I honestly didn't feel that sick.

Things started going down hill during my last class of the day: economics.  By the time I had finished my test, I was shivering pretty badly, and I knew I was starting to get a fever.  I would have gone home except school was almost over anyway.  By the time I got home, I was shaking, and my fever was over a hundred.  Things have only gotten worse since then.  I'm currently huddled under the covers of my bed because I start violently shivering if I get out from under them.  I've tried everything I can thing of to soothe my throat, but it's all stopped working.  And none of the medicine I've taken since getting home seems to have worked.  I'm about five time more miserable than yesterday or during school today.

I still haven't decided if I'm going to attempt to sleep tonight.  I know sleep is good and should help be get better faster, but tonight was so miserable.  I don't even want to think what tonight will be like.  I'm hoping I'll fall asleep easily, stay asleep all night, and wake up magically feeling better.  The odds of that are basically zero however, so I'm not sure if going through a miserable night is worth it.  And this is coming from someone who loves sleep.

I'm gonna go watch How I Met Your Mother and try to get my mind off of how horrible I feel.  I hope everyone's feeling better than I am!  If you're feeling sick to thanks to this wonderful time of year, then I hope we both get better soon.

(I feel like I'm going to sound crazy if I go back and read this once I get better. Oh well.)

It's the Time of Year for... Colds

I am officially sick.  I've got a horrible cold, which means I'm going to be miserable for about a week.  The only positive I can think of is that it should be gone by Christmas.  I always get at least one cold during the winter, so I'm not that surprised.  Tons of people at school have been getting colds the past week or so.  I'm pretty sure we're all going to be sick soon.

I had a much longer post written out, but I ended up losing all of it.  Instead of rewriting the whole thing.  I'll just let you know that my day was pretty average.  It actually kind of sucked, but that was just the cold.  If I didn't feel miserable today would have been fine.

Since getting home from school I've done nothing but lay on my bed feeling sick.  The Sudafed I took early has done nothing.  I really hope this cold doesn't last long...

Even More Stress

Is it really only Wednesday?  This week has been so long.  Today was a mixture of getting things out of the way that have been bothering me forever and adding even more things to stress me out.

We had an open book test in AP U.S. history today.  It really wasn't hard since it was open book.  If only we could do that for every test...

All we did in AP English today was work on our annotated bibliographies.  I still don't have mine even halfway done.  I'm not looking forward to working on that.  Even though it's not that difficult to write, I feel like it's going to take forever.

Ji and I have one yearbook page that's due this Friday.  The only problem is standardized testing is going on the next couple of the days in the computer lab, so we can't work on them during yearbook class.  That means we have to work on them at home.  I didn't even know we could access the yearbook stuff from home until Ji told me we could today.  I really hope we're able to get that finished.

At the end of computer applications I had to go up to the guidance office.  I've been trying to send my transcripts to colleges through this e-transcript thing for over a month now, but the guidance office wasn't getting my requests through the thing.  I'm not even really sure what was going on, but we have it all sorted out now.  My transcripts have finally been sent!

During lunch Haley and I ended up sitting at the table where Jordan and Bridget were selling dance tickets.  Haley said she sat at our usual table, and some immature boy started throwing food at her, so she moved over there.  I didn't see it happen since I was late to lunch because I'd been in guidance.

Peer tutoring was pretty much the same as usual.  I helped two girls with some worksheets, and in the other class, I really just sat there and watched.

We had a test in economics today.  The thing with econ tests is that I feel like I know it well, and I do perfectly fine on most of it, but there's always at least two problems that I get to and have no idea what the answer is.  It bugs me because I swore I went over everything.  Today, there were still a couple of hard ones, but I thought I remember talking about it, so I may actually be right this time.

I completely forgot that I had a hair appointment after school today until my sister reminded me as we were getting off the bus.  Regina was trying to get me to cut a ton off, but I told her that wasn't happening.  I don't think I've had my hair short since freshmen year.  I like how easy it is to brush my hair when it's short, but other than that I hate when I have short hair.  Instead, I just got it trimmed.

I really need to go work on my annotated bibliography, but I want to get some other stuff (including another blog post) done before I work on that.  It's going to take up my whole day!

Background Music

I know a lot of writers like to listen to music while they write.  Some even create playlists to go along with their books based off of what music they listened to while writing.  I am not like those writers.  When I listen to music, I can't do anything but listen to music.  It's too distracting to me.  I start listening to the music and lose track of what I'm doing.  Or, I completely tune the music out so that I don't even know it's there, but that's only occasionally.  Most of the time the music does nothing but annoy me because I'm trying to focus on something else, and the music is just distracting me.

Don't get me wrong.  I love music most of the time, just not when I'm trying to do something else.  When I listen to music, I want to focus on the music, and when I'm writing, reading, or anything else, I want to be focused on what I'm doing, not music.

Sometimes kids at school try to convince teachers to turn on the radio because it's proven that music helps stimulate your brain and helps you learn and focus.  I can see how that could be true, and I'm sure it works for a lot of people.  But I can't focus on something else when there's music playing.  To me it's the same thing as having a people talking right next to you while you're trying to focus.  Just like with music, that doesn't bother some people, but it does me.  (I hate trying to do homework at school when everyone around me is talking loudly, and I'm one of those people who can't stand when someone starts talking during a movie I haven't seen before.)

Do you like listening to music while writing, reading, doing homework, or anything else, or does it annoy you like it does me?

I Need a Break

I'm am so ready for Thanksgiving break!  I need these five days off of school.  I'm beginning to get really stressed out, and a break will be nice.  I mean most of the stress is coming from college stuff, and I'm going to spend break applying to two colleges.  Still, no school helps take a bit of the stress off, and I think I could the main college-related thing that was stressing me out sorted out today.  So, hopefully it will be an unstressful break for me.  (If my sister succeeds in getting me to go Black Friday shopping, then I guess we can throw the unstressful break out the window.)

Since it was the last day before break, we didn't do much at school today.  I had an AP U.S. history test first thing this morning, but other than that, I didn't do much today.  We're researching for our trend analysis paper (with an annotated bibliography) in AP English, but I don't really consider researching to be hard work (unless you're having trouble finding information).

Our Jostens yearbook representative was in our yearbook class today to show us how to create the portrait pages, but all that required was us sitting quietly and listening to him talk.

I'm way ahead in computer applications, so our teacher asked Ji, Bethany, and me to help her wrap pennies from Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF.  Once we were finished with that, Ji, Alyssa, and I went up to the guidance office since we each had seperate things that we needed to get worked out.  That's when I hopefully got the biggest college-related thing sorted out.  Guys, applying to college can be hard when things don't go right.  I think I go to a great school, but something I didn't learn until this year is that it's sometimes hard to get things figured out because of the small staff.  I've been trying to get this sorted out forever, but our guidance office consists of two people (a guidance counselor and a secretary), and whenever I have time to go in there, they never seem to be in there (hence why I went during class today).  It was starting to get frustrating.  I've never had this problem until this year, since you don't really need to deal with guidance much (except during scehduling times) until senior year.  Hopefully, that's all sorted out though, and as soon as I send in these two applications, I'll be done applying to college.  (Then I just have to be accepted...)

Just like us high schoolers, the middle schoolers weren't doing much today either, so I didn't do much during peer tutoring today.  In the first class I'm in, I helped one girl with math a little bit and helped two boys study for a social studies class.  In the second class, the were watching A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving while working on a math worksheet that they didn't really need help on, so I spend the whole time just watching Charlie Brown.

We did actually do work in econ today, but it was easy and not nearly enough to take up the whole hour and a half we're in there.  Most of the class was spent doing nothing.

Since getting home, I feel like I've accomplished a lot, but it really doesn't seem like much looking back on it.  I managed to get some reading done, which hasn't really happened in a while.  I got half of a college application filled out, which I'm relieved that it's nearing being done.  I also filmed a video that I was currently in the process of editing before I got in the shower and then started writing (first my story and then this).  I have over twenty minutes of footage, so I hope to get it edited down a lot, which probably won't happen since I can't bear to leave out anything when it comes to books.  As soon as I post this I'm going to get back to editing that, and I'll hopefully have it up before I go to bed, which is looking less likely as it's getting late.

My Pencil Got Stolen in the Bathroom

I got the pleasure of beginning my day by standing out in the rain waiting for the bus.  I was also alone because my sister stayed home sick.  I'm so glad that the bus actually came early today.  Normally, I would mind the rain, but being stuck at school with wet clothes and hair isn't fun.

All of the seniors with a certain GPA or above had a meeting this morning about a scholarship.  One person in our county gets it, and the winner recieves full tuition for four years at any college in Indiana.  It's a great scholarship, and I'm going to apply for it.  It's just that I don't want to go to college in Indiana.  There is one college (that I really like) that I applied to that's in Indiana, so I'm still applying for the scholarship.  We'll see what happens if I get it.

This meeting ran into our first class, which meant I had less time than normal to complete my AP U.S. history test.  Thankfully, I got done on time.  I think it's because I knew I had less time, and I made myself focus more than usual.  (I'll admit that I sometimes zone out in the middle of tests.)

We got to peer edit papers in AP English.  Basically every problem that was pointed out in my paper is stuff I already know.  The problem is I'm not sure how to fix those problems.  This paper is proving to be very difficult.  When I'm finished writing this, I'm going to go through it and do some editing myself.

Here's an interesting story:  Whenever I go to the bathroom at school, I always leave my books and things sitting on this ledge thing over the sinks.  I've been doing this since freshmen year, and I've never had a problem.  Today I did the same thing I always do, and when I went to get my books, my pencil was gone.  My eraser, book, and notebook were all still there, but the pencil was gone.  I looked around, thinking maybe I dropped it, but it was nowhere to be found.  I think someone stole it.  I wasn't too bothered by it.  I just went to my locker and got a new one.

I really funny part of the story was during econ.  Some people started complaining about how they'd had bad days, so our teacher started going through every person in the class and asking them how their day went.  When he got to me, I was just going to say that my day had been fine when Jordan mentioning that I did actually have a bad day.  I don't know if she was referring to the pencil thing or what happened while peer tutoring (I'll get to that in a minute.) as I had just told her and Haley both.  I kind of stammered for a bit before just saying, "My day was fine, but my pencil did get stolen in the bathroom."  Everyone in the class, including me, burst into laughter, and I turned bright red, which Haley pointed out to me.  After a few minutes, the teacher said he wasn't even going to ask for that story, and we moved on.  It was interesting though.

As for what happened during peer tutoring over at the middle school, I was put in charge of helping three sixth graders with a math worksheet today.  They were doing really well.  They were each dividing up the problems and doing them on the board.  Then, the boy got frustrated over something and decided he wanted to do them himself, so he went and sit at a desk and worked on them alone.  Then, the two girls got into an argument because one girl didn't think the other was being fair, so they insisted on working the problems alone.  It was kind of dissapointing.  I remember at the beginning of class being really impressed by how well they were working together, and by the end of class that had fallen apart.  At least all three of them had a pretty good idea of what they were doing.  That was the point of the worksheet.

On a bright side, the pouring rain had stopped by the time I went over to the middle school, so I didn't have a problem with that.  I also got a ride home with Ji instead of riding the bus.  That was especially nice since I was lugging home books for my sister Regina, so she could get homework done.  Overall though, it wasn't a bad day.