Political Debates Drive Me Insane

What is with this crazy weather?  When I went to school this morning I didn't even need a jacket!  Then, it started storming in the middle of English.  This wasn't a small storm either.  It was a large storm that you'd expect to see in spring.  I'll admit that it was a lot colder after the storm, but the temperature is supposed to go up again over the next several days.  This is one crazy winter.

The juniors took the ASVAB this morning which meant there were only six of us in AP U.S. history, and we did nothing.  I'm definitely not complaining about that.  Especially since we had a timed essay on Beowulf in AP English right after history.  That didn't actually go that badly.  We knew what it was about ahead of time and could write some notes.  I had notes and an idea of what I wanted to say, but I wasn't entirely sure how to say it.  It was one of those cases where I started writing and it just happened though.  It could still have been better, but for a timed essay it went rather well.

Our current events class was spent watching the latest Republican debate the entire time.  I really wish they would stop attacking each other.  It's just annoying, and it definitely doesn't make me want to vote for any of them.  It just makes me hate them.  Although I was really happy when Santorum called Romney out for not answering his question directly.  I wish that would happen more often.  I hate when they start rambling on about stuff that has nothing to do with the question they were asked (which is almost all of the time).  It just drives me insane.

We started a project in probabililty and statistics that involves sports statistics.  I am not a sports fan.  We had to pick one baseball pitcher, one football quarterback, and one basketball point guard.  Now, if I was watching a game of any one of those sports, I could follow it pretty well (especially basketball).  However, I don't really know any players, and I have no idea what all of the statistics mean.  It took me forever to find them, and then there were all these abbreviations and I had no idea what they meant.  It was just confusing.  When I finally did figure everything out and got around to making my frequency table, I didn't have enough classes.  (Don't worry if you don't know what that means.  It's not important.)  I took it up to the teacher, and he said I'd worked everything out right, it just ended up that way.  These are the reasons I'm not a math person... (And definitely not a statistics person.)

Storms and a Baby

It's been cloudy and rainy all day long.  I don't mind rain if it lasts for an hour or two.  It can actually be kind of nice.  But those days where you never see sunshine suck.  I know I'm not the only one who just feels sleepy the whole day and doesn't want to do anything.  It sucks.  For most of today, it was just cloudy with the occasional rain and maybe some thunder and lightning here and there.  Then, it started pouring this evening.  We were up at my aunt and uncle's for supper, and it was crazy.  My uncle said that a ton of their trees have been hit with lightning because their house is up pretty high on some hills.  It was insane.

I had a lot of fun at my aunt and uncle's though.  My cousin Cassie is there visiting, and it was great to see her and her new baby!  The baby's name is Valory, and she is absolutely adorable.  I mean, of course she is. She's a baby.  Still, she was a particularly cute baby.

Other than the baby, it was fun to talk to the rest of my family too of course.  We were there a lot longer than I expected.  We probably would have stayed longer, but I was pushing my parents to go home because I had homework to finish.  (And that isn't because I was pushing it off.  I swear.  I've been working on it in bits and pieces all weekend.  Yay AP classes!)

Honestly, I was expecting to have more to talk about in this post, but unless I launch into details about our conversations, there's not much else to say.  I would normally be in bed right now, but I'm giving myself extra time since we were at my aunt and uncle's.  I want to try and read a bit more before bed.  (I will probably regret this in the morning.)