Back to the Madness…. Update 1

Okay.

Anatomy and Physiology is okay. Not too hard yet. My books are in the mail (had to order college books, but instead of paying $300 for the new edition I got the old edition pre used for about $90) Once we get to learning what the muscles do (more Physiology and less Anatomy) I’ll actually be building on AP Biology stuff. That’s cool. And I finally realized that my extra class lasts just under an hour, which isn’t bad at ALL.

AP Calc is okay. Kinda wish some other people were in it. (12 person class is cool, but there are other people in the other AP Calc class who I’d rather have in my class in place of some other people……) AP Calc is easy, minus the whole “I don’t remember this stuff” problem with the begining of school, as well as trying to do today’s lesson with no teacher… (his son has a fever, so he was home with the kid)

AP English was cool, because we got to listen to some cool old TV music! (Twilight Zone and original Batman themesong were cool; and later on we listened to Under the Boardwalk and It’s My Party) We’re working on a poster/chart thingy, and it’s about character, so my group shouldn’t have a very tough time for the next day and a half.

Madrigal Choir rocks. We’re singing fun songs (Operator! yay!) and having a fun time in general. (great after a zero period and two AP classes, and it helps when they let us go to lunch way before we were supposed to….. )

AP Biolgoy was ok, at first. Got 127 of the 200 questions “what do you know” quiz correct. She didn’t mind that I finished as class started. (turns out I don’t know my worms and mullosks, or my protists, but if you want to know about Biomes or Photosynthesis, I’m your man) Turns out, there used to be an old AP Biology Key West trip. Guess what? Now that she told us, looks like we’ll be going to Key West at the end of the year. Awesome. (just because we won’t let them tell us we can’t go!)
So, the school days that at first seemed okay, and then horrible, have finally leveled off at about “pretty good, all things considered”. I think I’m going to try and squeeze in 8 more online classes (“Web Design” will be an easy one, among others) Then, that prediction on Facebook that said I’ll be “Most likely to take 18 classes and still make straight A’s” will be true! If the CPE (Coolest Person Ever) thinks that’s my predicition, it is my job to make it true!

I’m off to convice my parents that extra online classes can’t be a bad thing!

Back to the madness….

Summer is over.

Discount shopping every other weekend.

Various specials from clothes to furniture to new TVs.

Upgrades in technology (both calculators and laptops)

This can only mean one thing.

Back to school.

So, day one is out of the way! Huzzah! The first chunk of the never-ending nightmare is being chipped away at!

My day:

6:00 ~ Wake up

6:45 ~ At school. Class Zero: Anatomy and Physiology. Looks like it’ll be easy enough, unless Mrs. D’s prediciton comes true and I don’t call who I’m supposed to in our “class for today is cancled, so sleep in!” calling chain. (she made fun of me 10 minutes into class on the first day of my senior year. Glad to know I’m still loved…..)

8:00 ~ Homeroom (nothing new, other than the rearrangement of our homerooms bumped me into a different homeroom with all the “Harringtons”, but added several others that I know)

9:10ish ~ AP Calculus. Found out that Mr. Duncan is an Eagle Scout. That’s just cool. (as is the 12 person class!) For those who SHOULD be in AP-Calc and aren’t (you know who you are…), Mr. Duncan was complaining about who wasn’t in there. (the only names he gave were Matt Hill and Kyndal Payne, but I suspect there may be a few more…)

Whenever 2nd period started ~ AP English was fun, but it kinda wasn’t, because I read Heart of Darkness twice, and was on my third run through it, when we were supposed to finish it before class today, and I still didn’t know what was going on…. So, we started a quiz, and I answered #1, and kinda answered #2 (pretty good for first day of school answer, but BAD for an AP English answer), and didn’t have ANY idea on #3. So that wasn’t cool.

Whenever 3rd period started ~ Chorus was fun. Sorta. Singing again is great. The fact that Madrigal Choir is “Seniors only” with “a few” Juniors “at most” and over half the class are Juniors, with a few Sophomores, and I know less than 1/3 of the class, I have a problem. I would rather be in Chamber choir, JUST because I know more people in there. How can I sing and have fun with my friends if hardly ANY OF THEM ARE IN THERE????? (rant over, Mad Choir should be LOTS of fun when I get to know people)

11:12 ~ 4th Lunch (I refuse to call it Lunch D, that’s just retarded) Lunch was okay. I think I won’t have a problem finding somewhere to sit (not like that year it was JUST me and Josh in lunch, with no one else we really knew, that sucked) Lines were too long, but once we get our “go to lunch 5 minutes early” cards, life will be good. Maybe the Freshman won’t be allowed to eat so lines are shorter. (I can only pray)

After Lunch ~ AP Biology. Good, small class. Looks like LOTS of fun. (split-class stuff for “spead review” type stuff, ice cream parties for baby cougars, more “applied” versions of my Anatomy/Physiology stuff, cool people IN the class, looks like lots of fun ahead!)

But now, I’m tired.

I started this review shortly after school ended, and due to phone calls (it rang off the hook from 3:30 to 5:00) then Randy came over (5:00 to 8:00), then supper (run to KFC at 8:30), so I’m just now finishing. And my wrist hurts. Damn you, bad keyboarding posture!!!!

Well, starting Monday, it’s full time, back to the madness…..

Things I have learned this summer…. Vol. 4

Speacial “Summer’s End” Edition. (extending from the end of Vol. 3 until the night before school starts back, which is, for those who aren’t very smart, tonight)

~Icebreaker’s followed by water = bad taste in mouth.

~No one reads my blog…..

~When you eat and drive, it is very easy to swallow a lot of air while eating a cheeseburger. This results in the hiccups.

~Video games make me more secure in my ability to kick someone else’s ass.

~Seriously, just try and fight me, and I’ll whip out my lightsaber and go to town on the side of your face. That’s what we call the Force, friggin’ idiot!!

~I play too many video games.

~Not seeing my friends all summer means that I don’t feel bad for playing too many video games.

~I plan on doubling my video gaming ammounts once school starts. (when I lose a bunch of free time from 6:45 and 3:00)

~I wonder who all I have classes with…

~I wonder why hardly no one uses those “course” things on Facebook….

~I wonder why hardly no one uses Facebook….

~I wonder why MySpace is so popular in the first place….

~I have one more day to once again try and understand Heart of Darkness. (read it twice, and I STILL don’t know what’s going on…..)

~I’m glad I still remember Lord of the Flies and don’t have to read that accursed book ever again.

~I still think church youth groups should use D&D to promote teamwork, character building, group interaction, choices and consequences, planning in advance, initiative, self confidince, trust, loyalty, creativity, money managing, and banishing evil demons back to the Plains of the Abyss.

~We (me and whoever else wants to) need to start a montly “movie night”. Just to get together, and either go to the movies, or sit at someone’s house and watch a movie, or something.

~I must say, just from open house, I think this year’s Freshman are cooler than last year’s Freshman. (the current Freshman seem cooler than the current Sophomores)

Things I have learned this summer…. Vol. 3

~Painting makes a mess, no matter how careful you are.

~Bleach designed for car tires works VERY well at cleaning the shoes known as “Crocs”.

~Video games are a GREAT way to pass the time away.

~Especially if that game is the Sims 2. (Sim City 4 is pretty good too, but lacks the spark that MAKES you play it, like with Sim City 3000 Unlimited)

~Games that cost $10 are probably worth it.

~Especially the Temple of Elemental Evil. (got to about 2/3 of the way through the game, and through a chain of events, beat the game when I lacked the strength to FIGHT most of what was left in the game. I was just trying to loot some gems, and accidentally banished the evil demon princess back to her lair for 66 years. Cool, but I wanted to gain strength and kick @$$ instead)

~My new dishwasher is evil. (it beeped at me once, and that just wasn’t cool)

~I need a new UPS for my PC.

~Correction: I have a new UPS, I just need to not be lazy and hook it up.

~I need money for City of Villains.

~I need money for ANOTHER Sim 2 expansion. (I’m behind, there’ll be ANOTHER one out soon!)

~I need money for a paintbull “marker”. (gun offends people)

~I need money for the Wii. (new gaming system, Viva la Revolution!)

~I need money.

~I need a job.

~There aren’t enough “good” jobs in Taylorsville.

~To many old people won’t let their little buisiness hire highschoolers. (come October, I can get a job at Wal-Mart, but who REALLY wants to work at Wal-Mart?)

~I’ll probably get a job doing fastfood.

~Hopefully at the new Checkers!

~We need a bowling alley, movie theater, putt putt place, or SOMETHING.

~Joe Zema needs to hurry and get a paintball place started, and then I could work for him.

~South Park, once you get passed the “bad stuff”, is one of the funniest shows on television, AND does an EXCELLENT job of making “important issues” in the world look as stupid as they really are.

~I need to continue playing Guild Wars and Battlefield 2. (as opposed to buying NEW games)

~I need to go to the movies with my friends again soon. (last 3 or 4 movies have been me and my little sister)

~Earning the Eagle Scout Rank, while the highest achievement in Boy Scouts, is actually easier than getting to the halfway mark. (my Eagle Scout Project consisted of painting two rooms and moving some furniture into one room, while yelling and laughing with my friends, how easy is that?)

~Diet Dr. Pepper Berries & Creame is one of the BEST DRINKS EVER!

~I read too much.

~If I read 100 times what I read now, (100 times as often and 100 times as fast), I still wouldn’t read everything I would like to.

~I need money for Star Wars miniatures.

~”Tales of” books make Star Wars all the more enjoyable.

~Dungeons and Dragons should be used in church groups to promote teamwork, character building, interaction with the rest of the world, planning, creativivty, self confidince, trust, initiative, money managing, and banishing evil devils back to the Nine Hells of Baator.

~I’m tired of getting more e-mails and snail mails from people wanting me to use their money for college than those who want me to go to their college. (I even got one that said I had to be attending college in Fall of 06. I’m a friggin’ Senior this year, and they sent it to me “just in case” I was going to be in collge. Dumbasses)

~The USS Enterprise may never make it to “Boldlygo”.

~We need to start a brand new club for the Senior class of 2006, and change the school with it.

~I wish people would stop asking me what I want to do when I go to college and where I’ll go to college. I’m a Senior! I’m worried about my Senior year, not college! Bug off!

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