shopping and then the doctor*

*the title refers to a doctor's appointment, not dr. who. but dr. who is cool too c:

alright so on Saturday and Sunday my mom and i went shopping AGAIN, because i needed more evening wear for the cruise. i also got two more order of the stick books, yippee! like the five other books i got last Sunday, i'm not allowed to open them until i get on the plane. and i got some nice little black dress shoes. ugh. well, anyways. exams this week, but they'll be pretty easy, i think. school gets out on friday, and on saturday i fly to london! well, i'll fly to (undisclosed city) and meet my grandma and cousin, and from there we'll fly to some city up north, and from there to london. it's like a 12 hour flight, which is why i have lots of books!

oh yeah and today my sister and i got out of school early because we had to get physicals for summer camp. my brother went too because he needed shots for kindergarten, but he didn't get to miss school cause he got out of school last week. c: i had to get two shots, which still kind of hurt. my brother had to get four, and he was crying. my sister didn't get any, which was good, because.. well, i LIKE my ears, okay?

back to talking about preparation for my trip. i think we're done with all the shopping now, but packing.. well, i've packed some card games! heh heh.. heh. well, i have four days to pack. i think i'm good.

the untitled

We had these Award Ceremonies today, with awards for all the different electives and also for some competitions like UIL, plus some awards for being perky (no joke) and for having perfect attendance and all A's. The only one I got was the All A's award, which I'm fine with. At least I got something.

I'm not sure what else to say here. I'm excited for the cruise, everyone is excited for summer (my Facebook news feed is filled with "6 days left" posts) but that's not really new. However, I will try to get 2 more blog posts done in the next week so that May will have more blog posts than any other month yet this year and will have averaged about 2 blog posts a week!

also, i've been going on this one site called aramii a lot more. right now i'm organizing my camp. hooray for aramii!

cruise

lright, so first off: I got a 92 on my end-of-course algebra exam! I'm pretty happy about this, to tell the truth. It was a pretty difficult exam (well, difficult when you compare it to my other exams :D)

Alright, um, some info on my upcoming trip!
My grandma has paid for herself, my cousin, and I to go on this cruise in Europe! It's the northern part of Europe, so not Greece, Italy, France, or Spain. However, I am going to England, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Latvia, Estonia, Russia, Finland, and back to Sweden. The cruise starts on June 2nd and ends on June 16th, but we're leaving the day after my school gets out, which is a few days before that, just in case there are flight issues. So hopefully I'll get a few extra days in London! I do hope that that Iceland volcano doesn't provide any problems.

Then I come back for two days just in time to see Toy Story 3 (SQUEE!!) but then I go to summer camp for two weeks, during which time I will not blog and will not have internet access. But that's okay.

I might compile a blog post that has pictures from inside my epic 36-foot tall tree (I used myself to measure how tall it was) and pictures of the mysterious pale yellow tabby that hangs around my house but is scared of humans.

oh darn. i've got the hiccups :c

impatience

I'm feeling kind-of impatient today. On Starless (warriors roleplaying forum, if you've forgotten) I'm waiting for posts to be made on three threads - and I've been waiting for a while now. I guess this is what people were thinking when I was inactive, though, so I guess it's not that bad. Especially cause I went shopping today! I got several new pairs of shorts/capris, t-shirts, pajamas, as well as a brand new suitcase and travel bag! I also got two 4GB memory cards for my camera. I'm starting to feel ready for my trip! Well, only on the practical side; I am lacking in the books department, but I think my mom will take me to Barnes & Nobles sometime in the next two weeks, and if I'm lucky, I can buy one of the Order Of The Stick books.

Now that I'm back home, however, I'm still impatiently refreshing the Starless homepage to see if anyone has posted. And it's not like I don't have anything better to do; I have a language arts mythology project and a science review that are both haunting me. Ah well.

Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately) I finished my download of Portal a couple days ago (yes, I finished just as I had to go to school) and I've been playing it a lot; it's quite addicting, and very fun. I think I'll go play that now - see ya!

download complaints

75th post! woot woot! and also, that homework i was procrastinating on in my last blog post - i got it all done. so there. B)

but that's not the subject of this blog post. my uncle informed me of the marvelous fact that the game Portal is available for free (at least until May 24th) on Steam. steam is pretty cool - i downloaded it last night - but i started to download Portal last night, and as i speak, it still hasn't finished downloading yet. that's probably because, whoop-de-do, it became paused sometime last night. except for the fact that neither i nor the rest of my family paused it. that's my first complaint. my second is this: "time remaining" counts are totally inaccurate. (this applies to other downloads too.) i know this because just last night, i saw the time remaining go from:

1 year

to

22 hours

to

9 hours

to

8 hours 30 minutes

to

9 hours.

as of right now, the time remaining count is 21 minutes 27 seconds, but as i typed that, it jumped to 19 minutes and then to 24 minutes. i got up early.. for this. i mean, i've also been playing farmville and what not, but i was looking forward to trying out portal. ah well. with my luck, it'll finish downloading right as i'm about to go to school.

the avoidance of homework

alright, i really should be doing my homework instead of blogging, but i haven't blogged in a couple days, so i guess it's okay. we took another long boring test today, except it was timed, covered all subjects (well; reading vocabulary, reading comprehension, mathematics, mathematical procedures, spelling, literature, science, and social studies) and took up the whole day except for 9th period. so yeah, it was boring, and it means i have less time to work on my homework (though i am blogging right now instead of doing so.) although truth be told, most of my friends have already finished this homework, so i'm going to assume i can get it done easily.

not much else is happening in real life, except for the approach of summer, which i greatly look forward to. to my happiness, i have started posting on starless (that warriors roleplay site) more and i also am a part of a warriors roleplay one of my real-life friends has started (hey, there was something else happening in rl. go figure.)

well, i... finished posting on starless, so i guess i'll conclude this post and go do my homework. and it's (only) 5:50. alright!

Alejandro

well, we finished up taks week. pretty easy. course, we still have final exams the last week of school. but the only one i'm really concerned about is algebra, and if it's anything like the practice exam we took, i'm pretty sure that i can ace it. and the great thing is, the amount of homework will just decline rapidly over the next few weeks. although there may be a couple projects. like this villanelle poem i'm doing - well, supposed to be doing. c;

we had a book fair this week at school in the library. being a bookaholic, i bought four books, spending about forty five dollars. unfortunately, i've already read them all. my mom is really grateful for libraries, for otherwise we'd have to buy even more books. i mean, my parents are solid readers too, but... anyways. :P I tend to read around one or two average-length books per school day, although this sometimes gets me in trouble. i'm not trying to brag here; i can just read really fast.

well, i have to go to sleep now; got an algebra AND a science test tomorow. bai!


{"alejandro" - lady gaga}

you know that i love you boy

hot like mexico rejoice

at this point i gotta choose

nothin to lose!