school time

Woops. I didn't notice that the one year-mark for this blog was on August 8th. So.. Happy three-weeks-late birthday, Gosh's Erblog! >.< Yeah. In other news, school started nearly a week ago, and so I have the duty to post my schedule and comments about it, etc, etc. Luckily I already did that for le tumblr so behold!

Period 1 - Language arts with Mr. Lankford. SOOOOO AWESOME. And I’ve got several of my friends in there. Yeah, definitely one of my favorite classes.

Period 2 - Multimedia II with Mr. Black. I’m one of the only 3 girls in there.. but one of the other girls is one of my friends, who I haven’t had any classes with since third grade. Not bad. Plus the class is cool.

Period 3 - US History with Mrs. Moore. She’s okay, I guess, but the best thing about that class is that all my best friends are in it. Sweet!

Period 4 - Science with Mrs. Negrito. Ugh, she is soooo strict, and annoying too. I have a couple friends in this class, but her seating arrangement places me far from them.

Period 5 - Health with Coach Philen for half a year, and for the second half, PE. I’ll get .5 of a high school credit, which is all I’ll need for Health. And I’ve got friends in this class. Not bad!

Period 6 - Lunch. All my friends and I have the same lunch period. Nothing else to be said, really.

Period 7 - Advisory with Mr. Lankford. Advisory is basically a 20-minute study hall, but the cool thing is I have a bunch of my friends in my advisory (plus, you know, cool teacher.) Only thing is.. there are also a bunch of snooty “popular” girls in there. At least we have open seating!

Period 8 - Art I with Mrs. Benoit. It’s a high school class, so if I pass (which I’m fairly confident about) I’ll get another high school credit - this time a fine arts one. Also, I’ve got some friends in here. Nice.

Period 9 - Geometry with Mr. Carine. Annoying. First off, from the few lessons we’ve had, I can already tell that I don’t like geometry and Mr. Carine isn’t very interesting either. I’ve got a friend or two in this class, but.. ugh. At least it’s another high school credit class - so if I pass this, Health, and Art, then I’ll have 3.5 high school credits without even going to high school. (I already got one in seventh grade for algebra.)

Right, so.. I guess it’s time to work on geometry homework. WHY was I somewhat excited for eighth grade?! .-.

clumsiness troubles

Alright, so there's this one restaurant we go to a lot. They have a fountain outside that we always throw pennies into (for silly wish purposes). I step up on the ledge every time to try to get the coin to fall into the highest tier of the fountain. Except this time I tripped and fell into the fountain. Isn't that brilliant.

In other news, I'm back at home, and school starts next Tuesday for me. I'm kinda excited to see more of my friends again tomorrow at textbook pickup, and I can't wait to find out my schedule (we get our schedules + first day packets first period on the first day of school.)

Annnnndddd... I'm getting a bit obsessed with the Total Drama Island series, especially this season, Total Drama World Tour. It's probably not helped by the fact that this one user is releasing one episode a day, and they're on like episode 17, whereas only 10 have aired in the US. I especially love the music c:

I've gotta go now, apparently the approaching start of school means earlier betimes. Good night!

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!

for victory we ride, fury of the storm

I always open up a tab to blog on, but it's always lower on my list of priorities, and then it doesn't get done. So I blog from my iTouch to make sure it gets done.

Today we have the Reading TAKS test, which is always really annoying and boring - and of course I dislike the importance the state places on it. But I never have a problem, usually only miss one or two out of how many questions? Fifty-eight? Yeah..

I boast sometimes that I can and will get up early if I want to (if you consider 5:50 early), but really I dislike having to sacrifice sleep. This is not made easier by the fact that I sleep in a loft bed, which (as I always explain it) is a bunk bed without the bottom bunk.

And I also reprimand myself whenever I get up early just so I can harvest my crops on farmville. Which I did today - although I didn't get up quite as early as usual. :P

Darn, the computer I'm using is really slow, especially when it comes to FarmVille. At least I harvested all that Forbidden Rice and planted some more.

Oh yeah, and I got a new bike yesterday. It's silver, and much better for my size than my old one. It's pretty cool.

Every day is closer to summer break - which is exciting not only in that, well, it's the end of school, but also in that I leave for London the day after school gets out, and my cruise starts a few days after. AND ALSO, when I'm in eighth grade, none of the really annoying guys in my multimedia and gym classe will be there. Hooray!

By the way, I was writing this this morning before school.. but then my iTouch ran out of power. Good thing it saved!

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Pandora's Box

So. I think it's blogging time. If only I knew what to say.

My science teacher dropped a project on us on Monday; said project is due Friday, but for once I'm not procrastinating, so I am in no way stressed. So that's good. Next week we have the reading and math TAKS (standardized testing), but I'm not worried about them either, they're just boring. And we have a "field" trip on Thursday. Haha, no fields for us, we get to go see Oceans. Which isn't that bad - it means no homework - but I've seen a lot of movies very similar to it. You know, they show you ocean life, then they lecture you about pollution. Hooray. Honestly, my school isn't very creative with its "field" trips.

I've started listening to Pandora, an internet radio station website, a lot. (Like Pandora's Box - has nothing to do with Avatar.) You enter the name of a song or artist - this is the seed - and Pandora makes a persionalized radio station from that seed. You can add more seeds and ban artists from your station, and you can find info for all the songs and artists onsite. You can even skip through songs you don't like, though you can't rewind. Best of all, there's a great iPhone/iTouch app for it, which is free and (I found) even better than the site. I hear there's even an iPad app, though of course I haven't gotten to try that out.

So. Pandora! I'm typing this from my iTouch, so I'm not sure, but it's probably pandora.com, nice and simple. Go check it out!


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Sweet Home Alabama

Well, actually, Alabama is my dad's home, not mine. But anyhow. We got here around 6 hours ago, and the hotel has wireless Internet, so I've got no problem with that.

.. Anyways. We went here, so hastily and in the middle of the week, because of my grandfather. He has cancer and other things, I'm told, and he may not have much time left. My dad picked me up from school yesterday and told me we were packing. And it only took us about two hours to pack, and then we were on the road. We dropped off our dog, Chakotay, at my other grandma's house (and we stayed the night too.) Then we hit the road and I alternated between dozing and reading for the next 9 hours.

We got here around 4 or so in the afternoon. My grandpa seemed to be doing, well, okay; my aunt said that he seemed to be 'rallying', that this was the best he'd been since she got here on Tuesday. I'm glad he's not in any pain. After a while we left his room to give him some peace and quiet- my siblings had a hard time understanding that, I believe.

It's very convienient about how 'online' schools are now- I can very easily email my teachers at short notice (which this was) and ask for the assignments for the next few days. I got a load of science homework printed out, and I brought the textbook with me, but my science teacher said that I would be given a few day's slack. Which is cool cause I normally find her annoying. But anyways. I looked on my algebra teacher's teacherweb and it looks like we're doing various worksheets, which is too bad, since if it was textbook stuff I could use the online textbook. (Although I suppose she could've attached the worksheets for me to print out, if she had responded.) My theatre teacher responded kindly, saying that it was fine and that we'd work it out when I came back. My history teacher attached the review we were doing today and tomorrow; unfortunately, I only recieved his email today, well after the time that I was able to reach for my history textbook. I printed it out anyways, in the hope that I could do some of it from memory, but still. Oh well. My language arts teacher hasn't been here at all this week, but even though he was supposed to come back today, his teacherweb wasn't updated and he never responded to my email, so I have no idea what's going on there.

Sigh... Different subject. Gmail has this new thing called 'Google Buzz' or some such thing, and it's pretty cool. It's basically a combo of Facebook (without the games and apps) and Twitter (they even have the @reply thing going on) plus integration from Flickr and some other stuff, and, you guessed it, Blogspot! So, yeah, I'm hoping this will gain some views from more of my real-life friends. c:

One last thing is that I finally gave in and got this free app from the app store called BlogPress, which enables me to now post from my iTouch. In fact, this whole post is from my iTouch, which I think shows how good I've gotten at typing on this thing - though the autocorrect helps a lot.

I guess I should go to sleep now. Bye :)

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first term, middle term, last term. ft, mt, lt. F.M.L.

(Well, my life isn't really f***ed, but... anyways.)

You know what one of the worst things in school is?

Thinking you've figured some kinda hard thing out and thinking, 'Hey, this is easy,' and then coming to class the next day, checking the answers, and realizing that you'd got them all wrong.

It sucks. And now I feel real bad and even though it was just a completion grade, I feel like I have to redo that page. See, the thing about math (btw, we're talking about my latest algebra homework here) is that the things you learn build on one another, and if you don't understand one thing.. D:

I wonder if I'll have to go to tutorials. Maybe I'm a little bit prideful, but I've never gone to tutorials before. Gahhhhh.. this algebra is driving me crazy.

Um.. other news. Alright, so I ended up contacting TNT and providing them with the pw and other stuff to show that I own my fourth side account, rhalinae, and I was all nice and stuff, and then I asked for the birthday. Truth be told, I didn't expect to get an answer - I was expecting some automated message saying that they can't do that and that it sucks to be me. But it was nothing like that at all! They quickly responded with the birthday. Isn't that cool? I mean, I always expect the staff to be annoying, but I'm reminded that they're people too.. (:

Anyways, I got on that account, fed my pets, and then moved the next pet to my main account so it could go under the lab. Took a while, but - yay! Happy endings for all of us! Yeah, yeah, boring neopets stuff.

I'm getting back into the fanfic-writing groove. I'm starting on the second chapter of a somewhat outrageous story called The Elven Affair.. not that anyone reading this would be likely to know any of the characters. x)

Hmm what should I say here

So I've been spending the last couple days selling Girl Scout Cookies and drawing OotS fanart. (Not surprisingly, I've gotten to the last page of my sketchbook. I'll be getting a new one soon.) I haven't blogged much in the past few days, so what the heck, I'm typing away.

Luckily, I have no major projects or tests that I'm stressing out about (except that algebra test I took yesterday, I know I got several questions wrong. Oh yeah, and I have that PowerPoint presentation on Charles Darwin due next Wednesday.. but we have time to work on it in class Monday and Tuesday.)

Yeah, um, anyways.. The other day I preformed a monologue in theater, as opposed to working with a partner like everyone else did. I'm not usually a loner, but in my Theater class.. Well, I just wish I'd gotten 3rd period theater instead of 8th. Ah well - next year I'll be taking Art instead, as I've found out that I really don't enjoy theater that much without any friends. Anyways, I think I did pretty good on the monologue, even if I forgot one of my lines. Our next unit is lip sync, which should be fun, as I found someone to work with this time. I wonder what song we'll be doing though.. hope it's something I know. c:

My friend slept over last night, gave me some ideas for some (crack) OOTS fanfiction.. hmm..

Alright, now I'm done with my extremely mundane post. x)

School

Alright, so because I have the time, I will blog about my classes. Yay. There's something else that I do want to blog about, but I'll do that later.

anyways.

1st period: Multimedia with Mr. Black
This class is really fun. So far the only program we've been working in is Inkscape (a free vector graphics program) but it's pretty cool so far. There are some really cool text effects you can do in Inkscape, and if you do the right things with the right shapes, you can get amazing results. The only downer is that this jerkwad 8th grader who cusses too much sits next to me, and he and his friend joke around and basically piss me off in general. He's also an idiot and totally incompetent.. but I don't like judging people. Unfortunately, Mr. Black lets him get away with most everything.. Other than that, Mr. Black is definitely a cool teacher.

2nd period: Texas History with Mr. Macuk
This class is rather boring, especially considering that we're pretty much just relearning everything we learned in 4th grade, the last year we extensively did Texas History. Mr. Macuk's alright, but he's definitely willing to give out D-halls. Bleh. On the plus side, I have a lot of friends in that class. There are also some effin idiots who I hoped to never see again.. but they don't sit near me, so I don't care.

3rd period: Gym
I have 3rd period P.E., which I suppose is better than like, 7th period P.E., but still. It's not that bad - I would totally die if I had been in Athletics - but it's rather boring and tedious. Also, I don't have any real friends in that class.. I hang out with this one girl, but she's definitely not one of my besties.

4th period: Science with Mrs. Persad
Science. Ah, science. I like science, and I especially like what we're doing right now; chemistry. Actually, it's not that exciting, but we haven't ever studied chemisty and the periodic table and stuff before, so it's nice to learn something new. Nearly all of my friends are in this class, which is a big plus.

5th period: Advisory with Mrs. Warcken
In my school, advisory is a 20-minute kind of study hall, where we can work on our homework... I'm usually not compelled to actually work on my homework at this time, so usually I'm either reading, drawing, or writing.

6th period: Lunch
This year I have lunch 6th period (which is much better than 3rd period lunch o_O) and so do all my friends, so everything's cool. d:

7th period: Algebra with Mrs. Timourian
Algebra is definitely a harder class than I expected; I only have managed a 90 up to this point; but I like the class, I think. It's a small class with a couple of my friends in it. Mrs. Timourian requires us to take notes, which I think is helping me in this class (the taking notes itself, not actually studying them; I don't study as a general rule, although I may actually start doing that for algebra).

8th period: Theatre with Mrs. Baker
Mrs. Baker is definitely one of my favorite teachers. She's cool, funny, and quite nice. The class is rather large though, and I only have a few semi-friends in it... oh well. Anyways, I like theatre, and I prefer Mrs. Baker to my theatre teacher last year. Hmmm.

9th period: Language Arts with Mr. Esquivel
Surprisingly, this is my favorite class, although Multimedia is a close second. I guess it's because I like to read and write, and as a plus Mr. Esquivel is a really awesome teacher. He knows what he's doing and is really open to our ideas. This class is also small, but it has quite a few of my closest friends in it. Yay~~

and then we get out of school. x3

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There are other things I want to say, but I don't want to type them, because I'm afraid a certain someone will see and then our friendship will be ruined. All I will say is that now I know how it feels.

No, I always knew how it felt.

Just not about something like this.