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Bugs are really cool. I totally wish I wasn't scared of them.
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[17 Dec 2007|06:58pm] |
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I changed my username. I've been wanting to for a while, and now seemed the appropriate time. (If you go directly to venufan.livejournal.com it won't redirect you, by the way.)
I've been home. Seen a few friends. Went to the doctor. He told me to exercise. My German final went fine. Just checked my grades online. Three A's, one B, and a C+. As predicted, but I was still hoping that Greek History would pull through with a B-.
Shrug, I'm in a bad mood. Wearing a great sweater, though. Re-watching season two of Grey's Anatomy. I'll probably feel better in a while, I guess. I just need comfort, which I won't find here.
Just. Want comfort.
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[29 Nov 2007|10:25am] |
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The two things I tend to miss most, other than my mother, about being home are 1) sitting on a couch, and 2) two-ply toilet paper.
It's the final stretch of the semester, as there are only five days left of classes counting today. Today I only have my Math discussion period (11:45), but I also have two online assessments to do. It was nice to wake up naturally today.
I only have one final (German), and it isn't until the thirteenth, but I have four regular tests next week. Math on Tuesday night, then German, Geography, and Greek History on Wednesday. Should be pretty miserable, we'll see how it goes.
We decorated for Christmas, want to see?
( Thumbsup. )
Also, because Thanksgiving was last week.
Things for Which I am Thankful:
1. George.
2. Attending the eighth best public university in the country.
3. Not having to pay tuition at said university.
4. Not having to live with people I hate.
5. My little brother who claims he will not get older and think he's too cool to play with me.
Shrug, this is a pretty good top five. These are the types of things I am thankful for, you get the point. I'd add prescription sunglasses to the list if I wasn't trying to avoid material items.
Thanks for being my friends, guys. (:
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[16 Nov 2007|02:10pm] |
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I've been kind of sick this week, which has resulted in a COMPLETE lack of motivation to do anything productive at all. /= Which I feel really guilty about.
Carl went to the Reel Big Fish/Less Than Jake show on Monday and got himself a black eye in the pit. DON'T TELL MOM. He bought me a tshirt.
I got back to school Monday night and only went to one class on Tuesday. Today I slept through my Math lecture and woke up at 9:45. I'm supposed to be making up a Greek History quiz right now, but studying turned into reading ONTD.
This is the least studious I think I've ever been in my life. ):
But I'm really going to get back into the swing of things next week. I'm going to Orange Park again this weekend to go see A Midsummer Night's Dream on the old home turf. (We're going to go ahead and pretend that I haven't gone home every weekend in November, mkayz?)
And I have to study for two GH quizzes and a German test Monday and catch up in Math since I haven't been to the past two lectures, nor have I done homework for like four lectures?!
I should probably clean at some point as well. My area looks pretty bad. And not even in the I'vebeendoingtonsofhomework way that it did previously, but in the waterbottlesandclothesandneedtowashdishes way. I also need to do towel laundry.
So, MUST STUDY AND NOT BE CRAPPY NEXT WEEK. Right. Cleaning now. Class at four o'clock. Thumbsup.
(P.S.: I got a fortune cookie today that said, "The weather is wonderful." This tells me nothing about the status of my future.)
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[08 Nov 2007|03:08pm] |
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School is going all right now. I got caught up in what I needed to catch up in, and I think my grades are pretty good. It looks like it's going to be four A's and one C.
The picture from my previous post was just before a math test. I'm currently taking MGF1106, Math for the Liberal Arts Majors. It's cool, right? I took Calculus in high school and did well, so everything should be awesome. OH WAIT, except this class is everything I hated about calculus. Statistics and combinations and permutations and standard deviations, ugh. I think the worst is over, though, because we just did a section about graphing linear equations, and I did that in like third grade.
The only class that is currently testing my nerves is Greek History, because we have these quizzes about every week, which in the end account for 60% of the final grade. And for some reason I just don't do well on them. /= I think I've gotten a ninety or eighty maybe three times, and the rest have been rather terrible. I'm honestly just really bad at history classes, I don't know why I thought this would be different.
"But, Diana! History classes are just memorization! It's eaaaasy!"
This would be the part where I would PUNCH YOU IN THE FACE, because I'm sick of hearing that. One does not understand being bad at history if he or she is good at history. Stupid.
German, however, I am still really owning. I've gotten A's on all the tests, despite the fact that I embarrass myself aloud in class regularly (I clearly learn better through writing).
Last Thursday I pulled a hangnail, and ever since I've had a whopping bit of paronychia. If it doesn't clear up soon I'm going to have to go to the campus infirmary, because I'd really rather my finger didn't fall off, and its purplish hue continues to make me nervous.
The weather's been chilly, which is nice, as I really enjoy not sweating. Plus I have a dynamite green pea coat.
Why did no one inform me that hazelnut-flavored coffee, unlike regular, does not taste like death?
And I think that's it. Have a great day, guys. Thumbsup.
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[23 Oct 2007|01:49pm] |
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Life is kind of kicking my butt at the moment.
Edit: I just spent the past few minutes poking at my screen trying to remove a black speck of dirt that turned out to be the webcam on my computer in the photo. Facepalm.
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[18 Sep 2007|11:59am] |
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I've been pretty busy, I guess.
School is hard, but I like it. Have been doing loads of homework as of recently, and I'm really glad I got some nicer headphones due to the fondness that a certain person that I might live with may have for watching television twenty-fourhoursaday.
I'm really getting into and enjoying German recently. I had a test yesterday, and (apparently college has a fast test turnaround time) I got a ninety-two that I am incessantly proud of and hung on our mini-fridge.
It's really rather hilarious how much the Germans love compound words. For example, the number 4,329. We say four thousand three hundred twenty-nine, in German it's viertausenddreihundertneunundzwanzig. That's vier-tausend-drei-hundert-neun-und-zwanzig, all one word. Crazy!
Right, so German is terribly fascinating, and I love languages. If anybody has any music in German that they'd be willing to share, throw me a comment, because I need to get better at listening! The dictation portion of the test was my downfall. I bought two albums with George the other day, but one of them ended up being completely instrumental, which was just silly.
My math class is a little ridiculous. /= In lecture on Friday we went over long division, and today we looked at terminating/repeating decimals.
I'm starting to eat meat again, which is kind of weird. I'm not sure how I feel about it yet. My options are rather limited at the dining halls, what with my inability to properly digest cream/dairy products, so I've been trying to taste around to see what I could maybe possibly tolerate, as the two-omelets-a-day diet is really growing tiresome, despite my love for breakfast. But I think I like turkey, I had a TLT (I really hope this is a real term) sandwich today. And I continue to pilfer two to three bananas each time I make the trip. (:
Nothing else new, really. Very busy, lots of homework, eating meat, loving German. Thumbsup.
OH WAIT, except I'm getting a new computer. Lionel's youthful vigor is dwindling, and he tends to need a nap after only twenty to thirty minutes of use, which is not helpful to me when I am in Greek History and my professor goes through the material so quickly that even when I'm typing I miss things. My dad's going to see what he can do to fix him, since we believe that he is still under warranty, but I can't exactly not have a computer while he's being mended.
I'm getting a MacBook, which is actually already at my house, but I am not at my house, so I do not have it. Carl and I are driving home this weekend for this reason, and also because I am actually rather homesick after not seeing my mom for like three weeks. But yes, her name is Aubergine. ((: I'm quite excited.
Homework now! Geography (in a Changing World) test tomorrow.
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[07 Sep 2007|01:27pm] |
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Disney World with my family was pretty fun. They're a pretty great bunch.
So, this week has been rather frustrating. Sleeping in, forgotten quizzes, etc. Stupid stuff that I could've avoided, it's my own fault. I kind of didn't do any homework at all this weekend while I was home/out of town, so it set me all off balance.
I finished Middlesex yesterday--only took me about a year after George lent it to me. A+ book.
Having finished said book, I wanted to get new books to read, so I looked up a few things on the UF Libraries website, and decided my next venture would be Feed by M.T. Anderson, located in the Norman Library, and it only made sense that I would go to said library after my class in Norman Hall this morning.
However, the library lady was A JERK, and wouldn't help me find some PZ section. The organization there is so weird. ): I didn't understand it at all, and she just made me feel stupid, which I probably am. ))): I wish she would've just walked with me to find it so she would know I wasn't an idiot.
Also: Walking from the library to my next class I had to cross a main road, and old men with long beards whistled at me.
After these assorted lame events, I walked to the Reitz Union to eat Subway and buy books. Twelve inches of tuna salad and Guy Deutscher's The Unfolding of Language later, I'm in a better mood.
So, thumbsup.
(My fondness of that film Stardust also tricked me into buying Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett. Just saying.)
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[01 Sep 2007|10:22am] |
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First week of classes is over. Everything is fine, just a lot of work. I'm currently back in Orange Park, which is nice. (: I like my mom.
Especially after the day I had yesterday. /= It was mostly frustrating because I woke up late and couldn't eat/drink before class, and I was extremely thirsty, and TO SAVE MY FREAKING LIFE I could not find a Gatorade machine with a card slider. At the University of Florida, I could not find a Gatorade machine. ): Wtf. Then everything went downhill from there.
But anyway, it was okay when I got home, because I really like my family. And apparently my mom got a new minivan. She'd smelled gas while driving, took it to the dealer, and they found a billion things wrong with it, and since we've had it for like six or seven years my dad told her to get a new one. It's really nice, and navy blue.
We went to dinner and whatnot, did family stuff. I went to bed only to find that I actually somehow prefer my bed at the dorm. Which really struck me as odd, but I had a hard time falling asleep, despite exhaustion.
Woke up this morning at around six thirty, since that's kind of the time I've been getting up most days. Read for about an hour or so, then got up and did Carl's and my laundry. Now I'm watching that stupid Prom Queen thing on YouTube and hating that English girl's face, mostly because I don't have any Brotherhood 2.0 left to watch, and my external hard drive is at school.
We're going to Disney World today and spending the night for my mom's birthday (she ended up getting Disney World and a new van). I kind of have work to do, so I really probably should be studying instead of watching YouTube.
Also: Just a sidenote, it was nice to shower this morning in a real shower. Instead of, you know, a stall that is probably half the size of an airplane lavatory.
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[24 Aug 2007|05:19pm] |
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I moved into the dorms on Saturday. I probably would've updated earlier, but the Internet has gone in and out since I've been here. Mostly out, really. Plus we have three people and two Internet jacks, which isn't a fun game. Our room is really nice, though, we don't feel crowded at all, and we've been pretty clean. We just have an overflowing recycling bin (I love grape soda), as we haven't figured out where to take that yet.
Move-in went well overall. I didn't forget that much, or at least not as much as my roommates did. We all went home on Tuesday anyway, so I did a load of laundry and picked up the stuff that I'd forgotten, which wasn't big stuff anyway. Some yarn and some t-shirts and whatnot.
We've spent a lot of our first week sitting around, as classes didn't start until yesterday. I haven't gotten lost yet, which is really nice, and I think I'm starting to know my way around. Katie and I have trekked to all the off-campus bookstores, and today I had to go to a copy shop to pick up a few course packs. Walking isn't bad, I'm really liking it.
I have five classes (Beginning German I, Math for the Liberal Arts, Wildlife Issues, Geography in a Changing World, and Glory that was Greece), spread over four buildings, and I've been to all of them already. (: I really like going to class, and I'm extremely excited about German (despite the fact that the textbooks were $180).
Otherwise nothing really big has happened, just laid back stuff. Between classes I read at the library or if I have more than an hour and a half or so I go back to our room and read.
I'll post pictures at some point. I forgot my memory card reader in my mom's van when she drove me back on Tuesday night.
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[14 Aug 2007|10:23pm] |
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Firstly, I passed all my exams and earned my IB diploma. Thumbsupxabillion.
This summer has been entirely uneventful. Not really bad, I guess, it's been nice spending time with my family and chilling out at home.
Have gone to the beach twice, pool a few times with Adam. Read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I've been to the movies SO MANY times. I saw everything twice, it seems.
On the twenty-fifth of July Carl and I drove to Orlando to see the Shout It Loud tour with Against All Authority, Streetlight Manifesto, Reel Big Fish, and Less Than Jake. The most exciting thing I've done, I suppose. Hung out with Carl's ex-girlfriend Megan and her brother. Got hit in the chest with a very cold bottle of mysterious liquid that made my hair sticky during Streetlight Manifesto, and Megan's brother got kicked out right before Reel Big Fish, so we left early and missed Less Than Jake. Shrug, I don't really like Less Than Jake.
I've recently started serious preparation for moving, which happens on Saturday. I've washed all my bedding and towels, packed a ridiculous amount of beauty/hygiene supplies that I didn't even know I used, and organized my school materials. Books, binders, different kinds of paper. I think all I have left to pack is my clothes. I'm trying to not pack too much, because my room is on the fourth floor, and I'd rather take as few trips as possible up and down those six flights of stairs. Shouldn't be too big of deal, as it will be myself, my mom, and the three siblings.
Living in East Hall, by the way. Actually a pretty nice location. Next to a dining hall, less than a mile from all my classes, around the corner from a library. It's a little bit far from church, I think, but maybe not, because I'm really bad at reading maps.
I really like Birkenstocks. So, having to do a lot of walking shouldn't be a big deal. Also hopefully I'll be able to beat the freshman fifteen by walking everywhere.
I cut my hair a bit. It's considerably shorter, I guess, with some layering. It's much lighter, which I kind of needed for college. It's too hot. I wear glasses now, too. Apparently I have a small head, but at least by buying from the kids rack I got two for the price of one.
My computer's been having a lot of trouble. The monitor cuts out kind of a lot, and my speakers are unreliable. The frame is cracked in several places. It doesn't look like I'll be getting a new one until Christmas, at least, because my dad has this idea that I should fix this computer before I can get a new one. It's under warranty, but I can't really get it fixed without leaving it at a retailer or sending it away. Which would leave me computerless, obviously. So if you happen to be in the midst of a rock and a hard place, let's hang out.
This was boring. /= I'm sleepy. Hopefully I will have more awesome things to document when I get to college.
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Recent Developments:
1. I got into (and will be attending) University of Florida.
2. I like to knit things. Especially finger puppets and crazy hats.
3. Mainstage with Servant of Two Masters in the Tampa Theatre at State Thespian Festival.
4. Chris's solo musical being showcased, which I mention because his performance included one of my finger puppet creations.
5. I wear shorts.
6. I have a new DS and new Pokémon.
7. Went to prom.
8. IB Exams start on Thursday and end 23 May.
9. Graduation is 18 May!
10. I still listen to bad music, such as Ramones tribute bands in Spanish.
Sometimes things don't suck! Yeah!
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[29 Dec 2006|03:51pm] |
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1. Not going to school is a billion times better than going to school.
2. My birthday was really amazing. (: It's my favorite day of the year.
3. The family probably would've killed me if there were more than twenty-four hours in a day, what with all the dancing and birthday celebrating.
3. Christmas was pretty great, too. I slept through most of it, though, not gonna lie.
4. Now (little) Katie, Joseph, and I are all eighteen.
5. So I bought Pop-Its, since other things that one needs to be eighteen to buy do not interest me.
6. Ska-P is a great band.
7. Me, to Joe, on his birthday: "I was going to burn you a Ska-P mix CD, but then I realized that ska music and the Spanish language are probably the two things you hate most in the world."
8. Oh yeah, and I got two pairs of new sneakers.
9. Because apparently my mom gets sick of me wearing brown sneakers with black belts.
10. Así es la vida.
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Life keeps kicking my butt. ):
I had mono for about a week and a half, which was pretty terrible, and then immediately after I started really getting better I got this crazy insane stomach virus, which was pretty much the sickest I've ever been in my whole life. I lost six pounds in less than two days. ///=
I ended up having to write my World Literature I paper on Sunday, which wasn't fun, so I couldn't not go to school on Monday. Then on Monday night I stayed up crazy late writing my History Internal Assessment draft, Tuesday night I stayed up crazy late to study for my History final, Wednesday night I stayed up crazy late because Real World was on, and as a result of all of said things I still haven't really gotten over my stomach thing. I haven't eaten more than a meal and a half per day, and what I do eat consists mostly of saltine crackers.
I'll probably be up late again tonight because my Biology final is tomorrow.
School is just really frustrating right now, because I just can't seem to win in any of my classes no matter how much I study or work. I'm pretty sure I have C's in at least two classes.
BUT, I got accepted to Florida State University, so whatever happens, I'm at least going to college, even if it's not my first choice. I'm pretty irritated at them right now, though, because I called today to ask whether or not they indeed have a Modern Languages major (the website contradicts itself in like ten places), and the lady was really curt and pretty much hung up on me.
I don't get my decision from University of Florida until February, but since my semester averages are going to be pretty much all B's, and my test scores are still pretty bad, I really don't have my hopes up. I wish I would've done early decision, I guess. I still need to put in my applications to University of Central Florida (easy), William and Mary (unlikely), Notre Dame (wishful thinking), and Stetson (I'm really interested in visiting but no one's willing to take me HINT HINT).
Christmas vacation is going to be AMAZING, though. My only real final left is Biology tomorrow morning, then I have Spanish, which practically doesn't even count as an exam (I'll probably just enjoy taking it, because I'm a freak like that). Then I have my birthday, and the only schoolwork I have to do is a draft on my Theatrical Research Commission. (I might have to finish reading Como Agua Para Chocolate, too, but I don't mind that.) So I pretty much get to be a slug for two weeks.
(I did my Extended Essay on traditional Spanish zarzuela opera, right? WELL, the graders for my Theatre assessments are never going to see my Extended Essay, so I'm pretty much just going to use all the research and materials I already have to write my Research Commission, which will ultimately be a piece o' cake.)
So, basic rundown: School sucks, college is mean, I've been sick for a billion years, and this week feels like its never going to be over.
Thumbsup.
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I don't know if I've ever mentioned this, but for about a year or so now I've had this recurring ~motif~ in dreams of disgusting bathrooms. I always have to go the bathroom, and the facilities wherever I am are filthy, foul, squalid, unsanitary, and downright terrible. Really, there aren't enough unclean adjectives in the dictionary to describe these bathrooms.
Some Examples.
1. I remember once I was at Disney World, and the toilets were like these red sinks with white/black striped stems that one had to sit on, and the sink had like a backboard with Mickey Mouse's face. I really don't want to describe any of the filth. There were several sets of restrooms, and they were all equally soiled, because I remember frantically searching through all of them, and there were lots of people around in the same situation as I was.
2. I was on a field trip to some sort of university, which is probably rooted in the fact that when I was in middle school we took field trips to visit all the Catholic high schools. Anyway, the bathrooms were like a maze of stalls, and they weren't all individual, like someone could walk in on you any second because they were all connected. I finally had found one that was clean, but there was the hanging possibility that someone would enter.
3. On another field trip we were at a bookstore with veryveryvery high ceilings on the second floor of this skyscraper, and each floor was connected to the next by these insanely tall spiral wrought iron staircases that just moved endlessly into the sky and floor. They were extremely narrow, though, and roped off. The bathrooms had four stalls, but no doors, and the walls were blue marble. It was one of those dealies when there's like those paper toilet seat covers all over the place, and a couple of them had been overflowing.
4. I was at some sort of lecture convention that Bill Gates was giving, and I was with Lauren and Danielle, and we were getting paid to listen to Bill's lectures and fill out all these forms about whether or not the lectures appealed to our age group. I remember that Bill was really boring, and he had one of those clickity whatnots that Steve Jobs always has at his presentations. Our leader/guide was Mrs. Garrett from Facts of Life, but she was dressed like that one crazy substitute Mrs. Koch from school. We'd gone to the bathroom, which looked like a Sea World bathroom on a smaller scale, and I just remember us walking in then walking back out immediately, but we continued to hang out around the door for a while because we didn't want to go back to Mr. Gates.
5. The night before last night: I have no idea where I was, because the dream consisted solely of the bathroom scene. I think I was with someone, but I don't know who, but anyway, I once again do not wish to describe this level of filth. There were Mexican workers in there who had put down the toilet seats and were sitting on top, and when I walked in they were just like, "No quiere verlos, señorita." Shrug. That one was pretty short.
6. Last night: I was at summer camp, and the sleeping quarters and bathroom were all in one room (three toilets along each way, area for sleeping bags in the center, and there was a simple table and chairs at one end). Three of the toilets were full of blood, and there were bloody bodies in them, sticking out from the shoulders up, all of which were naked and had their eyes open. One of the others had a bloody arm hanging over the side of it, and there was a bloody severed head next to it with this crazy twisted look on her face. There was another dead body on the floor, but she was under a blanket and just looked like she was peacefully sleeping. There was a girl in a towel with brown hair that would sit next to another one, and there were wires coming out of it that were hissing and sparking. Oddly, I don't remember any of this having a horrendous stench or anything, which I actually remember noting to myself in the dream. There was a violent storm going on, so they were bringing food to us instead of us going to the hall, so the leader of the camp (short, plump, wearing a tuxedo with tails and a monocle) came in with brown bags of food for us, and he dropped them, along with his jaw, at the sight of our quarters, and that's when I woke up.
Seriously, that last one was horrifying.
I can't go into bathrooms anymore without these horrible images of stagnant pools of contamination. ):
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[10 Nov 2006|05:46pm] |
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My mom bought the new Josh Groban album, which I was kind of embarrassed for not having known of its existence.
Anyway, I like it so far, but I haven't listened to the whole thing. But there are two songs in Spanish, and neither of the titles are listed as having accent marks. "Un Día Llegará" y "Sólo por Ti". Without the accented a in the first title, that word changes from future tense to past subjunctive. And without the accented o in the second, "Only for You" changes to "Alone for You".
The lyrics of "Un Día Llegará" are almost completely in the future tense with several preterite phrases, and there are no accents in the lyrics listed in the booklet. In "Sólo por Ti", it's mostly conditional and future tenses, and the accents are there, but all of the "solo"'s are still accent-less.
Seriously? Seriously. I'm really irritated by this.
Last year when I was still working at Walgreens someone was making a sign (Jenny, maybe?), and they had written "Prospero Ano" instead of "Prospero Año". I almost didn't tell them.
And my History teacher tends to leave accent marks off people's names when she does notes or writes tests or gives handouts. I think she might be getting the point now, though, after I've written them in on every assignment I've turned in. Changing "Augustín" to "Augustine"? That's just a little ridiculous, Mrs. Teacher. (Sidenote: The country is "Colombia", not "Columbia".)
OH, AMERICA. YOU AND YOUR IGNORANCE ARE GOING TO KILL ME.
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Hmmm. So.
Life's been okay. School is pretty intense; it seems like I have at least one Internal Assessment per week. I'm working on a Biology lab right now, but I also need to come up with a thesis statement for my first World Literature paper, and the second Calculus Portfolio is assigned tomorrow. And soon I'll be working on my research commission for Drama, too.
The Extended Essay is finished and turned in, though, which is a nice weight gone. I think I'll probably get a B. If for no other reason, because my grammar was impeccable.
College has been a big concern recently also. I'm applying all over the place, mostly just to see if I can get in. University of Florida is still my first (realistic) choice, but I'm looking forward to a presentation I'm going to this week from Florida Atlantic University. I've already put in my applications for UF and FSU, but I'm waiting on one more recommendation letter before I start going for the out-of-state schools.
District Thespian Festival competition stuff is coming up, and I managed to wriggle my way into the lead role for one of the one-acts we're taking, so I'm rather excited about that. Plus our production of A Servant of Two Masters is being adjudicated as a possibility for a mainstage at State Thespian Festival, which would be really great. I was planning on going to Florida State Spanish Conference instead of STF, but if either of said shows go to STF, I wouldn't miss it for the world.
Also: I'm going to see Blue Man Group at the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena on the nineteenth of November at seven thirty PM. It's going to be AMAZING.
Anyway, I'm alive. And I finally got some new black Mary Jane shoes.
Thumbsup.
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FEAKJSHGKJQPGKJFHGEOIJOIJ, I HATE EVERYONE IN THE WHOLE WORLD.
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Putumayo: A Jewish Odyssey. |
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Apparently no one knew this, but I went to Disney World this week, and we stayed from Monday to Thursday. It was pretty fun. I mean, instead of staying home and reading Ultimate X-Men, I got to sit in a hotel room and read Ultimate X-Men.
I've kind of recently realized that there is only one week of summer vacation left, and a busy week it will be. I've read about half of Imagining Argentina (stop whining, losers, I actually like it), and I'll need to scrounge up at least a thousand words on my EE before the first day. Plus Dani Mechtel and I are going to Gainesville, which has the potential to be the highlight of my life.
My mom and I went to the grocery store today, so now we have lots of amazing food that I like. There's a new kind of Cheerios that look like Fruit Loops, but taste like Trix. I like them a whole lot. I think I might ditch the Special K Challenge in favor of the Fruity Cheerios Challenge. The fact that my favorite spoon was clean when I went to eat some today is obviously a sign that it holds a rank near macaroni and cheese (aka, nectar of the heavens).
We also went to Barnes and Noble, and I bought a pocket Spanish dictionary so I can stop carrying around the full sized one. I also got a new book, La Ciudad de las Bestias by Isabel Allende, which I'll start reading after I finally get around to finishing up El Diario de la Princesa. In addition, this is a really great CD. I've been looking for a store that sells Putumayo, and apparently they do at BN, even though they're sixteen dollars. ): I just wish they could be up on iTunes.
Keep rockin', guys. I think I'm going to find a movie to watch. Something I haven't seen in years. Like Fern Gully.
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So our air conditioning was kind of broken for a while, and my mom had it set on sixty-eight but the temperature was still seventy-four. I, of course, was actually comfortable in my own home for once. Then it started working again, and my mom refuses to turn it back up in fear that it will shut down. What a gyp.
I still haven't been doing anything or leaving the house at all. I was going to hang out with Shaun like last week, but on the way home from Georgia we blew two of our tires and ended up chillin' on the side of the road waiting for a tow truck for like an hour. Drama camp is this week, which I would rather stay far away from, but I need the service hours. Blegh.
Started working on my Extended Essay. Senior pictures are tomorrow. I lost the motivation to write halfway through what I wanted to put in this entry. Need to do laundry. Have been reading lots of comics lately.
Sometimes things that really shouldn't be upsetting totally are. ):
Guess I'll talk to you guys later.
(Also, a note to my peers: Don't yell at me for speaking Spanish or having Juanes as my ringtone, because you guys will be sorry when I get a big fat seven on my IB HL Spanish exam. Solamente diciendo.)
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