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November 23, 2008 Blog For November 21, 2008 Yesterday was a pretty aw3shum day. If somewhat long.. First off, I didn't have math OR gym. I get piled down with homework in Pre-Algebra, and we never do anything particularly interesting in PE. So that was pretty sweet. Language Arts dragged on forever. We had to write reports on global warming (pro or con) for the state. I chose con, but I had finished two days ago and was left with nothing to do. My teacher sent me and a few other students out to the parking lot with her keys to get her coffee and some recycling bins for my homeroom teacher. I saw my car out in the parking lot and tried to open it, but it was locked. Ah, well. Social Studies dragged, too. We were learning about Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, and Hinduism. All of the papers our teacher gave us were really long...and had a lot of questions. *sighs* I was just relieved that I didn't have to read the Christianity paper--I knew all the questions off the top of my head. Then we had Team Time, an stupidly named period in which we go back to our homeroom teachers and do some dumb activity. Today, though, because half of our class sold at least one item for a fundraiser, we had a pizza party! I had four pieces of pizza and two cokes, and took an extra for later. So that was fun. And it cut into our elective time, so I had a smaller day. In keyboarding, I just had to do two custom lessons on Typing Tutor Platinum, then we were allowed to go to an online jigsaw thingy (not sure if I can post the site). Fun timewaster--just a bunch of online jigsaw puzzles. Band was same old, same old. Our Christmas concert is coming up, and I may be getting a new trombone mouthpiece, at suggestion by my new private tutor. I finally started bringing in a rag to clean out my mouthpiece and use the...ahem...spit valve on. Instead of the floor. Then science. After we took notes and stuff, we had to cut out and put together skeletons. :/ Believe me, when all you have is scissors that are waay too small to fit your hand, it is NOT fun. FREEDOM! I went up to my locker and got all my stuff and went to my mom's room. She told me to get my trombone from the band locker room, and I decided to drop by Bubo and Mohawk's locker first. Bubo wasn't there, but Stewy and Mohawk were. Mohawk had an extra tennis racket and asked me if I wanted to stay after and play tennis with them. I said I'd ask as soon as I got my trombone and be out to tell them. I went and got my trombone, asked my mom, who accepted, and went out to the court. Colt, BD, Mohawk, Stewy, Mee (kid I don't really know), and...I think that was it. xP It was FREEZING. Try sitting outside from 2:15 to 4:00 in below freezing temperatures playing tennis. We had a blast anyway, though. One time, Colt hit one of the balls over the fence, and BD got it. But Bubo didn't realize it, and we kept shouting to him "IT ROLLED UNDER THE TRUCK! I THINK IT ROLLED DOWN THE STREET!" for the better part of fifteen minutes. It was hilarious. We started thinning out after awhile, and I got really cold. I couldn't even feel my fingers. Bubo let me borrow his cell, and I called my mom. She came and picked me up (almost everyone was gone by then) and I went home. And then... My dad came home. He had picked up Chinese and had something short of a very special surprise for us: PROTOTYPE CEREAL. You heard me: PROTOTYPE CEREAL. See, my dad's a window cleaner--a well-paying job, actually, and is plenty for a middle class family in NC to live well on. Well, he did a house yesterday owned by a guy who works for Kelloggs. Apparently, after the job was finished, my dad and the Kelloggs guy were talking. My dad must've told him that he had kids, and the guy decided to give us some prototype Kelloggs cereals and even (though I'm not sure if it's out or not) prototype Pop-Tarts. I took pictures! » Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... « Hehe, Hannah Montana...we have to see her, hear her, and eat her now, too? Frosted Mini-Wheats...mini...chocolate...mmm. Doesn't get much better than that. Pop-Tarts! We're not sure, but we think the Orange Cream was a prototype. It doesn't look like this would be the season they'd release, so it's likely. This one I saved for last--the Kelloggs guy told my dad that it was a prototype and not yet released. Pretty shweet. I couldn't get Middy to leave the frame, so he got to stay. Just so the queen of vanity doesn't feel left out. FAKE EDIT: O_o Yep, they're all prototypes/samples--they say "Sample not Intended for Sale". That doesn't mean they're not released, just that these were their prototypes. FAKE EDIT AGAIN: My dad told me yesterday that these were indeed non-released, even the chocolate fudge. Unlike the normal chocolate fudge, they don't have sprinkles and have low fiber or something. xD Oh, and I directly copied and pasted this from a blog elsewhere. xP I'm so lazy.
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December 2, 2008 (D1 Blog) D1 stands for December 1. I may use that abbreviation again in the future. When I forget to blog on the right day. xD Well now, yesterday we went back. *sighs* Social Studies wasn't so bad, but I'm tortured by the science test Ms. Knocks promised. I haven't studied at all, and I'm supposed to have memorized twenty bones in the body and a bunch of other stuff. Worst of all, I have science last today, so it's going to be hanging over me all day... After that, we had team time, a break time in the middle of the day (that I hate). Yesterday was character ed, which I find completely boring. 'Kai, yeah, I kinda know what's right and what's wrong, you don't have to tell me every Monday of my life for the next year. Then gym. Which wasn't gym today. It was an abstinence program, and considering that, I won't say any more than what I said before. Then band. Same old band. Math. Same old math. I'ma procrastinating my homework until this afternoon. *nods* Just b'cause I can, since math is my drop class today. Then home. Same old-- The same old is getting boring. I got a new trombone mouthpiece my mom had ordered. It really improves the sound. It's big, too. xD And the rest of the day was more or less spent twiddling my thumbs and vainly hoping for more replies to Put the Past Away.
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Since I was to be absent from school on Wednesday, I asked my math teacher what the assignment would be (on Tuesday when I was there). She told me. I also looked it up on the internet to confirm I heard it right. I did. So I did the assignment and had all my weekend math homework done on Tuesday night. I could have done my Health homework, but I opted to do stuff on the computer that night and do Health in the car the next day. I looked at my math grades on the internet to ensure that Tuesday's assignment got to the teacher safely. It had. But the assignment for Wednesday was changed. So now I'm doing it on Thanksgiving.
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Why do they say it ended? Maybe the scare is less than it was during the time period they place the Cold War in, but it is still there. The United States still worries about communist governments in Russia, China, South America, and Middle East. Every so often the media reports on countries that are suspected to have nuclear weapons shipped to them from Russia and China. The powers still try to influence Middle Eastern countries so that they can trade oil with them. And, an instance that doesn't involve the Middle East: the recent conflict between Russia and Georgia, which had quite recently received military training from the US before the instance. Originally published 22:10 UTC on 21-Nov-2008.
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So, last quarter I had three classes whose grades were A's without the plus. The others were A+. The classes would be Band , Spanish, and Math. Band: I didn't know it was impossible to not get an A+ with that teacher. I really have no idea why I only had a 96. O.oSpanish: We had a few projects that involved artwork, creative skill, and actual dedication rather than pure knowledge of Spanish. And the one that was three weeks late didn't help. Math: Ah, heck. It's math that's supposedly two years ahead of me, and the teacher isn't particularly easy. Ninety-five point eight is good. Now, we examine my grades thus far into this quarter: Physical Science: 98Spanish: 89Health: 99World History: 98Advanced Math: 96.6Band: 75English: 100 As you can see, I'm not particularly worried about my Science, Health, History and English grades. Oh, look what three that leaves again. Band: I got a 70 on a playing test because I had just gotten a new reed (medium-hard, too) and hadn't practiced it). Also, it would be an 85, but the teacher was half-asleep when she graded one assignment. And the teacher hasn't put new grades in with new assignments yet.Spanish: We had an art-related project. Hm. Once the new assignments and the quiz I just got 100 on are entered in, it'll be higher. Math: It was more like 98 or 99 until today. Yeah. I guess I was rushed or something when I did the worksheet, so I got a 70 on it. Rather upset about that. I could have not gone to the basketball game if I had known I had been rushed. But I didn't feel rushed. Oh, and I forgot to do the last page, which was only four problems, but still...
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I love it. A science that lets you stereotype people. Nah, but really. I've been doing a lot of personal studies in the area in an attempt to improve my social abilities and friend-making skills. I've been trying to explain the actions of myself and others. Then it occurred to me that I'd heard of a science that did the same thing. So I started wanting to take courses in it. Although that won't come for a while, I've begun to look it up online. <3
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So we had the second school dance tonight. It was pretty awesome, but most of the songs were rap. 8| But anyway everyone was there and it was cool. 8D Also too much Mountain Dew woot.
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October 22, 2008 (I) New laptop's doing me great so far--I can finally get on. I'm going to get Stuck back up and running if the topic didn't die. I have an early release day today--about two hours earlier. :/ Which, judging by the amount of homework I got last early release day from Mr. Mathguy...I'll probably be done with my work just about when I'd be getting home. So I'll try to get on to blog the ER day when I come back in here at 12:20. So...five hours from now. xP Keep my blog entertained, don't let it get lonely. Oh, and prelims are still going on for SaGnM--view Alpha, Beta, and Citrus a few posts below.
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My grades this week. Physical Science - 97 Spanish I - 94 Health - 97 World History - 97 Advanced Math - 97.8 Band - 100 English - 98
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This weekend has been a good weekend homework-wise. Friday (it's weekend, because my school has no school on Fridays), I had a cross-country meet. Although I had a few hours in the car I could have done homework, I desired not to. And even still, I got my math assignment done by morning on Saturday. I procrastinated all day, and did some other projects later at night. Spanish was completed by 9:30, as well as the re-inscribing of my math notes. I still have to update those with stuff I learned this year, but that's a tedious task that I'll put off quite easily. There are English projects I should do, but since they're free projects and not assigned, I have procrastinated on those effectively for a while. I know people who are doing theirs for next quarter. Weird little antiprocrastinators. Actually, I pretty much have those done. I just have to go over them and make sure their perfect. The way I did it, I can only miss one point on them to get the ten I need for this quarter.
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One of my English class handouts (a checklist to go over before turning in essays), includes the following sentence: Primarily, she didn't include "or" on her list (well, there is an instance of the word "or" in the sentence, but it's actually serving its purpose, rather than being listed). Secondly, I know what she's trying to say with the "because", but it just is worded poorly. I think she's saying not to separate the 'because' clause from its dependent companion. However, leading with Because is acceptable. "Because I am picky, I made a blog entry pointing out the errors of my teacher."
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Writing a 4-5 page paper that compares/contrasts two books seems intimidating until you remember your teacher requires papers to be double-spaced.
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I was sitting here doing English homework. I had a worksheet where I had to put the appropriate word in the given sentences. I had all of them done except one. Unsure, I placed the word in all of the sentences. The results were rather amusing.
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I have very little homework, and it's prewriting for an English essay. ^.^ It's odd how long cross-country practices line up with lots of homework to make an awful day and then easy homework and easy practice line up for a free day.
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September 24th, 2008 Well, definitely can't say it was a slow day! It's 12:30 pm here, and I just got out of school because of a teacher work day or something. I don't care what it is, as long as I'm out early! I'm going to walk home in a couple minutes. I'm using a computer in my mom's classroom right now. I just have to wait for my brother to come from the high school...
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Until yesterday, I had never actually played American football before; in fact, I'd only ever thrown a football once in my life when my cousins and uncles were throwing one around at Thanksgiving and it somebody made a ghastly throw that landed near me. I put down my frisbee and lobbed it back, the football wobbling in the air like an erratic top. And yet somehow I found myself out on Whitnell Field playing a "pick-up" game with some people, mostly guys from around campus. I wouldn't have played, but my friend Sam's team needed an extra person, so I figured, "Why not? I like sports..." So there I am listening to the plays, asking "Okay, so what do you need me to do?" and playing "the line" against a very large, under armor-wearing man (he wasn't a boy; he was legitimately a man). I was relieved that this wasn't tackle football... Anyway, I started out rather rough, not following "my man" when he decided to break off and make a catch, getting a first down, and not understanding what to do when somebody yelled "Blitz!", but I slowly cuaght on to how things worked. The fun part was when we were on defense and the quarterback on the other team (yeah, I know who that is!) tried "running it" and I got to just dive at him and grip onto his flags, ripping off his belt. I was so ecstatic that it worked that I almost forgot to get bak on the line for the next play. I did something! The second revelation was that although we couldn't use our hands, I could block people trying to get our quarterback by simply getting in their way and making them step on me. It wasn't great for self-preservation, but it really helped our quarterback get extra time to throw. The highlight of all this, though was when, on the last play of the game, I dove at a runner, ripped off the flag, but also managed to grab his shorts, too. It was rather embarrassing, especially since he was a junior or senior and I'm a tiny freshman (okay, so I'm not tiny, but still...). He was really cool about it, but there were plenty of jeers from my teammates about grabbing the shorts rather than the flags. Hey - at least I figured out how to play defense!
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My grade is up to a 50%, due to getting a 100% on an assignment. And I don't even remember what it is/was.
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GPA: 3.00 Physical Science: 91% (A-)Spanish: 0% (F) [lol, no assignments yet is why]Health: 96% (A)World History: 96% (A)Advanced Math: 98.4% (A+)HS Band: -- [not entered in; lazy teacher ]9th English: 89% B+Meh. English is my weakpoint. Plus there's a lot of opinion involved. I love history. The teacher makes it interesting. He actually got me to like ancient Greece. I also love how he's so loose. I turned in something a day late (so didn't even realize; longish story) and I still got 100% on it.
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September 10th, 2008 Today was really fast for me; don't know why...this week has been flying by, which I like. Fast weeks are great; more weeks like this and it'll be summer before I know it! Let's see...what's new... Tomorrow's 9/11. I plan to do something like BZP on a forum I moderate, with the avatars to remember that fateful day. I've been a-working on my comics, but I can't seem to adjust the eraser on Paint to recolor with ease. And by the way, Miz, recoloring is a whole lot easier on Paint than it is in GIMP or PS. I use a laptop; is it even possible to do using one?.. My room's a total mess right now, bits and pieces of Toa Ignika and Chirox all over the floor, Wayri and Scouri lying around, Cordak Bullets and on top of all that, my bins are sitting out, too. I don't care to pick up my messes, but my mom would be really angry if I didn't, so I need to do that. I also need to practice my trombone. It's 6:20 pm here while I'm writing this, and I feel really tired. School wears people out, that's for sure. I'm counting down the days until Christmas Break now.
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September 4th, 2008 I cannot believe how busy I've been this week!! There's so much going on, between school, life, homework, my newfound passion for building; it's just...wow. Still, I love BZP and I get on more or less every chance I get. Let's see...I'm going to cover things going on with me in BZPower: -I have to finish a PBZP model, Anakin Takanon. In order to do so, I am spraypainting one of my dupe Faxons. So, it will take a little longer than most. -Silver and Gold No More's deadline has been extended to the 20th to give people a chance to make models. Get them in if you'd like to answer! I hope to, in the future, get some sweet prizes...this should give you a hint about the next JBBC, too: one of the prizes will hopefully be a Barraki set! -More features and a sort of "layout" are being made for my blog. Check out this week's Poll and vote! Now then, onto my day... Busy, I can give you that. I started out in Homeroom, which I was very nearly late for; I had to put my trombone (I play ) in my locker in the band room. Three minutes to get everything for the next class? IT DOES NOT WORK. And yes, I will complain about that all year, so I advise you either skip over it while reading or get used to it. So, almost as soon as I sit down in Homeroom, the bell for the next class rings--Social Studies. I introduce a new pseudonym--this guy gets to be Cookie, and you'll soon find out why. We watched the Channel 1 News and answered questions on it, then Cookie gave EVERYONE COOKIES!!! I wound up begging and getting two and a half cookies. I'm kind of his friend, kinda not; I really just got to start talking to him, soo... The rest of the period was same old, a bunch of work and the threat of "you don't get it done and it's homework" from Ms. Essess. She's a real nice teacher, don't get me wrong, but...well...it's kinda scary having to work knowing that if it's not finished you're tortured by it at home. Bell rings, Science. Half of the block was spent listening to a terrible taped recording of some computerized people reading out textbook chapters. Reading the textbook is boring as is; having a monotone voice droning on and on? TORTURE. I spent the time passing notes to my friend--here comes another alias--Jay. He's a cool guy. And yes, I did do the work; I answered all the questions already and the stupid recording was still going, soo...I technically believe I did nothing wrong. We did some graphing activity, then the bell rang. Team Time, where we go back to Homeroom and Mrs. Home gives us an activity to do. Usually, Team Time is boring, but today we got to go outside and, more or less, do whatever we wanted! I found out that my friends BD and Stekly are on my team, Oceania. How great is that? So I wound up hanging out with BD, Stewy, Steckly, and Zee (yeah, that's a new one). We went back in and I went to PE. Today was our first day dressing out...we have a locker room and all that. It didn't wind up that bad; getting changed in front of people isn't so bad. It's not like everything has to come off. I'm sharing with an EC (Exception Children) kid, so I have to open the locker until he learns the code. If he learns the code; he may not. I don't mind--my brother has autism, and I usually am cool with kids with disorders. And then lunch. Disaster Period, shall we say? I realized I didn't have my brown paper bag...I already lost my lunchbox...and I knew I'd left it in my Homeroom at Team Time, so I asked if I could go back and get it. My Gym teacher, Mrs. East, said it was fine, so I went back and saw something that was literally taunting me. There, in plain view, was my bagged lunch, sitting in the classroom neatly next to my desk. The door was locked. I had no time to wait and see if Mrs. Home came back, so I went and bought lunch. We get accounts at our school that store money in them, which is automatically subtracted when we buy. I got a chicken sandwich, Jello, corn, a banana, and fat free strawberry milk. *shudders* I gobbled down the Jello, sandwich, and banana pretty quickly and didn't even bother eating the corn...school vegetables, as you may or may not know, are disgusting. Literally just as I was finishing my milk, we had to line up and go back. We went back to the gym, I got my stuff outta the locker, and went to Band. We did a lot more work on getting notes and posture right; seventh grade is starter's band in my district. Of course, back in New York, fourth grade was the beginning, so I already know how to play the trombone--but I haven't played since the Fourth of July '07. I could use some brushing up. The bell rang, and I was off to my least favorite class...Math. Mr. Mathguy is very strict and very much loves to give homework. It's, like, his hobby or something like that. Today was a bunch of review, and I have to do five more problems, since I misread "18-26" as "18-21". But I don't have him until Monday, which is fantastic; yup, I have plenty of time to make it up. Then Final Bell rang. YAYEEZ OUT!!!!! My mom works at the school now as a one-to-one EC Teacher Assistant, so I didn't have to worry about missing my bus. I went to some of my friends lockers and talked a bit. Eventually, when almost everyone was gone, I got my stuff out of my locker and went to my mom's room. We checked one last time for my missing lunchbox, to no avail, and went home. Busy day, but not as busy as some were this week. Comments are wubbed.
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September 8th, 2008 I already cried out of fear, so now I get to cry out of exhaustion. Today...actually wound up going pretty fast. I'm doing well in everything, including math; I had one of the highest grades on the test for Chapter 1 Pre-Algebra, a 97. The only grade higher was the single person who got a 100. Which is better than the people with 60s, 70s, and 80s can say. o_O Most of the class did really badly. Also, just as a reminder, my blog poll ends in a couple days. You can even leave a comment saying what you vote for; I don't mind. In the meantime, I'm working on ways to earn money, yes, for more Bionicle stuff and all that. I can get paid for mowing the lawn, but it will wind up going towards events, like going to movies with friends and things like that. I hope to take a babysitting test so I can be permitted to do that; I could really get big bucks offa that. For all I know, I could get Axalara! *cough*not*cough* It's a bummer for me; I get practically every green set possible, and not having a final version of my favorite character... Anyone got some other good job suggestions? Also, I'm now in the TSA (Technology Student's Assosciation) for NC. Apparently, we'll be going to State and Nationals, which means a whole lot of flight and driving. Sounds pretty awesome. Check out the event's on this website! Click on Competitive events, then MS Competitive Events Overview.
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August 30th, 2008 It's the WEEKEND!! I can't believe it: we just got into school Monday and now we have off for three days! Labor Day Weekend. My first week was good; I'm getting better at opening my locker and my teachers are nice. Homework's not insane, at the very least. Today was just a nice kick-back-and-relax day. I finished Galactor:God of the Stars in my PBZP. You can check him out here. I also scanned Endgame, the new Bionicle comic, which arrived in the mail today; take a peek at that awesome new goody here. My first JBBC is started up today: "Silver and Gold No More". As an MOCer, your challenge is to build a black and silver Toa. Contest was thought of by user pocketmouse, who is also one of the two hosts of this contest. You can enter or even apply to be a contest assistant, which would be a fun job. Also, something pretty awesome happened today: my rating on my profile went from four stars to five! It made me feel really happy that enough people gave me a five-star rating to bring it up. Thanks; I'm glad I'm a likeable person. Other than all that, my day was pretty normal. Relaxing and doing little to nothing was fun. Also, I'm doing a little Bionisperiment...experiment, Bionicle-style. I think that you'll find this...interesting...
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August 27th, 2008 Just wanted to say I managed to survive my third day of school and that I can hardly wait for the weekend to come...already. It's tiring me out REALLY BAD. I've already been jam-packed with an hour of homework each night, and it's stressing learning all this new stuff, lockers, teachers, new friends...ungh. It's nice to be able to come to BZP and other forums and have friends and all to talk to. I can always count on there being someone out of 40,000 people to chat with. I would get a more detailed blog, but I should already be in bed. UPDATE: I added a Pseudonyms Content Block! Now no one has to remember the confusing pseudonyms; just look at the block to see who they are.
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Today in History we were told to find and label certain areas/locations on a copy of a map. I was quite disappointed to see that Madrid, Berlin and London had to be labeled while Paris and Rome were left off of the list. In my experience Paris is much more influential on the rest of the world than Madrid currently is (though Spain was a large power in the past). Rome is easily the most important city in history, IMO. So I'll be labeling those on my map, even though it wasn't assigned. I also managed to make myself look rather stupid today. I was attempting to locate Berlin (capitol of Germany, for those that my not realize) on the larger map. A star was located in the North-East of Germany, but the label for it was illegible. The teacher was talking to someone at the moment, so I waited for him to finish to ask if that star was Berlin. However, when I asked, I pointed to the star in North-East Poland. Why do two countries near in location and size have to have capitols in the same area of them? Four-day weekend!
