So apparently everyone at Lincoln High who's in precalc or calc has to take this national math test. Hooray for me skipping ahead and not having to take it! Now we're not doing anything in my Advanced Physics class because everyone else is taking the test, and i'm booored but happy that i don't have to think because i'm too tired ( Read more... )

hmmmm. If i seemed to disappear this weekend, it was because of Wesleyan honor band (first chair! yes!), and i shall now proceed to tell you the tale of our scary Disney director. According to Pat Fortney, he's one of the "top 5 band directors in the country", apparently because he directs movie music down in California and Fortney has 4 Disney ( Read more... )

ahhhh jazz ( Read more... )

Spent most of tonight writing an essay for the Presidential Scholars application. It only has five of them to do!!! The whole time i was alternating between a good work ethic because i actually thought of an interesting essay to write, and general expectation-rooted stress. The latter was strongest when my mom came in and started telling me how ( Read more... )

Lincoln High SHOULD'VE won the Nebraska Science Bowl and gone to D.C. for nationals, but noooooo! Okay, i'm going to tell the whole sad, strange story because it really was very, very unfair ( Read more... )

Ah, silly internet quizzes; at least the "real" (paid-for) version of this one is "independently, scientifically verified".


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Had a very interesting Science Bowl practice today, especially since our competition is on Saturday and i really, really, really hope we're ready for it. However, it was also interesting because of the usual strange questions that pop up in the "official national competition" questions we use to practice. I've never been to nationals with Science ( Read more... )

I went to my little sister's concert tonight - the big All-City Band/Orchestra & Junior Youth Orchestra middle school concert they do every year. It was all right; obviously not up to the standard of a high school honor band, but pretty good nonetheless, especially the JYO (that's the one my sister's in - i'm so proud of her!). I was in the All- ( Read more... )

I finally got my LiveJournal!!! (obviously ( Read more... )