Whew, SAT II's are over. I do believe I've failed, but they're over nonetheless. Time to get started on precis ( Read more... )

Be damned Lewis and Clark video! Since the meeting was from 5 to 9 PM, I didn't want to stick around the school until then. I asked Daisy to drive me back at 5. Neither of us had our drivers license. Neither had an insured car. Yet we went anyhow. Then of course, her parents found out the car was missing, and promptly called my mother. Both Daisy's ( Read more... )

The Once and Future King is an awesome book. I just wanted to get that out in the open. I heard some freshmen complaining about it today. Gawaine, the hothead, is so amusing (with great handwriting too). I don't understand all the obsessions with Lancelot; he slaughtered Gareth and... the other one (I forgot his name, but he was negligible anyway. ( Read more... )

Although it's the second six weeks (which is almost over) of school, everything is finally starting up. Not the small club stuff, but we're getting really into the material in Octathlon, UIL, Academic Challenge, etc. Not to mention school. I never knew Bulfinch's Mythology was available online in its entirety. Looks good. Legends of Charlemagne, ( Read more... )

"I am happy when..." I had this nice thought to write about how happy I feel when I win. Apparently, that's a little too ambitious for my English teacher to handle. I mean, some kid writes about how happy they are when they have no homework, and she loves it. That's so childish and sophomoric! Lmao, and there were piles of papers from students ( Read more... )

So happy the PSAT and related stresses are over! It was only a practice anyhow; it's not my junior year yet. Math was ridiculously easy. So were the sentence completions and analogies. I'm sure I could have done well in the critical reading if I had more time! I was cutting it close in each section. Geez, I need to speed up my reading skills. And ( Read more... )

Four day weekend. Rejoice! I think it's Columbus Day or something. Happy (late) Thanksgiving to anyone living in Canada. Too bad I signed up to volunteer this weekend. I really needed that rest. I think I accumulated enough hours in freshman year (around 75 hours) to meet the graduation requirements. But I suppose I have to keep up that whole model ( Read more... )

The Count of Monte Cristo is so exciting! Are the characters really so definitely good and evil? I can't wait to find some free time just to read. Unfortunately, Jane Eyre still requires my full attention for now. And PSAT on the 18th! It's just a practice though, since I'm a sophomore. I feel like I'm gaining so much more knowledge when I'm ( Read more... )

The public library received a grant to restock their books. My mother has always been so miserly, never buying books for me, saying I read too much. The entire classics section is revamped. New books everywhere! I took the liberty to check out Dumas, Dostoyevsky, and quite a few others. Oh, the anticipation ( Read more... )

Allow me to outline my day tomorrow. First, wake up early to go attend an Octathlon meeting at 6:30AM. Go visit the band or orchestra director to inquire about UIL. First period, get back a Statistics quiz that I most likely failed. Second period, take a Calculus test. Relax in third period Computer Science; more accurately, study for the remaining ( Read more... )