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09/22/2003 Entry: "Life, and why it bites"

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I have not blogged for over a week. Probably close to two weeks, although I am in no mood to look that sorta thing up. This blog entry will be of medium to lengthy length, due to a void in my blog that needs to be filled. You were warned.

At any rate, I can list many reasons as to why life sucks right now. I have the biology exam from hell in two days, and I started studying today and discovered that though biology has no real calculations (so far - if I'm unlucky, it'll turn into AP Physics), straight memorization about ester linkages and peptide bonds is a lot more annoying than you might think. Oh, and I see NO DIFFERENCE that tells whether an amino acid is electro-negative, polar or non-polar in the R groups of amino acids, which, btw, does not bode well for the future. I do have the four levels of protein organization down, but that's because they're named "primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary". Well, duh.

Oh, and whenever we discuss amino acids, I hear Ms. Thoreson's voice in my head chanting, "Pro-teins, are made up of-" and our class chanting back, "A-mi-no acids!"

I took two quizzes last week and got them back today, and I must say several things. One, it's a damn good thing I brought in extra credit for Calculus because I got a D on today's quiz, and two, it's a damn good thing that I have tons of participation points for Spanish III because I got a C+ on that particular quiz. I'm really getting quite depressed about it. Luckily, we have a vocabulary quiz that my Spanish teacher is giving us on Thursday (to help pad the terrible quiz grades our class received), and, well, vocabulary is easy (honestly, what do you think "la sierra" could possibly be?).

Calculus has a test this Friday, and I must say I'm going to Wednesday tutoring - and morning tutoring - in an effort to save my burning ass, but I did that last year, too, and I just scraped out with a B. I'm getting really discouraged, even if Hamick tried to comfort me by saying that the people around HIM did really bad. (He got a 100%.) Blah.

Also, I HATE JAVA. What a stupid programming language. I'm trying to input LETTERS - just LETTERS, for god's sake, and it makes me do all this stupid crap like "word1 = read.keyboardToken" commands. Whatever happened to cin << word1 anyway? What a bunch of BS.

My easiest classes by far are definitely AP US History and Honors English 11. Grogan requires some grunt work, while Thomson requires the ID's, but the tests are very, very easy. Not that we've had a whole lot of tests in Thomson yet, but it's great. His class is one of my favorites - I enjoy the subject and ask 90% of the questions in the room. It's fun stuff :) he talked about a preacher today (friendly guy Johnathon Edwards) and imitated his preaching to me, and with Mr. Thomson's eyes, I felt like he was preaching at me. :P That guy has this unnerving habit of making you feel like he's ALWAYS staring at you. It's effective, though - our class is pretty dang quiet, except when someone makes a joke (he told us the average age in the mid 1700's was about age sixteen, whereupon Michelle interpreted that as "average lifespan", and that was just weird :P).

Oh, and whenever he talks about Ben Franklin - does anyone else get an image of that mouse from the old Disney cartoons...? You know, the one who sat up in the kite in that storm? :P

So I started watching Law and Order the other day, and it's interesting, but I dislike the episodes about Detective Logan-who-got-banished-to-some-small-island because he's a pain in the ass. I also prefer, still, my pretty In Death romance novels with the kick-ass police officer Eve Dallas because she's just that :P oh, yeah, and because of ROARKE. Mmmm. I did notice that two of the female officers on L&O have short, cropped brown hair, which makes me wonder if this is supposed to be a police detective thing (Eve has brown hair too).

My weekend was good, btw - I lounged around Saturday, went to the movies [Italian Job] with Sarah on Sunday (she bought me the most adorable little Statue of Liberty, btw, and I just want to cuddle it), and rested. But that all ended and is somwhere in a gutter.

Btw, Allison got a 100 on my test, and I think she cheated -.- I designed that quiz to annoy all of you!! How can this be o.O

I think that since the last time I blogged I've picked up a book I wanted, Remember When, which made my heart be giddy for about three hours whereupon I put it down to do some homework. Which I have to go do now, so I will cut this short and start some english busywork on the Crucible (which is one depressing play, btw).