Monday, September 22, 2003

Subject | "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).

Posted by Kylara @ 09:45 PM PST

Wednesday, September 10, 2003

Subject | "quizzes"

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So I was doing homework and very bored when Earl sent me the link for one of those "Test your friends on you!" quizzes on Allison. And I bombed. So in revenge, I made my own here:

How well can you maneuver through my mind? (Why would you want to?)

So I hope you all have fun with that. Bye now, off to do homework!

Posted by Kylara @ 08:32 PM PST

Monday, September 8, 2003

Subject | "HP Evil Fun"

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All I have to say is, that could not be more right. Evil overlord, baby.

Drama is evidently doing The Crucible for the fall play. Sounds hard :O but if our drama department does it, good for them, and I'll go see it ^^ Said so on Christina's blog (see above).

School was quiet today. I think I'll stay in Childress just because it's really hard getting out and if I did get out, I'd have to drop Spanish III and I don't want to do that. So, the bastard it is. Greaat. We have homework tonight, too. -.- Must go do now, so that I can get it done. Have US History, Calculus, English, and Computer Science too. (Wow, that's just about everything, except Spanish..) If I'm lucky, I get done before eight and I can read some novels and sleep. :O

Posted by Kylara @ 04:41 PM PST

Saturday, September 6, 2003

Subject | "Standard Back-to-School"

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Well, here is my standard "This is how school was, these are my nazi teachers" entry. I had a short one, but that was just practice. I see Christina and Andrew have already written very entertaining ones, and now that I have time and energy, here is mine. Just don't expect the entertaining part (I expect you to all drop dead by the end of this).

First period is Ms. Grogan [Honors English 11], and though Andrew compared her to a dictator (I would agree, to an extent), I think I'll really enjoy this class. A lot of my friends are in it, and we had some fun making fun of Stacy when she tried to FORGE HER MOTHER'S SIGNATURE. Okay, not really, but Stacy forgot to get her guidelines because she had written her mother's name down (she thought it wanted a name, not a signature), so Grogan announced to the class, "Everyone, peer pressure works! Everyone stare at Stacy!" and we all Stared at Stacy, who of course broke down into tears sobbing hysterically.

[she might've been laughing, but the world will never know]

I read one of Spencer's comments on a blog somewhere and it said something about a character in The Maltese Falcon being described as a blonde Satan. I told this to my sister (just as generally, mind you - I have a terrible memory) and she had a difficult time believing me.

Pop trivia: Lucifer's name before he fell from the heavens was apparently Lucifel, not that this is the type of thing that turns up in Trivial Pursuit.

At any rate, I'm actually looking very forward to Grogan (this is a cue to scream, "NERD!" and throw wadded up pieces of notebook paper at me) because of my last English teacher, whom we all know very well by now. Grogan earned my eternal affection when she asked our class if we had read "Old Man and the Dead Fish" last year - She Who Shall Not Be Named revered that book and made us endure her reverence of it for three months. Bleck.

I saw said teacher, btw, in the counseling office, and a chill passed through me. Alice and I instinctively cringed and hid behind a very skinny plant. Thankfully, she bypassed us >.>;

Second period I have Pauer for Calculus AB AP [what a terrible class title], and there's nothing really much to say about this class. It's math. Math sucks. I hate math. Math hates me. And that is a cycle that's never really changed, either. Pluses about this class: Pauer is very nice and I get to harass Earl (marry me, my love!). Minuses: there's this little sophomore Korean boy I used to go to Korean school with, and he and another sophomore I know are in the class with me. Said Korean boy likes to, in lieu of saying "hello", tap me on the shoulder and do some head bobbing thing so I that I acknowledge his presence. I guess if I really made him, he's Korean enough that I could make him call me Nuna [older sister], but what would be the point? [Plus, there's something that really bites about having underclassmen in your math class..]

Third period is Computer Science A AP. Uh, we have a lot more work than we did in C++ programming. Weiser is the same. Nothing else I can think of, though I have a crapload of homework to do for her.

Fourth period: this bites. Don't want to talk about it until I'm out of it (it could jinx something). But, Christina is in there, along with some other people I haven't had in a class for ages and ages. [Though Christina is part of the second category, I felt she deserved one of her own. That effervescent presence again.]

[lunch] Wow, our lunch group has been poisoned again. That girl (you know who) needs to go away >.>;

Fifth period: Spanish III with Mills. It's a fairly ordinary class, can't really think of anything to say about it. Lorik is in there. *waves*

Sixth: Thomson for AP US History. I didn't like my ID group (buncha slackers), so when Kristyn needed an ID group (she had been absent), I ditched mine without remorse and joined her. Justin and some guy name Narek needed a group, too, so they joined. Looks like all but two groups in our class have four people :O lots of ID's to do (for the uninitiated, it's a description of an event/topic and its significance to U.S. History). I need to call them and see who's going to print this junk out..

Wrote a review on some Nora Roberts books at amazon, and one particularly scathing review recieved a "2 out of 5 people found this review useful". AHAHAHA, that's pretty bad :P well, at least I know someone read it and decided not to buy the book or something (it really was pretty damn bad - not even good trash! the horror).

Listening to the first ending song of Hikaru no Go. It's pretty good, but Sanosuke's voice actor from Rurouni Kenshin still has the best singing voice [oh my gaawd o.O].

Quote from a romance novel I was reading:

[Business] Traveling used to appeal to me more.. Before I had a wife who invited me to nail her on the kitchen floor.

I love Roarke. He's so cuddly. ::huggles Roarke:: Anyway, now I'm going to go do some work. I have English, Comp Sci, and History homework, due at varying times during the next week, but I know they'll all assign more >.<; Man, I just want my romance novel ;_; it comes out in a week and a day.. *sobs*

*Linked Spencer's new blog, Lorik's new blog, Sarah, Christina, and Andrew's new blog* whee.

Posted by Kylara @ 07:53 PM PST

Thursday, September 4, 2003

Subject | "School"

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Well, it's official. School sucks.

All things considering, things didn't start off so bad. All my classes - excepting one - are just dandy. Ms. Grogan is great (no more Beidelman), Ms. Pauer is really nice, Mr. Thomson seems fantastic, Ms. Mills is - well, we didn't do much but she seems nice - Ms. Weiser is same as last year (just fine), and so it looks okay, even though I got a lot of homework. Oh, and there are two TENTH GRADERS in my Calculus AB AP class, which I think is really weird (they took pre-cal this summer, apparently).

Mr. Childress is insane and I'm transferring out of his class first thing. End of story. I know I told Christina I'd stay in there, but he's nuts, and I figured that out after finding out that 90% of his classes last year averaged a 1 on the AP.

Also, any teacher that calls his students "freaking little bitch" is not exactly one I want to deal with. Oh, and he acts like a three year old (what is he doing, bashing Mr. Thomson, Marguay & Haynes?).

So I'm going to try to get into AP Physics. Let me rephrase that - I will sit in Ms. Inga's office and call my mom until I get into AP Physics. There we go.

Posted by Kylara @ 06:37 PM PST

Wednesday, September 3, 2003

Subject | "Kyaa"

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Well, the summer is over.

Dusk of the last night has already come.

The night is falling, and will soon crush my very small brain.

If you couldn't tell, yes, I'm feeling sad.

My sister and Sarah and Mr. Thomson's children have already started school. As have the poor saps at Saugus. But they get a week longer winter vacation, so they suck.

Here I sit, having finished only two magazine articles for Grogan.

Let's see if I can finish the next two within the hour.

My heart breaks.

I want chicken. Spicy. With tabasco sauce.

I do not want to go to school tomorrow. My heart weeps with sadness. There go the days of leisurely reading fanfics with lines like, "Kiss your witch, Malfoy." My life is truly over.

Oh, well, Remember When comes out on the 15th, so I am a happy child. Three cheers for Lt. Eve Dallas and an "ow~" for her husband Roarke. (That doesn't make sense unless you've read the series, so fear not.)

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Posted by Kylara @ 07:53 PM PST