ESSAY IN ENGLISH. I wrote about how Yeats' line "A terrible beauty is born" is significant. Then I had to explain the common theme GOOD VS EVIL. ok. LAST ENGLISH CLASS OF THE YEAR!! yay.
WE PLAYED CHEMEOPARDY. And you know what? We lost. We missed two questions in a row, putting us behind 2000 to 2800. DAMN! If only I had said NON POLAR. We ALMOST got the final jeopardy, but it was no use. DAMN, so close.
We simply reviewed in history. Our last history class. Boo hoo. Final hug from George. Ok.
Melinda is getting better at her solo. Ski yelled at Erin for not playing loud enough. The clarinet solo needs work. Usual.
Now let me describe to you this dream I had. I'm naked, in the woods. There's a small brook. I'm holding this clear plastic bag, about the size of a large pillow, that's filled with peas or some green things. The ground is also covered in these peas. So I lay the bag among the green things, camoflouging it. I crawl onto the ground, looking for a 'ring'. I'm in the woods. Beyond it is a pool. Now I'm in a cave, a dry cave filled with sophisticated roots hanging. I see Corey Boyes. These roots are thin frail and delicate. They hang by strings, like little ornaments. It's like a museum in the cave, which is dry dirt all the way around. There's a Golden Rubik's Cube, with each side the same gold color, in a glass case. Neat.
Ok, I'm taking a test. I predict I will fail this test. I think it's in Hrbek's class. I think I'm gonna fail, but I get the highest grade in the class still.
Ok, now I am in some small church auditorium. It is some church financed by some cartoon company. I'm there to play in the instrument band I formed at Chinese school. Ok, now things get weird. I'm in some kind of dark, bar like, recreation center, with a bunch of students, just sitting around playing games. Most have card games. One kid has UNO, another has Double Trouble, etc. I have cards. Several kids are shuffling cards. The room is dark, with a bunch of tables and chairs like a restaraunt. So I shuffle cards. Then there's something to do with a gun being fired at an arm, and sonic the hedgehog. Weird eh?
Final poems of english today. I'm really gonna miss this class. Read some poems by Yeats, Larkin and Hearney. Yeah. I learned that any extra classes count as electives. I tried to go into the guidence room, but Zigler didn't have the keys.
We played chemopardy. I was in team three, which consisted of Me, Camille and Steve Hernandez. We won. We didn't miss a single question. I think we ended with 3700 points. I got some life savers as a prize. Yay.
We took a test today in History! I didn't even know! I didn't even study! oooooh. I heared Andy Z got a C on his test. I picked up ACT testing material.
Melinda can't really play her piccolo solo. We got pep band tonight. Our band didn't practice 'Jungle Boogie', despite the fact that I PRACTICED!!
I had some more weird dreams:
I'm at school, ok. I have a blue locker with a lock. Well, I come to my locker and find that my lock is gone. Almost all the locks on the lockers are gone. For some reason they took them away. At lunch, I sat a table with a bunch of ugly fat girls, but I left and joined Phil's table.
Our laundrey room was remodeled. It was just different. I got his science kit, ok, and it is an insect kit. It has crickets and caterpillars and other paraphernalia. I stuffed the caterpillar into a plastic cocoon, but shook it out. 'Digimon' was on the TV. I plugged my stereo to my PC, so I could listen to music on my PC through the large speakers. Well, all of a sudden I hear this low monotonous sound, and it's my sub woofer. It turns out the main plug was out, but everything kept working, but not right.
Immediatly, after a break, dad came and took us to the Eye Doctor. It turns out my prescription hasn't changed. Ok. Dad then took Frank to the dentist, where he was late 30 minutes. Then he took me home, which leads me to my PC so I can type this up, which is what I am doing right now while listening to Metallica.
Welcome to pep band. We played Ravenna today. God do they suck. The Bleacher Creatures weren't THAT active, but they were still active. Especially after I walk past them, and raise my fist in the air. Adam Roskoph even praised me for being the only flute that played (Nina was there alright). The stepettes were good. I talked with Bobby. Ok. Corey Boyes is going to be in my Physics class next semester. Yay. Looking forward to that one. Our team was winning when I left, 27-13.
It was warmer today. We read poems by Robert Browning in english class. Porphyria's Lover was the best. It's about a woman who was strangled by her lover by her own hair! I worked with Peter Abdalla on a venn diagram.
In chemistry, we worked in groups to create 15 questions to review. We chose three chapters. I chose chapter 4, because it had the oxidation stuff. Phil did chapter 3, and Alec did chapter 8.
To balance redox equations:
Fe2+ + MnO4- ---> Mn2+ + Fe3+
Ox #'s
Fe: +2------>+3
Mn: +7------>+2
Fe2+ ---> Fe3+ + e-
MnO4- + 5e- + 8H+ ---> Mn2+ + 4 H2O
Cancel electrons
And so on. Yeah. I'm thinking about taking AP Calc next year.
This is my theoretical schedule: English 12*, AP Calculus, AP Government, Phys Ed*, 3 Electives.
We discussed Post World War II. NATO, UN, Warsaw Pact, all that good stuff. I learned that I could take AP Gov next year. I might get a '3', which is a 'C'.
"You are preparing for a great battle, without knowing what you are fighting". - Mr Hasinski.
Matt Podmore came to our table and asked me to play rummy with him. I got a meld of nines, and Godinsky played with us. We stopped our game because he saw Mr Diersing.
I finished Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck. It was the best book! I loved it. It had such a moving and heartwarming plot. It was an excellent, outstanding book. Perhaps one of the greatest novels of the 20th century.
Me and Frank went to the library. We saw Corey Boyes working there, but he didn't notice us. I got three books:
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut.
Frank got Ranma 1/2 #17. So it goes.
I'm reading Catch-22 right now. There's 42 chapters. I'm on chapter 4.
IT WAS
FREEZING this morning!
I played rummy with Matt, Greg and Evan. I won the first game. Our second game was interrupted.
We watched a video on the poem
Rime of the Mariner by Coleridge. Because I was paying attention, I got to use my book on a quiz we took. I still missed about 4 questions.
Chemistry was boring. This is all I learned:
E = q + wFirst law of Thermodynamics.
Talked about the French Revolution and the guillotine in history. We played the game TO TELL THE TRUTH, on Napoleon. Did you know his penis was preserved? No.
SKI WASN'T HERE!!!! You know what that means.
Chaos.
I downloaded songs, and I am thinking of making a CD for the first time in months. Artists include:
Zebrahead, Fuel, Offspring, AFI, Smile Empty Soul, Lost Prophets and Audioslave!.
It wasn't that cold this morning.
In english, we read
Kubla Kahn by Coleridge. "In Xanadu did Kubla Kahn..." and so on.
I saw Dean in the hall.
We reviewed chapter eight in chemistry. That was it. I went to the bathroom.
Started the "Epilogue" chapter of the book. Learning about the French Revolution.
In band, we rehearsed our new music. THAT WAS IT!!
I tried working our Beta VCR. I must have broken it. I wanted to watch the movie
Slaughterhouse Five. Oh well. So it goes.
I read
The Chocolate War last night. I transferred our movie list to an excel spreadsheet. It snowed this morning.
I spent most of the afternoon reading my book. I finished it at 5:17 PM. It was excellent and very well written; very entertaining. Yeah, good book.
http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.htmlI began reading
Timequake.
