Darn!

I was just getting used to Ms. Bentley, and now she's not teaching PreCal next semester.  If this had happened earlier I would've been happy, but I was just starting to get used to her.  Instead of getting angry, I would just laugh at all her follies.  I guess it's all for the better though, because it is pretty ridiculous that they had her teaching three subjects.  As long as my schedule isn't screwed up and they keep all the classes together, I'm happy.

Anyway.  Fall semester is over!  Hooray!!!!!

So I went to Benihana's tonight.  It was good food, but WAY too much of it.  Like wow.  The courses just kept on coming, and we kept on eating, and I always find it amusing when they ask if we want dessert after they just saw how much we ate and we look like we're about to burst.

If anybody DOESN'T know by now, the title for Harry Potter 7 came out today.  I won't say it in case someone still wants to go to JKR.com and open the door and play hangman.

What do I think of it?  I don't really have a strong opinion but I feel like I should comment on it since I'm updating today anyway.

At first I was like, "that's a horrible title!" but I remember hating Half-Blood Prince at first too.  It took forever for that one to grow on me, and I'm starting to like this one already.  So... I approve.  I'm still pushing for July 7 too.  - crosses fingers -

The longest week in the history of the universe...

...has officially ended.

Thank goodness.

So the Huck Finn test (McMenammy) kicked my butt, but I kicked the Physics test's butt.  PreCal test... could have gone either way.  Too bad I needed a high English grade more than the others... blah.  Timed writing blitz?  Wish me luck.  How is she going to have the time to grade all of those timed writings anyway?  It takes like a month just to grade one per person and now there are THREE.

Satire projects = mucho awesomeness.  We had some seriously amazing ones in my class.

So I finally put a new CD in my car and I made it to Kroger and back in the course of one 5:59 song plus about 10 seconds of the next song.  That's crazy fast, and I was not speeding (excessively).  I think I hit green on all the lights.  Fascinating, huh?  Yeah.

By popular request, our music history project -

Unproductivity at its finest

I do believe today was the most worthless day of high school ever.

Music history - study hall
German - quiz which hardly counts, listening to presentations
French - veteran's day memorial
Physics - lab in which two group members do most of the work.  I tried to help, but there was only so much to be done.
Precal - work day.
English - study hall
US history - watching Veteran's Day slideshows.

I could have stayed home and not have had any serious makeup work.  I know I would have been even more unproductive had I stayed home, but my bitterness is fueled by my intense desire for a donut in first period today. 

On a sad note, my beloved fish Celery died today.  If I had a picture, I would put it up, but alas, there is only a video to watch if you are just that bored.  He's the orange one.  The other fish is Potato.

If you really want to hear about it, it was horrible getting him out of there because the poor little guy sank instead of floated, and the net is as big as the tank diameter-wise.  There's nothing more depressing than a dead fish floating around in your tank as you swirl around the water trying to get him out.  

Because I'm not ending with that visual image, the Houston Dynamo are playing in the MLS cup on Sunday!  (even people like me who don't know much about soccer can tell European leagues are better but, I have an odd city-pride) Hoorayyyyyyy! 

Hell Week

I was hoping that with the nine week grading period with the same amount of grades needed, the teachers wouldn't be cramming in all of their "oh my gosh, I still need another major grade!" tests in one week.  Oh, how very wrong I was.  Today concludes what was for most of us, our first "Hell Week," as they are so endearingly called, of the school year.  I guess I see the necessity for progress reports, but holy crap, they make life for everyone so difficult.  In order to have legitimate progress reports, we need to have a minimum of grades, but that creates our infamous "hell weeks."  If the progress reports only have one test, it could have been the test that we completely bombed, so we don't do well on the progress report even though our final average will be fine.  Then our parents just get mad because they don't understand the number of grades that we have on the progress report is disproportionate to our final average, if that's the case.  In English freshman year, I'd be failing a progress report because the only daily grades on there were the SAT quizzes. 

I am really, really disliking Bentley.  I'm not using the word hate because she really isn't a horrible teacher, but there are some things she does that really, really bug me.  For example, in a part of our test, the instuctions say to write the answers in terms of pi, and one answer was zero, so I wrote "0(pi)" but she took off half a point because apparently I was just supposed to write 0, which to me, isn't in terms of pi.  I didn't bother arguing with her over this for half a point, partially because I was afraid I would be so pissed at whatever she would say that I would cuss her out or something.  I don't know how I'm going to be able to stand her the whole year.

The good news is, the Astros won last night and are currently winning again! YAY!

Fish and Grey's Anatomy

Our fish that was named Addison (Shepherd, from Grey's Anatomy if you don't watch it) died this morning.  Is this a sign that Meredith will choose Derek and Addison will go...er, somewhere?  Personally I like Addison more than Meredith, but I think Derek/Addison is over anyway.  Poor Addison!  Maybe she and... er... there are no available decent guys for her to hook up with.  Maybe that indian (or maybe hispanic?) dude from the psych ward. 

There's another fish named Denny.  He hasn't died.  A sign that they will make the last episode of season two someone's dream?  I think so.

So Brad Pitt has declared that he will never marry Angelina Jolie until there are no restrictions on marriage.  I wonder how Bush reacted to that.  OMG BRAD WILL NEVER MARRY ANGELINA! I'D BETTER STOP MARRIAGE RESTRICTIONS BECAUSE ANOTHER CELEBRITY MARRIAGE IS JUST WHAT WE NEED!

My half-birthday was yesterday.  I never remember my half-birthday on the actual day.  It's always a day or two later when I think, "hey, I missed my half-birthday, AGAIN!"  Happy one-half plus 1/365 birthday to me!

My mom heard from Mrs. Shapiro who works somewhere in the CHS administration that juniors don't get class ranks until the end of September.  So there's another rumor for you.  For me, it came from a reliable, not-a-crazed-student source, so that's what I'm going with at the moment.  You're hearing it from a crazed student, so do what you want with that info.

It's old news now, but RIP Steve Irwin!  Because damn it, that guy was just fucking cool.  Crikey.