:::FREEDOM:::

The last day of school for the week has just ended...oh yeah...3 day weekend!!
Today was a decent day. Swim team practice went well, though for the first time in ages i was actually tired after practice...too many dives...but it wasn't hard.

School went okay. English class was fun. The teacher divided us into groups w/ pple he thought we didn't talk to much, and we had to pick something to read in our groups from our English book, then talk about our reactions to it to the class. I got grouped together w/ Constance, Jorge and Vee...all friends...and we all are in Calculus together...so much for the teacher getting us all w/ strangers...
Anyways, we scanned our book and settled on a short story called "The Murderer," by Ray Bradbury. Good story...we all really liked it. Its a funny, futuristic story about a psychiatrist and his patient. The patient can't stand noise, music, the sounds made by machines, etc, so he "murders" them...aka...stuffs chocolate ice cream into the cassette player so it stops working...throws the toaster into the dishwasher...etc, etc....its really funny. I highly recommend it.
When we finished reading that, we still had about 20 minutes left before we were to discuss what we read. Since we got all into that first story, we went in search of another Ray Bradbury tale, and found his "A Story About Love" to read. That was also really great. It was sort of a love story. It was a little sad and a little funny...very twisted....lol. I can't really get into the plot...its not complicated, but it is hard to explain, but I recommend it.
I really like our English book...best one I think we've ever had. It has some great tips and things for writing, and it has tons of great stories, essays, poems, etc. I am always finding quotes in there that I love and that I want to remember. English class is great too. I love English as a subject, but this class is fun. Its like a seminar...we have all sorts of discussions and presentations and read lots of great works. Sometimes the teacher is a little too passionate about everything...but for the most part I love that class..

After school, I stayed after to help score the 10th grade science fair projects. Overall, they were considerably better than the freshmen's projects....which, quite frankly, isn't saying very much. Though there were some really pretty backboards and a few interesting experiments. But then again, there were just as many last minute, stick-it-together-with-staples-and-tape backboards that were obviously done the night before. And there were several projects whose experiments ranked along the same level of difficulty as the question: Which freezes faster, ice or water? Pretty elementary.

After school went to McDonalds and got me my chicken mcgrill sandwich and fried. That chicken sandwich doesn't look like chicken, but it sure is good. And fries...mmm...havent had them in ages. For the first time in forever i was able to eat them all. Yep. I was hungry. :)

:::ITS BEEN AWHILE.....:::::

since i last blogged. Sorry. I've been busy. Lets see...i left off talking about skating friday....

So ill skip to Saturday. Most of the day was taken up by a swim meet in the evening. It was against Bowie and Gwen Park (sp?) We beat Gwen Park but lost to Bowie, though that was expected. Bowie is the champion, and they have all the pple who have been swimming since they were like 4 years old. so we didnt have a chance. Though, from what i hear we weren't that far behind them, which makes me happy. My events went well. I did fly in the 200 Medley Relay and was in the 400 Free relay. I also did the 200 FREE...thats only like the second time ever i did that in a meet, so i was a bit nervous about how my time would be. I haven't done it in forever...but i ended up dropping i think about 10 seconds off my last time, so i was happy. Then i was in the 500FREE...i dropped time there too...i dropped 6 seconds, so now my time there is 8min 36sec....thats my best 500FREE time yet. oh yeah! i was boosted. The meet overall went well...though the POOL WAS FREEZING!! That was THE COLDEST pool i think i ever had to swim in! You would dive in, and the water would shock you cause it was so cold. I couldn't stand it!! It was like...put the temperature a few degrees lower and it would be ice. It was that cold. They must get the temperature right...

NEwayz....then Sunday and Monday were bad days... No school Monday for Dr. Martin Luther King Memorial Day....but i didnt get to do anything speacial cause those 2 days were spent doing work: I did RP ch.4.....that crap turned out to be 75 pages!!!! 75 pages!!! And on top of that i had an English paper to write (i straight b.s.ed that...) and 2 huge tests to study for. So as you could have guessed...i was in a pretty crappy mood. Anyone who talked to me during that time, i bit their head off...sorry pple....i was just real stressed...

The rest of the week was pretty mundane. Today i had two midterms. Midterms!! Can someone remind these teachers that we are still in high school??!! We shouldn't have to deal with midterms til next year!! The AP Psychology midterm went okay...i predict an 85%...it wasnt hard but a few questions i didnt know. Then was Calculus...o..m..g...it sucked. I had a 64% in the class before this test...im afraid this test might have brought me down to an "E" for report cards. It was horrible. I studied for it...dont get me wrong...but it was just so complicated...math is NOT my subject. why did i sign up for calculus again????