I love finding these. Recently, my computer was reformatted and so I need to go on a desperate search through my email to find all my favorite gifs. I’ve found CSI gifs as well as hilar conversations with Kyla.

Edward\’s Convo

Esteban: i am very much looking forward to 24 hours from now when it’s all over

So today my faithful mail man, Gary, finally delivered my AP World History Exam results. Well I got a 3, which is good, it means I passed. But there is a downside to this happy news, and that is that most colleges do not accept the score of a 3.  I personally don’t really care whether I got the best score or not, I’m just proud of myself for taking a college exam, and passing it at my age. And hopefully the colleges I apply to will be impressed that I took the class so early in high school and that I did reasonablely well on it.

So here’s one of my blogs that I wrote May 9, 2007.

Ok. so we started our AP exams…and as I’m sitting there, failing my calculus exam, I’m thinking..well maybe we only want the love that we have at the moment beacuse it’s all we have. Whenever people get in a relationship, they think, well maybe this will be the one. but that’s most likely not going to happen. maybe it’s just me being overly pessimistic about my life. but it’s legitimate reasoning. We work hard to keep the ones we like/love close merely because we feel that we need the support/ love/ protection or whatever it is that you get from said person. Sometimes I wonder if it’s worth it. Is it worth risking hurting yourself in the fall. The quote, “It’s better to love and to have lost, than to never have loved at all” about sums it up. but I don’t know it I believe that. being someone that’s never been in love…I guess I haven’t felt the joy or ecstacy of feeling love. Who knows. I’d rather just wait until I find, the one. but who knows when you’ll find that one? the one we’re really meant for is sitting out there looking for you, just like you’re looking for them. That’s weird. in my opinion.

I’ve learned that lots of things come in a relationship package. some good. some not..It’s all your interpretation. I mean, I loved being in a relationship. knowing that someone was there for me and really cared that I was happy and whatnot. but sometimes, since we’re technically not together right now, I kinda like being single. I just get sad when I see my friends with their loves and they’re all happy, go lucky. I feel left out. and then i remember how much I liked being with Jamie. It’s kind of sad if you ask me. we were together what, almost 3 months, and i still like him. sometimes i think maybe it’s just because he was my first boyfriend so technically, i’m inclined to feel that way about him. which brings me about to my first topic…I try to keep him around. I want to keep him around. but the problem arises when I think of why. Why do i want him around? because he hugs and kisses me? because he makes me feel special? or is it just because I want someone to fool me into thinking they like me again? I can’t help but think that maybe I’m wanting him back for the wrong reasons. but I also can’t help but to think that he still likes me and that the only reason he wanted a break was because he was scared. I could totally believe that, by the way..but I know that I still like him and that I’m not ready for our relationship to be over. I don’t think we’re done yet. There’s still something between us that keeps us coming back for more.

I’ve also thought about what Walter has said, that he may have cheated on me. and every single person i have said, well maybe that’s a possibility has said, “No. Jamie wouldn’t do that to you. He liked you too much. You were too important to him and he was so happy with you. Plus he’s not that kind of guy.” and i thought so too. I never believed he would do that to me..or any girl that is.. but he just confuses me like no one else ever has. lol. as Nicole put it, “one day he can’t take his hands off me, and the next he barely speaks to me” what the hell is that about?

I just wish he would tell me what he’s feeling. I know I hate sharing my feelings with some people, but I need to know what he’s thinking. I want to be there for him, but if he’s looking another direction, maybe I’m just wasting my time now.

I also need to get over my fear of confrontation. I mean, believe me, I used to be even worse than I am now..but I still have a problem with it. I make up excuses whenever I can’t talk to Jamie about this issue of what we’re doing. I feel bad about it. I need to talk to him. I need him to know what I’m feeling..but that’s hard for me to do. I’d rather share my feelings with someone I don’t even know. for some reason, I can tell my friends that I’m not extremely close to more than I can tell my close friends. I guess I think that people who don’t really know me that well won’t judge me. and they don’t know my past and they have no real attachments to me. maybe that’s crazy. but it’s me. lol. anyways. if we were to get back together, I need to be able to tell him when I don’t like something that we’re doing without being afraid. I tend to think that one of the reasons I can’t talk to him about where we’re headed together is because I’m scared that he’s gonna say, well if it’s all or nothing, I’m going to have to say it’s over. I’m scared of that rejection.  Cameron and Nicole think that I need to ask him out myself..I don’t know if I can do that. I don’t think I have the guts to do it. and if I was truely comfortable with him, I wouldn’t have to worry about thinking he’d reject me. although, everyone thinks he’d say Yes. I just don’t know what to do. I’m tired of waiting to see what’s going to happen. I want to know now where this is going.

Because today I finished my AP Exams! That’s right, I am done with tests that can be so daunting, they rival the SAT’s. However, with the right teachers and preparation, I am glad to say that I am feeling confident in my performance! And now, it’s time to relax until the end of June…

Since AP exams are this week, I miraculously always seem to find other things to do instead of studying. Here are some of those things:

1. Chores. I never do chores but lately I constantly find things to clean, like in between the keys on my cell phone. I never noticed that it was dirty before.

2. Having conversations with my two dogs. You know, sometimes I think they can actually understand what I am saying.

3. Reading the bible. Oh my goodness I know! The other night I was supposed to go over chemical bonding but I ended up reading Psalms and Proverbs. God knows I need all the help I can get for my AP exams!

4. Brushing my teeth. I’m not saying that I don’t brush my teeth! But lately I brush it every hour or so.

5. Reading Indonesian magazines, which I cannot understand at all. I do not know whats going on but I like to look at the pictures and try to guess.

6. PERFUME! I do not think this needs explanation. Just last night they announced a new tour and album. Plus they are having two MASSIVE concerts this weekend, in which they performed their new song. Oh, and the concerts are going to generate alot of pictures which I look forward to to ease….EASE THE PAIN of not being able to go to their concerts. All this new news is extremely overwhelming. I am so giddy and squealish that I cannot stay still and I really look like I have turrets or something because I am fidgeting and twitching all the time. You would think this excitement would die down after an hour or two, but I have been like this for a couple of days already…do not call the doctors please!

7. Having the urge to read intense classic books. I particularly enjoy reading, especially if I am reading something I like. Since high school, I have not been able to read a good book in my free time. Recently though, The Art of War by Sun Tzu has captured my interest. Why do I want to read a book that is about military strategies and warfare? That is an extremely good question.

So Saturday is winding down unfortunately. I have an AP Chemistry exam on Tuesday and an AP Economics one on Thursday. I honestly really need to get to studying. Haven’t you all noticed why I have been blogging so much lately? I mean, three blogs in one week! That is insane! I am, after all, the epic failure in the blogging world. Anyway, I have got to update my iPod with new songs. Even though I did that yesterday, I have the urge to do it again today. Aha

I skipped school again today. It’s so I can study for my imminent AP exams next week, but that’s not really working. I’m taking four this year, which isn’t really disastrous (I took six last year). It’s much more of a pain to study for an AP than to take it, and waiting for exam day to come is probably the worst part. Yet that’s a problem I undergo every year. What’s specifically so bad about it? Well, I want it to be over. I mean after my last AP, which is this Wednesday, I will be free. Only two days of classes left after that: classes for which my grades are amazingly decent for  a second semester senior. But after those classes, I can look forward to so many better things.

For instance, PROM!!! I have my dress, I have my shoes, and I have a date. So what’s wrong? Well, I keep second guessing my date. I think my dress could fit me better, and it was a little too cheap (half the price of my Winter Ball dress). And I think I’m going to fall flat on my face when I walk in my high, high heeled shoes. Plus, my junior prom could’ve left me with a better impression about the whole traditional Prom experience. I mean, I agree that Prom is probably a ridiculous waste of money for a lame party. YET, I’m still excited. Because I know that this prom represents one of my last chances to bond with my class and with my friends. I’m excited about our pre-prom plans and the actual thing. I plan to take millions of pictures and I plan to force myself to have fun, but it shouldn’t be that hard. I’ll let you guys know how it went…

Second thing I’m excited about: Laguna Beach. My school takes a senior trip every year to Laguna Beach. We stay at this resort place for two days. It’s supposed to be AMAZING! The best part: almost the whole class goes (98% on average) every year. We’re a small school and our senior class has less than 200 students, but we pretty much take up the whole hotel. Apparently, the hotel staff loves us. It’s supposed to be amazing, and I cannot wait to go!! I have this new swim suit, and I’m rooming with my BFF, which is no surprise. We leave the day after prom.

As soon as we come back from Senior Trip, it’s senior prank day. I’m in charge of one of the pranks which I’ve been planning, and it is just going to be awesome! I’ll have to work on implementing the prank the night we come back so the next day, the underclassmen will get the surprise of their lives. It’s not even a bad prank. Shhh!! I can’t give away details until after the fact, but look forward to a post about that.

After that, it’s the wrapping up of the school year, with various ceremonies (such as inducting the current juniors into their senior status) and then finally Graduation. I have to buy a dress for graduation, that’s simple, casual, yet still pretty! This dress is what I’ve been thinking of

but I still have to actually find it in the store. I’m slightly sad about graduation, more than excited. <3

And that’s just the big stuff… I haven’t talked about getting yearbooks, or getting my hair done, or spending time I can squeeze in with my friends or the last day of classes. The year is coming to an end in a rush, and I’m not even sure how I got this far. 

Moral of the Story: Life’s been good to me, and it seems like in the imminent weeks, it is only going to get better. You can see why I don’t want to study for AP Exams right?

Muah, <3

Yesterday I was at Barnes and Noble to try to pick up the FLCL Manga (which, by the way, is horribly confusing, even by FLCL standards) and lo and behold, down by the AP review books, were a bunch of nervous kids who looked like they might drop dead of a panic attack if they could just calm down a little bit.

Well, it’s that time of year again.

Starting tomorrow, those of us slightly more motivated high schoolers get to hate our lives for the next two weeks for what are the much dreaded AP Exams. Or are they? This is my third year of AP Examing, and while I wouldn’t go so far as to say I know the tricks of the trade, I would go so far as to say that it’s really not as tricky as one would have been led to believe.

Last week, my friend who does Pterodactyl on Dinosaur Blog (or will, once he has time to post something) broke down the guessing penalty like so:

P = Number of Possible Choices

G = Guessing Penalty = (-1/4)

1/P * (1) + ((P-1)/P)*G = Net Gain

So what does that mean? Say you read one of the questions and realize that you’ve never seen those words used in a sentence before. Then let’s say you guess blindly:

1/5 * (+1) + (4/5) (-1/4) = 0 Net Gain

What that means is that that isn’t the best idea. Guessing blindly is numerically equivalent to leaving the question blank.

On the other hand, say you can eliminate one of the choices:

1/4 (1) + (3/4) (-1/4) = +1/16 Net Gain

With one choice eliminated, you have a net expected gain of 1/16th of a point for answering the question.

Now say you’ve narrowed it down to three choices:

1/3 (1) + 2/3 (-1/4) = +1/6 Net Gain

And now you’ve narrowed it down to two:

1/2 (1) + (1/2) (-1/4) = +3/8 Net Gain

So just because there’s a guessing penalty, as long as you can eliminate at least one choice, you’ll still either break even or even gain from guessing. Statistically speaking. Most teachers and review books recommend eliminating at least two choices before you guess, but once you hit that number, guess! Unless karma just hates you and you’re a bad guesser, then think about it a little more.

Anyway, now that I’ve said all that about how these tests aren’t all that bad, I need to go not post a whole lot over the next two weeks as I attempt to recall a year’s worth of Biology, Literature, Macroeconomics, and Calculus BC. And not start playing the copy of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars sitting unopened on my desk. That my friends are playing.

Screw it. I hate AP Exams.

에픽하이가 23일 시애틀 공연을 이어 24일 훼드럴웨이 320th (우리 집에서 한 5분 거리) 에서 Meet & Greet을 합니다 < CD랑 한정판 하숙티도 있는데… 난! 사인받고 싶을 뿐이고! 만나서 악수 한 번하고 싶을 뿐이고!

훼드럴웨이 우드먼트 초등학교에서 한 학생이 전염되어 학교가 일주일동안 문을 닫았네요. 에픽하이 아프면 안되는데 ㅠㅠ

아…. 전 이제 AP Literature 맥베스 에세이랑 월요일에 시작하는 AP Government 시험공부하러 갑니다.

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Following Epik High’s show in Seattle on the 23rd, they’re going to have a Meet & Greet in Federal Way on 320th (like 5 min away from my house W00t!) on the 24th <3

But… Why must the swine flu H1N1 virus come during this time?! I even have the CDs and the limited edition High Skool T… I just want to get it signed and maybe shake their hands ):

Federal Way’s Woodmont Elementary School closed its doors for 7 days because of a student getting sick from H1N1. I hope Epik High doesn’t get sick D:

Ahh… now I’m off to finish my AP Lit Macbeth essay and study for AP Gov exam which is on Monday…

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A past student of mine asked for some help studying for his AP Exams: Economics, Psychology and World History. Being here in Korea, he doesn’t have lots of texts he can buy at the local bookstore or at Amazon.com & get it a few days later. Korea also doesn’t have a lot of American texts and the accessibility is pretty sad to be frank. So, I thought up as many solutions he could take advantage of via the Internet and emailed him away.

I thought since he’s probably not the only one studying for the exams abroad, perhaps my tips might be useful to some kid in Ghana or in Fukuoka, Japan. It wouldn’t hurt I thought given there are 37 AP Exams on 22 subject areas and many standardized tests like it that many countries use as Academic standards to gain entrance into the top institutions. So, here they are:

1. Downloading Torrents (I reminded him that this is illegal & that he needs to do it with his parent’s permission & with caution; it was for educational purposes though and so I felt o.k with sharing this resource for now)

• First you need to download the application at bittorrent.com
• A good site that many find texts on in .pdf format is isohunt.com
• He wasn’t familiar with how to do it and so I told him basically you have to “type in “[thing you're looking for] torrents” into google or isohunt.com’s search”

2. Open Courseware (free University classes) are great resources for free education online

• http://ocw.mit.edu has been something I’ve been preaching about since it started in 2001
• Berkeley’s podcasts/video lectures: http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses.php (click on class -> then the audio icon on the left which shows it’s available)

3. It’s a little pricey, but maybe a good e-book reader is Kindle (Amazon.com)

• The most recent version of it is 2.0 on Amazon for about $359 & the older version is a hundred bucks cheaper
• let’s you download books for about $10 each which is good because it a) saves you time, b) allows you to access stuff in the U.S. so much easier, c) a little cheaper, d) more convenient, etc.

4. Wikipedia is always a great place to start to find out details about things

• not only gives you the basics, but
• gives you potential other places to learn more
• the main website on the college board was on the “other links” part of the article which was a nice reminder to start there

5. Online “student study guides” & “cheat sheets” type of sites likethe following are something I wish I had as a kid

• cliffnotes.com
• sparknotes.com – http://www.sparknotes.com/testprep/ap/
• antistudy.com – makes me want to be a high school student again!
  
• course-notes.com – http://www.course-notes.org/Economics/Outlines/Macroeconomics_15th_Edtion_Textbook – specific to his Macroeconomics exam
  

Ladies, gentlemen. I come to you tonight with grave news of a problem that is so ruthlessly ravaging the nation. Young, helpless children are dancing in the streets with rotting eyes and rotting brains, teeth about to fall out at the seams and hair that refuses to lay anyway but flat. Their shoes are stuffed with crooked stones, their hands are shaking, shaking…shaking. With their splitting stubs of pencils tucked behind the softest parts of their ears.

America, this is madness! How could you send the next generation out to the slaughterhouse, send them with empty envelopes crying for paper cuts, each child with a smiley sticker plugged right above their slowly sinking chest bones? And the clock gauges in both circles and gentle slopes, as they sit with legs crossed, arms folded, toes bent one atop the other. The paper beneath their palms is blank, and it is frightening. Where are the words the belong on the thin blue lines, where is the heading with name, date, period, DOB, SSN, and mean verbal SAT score? Friends, and lovers—I know there are almost too many out there to count—but I must say this, and I must say this clear: there is a plague that is destroying the classrooms, and if it is not stopped, it will eat alive humanity from its fingers down to its toes.

The instructors will tell you nothing is wrong. But they, they are the ones who fault the most. They lounge with linen skirts behind pinewood desks, lean back with their tailored trousers in padded chairs of fuchsia and maroon, sipping their lukewarm coffee and feeding the students with page after page of meaningless poetry, until they are left alone with only one small notation at the corner of the board, one slight of the teacher’s shaking hand, and it reads: May 1^st, 11:30 in the morning.

If only the teachers knew! If only they spent their hours plunging into twelve-page AP outlines instead of feeding their children the impracticable arts that explode their brains rather than tend them, if only a theatre performance could be replaced by Macbeth passage analyses—if only the history of the world could be learnt from worksheets rather than those who saw it first!

I come to you humbly now, a young girl of merely seventeen, with a simple desire, a quaint request: America, our teachers, whether they know it or not, are dousing the fervent fire that burns deep within the soul of advanced placement exams, and this great treachery must be stopped!

I was silent before, but I can hold it in no longer. My teachers—creatures of the day and red-penners of the night—are sitting idly by as students mark “just a test” in their green and yellow datebooks. But brothers, sisters, it is not just a test, it is an experience, one that will mark a student for the rest of his lowly life! Imagine: students who spend the hour before with flip-flops and sweat pants, eating flapjacks at IHOP with pecan syrup and eggs sunny-side-up to the side, these pupils with shutting eyes who bend their heads down to their tests just because they felt like Warcraft, or their boyfriend, or their dying cousin, was somehow more important than thirty-eighty multiple choice questions and three free response. No! We must have none of this! We must join hands together, as a community of learners, admirers, and the like, we must bond and break this through this terrible shackle. We must demolish this ignorance!

Now lend me your ear, for I must share a story that my own grandfather often told after pumpkin pie and shortbread cookies every cold Thanksgiving eve. With hair as white as the dripping wax of the candles, he would lean forward, tilt his crumpled napkin towards his wife, would sigh and then ask for silence. “It was during the War,” he’d say in that great Homeric voice, “when I was out in the Pacific, where the ships were just constellations in the sea. And my friends and I, we knew nothing. We knew nothing but the wind that blew into our trumpets, that blew through the hair on our arms, and billowed out our shirts when the Japs would dive their planes down into our decks. It was one October, one specific midmorning, half-cloudy sort of day, when one pilot in particular shot downward for our ship, and hit the band room where we used to play. We dragged the boat to the nearest island—a horror show of Asian corpses. My bunkmate, Darrell, said the British had been there as early as three days before, throwing bombs like confetti. And yes, the island was scratched thin with all their limbs: black elbows, knees, and feet. He told me to stay near him, to keep my pistol at close range. But still I didn’t listen, I just watched the sun drip in and out of the clouds, watched my hands dance in shadows of fatigues. I was near a rounded, wild bush, with my back to the leaves and my head still bent down as I studied my hands, when I felt something cold and hard against the soft part of my skull. I froze. Yet something made me turn—but so, so slowly. His hair, when I saw it, was black as the earlobes and knuckles at my feet. He looked at me with those blunt eyes and I could feel rivers rushing through my chest and to my brain. ‘You!’ he cried in hurried Japanese, ‘you have forty-five minutes to analyze these documents and write a well-organized five-paragraph essay in which you incorporate the data from the documents and your own personal knowledge. BEGIN!’ The last things I remember were the shaking of the three-page packet in his cracked and dirtied hands, and the slickness of the ink as I underlined my thesis.”

(Brief pause.)

I didn’t mean to cause a stir, but clearly, you must recognize the utter importance that advanced placement exams hold over our nation. You will never walk down the streets of New York without seeing numbers, ranged from one to five, stamped on the foreheads of every businessman off to work. You will never brush legs with a young woman at a bar without her glancing at your teeth, your eyes, and your ability to choose between A. I only, and C. II, III, and IV. And by God, as all the heavens as my witness, I swear to you that you will never, ever be handed another twenty dollar bill without your employer first asking you, Please calculate the wavelength of the standing sound wave produced by the tuning fork pictured in Figure 2.B above. It seems that we are at an impasse. After all, there is only so much time before the sacred exams fall from administrative hands in early May. Students are only human, I suppose, as are teachers, but we cannot stand to let this keep us down! Teachers, stop tossing your students to the out-of-doors, where they will surely wilt and whither in the sun. Instead, let them frolic in their windowless cubicles, where their minds will bloom like poppies. You must step up to the elevator, rise with it, carry your students to victory! Let them only write if it is in five-paragraph form, urge them to only sleep once they’ve named every president in order, forwards and backwards, and his party and his vice president, too. Help them see the light, see the rotation of curved lines to make an amorphous solid, and keep that light strong by perpetually finding volumes. And if your students flair out from path to an AP 5, I urge you, fellow countrymen, take a stick to their rear and beat them until they know the difference between confederal and federal forms of government! Because we are the future, you, I, every other 08671486. And if we cannot bring ourselves to study the true beauty of the world, a world filled with DBQs and Post-Modern passage analyses, then we will find ourselves an uninspired people, a people without the prize of faith, and the without the will to tuck equation sheets beneath our pillows as we shut our eyes to dream.

I am not a cheater. But, technically what does that mean. Does that mean that it is not cheating if I stop doing yoga while everyone is still in their pose trying oh so hard to be a yoga god? Does it mean that I am not cheating when I perhaps run a red light simply because it was yellow long enough that I thought I could make it?

At Trabuco Hills High School in Mission Viejo, 385 students took their AP tests. However, due to various reasons, students were able to text, talk and even consult study aids during the tests. For that reason, the testing company voided all of the scores and an attorney has filed a lawsuit against the testing company on behalf of the “non-cheating” students.

There is actually something quite pleasant about this lawsuit. The kids they have interviewed have actually said “some of us don’t cheat” and are quite bummed that now they have to re-take the tests. I couldn’t agree more. The testing company did not do much of an investigation and rather just voided the tests altogether. It is not saying too much of our students these days if they just assume everyone was cheating. I am not sure what results an investigation would turn out but it is nice to know that there are students actually mad about this. It is sad that the group of cheaters had to ruin it for the rest.

I will be curious to see what the outcome of this lawsuit is as it is difficult to predict the damages. I don’t know if the attorney is just asking for the results to be re-instated and the students perhaps compensated for their time but I do believe the damages caused will be an issue. It is likely the case will settle regardless but at least this is a case where people are trying to say they should not have to be punished for the cheating habits of others.

Fine, fine, yoga is not a good comparison of cheating here but it was all I could think of at the moment! Here is to all of the non-cheaters out there!

The international Baccalaureate was created with the intent of having an international curriculum that would be accepted by universities around the world. Now more than ever the IB program is more and more popular and I know that I faced the issue of determining if I should participate in the program starting my junior year of high school.

There are many things to consider when determining if one should enter the IB program. I know that the IB program still hasn’t caught up in popularity to the AP system in the U.S. or the A-level system in the U.K. and also the HSC system in Australia. But that doesn’t mean the program should not be considered. There are many opinions about taking IB’s and here is one opinion I read and thought to be interested from a Japanese student, Yuki Ota who is currently studying in the U.S.

Hi everyone!

This is my first word press thing. I’m new to it and it’s a bit confusing but so far I like it. I had a freewebs but it just got kind of boring so i swapped to this =) I think in here im mainly going to talk about skating stuff but probably some other stuff too.

So first I want to talk about my skating practice yesterday because it was amazing! I swapped to this new coach in around february but just recently started working with her on freestyle elements and working with her on jumps and spins was probably my best skating descision i’ve ever made because she’s helped me SO much. She’s fixed my double sal, my double loop, double flip and we’re working on getting my axel a bit better =)

Anyways so after we did double loops yesterday she said normally she makes her skaters land a sing lutz double toe before they’re allowed to work on double lutzes but I could be an acception (yay). So she had me do a couple single lutzes, then a single lutz loop backspin and finally we moved on to the real thing. my first attempt was suprisingly not too bad. it was only about 1/4 cheated. My 2nd attempt was a bit more cheated so she kind of explained the jump to me and made a couple adjustments and then sent me off to try it again and I LANDED IT!! I literally landed with my jaw open, I was so suprised! a double lutz on my 3rd try?! This coach is amazing. seriously shes like a jumping magician! I was really tired from jumping the whole session and didn’t feel like doing any more but she made me and I landed another! I was really really happy. So that was practice yesterday.

Im trying to think of what else has changed since I last did one of these… Oh! I’m getting new skates! I’m geting the intermediate jackson proflex boots as soon as the guy at our shop gets a jackson measurer (he just opened up so he’s trying to get his shop running. And other than that things have pretty much stayed the same. Oh, and i’m testing pre juv moves next wednesday. Holy crap. I just realized that. I’m really nervous but my coach says she thinks it’ll pass. I hope so…

So non-related skating stuff. Today at school I took my first AP exam (world history). I’m SO relieved to have it done with. When I finished the 3hour exam I stood up and literally felt lighter hah. So now I have my math and history sols and two projects and then I’m basically done with school work for the year! I get out june 11th and im SO excited.

Sorry I know this entire post is all over the place, but tomorrow I’m getting a new cell phone! I’m getting the blackberry curve right after school =] then heading to skate practice. Tomorrow should be pretty nice actually. Well I’m gonna go finish up my math homework and then head to the gym. Sorry this is really long!

Before I forget: John Edwards supported Obama! Hells yeah, about time too. Oh, and I voted for him. Crazy, neh? Me voting, I mean.

Ook, so I’m busy. How busy? Let’s break it down:

Monday-Wed was school, plus review sessions 5:30-7:30 each night for AP world. I’m doing a reaserch paper on Gulliver’s travels, doing a paper for TA class, and applying for an arts scholarship. I had to help pack up ALL the materials for the social studies sector of CHS, and I have a big final project for art class. That hurt, the packing I mean. And on an arm I dislocated? Yeah….dislocated. Like, out of the socket owe. Reaching over for a big o’l textbook in a funny way…rolled it back in with a crack and it’s still sore after days.

Tomorrow is my AP world exam (2nd one so far). It’s long, and like Matt Supple, going to rape me oh so hard. Heh, I didn’t say that. Haha, well yeah, I got my tux today, and the scholarship essays are due tomorrow. I got my two reccomendations (after Schafer filled out one for the wrong person), got lost on the way to a mandatory NHS meeting with Dopplegangster, and have another AP exam friday for AP Human Geo. I have work on friday night, saturday morning before prom, then prom, then my prom party, then work again sunday night. I have senior night at Meridith on Wed night, and I need to prepare like hell by making fistigons (including mine) and prints for Amimazement. And I’m working during AZ. Wonderful. Oh yeah, I forgot to post this: I got my job at Loco Pops. Yay(?) OH! And I need to go get converses an photo paper tomorrow so I can be prepared for prom and so I can print stuff for my scholarship.

Also, I hate my tux. *bleh* *needs a haircut*

There’s more, but I neglect to go on due to my pure stress. So…..laters’
Crazy Linkage: http://www.bobspicklepops.com/index.htm Of course it’s from texas

So.a lot has happened since my last post. How much? Well, since the “holy shit i’m busy” one, a couple things. But I digress. I’m currently on my bed in my terribly, terribly messy room. Why? Too busy to clean it. Not too busy to type a blog, but you know how it is. A man’s gotta have his priorities. History is busy, art is busy- AP exams for history and human geo are on the 16th and 17th, I believe, and art is some time before that. I’ve gotten half my slides made already, and Paige has them at her house, as she got them developed. Tomorrow I’ll look them all over, take needed re-shots and shots of ones I still need. Oh yeah, that. My porfolio is a bit short. Hehe, whoops. CURSE YOU, BREADTH! I need two more! But…but…there isn’t any more art. THERE ISN’T! Mrs. McIver says I need more paintings…but bloody hell they take so long and, well, I don;t like them as much as I like ink. Mmmmmm….ink.

On the lighter side of things, I got 3rd place in the West Regional Photography competition. So, I win a mini-protfolio. Yeah, awesome. Oh, and a certificate. That too.

So last night (was it? no, Saturday) I went to see Harold and Kumar: Escape from Guantanamo Bay. I’ll tell you right now, holy hell it was funny. Not as funny as the first one, but then again, the criminal that I am, I didn’t see it while stoned. All I will tell you is, racism is awesome, and NPH will live forever in my heart as the man riding the unicorn to the reason of being. I’d do an in-depth review, but i’m lazy. Well, burned-out, but they both seem like the same thing to outsiders.

A week ago, Brandon, Thomas, Matt, Jackson and I all went to the Shadowmoor Pre-release. Now, normally I rock limited. Rock it hard. Like, this friday? You know I’m drafting that shit up old-school. Anyway, for the draft. We all rocked at Brandon’s before getting to sleep around 4, only to wake up at five-thirty. We drove with Jackson’s Land-Rover to the Pre-release in Greensville, only to arrive an hour and a half early. Yeah. So we sat down in front of the closed DJ’s Cards and Stuff and played some multiplayer. Yeahhh I love my faeries. Inside, however, it got wooly. I lost a game by one life to an 8-year-old who’d been playing since 5. Damn goblin decks. Then came pack crack’n. I got shit, and the stuff I got passed was utter shit. I ran white-green, and went 2-2. That’s right. Final round 2-1, and the asshole didn’t want to tie for packs. And I say asshole because he was the definition of asshole. The entire time he was talking smack, ripping out shit with his little cheereader friend behind him. I lost game one, won game two, and got him to TWO LIFE in game three, and he matched me out for 10 turns before he swung for game. 32-2 and I couldn’t beat him. I’ve got to say right now, the guy, for being a total jerkoff, had demoralizing down to an art form. Kudos, dickweed.

So thats ann I can think of, really. My jaw is currently owned and crack’n a lot, for whatever reason, I have a pressure headache for the two days of flashfloods we’ve had, and my throat is sore and scratchy. And now I go back to work. Oh, speaking of work, I applied for a new job at Loco Pops, a place that sells popsicles on State Campus, next to Jimmy Johns. Pretty cool, if I do say so. I think they’re going to call me for a phoen interview, now, after the in-person one, but i’ll wait and see.

Fun Linkage: http://groceryeats.com/2008/02/28/big-macchicken/  This man is my hero. The Clark Kent of the food industry.

Busybusybusy AP exams jesus christ busy.

I’m busy.

I’ll be back later….because goddamn so much to do. *esplode*