My unofficial top 5 for the week or until I do another top 5 list:

5. Reptilia by the Strokes
4. Figured You Out by NIckelback
3. Megalomaniac by Incubus
2. Stare at The Sun by Thrice (forgot how good it was)
1. Dare You to Move by Switchfoot


The English AP is Monday! That's all I gotta say.

much adon't

Poopy! Mom won't let me go see Much Ado, even tonight. That makes me sad. And you wouldn't like me when I'm not happy. And I never got to give JT my unofficial locker buddy gift which at press time was TBA still but it's the thought that counts!

But, if anything, this absence from school has let me relax a heck of a lot with APs coming and all. Lucky me, I guess I could say.

So, what fun have I been missing?

I think my folks are taking me to celebrate my pretty good SAT score this weekend. Hopefully I won't be coughing up a storm by then. Just thinking about coughing makes me wanna. Not good. But it's not that bad.

Hey, when I was bored earlier, I found out smoething odd for those of you people in trig. Graph the sin of the tangent of the cosine of x and then see how similar it is to the plain old cosine curve. At x=0 it's like .00001 off or something! Wonder why.

crap crap crap

Now is not the time to be sick. Not when you have APs around the bend and a video presentation with a group you think remembers you're in their group and homework up the wazoo and dammit I still have to run the mile for weight training, not that I want to or anything, and stupid Rincon health class for not being like the rest of my classes. It's easy, yes, but annoying when you can't be there to do it. We colored on Monday.

And I've realized that I simply do not curse in a constant fashion. So, because of that, I have this to say. NOrmally I'd say pardon my French but as some of you who read this know French, so... pardon my Swahili:




If you would feel offended by offensive language look away now






HOW THE FUCK DID I GET PNEUMONIA???????? That's what my doc says. Great....... Fluid in my lungs....... I could be a washing machine! Wishy washy your clothes are clean. I mean I don't feel THAT bad, at least not yet. And think, of all times, how timely. I guess I could use this time off from school to study for my tests, but I'll spend more of it complaining no doubt. Because someone told me I was a parrot. I still think I'm the reincarnation of the Loch Ness Monster. But whatever. But on Tuesday doc said it wasn't a threat to anyone, at least not yet.

dammit dammit dammit

ghosts of Rincon

Ok. So remember a while ago when I saw (I think) The MOuse That Roared at school and had this feeling like a York Peppermint Patty that something was following me. Well, it happened again. After heading homw from the original one acts (OMG! Annie got punk'd out! I think) and I'm passing by one of the light poles when all of a sudden there was the biggest CLANK I ever heard. And from I could tell there was nothing to produce such a noise. Then I felt this thing again. It was definitely a different presense than last time. This one was reluctant. I felt like I had to carry him to get him to cross the street. WOuldn't give me a name or anything, but it seemed nervous. ONce I got to the garbage bin at my complex, it was saying that it had to go back. SO I waved goodbye and went home.

Am I just losing it or is there some merit to all this?

APs are next week! C is for cookie. R is for rutebega. A is for appetite. P is for parsley.

And I was looking for Orion's belt again on Thursday. Didn't find it, though. Can't explain it, but it's my favorite constellation. Stupid linearity. But the moon was pretty and I think I'm looking for something but I don't know what.

happy happy happy happy happy happy

BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No.

I'm in the upper percentiles! Got my scores for both my SAT I and ACT today. I am so happyyyyyyyyy. Now it's not like I scored perfect or anything but I met my quotas.

My SAT is 1420. My goal was 1400. And if I hadn't gotten an 800 in math I would've been really pissed. Cuz that's the kind of perfectionist I am. A 790! YOu got a 790, you idiot! Sheesh; what crap you are.

See. that's how I think under normal circumstances. See last entry.

Also I got my ACt score. My composite is a 33 out of 36 overall, and that's 99th percentile. The four subject scores, in no particular oredr, were 29, 33, 34, 35. GUess which one is the reading score. I was surprised.

So hoorah all of these papers and essays and formulas have amounted to something. I'm a results kind of person. Everything needs to happen for a reason. Maybe that's I'm freaking out about college, cuz all I really care about is getting a job.

A little stressed out

Went to the stress thingy today. Partially it was for the Physics points, because frankly I'm waning in there; haven't turned in hw since like feb.

I thought the lady was really cool. The presentation was not what you expected. Basically she said it's how we think that gives us stress. So it IS our faults. Great; thanks for the encouragement.

My unofficial top 5 for the week or until I do another top 5 list:

5. Memory by Sugarcult
4. The Outsider by A Perfect Circle
3. Megalomaniac by Incubus
2. Reptilia by The Strokes
1. Dare You To Move by Switchfoot

I was doing air guitar when the video for Reptilia was on earlier; granted, no one was looking. Hey, how much do guitars go for anyway? Including amps and all that other good stuff?

Back to the psychology. SO she gave us this list of 10 common procedures that people perceive and from there get stressed- I apply to like 8 of them. That's not good, is it? Especially the one where you don't regard the good stuff at all and only concentrate on the bad. I do that so much; like when I found out I won the state math contest. My initial response was YAY I WON YAHOO but then I HAD to figure out how many I missed. It was like that in Mathcounts, too. I was soooo pissed cuz I missed one at the regionals. And here I was complainnig about getting a 44 out of 46 (it was a 2 point question). My problem is that I think that perfection is expected, the norm, and that anything less than that is crap. Now I know it's changed a bit since I came to UHS, especially this year. I came in this year I probably wouldn't get straight A's, but oh how I still want to stay above 4.0. I am killing myself for a little piece of paper that says "Graduation with honors" and am I just crazy or are my priorities in the wrong place?

Hearing: Are You Gonna Be My Girl by Jet on Fuse channel's Rockzilla program
Feeling: like not wanting to do any homework
Avoiding: Doing chapter 26 (but it's short!!!!!)

Crappy Title

It is now the morning after, There is daylight and I am moderately awake. I couldn't think of a good title to try and sum up the whole experience of last night. Now I don't think I'm the bragging type of person who'll do something and then shout it out to the world. But anyway in a weird way I wanna describe it through what was my list of possible title choices:

Puttin' on the ritz

Stupid arcsines

Hot, hot, hot

Losing my buttons

Jon and Klara are gonna make out?!!

Magical Enchantment

Have you seen Klara's shoes?! (They were so cool looking)

Gentlemenness 101: retaking next semester

Rock Lobster

YAY! We're normal!

Hearing: Take a Picture by Filter on the TV radio Music Choice Rock channel
Felling: what words cannot describe
avoiding: homework (I guess some thing don't change)

FREAKING OUT

Prom is Friday, and everything I do mom says is wrong. Well, at least next year I can do it right maybe.

Where to eat? How much of a gentleman should I be? It's not like I've got a dad who can tell me these things, mind you.

Terms quiz tomorrow! Spanihs work to do. Mathematics shove it I've had enough of you. And Physics, too.

My unofficial top 5 for the week or until I do another top 5 list:

5. Mad World by Gary Jules
4. The Reason by Hoobastank
3. Reptilia by The Strokes
2. Dare you To MOve by Switchfoot
1. Megalomaniac by Incubus

All I care about is making sure Jean has a good prom. Mine could be the suckiest ever, but as long as she's happy cuz that's what I'm supposed to do, right? Cuz I'm the guy and I asked her to go to prom with me even if just as a friend and it was by the ice cream machines when they were still by the gazebo or whatever you call it and anyway AAAAAAHHH! I should pay for the tickets. I should pay for dinner. Mom's mad enough at me as it is with AP fees and now this, but I don't think I ask for much so can you please let this slide?

School again

WAAAAAHHH school starts up again tomorrow.

It felt soooo good not having to worry about school for almost 4 days. Time to spend with your family and not concentrating on AP's which are in 3 WEEKS!!!!!!!!! eep.

Hey, what was journal prompt number 3? I have 1,2, and 4/5, but what was 3? Was there one? Also, our chapter analyses are due Friday, correct? I just finished chapter 17 ths morning. (I'm behnid; off to sparknotes) and I just remember Ras the Exhorter and bullfighting and neon signs.

Did I mention APs are 3 WEEKS AWAY!!!!!!!!!

I need to talk to Jean about everything related to prom. EEEEEEPPPPPPPPEEEEEEE!

No more homework!!!!! But as long as our terms quiz isn't tomorrow I think I'll survive. Kids weren't meant to feel so overwhelmed yet thinking they could handle more.

That reminds me: If I played my crads right (that is, take like 8 Ap's next year) and if I went to UA, it would be as a JUNIOR! Because Mom's been nagging at me for taking the Ap tests and then thinking of colleges where they don't even accept it for credit even if I got a 5 (some only give it as elective credit) and gosh I feel like such a bother right now.

eeeepppppieeeeeeessss.

oh yeah, it's only throbbing nonstop

the other full circle was that I twisted my ankle in weight training yesterday, playing frisbee. I should be fine, but the last time I twisted my ankle was in kindergarden around easter time, mind you, some... God, 11 years ago... I'm getting old. SO I think if life there are certain "circles" that everyone experiences, except they all have different radii and rotate at different speeds so it's rare when two reoccurances occur on the same day. Maybe

Back to Basics

Today reminded me that some things don't change, no matter how much you may think. Especially today at the picnic thingy. Pizza will always be too expensive by the slice*, the chess people will still spend time playing chess, and people as a whole remain the same, I mean unless some life altering experience affects their lives. But after all the tests and AP crap we've gone I find myself playing cards with Patrick Dunlop, just like freshymen year. And I know there was some other "full circle" doohickey that happened today, but it passes my thoughts at the time. Oh well. I guess maybe I'm just trying to say that we still are ourselves, and that's a comfort.

My unofficial top 5 for the week or until I do another top 5 list:

5. I Believe in a Thing Called Love by the Darkness
4. Chemical by Start Trouble
3. Reptilia by the Strokes
2. The Reason by Hoobastank
1. Megalomaniac by Incubus

Frankly I'm not sure why I started the whole countdown thing... maybe it just lets you into my noggin a tad more. Maybe that's why my head feels heavier; you're all in there.

Oh, about that chemical song- I just think the chorus is awesome and rational

Love is a chemical
Straight from your genitals
Never is spiritual
Never unconditional
Love is a chemical
Nature is radical
Never is spiritual
It's mathematical

You know, I think I do still like math; I just hate being forced to do it (Alice, do we have an assignment, speaking of math?) When we have to do the multiple choice for hw, I still get that little twinge of excitement that I had back in Mathcounts of days of lore.

Oh, *- but Arizona Pizza Company is possibly the exception. They've got a place next to the Linens n' Things across from Park Mall (Who would want to spend 20 bucks for a cloth they have to use to dry their fanny? Beats me) Anyway, they've got a slice and a fountain drink for 3.50, and it's a big slice! Or maybe the price seems reasonable only because it's next to a 20 dollar towel store.

Well, everyone have a good Spring break, Passover, Easter, or whatever all us crazy people celebrates.

WAIT! Almost forgot. I'm in a bit of a nervous wreck. I know prom is NEXT FRIDAY and Jeanne is out somewhere on the EAST COAST looking at COLLEGES and well what I wanna ask is DOES SHE KNOW IT'S NEXT FRIDAY? and what will we do? Dinner? Is she picking me up? My mom nees to know! Cuz we need to go a tailoring. And what's a corsage? Do I need one? What kind of flowers does she like? What's her favorite color? What's her preferred type of gasoline?! I mean Jeanne and I are just going as friends but I kinda want to do it properly this year so next year we can all be crashers and get drunk at a hotel later and... what I mean of course not.... We'd have orange juice........... that's it.... orange juice..... right......

Like my middle school, but for taller people

Let me get this out first: I'm not trying to make fun of Palo Verde.

Palo Varde looked like my middle school. I went there today for the ACT. About that later. But the hallways are so different than that of our Rinconian/Penguinese halls. They remind so much of my middle school, with all the tachers having these little inspirational quotes and stuff on their doors, to me it seemed a bit childish. Then I realized we were testing in the freshman wing.

So, the ACT. It's a test, like the SAT, but better. And why, you may ask? 2 words: NO ANALOGIES! The 4 tests were pretty easy; the reading comprehension part was the only thing moderately challenging. It just required you to read FAST! 40 Q's, 35 times 60 seconds.

It is not beneficial to take higher leveled math classes and then take standard tests. There was one problem that almost caught me. It was about traingles. The only things I saw were the words trianle, ratio, and three numbers in a a:b:c format. And of course, naturally I think I'll use the Law of cosines because they're gonna ask for the smallest angle. a^2= b^2 + c^2 - 2bc cos(A) so I do the calculations and voila, the answer is 20, and that's a choice.

Then I actually read the question.

The measures of the angles, not the sides, were a:b:c. So they add to 180 and what's the largest angle.

And I thought they would do something interesting. But the scary thing is that they anticipated me to think the way I did, because my first choice would come out no other way. They're watching me............

The English is pretty easy. Does the comma belong here, there, here and there, here and at the end of the paragraph, or leave it like it is with an emoticon at the end of the paragraph :)

Then they have a science section. No Ap prep needed. Can you understand what a graph represents and how it relates to the experiment?

And that's the whole test. And most colleges will accept it like an SAT score, so if you're worried that 1595 won't get you into that favorite college of yours, then take the ACT. It's a blast

And I saw an old friend from my middle school there. His name's Thomas, or as we used to call him, Tommy. But we didn't talk much cuz he had all of his COOL friends taking the test, too

It was weird, there were only like 20 people there. And they had us all in one room and all the chairs were in little perfect rows except for one stuck in the corner for no reason. And, as luck would have it, fate deemed me the bad kid and had me put in the corner chair.

Gaia has a funny sense of humor, knowing I was the only UHS AP-class taking kid there. It makes me giggle.

I can never get these link thingies to work...

http://www.hattrickofmisery.com/press.html

Yeehaw I'm guitar!

Uber Cuber

Being sick sucks. Darn you, stupid weak and defenseless immune system. YOu'd catch a computer virus if you could. Blast you, alleriges combined with mild asthma. And congestion! And yet none of our so called medications alleviate as much as a bowl of hot H20. What gives? I feel like getting one of those whisk thingies and the kitchen and shoveit down my throat to scrape out alll the germs in this stupid sore throat of mine. It sooooo sucks. Grandma's like why do you want to leave to college somewhere else if you're going to get this sick? We can't help you there... AAAH! !,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10. All right. Calm down.

But I did go to the US talent show last night. I thought it was pretty sweet. The "popcorn dance" was a little anticlimactic, I thought, but it was amusing. Makes me want to do the hokey pokey. Plus I loved Klara's and Hae- Ryoung's adaptation of THe Devil Went Down to Georgia. That was sweet. Also, we invented Klara a twin brother, Karl (based on a mishearing).

Plus there was Breant Morgan with his Rubix Cube. He did the whole thing behind his back. Without looking. My mom was speelbound when I told her about it, but when he told me I was like Well of course he can. He had me worried for a while, I'll admit, but he did it and got a standing O.

Now I know there's some kind of algorithm for doing a Rubik's cube. But frankly, I don't have the patience nor the nimbleness of the fingers to learn it. And that's why Brent is good at chess, too. I remember when I reluctantly joined chess for 8th grade. I managed to get to the state competition somehow, but did pretty crappy. Like 1-4-2 or something like that. But yeah, video games are so much better.

My unofficial top 5 for the week or until I do another top 5 list:

5.The Outsider by A Perfect Circle
4.Hey Mama by Black Eyed Peas
3.Stare at the Sun by Thrice
2.The Reason by Hoobastank
1.Dare you to move by Switchfoot

And here's my tentative schedule for next year those of yous who don't know yet.

1. AP Gov. w/ Gray
2. AP Stats with Mr. C (I've called Callesen Mr. C even though Cliff calls himself that, too)
3. AP Phys C
4. AP Econ
5. AP Spanish with Franco
6. AP English with Herring

though frankly the shakiest class most likely to change would be Econ. It'd be cool, but I think it'd be too miuch of a hassle in addition to everything else senior year. I mean, 6 Ap's in the year were supposed to relax a bit?! That's academic suicide. So I might drop it but I seriously need 1st lunch. Any ideas, my peeps? (mmm. Marshmallows)

Feeling: like dipping my head in a vat of Vicks Vaporub
Hearing: "Are you gonna be my girl?" by Jet on TV
AVoiding: the Physics packets and Invisible Man