I’m perfectly dandy with this. Three points added to English grade. Let’s cross our fingers and hope exams don’t mess me up, yeah?

Thursday, September 9. (Week seven? Six and a half?)

Hey, so, it’s been a while? I wasn’t planning on using this blog anymore, honestly- I didn’t have the time, and so much time passed that I figured it wasn’t worth it anymore. However, someone went to lengths to actually email me and beg me to continue posting, and I figured hey, why the hell not. So here I am. I won’t post daily (I don’t have time for it), but I will every now and then. At least once a week. Now, let me try to catch you all up on my high school life really quick.

Geo- I was right about Mrs. Maddux. She is crazy nice, and her class is an easy A. But she is also crazy naive. She lets Cody Bailey make an idiot out of her every day. And you can literally go up to her during a test, ask her if a certain answer is right, and if it’s not she’ll “guide” you to the correct answer. No one ever gets in trouble for cell phones (and she catches people allll the time), and we all just kind of talk while she teaches. I enjoy the class, and I have a ninety-nine in it and all, I’m just slightly worried that when standardized testing comes around, I won’t actually know the material. 

Eng- My little class of thirteen people actually isn’t too bad. I’ve been able to maintain an A average despite the fact Mrs. Nicholson is picky as hell with her short-story quiz questions. I sit next to Alex again, and I really like our new student teacher. We’re about to start reading Lord of the Flies. 

Chem- This class isn’t nearly as bad as I thought it would be. I brought my grade up a shitton because I got a 102 on the unit one test. I’m not saying I particularly enjoy the subject, but I don’t hate it, either. Mrs. Thurber is really organized and proficient, it makes things easier. With a little time and maybe a different lab group, I could learn to love the class.

Wellness- Wellness has done nothing but further my eating disorder. I learn all this shit everyday that I could have gone my entire life without knowing. It’s interesting as hell, but it makes me never want to eat again, I swear.

Spanish- Mr. Miesch is funny, but I don’t enjoy the class as much as I thought I would. It drags on forever. And we got new seating charts the other day. My new partner is this dude that looks EXACTLY like Zack Merick. It freaks me out.

Creative Writing- I still love the class. It’s the perfect way to end the day, because Mrs. Brummitt rarely yells at me for not sitting in my seat and just goofing off with Erica and Dani. Not to mention, everyone in the class is so retarded that it’s hilarious. 

Monday, August 9. (Day Eight.)

007: Yeah, so it’s probably not a good idea to put your stuff in the top locker above you simply because no one is using it. You end up with a broken lock and wasting a good ten minutes trying to locate your books.

No matter how much more “chill” school is this year, I’m still stressing out. I have so much on my plate. School, band, Interact, friends. Add in family and having to maintain a clean room, along with going to church and keeping at least just a little alone time for myself. Not to mention trying to stick to a diet and exercise plan. I have school from eight to three, band from three to five-thirty, and then I have to come home and do homework, eat, shower, straighten up my room, deal with my family, pack my lunch for tomorrow and do my exercise routine. I about go crazy. But you guys aren’t here to read about me complaining about my life- just about high school! So here we go. 

Geo: Not much changes from day-to-day in this class. We take notes, do some sort of activity, then a worksheet. Then we’re left with about thirty minutes free time. It’s not boring, really, just… it gets old? I don’t know. I made a 100 on the quiz from Friday, but I didn’t at all understand the homework we had to do tonight.  Which isn’t too great. 

English: Class didn’t consist of much today. We got back both our summer reading assignment and vocabulary quiz from last week (100s), copied down our new vocabulary words, and then read a short story that I didn’t at all understand. And apparently Friday in this class is “cookie day”? We only have fourteen kids in our class now. 

Chemistry: We created our final tile today. At this point, I didn’t even care if it was ugly. I’m tired of arguing about it. We’ll see how tomorrow goes… Hopefully we won’t end up horribly failing. 

Wellness: Totally spilled water all over the girl in front of me… Oopsie. At least I got most of our week assignment done. I’m halfway there and it isn’t due until Friday. (Gah. Friday. It’s so far away…)

Spanish II: This class just drags on and on. I like sitting next to Daniel and Savannah and all, don’t get me wrong. I don’t know what it is, but I feel like I sit there for the first six hours of the school day that seem to go by in a second. 

Creative Writing: We read “Ordeal by Cheque”. I’m supposed to write a summary of it, but I didn’t quite understand. So I suppose I’ll do it at lunch time tomorrow. Orrrr wait until Mrs. B tells us the answer. Either one. 

Friday, August 6. (Day Seven.)

006: Back stairwells can be a life-saver. Locate them, and use them frequently. Makes things easier.

I totally meant to blog about today wayyy before now, because I’ve practically forgotten everything that happened. It’s been a very busy weekend. Erica came over Friday and we rented Percy Jackson: The Lightening Thief and She’s Out of My League. Then I had to clog at the fair yesterday and my Internet has just been generally crappy lately. It’s very on and off. But enough of that, onto my day.

Geo: The quiz was easier than your mom. I’m pretty sure I did really well. Afterwards we had half of class left, so we played one of those “getting to know you” type deals.

English: The vocabulary quiz took a bit more thought than my Geometry one, but I think I did pretty well. I might have missed one or two, but I’m hoping not. Once we were done we began to re-type our essays. I need to finish my final draft by Tuesday morning so that Mum can print that out. Self reminder.

Chemistry: I figured out why my lab group hates me- I care about my grade. Every time I did anything to remotely show I cared about the project, the one bitch girl rolled her eyes and scoffed and went on a long rant about how it didn’t matter. We got through it anyways, though. We created a strength test and made a poster. It actually wasn’t too bad. It’s really only the one girl who seems to dislike me the most.

Wellness: I made a 95 on the quiz. Who knew there was such a thing as a health pyramid? Oh well. Afterwards we watched a video on stress. It wasn’t too boring.

Spanish: Alas, cute spanish boy is bisexual. I suppose this means my chances have decreased greatly. Ah well. I can’t really remember what we did learning-wise, but I think we have a quiz sometime next week.

Creative Writing: WE FINALLY FINISHED THE DAMN MOVIE. And I hate to say it, but the ending was pretty good/sad. I kind of cried a little, but secretly, so that I wouldn’t seem like a loser. On Monday we’re going to begin writing a story by checks? This should be interesting.

Wednesday, August 4. (Day Six.)

005: When picking groups for projects, be careful. You never know who might turn on you…

The day seemed to drag on forever, simply because everyone hyped it up as if it were a Friday. I guess it’s nice and all that we get a day off, but I’d rather we hadn’t. I hate having to come back to school for one day, which I’m sure will also drag on like nobody’s business. On the bright side, we’re slowing working our way back into school, I guess. Last week we went three days, and this week four. Next week we’ll go five. But anyways.

Geo: Nothing eventful ever really happens in this class. We did more worksheets and we reviewed for the quiz on Friday. I need to study the vocabulary words. I’ll get to it eventually.

English: We watched a special on Edgar Allan Poe, which was actually a lot more interesting than I thought it’d be. I always chalk these kind of things up to be dumb, convincing myself that they’ll be boring and I won’t listen. Then, before I know it, the teacher is turning it off because class is almost over and I’m intrigued as to how the documentary ends. I also have to be sure to turn in the final draft of my essay on Wednesday. I already made corrections, I just need to print it off.

Chemistry: So, not only is my group stupid, now they hate me. We were given those little rocks you put at the bottom of fishtanks in order to decorate tiles. The girls in my group seem to think it’s a good idea to sprinkle neon pink, green, blue, yellow, orange, and black all together on top of the tile in the most ugly fashion ever. Um, no. And they hate me now that I bitched about it. This one girl is like, ”It’s just a tile. It’s not like it matters.” Um, my chemistry grade matters, bitch.

Wellness: Love love love this class. And Coach Hughes, surprisingly enough. I love all the little stories he has to tell us. We have a quiz on Friday. I briefly considered studying, but nah. I think it’s basic enough for me to remember.

Spanish: As homework, we have to cut pictures of two “celebs” out of a magazine. One female, one male. We then have to write four sentences about them. The male I picked was some random hot guy I found. The female? Justin Bieber.

Creative Writing: This movie must be fifty years long. Seriously. This is, what? The fourth day in a row we’ve been watching it? I don’t even know. At least it’s starting to (sort of) make more sense.

Tuesday, August 3. (Day Five.)

004: Please, before you raise your hand and say it aloud, really think about what you’re going to say. Think hard. If it’s something stupid, something awkward, or something that isn’t relevant and no one will care about, then save yourself and others embarrassment by not opening your mouth. Thanks. 

Today was pretty chill. I actually don’t mind school as much as I used to. Not that I ever did in the first place, but the work load and stress have decreased by so much. I like almost all of the classes and teachers I have this year, which probably has a lot to do with it. I don’t know, but I’m actually liking that school is back in session. (I am not, however, liking the whole having band from three to five-thirty deal. It goes by so slowly.) Anyhow.

Geo- Hannah was sick today, so I had to sit by myself. It wasn’t too bad, because we had two worksheets to do during class. We had to figure out the angles on one of them and on the other we had to fill in the blank with the right vocabulary words. When done, you were supposed to get a message from the answers, you know? I was pretty confused when mine said “Your measurement sarerighton.” Turns out, the answer is, “Your measurements are right on.” Oops. 

English- We took a test today over the summer reading assignment! And we were allowed to use our books! Awesome, right? Not so much when you don’t own your own copy of the book.

Chemistry- We did research about concrete tiles. We were put into groups, and together we have to construct a tile that is both strong and attractive. Everyone in my group… well, one girl thought we should decorate it using nail polish and stickers. If that tells you anything.

Wellness- Yeah, so I’m still loving this class. I hate that we have seating charts now, but I sit in the very back row so it’s pretty chill. We have a quiz tomorrow, which I might study for sometime tonight… maybe…

Spanish II- Those who walked into Mr. Miesh’s class “patty-cake virgins” (his words, not mine), left as full-out patty cake sluts. I thought we were going to do the damn things fifty billion times. 

Creative Writing- We’re watching some weird movie in her class with a bunch of lesbo moments. Everything is super dramatic and sexist. And I can’t understand a fucking word anyone is saying, between their word choice and accents. We’re supposed to identify the points on the W plot chart thing, but I’m just pretty confused. I’ll just wait until Mrs. B goes over it. 

Friday, July 30. (Day three.)

003: You are not sheep, Freshmen, so please do not herd like them. Do not walk together in a huge bundle so that no one can get around you, do not stop right in front of the stairs to socialize, please please learn how to navigate through the hallways without bumping in to someone. There is a reason one side of the stairs has people walking up, and the other half has people walking down. It’s not that hard to figure out. This is why no one likes you. Stop.

Today wasn’t too bad, except for the fact I got really frustrated in the hallways today, as you can see from the little rant above. Like, really. I remember having this all figured out by the second day of school last year. Jesus Christ. 

Geo- I was going to rewrite Hannah’s essay for her while the teacher talked (which I actually find myself doing a lot…), but then we were assigned the project of making crossword puzzles using our vocabulary words, and given the entire class period to do them. I finished the answer key easily and managed to finish the blank copy by Chemistry. So far the class is fun and easy. I don’t really have anything remotely bad to say about it.

English H (or “pre-ap/ib”, as they now call it)- I’m so fucking pissed. We get into class, and Mrs. Nicholson casually informs us that the sub “misinterpreted” the assignment and that she would have given us longer to complete the essay I spent two or three hours on last night.Yeah, whatever. We also got seating charts, so I’m by Celest (or, as Mat Case calls her, Molest) and some girl I don’t know but seems like a stuck-up bitch. I can already tell I don’t like her. 

Chemistry- We took a quiz over “lab safety”, though I think a better title would be “don’t be a fucking moron”. It was easy and I got a one hundred. However, a guy in my lab group missed, like, five… This unsettles me. And no word from the cute emo. I wonder if he speaks?

Wellness- God, I feel like a total dork actually liking this class. I was actually really interested in what Coach Hughes had to say today. After we finished taking notes, we went around the room and talked about our goals, and I said mine was to move out of Cookeville and to a more populated city. Everyone agreed, and then Coach Hughes talked forever about how he said the same thing when he was my age. Yeah, well, it’s not my fault you settled.  

Spanish II- Daniel (guy I sit by with the snake bites/tongue piercing/nose piercing that he’s somehow getting away with) and I talked extensively about how much the guy sitting in the back of the row looks like Zack Merrick from All Time Low. We got new books in the class, and Mr. Miesh instructed us to a) not take them to our meth lab and spill meth all over it, b) not let our booger-y math books touch them, and c) not let our dogs give birth on them. Which has, apparently, happened before.

Creative Writing- We handed in our assignment where we had to write about ourselves from third person. Mrs. Brummitt went through them all and read them aloud to the class, to see if people could guess who they were. Erica, Dani, and Ashley Whittaker knew it was me in a heartbeat. The only asian guy in our class described himself in one word as “Asian”. It was actually pretty entertaining. While telling us we were going to learn about W plots on Monday, a slightly-retarded guy in the front room named William made a “W” with his arms and shouted, “W for William!”. I spent the remainder of class laughing about that.

Thursday, July 29th. (Day Two.)

002: What? You don’t think you’ll actually do anything the first week of school? No. Wrong. Incorrect. 

Really. I thought it’d be laid back at first, that we’d subtly ease into the school year before throwing work at us. I was wrong. 

Geo- We actually learned something today, took notes. Exciting, no? Mrs. Maddux has not yet ruined her good-teacher potential. And we got a new kid in the class today named Cody. He’s kind of obnoxious, but also cute, so whatever.

English- Guess who had one night to write an essay using one of the AP questions as prompts? This girl. My hand is cramping like a bitch right now. 

Chem- Nothing proves to be interesting aside from the scar on the emo kid’s nose. I wonder what it’s from? Oh. And I think we have a quiz tomorrow. 

Wellness- Talked with Carla, Alexia, and Ashley Argo while we walked, and it actually wasn’t super boring. And Kingston was all, “Hey, um, I don’t know your name, but you really remind me of my friend Emily Nash. Not your face or anything, but… your everything else.” I explained to him we were cousins. He seemed pretty surprised. 

Spanish II- The guy I sit by is named Daniel. I asked him about his facial piercings, and apparently he hides his snake bites from the teachers by sucking the little studs in. He showed me. It was kind of creepy looking, but he’s really nice, so it’s cool.

Creative Writing- I’ve still failed to complete last night’s assignment. I’m about to do that, I swear. Oh, and we got seating charts today. LAME. 

Yeah, so I’m tired of my mind and already wanting summer back. Gotta love high school. 

Wednesday, July 28. (Day One.)

001: It’s always helpful to know where your classes are BEFORE you’ve got only three minutes to find one of them. 

I was really surprised at how well the day turned out to be. Excluding the part where my bus no longer travels the same route (meaning I have no ride home all year) and some drunk dick hit our car on the way home, today was really awesome. It hasn’t really set in that school is back full-time, but I’m sure it’ll hit me sometime next week. It’s late and I’m tired and can’t think straight, so let’s go through quick first impressions. This will probably be the lamest post by far, so bare with me. 

Geometry- Mrs. Maddux is really nice, even if she doesn’t really know what’s going on. (She’s a new teacher at CHS). I get the feeling we’ll be doing a lot of hands-on and fun stuff in her classroom, since we already managed to make something cool on the first day. I suck at arts and crafts type deals, but hey, it’s better than equations. The class is really small- there are only about thirteen or fourteen people in it, and most are juniors and seniors. The only people I don’t like are this bitchy lesbian girl and a really cocky guy who WON’T SHUT UP EVER. And it turns out that I have that class with Hannah P (which she failed to mention earlier.) 

English- Mrs. Nicholson could go either way. I can’t decide if I like her or not. I think I’ll get used to her eventually, though. In the meantime, I’m busy not knowing anyone in the class but Alex. He doesn’t know anyone else, either, and so by default I can rely on him to sit next to me for at least the first three weeks. At least. 

Chemistry- I don’t like Mrs. Thurber’s voice, which I will probably complain about extensively at some point, but she seems nice enough. On the bright side, I sit next to a really hot emo-looking guy. 

Wellness- Call me weird, but the subject actually interests me. Coach Hughes talked briefly about what we’ll be covering, and almost everything sparked some interest. I’m not looking forward to talking about sex, though, because I know everyone will laugh about it and make me want to punch them in the face. I do like who I sit with, though- Ashley Argo, Carla, Natalie, Kingston, and some guy named Michael. 

Spanish II- Mr. Miesch is hilarious. /impression. 

Creative Writing- I like the three people I sit with in the class (Dani, Erica, and Sarah), but I generally dislike everyone else at this point. I’m sure my opinions might change, but who knows. Mrs. Brummitt is funny, and I can already tell I will really like the class. The first assignment was pretty interesting- I had to write about myself from third person point of view. It was a bit of a challenge, but I got through it.  

Yeah, so this was pretty lame, but I just spent like three hours working on my damn creative writing assignment and I can’t even think straight. Deal with it, see you guys tomorrow. 

2010 Schedule

1. Geometry with Mrs. Maddux. 

2. English 10 with Mrs. Nicholson.

3. Chemistry with Mrs. Thurber.

4. Lifetime Wellness with Coach Hughes.

5. Spanish II with Mr. Miesch.

6. Creative Writing with Ms. Brummitt.

As you can see, I decided to continue on with the general idea of the blog. I figure it will be something nice to look back on. So, follow if you please. Be prepared for rants, complaints, and something nice that I have to say every now and then. Maybe even something helpful? Who knows. Follow at your own risk.