Monday, November 30, 2015

Monday, November 30, 2015 "Seasoning."

Monday, November 30, 2015
Week: 16
Songs to Remember: Sorry - Justin Bieber

        Well hello, it's been a while since I've seen this blank slate on my PC screen. There's a lot of things I need to worry about, but it also comes with a side of relaxation. Also, lots of new things added for this season to shake things up a bit.

        Free period essentially for Psychology as my group member did essentially all the slides for our PowerPoint on meth. I completely forgot about it until after I came in the classroom. I was like "Awww FUCK." I was hoping for notes. It's actually not even that relevant as the AP Psych test doesn't discuss too much about drugs, it's just "interesting," according to my teacher, heh. I agree. So I just did some practice questions on Khan academy for the SAT.

        English, we discussed a bit of Poe's Usher story, then finished the rest of "The Crucible." To be honest, it went from 0 to 100 real quick, heh. Plot was nice, characters were nice, ending was pretty bootleg. I'd give it an 8/10, not bad, but, it's just kinda ehhhh at some parts, overall a fun movie and play. Umm, yeah, Lt and i are still the same old same old, convo's are still the same old. It's just us, going from English to the bottom of the L building, sitting down, and trying to retain our body temperatures as it's fucking like, 50 degrees at 10:00 AM.

        Biology is fucking uh, kinda shitty. I got some work that's due Friday, and then, probably gonna need to study a ton after I finish this SAT soon. Math, just the usual shit really. Lunch, I completely forgot there was a KDT meeting,.. fuck. US History, my seat's officially moved, umm, I don't really enjoy it that much, it's kinda in a bootleg spot right now, right smack-dab in the middle. Good news is that I finished reading "Pay It Forward." Only took about 2 months I guess of full-on SSR. It was an alright book, pretty interesting. For History, nothing much, just some notes, lecture, eh.

        Chinese, new seats baby. Thing is, we get to choose our seats. Now the thought didn't come into my mind that we got to CHOOSE our own seats (otherwise I would've made my decision more carefully), until after I decided to just sit down at the same group as Jk, who's sitting next to this one girl who's in KDT and the one who is in my math class, and also sat in front of me in math last year. I didn't realize that El would probably want to sit near Jk until it was too late, heh. So, that's what's happened. She sits next to me, all for the benefit of sitting behind Jk.

        So uh, yeah. You know, I think the tension, it's still there, it's visible, but, it's simmered down a lot already, because this time she spoke to me, or, sorta, after about, pretty much an entire year. HOLY SHIT, now that's a while, one whole year. Anyways, not much work today for Chinese, all in all, this season's spiced up already. Afterschool, it was just, watching the KDT members practice, for the people who didn't attend Saturday practice, like me, we don't get to audition for Lunar Show (like, audition as a group, a club, to have a segment in the Lunar Show), we'll still be in it though.

        And even with a thick shirt and sweater on, it was about 60 degrees Fahrenheit still, even at 4:00 PM. Fucking cold. Overall, I didn't miss much, even for the other "Danger" by BTS. So there's that. Umm, other than that, I don't have to worry about much, yet. As long as I keep calm (that's the word I was looking for), I'll hopefully be able to keep this all stress-free for a bit, just, maybe 'till Christmas break. And so, that's it for today, I've also updated the song list finally and found a boatload of new songs to add. Uh, see ya.

Sunday, November 29, 2015

Sunday, November 29, 2015 "Stacked Worries."

Sunday, November 29, 2015
Week: 15
Songs to Remember:

        Alright, just seeing all these notifications on Facebook remind me of how much shit I gotta do for the next 2 weeks. The worries stack on hard after not worrying at all during break.

        I don't wanna think anymore of it, because I'll be tired anyways tomorrow as I gotta catch up on shit for KDT. Got that 2 hours tomorrow, and 2 hours Wednesday, then show up and hopefully not need to do anything on Friday since I missed Saturday's practice.

        As for other work, I'm sorta stacked on tests and quizzes for Friday, the day before everything happens. And uh, tonight, I gotta read Edgar Allen Afro's "Usher." So, yeah, see ya.

Saturday, November 28, 2015 "Relax-out."

Saturday, November 28, 2015
Week: 15
Songs to Remember: A Year Like a Day - 2LSON

        Holy Fallout. I spent the entire day just playing it (after getting home that is). There is literally so much to do.

        I've only gotten to level 7 so far, and Blitz level 2 is only available at level 29. Damn. Anyways, nothing new, nothing too exciting or life-changing. I still need to read some Edgar Allen Poe shit for English, and study SAT shit. Other than that, it's kinda whatever. Umm, it's been a lot of uh, relaxation, but not the lazy kinda, as in, sleep all I want. More of, get up, do something, have fun with it.

        My cousins are still in LA. They'll be going home tomorrow morning and when they do, it's all just "Need for Speed" for them, just like Fallout 4 for me. So uh, yeah, I'm kinda tired now, see ya.

Friday, November 27, 2015

Friday, November 27, 2015 "What a Break."

Friday, November 27, 2015
Week: 15
Songs to Remember: Get Lost (Drive All Night Remix) - Icona Pop

        When having as much fun as this, you do lose a sense of all your worries, just in that period of time. And why would there need to be worry anyways? It's a vacation, a break, a rest, a well-deserved rest, so no need to stress out.

        We did wake up early today, not that too early, but, earlier than what I would wake up at over a break. Went downstairs for breakfast as usual, then headed on out for some Black Friday shopping. I never actually go Black Friday shopping, but this time is an exception.

        We went to the mall, Fry's Target, Wal-Mart, ate Japanese fondue, GameStop, and around some more places. Most of it was just looking around, but then we finally got a Wal-Mart that had both "Need for Speed," the game my cousin wanted, and "Fallout 4," a game that didn't really interest me until recently, in which now I'm totally into, heh. The deal at Wal-Mart was such a steal- buy 1 game, get the 2nd one 50% off. So, we were expecting 2 $60 games to cost only $90, which is a steal already. Turns out, Fallout 4 at that Wal-Mart was only $50, so it was $80 instead. We essentially saved $40, what a fucking steal.

        There were plenty of bootleg shenanigans along the way, such as seeing a dude who was caught stealing get handcuffed, a keyboard that cost $100 more than a regular one only because it was red instead of blue, and getting the same guy twice when we went to Fry's for the first time and the second time. All in all, pretty fun, pretty relaxing, no stress really, just plain ol', whatever.

        SAT? KDT practice? Finals? Nah, it's Thanksgiving break, vacation, rest, no need to worry, just enjoy it while it lasts. So if you'll excuse me, I'll just be looking up some Fallout 4 stealth melee VATS builds. See ya.

Thursday, November 26, 2015

Thursday, November 26, 2015 "Not Thanksgiving Eve."

Thursday, November 26, 2015
Week: 15
Songs to Remember: Ex's & Oh's - Elle King

        It's pretty hard to make a post when there are 3 of your cousins with you. Mostly because I get preoccupied with doing shit.

        So, I woke up like at 7:00 AM. Well I got woken up at 7:00 AM. Looking at the clock and seeing that it's only 7, I go back to sleep, get woken up again at like 8:00 AM, go back to sleep 'till it repeats at 9:00, and uh, thank goodness we didn't really have to go anywhere today, so it was just a calm morning. Sorta.

        All my cousins and I sleep in the same room, it's this one room upstairs, there's only enough mattress room for 3 people really, 4 if we wanna sleep asses to ears. I choose to sleep on the floor because it benefits everybody. They get more room on the bed, I get more room to move around in my sleep. Anyways, we ate breakfast, went to the mall, yes, on Thanksgiving, it was pretty deserted. There was barely anybody around, about 95% of the stores were closed.

        We went to the arcade to fuck around, then to the rest of the mall, and after looking around for a bit, we just went to this milk tea place (not in the mall). The place served some pretty irregular looking cups, it was more wide than it was tall. It was still good regardless. We went back home, played bootleg games on my PS4 'till dinnertime, and then dinnertime. We went back to playing some more bootleg games afterwards, and as we were in the middle of a Zombies game, I hear "Happy birthday to you" being sung by my mom and the rest of the relatives from the kitchen.

        I thought it was just a bootleg thanksgiving celebration or something, but it was actually for me. My mom comes into the living room with the relatives, has a cake for me with candles. I'm in the middle of a round of Zombies, my mom has a cake for my birthday even though it ain't my birthday yet, shit's hype. People get their cameras ready for me to blow out the candles, I blow them out, they're like "Yayyy" and my mom brings it back to the fridge for later, heh.

        I actually haven't blown out birthday candles since forever. I haven't celebrated my birthday in forever either. It was a neat surprise, umm, we finished up some Zo.bies games, aaaand went upstairs, cleaned up, went to bed. It's 10:31 PM and people are already asleep. I actually had trouble waking up this morning, heh. Anyways, gonna get some sleep for Black Friday tomorrow, shit's gonna be hectic. Alright, see ya.

Wednesday, November 25, 2015 "Hanging Sleep."

Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Week: 15
Songs to Remember: OMGT - Madtown

        I woke up at 7:00 AM, just to sleep some more in the car, up until I arrived to my grandmother's house at around 1:30 PM. I played League all day, my cousins are here, it's gonna be pretty random. Oh and it's 12:11 AM, so I'll go to sleep now. See ya.

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Tuesday, November 24, 2015 "Crawling in My Tests."

Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Week: 15
Songs to Remember: OMGT - Madtown

        So much relief, but so tired that I don't really wanna go into too much detail. I'll keep it really brief.

        Psychology, free time essentially. English, fairly easy test and quiz. Biology, hard ass hell test, even when working in pairs. Still, there was a lot of food which was nice. In all honesty, I think my partner and I got a straight-up F on it, not even kidding. Math, the test wasn't all that hard. Lunch, it was pretty wet and cold so we went to the library.

        US History, now that was relaxing and fun. We played the Signs game again, and I was in the middle once. Thankfully I managed to catch somebody and switch with them. Umm, Chinese, test was somewhat difficult, and uh, yeah. Went o Ag's house for a bit, Jk, Ls, DrewN were there, Ek couldn't make it. Jk and DrewN are sleeping over at Ag's house, I gotta go to LA tomorrow. Hopefully the internet there is faster here, as people continue to do shit like download. For fuck's sake, my ping is over 300 because of them.

        And so yeah. Much fun was had, if it was considered fun. It's 1:43 AM, I'll be sleeping in the car anyways so, no need to really sleep right now. Alright, see ya.

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Monday, November 23, 2015 "Sucks to Study."

Monday, November 23, 2015
Week: 15
Songs to Remember: Undercover Martyn - Two Door Cinema Club

        I don't even wanna talk right now, it's 2:43 AM, 4 out of the 6 of my classes are having tests tomorrow. Sucks to suck, am I right?

        On top of studying, they also assign work. Like, really? Anyways, still not even done with the studying, I'll hopefully be done by 3:30 AM. If I fall asleep during either 1st or 5th period, this is why. See ya.

Monday, November 23, 2015

Sunday, November 22, 2015 "Not a Full Week."

Sunday, November 22, 2015
Week: 14
Songs to Remember: Undercover Martyn - Two Door Cinema Club

        Well, season 14 was a pretty big build-up. What's gonna be an even bigger buildup are these upcoming weeks.

        Holy shit, November's almost over, which I see as sorta a good thing. It makes it so that I feel that shit's going by quick, so we can get to the good parts. Umm, this whole weekend as been pretty much relaxing, and BO3. Lots of BO3 actually. And currently, now is not a good time to playing a lot of BO3 when I have shit like KDT, SAT, and studying.

        In other news, there's mandatory KDT practice on Saturday at the library, which means I gotta leave early from Thanksgiving break. In my opinion, I blame it on the school not giving us the full week off, like, there's no reason to have it be right before Thanskgiving. And people who leave for family vacation, skipping these next 2 days, are gonna make up a shit ton of work, because on both these days, tests and quizzes are stacked.

        So uh, yeah. I'm saving up all this studying shit and some of leftover work for tomorrow, which, is not a very good idea. My ideas are never really that good actually, Anyways, see ya.

Sunday, November 22, 2015

Saturday, November 21, 2015 "Double XP."

Saturday, November 21, 2015
Week: 14
Songs to Remember: Rewind - Zhoumi

        Nothing but BO3 and League, really. I played for about, 7 hours straight I think, of BO3. Yeah, not the best of my decisions.

        Fortunately, I'm now Prestige 1 Level 36. Anyways, nothing much happened today, just relaxation, as usual. Umm this upcoming week will be stacks on stacks of tests, and then uh, thanksgiving break at my grandmother's house. I'll be leaving on Friday though, as on Saturday, I need to go to the library for KDT practice. Sucks, I know, but uh,whatcha gonna do.

        So yeah, it's 1:01 AM, kinda hungry, gonna have a morning snack before I go to bed. See ya.

Saturday, November 21, 2015

Friday, November 20, 2015 "Ethereal."

Friday, November 20, 2015
Week: 14
Songs to Remember: A Year Like a Day - 2LSON, Road to Nowhere (대도무문) - M-Crown (엠크라운), Under the Moonlight - VAV, TVXQ - Champagne

        I already know this post is gonna take an hour long. All I can say is that season 14 has led up to this, the season 14 finale, and it did not disappoint.

        So let's begin with the long-awaited resting time in Psychology. Definitely was not what I was expecting. The seats were all moved to the outer edges of the classroom. I was hyped, I was ready to get some good-ass sleep, heh. I was expecting it to be at our desks, but uh, apparently not. The reason the desks were moved was to make room for us to lie down on the ground in the middle. Whaaaat. I lied down, brought a pillow to school just for this.

        It wasn't very comfortable to be honest, no matter how hard I tried to doze off. The teacher did some bootleg uh, storytelling to get us to fall asleep faster or better. Didn't exactly work for me. After the teacher was done with her storytelling, she said we could either continue sleeping or work at our desks. Well, how about sleep at our desks because that's the only way I'd be able to sleep at school. And that's exactly what I did. But I still couldn't fall asleep.

        I think it was because I was too excited for this, that I'd be able to sleep for free for an hour. And so, that counteracted my sleepiness. Fuck, man, I basically just spent like 45 minutes at my desk with my eyes closed. I mean, I think I fell asleep for a bit, not really sure. But the next thing I knew, the teacher announced "Alright guys, it's 2 minutes 'till the bell rings, just letting you know." I didn't feel rested at all, heh, it fucking sucked. Well, I know now that every "Fun Friday" is shit now, confirmed. Even when it's something as good as this, I still couldn't benefit from it, heh.

        English was another uh, each period today I actually got something out of. Well except for Psychology, but you get what I mean. We first talked a bit about Mr. Benjamin Franklin, then had people present their uh, Scarlet Letter artworks. My buddy, I'll call him Vb for now, the one that sits beside me now, he went up, presented his thingy, which was a short story, and uh, after he was done, people asked him questions, made comments, and since nobody was volunteering, he has to call on somebody to go up and present.

        He was like "Ay Drewm you should volunteer, get that participation point." I was like "You're gonna pick me anyways aren't you." "Yeah." And so, that was how I came about to present today my Scarlet Letter movie poster. Basically just explained the parts of my artwork, give some context, all that jazz. I explained the part where I chose a picture of Doug Dimmadome as Dimmesdale, people liked that the most, heh. Went alright. I was planning to call on Lt, luckily someone else volunteered. I was like "Fuck."

        I tried to invite Lt to come with my buddies and I to the play tonight (emphasis on tonight). She didn't have time, I figured, so there was that. Biology was actually- ah fuck, just remembered I have a lot of shit to do for Bio. Ah, whatever. Anyways, we had a sub, surprisingly. I know that the teacher sent us a remind last night, something about "read pages something something" so I didn't really care too much about it. I realize most people brought their textbooks so I was like "Uh, what the fuck." I check the remind and yep, sent at 6:00 AM, something bringing our textbooks. You serious.

        Didn't matter though, there was no classwork, well, no classwork due anyways, so I just did some math work. Essentially free period so I liked that. The sub was chill too about phones. He also reminded me of Corbin Bleu, which DrewN and I mentioned a day ago, so I thought that was kinda coincidental. Math was the usual again, nothing much to talk about here. Lunch, that right there was like a preview of what the scriptwriters had to offer. It was me, Ek, Ag, Jk, and DrewN sitting at the lockers having lunch.

        US History wasn't the most interesting I gotta say, but it wasn't too bad. Basically just uh, worked on some claswork, answering questions about flappers, the roaring 20's, all that. Then we watched another documentary about prohibition and alcohol. And FUCK, I felt sleepy again. It occurred last year as well during SSR in math. I'm thinking I get sleepy around 1:00 PM or so for some reason. Weird, not sure why.

        After 5th period, it was straight to the library for the bootleggiest thing of the day. Well, ehhhh, tie between that and the play, but I think the play is just a bit better. As I was saying, I didn't know who else was attending this shit, so I just sat wherever to a person I knew. I saw that my uh, classmate from Chinese (the dude who plays Hearthstone, not Lt's cousin) and I was like "Ay yooo." And there I saw, whilst in my chair, a dude who didn't really look like a professional gamer, next to the projector screen, with what appears to be papers, a folder, a stack of cards, and a fucking Bowser amiibo.

        My first thoughts: "HE'S FROM FUCKING NINTENDO." That didn't turn out to be true, unfortunately, heh. I sat there, people were piling in, there was a significant male to female ratio, like, the complete opposite of KDT. It was like 10 dudes to 1 girl ratio, not even kidding. There was about, ehh, I'd say 40 people in total. After getting bored and snap chatting a picture of the Bowser amiibo, I saw that Ls was here, for some reason, heh. I was like "Ayy yooo." It's not exactly what I said but you get what I mean. And so the presentation finally began.

        Turns out the dude is a game designer, working on an Indie title with his team. Don't really remember what else, but, he was like a general developer, as in, he does some coding, mostly game design, minimal art, and some Q A testing (aka, play-testing). Even then, he did work pretty early on in the gaming industry. The dude started off as a Q A tester, did some other shit, worked on many other games (his name's in the credits apparently), and uh, yeah. He really just talked about the different types of gaming jobs, such as a developer (coding), game designer (ideas), game artist(it is what it is), or Q A tester. Coder makes the most, designer second, artist the second to last, Q A testing's pretty shitty unless you do shit full time or are really good at games (figured).

        Besides that, he answered some questions. I have to say, this is by far, one of the THE MOST cringiest events I have ever attended. Questions ranged from "Have you ever played Resistance?" to "Have you played Amnesia?" to "Have you played Five Night's At Freddy's?" Ho-ly, shit, heh. Some people asked questions that were, uh, more practical in asking, but uh, yeah, it's just, ehhhh, when shit like this happens. But that wasn't the bootleggiest (bootleg-est?) part of the whole thing.

        Towards the end, he had a little trivia game to win prizes, and yes, the Bowser amiibo was one of them (retails for like $10 so nothing to be messing around with, heh). The first question: "Who designed and created Super Mario?" I was pretty mind-fucked by the cringiness so far that I couldn't remember the dude's name (though I do know it). One dude answered "Miyamoto." "What's his first name?" "Shigeru." The developer dude grabs the Bowser amiibo and hands it to him. Everyone lost their shit, heh. Even I didn't know that that question was for the amiibo.

        The next one was "Who created the original HALO?" I was thinking Bungie but uhh, wasn't really sure. Some dude answered "Bungie" and it was correct, Fuck my life, heh. The developer dude was like "That is correct! You win... where is it... a piece of paper!" Everyone was like "LEL GET REKT KID." I sat near his desk and saw it, which looked to be just a black-and-white picture of the HALO game cover, printed onto a piece of paper. I thought it was just a fucking joke, but then the dude said: "That's a code for HALO 5 on Xbox One." HOLY FUCKING SHIT. Everybody went ape shit, I mean, I went ape shit, heh. That's a fucking $60 value, holy shit.

        Next question was "Who published Star Wars Battlefront?" In my mind: "Is he talking about the original, or the new one? Is it Pandemic or Activision? Is Pandemic a developer studio or publisher?" I was, my mind was everywhere after he said he gave out a code for a $60 game. And whadya know, it is Activision. The dude won a code for Star Wars Battlefront... on PC of course. That I didn't feel too bad about, because it's on PC. Anyways, I don't hate PC, my PC can barely run League, but uhh, the last question, he announced the prize before he asked it.

        FUCKING DESTINY: THE TAKEN KING. Sounded okay, I didn't really worry too much about it. "Destiny: The Taken King: Legendary Edition." HOLY SHIT. I don't even play Destiny, don't really plan to, don't really care too much about DLC for Destiny, but the LEGENDARY EDITION? That's essentially Destiny right there, the full experience. I bought it for $60 when it first came out, just Destiny, the stand-alone game. I just looked up the price for the legendary edition and it retails for $60, which includes the game, ALL current expansions, and a character boost.

        What, the, fuck, heh. I thought it would be worth more, but, hey, a free Destiny: The Taken King: Legendary Edition? Nothing to complain about. So, the question was: "What was the first gaming console?" FUCK. Well, I knew I couldn't remember. Some dude answered "The Odyssey" and won it. And yes, it was for PS4. And uh, that concluded the presentation. He stayed after for questions, which probably included, but not limited to, more questions pertaining to if he had played it or not.

        So, all in all, I could've gotten over $150 in games. For fuck's sake, nobody warned me about that, heh. It was a fun experience though, I actually did learn more about the gaming industry, actually persuaded and leaned me towards a career in gaming. But, that's just a dream for now, seems sorta impractical with the grades and work I'm handling. Umm, anyways, afterschool I bought my ticket, went to KDT practice. Also met up with my buddy, the one whom him and I were partners and worked on student mug-pictures in yearbook class, back in 7th grade. He's still the same as I remember, heh.

        Practice wasn't all that bad. Umm, the rest of the moves for the dance were fairly difficult, and apparently I made it in the audition for the difficult dance, but not the easier dance (slighty), aka, Call Me Baby. Ad and Kh (if I remember correctly that that's the initials I use for him. Otherwise, we'll call him that) stayed for the 2 hours and practiced the dance for fun, which was nice. Cy is apparently in this dance as well, didn't notice that. I'll definitely need to practice at home.

        After practice ended, I stepped outside, it was pretty freaking dark, and it was only 5:00 PM. I actually never went outside after daylight savings time ended. Well, went outside besides for school, or going out to eat with my parents at night. I'm just not used to it being so dark out now, heh. Got home, ate, relaxed for a bit. I was going to go at 7:00 PM, but, the cast was like "Naw, we going at 6:30 PM." So, I went at 6:30 PM.

        It, was, DARK outside. My dad, umm, guess he doesn't really know the way around the school, err, the streets, even though he rides with me as my mom drives me to school each morning. He travelled too far, we made a U-Turn, I see the cast walking, we were at the back of the school, so I was like "You know what dad, just drop me off here." Streets were still pretty fucking busy believe it or not. 6:45 PM, dark as hell, but still busy, because apparently there's a football game today, along with the play. I walk through the  back gate, same way I always go, there were, firetrucks entering apparently, for some reason. A police officer approaches me, asks me where I'm going. I tell him I'm heading to the play in the theater. He was like "Alright." I was only like, 4 feet past the gate, then after 2 more feet, a security guard approaches me, asks me what I'm doing. I tell him the same thing, and uh, apparently, the gates are all locked from the back, so I gotta go around to the front. I was like, "Alright, no problem."

        What I'm wondering is why there are so many fucking gates in the school, when the front of the school is wide open. So, thank the lord I had Google maps, because I probably would've walked in circles before choosing a direction to go. It's not very fun, to be walking with a thin jacket, somewhat thin thermal shirt on the inside, with your phone at like 20%, alone, at night essentially even though it was only 7:00 PM, and walking through unfamiliar neighborhoods (I don't venture outside of school perimeters. I guess I've been pampered by my parents so much I feel scared doing shit like walking by myself).

        Anyways, I eventually make it, I probably walked like half a mile getting there. There was still a shitload of cars when walking to the front. I was like "Oh, fucking FINALLY." Get inside the warmth of the theater (you could feel the warmth from right outside the door), find the cast, and sit down. I found that it was just Ek, Ag, DrewN, and me, and no Jk. All shit is soon to be revealed though, so even though things seem out of place, it all comes together, don't worry.

       DrewN and I talk for a bit, mostly ranging from YouTubers we both watched, tooo, other random shit. I mean it's not like the first time we've talked, we've known each other for a while now, even went to the movies together with the other Drew, so, this shit shouldn't be new. The experience, however, was very different. The play started, it was essentially a "RomCom" and well, it was divided into 2 parts and an intermission in between.

        For the first part, there was a small story of a dude, sitting next to this girl on a bench, she moves closer, he moves farther. He then explains the bootleg like, theory or whatever, about how she's technically the farthest away from him, because, considering the Earth is round, yadda yadda, you can look it up for yourself. She then leaves the stage, scene 1 ends. The next scene was like, it was just a bunch of separate stories, around ehhh, 4 in total. I can't really recall everything I saw.

        But I can recall how I yawned sometimes, and was getting really tired towards the end of the first part. It was the same feeling I had in 5th period when watching movies: my eyes would close by themselves, though I could still manage my pose and hear things. It was probably the closest thing to what my dad felt when him and I watched "Monster House" in theaters a while back. So, it was then intermission, aka break, and DrewN and I just, talked about more random shit, joked around, played some Chess on his phone.

        THAT, somehow galvanized me (using them SAT words) back into whatever, and I wasn't sleepy anymore, heh. The 2nd part of the play was fucking bootleg to hell, in a good way. There was uhhh, lots of kissing scenes, lots of kissing scenes. There was a scene where these 2 dudes kept on falling over, sorta resembling flopping fish, but it was actually just that they "fell" for eachother. Get it? Get it? I also thought they were going to kiss, so I was like "Wait a minute, I didn't sign up for this." There was also a passionate kissing scene. Everyone lost their shit, heh. I was like "... damn."

        They then proceeded to uh, take off around like, 2 pairs of pants, 4 layers of shirts and sweaters, wearing nothing but white pants and shirts, then proceeded to uh head into a cabin to what is intended as uh, rate R. Yeah, after that, I was like "Oh... damn. Definitely not for kids, heh." And then the final scene, where it was the first story again, the girl comes from the other side of the stage, as if she walked the whole circumference of the Earth to be as close as she can to him. Kiss, and then scene. Wow. The whole play was, I thought it was like, whatever at first, but then it turned out to be pretty wild. I want to say it was wild from start to finish, but it was more of, wild from middle to finish.

        Overall, I give it a 10/10, would watch again, not for kids though. If you want to know more about it, the play is called "Almost, Maine." It wasn't created here, like written here, it was just performed here at school just to let you know. So, after the play, we headed outside, but then went back in to uh, find Ls for whatever reason. I forgot to mention, that uh, towards the end of the 2nd part, I saw Jk, who sat like 3 seats in front of us. I was like "Damn." 'Cause like, so far, with DrewN, it seemed like we were "replacing" him.

        I felt kinda bad for him, that he feels sorta left out. but then I see that he has his arm around someone, that person being his crush.. that he sorta hates and likes at the same time, heh. I was like "...damn. What an African American brethren." Damn, well it seemed like this play event benefited him quite a bit. We uh, later on after finding Ls and just, whatever, we found him outside, sitting with her at a table with some other people, probably her friends. We needed to interrupt it so he could come along to Ag's house (which I did not go, as having practice from 3 to 5 today, then watching the 2 hour play, and then heading to Ag's house would be too much, according to my mom, and sorta according to me, even though it would've been a better ending to the finale).

        DrewN was the one to go on over and put his arm around Jk, signalling that it was time to go, heh. We ran to the back of the school, it was fucking dark, okay, super fucking dark. Running with your buddies at school, at night, after a bootleg event, it's just, there is no time in the world for shit like that, because that shit is ethereal. What an experience. Ek, Ag, Jk, and DrewN headed to Ag's house for a small game night, and uhh, that was that.

        I walked back to the front of the school, called my dad to pick me up, ran as short as 3%, the clutch. Ending up getting home at around 9:30 PM. Did not know that the whole thing was going to be 2 hours longs. Anyways, I guess it's safe to say that DrewN's the new main cast member. Not bad, right? I wasn't expecting it, nobody was expecting it, until like, a couple days ago when he invited us to go to the play together. It was actually revealed that, DrewN talked with Ag at that football game a while back, and that's how it sorta really started. He played badminton too, along with Ek and Ag, but, you know, badminton's badminton.

        So what have we got for this weekend, let's see. Oh yeah, work for every category, study for every category, shopping on Sunday, and uh, double XP weekend for BO3. Let's do it. Tomorrow that is. See ya.

Friday, November 20, 2015

Thursday, November 19, 2015 "Fully Stacked."

Thursday, November 19, 2015
Week: 14
Songs to Remember: TVXQ - Champagne

        Holy shit, this finale and weekend is going to be fucking crazy. Like, why is everything happening now? Not everything, but you get what I mean. Still, this weekend to next week, to next, next week, is gonna be fucking insane. All I was planning to do was play Black Ops 3 over the weekend for double XP, and shop for SAT and KDT shit on Sunday. Is that too much to ask?

        Psychology today was meh, but tomorrow's Psychology is gonna be the best reward since forever. Talk about hypnosis, get ANOTHER group project, where we gotta do bootleg research and shit on drugs. I mean yeah, it's drugs, but, we get meth, and I would've really preferred cocaine so then I could play the "CoCo" song again. And it's like that one "jigsaw" group shit we did for the experiments thing.

        So as I was saying, tomorrow, since our unit's on sleep right, err, consciousness (and sleep is part of consciousness), and since it's Friday, we'll be having Fun Friday. Gonna be shitty right? Well, this time I'm actually thankful for it. But just this one time, I'm sure the rest are gonna be shit, but this time, it's a godsend. We get to sleep. For the whole period. Gotta be discreet though, can't go around telling people that the teacher's letting us sleep for the whole period.

        Now there is a catch: we're not forced to sleep. If we're worried about a math test or something, we can study or do work instead. This becomes one of my hardest decisions this year so far. To sleep, or not to sleep, that is the question. And considering that the teacher will be having the room be pitch-dark to help us sleep, I damn well will be choosing to sleep, heh. WOOOOO.

        Next was English, where we talked a bit about Ben Franklin's speeches and shit. Then we watched more of "The Crucible." It got pretty intense, the actors are pretty good. There's this one scene where Abigail lies and from watching that, I did feel like strangling her. Umm, sooo, yesterday, DrewN messaged Ek, Ag, and I if we wanted to go see the play. So, yeah, they got their tickets already, I still gotta get my ticket. I spent break with Lt again. Umm, more talks about Hearthstone. Yeah.

        Almost forgot to mention that there was a person who came to our classroom to inform us about the play and if we wanted to buy tickets. The teacher decided we should prank him by just staring at the board, and even the teacher did it too. I was looking at the board, but like, I noticed the teacher did it too and I guess other people noticed that and it was like, yeah. It was much funnier in person, okay? Describing it makes it sounds sorta shit, and it's 1:16 AM so I don't wanna ramble on too much.

        Moving on, Biology. Umm, did our own version of the lab. Got shit due on Monday, probably gonna do barely shit until I realize it's due. Umm, Math was the usual, I guess. We got our quizzes back, the class average looked good. I'm looking forward to a good score and BAM. 49/67. Shit. Well, in percentage it's not bad, it's an 80% straight. HOLY SHIT. Just redid the calculations, it's a 73%. Fuck. Well, I knew it was too good to be true. I mostly just got shit on by some of the true/false questions, it's essentially logical guessing 'cause most of the true/false deal with theorems and shit.

        I don't feel all that bad though. This one dude who's in my lab group for Bio. He's pretty smart, might be one of the most intelligent people I know, and he said that he did well on the first few tests last year in Honors Pre-Cal (he had my teacher of course), then got like straight C's afterwards for everything. I was like "Oh, this is normal then." A B-, now that would suffice. C+, No, no, heh.

        Lunch, was in Chinese club. US History, was alright. It was essentially a free period to work on shit. Then we watched a documentary on prohibition and alcohol. Yes, almost fell asleep multiple times. Fucking shit, I really need that sleep in 1st period tomorrow. Chinese, we got even more free time. We played some bootleg Kahoot, then had the rest of the period to finish our work, which was online exercises. Easy, peasy, but tedious.

        So, what's the plan for tomorrow? Well, sleep in 1st period, watch some more of that movie for 2nd, uhhh, maybe random shit for 3rd period, usual math shit for 4th, discussion time during lunch with the cast (in which DrewN is seeming to be a new main cast member, no promises, but, yeah), maybe more movies for 5th period, and uhhh, I'll hopefully be meeting a professional gamer for 6th period at the library. After school, gonna be 2 hours of dance practice, then going home to rest for a bit before going back to school for round 2, aka, watching the school play.

        A sleepover is suggested, not sure if my mom will let me though. It's a friend's house, haven't been to a friend's house for a sleepover since EVER. Unless it's a relative,  then, not sure if my mom will say yes. Umm, also, double XP weekend for Black Ops 3. Shit, heh. Also, gotta buy pencils, a watch, olive green jacket, blacker shoes, and comfortable black pants. Also, finish work, sleep, and study shit, because holy fuck, do they stack tests on Tuesday, right before Thanksgiving break.

        Just, fuck, heh. A lot of shit to worry about. I really need that sleep hour in 1st period, heh. Alright, time to uh, do a bit more work before going to sleep. See ya.

Thursday, November 19, 2015

Wednesday, November 18, 2015 "All Kinds of Chinese."

Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Week: 14
Songs to Remember: Road to Nowhere - M-Crown (엠크라운)

        This week so far has been going pretty slow. And, there seems to be quite a bit of work from Chinese, just, for some reason. Not a lot of test, not a lot of quizzes, but just, work. Actually, it just felt tiring.

        So uh, psychology. It's Wednesday, so it's definitely not a Friday, but we still did something fucking bootleg. It was just, remember a dream you had, and then look it up on Chromebooks. Like, uh, did you really have to put the tables into groups of 4's again? Did we really need to use Chromebooks? We didn't even attempt to do the hypnosis thing (which is probably what the Chromebooks are for, but still. It's literally just believing that you want to be hypnotized, and then stare at a bootleg screen of a YouTube video. Seen it, did it before).

        English. Much, ehhhh, more discussion really, and bootleg presentations, I kinda just wanna watch the movie. Thankfully though, not much work so, always a good thing, heh. As I was looking around the room, maybe 'cause I was bored or some shit, I noticed the teacher hung our poster up on the wall, like, right above where Lt sits high up on the wall. Our poster. I was like "Ay, did you ever notice that? Mr.Blank hung up our poster." Pretty cool, out of all the others, he chose ours.

        Today was Wednesday so no break today. I used to like 'em because I get to have a 1-on-1 convo with Lt while walking a different route, but, since I already now do basically everyday, it's kinda ehhh now. She still talks about random shit, which I don't mind, heh. Again, school, dentistry, or random shit. Up next was Bio, which we had a sub today, the infamous Mr.Blank. He's a pretty loud, uh, sub, heh. He's one of the three "main" subs that substitute for teachers at school. We just worked on a worksheet in class, no phone use so, sucks, heh.

        Math, the usual. Lunch, the usual. US History, we did another bootleg activity in order to learn more about the 1920's. We were given sheets of paper and we had to basically draw our own "flapper" woman. You know, those women from the 1920's, referred to as "flappers," tried to act young for their age, bob haircuts, you know. And then we had to give them a name, personality, etc, due tomorrow.

        Chinese, definitely the hardest class this week. We've gotten an essay, do bootleg activities in class, bootleg projects such as teaching a parent of ours to speak bootleg Chinese, all kinds of stuff. I'll be having the career week thing in the library on Friday so hopefully the professional gamer is legit and that skipping Chinese (with permission) is worth it.

        So, uhh, Lt messaged me quite a bit today. We also played a fair bit of Hearthstone, along with her cousin. Interesting to say the least. And umm, yeah. Still planning shit out, lots of work incoming I presume. Alright, see ya.

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Tuesday, November 17, 2015 "Paced-out."

Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Week: 14
Songs to Remember: Don't Leave - GD&TOP

        Oh gosh, it's Thanksgiving break next week. November's already over pretty much. I actually got a lot of studying and prepping to do for the upcoming shitfest in December, heh. If I don't think about the time, it goes slow. If I take the moment to think about it, it appears to go so fast. Like, apparently my cousin, the one who's majoring in animation, the one who resided at my house for a bit for her first year or so, is graduating in 2016. As in, June 2016. And like, I'll be done with Junior year by then. Holy shit! Now it does seem like time does go fucking fast, heh.

        Anyways, psychology was notes as usual, thank god. English, we discussed some shit, a few people presented their uh, bootleg Scarlet Letter artworks (mine's pretty bootleg as well), some are presenting tomorrow (it's more of like, saying a sentence or two about what the fuck your thing is), and then we watched some more of "The Crucible" which is turning out to be an even greater movie. If the script is directly from the play, then I appluad Arthur Miller. "If you don't know what a witch is, how do you know you aren't one?" I was like "You shitting me. Fucking savage."

        Lt and I have been just heading to the L-building instead of going to uh, walk my route for a bit, for a while now. Umm, it's really just random topics to be honest. I'd say uh, 50% is about school, 25% is on shit outside of school, 20% is just random shit, and 5% is shit about Hearthstone. Not sure why she really likes Hearthstone, I think her cousin influences her on that. Anywho, Bio was just another bootleg lab, with us hole-punching spinach leaves and having them sit in baking soda solution (which, when I read the procedures online, it reminded me of the song "CoCo" by O.T Genesis, mostly just the "baking soda" part).

        Math. Oh yeah, there was a quiz today. Fairly standard, I studied for once though. Ummm, last question got me stumped even though I knew how to do it. I finally figured it out at the last second, though I only had enough time to write down half the answer. Overall, not bad. Lunch, standard, US History, I'm almost finished reading this book called "Pay It Forward." Actually pretty interesting, will be the first book I read for fun really since... forever. We uh, the teacher had us sit with a person we never really talk to at all to help each other out on this worksheet he assigned us.

        He always does bootleg stuff like this, ships people, the usual. It's fun though really, and enjoyable. Now if only my English teacher did shit like this. And so, it was Chinese. Uhh, review shit, got some bootleg recordings to do soon, gotta get my career week pass signed on Thursday, uhhh, KDT practice on Friday, they posted the recommended/ required wardrobe for this year's Lunar show performance. I guess we're going with a "Kim Possible" or f(x)'s "Redlight" sorta look with olive green and neutral colors. Never thought I'd be shopping for clothes anytime soon, but needing a watch and #2 pencils for the SAT, this weekend sounds like a good time to shop.

        And uh, yeah. Overall just a really, really paced-out day. Nothing too fancy, heh. Alright, enough for now, see ya.

Monday, November 16, 2015

Monday, November 16, 2015 "As Usual."

Monday, November 16, 2015
Week: 14
Songs to Remember: Chained Up - VIXX

        For once I actually did some real studying. I know, I can't believe it either. What's even more unbelievable is that it's November 16th, and from my Bio teacher's calculations, it's exactly a month before finals. FUCK.

        What's even more unbelievable, is that one of my buddies got a 1700 or so on the SAT, and he's taking like 4 AP classes. Now since he only got a 1700 on the SAT, and me being me, who has yet to study for shit, I'm probably gonna get about half that. It's gonna be a fucking nightmare alright.

        Psychology, more notes. Last night I checked online because I remembered our English teacher sent us a reminder for an assignment or something. Didn't see it, so, I went to bed. Only then did I remember that he sent it to us by email. I was literally like "FUCK." Good thing I have English 2nd period, because I spent about half of 1st period taking notes while studying rhetorical fucking devices. English was then just quiz upon quiz.

        First quiz was on Paine's "The Crisis" rhetorical devices and Patrick Henry's famous speech rhetorical devices. Hell yeah it was fucking hard, even though it was multiple choice. I could identify 'em, but I just didn't know the names of the devices. Like, anaphorism or aphorism. The next quiz was just a joke. 10 questions, easy questions for the entire vocab. Like, really? Oh and uh, we changed seats. Gonna have a fun time remembering that. RNGsus was not bad this time, I'm like, 5 feet away from where Lt sits now. I'm sitting in the back row, not the very back row, but the front of the back row in the middle left of the classroom, facing the board. Next to me is a friendly classmate of mine, I'd consider him a buddy but we don't talk much outside of class. And uh, Lt's diagonally to the left of me. She's pretty much at her old, old seat.

        Break was usual, although the entire wasfucking COLD. 58 degrees it says on my weather app, but the fucking wind, man. Umm, yeah we just talked about random shit, I can't even recall highlights. Anyways, Bio was next, and that just like, lecture. Then math, which was the usual again. Lunch was the usual, then came US History with a bootleg assignment (in class though). We had to write a letter to somebody in the class, can be a love letter, friendly letter, whatever (the teacher recommends a love letter because it's just bootleg, heh), but we gotta use at least 18 terms from the 1920's. Very bootleg terms in this current century.

        The teacher delivers these letters anonymously, so, whatever, heh. And that was that. Chinese, where we just reviewed, pretty much it. And uh, yeah. Nothing too bad, except for a math quiz tomorrow. Umm, a lot of things happening on December 5th, and not just current events, but like, A LOT of shit. Not sure why people are picking that date. Alright, well, gotta finish shit. So, see ya.

EDIT: Oh yeah, forgot to add, Lt mentioned how she doesn't really want to be in CCOC anymore and how she's kinda only in it for the internship. I'm like "Hmmm, yeah." Anyways, just something I forgot to say. See ya.

Sunday, November 15, 2015 "Preparing Already?"

Sunday, November 15, 2015
Week: 13
Songs to Remember: Don't Leave - GD&TOP

        Just when I think I can go to sleep before 1:00 AM, bam, there's assignments I didn't even know about posted online.

        After about a couple days of silence, as in, no texts from Lt, I check Kik and I'm like "Hoh, shit." I didn't even her messaging me last. I respond and uh, she we get into a convo about sleep and classes, and, how she pretty much wants her and I to be in the same classes for next year. I'm thinking like "Wow, you- you're planning on shit for the next series already? This series ain't even close to half-way over yet and you're already thinking about the next one."

        So, I ask her that it all depends on the classes. She lists me: Anatomy and Physiology, AP English, AP Calc BC, AP Statistics, AP Physics, and Chinese 3. In all caps too by the way. I was like "HOOOOOLY SHIT." Not really but you get what I mean. I'm like, dying in terms of sleep here, with just 2 AP classes. 4? That's pushing the envelope a bit too much. AP Calculus BC? Never in my lifetime will I take that. AP English? Fuck no, Honors English is already fucking me over, heh. Everything else is debatable, and only after like, further in this series will I make the choice.

        Not sure why she's considering me as her like, bestest bestest friend right now or something, otherwise, she wouldn't like recommend that I should take all the exact same classes as her. Or, even, do all this shit for me, so far, pay all the attention she has so far for me. I mean, ehhhhh. It's the 15th, 16th technically. Shit fiesta is happening on December 5th. I got an SAT to study for, oh my fucking. FUCK. I completely forgot about finals. Yeah that. That's gonna kill me.

        And to top it off: I got dance practice on Friday for KDT. Yeah, completely forgot about that haven't you Drew. Not really, but I sorta dread it since I'm a lazy fuck. Anyways, see ya.

Sunday, November 15, 2015

Saturday, November 14, 2015 "It's Great."

Saturday, November 14, 2015
Week: 13
Songs to Remember: Our Relationship - MBLAQ

        This is one the first weekends since ever, that I don't have much to worry about for the upcoming week. It's great.

        Sat at home, played BO3 with my cousin, took a nap surprisingly, went to a buffet, procrastinated hard on a bootleg essay for Chinese (which had nothing to do with Chinese by the way. It was a justification paper on bell schedules for the school), turned it in at 11:00 PM, the date it was due, realized I forgot to put the word count, unsubmitted it, found out I couldn't edit it, re-submitted it, and now it's considered late. That feel when, heh.

        I still have yet to study for the SAT, still have a bit of math work to do, and still gotta study for a vocab quiz on Monday, but uh, I think I'm good for now. Hopefully tomorrow I don't get too tired that I have to take a nap on the weekend. See ya.

Saturday, November 14, 2015

Friday, November 13, 2015 "Peak Relief."

Friday, November 13, 2015
Week: 13
Songs to Remember: A Year Like a Day (하루 같은 일년) - 2LSON

        Week 13 when it's Friday the 13th? Coincidence? I think not. Despite today being considered unlucky, I think this finale turned out to be very fortunate for me.

        First it's Psychology, where we corrected each other's test FRQ's, then had the rest of the period to do whatever. For the record, our teacher wasn't here today so we had a sub. Had she been here, it would've been another fucking "Fun Friday."

        English was one of the highlights of the day. Peaked a high amount of views. We were discussing examples of mass hysteria and uh, the teacher looked up some cases online. There was this article, was something like "10 Bizarre Cases of Mass Hysteria" or some shit like that. He scrolled down, going through each, then there was one called the "Penis Panic."

        It was a case of mass hysteria when people started thinking their D's were shrinking and blaming others for taking theirs. Pretty hilarious right? The teacher was like "Hey,even though it seems funny, imagine being on the receiving end of that. You're living your normal life and somebody just comes along and takes your penis." He probably said "penis" about 5 times or so.

        After that fiesta, we continued watching "The Crucible" which is turning out to be a really good movie. There's a nice character development going on, intense moments, pretty cool. And as usual, Lt and I had our walk convo, but I'm guessing she's taking it to over to the L building instead. We sit down at the middle on the first floor and just talk 'till her friends come on over.

        Biology was a real surprise. We had our test, I looked up so many examples online of the same experiment we did in class, studied that shit, looked up Quizlet flashcards for that shit, if I had not study the experiment and steps, I would've gotten shit on on the test. It was surprisingly easy, only because I knew everything, for the most part. And for the first time, I didn't have much of a problem on a free-response question.

        Math. It was actually the same old, same old, nothing really special here. Lunch, now that was nice relaxing. There was a scheduled intruder drill today, my Biology teacher said it was happening at the end of lunchtime. I'm sure other teachers told their students as well, because there was a lot of "groups" standing near the doors of classrooms, including the cast and I. I wanted to go to my US History teacher's room, because he always gets out a bat during these kind of drills. But no, we went to this one other classroom instead.

        US History has got to be the highest peak so far this week. I think. When did I start going with Lt to the L-building? This week right? Well, besides that then. Anyways, SSR's over, class starts, the teacher gets out the bouncy balls and I'm like "Oh no." The first appearance of this game dates back to "So Don't Be on with Her" where the teacher dude makes a deal with us. We, as a class, can choose to accept his offer or not. It's usually an assignment, like, for example, today, we had to draw 5 pictures of terms from WW1, giving a little context for each, would probably take a couple hours to do in total.

        If one of us can make a shot into the basketball hoop in the back of the room, from a preset spot of course, then he bumps the number down, so instead of 5 pictures, we only have to draw 4. He usually tries to offer us more propositions after we make it or miss the shot (out of 3). Well, many people, said no to it at first. He did a vote count of all of us, I'm actually voting for someone to do it because I'm all or nothing really, heh, and it was 12 to 11.

        So, this athletic dude is the one shooting. He was in my Geography class in freshman year too, so he knows. He misses all 3 shots, hitting the ceiling each time. Well, we only have to do 6 pictures now, not that much, so the teacher gives us another offer. Down to 3 pictures, or up to 8 pictures. Sounds pretty good right? Well, this time this one girl goes to shoot, and well, she makes it the first try. WOOO. Freelo baby. The teacher was like "Alright, alight, how 'bout this." And he offers us a free assignment (meaning we don't have to do it, it's a free 30 points) and we get to play a bootleg game for the rest of the period, or, go back to 6.

        People liked the idea, they were hesitant at first, so, we ended up going for it, and uh, WOOOOOO. FREELO. She makes it, we don't have to do the assignment, free 30 points to my grade, we move all the desks to the side of the room, sit in a big circle in the middle of the room, the teacher explains this "Signs" game to us. We basically all come up with a sign, so it could be a peace sign, praying sign (that was mine), wink, something like that. Then, one person is to be in the middle. That person has to guess who has the "invisible ball." This "invisible ball" is passed around by people sending their signs to each other, usually when the person in the middle's back is turned.

        For example, I start out. I make eye contact with a person, make sure they know I'm looking at them, then do their sign. They gotta confirm it by doing their sign, then make eye contact with someone else, do that person's sign, then that person does it and so forth, essentially passing this "invisible ball" around. If the person in the middle gets caught, they switch with the middle person. It was pretty fun actually, such a good stress reliever, heh. I really needed it after this week.

        And last, but probably not least, is Chinese. We didn't do anything related to Chinese today, we made snowflakes instead. 3-D paper snowflakes, following a YouTube tutorial. It's actually not as hard as it looks, heh. Each team made one, we hung it on the ceiling, I'm like "It ain't even half past November yet and Christmas is already looked forward to." I am though, guilty of that, heh.

        Anyways, I don't have much work besides studying and this bootleg essay due tomorrow night for Chinese. 800 words, just gotta sound persuasive, back up facts, easy 200 points. I think. So, I was hoping to sleep at 11:00 PM today, to rpay up some of my sleep debt, but, looks like it ain't happening tonight, as it's 12:55 AM right now. Alright, see ya.

Friday, November 13, 2015

Thursday, November 12, 2015 "What Was I Thinking."

Thursday, November 12, 2015
Week: 13
Songs to Remember: Beautiful - Lu:kus

        I'm kinda sleepy, I was planning on just studying the most I can 'till I fall asleep, but then I remember how I gotta do this.

        Psychology was interesting for once, just because it talked about the one thing I'm lacking: sleep. Yep, our unit's on consciousness and what not. Just notes today though. English, I'm surprised I didn't fall asleep from watching the movie. We're currently watching "The Crucible," which is about witch hunts and shit. The teacher also talked about mass hysteria and this one case from New York. Other than that, we just watched the movie. It was rated PG, but apparently there some nudity in the beginning of the film, so, the teacher used a broom to block the projector and parts of the scene. Pretty fun, heh.

        I guess I made the right move before, like I when I first chose to step up and talk to Lt for the first time. So, now we just go meet up with her buddy (or we just go straight to the L-building). I basically just spend break with her and her buddies. It's like 10 minutes so that's a lot of talk time. It mostly just ranges from random shit like Hearthstone, classes, stories, etc. And yes, she still walks with me to Bio class upstairs. Real nice.

        English I don't have to worry about for a while, mostly just math and Bio right now. Biology, just a free period to study for the test tomorrow. And uh, grades were updated. WOOOO. 75% now in Bio, I basically went up a whole 3%. Crazy. For math, I'm sitting at a straight up C+. We got our tests back, and uh, not looking so pretty. 47/70, might not look too bad, but when it's calculated, it's actually a 67%. FUCK. I don't really freak out about low scores like this anymore, probably because I'm used to it or, de-sensitized to it now. But like, damn.

        And the class average was like 80% too. I looked over my mistakes and it was just a couple wrong here and there, besides the 2 graphs that I messed up which resulted in a straight up -10. I can't even find help online either because the book and it's problems are so old. Not even joking when I say the book's older than me, because it is. A B is fine for the class, but I'd like some wiggle room in case shit like this happens again.

        Anyways, lunch was just at the theater for a Chinese club meeting. US History, we watched scenes from the movie "The Red Baron." Pretty cool looking movie. Even then, I did fall alseep a couple times. Like, that feeling when you doze off, your head tilts down and that force wakes you back up? I got that feeling, except it happened multiple times. I think it's because of the silence, the ambience from the movie audio, the darkness with the lights off, affects my melatonin levels (which I did learn from Psychology class today, the more you know, heh).

        And finally Chinese, where the Wi-Fi was fairly slow I could barely work on my essay that's due Saturday. So, to wrap things up, I can't believe that I felt like Lt was losing attention for me when she didn't text as often as she did before. And now she doesn't really text me at all, but, now we have the whole time during break to talk face to face which I like because it's more on an interactive level. Oh and I signed up for the Friday Gaming Industry thing for career week. I went to the library to sign up, I just filled out my name, ID, and grade, then the receptionist just gave me a pass. Didn't even have to sign it, it was just blank. I was like "Hub." Good thing it's during 6th period. Anything else, ehhhh, besides US History, I probably would not want to skip.

        And without further ado, time to study. So, see ya.

Thursday, November 12, 2015

Wednesday, November 11, 2015 "A Break."

Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Week: 13
Songs to Remember: Run and Run - Hyuna

        Even with a break, we still get assigned work because there's no such thing as a "real" break. But I gotta, even though I did half-ass my work at the last minute, it was nice.

        Basically played BO3 all day, with a bit of League games with my buddy. Umm, so far, been enjoying the games. Should I actually study for the SAT? Yeah. Should I have gotten most if not all my work done from just today? Yeah. Should I worry about Sadie's? Yeah. But did I? Nah.

        Well, that's pretty much it. I wanna sleep now, so, see ya.

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Tuesday, November 10, 2015 "Up and Down Settle."

Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Week: 13
Songs to Remember: Wet - JooYoung

        Last night I went to bed at around 3:30 AM, got about 3 hours of sleep. I think it's safe to say that that has got to be the 2nd longest time I've ever had to stay up to finish work, the other time was during 100% Chance of Bad, and that was around 4:00 AM.

        Things have startled to settle down, some things are starting to pick up. So, high hopes for the next season, and so forth. Psychology, I basically studied bootleg Quizlet flashcards on the car ride and walk to class. It actually helped. Test was pretty straight forward. English, yeah that was straight forward too. The teacher talked about recommendation letters.

        I'm like "Oh, for fuck's sake, all this just to be able to ATTEND the college you want, and will be irrelevant later on in life." That means, getting close to your teacher. I actually was leaning on my Chemistry teacher from last year to write mine, but he's since transferred to a different school. I was also leaning towards my World History teacher from last year, but, ehhhh, not really much to say except, "He did his work, he's on task, determined, etc."

        So I don't know. I feel that this shit promotes those who are more talkative, who don't have social anxiety or shit like that, and so these people would have a big disadvantage. Anyways, that's what I think, the teacher ending up showing us the ending of the most recent Scarlet Letter film adaption. Except, the movie didn't follow the book's ending at all, and umm, very uh, very bootleg. Oh and he also showed us a ThugNotes YouTube video on the Scarlet Letter, which, when I was looking for audio books for it, I came across the same video.

        I figured, hey, just do it. So that's what I did. Walked with Lt, had our convo, up until she met up with her buddy dude, then I was like "Oh, you're headed to the L-building? I gotta go to the L-building too." She didn't mind, didn't even pay attention to my reason as to why. I'm like "Alright, I'll take it." There, I was introduced basically to her 2 friends, the buddy dude, and uh, this one girl. It was, you know, new. I liked it, I liked how the plot's advancing, and of course, more talk time, face-to-face, only because Lt doesn't text me like she used to. Work and shit, I understand, I have shit too, heh.

        Biology, we basically just, reviewed shit about our lab, took a look at our results, and uh, had free time to do shit. I used that to study for the math test next period, which was, kinda iffy. That feel when you don't study something because you think it's just a minor thing and won't be on the test. And it did. Overall, ehhhh, B. Please. Just enough to keep my floating. Umm, lunch was the usual, Ek actually invited us for game night at her house again, today. I completely forgot that we have tomorrow off (because of veterans day) so I was wondering why she was doing this on a Tuesday.

        US History, we watched a History Channel video on experiences from WW1, with footage and letters from the people who were in it. Pretty interesting. And finally Chinese, where we took our quiz, in which some words weren't in our flashcards which I had studied all day. Shiiiiit. 14/20, a lot of people got the same, and because of those same words, ehhh, could've been better.

        And now I'm home, 1:19 AM, played BO3 with my cosuin, and Dungeon Defenders 2 with my buddies. Tomorrow, oh man, I better fucking do my work. I got shit to turn in for Biology, Chinese, History, and English. 'Cause ya know, gotta assign shit even over breaks, because really, there aren't any "real" breaks. So uh, see ya.

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Monday, November 9, 2015 "Late Again."

Monday, November 9, 2015
Week: 13
Songs to Remember: My Type - iKon

        Finished that "fun Friday" activity I hated, discussed and watched videos on plagiarism for English, finished another step of the large lab we're doing in Biology, did the usual in math and got to see my 12-week grade (C+, 79.96%, but the teacher was an MVP and rounded it to a B-. Thank you based teacher), the teacher showed us trench foot because we were learning about trench warfare during WW1 (don't ever look it up), aaand finished homework in class, because I didn't know that it was assigned for the weekend, for Chinese.

        It's 1:29 AM, still have yet to finish Psychology work, English work, or Chinese work. I got 2 tests and a quiz tomorrow. Haven't studied for any of those. I did not expect to stay up this late, but what did I expect of "hell month?"

        One good thing that came from all of this today. The weather was really harsh, there was heavy rain during 2nd period and a little bit after that. There was even thunder outside, and lightning, which we saw even in while in the classroom through the crevice at the sides of the door. I didn't bring my umbrella, thinking it wouldn't rain, and neither did Lt. So, after class, we went to the safety of the L-building, sat down, and just, spent break-time there.

        I like this season's writers already. Umm, it did seem like Lt still payed attention to me, not like, feeling bored or anything. She did talk a little bit quiet at times, and even then, I put all my concentration into my hearing, and I could still barely make out what she was saying, heh. Maybe that's what I do at times.

        And yes, our convo did still continue when I walked to Bio. Umm, what else happened today? Our English teacher told us a story of how he went OG on this girl who tried to cover up her plagiarism, even if it meant she had to get him fired. He noticed there was a pattern in these people's essays, gave 'em a 0 for their essays. One girl got her mom and a lawyer to get him fired, with her acting all innocent.

        Luckily, one girl who has invited to plagiarize with the group of girls (who didn't, and now she's a professor at Harvard) sent our teacher an email, describing how she was invited to their cheating group, showed the essay outline they sent her, everything. Our teacher was confident when getting talked down by the lawyer and mother of the girl. He just calmly handed over the email letter to the lawyer, the lawyer looked at the mother, and said "You're daughter is a dirty cheater" and left.

        I was like "Daaaaaamn. THUG LIFE." He just calmly handed it over, like "Keep talking, now look at dis." Anyways, fun story, I gotta go back to work. See ya.

Monday, November 9, 2015

Sunday, November 8, 2015 "Self-Motivation."

Sunday, November 8, 2015
Week: 12
Songs to Remember: What's Wrong With Me - Toppdogg

        It seems that nearing the end of the year bad things always happen (say, for example, from the past two years). Hopefully this year will break that trend.

        So, yesterday was fairly emotional. And for some reason,whenever I feel emotional to that extent, I always search up what I'm feeling or what's happening to Google, and finding Yahoo! Answers of the things I typed. This just assures me that "Hey, I'm not the only one who's experiencing this" to combat my average teen mentality.

        One of the things I found, suggested that I should not listen to my parents arguing, because that could lead to bad things, and to just take my mind off of it, do something else like play video games. And uh, that's exactly what I did. Played Black Ops 3 with my cousin up 'till nighttime, continuing that today. And this is ain't the first time where I succumb to my addictions. It's 12:32 AM and I did not do any work today, besides math. But, hearing that shit ain't due TOMORROW, I'm doing it tomorrow.

        And so, I got things to talk about, with Lt. Umm, I feel that I've already talked much about her already, don't wanna do that again. Because, fucking, Andrew. Me. I'm talking to myself right now. You've been through this, this kind of thinking before. These emotions. I mean, that's sorta one of the reasons why you made this whole blog shit right? So use that experience to grow and take advantage of it. DO DIFFERENTLY.

        Okay, okay. Got it, me. That's actually- I never thought about that. 'Tll now. Kinda forgot what I learned from the past, 2-3 years. If it starts to seem boring, put some effort in and do shit differently, get excited. AND GET OFF YOUR LAZY ASS.

        I needed that, Drew. Alright, that's enough self-motiviation for now, I'll be having fun reading all this in the future, heh. See ya.

Saturday, November 7, 2015

Saturday, November 7, 2015 "I Love You."

Saturday, November 7, 2015
Week: 12
Songs to Remember: I Wonder Why - Dion and the Belmonts

        I overheard my parents fighting today. Didn't really had to try that hard though because they're loud enough that I can hear them from in my room.

        This is a honest-to-God letter post about both my dad and my mom, whom I in all honesty, believe that I have not tried to interact much with lately. What's to blame? My insecurity, laziness, tiredness, and just outright because I'm a teen, where I have the mentality that "nobody understands me, what I'm going through, how I have the hardest life right now."

        Both my parents have come from long ways to get where they are now, here, in American, where I can have the best life possible. They seen and experienced with troubles I cannot even imagine. My dad, I've seen photos of him working as a rickshaw driver back in Vietnam. There was one time, back at our old, old house where he showed me pictures he took back in Vietnam. There was a picture a young guy whom I did not recognize. My dad said this was a guy he gave bread to each day because he was hungry and poor. He said that guy later on committed suicide.

        My mom grew up in a family with around 8 other siblings. Her parents, especially her father, had high expectations for her to do well in school. Her family was also scraping to get by. I don't exactly know when or where my parents met. I'm thinking it was when they were in America, when my mom told me this story of how my dad took my mom out to Mountain Mike's Pizza when they were dating.

        Living in America, my mom got a job working at a beauty salon. My dad, he's worked in an industrial gas supplying company for around 15 years, ever since I was born. My mom quit her job and has ever since stayed home, taking care of me. Both of my parents never attended college.

        My parents got an apartment, and soon got a house. Just a small 1-story house in a quiet neighborhood. We stayed there until I finished 4th grade, and then we moved. I still remember everything, from the stories my mom told me, waking up early in the morning for school, sittigng in front of the heater, watching Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network while drinking my milk, progressing from sleeping in the same bed as my mom ,watching The Brady Bunch on T.V, to having 2 separate beds, to a bunk bed. I remember me playing in my dad's room, him showing me the basics on using a computer, how to turn it on, when we went to watch Monster House and Star Wars Episode 3 in theaters together, when we went on bike rides around our neighborhood and at my school. I remember all of that and even more. When I told my mom I wanted to go visit our old, old house again (this was at around 2010), she said we couldn't, because the sight of the house will bring back memories and make her cry (in a good way).

        As a family, we've reached bumpy roads at the second house we've moved to. I didn't like leaving my friends, didn't like the people at my new school, the administration was outright racist, poor funding, dangerous neighborhood, it was just bad overall. I got into trouble with the school somehow, there was police involved, my parents did not like it one bit. We moved shortly after I finished 5th grade there. And now here, in the house we've been living in for more than 5 years now. That's a really long time if you think about it, from 6th grade, all the way now to 11th. A lot of things happened in just 5 years.

        We've made friends with the neighbors, I finished elementary school, went on to middle school, finished that, and now, trekking along through high school. Over time, my parents, they've gotten stressed out, with, all the things I have to get involved in. My mom drives me to school at 7:30 AM in the morning, buying school supplies, by dad has to pay for my SAT, drive me to and from school events, or to hang out with friends on the weekends. I'm in high school, I should be trying to be independent by now, that my parents shouldn't have to worry about all this, but apparently, this is actually all too much work for just one person, and it sorta becomes my parents' responsibilities as well.

        During my parent's fight today, about an hour ago, this was the line that triggered me the most: "Just say it. Just the say the word, and I'll take Andrew and raise him myself." That brings me to tears just by remembering how my mom said it. It breaks my heart. I was worried that my dad would snap and say okay to a divorce, but, thank goodness he didn't. I don't ever, want my parents' arguments to go to the extremities of something like that.

        What would break me the most would not be getting rejected by the girl I like, failing all my classes, losing my friends, or losing relatives, but losing my parents. Without them, I wouldn't have been able to meet my friends, enjoy being around my relatives whenever we visit, or even, had the idea to start this blog to gather my thoughts. I've heard all their arguments, from house to house, school to school, from age 1 to age 16. I have thought about suicide and running away before. I have never attempted either of those things. For running away, it's because it's not permanent like suicide, and I want people to realize my presence and when I'm gone. For suicide, I'm too cowardly for that, I'd be too scared to commit to it. But worst of all, it would do more bad than good. It would devastate my parents.

        So, to you, my parents, this is what I have to say as of now. Mom, even though I never really show expression or enthusiasm when you do, or try harder in my classes, or want a career in the medical field, or, try to speak more Vietnamese, the first language I've learned, I still love you. I always have, I always will. I love you, mom.

        Dad. I'm sorry for neglecting to talk to you. It's just because I'm tired when coming home from school and your constant questions annoy me when I'm tired. But now that I've actually looked at it from your perspective, you're really just trying to interact with your son, even if it's just a "How was school? How much homework do you have today? Keep up the good work, it's almost the weekend." You've hugged me ever since I was little. You still give me kisses. What any other kid would give to have a dad like you. I love you, daddy. Even if I don't show it, even if I don't say thank you, I mean it. I love you.

        After the 16 years, soon to be 17 years, of us being together, through all the arguments, through all the fun experiences, to all the things trying to separate us, I'm glad that we're still together. I love and appreciate what you've done for me. So to my mom and my dad, please don't divorce. I love you.

Friday, November 6, 2015 "Feeling All Around."

Friday, November 6, 2015
Week: 12
Songs to Remember: Everybody's Circulation - TMABird

        Damn. Wasn't the season finale I was expecting, but, I'll take it. Still sorta unclear what to do with the Lt story.

        Psychology, man, what a shitty-ass "fun Friday" which sometimes continues beyond Friday, like today. We were in groups, again, and we had like, different stations to do. It sorta like, experiencing age and shit, just random shit like that. For our group, we first did this activity where we put in earplugs, wear scratched glasses, and read Dr.Seuss books to imitate what being elderly feels like. Sorta.

        Worst part of it all: we had to walk, hunched, as if we had a cane, slowly, to the library steps straight across from the classroom. FUCK, YOU. It was literally like 54 degrees in the morning, and of course, our activity involved going outside. And there's like, 5 other stations, we only got through ours and one other station before the bell rang.

        *sigh* Anyways, English, I was hoping we wouldn't be doing the essay, but, alas, we did. Fortunately, it was to be typed on Chromebooks, so that was my playing field. And thankfully it was expected to be short because it was in-class and timed. For the prompt, it was a random selection between 3, which we got to choose, randomly of course. Not bad, talk about how Hester is a strong female character, aka, explain if the novel was written in a feminist view or not. Did the 2:1 ratio, I was scared for the time because I needed quotes, I don't remember where page numbers are, so I made sure not to spend too much time on finding 'em.

        I did finish on time though, so, not bad, I'll take it. And, there's not take-home essay, thank god. Either that, or he's giving it to us next week, in which I will be like "Fuck." Lt and I, I don't know anymore. Like, I'm not sure how SHE feels about us, if that strong connection still holds now from like, a couple months ago. I guess I'm just feeling depressed because our convo's are just talking about school and shit, and how I don't get that burst of excitement whenever I get a text from her.

        Never thought I'd have to think this way, I always sorta mocked it back in middle school. And uh, look at me now, heh. Fucking, this shit happens. I could compare it to basically Drake's "Hotline Bling."You used to call me on your cellphone. late night when you need my love, Call me on my cellphone.

        Maybe she feels the same way, that she expects me to text her. But, probably just busy with work, like, a lot of work. She still plans to take AP classes next year. And yes, it is confirmed she ain't doing CCOC next year. Ummm, to continue where I left off, I went instead to the L building, and just sat in the depths. By that I mean at the place where many people sit at at the L building. And Lt did pass by, with her other 2 buddies, that one dude that we've gone over, and this one girl. I forgot her name though, I think I saw her name when Lt screenshotted her bootleg math trick that she did to her friend like me.

        In my defense, I was studying on my phone. She was there, with her 2 buddies, right next to me, the bell rings, she actually walks with me, up the stairs, to my class. We talk 'bout, you guessed it, classes we'll be taking next year, And still, FUCKING AP's, heh, I don't know if I can handle anymore of this shit. But yeah, now that I remember this moment, it does make me feel better, knowing she, walked with me to the door of my next class when her class was right there.

        So I guess, that could work out for me. On Monday I could be like, "Oh hey, you're going to the L building? I need to go there too." And uh, just, see where it goes from there. Alright, enough talk 'bout Lt, moving on. Biology, thank the lord I found the Quizlet flashcards for questions from the giant-ass review sheet. And yes, those exact same questions were on the quiz. Only 5 questions, multiple choice, got a 3/5. Many got 4/5 because of a bootleg trick question, so, not bad. Umm, mostly just review, planning what to do on Monday, also the teacher's birthday today so, there's that.

        And, almost forgot to mention, it's my buddy Ac's birthday today, happy birthday to him. I've known him since 6th grade, we don't talk very much, but we've hung out in a group for pretty much all of middle school, and uh, high school's changed, but we still have that sorta connection from the past. Anyways, prime example of AP classes: my Bio teacher talked about suicide rates, how 1/5 of every high school student has thought about attempting suicide. She tells about this dude she knows who's an engineer who works at Amazon. He's interviewed over 500 people, never was he like "Hmmm, what AP classes did this person take?" Made me feel better knowing this will all be just lost in my brain in the future. Just, this, my struggles, heh. But damn, fucking AP classes, Thanks for feeling for us.

        Okay, gotta move on because I wanna sleep. Math, the usual. Lunch, the usual. US History, we finished watching the Lusitania. Damn was it a nice movie. I was wondering where they got the budget until I saw the Discovery channel logo. It got really dark after the setup, like, really, really dark and tragic. I really liked it, and the best part of it all: I didn't fall asleep this time. Also, I don't know if I've ever mentioned this but I've been reading this book called "Pay it Forward" during SSR, from our teacher's book collection, and recommended to me by Ky. Almost done with it, pretty good book. Gonna be the first book in many, many years that I've actually read each and every page. The last time was probably the Joy Luck Club, but that doesn't count because I hate that book, heh.

        Chinese, yeah that was just, going over the homework, people present their research summaries, all good. Nothing much else to say, except that afterwards, I walked to the dance room to watch people perform for a bit, for KDT, when I ran into Cy and well, Kh. Cy's like, that girl whom is friends with Ls, umm, cut her hair short last year, and uh, was good buddies with Ec. You know. And Kh, the dude who's friends with Ad and Cy, senior, chill dude. They were going somewhere, didn't really hear where, but instead of waiting, I just went along with them.

        With what looked like they were going home LOL, it turned out that we went to Kh's house (which was super close to the school, like about a 2 minute walk. We sat on this bench on his front porch, Cy and I, when we see Ls. She comes over, sits down with us, I was like "What a fucking coincidence/ timing." Kh just changed into more comfortable clothes, we went back, it was 3:20 PM by now, but apparently the teacher supervisor wasn't here yet, so, we got a break, heh.

        Thought it would start at 3:15 PM, apparently not, stayed 'till 3:45 PM and went home. Why? I was looking forward to playing Black Ops 3, which, I will, tomorrow, thank you dad, heh (my past birthday presents for the last 4 years has been nothing but Call of Duty games. And, including some gifts last year by cool people, like Ek and Yn).I made a commitment because if I were to get this game, the addiction will grow, be unstoppable, good bye to school work. So, I decided I'll play only on weekends, or, if I finish with ALL my work before 7:00 PM. But, for weekends, I'll play for as long as my cousin (whom we haven't really Skyped much. Like, barely. Only the past week or so has he called me. Guess we're just busy with work or something, or at least, I am. Even so, we're still really close) does.

        As for online shit, we tried to redo our Google Hangouts thing with my group and I for Chinese, this time one of our members overslept from her nap or something, due to AP and Honors work as a sophomore, so, I understand. So, we're moving it to tomorrow, which is fine. I've been watching Slaydra (azneyeswhitedragon) stream Black Ops 3 for the past day or so. And uh, played a couple League games with my buddy Ec. Our future in the Gold vision looks dim, heh.

        Wheeeew. What a fucking post. Was around like, an hour of straight writing. Or at least, 30 minutes. That's- oh shit, almost forgot this bootleg moment. Our English teacher played Chic's "Le Freak" song during the beginning of the period. I was like "Awww, come on man. Savage as fuck yo, heh." Like, damn. And if you don't get it, the song's lyrics is about freaking out, in which, students like us would freak out about doing in-class essays or major works like it. FREAK OUT. Fucking savage.

        Alright, enough talking, quality sleep, here I come. Also I'm sick, with a sore throat this whole week, runny nose today. Fuck you cold, and as my best buddy would exclaim, "Fuck this gay Earth!" Anyways, see ya.

Friday, November 6, 2015

Thursday, November 5, 2015 "Stand-Still."

Thursday, November 5, 2015
Week: 12
Songs to Remember: Don't Flirt - WINNER, Don't Leave - GD&TOP

        Holy shit, I went back to look at the career week details (which is next, next week) and saw that on November 20th, there's gonna be a "Professional Gamer/Gaming Industry" coming to visit and talk about their job. I'm like "Daaaamn, I gotta see that. It can either be a pro gamer I know, or Vanderhaar, heh."

        So this week, to be honest, I have not been feeling it lately. I haven't even been talking much about Lt because, there's barely anything to talk about. It's sorta dying now, the plot's at a stand-still, no advances, just, shit. Also there's been a ton of work, tests, quizzes, I even received one of my worst scores on a quiz/test that I think I've ever received in my life, heh. If there's one thing I'm grateful for, is the candy that Lt gave me. Bad for my health, yes, but keeps me awake to do shit like, write this.

        Psychology, fucking, all I really need to worry about is studying and doing the stupid notes and copying down the answers for the study guide. There's never any homework, projects are just a pain in the ass sometimes (like from the past couple days). Today was just to wrap up presentations, the rest was free time to do shit like study for quotation explications next period.

        There's two sides to having my current English teacher. The bad side: he gives a lot of work, a lot of in-depth work, and has high expectations, The good side: if it weren't forme having him as my teacher for 2nd period Honors English, this Lt story arch wouldn't have existed, so there's a definite trade-off there, heh. I didn't really study quotes because it's pretty much impossible to memorize all of 'em. I went to Cliffnotes and Shmoop as my saving graces and studied themes and ways to format my explications. The whole thing was 4 explications, 40 minutes, hand-written. I did not get to finish my 4th explication unfortunately. Fortunately, I'm not the only one.

        4 explications with 10 minutes each, I gotta take a minute to remember where it came from, who said, context, etc. Then, plan out what I wanna write about, what theme. Then format and start writing. Really wished we could've typed it, because with the amount of time we're given, it's either quality or penmanship, and I damn well went for quality. Umm, Lt. I'm not sure the direction we're heading to, it's sorta veering off course. When walking to English, she talks about shit that happens in her US History class. After English, she talks about shit that happened in English. And the times that we worked on our poster, she talked about shit OTHER than school.

        Definitely an unpredictable person. Me, I'm predictable. Looking back on shit I've done, you could've probably seen it coming from a mile away. Anyways, still hoping for the best though. My fingers are stiff due to the coldness in my room. 51 degrees, and with these big-ass glass panels in my room (never used as doors, just stupid fucking windows), means less insulation. I'm in my room and my fingers are chilled, what the hell, man. Okay, umm, yeah, break time, hmmm, don't like it. Biology, is kicking my ass right now.

        Truthfully, I'm hanging on a thread right now. The only reason I don't have a D+ yet is because of my common sense and logic on tests and quizzes. Today we just looked at our gels, see if we did shit wrong. Our group's looked kinda shitty, couldn't really see anything. It didn't matter, all it mattered was this one solution that was to put into the last slot of the gel. I was unfortunately given that task, wasn't told that it was the most important part. And uhh, I'm guessing I punctured the gel when putting it in there. Huh. If only we were told the importance of it earlier.

        Quiz tomorrow by the way. Today, for math, we got back our quizzes, did corrections. One look at my score, I had a "Holy shit," just straight up in my head. 38/78, can you believe it, heh. Most likely the worst score I've ever received. Ever. Got a lot of shit wrong, like a lot. It ain't even 50%, and the class average for this quiz was 63%, heh. Kinda sad to be really, but hey, this is a hard chapter. My classmate, my buddy I guess, I consider him a buddy now actually, stayed after class a bit to help me correct some questions I got wrong. Found out he got the same ones wrong too, so that made me feel a lot better.

        He's the dude who asked me anonymously on ask.fm before, last year. Didn't really speak to him much, didn't really pay much attention to him. He's a really cool dude, a trooper, for helping me out. It's Vc, his name's Vc. Sophomore too, by the way. Also asked me advice on classes to take. Umm, lunch was just a bootleg meeting in the theater for Chinese class. US History, we started watching the Lusitania movie, starring that guy from The Mummy. I knew that I needed sleep, because I was falling asleep watching the movie.

        The movie was interesting too. My head literally went down once, luckily I don't think people notice, and I always kinda make it look like I'm just transitioning to a more comfortable sitting position. But holy shit, falling asleep in class, and during 5th period, only because there's a movie and the lights are out. Shit, man, this is a worrying trend, heh. And finally, Chinese, where we had Chromebooks to setup and plan a bootleg Google Hangout video group chat, in which we are to record, discuss shit, and turn it in.

        We did that about a few hours ago, starting from 9:00 PM. Ended up being an hour long. Looks like the teacher is gonna have to sift through the footage because I ain't gonna edit 1 hour long footage, heh. Also, the teacher's instructions were vague, and she didn't say there was a time limit on the footage. Also the first time she's assigned something like this.

        Tomorrow, luckily, there's no mandatory KDT practice, unless you're in Call Me Baby, which I'm not. I'll still show up though, just for the attendance, and get back my scoring sheet for my dances I auditioned. I'd stay an hour though, just so I can focus and finish work there instead of being distracted by shit like the PC in front of me, believe it or not. I can do my work anywhere in any sane condition, but put my PC near me, no work gets done, heh.

        And yeah. This has been a nice post, really glad to get all this off after a while. Tomorrow, *sigh*, is an essay for English, along with a take-home essay as well, so, double the hell. I can never really get a break, huh? Same for other people. Maybe, maybe Lt would have some free time to watch a movie this weekend? Hmmm? See, now I'm just thinking too much, heh. We all know she's gonna talk about the essay afterwards. Also, she's explained my voice before when I had mentioned it. Kinda like lacking expression, one voice, and uh, that's true.

        Hmmm, the only time I add expression to my voice is when I'm talking to my buddies online through Skype or Curse Voice. Buddies like my best buddy, Ec. Big expression in my voice is reserved for close people. Others, takes me a while to get used to using that type of shit with them. Anyways, too much talking, 2:14 AM, gotta go reclaim what I've lost: sleep. See ya.

Thursday, November 5, 2015

Wednesday, November 4, 2015 "It Feels Like I Forgot."

Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Week: 12
Songs to Remember: Allday Allnight - Jakop, Raina, ₩uNo, DAYDAY

        It's been a while. Been a while since I felt like I actually made a real post, and it's only been about 1 post.

        It's just that I've been pretty busy, mostly because I'm kinda missing sleep. I went to bed at about 2:50 AM last night, so, yeah, pretty bad. Ummm, I'll keep this one kinda brief as well. I'll definitely do a recap and fill out on stuff that I didn't get the chance to say for, about these past few days, and tomorrow. Just really busy.

        Psychology, today we shared our projects in groups, tomorrow is gonna be the same. Yep, nothing really exciting. English, thank goodness today was a review, I actually liked it. The teacher said that quotation explications are supposed to be formulaic, 8 sentences is usually the most you'll need to do a passing explication, we gotta do 4 tomorrow, alrighty. What I'm doubting about it is that I might not remember who said the quote, and the context. Wait, I think it's like part of a passage. That makes it a bit better.

        Lt stuff's been on check. By that I mean, not bad, heh. Bio, we continued our experiment with gel electrophoresis, Umm, tomorrow is gonna be review, and then test/ quiz on Friday. Math, was the usual. Lunch, the usual again. US History, more notes. And Chinese, which was just the usual craziness. Friday's gonna be the first practice after auditions, also Black Friday, which, because there's school, I won't be able to go. I will, however, maybe go to the mall on Saturday with my buddies (like Ec) because they're selling shit like, socks for a $1. Ho, ly, shit.

        Also, Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 comes out tomorrow. Ah, I remember the days when I dedicated a lot of my time playing it, back in my MW3 days. Good times, good times, But it was middle school, heh. I'll see the player feedback, and then I'll see if I want to buy it yet.

        I also dropped the notice to Lt that my birthday is December 5th, and, asked her if she signed up for the SAT yet. She didn't and well, she did after I told her that I was registering, and where so. 54 fucking dollars, man. I haven't even started yet on the studying, heh, give me some sleep and hell yeah I'd do it all. Anyways, I'll be reviewing quotes from the Scarlet Letter for tomorrow's English test (C+, gee thanks). See ya.

EDIT: Oh yeah, did I mention that it's FUCKING, COLD. My fingers are like solid icicles and in my room right now. IT'S 51 DEGREES, holy shit.