Monday, May 30, 2016
Week: 42
Songs to Remember: For Real - Tokuyama Hidenori
Ah, this thing again. I haven't put much thought into these because instead of living in the real world or this world, I've been living in the anime world for about, 4 days now.
And yeah, it does consume you. I basically forgot everything, umm, good thing there's only 2 more days of school, heh, 'cause this is not good. What's good is that Fanime is now over so, everybody can get back to their lives now. In my opinion, for something as small as Fanime, 2 days is good enough to absorb everything, three days at most. By the end of the 3rd day, you've seene everything, you're tired of walking, aaand you just wanna go home, heh.
Because of all this hype, my sleeping schedule has been shit. Literal, shit. I've slept at around 3:00 AM the past few days, waking up at 11:00 AM or something. Today I slept through 3 alarms, in which I set my phone to max volume for them. Yeah, not good. Ek and the others did manage to sneak Lw in, DrewN didn't go unfortunately, I don't blame him, there wasn't much to see anyways. Today you can visually see that there was like, only 1/3 of the people usually here.
We mostly roamed the artist alley place, the dealer's hall was just, full of shit. I managed to get 2 prints before they closed it down, one of Taokaka from Blazblue and one of the protagonists from Persona 3, 4, and 5. I was new to buying prints, I didn't know I wanted them until after I got one. Luckily though, I only spent $25 on them. In total. If I had the experience, I could've palnned better and got 3, by buying 2 from one artist since most offer a BOGO (buy one get one free).
But still, not bad. I also looked at size, as well. I actually want to admire my prints from regular viewing distance, rather than using a microscope to appreciate them, heh. Also, business cards.They're essentially free prints, and if you get enough of them, you could make a portrait of anime business card prints.
So, yeah. I'd say Fanime was much, much more than I expected. I got caught up in the hype, everybody did, ummm, the turning point that made it what it was was probably forming our group, with Jk, Cc, and DrewH. Only because Cc stayed after the KDT performance. It might've turned out different, might've not, but I definitely liked what it turned out.
And no, I didn't really cosplay today, and neither did most people. Uhhh, so I have math work, right. It's 60 problems, but, I got 2 hours tomorrow in class to work on 'em. So, that's fine. Plus, I just need a C to maintain my grade in math, which is sitting around a C right now. Also, uh, I gotta practice both my dances (by COOL and Taemin) for the showcase on Wednesday.
And apparently my cousin graduates next week, and right now, I have a sore throat. Also what the hell do I do with these prints, like, I don't wanna use tape, I don't have adhesive, i don't wanna pin it. Do, do people hang 'em on their walls then? I guess "prints" are a better word than posters, just sounds more fancy. Anyways, it's 12:39 AM, I actually wanna be able to get up tomorrow, so. Yeah, see ya. Oh and sorry I can't elaborate more of put more inflection and emotion in the writing, I'm still trying to recover from being in an anime world for 4 days. It really does affect you. Going back to school after all this, hooooo. I'ma have trouble functioning, not gonna lie. So, see ya.
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Monday, May 30, 2016
Sunday, May 29, 2016 "Definitely Tired."
Sunday, May 29, 2016
Week: 41
Songs to Remember: One Reason - Fade, Stop it - BAP
I'll make this post brief because without a doubt, I'm tired as fuck.
I got home at 8:00 PM. It all started from 11:00 AM where I struggled to finish my cosplay in time, which turned out to be alright to be honest. I had on a black t-shirt, tucked into olive green pants with an olive green jacket tied around my waist. For the collar, I used my Soul Eater headband (because it was gray and flexible) and used gray cardstock to cover the patches and for me to draw the machine lines.
I was cosplaying as Ganta from Deadman Wonderland, whose cosplay gathering was apparently today at 11:00 AM, of which I missed because it was too fucking early. We essentially (we as in me, Jk, Cc, and DrewH) walked around, did the same thing as yesterday. Nothing much new really. By the 2nd day of Fanime, since it's so small, you see everything. Like, literally, besides shitty panels (of which we attended this sword fighting/ training panel where people asked about stupid myths like "Can you catch a sword with your hands?" "Can you cut a bullet in half?" Seriously), we went everywhere we could've went.
Going up the stairs to the place, going down the stairs back outside the place. 20 times maybe. Oh and uh, the others still had their same cosplay besides Cc, who transitioned to a Sasori cosplay, by just the hair, heh. Umm, probably my highlights of the day was seeing a bit of the more cooler cosplays or the rarer ones, ones that I wanted pictures with, including seeing a Reaper cosplay (from Overwatch), seeing a Dat Boi cosplay (oh my), taking a picture with an Judas cosplay (not the religious figure, but from the Binding of Isaac), and probably the best, I actually saw two people doing a Shiro and Ganta cosplay while Jk and I were eating at this burrito place for lunch.
He saw from out the window, the two people walking down. He pointed with excitement, I looked and was like "Oh shit." We rushed outside and asked for a picture, and, damn, that was fucking nice. Another nice one was when this dude and his buddy did a "sad moments" cosplay where he had a board of pictures of sad moments in films and shows while his buddy had a box of tissues. And yeah, Jk got a tissue for his runny nose heh. Miracles do happen.
Another bootleg moment was when we were walking back to the con from somewhere, and uh, I said "I'm so tired I can't even think. I've thought of every single thought you could think of." It was funnier the first time and rendition I said it, but boy, Jk and I fucking busted a nut laughing from it. We then made "nut" jokes and comments along the way up until we left at around 7:30 PM. Mostly it was due to me posting that one "nut button" meme picture in our group chat.
Oh yeah, we also saw a bunch of people that we knew. We saw Ek (unfortunately, and who doesn't seem to be as, like, stone cold to Jk), her friends, a senior from KDT, a mutual friend who's really into cosplaying, uhh, Mn from KDT once, Jb, Jv, Jv's bf, and yeah. Lots of people, lots of Snapchats, just, yeah.
I'm so tired, I can't even think right now. I've thought of every single thought you could think of, heh. I'm so tired, I went home and drank a lot of water because I was probably dehydrated from all the sweating, and uh, threw up afterwards. It was good though, 'cause I felt really better after. Oh and uh, apparently Cc didn't need to use the fake pass thing, she upgraded it which didn't really cost much at all, same with DrewH.
And yeah, they're all going tomorrow, so that means I'm going as well. Thankfully, and I really do mean it, tomorrow the con's only open from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM, because it's memorial day, and people gotta go to work tomorrow, they gotta go to their flights tomorrow, so. Yeah. The question now is: should I cosplay tomorrow? It's ehhh. I have to wake up at like, 9:00 AM tomorrow so Lw and DrewN can sneak in using my pass or whatever, or Ek's pass.
And, I also gotta work on a dance, and, do math. A lot of math. Umm, probably either go for a really easy one tomorrow, one that requires literally no effort or, or not cosplay at all. Now with all this hype, I'm excited to go to Anime Expo. Hoping to go, anyways. If I should dedicate a lot of time into cosplay, ehhh, that's sorta iffy. It's kinda like when I made my lightsaber. Was it fun? Yeah. Am I ever gonna use it? Probably not until December of 2017 when episode VIII comes out, in which, I'm not sure if I'll even keep it for that long.
But as long as my cosplay is cheap (in price), and doesn't consume my life for a large portion of my young years, sure, I love DIY, I loving making stuff and personalizing it. One of the easiest in my opinion is cosplay surrounding an iconic weapon, such as the saw cleaver from Bloodborne, and I'm aiming for that to be my first one. Just gonna need some cardboard and paint, of which I already have a lot of cardboard since I ordered a lot of clothes from Amazon.
But yeah, really tired, I think 2 days of Fanime was really all I need, I'm just making the most the end of the year shit before everything changes, aaand my money, heh, which fortunately, I only spent $27 on merch, which was the wig. So yeah, see ya.
Sunday, May 29, 2016
Saturday, May 28, 2016 "Walkathon."
Saturday, May 28, 2016
Week: 41
Songs to Remember: Mass Destruction - Persona 3 OST
Guess what time I slept last night. That's right, 3. 3:00 AM. Yeah, not very good for my health, heh.
But anyways, today was the 2nd day of Fanime. I ended up cosplaying as Yu Narukami from Persona 4. I was going to use my tuxedo jacket, but then I looked closer at the details of the character and saw that he had buttons on his jacket. I then remembered that my jean jacket I wore for "Hello Bitches" was black, not blue, heh. And so I used that, which turned out 10 times better than the tuxedo jacket would've been. Plus, it had the buttons too, with the lines.
That, and I wore a white dress shirt and black jeans. And don't forget my bootleg Tarot card. My hair, that got taken cared of once I got to the place. I met up with Cc, Jk, and DrewH (yep) as they were watching these performances on stage zero, which apparently another group of KDT members (Th, Cw, St, and some alumni) had a performance today (not when we met but later on). They weren't going as KDT, but they had members of 'em.
Cc had on this fucking amazing Konan (from Naruto) cosplay. Jk still had his Luffy one, and DrewH was a Pikachu. We watched the performances for a bit 'till we went to the dealer's hall to get me a fucking, wig, heh. For my cosplay. We also met up with this one dude, a mutual friend of ours. Umm, yeah so I now own a silver wig, which is actually useful for a plentiful number of cosplays, especially ones in which the character has white hair, which is actually a lot.
So went around, we walked a lot. Umm, we saw Jb and her group when we went to get drinks (soda, okay). I also saw Dn there as well. Not in, in, but, near the side of the place. There was actually a Persona cosplay meetup, but that was from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM, and unfortunately, I arrived at like, 2:10 PM, and did not know about it 'till much later.
There was a point where we took pictures with "normal" people. As in, those who weren't cosplaying. Some did not really like it, uhh, at all. Some were surprised and took it nicely. One dude, 'cause he wasn't expecting it, took our pics afterwards in return, which was such a nice and fun gesture, heh.
Lots of cosplay, of course, aaand, lots of walking. Especially, walking, this is probably the most I've walked in a day, than any other day for the past, I have no idea. That's how long ago it was. Anyways, we essentially went everywhere which was relevant. All the good events were pretty much over. Still, lots of people. Oh umm, we ran into people from our school, I pretty much knew them but never talk to them. Like at all. My favorite was when we saw this one girl and her friends, of whom were waiting in line for this J-Pop concert (which was a really big line).
She had a Teddie doll from Persona, and when we were leaving, she was like "I like your Yu Narukami cosplay!" That was nice. And so, it was like around 7:30 PM we all left. Cc was sorta bummed 'cause she didn't want it to end. Her pass was only for Saturday, and the only indication of that was the word "Saturday" on it. I told her I could just make a fake pass and she could just paste over it and nobody would be able to tell.
And so that's what I did. I spent around 35 minutes or so, doing some trial and error with GIMP, measuring, and scaling. I got it down though, and luckily the background for the pass is white, so that makes my job a whole lot easier. I got it, sent the pics to Cc and the group chat and they said it was pretty fucking good. She also told me she was gonna go tomorrow too, so, uh, hopefully the 4 of us (including me) can make it tomorrow for another day.
Also I'll be looking to cosplay someone else for tomorrow. I'm browsing right now as we speak. Just gotta find someone with black hair, and, really simple clothing. Yeah. Anyways, uhhhhh it's 12:33 AM, see ya.
Week: 41
Songs to Remember: Mass Destruction - Persona 3 OST
Guess what time I slept last night. That's right, 3. 3:00 AM. Yeah, not very good for my health, heh.
But anyways, today was the 2nd day of Fanime. I ended up cosplaying as Yu Narukami from Persona 4. I was going to use my tuxedo jacket, but then I looked closer at the details of the character and saw that he had buttons on his jacket. I then remembered that my jean jacket I wore for "Hello Bitches" was black, not blue, heh. And so I used that, which turned out 10 times better than the tuxedo jacket would've been. Plus, it had the buttons too, with the lines.
That, and I wore a white dress shirt and black jeans. And don't forget my bootleg Tarot card. My hair, that got taken cared of once I got to the place. I met up with Cc, Jk, and DrewH (yep) as they were watching these performances on stage zero, which apparently another group of KDT members (Th, Cw, St, and some alumni) had a performance today (not when we met but later on). They weren't going as KDT, but they had members of 'em.
Cc had on this fucking amazing Konan (from Naruto) cosplay. Jk still had his Luffy one, and DrewH was a Pikachu. We watched the performances for a bit 'till we went to the dealer's hall to get me a fucking, wig, heh. For my cosplay. We also met up with this one dude, a mutual friend of ours. Umm, yeah so I now own a silver wig, which is actually useful for a plentiful number of cosplays, especially ones in which the character has white hair, which is actually a lot.
So went around, we walked a lot. Umm, we saw Jb and her group when we went to get drinks (soda, okay). I also saw Dn there as well. Not in, in, but, near the side of the place. There was actually a Persona cosplay meetup, but that was from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM, and unfortunately, I arrived at like, 2:10 PM, and did not know about it 'till much later.
There was a point where we took pictures with "normal" people. As in, those who weren't cosplaying. Some did not really like it, uhh, at all. Some were surprised and took it nicely. One dude, 'cause he wasn't expecting it, took our pics afterwards in return, which was such a nice and fun gesture, heh.
Lots of cosplay, of course, aaand, lots of walking. Especially, walking, this is probably the most I've walked in a day, than any other day for the past, I have no idea. That's how long ago it was. Anyways, we essentially went everywhere which was relevant. All the good events were pretty much over. Still, lots of people. Oh umm, we ran into people from our school, I pretty much knew them but never talk to them. Like at all. My favorite was when we saw this one girl and her friends, of whom were waiting in line for this J-Pop concert (which was a really big line).
She had a Teddie doll from Persona, and when we were leaving, she was like "I like your Yu Narukami cosplay!" That was nice. And so, it was like around 7:30 PM we all left. Cc was sorta bummed 'cause she didn't want it to end. Her pass was only for Saturday, and the only indication of that was the word "Saturday" on it. I told her I could just make a fake pass and she could just paste over it and nobody would be able to tell.
And so that's what I did. I spent around 35 minutes or so, doing some trial and error with GIMP, measuring, and scaling. I got it down though, and luckily the background for the pass is white, so that makes my job a whole lot easier. I got it, sent the pics to Cc and the group chat and they said it was pretty fucking good. She also told me she was gonna go tomorrow too, so, uh, hopefully the 4 of us (including me) can make it tomorrow for another day.
Also I'll be looking to cosplay someone else for tomorrow. I'm browsing right now as we speak. Just gotta find someone with black hair, and, really simple clothing. Yeah. Anyways, uhhhhh it's 12:33 AM, see ya.
Friday, May 27, 2016
Friday, May 27, 2016 "I Don't Fanimind."
Friday, May 27, 2016
Week: 41
Songs to Remember: When the Moon's Reaching Out Stars - Persona 3 OST, Drip Drop - Taemin (RapheM Instrumental)
I'm thankful for two things today. One for the Fanime experience, the other, I am 90% sure that I passed Honors English.
So let's start from the beginning shall we. Alrighty, well, first things first, I slept at 3;50 AM last night. I would'e slept at like 3:10 AM, but, I played a round of Isaac. Not one of my best decisions, but I had to get that Isaac addiction settled. Fortunately, it didn't affect me too much in the morning because 1st period was Psych.
And that was basically just me attempting to get some last-minute studying in. There was loud music, due to somebody's speakers, there was food in the middle, I didn't really pay too much attention. Others were signing yearbooks, etc, etc. I just studied, which was fine by me because I had a very good reason too. Uhh, yeah, a whole 2 hours of studying. Then, it was break time. I do what I usually do and go to that one spot again.
Just stood there for a while, the usual, and finally the bell rang, it was go time. The seats were changed around so that the teacher could see all our screens. We first went to the bookroom to return our books, then uhhh, testing time. The teacher one final remark to tease us, saying "Don't worry guys, it's only 15% of your final grade." Bitch, get the fuck outta here. So, the test boots up, I see that it's 62 questions, only 2 free-response, okay.
I started going through each, I went with a method of if I don't know the exact answer, I skip it so I can total up the estimated amount I'm gonna get wrong. It just builds insurance confidence. Anyways, there were a lot of fluctuation in the test. There were questions that were repeated, some didn't have the right answer, some the teacher put in the wrong answer as the right answer. Soo, I don't know my exact, exact score.
Also the free-response was, not that difficult, rather straight-forward. Umm, both fortunately and unfortunately, the teacher let us see our multiple choice score (before any changes such as fixes for the bad questions and shit). I was scared, but I looked anyways. "73%." "Ohhhhh, shit." Now that, was cutting it closer than I would've liked. I actually thought I did better, around an 80 maybe. I went on this site to calculate how much I needed to score on the final exam to pass.
So to pass with a 68% bare minimum, I calculated it and got: "66.7%" WOOOOO. I was like "I fucking paaaassed." We also had to add an extra 2% freelo to our score so, in total I got an estimated 75%, give or take 2. With my 1% grade wiggle room (a 69.01% right now), and how I only need at least a 66.7%, plus with some of the assignments I turned in late, aka today, the teacher still needs to grade our quotation explications, and he said he might not have time to grade the constructed responses and/or might not put them in since it was more of a district thing than what we focused on.
I'm crossing my fingers. It's pretty messy, cutting it very, very close, heh, but I think I did it. I escaped. The teacher probably won't announce the results until like, the final, final day of finals. Until then, I'm praying. And that there was the climb. Now, the rewards. I went home, talked to my buddies on Discord. got ready, headed on over to Fanime con.
Now I've been to Anime Expo in Los Angelese twice now. I have never been to Fanime, uhh, mostly because it ain't the same level as Anime Expo. Umm, I'd still say it definitely ain't, but it still has its pros. For one, it's much more quiet than Anime Expo. Second, less crowded, which is nice. However, in my opinion, the line was much worse. I arrived at 2:40 PM. I'd expect more people to be in line during the morning, but apparently not. When I got there, I knew exactly where the line was because there was what seemed to be a huge line of fucking people, and it was outside the thing, heh.
It stretched like, around the corner of the hotel, which is right next to the place. I was like "Holy, fuck, IT'S LAYERED." This one dude said that the line actually stretched into the place, up some stairs to the 2nd floor, then there was another line there. Yeah, he wasn't kidding. It did actually go up to the 2nd floor. It took about an hour, I'd say an hour and 15 minutes, because by the time I got my pass, it was already around 4:00 PM.
Ek was at the con, but I didn't know where she was. Jk was apparently there too, but I didn't know where he was. My phone, poor fella, I was not able to charge him back up to 100% when I got home. It was at 40%, then died down to 10%. I charged it back up to 15% with my tablet, thank the lord for my tablet. I use it as like a portable battery, heh. Anyways, I had nothing in line except the occasional "go on messenger and see what people are typing." That and the dude in front of me who said some things occasionally.
I was hoping to find KDT after I got my badge/pass. I was like "I gotta get back to the front of the whole place." Ended up in like, the main hall I guess, and uh, I walked for a bit to see where I could get back to the front. Instead, I kept walking and eventually found what looked to be the stage that performers perform at, "Stage Zero." There, I was greeted by hugs from the members of KDT, heh. Man, I can hardly remember what it looked like because the height of moment. That was nice.
Apparently I got there just in time for them to perform next. I sat down, umm, in the front, front row since those were like, the only seats left. I hear my name being called and I turn around to see Jk and Jv and Jb's boyfriend sitting near the back. There was already a different performance going on, a couple doing a sort of ballet dance, I don't know, I don't know dances very well, heh. Suddenly St (ya'll know St, she's a KDT alumni, sister of the president of KDT, met her at that one dance back in March of 2015) appeared with her friends and we sat in the front row together. I was ready to get really hyphy for KDT's performance, which was actually pretty long. I was like "Oh, there's even another song."
It was good, I liked it. I actually cheered for once in my life, heh. What I wanted to say was "KDT, Number one fan!" And I did. Twice. Their performance was 6 minutes long apparently, and uh, they actually left after the performance. Around 97% of them did not have the actual Fanime passes, they were just there to perform. It wasn't what I expected. However. what happens next was really unexpected. So, Jk's cosplaying, he was cosplaying as Luffy apparently. He came over after watching KDT, Jv, everybody was all in one big gathering.
Jk was like "Woah, I didn't know you were going to Fanime" and takes a closer look at my pass, for which he saw that for my "fan name," I put "i_identify_as_nigerian." He got a good laugh outta that. Everybody left, they couldn't stay, had to be escorted outside. Fortunately (really fortunately), Cc and El stayed. You might be saying "Uh, Drew? Do you realize what you just said?" Yeah, I do. It was fortunate, because without El, all the shit that happened next wouldn't have happened.
Mn (I think that's my name for her), Es (vice-president of KDT), and Jb were the only ones in KDT with an actual Fanime weekend pass. We all decided to go together, including Cc and El who did not have passes, but didn't matter anyways because there was no security, or, nobody cared, heh. So it was just me, Jk, El, Cc, Es, Jb, Jv, and Jb's boyfriend. Jv was cosplaying as uh, I'm not sure what but it showed a bit too much skin, more than what more parents would approve of of course. And uh, Jb's boyfriend was cosplaying as Guy-Manuel from Daft Punk.
We went into the buyer's hall, exhibit, whatever. Marketplace. It went pretty well. It wasn't until we separated, with just me, Jk, El, and Cc, that shit started to get real. Real connected. We went to the art gallery, back to the hall, and then to the gaming hall where we played "Settlers of Catan" (crazy bootleg by the way, and apparently a lot of people requested to play it, I guess due to the rarity of it or whatever, popularity, I don't know). That lasted for a while, I'm not even sure. My phone was on its dying breath, it kept alive for phone calls, but I could not take pictures of it, or even check the time.
I thought it had become night-time at around 7:00 PM. We went to the art gallery after playing (Jk won, of course, heh) and whadya know, it was still fucking bright outside, heh. We were basically in a time warp, where time apparently freezes while at Fanime. We all thought it got dark outside for some reason. It's just like the movie theaters, how you go into the light after being in the dark for so long. Except, it wasn't dark in the gaming hall, it was, *sigh*, "lit." Also people were playing giant Jenga, which resulted in a heart-attack every time it falls.
It all went well, the 4 of us together. We even decided that we'd all cosplay tomorrow, we'd meet up again and even include in some more people. And you know what was the most convincing thing for which I knew we got really connected? El replied back. She conversed with my comments the whole way. With El coming along, I was just whatever with it. I'm not sure if she's over it yet or whatever, but after today, sure seemed like it. She didn't mind. And guess what? I didn't mind either.
And goddamn was it a good... 4 hours. 5 if you count the time I had to wait in line, which apparently people refer to as "Linecon." In line I was like "Minecon?" No, it's, it's Linecon. That's what people say nowadays. Anyways, we finished off the day with some Takoyaki, very expensive Takoyaki to be exact. 8 American dollar shillings, to be exact, and that was for 6 balls. Still, I couldn't resist, like, it's still one of my lifelong dreams to eat an authentic Japanese Takoyaki, in Japan, straight from the source. This compensated in the mean time, and goddammit, it was one of the best eight dollars I ever spent to be honest, heh.
And yeah, that was the whole day. Got back home at 8:30 PM unfortunately. Also unfortunately, was that my parents had to witness people in furry cosplays, scantily-clad cosplays, half-naked dude cosplays, all of the above, and cosplayers in general. Luckilly though, I passed it off as a cultural festival event thing, and uh, my class went here today for a celebration thing for the end of the year. And also luckily my dad thought everybody was dressed as Pokemon.
And yes it did feel weird to be there, standing in line. That was, uh, you find out how normal you actually are, compared to others who like to express their hobbies and interests either publicly, or more extreme than you or others. And no, I won't be saying the cosplays I saw, there's literally any and every cosplay of anything, so no need to describe that shit. My phone was limping the whole time so no pictures or Snapchats either.
So, plan for tomorrow. Well, with all this newly acquired hype, I'll hopefully be cosplaying as Yu Narukami from Persona 4. It's pretty simple, except for the silver hair. I'll just be wearing my tuxedo jacket, along with a dress shirt and black jeans. I'll also be printing out and making a little Tarot card, to make my shit be more identifiable. Otherwise I'll just be "guy in tuxedo jacket with dress shirt and black jeans. And glasses."
Oh and one last thing I wanted to share: my buddies and I experienced this dude who bought a perfect-grade gundam (difficult/tedious to assemble, time-consuming, also very high quality and expensive model). Not sure how we got him to start a conversation with us, but, he went on about how the perfect-grade he bought had an LED for the beam sabre instead of just a clear plastic thingy. He also went on about how it'll take him a couple days to build, might even stream on Twitch with a bootleg camera.
Ah yes, people expressing a bit too much to those who, in my opinion, do not have much knowledge as them in a certain field of interests. An anime convention wouldn't be the same without it. You could tell Cc didn't really know what the hell he was talking about. Luckily I assembled a gundam model before with the help of my cousin, and learned quite a bit about the process and rankings. The dude's model was like, a Unicorn, perfect-grade Gundam Unicorn. Cc replies "Hey, I like Unicorns."
And one more thing, shit there was a bunch of shit. As I was waiting for KDT to go on to perform, I was reading the book they give you which includes a map of the place, the list of panels, etc. There was apparently one that was 18+, which consisted of 2 amateur voice actors attempting to dub over a live video of Bible Black. Yeah, I'm not even kidding this time, that's actually in there. Unique? Or what? And how are they gonna do the moaning noises? No shame? I give props to them, because that shit requires a lot of shit in order to not sound, weird. Well it's already fucking weird, so, can't get any worse.
Alrighty, enough for today. Gonna head on over at 1:00 PM tomorrow. Right now, I gotta print me a Tarot card to flip around in my hands tomorrow. Also play a round of Isaac. Oh and uh, it's 11:47 PM. See ya. Oh, almost, almost forgot to mention, my old partner who I played table tennis with, I saw him there, dude. He was with St's group and uh, yeah. He did remember me, heh, after I remembered him. Still the same cool dude. Anyways, fun cameo.
Week: 41
Songs to Remember: When the Moon's Reaching Out Stars - Persona 3 OST, Drip Drop - Taemin (RapheM Instrumental)
I'm thankful for two things today. One for the Fanime experience, the other, I am 90% sure that I passed Honors English.
So let's start from the beginning shall we. Alrighty, well, first things first, I slept at 3;50 AM last night. I would'e slept at like 3:10 AM, but, I played a round of Isaac. Not one of my best decisions, but I had to get that Isaac addiction settled. Fortunately, it didn't affect me too much in the morning because 1st period was Psych.
And that was basically just me attempting to get some last-minute studying in. There was loud music, due to somebody's speakers, there was food in the middle, I didn't really pay too much attention. Others were signing yearbooks, etc, etc. I just studied, which was fine by me because I had a very good reason too. Uhh, yeah, a whole 2 hours of studying. Then, it was break time. I do what I usually do and go to that one spot again.
Just stood there for a while, the usual, and finally the bell rang, it was go time. The seats were changed around so that the teacher could see all our screens. We first went to the bookroom to return our books, then uhhh, testing time. The teacher one final remark to tease us, saying "Don't worry guys, it's only 15% of your final grade." Bitch, get the fuck outta here. So, the test boots up, I see that it's 62 questions, only 2 free-response, okay.
I started going through each, I went with a method of if I don't know the exact answer, I skip it so I can total up the estimated amount I'm gonna get wrong. It just builds insurance confidence. Anyways, there were a lot of fluctuation in the test. There were questions that were repeated, some didn't have the right answer, some the teacher put in the wrong answer as the right answer. Soo, I don't know my exact, exact score.
Also the free-response was, not that difficult, rather straight-forward. Umm, both fortunately and unfortunately, the teacher let us see our multiple choice score (before any changes such as fixes for the bad questions and shit). I was scared, but I looked anyways. "73%." "Ohhhhh, shit." Now that, was cutting it closer than I would've liked. I actually thought I did better, around an 80 maybe. I went on this site to calculate how much I needed to score on the final exam to pass.
So to pass with a 68% bare minimum, I calculated it and got: "66.7%" WOOOOO. I was like "I fucking paaaassed." We also had to add an extra 2% freelo to our score so, in total I got an estimated 75%, give or take 2. With my 1% grade wiggle room (a 69.01% right now), and how I only need at least a 66.7%, plus with some of the assignments I turned in late, aka today, the teacher still needs to grade our quotation explications, and he said he might not have time to grade the constructed responses and/or might not put them in since it was more of a district thing than what we focused on.
I'm crossing my fingers. It's pretty messy, cutting it very, very close, heh, but I think I did it. I escaped. The teacher probably won't announce the results until like, the final, final day of finals. Until then, I'm praying. And that there was the climb. Now, the rewards. I went home, talked to my buddies on Discord. got ready, headed on over to Fanime con.
Now I've been to Anime Expo in Los Angelese twice now. I have never been to Fanime, uhh, mostly because it ain't the same level as Anime Expo. Umm, I'd still say it definitely ain't, but it still has its pros. For one, it's much more quiet than Anime Expo. Second, less crowded, which is nice. However, in my opinion, the line was much worse. I arrived at 2:40 PM. I'd expect more people to be in line during the morning, but apparently not. When I got there, I knew exactly where the line was because there was what seemed to be a huge line of fucking people, and it was outside the thing, heh.
It stretched like, around the corner of the hotel, which is right next to the place. I was like "Holy, fuck, IT'S LAYERED." This one dude said that the line actually stretched into the place, up some stairs to the 2nd floor, then there was another line there. Yeah, he wasn't kidding. It did actually go up to the 2nd floor. It took about an hour, I'd say an hour and 15 minutes, because by the time I got my pass, it was already around 4:00 PM.
Ek was at the con, but I didn't know where she was. Jk was apparently there too, but I didn't know where he was. My phone, poor fella, I was not able to charge him back up to 100% when I got home. It was at 40%, then died down to 10%. I charged it back up to 15% with my tablet, thank the lord for my tablet. I use it as like a portable battery, heh. Anyways, I had nothing in line except the occasional "go on messenger and see what people are typing." That and the dude in front of me who said some things occasionally.
I was hoping to find KDT after I got my badge/pass. I was like "I gotta get back to the front of the whole place." Ended up in like, the main hall I guess, and uh, I walked for a bit to see where I could get back to the front. Instead, I kept walking and eventually found what looked to be the stage that performers perform at, "Stage Zero." There, I was greeted by hugs from the members of KDT, heh. Man, I can hardly remember what it looked like because the height of moment. That was nice.
Apparently I got there just in time for them to perform next. I sat down, umm, in the front, front row since those were like, the only seats left. I hear my name being called and I turn around to see Jk and Jv and Jb's boyfriend sitting near the back. There was already a different performance going on, a couple doing a sort of ballet dance, I don't know, I don't know dances very well, heh. Suddenly St (ya'll know St, she's a KDT alumni, sister of the president of KDT, met her at that one dance back in March of 2015) appeared with her friends and we sat in the front row together. I was ready to get really hyphy for KDT's performance, which was actually pretty long. I was like "Oh, there's even another song."
It was good, I liked it. I actually cheered for once in my life, heh. What I wanted to say was "KDT, Number one fan!" And I did. Twice. Their performance was 6 minutes long apparently, and uh, they actually left after the performance. Around 97% of them did not have the actual Fanime passes, they were just there to perform. It wasn't what I expected. However. what happens next was really unexpected. So, Jk's cosplaying, he was cosplaying as Luffy apparently. He came over after watching KDT, Jv, everybody was all in one big gathering.
Jk was like "Woah, I didn't know you were going to Fanime" and takes a closer look at my pass, for which he saw that for my "fan name," I put "i_identify_as_nigerian." He got a good laugh outta that. Everybody left, they couldn't stay, had to be escorted outside. Fortunately (really fortunately), Cc and El stayed. You might be saying "Uh, Drew? Do you realize what you just said?" Yeah, I do. It was fortunate, because without El, all the shit that happened next wouldn't have happened.
Mn (I think that's my name for her), Es (vice-president of KDT), and Jb were the only ones in KDT with an actual Fanime weekend pass. We all decided to go together, including Cc and El who did not have passes, but didn't matter anyways because there was no security, or, nobody cared, heh. So it was just me, Jk, El, Cc, Es, Jb, Jv, and Jb's boyfriend. Jv was cosplaying as uh, I'm not sure what but it showed a bit too much skin, more than what more parents would approve of of course. And uh, Jb's boyfriend was cosplaying as Guy-Manuel from Daft Punk.
We went into the buyer's hall, exhibit, whatever. Marketplace. It went pretty well. It wasn't until we separated, with just me, Jk, El, and Cc, that shit started to get real. Real connected. We went to the art gallery, back to the hall, and then to the gaming hall where we played "Settlers of Catan" (crazy bootleg by the way, and apparently a lot of people requested to play it, I guess due to the rarity of it or whatever, popularity, I don't know). That lasted for a while, I'm not even sure. My phone was on its dying breath, it kept alive for phone calls, but I could not take pictures of it, or even check the time.
I thought it had become night-time at around 7:00 PM. We went to the art gallery after playing (Jk won, of course, heh) and whadya know, it was still fucking bright outside, heh. We were basically in a time warp, where time apparently freezes while at Fanime. We all thought it got dark outside for some reason. It's just like the movie theaters, how you go into the light after being in the dark for so long. Except, it wasn't dark in the gaming hall, it was, *sigh*, "lit." Also people were playing giant Jenga, which resulted in a heart-attack every time it falls.
It all went well, the 4 of us together. We even decided that we'd all cosplay tomorrow, we'd meet up again and even include in some more people. And you know what was the most convincing thing for which I knew we got really connected? El replied back. She conversed with my comments the whole way. With El coming along, I was just whatever with it. I'm not sure if she's over it yet or whatever, but after today, sure seemed like it. She didn't mind. And guess what? I didn't mind either.
And goddamn was it a good... 4 hours. 5 if you count the time I had to wait in line, which apparently people refer to as "Linecon." In line I was like "Minecon?" No, it's, it's Linecon. That's what people say nowadays. Anyways, we finished off the day with some Takoyaki, very expensive Takoyaki to be exact. 8 American dollar shillings, to be exact, and that was for 6 balls. Still, I couldn't resist, like, it's still one of my lifelong dreams to eat an authentic Japanese Takoyaki, in Japan, straight from the source. This compensated in the mean time, and goddammit, it was one of the best eight dollars I ever spent to be honest, heh.
And yeah, that was the whole day. Got back home at 8:30 PM unfortunately. Also unfortunately, was that my parents had to witness people in furry cosplays, scantily-clad cosplays, half-naked dude cosplays, all of the above, and cosplayers in general. Luckilly though, I passed it off as a cultural festival event thing, and uh, my class went here today for a celebration thing for the end of the year. And also luckily my dad thought everybody was dressed as Pokemon.
And yes it did feel weird to be there, standing in line. That was, uh, you find out how normal you actually are, compared to others who like to express their hobbies and interests either publicly, or more extreme than you or others. And no, I won't be saying the cosplays I saw, there's literally any and every cosplay of anything, so no need to describe that shit. My phone was limping the whole time so no pictures or Snapchats either.
So, plan for tomorrow. Well, with all this newly acquired hype, I'll hopefully be cosplaying as Yu Narukami from Persona 4. It's pretty simple, except for the silver hair. I'll just be wearing my tuxedo jacket, along with a dress shirt and black jeans. I'll also be printing out and making a little Tarot card, to make my shit be more identifiable. Otherwise I'll just be "guy in tuxedo jacket with dress shirt and black jeans. And glasses."
Oh and one last thing I wanted to share: my buddies and I experienced this dude who bought a perfect-grade gundam (difficult/tedious to assemble, time-consuming, also very high quality and expensive model). Not sure how we got him to start a conversation with us, but, he went on about how the perfect-grade he bought had an LED for the beam sabre instead of just a clear plastic thingy. He also went on about how it'll take him a couple days to build, might even stream on Twitch with a bootleg camera.
Ah yes, people expressing a bit too much to those who, in my opinion, do not have much knowledge as them in a certain field of interests. An anime convention wouldn't be the same without it. You could tell Cc didn't really know what the hell he was talking about. Luckily I assembled a gundam model before with the help of my cousin, and learned quite a bit about the process and rankings. The dude's model was like, a Unicorn, perfect-grade Gundam Unicorn. Cc replies "Hey, I like Unicorns."
And one more thing, shit there was a bunch of shit. As I was waiting for KDT to go on to perform, I was reading the book they give you which includes a map of the place, the list of panels, etc. There was apparently one that was 18+, which consisted of 2 amateur voice actors attempting to dub over a live video of Bible Black. Yeah, I'm not even kidding this time, that's actually in there. Unique? Or what? And how are they gonna do the moaning noises? No shame? I give props to them, because that shit requires a lot of shit in order to not sound, weird. Well it's already fucking weird, so, can't get any worse.
Alrighty, enough for today. Gonna head on over at 1:00 PM tomorrow. Right now, I gotta print me a Tarot card to flip around in my hands tomorrow. Also play a round of Isaac. Oh and uh, it's 11:47 PM. See ya. Oh, almost, almost forgot to mention, my old partner who I played table tennis with, I saw him there, dude. He was with St's group and uh, yeah. He did remember me, heh, after I remembered him. Still the same cool dude. Anyways, fun cameo.
Thursday, May 26, 2016 "My Best."
Thursday, May 26, 2016
Week: 41
Songs to Remember: Body Lotion - Sleepy
So it's 2:01 AM, earlier than what I thought I would end my studying on. I could continue, like, finding more practice questions to answer, but, it's not really helping, heh.
And yes, today was the last "normal" school day for the school-year. It's difficult to take in the moments due to the stress of shit like, making sure I don't fail English and all that. It sucks, but, this is part of the experience, right? I sure wish it wasn't. Also why did I choose to do Digital Art to replace AP Stats? Because I'm planning on majoring in graphic design, that's why.
The art direction. Might be difficult to find a job with this, but, at least it's something digital, so, there's always a chance. And let's be honest, I've done "graphic design" shit since like, holy hell, for years, like, ever since I discovered YouTube. I remember looking up so many tutorials on making YouTube backgrounds, that was like, I was obsessed with it, because, it's a personal thing, I can personalize my background, make it anything I want.
With that amount of creative freedom, I spent a lot of time on it. I wish I still had those files so I can take a look at 'em again. Anyways, enough talk about shit that ain't really relevant now, time to talk about what I did to get myself here in front of my PC at 2:08 AM on a Thursday night (or now, morning) before the final exam that will determine whether I waste time or not.
Psych, my group-mates and I finished up our poster, we're good. Luckily we didn't have to do much shit, so. I noticed that in the class, like for tomorrow, I won't really be saying my good-byes to people. Like, maybe one, just because she's in KDT and a senior and will be going to a college out of state or something. But really, there's nobody I really interacted with.
I took AP Psych because it was one of the easier AP classes, which in my opinion, yeah, it's true. I didn't choose to take it to meet new people. It would've been cool, yeah, to do so, but it didn't. And guess what? It didn't fucking matter. I got my grade, uhhh, and that's it. Boom.
English, that's another story. Way different story. If there was a class that was more challenging than regular English III, but not as hard as my teacher's Honors English, I'd take it. Sadly, there isn't. I started reading Catcher again from start to finish, from 8:30 PM to 10:00 PM. I went through the first couple chapters of Gatsby, aaand lost interest, compared to Catcher. Luckily, 50% of the test is on Catcher, 30% is on Gatsby. 10% is on vocabulary, which I got covered, 5% on style, and 5% on grammar.
All I'm worried about are the short-answer shit, because that ain't based on chance, not like a 1-in-4 chance, it's skill. As long as I do the most craziest interpretations, making sure I can make the teacher go "Ohhh, never noticed that," I'll be good. 'Course, I'm not really sure what the short-answers will be, so, can't say for sure it'll work. Apparently the final is 45 questions, but will take us around an hour and 30 to do, just because we gotta read passages.
Never in my life would I have re-read a book twice, until now. Umm, so yeah I read the book, I prayed to the lord that I retain my knowledge on Gatsby (plus I did practice questions for it). As for grammar and style, I did a tiny bit of review for mood and tone. I did practice questions for Catcher, and that's about it. It did take me from 8:30 PM to 2:00 AM, so, a good, 5+ hours. I took around a 20 minute break in total, and that's for brushing my teeth and like, getting bed-ready.
I'm just hoping, just hoping. Anyways, back to the day. Bio was what'd you expect: essentially nothing in class. I could've worked on math work, but I wanted to spend the time just, taking in the atmosphere, and talking to Ct who will be graduating. I received a text from Lt suddenly at the beginning of period. Yeah, I was surprised too. She asked me if her textbook was still in my locker. I realized "Oh shit, it has been in there for a while." I told her I could go check.
And yep, it was. A U.S History textbook. I told her that I'd bring it to her at the end of 3rd period instead of having her go and get it herself. In class we watched "Shaolin Soccer," a classic. Ct was, well, talking with the dude behind me. The bell rang and I went down the steps, Lt was with her cousin, I handed her her book, she was like "Thanks so much" and I was like "Hey, no problem." I wanted to talk to her again, but she was already in a conversation with her cousin.
It felt weird. Like was it my fault, was it her fault that shit got boring? It doesn't matter though, all I want is to end shit on a good note. So, tomorrow I'll talk to her a bit after the English final. Yeah, yeah, it's not like I'll never see again, she could be in my Anatomy class next year, but still. I wanna leave a positive end impression, and if she doesn't like it, hey, just reaffirms the theory that it was her fault, not mine.
Oh and one thing I wanted to say about Bio: the teacher robbed us. Of our grade. This was her first year teaching AP Bio, and guess what? It's most likely her last year as well, just, teaching in general. At least for a while. In the school newspaper they handed out today, it said that she was going to be taking a break from teaching, or something similar. I was like "Wow. So you come here, choose to teach AP Bio and fail at it, then run away at the end of it all, while we're the ones who had to suffer." It would've been a lot, I would've understood had she not bail out, like, stop teaching, heh, and the fact that she could not get a 100% on the AP Bio final, of which she had majored in Bio and taught Bio for 10+ years, and, it was a fucking High school AP Bio final in which she helped create the test itself. Still salty about that shit, heh.
But besides that, math was next. I got a boatload of work, like, literal review worksheets. It's due on the day of the final, which fortunately, is on Tuesday. It's rather unfortunate for 1st and 2nd period because they got their finals tomorrow, and if one of her classes is Honors Pre-cal, then they gotta do all this work by tomorrow. Yikes. It's not necessarily difficult, just, a lot. Umm, but yeah, I'm not sweating it too hard for math, just, holding off on work 'till Sunday night or Monday since there's no school.
Lunch, I thought Ag and Jk were aware that Ek doesn't like them or something, but apparently they didn't. Ek was not standing with them in line for lunch, I came over from math with DrewN and Jk asked me "Hey, does Ek hates us or something?" I tried to tell him in a whisper so that Ek wouldn't hear. Uhh, I basically told him the premise, continued giving him the details on messenger, privately. I told him all I knew, which was, Ek apparently doesn't want hang with the rest of the cast, yadda yadda, she said she wants to be separate for the rest of the year, umm, she did say she wanted a game night, so, I don't know. And also for him to not tell Ek that i told him.
I gave him permission to tell Ag and DrewN about the situation, hopefully, this Ek shit drama will go away, uhh, because I'm not looking forward to babysitting. Yeah, I told Jk that the only reason I'm hanging out with her is to accompany her 'cause I feel sorry for her, that she apparently doesn't like you guys anymore or something or whatever her reason is. It feels like a debt, a favor, because if it weren't for her inviting me into that room in the library during math tutoring in the summer, I would've never had become so close to people I do now. So, I do owe her something.
So, uh, yeah, History was just some in-class bulkwork, nothing to worry about, we watched a film based on the 4th plane of 9/11, pretty suspenseful. Chinese, we sat back, relaxed, and watched people present their final projects, my group did as well. My group partner, the one who sits next to me, said yesterday "I'ma miss sitting with you guys." And honestly, contradicting my initial thoughts of being in this final group, that was what I thought too today. Although it's not the last time, you get what I mean.
And yeah, went home, ate, I did take my nap because seriously, all this stress, I don't know what to make of it. It's just fucking bullshit. I know, nothing comparable to what comes next, but you get what I mean right now. Ummm, hey, fortunately, I get to spend time with KDT tomorrow (hopefully) and Ec (hopefully) as I told him to come over to Fanime and just sneak in without a badge. KDT's gonna perform, I'ma full weab it up, just for funsies, and it'll just be a great time, great reward for doing all I could for English, whether I'm the father or not, heh.
Practice for "Let Me Sarang You" (by the way, Dn, Mt, Ln, and Be are all part of our dance, and I'm doing the role of J.I.Z. Yeah, him, heh) and "Drip Drop" will have to be for maybe, Monday night or some shit, maybe Saturday night. 'Cause I know I'll be saving this math work for 'till the end of time, might be enveloped with Fanime hype that I procrastinate too much.
So anyways, it's 2:42 AM now, I'm exhausted, I kinda wanna play Isaac but at the same time I wanna sleep. 1st period will probably be just me studying for the onslaught, no kidding. But whatever. I'll do a quick round of Isaac, 'cause fuck it. See ya.
Week: 41
Songs to Remember: Body Lotion - Sleepy
So it's 2:01 AM, earlier than what I thought I would end my studying on. I could continue, like, finding more practice questions to answer, but, it's not really helping, heh.
And yes, today was the last "normal" school day for the school-year. It's difficult to take in the moments due to the stress of shit like, making sure I don't fail English and all that. It sucks, but, this is part of the experience, right? I sure wish it wasn't. Also why did I choose to do Digital Art to replace AP Stats? Because I'm planning on majoring in graphic design, that's why.
The art direction. Might be difficult to find a job with this, but, at least it's something digital, so, there's always a chance. And let's be honest, I've done "graphic design" shit since like, holy hell, for years, like, ever since I discovered YouTube. I remember looking up so many tutorials on making YouTube backgrounds, that was like, I was obsessed with it, because, it's a personal thing, I can personalize my background, make it anything I want.
With that amount of creative freedom, I spent a lot of time on it. I wish I still had those files so I can take a look at 'em again. Anyways, enough talk about shit that ain't really relevant now, time to talk about what I did to get myself here in front of my PC at 2:08 AM on a Thursday night (or now, morning) before the final exam that will determine whether I waste time or not.
Psych, my group-mates and I finished up our poster, we're good. Luckily we didn't have to do much shit, so. I noticed that in the class, like for tomorrow, I won't really be saying my good-byes to people. Like, maybe one, just because she's in KDT and a senior and will be going to a college out of state or something. But really, there's nobody I really interacted with.
I took AP Psych because it was one of the easier AP classes, which in my opinion, yeah, it's true. I didn't choose to take it to meet new people. It would've been cool, yeah, to do so, but it didn't. And guess what? It didn't fucking matter. I got my grade, uhhh, and that's it. Boom.
English, that's another story. Way different story. If there was a class that was more challenging than regular English III, but not as hard as my teacher's Honors English, I'd take it. Sadly, there isn't. I started reading Catcher again from start to finish, from 8:30 PM to 10:00 PM. I went through the first couple chapters of Gatsby, aaand lost interest, compared to Catcher. Luckily, 50% of the test is on Catcher, 30% is on Gatsby. 10% is on vocabulary, which I got covered, 5% on style, and 5% on grammar.
All I'm worried about are the short-answer shit, because that ain't based on chance, not like a 1-in-4 chance, it's skill. As long as I do the most craziest interpretations, making sure I can make the teacher go "Ohhh, never noticed that," I'll be good. 'Course, I'm not really sure what the short-answers will be, so, can't say for sure it'll work. Apparently the final is 45 questions, but will take us around an hour and 30 to do, just because we gotta read passages.
Never in my life would I have re-read a book twice, until now. Umm, so yeah I read the book, I prayed to the lord that I retain my knowledge on Gatsby (plus I did practice questions for it). As for grammar and style, I did a tiny bit of review for mood and tone. I did practice questions for Catcher, and that's about it. It did take me from 8:30 PM to 2:00 AM, so, a good, 5+ hours. I took around a 20 minute break in total, and that's for brushing my teeth and like, getting bed-ready.
I'm just hoping, just hoping. Anyways, back to the day. Bio was what'd you expect: essentially nothing in class. I could've worked on math work, but I wanted to spend the time just, taking in the atmosphere, and talking to Ct who will be graduating. I received a text from Lt suddenly at the beginning of period. Yeah, I was surprised too. She asked me if her textbook was still in my locker. I realized "Oh shit, it has been in there for a while." I told her I could go check.
And yep, it was. A U.S History textbook. I told her that I'd bring it to her at the end of 3rd period instead of having her go and get it herself. In class we watched "Shaolin Soccer," a classic. Ct was, well, talking with the dude behind me. The bell rang and I went down the steps, Lt was with her cousin, I handed her her book, she was like "Thanks so much" and I was like "Hey, no problem." I wanted to talk to her again, but she was already in a conversation with her cousin.
It felt weird. Like was it my fault, was it her fault that shit got boring? It doesn't matter though, all I want is to end shit on a good note. So, tomorrow I'll talk to her a bit after the English final. Yeah, yeah, it's not like I'll never see again, she could be in my Anatomy class next year, but still. I wanna leave a positive end impression, and if she doesn't like it, hey, just reaffirms the theory that it was her fault, not mine.
Oh and one thing I wanted to say about Bio: the teacher robbed us. Of our grade. This was her first year teaching AP Bio, and guess what? It's most likely her last year as well, just, teaching in general. At least for a while. In the school newspaper they handed out today, it said that she was going to be taking a break from teaching, or something similar. I was like "Wow. So you come here, choose to teach AP Bio and fail at it, then run away at the end of it all, while we're the ones who had to suffer." It would've been a lot, I would've understood had she not bail out, like, stop teaching, heh, and the fact that she could not get a 100% on the AP Bio final, of which she had majored in Bio and taught Bio for 10+ years, and, it was a fucking High school AP Bio final in which she helped create the test itself. Still salty about that shit, heh.
But besides that, math was next. I got a boatload of work, like, literal review worksheets. It's due on the day of the final, which fortunately, is on Tuesday. It's rather unfortunate for 1st and 2nd period because they got their finals tomorrow, and if one of her classes is Honors Pre-cal, then they gotta do all this work by tomorrow. Yikes. It's not necessarily difficult, just, a lot. Umm, but yeah, I'm not sweating it too hard for math, just, holding off on work 'till Sunday night or Monday since there's no school.
Lunch, I thought Ag and Jk were aware that Ek doesn't like them or something, but apparently they didn't. Ek was not standing with them in line for lunch, I came over from math with DrewN and Jk asked me "Hey, does Ek hates us or something?" I tried to tell him in a whisper so that Ek wouldn't hear. Uhh, I basically told him the premise, continued giving him the details on messenger, privately. I told him all I knew, which was, Ek apparently doesn't want hang with the rest of the cast, yadda yadda, she said she wants to be separate for the rest of the year, umm, she did say she wanted a game night, so, I don't know. And also for him to not tell Ek that i told him.
I gave him permission to tell Ag and DrewN about the situation, hopefully, this Ek shit drama will go away, uhh, because I'm not looking forward to babysitting. Yeah, I told Jk that the only reason I'm hanging out with her is to accompany her 'cause I feel sorry for her, that she apparently doesn't like you guys anymore or something or whatever her reason is. It feels like a debt, a favor, because if it weren't for her inviting me into that room in the library during math tutoring in the summer, I would've never had become so close to people I do now. So, I do owe her something.
So, uh, yeah, History was just some in-class bulkwork, nothing to worry about, we watched a film based on the 4th plane of 9/11, pretty suspenseful. Chinese, we sat back, relaxed, and watched people present their final projects, my group did as well. My group partner, the one who sits next to me, said yesterday "I'ma miss sitting with you guys." And honestly, contradicting my initial thoughts of being in this final group, that was what I thought too today. Although it's not the last time, you get what I mean.
And yeah, went home, ate, I did take my nap because seriously, all this stress, I don't know what to make of it. It's just fucking bullshit. I know, nothing comparable to what comes next, but you get what I mean right now. Ummm, hey, fortunately, I get to spend time with KDT tomorrow (hopefully) and Ec (hopefully) as I told him to come over to Fanime and just sneak in without a badge. KDT's gonna perform, I'ma full weab it up, just for funsies, and it'll just be a great time, great reward for doing all I could for English, whether I'm the father or not, heh.
Practice for "Let Me Sarang You" (by the way, Dn, Mt, Ln, and Be are all part of our dance, and I'm doing the role of J.I.Z. Yeah, him, heh) and "Drip Drop" will have to be for maybe, Monday night or some shit, maybe Saturday night. 'Cause I know I'll be saving this math work for 'till the end of time, might be enveloped with Fanime hype that I procrastinate too much.
So anyways, it's 2:42 AM now, I'm exhausted, I kinda wanna play Isaac but at the same time I wanna sleep. 1st period will probably be just me studying for the onslaught, no kidding. But whatever. I'll do a quick round of Isaac, 'cause fuck it. See ya.
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 "To Drip or to Drop."
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
Week: 41
Songs to Remember: One by One - Taemin
I'm pretty much set. I only gotta worry about English and math for now (if that AP Delight doesn't boost me up 1% for Bio, it's not too detrimental).
English, on the other hand, I need that to graduate. I talked to my counselor at the beginning of 3rd period uhh, she was actually really understanding about it. I told her that I'm borderline failing English, aaand wanted to know what I could do considering the summer school process. She gave me a form, I fill it out and if I end up failing, I'm all set for the paperwork, I do a makeup English class for 3 weeks beginning January, boom, I'm good.
But, I'm really counting on like, not failing English. Like, really. Anyways, Psych was just me working on that poem for History. I wasn't really dragging my team down because they both didn't work on the thing either. One of them was working on a report for English, so, I don't blame 'em. English, uh, fortunately, there was no quiz today, so, thank the fucking lord for that.
Tomorrow will be a full-on, full-blast, study day, not even kidding. I'm planning on, once I get home from school, drop everything, get myself comfy, start reading that fucking book, baby. I'ma read Catcher in the Rye twice, then do a reading of The Great Gatsby. Moving on from that, I'll review literary terms, remember the definitions of 70 vocabulary words, aaand then do practice questions, because I'm fucking sure the teacher's gonna put that same shit on the test.
It will most likely be the hardest I'll ever study, because for fuck's sake, I don't wanna do summer school. I'll also be offering to my teacher some of my, uh, missing work to see if I get some leeway for my grade. Thank the lord though, that there won't be any major writing shit for the final, just short answer shit. At least, I hope so. I'm not sure I should take the dude's word for it.
Uhhh, Bio was next, and apparently we're watching "The Martian." Not what I expected, and no, I've never watched it. Math was just, "Hey, here's some review." And yeah, we got about, 60+ questions to do and review, also I gotta organize my binder, for that'll be graded.
Lunch was what'd you'd expect, I also spent some of that time working on that poem. I finally finished in-class. It wasn't very factual, more "pun"-ctual really. Umm, luckily the teacher did not call on me to go recite it as I was working on it, as I was not finished. Fortunately, I did get to finish, I was actually the last person to read it in the period, umm, also one of the very few who did it. About 1/3 of the class actually did the assignment, or rather, did it on time, and it feels pretty fucking good since today I got to relax for study onslaught tomorrow.
And finally Chinese, where we just do some random bulk work, uhh, tomorrow we'll be "presenting" our final projects to the class, just, basic, basic work. And, yeah. I am confirmed going to Fanime, uhh, I'm also confirmed learning the dance to COOL's "Let Me Sarang You" for the KDT social showcase on June 1st. It's essentially performances, for fun. Just a last thing to show off some cool dances or, like, do some final fun collabs with your buddies.
So along with that, I might be considering doing a solo dance of, you guessed it, Taemin's "Drip Drop." Still need to refine some parts, I'm sorta rusty after not practicing it for a while. There are other solo performances, of course. Th is doing his own, using his own mix, uhh, Jb is doing her own, Mi is doing SHINee's chorus of "Replay," and a bunch of others are either doing trio performances, of like, choreographs of dancers such as Lia Kim, and some others are doing like, a whole song,dances, with a group, such as Ln, Rh, Mt, and Bp doing NCTU's "The Seventh Sense."
I think I have the confidence to do it. This weekend, I mean, other than math work, it'll be pretty fucking easy, like, just Fanime on Saturday, some math work on Sunday, Monday there's no school so I can do whatever, Tuesday get math over with, and I'm basically home-free.
So yeah, a lot of time for practices. All that, what I mentioned above, comes later. Right now, as in, after school tomorrow, it's gonna be, I'm afraid to say this, but, it'll be just like Rhianna's latest hit. "Work, work, work, work, work." Jesus. Anyways, see ya.
Week: 41
Songs to Remember: One by One - Taemin
I'm pretty much set. I only gotta worry about English and math for now (if that AP Delight doesn't boost me up 1% for Bio, it's not too detrimental).
English, on the other hand, I need that to graduate. I talked to my counselor at the beginning of 3rd period uhh, she was actually really understanding about it. I told her that I'm borderline failing English, aaand wanted to know what I could do considering the summer school process. She gave me a form, I fill it out and if I end up failing, I'm all set for the paperwork, I do a makeup English class for 3 weeks beginning January, boom, I'm good.
But, I'm really counting on like, not failing English. Like, really. Anyways, Psych was just me working on that poem for History. I wasn't really dragging my team down because they both didn't work on the thing either. One of them was working on a report for English, so, I don't blame 'em. English, uh, fortunately, there was no quiz today, so, thank the fucking lord for that.
Tomorrow will be a full-on, full-blast, study day, not even kidding. I'm planning on, once I get home from school, drop everything, get myself comfy, start reading that fucking book, baby. I'ma read Catcher in the Rye twice, then do a reading of The Great Gatsby. Moving on from that, I'll review literary terms, remember the definitions of 70 vocabulary words, aaand then do practice questions, because I'm fucking sure the teacher's gonna put that same shit on the test.
It will most likely be the hardest I'll ever study, because for fuck's sake, I don't wanna do summer school. I'll also be offering to my teacher some of my, uh, missing work to see if I get some leeway for my grade. Thank the lord though, that there won't be any major writing shit for the final, just short answer shit. At least, I hope so. I'm not sure I should take the dude's word for it.
Uhhh, Bio was next, and apparently we're watching "The Martian." Not what I expected, and no, I've never watched it. Math was just, "Hey, here's some review." And yeah, we got about, 60+ questions to do and review, also I gotta organize my binder, for that'll be graded.
Lunch was what'd you'd expect, I also spent some of that time working on that poem. I finally finished in-class. It wasn't very factual, more "pun"-ctual really. Umm, luckily the teacher did not call on me to go recite it as I was working on it, as I was not finished. Fortunately, I did get to finish, I was actually the last person to read it in the period, umm, also one of the very few who did it. About 1/3 of the class actually did the assignment, or rather, did it on time, and it feels pretty fucking good since today I got to relax for study onslaught tomorrow.
And finally Chinese, where we just do some random bulk work, uhh, tomorrow we'll be "presenting" our final projects to the class, just, basic, basic work. And, yeah. I am confirmed going to Fanime, uhh, I'm also confirmed learning the dance to COOL's "Let Me Sarang You" for the KDT social showcase on June 1st. It's essentially performances, for fun. Just a last thing to show off some cool dances or, like, do some final fun collabs with your buddies.
So along with that, I might be considering doing a solo dance of, you guessed it, Taemin's "Drip Drop." Still need to refine some parts, I'm sorta rusty after not practicing it for a while. There are other solo performances, of course. Th is doing his own, using his own mix, uhh, Jb is doing her own, Mi is doing SHINee's chorus of "Replay," and a bunch of others are either doing trio performances, of like, choreographs of dancers such as Lia Kim, and some others are doing like, a whole song,dances, with a group, such as Ln, Rh, Mt, and Bp doing NCTU's "The Seventh Sense."
I think I have the confidence to do it. This weekend, I mean, other than math work, it'll be pretty fucking easy, like, just Fanime on Saturday, some math work on Sunday, Monday there's no school so I can do whatever, Tuesday get math over with, and I'm basically home-free.
So yeah, a lot of time for practices. All that, what I mentioned above, comes later. Right now, as in, after school tomorrow, it's gonna be, I'm afraid to say this, but, it'll be just like Rhianna's latest hit. "Work, work, work, work, work." Jesus. Anyways, see ya.
Tuesday, May 24, 2016 "Uno Dos Tres."
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
Week: 41
Songs to Remember:
I have to say, non-stop reading for 3 hours was worth it. That is why I'll be re-reading 2 books and doing practice questions Thursday night, all for fucking English.
So for a day of no movies, there was actually very little work done for our project. I don't blame anybody, I seriously think we're all not motivated to do this shit considering we're supposed to be done with everything, but. We're not. Umm, just working on our group doc write now and we'll put it up on our poster thing later.
In the meantime, everybody gets deceived again by the teacher. For English of course. He said we'd be having a quotation explication, that was it. Didn't say how much, how many, just said "quotation explication." Was not expecting a quiz along with the "quotation explications." Yeah, explications. As in, there were 3 instead of just 1. Fortunately, I spent 3 hours that one night to read the whole fucking book up to where we were.
The teacher put in the grades for our quiz today. I was surprised that I went up 1.6%, meaning I'm standing at a 68/5% right now, a C-. I looked at my score and it was a 83%, a 20/25. I'm not sure if that's the whole quiz, like, not counting the quotation explications, but, hey, it's much better than I expected so, I'm fine. What's shitty is that he doesn't inform us whether something is part of our final or not. He confirmed that it'll be 15% of our grade, but I'm not sure if I should trust him or not anymore.
And yeah, the quotation explication and quiz were graded as part of the final, so. There's that. I'm not sure what to expect for tomorrow, he never tells us, I mean, at least post something up instead of the usual "Read chapter blank" for our homework. Like, we might as well read the whole fucking thing already, our final's in a few days. I care about what to expect so I can prepare. Holy.
Anyways, Bio was just another work day for math. It's sad but, what else am I gonna do. Uhh, math was a test aaand unfortunately I don't think I did too well on it, I don't think anybody did, maybe one or two, but that's it. Lunch, I made an appointment with my counselor, which was clutch because today the school sent out an email telling us that no more appointments were accepted as we were expected to "study for our finals." Yeah, fuck you too.
I'm not even kidding, that's literally their reason. "Counseling appointments are completely booked until the end of the year. There will be NO more appointments after Wednesday, 05/25/2016 as you will need to prepare for Finals." I think we already know we gotta prepare, also we're gonna be having 1-hour talks with our counselor, I don't think. I'm not even sure what the office admins do anyways, like, 50% of it is just scheduling. That's, about it.
Anyhow, History was just work in class- and I completely forgot I got a 12 stanza poem to write for History. Huh. Well, good thing I'm only deciding to hold off on reading for tonight 'till Thursday because uh, shit, heh. I'm unfortunately at a 93% for History. I could choose not to turn something in, but, I might go down under somehow, I just know it, and risk turning my A into a B. I just won't try-hard on it, is all, just, wanna get it done.
Umm, and Chinese, where we're still getting some bulk work but it isn't THAT much of a problem. It's fairly minimal, I could do it in 3rd period if needed, and uh, yeah. Right now it's 11:35 PM, gonna get done with a shitty poem real quick, and then read myself to sleep. Alrighty, see ya. Wait no, read the summary to sleep. Got it. Alrighty, see ya.
Week: 41
Songs to Remember:
I have to say, non-stop reading for 3 hours was worth it. That is why I'll be re-reading 2 books and doing practice questions Thursday night, all for fucking English.
So for a day of no movies, there was actually very little work done for our project. I don't blame anybody, I seriously think we're all not motivated to do this shit considering we're supposed to be done with everything, but. We're not. Umm, just working on our group doc write now and we'll put it up on our poster thing later.
In the meantime, everybody gets deceived again by the teacher. For English of course. He said we'd be having a quotation explication, that was it. Didn't say how much, how many, just said "quotation explication." Was not expecting a quiz along with the "quotation explications." Yeah, explications. As in, there were 3 instead of just 1. Fortunately, I spent 3 hours that one night to read the whole fucking book up to where we were.
The teacher put in the grades for our quiz today. I was surprised that I went up 1.6%, meaning I'm standing at a 68/5% right now, a C-. I looked at my score and it was a 83%, a 20/25. I'm not sure if that's the whole quiz, like, not counting the quotation explications, but, hey, it's much better than I expected so, I'm fine. What's shitty is that he doesn't inform us whether something is part of our final or not. He confirmed that it'll be 15% of our grade, but I'm not sure if I should trust him or not anymore.
And yeah, the quotation explication and quiz were graded as part of the final, so. There's that. I'm not sure what to expect for tomorrow, he never tells us, I mean, at least post something up instead of the usual "Read chapter blank" for our homework. Like, we might as well read the whole fucking thing already, our final's in a few days. I care about what to expect so I can prepare. Holy.
Anyways, Bio was just another work day for math. It's sad but, what else am I gonna do. Uhh, math was a test aaand unfortunately I don't think I did too well on it, I don't think anybody did, maybe one or two, but that's it. Lunch, I made an appointment with my counselor, which was clutch because today the school sent out an email telling us that no more appointments were accepted as we were expected to "study for our finals." Yeah, fuck you too.
I'm not even kidding, that's literally their reason. "Counseling appointments are completely booked until the end of the year. There will be NO more appointments after Wednesday, 05/25/2016 as you will need to prepare for Finals." I think we already know we gotta prepare, also we're gonna be having 1-hour talks with our counselor, I don't think. I'm not even sure what the office admins do anyways, like, 50% of it is just scheduling. That's, about it.
Anyhow, History was just work in class- and I completely forgot I got a 12 stanza poem to write for History. Huh. Well, good thing I'm only deciding to hold off on reading for tonight 'till Thursday because uh, shit, heh. I'm unfortunately at a 93% for History. I could choose not to turn something in, but, I might go down under somehow, I just know it, and risk turning my A into a B. I just won't try-hard on it, is all, just, wanna get it done.
Umm, and Chinese, where we're still getting some bulk work but it isn't THAT much of a problem. It's fairly minimal, I could do it in 3rd period if needed, and uh, yeah. Right now it's 11:35 PM, gonna get done with a shitty poem real quick, and then read myself to sleep. Alrighty, see ya. Wait no, read the summary to sleep. Got it. Alrighty, see ya.
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
Monday, May 23, 2016 "Deceive."
Monday, May 23, 2016
Week: 41
Songs to Remember: Body Lotion - Sleepy
So I found out last night that it takes around 3 hours of understandable reading in order to get from chapter 1 to chapter 18 of Catcher.
I looked at the time at one point and saw that both the clock hands were on the 1. I was like "Wow, 1 AM, I'm actually making great time." But then I was like "Wait a second." Took a look at my PC clock and yep, it was actually 2:05 AM.
I did the reading with no breaks, it was literally 140 pages of non-stop reading, all the while listening to Beethoven, which I don't normally do. But anyways, let's get on with the 2nd to last season of The Days. So, Psych. Today was the last day of "relaxation" as the teacher called it, because she's assigning us a project that we gotta work on. The movie my group decided was "Now You See Me," a movie in which I found interesting but never got the chance to watch, until now.
Might have to just read the plot summary on its Wikipedia page because tonight I'ma be reading the whole Catcher book from chapter 1 to 22, again, because, today was another example of why English makes me want to contract Type B cancer. Which, I don't think exists but you get what I mean. Instead of having the quotation explication today, the teacher instead tells us we have a constructive response instead. Yep, no warning yesterday at all, he decided to just change his mind on it all.
And the best part is: he's having the quotation explication be tomorrow. Yep, that's right, it's not gone, just moved to tomorrow. The other thing that pissed me off too was that he said "Part 1" of the quotation explication. What was that? Part 1 you say? So, you're saying there's more? Well why didn't you say so! Good thing I'm planning on reading the entire book, word for word each night. I mean, it's not like our final is in 4 days and we still haven't finished the book and discussed it to an extent in which we all understand the meanings of it, or have other deadlines to meet or anything.
So yeah, just keep on giving us those major assignments. Do it. DO IT. Anyways, there's that. Uhh, Bio was just me working on math work and math was just, the usual again. Lunch was pretty depressing. Umm, not sure why Ek dislikes being around Ag, Jk, and DrewN. I think maybe it's an Ag thing, not much of Jk or DrewN. Yeah, I seriously don't know. I already got plans for next year, I think I'ma have to let Ek go, ya know, if she continues this, because I like being able to make dank references to memes with my buddies and sarcastic dark humor.
If I can't do that, shit's gonna get boring. And so, up next was History, in which I got my 5-point box finished, just needs coloring. Tomorrow I'll work on the poem, etc, etc. And finally Chinese, where we didn't move seats, so, I got what I wished for and remain in my group, heh. Uhh, nothing too serious going on currently, just, random work of which I will do tomorrow sometime. And yeah, it's 12:08 AM, seriously, I do not have the energy as last night. I will just go over the plots of each chapter, hopefully I remember the quote for tomorrow. See ya. Also yeah there's more updates I gotta say but I really just wanna go to sleep, I mean, i got like 4 hours of sleep last night which was not good at all. So, see ya.
Week: 41
Songs to Remember: Body Lotion - Sleepy
So I found out last night that it takes around 3 hours of understandable reading in order to get from chapter 1 to chapter 18 of Catcher.
I looked at the time at one point and saw that both the clock hands were on the 1. I was like "Wow, 1 AM, I'm actually making great time." But then I was like "Wait a second." Took a look at my PC clock and yep, it was actually 2:05 AM.
I did the reading with no breaks, it was literally 140 pages of non-stop reading, all the while listening to Beethoven, which I don't normally do. But anyways, let's get on with the 2nd to last season of The Days. So, Psych. Today was the last day of "relaxation" as the teacher called it, because she's assigning us a project that we gotta work on. The movie my group decided was "Now You See Me," a movie in which I found interesting but never got the chance to watch, until now.
Might have to just read the plot summary on its Wikipedia page because tonight I'ma be reading the whole Catcher book from chapter 1 to 22, again, because, today was another example of why English makes me want to contract Type B cancer. Which, I don't think exists but you get what I mean. Instead of having the quotation explication today, the teacher instead tells us we have a constructive response instead. Yep, no warning yesterday at all, he decided to just change his mind on it all.
And the best part is: he's having the quotation explication be tomorrow. Yep, that's right, it's not gone, just moved to tomorrow. The other thing that pissed me off too was that he said "Part 1" of the quotation explication. What was that? Part 1 you say? So, you're saying there's more? Well why didn't you say so! Good thing I'm planning on reading the entire book, word for word each night. I mean, it's not like our final is in 4 days and we still haven't finished the book and discussed it to an extent in which we all understand the meanings of it, or have other deadlines to meet or anything.
So yeah, just keep on giving us those major assignments. Do it. DO IT. Anyways, there's that. Uhh, Bio was just me working on math work and math was just, the usual again. Lunch was pretty depressing. Umm, not sure why Ek dislikes being around Ag, Jk, and DrewN. I think maybe it's an Ag thing, not much of Jk or DrewN. Yeah, I seriously don't know. I already got plans for next year, I think I'ma have to let Ek go, ya know, if she continues this, because I like being able to make dank references to memes with my buddies and sarcastic dark humor.
If I can't do that, shit's gonna get boring. And so, up next was History, in which I got my 5-point box finished, just needs coloring. Tomorrow I'll work on the poem, etc, etc. And finally Chinese, where we didn't move seats, so, I got what I wished for and remain in my group, heh. Uhh, nothing too serious going on currently, just, random work of which I will do tomorrow sometime. And yeah, it's 12:08 AM, seriously, I do not have the energy as last night. I will just go over the plots of each chapter, hopefully I remember the quote for tomorrow. See ya. Also yeah there's more updates I gotta say but I really just wanna go to sleep, I mean, i got like 4 hours of sleep last night which was not good at all. So, see ya.
Sunday, May 22, 2016
Sunday, May 22, 2016 "Speed-Read."
Sunday, May 22, 2016
Week: 40
Songs to Remember: Body Lotion - Sleepy
The current runners for series end theme are: Fly - Got7, Dynamite - Vixx, No Other - Super Junior, Collection - Kevin, and Body Lotion - Sleepy.
So, besides that, I did a lot of thinking today. That and wasted a lot of time but uh, at least I'll be getting things done, by tomorrow, and I mean it. I gave my cousin a Skype call today and he answered. It was in fact a school thing, he spent a couple days at Universal Studios and Disneyland, with a hotel stay. Umm, he's still doing well, same old, same old, same as the last time I talked to him.
And I'm glad. When it comes to us, we're still the fucking memers we are, heh. Anyways, there was voting for the KDT awards. It's an online Google survey thing that the KDT president set up. We got to vote on who we think fits a role better (like, "Best twerker" or like "Most lazy," etc). Also it's been settled that the KDT uhh end meetup/senior send-off will be at the park on June 1st, which is coincidentally the last day of finals. And, because some people are leaving for vacation and shit the day after, so.
It's currently 11:19 PM, I did not do any math today even though I have a lot, umm, still no work done for History, but if I put my mind to it and not try too hard for it, I can get the 5-point box and poem done in 30 minutes flat. Just need the concentration. Umm, math work, hopefully the teacher does not collect it tomorrow. And for English, there's a quotation explication tomorrow.
I'm hoping to be prepared for anything. So, I will be reading the whole book up until where we're at, starting, now. It's 11:22 PM, gonna go for that speed-read. I'll inform more tomorrow how shit goes. Oh, almost forgot, gotta setup counselor appointment for 6th period end to talk about, classes and shit. I'm thinking I don't wanna struggle with next year as much as this year, and so (I've used this word many times now), I've decided to not do AP Statistics. Sounds fun with my old Geometry teacher teaching me, but, with the projects, ehhhh, just not worth it for the amount of work needed. 1 AP, more than enough for me, especially since it's Calculus.
Alrighty, enough talk, reading time now. See ya.
Week: 40
Songs to Remember: Body Lotion - Sleepy
The current runners for series end theme are: Fly - Got7, Dynamite - Vixx, No Other - Super Junior, Collection - Kevin, and Body Lotion - Sleepy.
So, besides that, I did a lot of thinking today. That and wasted a lot of time but uh, at least I'll be getting things done, by tomorrow, and I mean it. I gave my cousin a Skype call today and he answered. It was in fact a school thing, he spent a couple days at Universal Studios and Disneyland, with a hotel stay. Umm, he's still doing well, same old, same old, same as the last time I talked to him.
And I'm glad. When it comes to us, we're still the fucking memers we are, heh. Anyways, there was voting for the KDT awards. It's an online Google survey thing that the KDT president set up. We got to vote on who we think fits a role better (like, "Best twerker" or like "Most lazy," etc). Also it's been settled that the KDT uhh end meetup/senior send-off will be at the park on June 1st, which is coincidentally the last day of finals. And, because some people are leaving for vacation and shit the day after, so.
It's currently 11:19 PM, I did not do any math today even though I have a lot, umm, still no work done for History, but if I put my mind to it and not try too hard for it, I can get the 5-point box and poem done in 30 minutes flat. Just need the concentration. Umm, math work, hopefully the teacher does not collect it tomorrow. And for English, there's a quotation explication tomorrow.
I'm hoping to be prepared for anything. So, I will be reading the whole book up until where we're at, starting, now. It's 11:22 PM, gonna go for that speed-read. I'll inform more tomorrow how shit goes. Oh, almost forgot, gotta setup counselor appointment for 6th period end to talk about, classes and shit. I'm thinking I don't wanna struggle with next year as much as this year, and so (I've used this word many times now), I've decided to not do AP Statistics. Sounds fun with my old Geometry teacher teaching me, but, with the projects, ehhhh, just not worth it for the amount of work needed. 1 AP, more than enough for me, especially since it's Calculus.
Alrighty, enough talk, reading time now. See ya.
Saturday, May 21, 2016 "Arts and Relax."
Saturday, May 21, 2016
Week: 40
Songs to Remember: Go Nowhere - Infinite H
I'm sure that after I do the English final, I'ma be waiting on the results like on Maury. "Your final results are in! Drew... you got a C+, which means you didn't fail Honors English! You are not the father!" That's what I'm hoping for.
Anyways, it was very a leisurely day. My cousin, from his Snapchat, looks to be still having fun at Universal Studios and other theme parks in like, LA. Which means, he's not on Skype. I'm guessing this weekend is just like a graduation party (like, pre-graduation). I'm sure he'll be home by tomorrow night or whatever.
But right now, I spent about 4 hours today at Jb's house, and it wasn't boring. I was actually feeling pretty bad yesterday after seeing how much like, things people were doing on Snapchat. I'm like "I'm sitting here, doing jack shit." Work is another thing, but in the time I'm doing nothing, I could spend that time of doing nothing and instead do something, with my friends or something. So, uhh, 4 hours. I went over at 12:30 PM and there were already like, everybody there.
Everybody, as in, those who could come. I was the 2nd to last person to arrive, El being the last. Everybody was already working, I was like "Oh shit." We had the mason jars filled with our notes, there were bags in which we decorated with our drawings. Lots of cutting, drawing, coloring, and some gluing. In the midst of all this, there was music playing and uh, we ordered pizza. Oh and dogs. We didn't order dogs, Jb had her dogs over.
At one point everybody was preoccupied with watching K-Pop "cracks" and vines. I noticed that people's notes were like, really really long, longer than mine's, heh. Luckily I used pretty small paper to compensate for the amount I wrote. Also, people did write their letters over here. I stayed up until 3:00 AM last night to finish them. Fortunately I was motivated to do it all or else I would've just called it quits.
Umm, one thing I noticed was that I made a lot of comments and responses. Which is good, it means that I'm getting even more comfortable in these types of situations. It really showed in the KDT group chat today, in which Rh (that freshman dude) posted a screenshot which accidentally showed the name of the KDT Senior stuff planning Facebook page. Luckily we were obnoxious enough that we were able to make over 130 messages to flood and spam the chat in order to bury the screenshot.
And I think it worked, uhh, no senior actually said anything in the chat since either they were all busy having fun, working, or, just turned off their phone, or just leave the chat altogether temporarily because the notifications were interfering with their phone's GPS navigation. Yikes, heh.
In total, it was just wake up, breakfast, KDT secret arts and crafts time, home, nap, dinner, Isaac, and then this.Tomorrow is unfortunately a work day, for the most part. Basically finishing as much work as I can so I can spend most of the time studying for English, aka, read. Oh and let's not forget, Monday there's a quotation explication for English. So, let's put work AND read to the list.
So. yeah, it's 12:15 AM, see ya.
Week: 40
Songs to Remember: Go Nowhere - Infinite H
I'm sure that after I do the English final, I'ma be waiting on the results like on Maury. "Your final results are in! Drew... you got a C+, which means you didn't fail Honors English! You are not the father!" That's what I'm hoping for.
Anyways, it was very a leisurely day. My cousin, from his Snapchat, looks to be still having fun at Universal Studios and other theme parks in like, LA. Which means, he's not on Skype. I'm guessing this weekend is just like a graduation party (like, pre-graduation). I'm sure he'll be home by tomorrow night or whatever.
But right now, I spent about 4 hours today at Jb's house, and it wasn't boring. I was actually feeling pretty bad yesterday after seeing how much like, things people were doing on Snapchat. I'm like "I'm sitting here, doing jack shit." Work is another thing, but in the time I'm doing nothing, I could spend that time of doing nothing and instead do something, with my friends or something. So, uhh, 4 hours. I went over at 12:30 PM and there were already like, everybody there.
Everybody, as in, those who could come. I was the 2nd to last person to arrive, El being the last. Everybody was already working, I was like "Oh shit." We had the mason jars filled with our notes, there were bags in which we decorated with our drawings. Lots of cutting, drawing, coloring, and some gluing. In the midst of all this, there was music playing and uh, we ordered pizza. Oh and dogs. We didn't order dogs, Jb had her dogs over.
At one point everybody was preoccupied with watching K-Pop "cracks" and vines. I noticed that people's notes were like, really really long, longer than mine's, heh. Luckily I used pretty small paper to compensate for the amount I wrote. Also, people did write their letters over here. I stayed up until 3:00 AM last night to finish them. Fortunately I was motivated to do it all or else I would've just called it quits.
Umm, one thing I noticed was that I made a lot of comments and responses. Which is good, it means that I'm getting even more comfortable in these types of situations. It really showed in the KDT group chat today, in which Rh (that freshman dude) posted a screenshot which accidentally showed the name of the KDT Senior stuff planning Facebook page. Luckily we were obnoxious enough that we were able to make over 130 messages to flood and spam the chat in order to bury the screenshot.
And I think it worked, uhh, no senior actually said anything in the chat since either they were all busy having fun, working, or, just turned off their phone, or just leave the chat altogether temporarily because the notifications were interfering with their phone's GPS navigation. Yikes, heh.
In total, it was just wake up, breakfast, KDT secret arts and crafts time, home, nap, dinner, Isaac, and then this.Tomorrow is unfortunately a work day, for the most part. Basically finishing as much work as I can so I can spend most of the time studying for English, aka, read. Oh and let's not forget, Monday there's a quotation explication for English. So, let's put work AND read to the list.
So. yeah, it's 12:15 AM, see ya.
Saturday, May 21, 2016
Friday, May 20, 2016 "Changing Tides."
Friday, May 20, 2016
Week: 40
Songs to Remember; Collection - Kevin, No Other - Super Junior
In the midst of writing all these letters to the KDT seniors, I got enveloped in the past events and experiences over the year, that I forgot all about how I'm getting fucked academically. It's like all my worries disappeared, for about, maybe 45 minutes, starting from beginning writing the letters, to remembering how I'm getting fucked.
And no. I'm not done with the letters yet. It's 12:48 AM, unfortunately another KDT member got her letters accidentally thrown away by a parent. So uh, at least I'm not in this situation. Maybe. So anyways, Psych was just watching "Inside Out," for which I've already watched. My group still hasn't decided on a movie yet, so, I'ma have to wait 'till Monday to start watching.
English was one of the more, how would you say it, cancer-causing classes. Of, probably the whole year. We prepared for a quotation explication for Monday, umm, it's not like we have the final in less than a week or anything. It's not like, we've had quizzes and tests this past week or so already. It's not like, we're on the verge of failing your class and you just keep on shoving us down under the water with all of this. It's not like, we're finished reading the godamn book yet.
And so, uhh, yeah. I really, really do not like English. At all. Anymore, heh. My buddy Ec prepared admission to a community college for a summer courses, just in case he fails a couple of his classes. He suggested I do that too, so, in case I fail the final, or, it brings me to below a 68%, I got insurance. I'll be scheduling an appointment with my counselor on Monday to talk about this shit.
Bio, no wait. After English there was the annual senior rally. Like, all classes sit down at the bleachers, the seniors sit on the track, there's like, events and whatnot, teachers congratulating some seniors with inhuman GPA's, and, teachers performing the Running Man challenge. Yep, what a time to be alive. One of students congratulated was to be going to Pacific University, of which I've heard about to be "different," but, not exactly top-tier. People groaned about it, like, "Aww man, you wasted opportunities." As in, why would she choose that university over others with that kind of GPA? Well, considering her GPA, she probably got a scholarship, so, probably no fees. As in, free college, which is pretty good to me.
It was pretty cold today, unlike the first couple days of this week. Uhh, just, something to say. Bio was just me doing/ starting the AP Delight assignment, which was due today for extra points. Umm, I did not have mine's done, I am halfway done though. Halfway. I am hoping, that the teacher gives me the full 40 points on it. Hopefully our answers don't have to be too constructive or whatever. Like, please, I just need .8%. It's all I need.
Lunch, there's definitely something going on. Not between me and Ek, but her and Jk and Ag. And maybe DrewN, but maybe Jk and Ag more. She was like "Why did they follow us here?" "Well, they migrated here." "Well, we'll just migrate back to the lockers!" Yeah I knew her excuse yesterday or something to be kinda pointless. I'm not sure why she doesn't want to be around Jk and Ag. Not sure. And, neither do Jk nor Ag have any idea that Ek sorta dislikes them right now. Hopefully, this is just a temporary thing.
History, where we gambled by shooting a ball through a basketball hoop in the hopes of getting a larger piece of paper to write on as our cheat-sheet for the final. We settled after we won once, only because we all knew that it would be due at the end of the period. The teacher distracted a lot of people with vines of animals, dogs, cats, etc. And so, he made it due Monday. I essentially rushed, for nothing. We, rushed for nothing. But it's all good, 'cause I don't like doing stuff at home anyways.
And finally, Chinese, where, I don't know if I ever stated this before, but, I've grown accustomed to my group. Remember when I said I didn't really like it? Like, sorta hated it? Well, as usual, I grow comfortable and boom, I fit, In. Like a puzzle piece. Not sure if we're moving seats on Monday, hopefully not, hopefully, yes. Either ways, I turned in the group final project today, I got nothing to worry about for Chinese, until, next year. Well, technically August but you get what I mean.
So, it's 1:14 AM, I am 1/3 of the way finished with these letters. My cousin, from the looks of it, from his Snapchat stories, looks to be having fun uh, hanging out with his friends on a trip to Universal Studios. One said that he was up, playing Melee at 3:00 AM, so, not sure if it's like a school thing, or, like, a non-school thing. I'm not even sure if his parents let him go out freely like this (I mean really, Melee at 3:00 AM). I guess things have changed.
And since he doesn't have his PC with him, he's probably somewhere else, I'll call him tomorrow. Sooo, yeah. It feels, weird to be mature. I'm not sure how I feel about all this change. On one hand, I've grown closer to those I didn't think I'd be. On the other hand, I grew distant from those who I have been. I'm hoping to fix that. See ya.
Week: 40
Songs to Remember; Collection - Kevin, No Other - Super Junior
In the midst of writing all these letters to the KDT seniors, I got enveloped in the past events and experiences over the year, that I forgot all about how I'm getting fucked academically. It's like all my worries disappeared, for about, maybe 45 minutes, starting from beginning writing the letters, to remembering how I'm getting fucked.
And no. I'm not done with the letters yet. It's 12:48 AM, unfortunately another KDT member got her letters accidentally thrown away by a parent. So uh, at least I'm not in this situation. Maybe. So anyways, Psych was just watching "Inside Out," for which I've already watched. My group still hasn't decided on a movie yet, so, I'ma have to wait 'till Monday to start watching.
English was one of the more, how would you say it, cancer-causing classes. Of, probably the whole year. We prepared for a quotation explication for Monday, umm, it's not like we have the final in less than a week or anything. It's not like, we've had quizzes and tests this past week or so already. It's not like, we're on the verge of failing your class and you just keep on shoving us down under the water with all of this. It's not like, we're finished reading the godamn book yet.
And so, uhh, yeah. I really, really do not like English. At all. Anymore, heh. My buddy Ec prepared admission to a community college for a summer courses, just in case he fails a couple of his classes. He suggested I do that too, so, in case I fail the final, or, it brings me to below a 68%, I got insurance. I'll be scheduling an appointment with my counselor on Monday to talk about this shit.
Bio, no wait. After English there was the annual senior rally. Like, all classes sit down at the bleachers, the seniors sit on the track, there's like, events and whatnot, teachers congratulating some seniors with inhuman GPA's, and, teachers performing the Running Man challenge. Yep, what a time to be alive. One of students congratulated was to be going to Pacific University, of which I've heard about to be "different," but, not exactly top-tier. People groaned about it, like, "Aww man, you wasted opportunities." As in, why would she choose that university over others with that kind of GPA? Well, considering her GPA, she probably got a scholarship, so, probably no fees. As in, free college, which is pretty good to me.
It was pretty cold today, unlike the first couple days of this week. Uhh, just, something to say. Bio was just me doing/ starting the AP Delight assignment, which was due today for extra points. Umm, I did not have mine's done, I am halfway done though. Halfway. I am hoping, that the teacher gives me the full 40 points on it. Hopefully our answers don't have to be too constructive or whatever. Like, please, I just need .8%. It's all I need.
Lunch, there's definitely something going on. Not between me and Ek, but her and Jk and Ag. And maybe DrewN, but maybe Jk and Ag more. She was like "Why did they follow us here?" "Well, they migrated here." "Well, we'll just migrate back to the lockers!" Yeah I knew her excuse yesterday or something to be kinda pointless. I'm not sure why she doesn't want to be around Jk and Ag. Not sure. And, neither do Jk nor Ag have any idea that Ek sorta dislikes them right now. Hopefully, this is just a temporary thing.
History, where we gambled by shooting a ball through a basketball hoop in the hopes of getting a larger piece of paper to write on as our cheat-sheet for the final. We settled after we won once, only because we all knew that it would be due at the end of the period. The teacher distracted a lot of people with vines of animals, dogs, cats, etc. And so, he made it due Monday. I essentially rushed, for nothing. We, rushed for nothing. But it's all good, 'cause I don't like doing stuff at home anyways.
And finally, Chinese, where, I don't know if I ever stated this before, but, I've grown accustomed to my group. Remember when I said I didn't really like it? Like, sorta hated it? Well, as usual, I grow comfortable and boom, I fit, In. Like a puzzle piece. Not sure if we're moving seats on Monday, hopefully not, hopefully, yes. Either ways, I turned in the group final project today, I got nothing to worry about for Chinese, until, next year. Well, technically August but you get what I mean.
So, it's 1:14 AM, I am 1/3 of the way finished with these letters. My cousin, from the looks of it, from his Snapchat stories, looks to be having fun uh, hanging out with his friends on a trip to Universal Studios. One said that he was up, playing Melee at 3:00 AM, so, not sure if it's like a school thing, or, like, a non-school thing. I'm not even sure if his parents let him go out freely like this (I mean really, Melee at 3:00 AM). I guess things have changed.
And since he doesn't have his PC with him, he's probably somewhere else, I'll call him tomorrow. Sooo, yeah. It feels, weird to be mature. I'm not sure how I feel about all this change. On one hand, I've grown closer to those I didn't think I'd be. On the other hand, I grew distant from those who I have been. I'm hoping to fix that. See ya.
Friday, May 20, 2016
Thursday, May 19, 2016 "Enough Ain't Enough."
Thursday, May 19, 2016
Week: 40
Songs to Remember: Witch - Boyfriend
I've heard people question why teachers give out so many assignments at the last minute, like, literally a week before finals. "It's like they want us to fail." Yeah, I could see why.
I'm sitting at a 79% right now in Psych, which is a B-. I'm totally fine with it, we've been watching movies for the past 2 weeks now. We still take notes, unlike the other AP Psych teacher where she doesn't require her students to take notes. Today the teacher gave us an evaluation form to fill out, like, evaluating her as a teacher, In mine's (which is anonymous) I suggested that she were to drop the review presentations as those were pretty stressful when combined with the final.
What I basically said was, no end-of-the-year assignments. We took the final, we took the AP exam, we're done. Yeah, no. Apparently, she still got one assignment up her sleeve, a project this time, where we gotta watch a movie and write about the psychology aspects of it. As in, design an "exhibit" like in a museum and shit. Sure, it seems "fun" with the movies, but like, shit, What is there to do? We already did the final and AP exam, enough is enough, heh.
And unfortunately, it's ANOTHER group project, so, there's the stress in that, 'cause communication and shit. It's due like, next week, just like all the other assignments, not even kidding. So yeah, there's that. Also, "Juno" was alright. Not bad.
What was bad was a godamn quiz in English. What, like, the 4th quiz? Within 1 and a half weeks? I guess "enough" ain't in my English teacher's vocabulary. It was supposedly a "reading comprehension" quiz, at least, that's what he calls it. Even for the students who do read, thoroughly, like the ones who are passing the class right now, even got some of the questions wrong, which was literally just 7 questions.
It's not even understanding the text anymore, no. No underlying meanings, plot, no/ It literally is now, just memorization. "What color was his hat? What shape was it? What was next to the window outside of that apartment in New York but only under average weather conditions?" Insane. "What was particular about Holden's hat that was different from the book?" This quiz was on a short story by the way, the one that precedes Catcher. In the beginning it talked about how Holden's hat had a "V." That was it, literally never mentioned again, everybody disregarded it.
Guess what question 2 was on the quiz? Yep, "What was particular about Holden's hat?" Might as well try to remember and recite the entire fucking story, and then you're good. My motto for English has since been "It's not about the right answer, it's the BEST answer." Fucking god. I know I've joked about suicide and shit, but the way he has been teaching us seriously makes me FEEL like killing myself.
Anyways, Bio was just free. Again. I had a math quiz so I had to use that time to study. Otherwise, I would've worked on the Bio work stuff, which is due next week, but, can be turned in tomorrow for an extra point, in case you wanted a 41/40 for a better boost. But, since I only need .8%, I'm good. Also, because I did procrastinate again. Math, it was just a quiz which was a lot more straight-forward than last time, that's for sure.
Lunch, uh, Ek asked if I wanted to go hang out at our old spot, like, "until the end of the year." It was like "Ehhhh." She justifies her reasoning as that she doesn't like sitting down at the lockers place because the floor keeps on getting dirtier and dirtier. Which, I mean it's a valid point, but, eh, heh. I don't know what's going on with her, but uh, ya know, maybe the cast will come along to our spot or something. Migrate.
Uhh, so I had to go to a mandatory meeting in the library. It's called "Congress" and I learned that it's called that for a reason. I went to go tell my 5th period teacher that I'll be gone for SSR, and uh, went to the library. I didn't know what to expect really. They scanned our ID's to make sure we actually showed up. I sat next to Jb and Ln, of which, 2 of us had to get chairs because there weren't enough seats. It was literally just announcing upcoming events, advertising, news, umm, revenue listings (apparently the school made $20,000 off of prom) and a bunch of other shit that we didn't get to due to time, and because it really seems shitty and pointless.
Maybe not to ASB because they're the ones hosting it but, to us club and organization officers, pretty fucking, unimportant. Uhh, there was apparently "chartering," like, making clubs and organizations official. This was done by having a representative of that club/organization present, the student activities director reads out the mission statement ("This club's mission is to bring peace, community service, etc, etc, whatever"), and then have a voting of whether it should be "chartered" or not, by people saying "Aye."
And that's why it's called Congress. They do this "motion" thing. You know, like in "real" Congress and shit. "I am blank and I affirm this motion." "I am blank and I second this motion." "Motion granted" or some shit. I was like "Oh my god, this is fucking necessary professionalism." Like, half the people here don't even pay attention to the director reading out the club mission statements. There could be a fucking "DIY Bomb Club" and people would still unisonly say "Aye" just to get out.
I missed 20 minutes of History for this, but luckily we didn't do anything too much. Apparently, enough ain't enough for my History teacher either, because, you guessed it, we got another assignment. This time: poem. 12 stanzas. Has to do with some topics, out of 60, in chronological order. And, must rhyme. Due, next week probably. We still go the 5-point box to do, so uh, hello Sunday night, heh.
And finally Chinese, where, uhh, today was possibly the last day together as a group, 'till we get to pick our own seats next week maybe. Oh and uh, we had Chromebooks to work on our final project shit. So, all in all, I got a lot of shit. To do. However, tomorrow and this weekend (well, at least Saturday), will be reserved for uh, social time. Specifically KDT members and my cousin. I still have not wrote my letters yet, I will do so, tomorrow. And uh, I will also be contacting my cousin tomorrow, if he even goes on Skype anymore. Uhh, and then on Saturday, I will be going to Jb's house to put together the stuff for the KDT seniors (who don't know that we're doing this). And Sunday, will be, like, relax day. Hopefully.
As long as things go according to plan (which, for English, I fear will not), I'll make it through. So yeah, see ya. Oh and there's a rally tomorrow or something. We, we sit outside on the bleachers, watch the seniors walk across the track field, watch people get awards, and feel depressed when they have seniors speak about the colleges they're going to be attending and accepted into. And also hear their inhumanely high GPA values (like, 4.5? Fucking really?). Alrighty, see ya.
Week: 40
Songs to Remember: Witch - Boyfriend
I've heard people question why teachers give out so many assignments at the last minute, like, literally a week before finals. "It's like they want us to fail." Yeah, I could see why.
I'm sitting at a 79% right now in Psych, which is a B-. I'm totally fine with it, we've been watching movies for the past 2 weeks now. We still take notes, unlike the other AP Psych teacher where she doesn't require her students to take notes. Today the teacher gave us an evaluation form to fill out, like, evaluating her as a teacher, In mine's (which is anonymous) I suggested that she were to drop the review presentations as those were pretty stressful when combined with the final.
What I basically said was, no end-of-the-year assignments. We took the final, we took the AP exam, we're done. Yeah, no. Apparently, she still got one assignment up her sleeve, a project this time, where we gotta watch a movie and write about the psychology aspects of it. As in, design an "exhibit" like in a museum and shit. Sure, it seems "fun" with the movies, but like, shit, What is there to do? We already did the final and AP exam, enough is enough, heh.
And unfortunately, it's ANOTHER group project, so, there's the stress in that, 'cause communication and shit. It's due like, next week, just like all the other assignments, not even kidding. So yeah, there's that. Also, "Juno" was alright. Not bad.
What was bad was a godamn quiz in English. What, like, the 4th quiz? Within 1 and a half weeks? I guess "enough" ain't in my English teacher's vocabulary. It was supposedly a "reading comprehension" quiz, at least, that's what he calls it. Even for the students who do read, thoroughly, like the ones who are passing the class right now, even got some of the questions wrong, which was literally just 7 questions.
It's not even understanding the text anymore, no. No underlying meanings, plot, no/ It literally is now, just memorization. "What color was his hat? What shape was it? What was next to the window outside of that apartment in New York but only under average weather conditions?" Insane. "What was particular about Holden's hat that was different from the book?" This quiz was on a short story by the way, the one that precedes Catcher. In the beginning it talked about how Holden's hat had a "V." That was it, literally never mentioned again, everybody disregarded it.
Guess what question 2 was on the quiz? Yep, "What was particular about Holden's hat?" Might as well try to remember and recite the entire fucking story, and then you're good. My motto for English has since been "It's not about the right answer, it's the BEST answer." Fucking god. I know I've joked about suicide and shit, but the way he has been teaching us seriously makes me FEEL like killing myself.
Anyways, Bio was just free. Again. I had a math quiz so I had to use that time to study. Otherwise, I would've worked on the Bio work stuff, which is due next week, but, can be turned in tomorrow for an extra point, in case you wanted a 41/40 for a better boost. But, since I only need .8%, I'm good. Also, because I did procrastinate again. Math, it was just a quiz which was a lot more straight-forward than last time, that's for sure.
Lunch, uh, Ek asked if I wanted to go hang out at our old spot, like, "until the end of the year." It was like "Ehhhh." She justifies her reasoning as that she doesn't like sitting down at the lockers place because the floor keeps on getting dirtier and dirtier. Which, I mean it's a valid point, but, eh, heh. I don't know what's going on with her, but uh, ya know, maybe the cast will come along to our spot or something. Migrate.
Uhh, so I had to go to a mandatory meeting in the library. It's called "Congress" and I learned that it's called that for a reason. I went to go tell my 5th period teacher that I'll be gone for SSR, and uh, went to the library. I didn't know what to expect really. They scanned our ID's to make sure we actually showed up. I sat next to Jb and Ln, of which, 2 of us had to get chairs because there weren't enough seats. It was literally just announcing upcoming events, advertising, news, umm, revenue listings (apparently the school made $20,000 off of prom) and a bunch of other shit that we didn't get to due to time, and because it really seems shitty and pointless.
Maybe not to ASB because they're the ones hosting it but, to us club and organization officers, pretty fucking, unimportant. Uhh, there was apparently "chartering," like, making clubs and organizations official. This was done by having a representative of that club/organization present, the student activities director reads out the mission statement ("This club's mission is to bring peace, community service, etc, etc, whatever"), and then have a voting of whether it should be "chartered" or not, by people saying "Aye."
And that's why it's called Congress. They do this "motion" thing. You know, like in "real" Congress and shit. "I am blank and I affirm this motion." "I am blank and I second this motion." "Motion granted" or some shit. I was like "Oh my god, this is fucking necessary professionalism." Like, half the people here don't even pay attention to the director reading out the club mission statements. There could be a fucking "DIY Bomb Club" and people would still unisonly say "Aye" just to get out.
I missed 20 minutes of History for this, but luckily we didn't do anything too much. Apparently, enough ain't enough for my History teacher either, because, you guessed it, we got another assignment. This time: poem. 12 stanzas. Has to do with some topics, out of 60, in chronological order. And, must rhyme. Due, next week probably. We still go the 5-point box to do, so uh, hello Sunday night, heh.
And finally Chinese, where, uhh, today was possibly the last day together as a group, 'till we get to pick our own seats next week maybe. Oh and uh, we had Chromebooks to work on our final project shit. So, all in all, I got a lot of shit. To do. However, tomorrow and this weekend (well, at least Saturday), will be reserved for uh, social time. Specifically KDT members and my cousin. I still have not wrote my letters yet, I will do so, tomorrow. And uh, I will also be contacting my cousin tomorrow, if he even goes on Skype anymore. Uhh, and then on Saturday, I will be going to Jb's house to put together the stuff for the KDT seniors (who don't know that we're doing this). And Sunday, will be, like, relax day. Hopefully.
As long as things go according to plan (which, for English, I fear will not), I'll make it through. So yeah, see ya. Oh and there's a rally tomorrow or something. We, we sit outside on the bleachers, watch the seniors walk across the track field, watch people get awards, and feel depressed when they have seniors speak about the colleges they're going to be attending and accepted into. And also hear their inhumanely high GPA values (like, 4.5? Fucking really?). Alrighty, see ya.
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Wednesday, May 18, 2016 "Terminal 5 Cancer."
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Week: 40
Songs to Remember: Collection - Kevin
I forgot to say this in the past couple posts but I'd like to thank Ct for being reasonable with me. Like, having the same sense of humor as me as I talk shit about the movies we watch in Bio and stuff.
Psych, we continued another day of watching "Juno." It's still going good, there's some dramatic parts to it that make it seem more sincere over the comedy that it portrays. We'll finish the movie by tomorrow, then start on another movie I guess.
English. The complaining that my classmates and I do in our group-chat on Facebook is justified, just by today. Usually, the teacher gives us some studying tips the night before a quiz or test or essay or whatever. He posts it on schoolloop. Last night, he did not, only posting the homework assignment which was to read. I suspected that it was because this constructive response was not going to be a big deal.
I was wrong. First of all, it really was timed. He gave us exactly, 20 minutes or so, maybe 15, I kinda forgot the time. Secondly, what he was hinting to us, moving us towards a direction to think about in terms of teen grief or a psychological disorder in terms of discussing it all AS A BOOK, that was for nothing. Because, the prompt he gave us was entirely different. Instead of "Tell me if Holden is experiencing teen grief or actually has psycho disorder and explain why," it's "You're an expert in psychoanalysis and a person comes in with the case of Holden. She has been visiting him multiple times for months now and presents you with the book as his transcript. Diagnose whether he has teen grief or anti-social disorder and give a treatment."
I'm sorry, Honors English? Or AP Psychology? Apparently the prompt wasn't made by him, it was part of the "Smarter-balanced" system bullshit. He's like "I'm not making you do it, the government does." Oh, did the other Honors English classes do the same thing we did? A week and a half before the end of the school-year? Where there are apparently people aren't allowed to do re-writes anymore and some are on the verge of failing?
And yeah, I did get down only one sentence for my conclusion, which was "Treatment for Holden is Psychoanalysis." That was probably the stupidest part out of it all. The teacher explained in class before that we'd have to, for our conclusion, we connect it back to a bigger theme and shit, the book as a whole. When he gave us the prompt, DrewN asked how we were supposed to connect it to a bigger picture if we're talking patients and real-life instead of referring to the book as a book. "You're conclusion would be, the treatment."
The whole time he talked about the prompt, misleading us on what we were gonna write about, I just kept thinking of JonTron saying his trademark "STOP." Jesus fucking Christ, it pissed me off. Even, even my classmates have wondered what's going on in this dude's head. Like, people literally asked "Who is he?" "What is he?" I'd like to know too.
Anyways, enough of that cancer for today. Bio was the polar opposite of this, where we basically could just do whatever we wanted. Some dudes played Smash in class again today, essentially what I wished I could do. Instead, I'm thrifting through bulk work, and procrastinating. Still have the Bio stuff to do, which is due on the 25th/20th, 20th if we want a bit of extra points.
Math was the usual again, I actually got reminded that I needed to pick up a Calculus textbook. It's fucking thick, no lie. If I gotta carry that around next year, fuck me, man. Uhh, lunch was a bit on the off-side today, as well as yesterday. I thought yesterday was a one-time thing, but, guess it's a bit more than that. Ek said said we should go have lunch at our old hang-out spot. You know, like last year. I'm not sure if she just wants to reminisce about old days, or for fun, or, just wants to be alone from the other cast members for a set time, or whatever. I don't know. Hopefully this ain't a permanent thing. I don't think it is.
History is garnering a bit more work than I'd like. We got another art assignment due next week. We gotta draw pictures in a 5-point box. Umm, straight-forward but, I just don't feel like it's worth my art efforts. I've put in a lot more effort for History this year than I would've liked, for example, the board game shit. That, was a barrel of monkeys alright. Also there was a quiz today, where, after checking my answers afterwards, I found out I didn't do as well as I thought I did, heh.
And finally, Chinese, where we had test re-takes and went to the art show. Like, the annual school art show where you can look at art students made over the year. Remember? Like freshman year. I remember. Umm, yeah we spent around 5 minutes in there, aaand then it was time to leave.
Alright so. I've been holding off on things, a lot of things actually, both good and bad. I've been holding off on doing work, most at least. I've also been holding off on about, an hour of my naps, which is good. Instead of going from 4:00 PM to 7:30 PM, I go from 4:00 PM to 6:00 or 6:30 PM. And, I don't even need coffee. Maybe not yet, maybe, tomorrow or something 'cause I gotta get to making my KDT senior letters and start on that Bio work, which I am holding off.
And yeah. Saturday, I (and others) will be going to Jb's house from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM, uhhh, just, help putting together the gifts for the seniors. Other than that, nothing really else to expect from the weekend. Oh yeah, Skype call my cousin for once. Alright, that's about it for now. See ya.
Ohhh, almost forgot to mention. Tomorrow, club group cabinet members and official are supposed to meet in the library. Tomorrow. I was informed of this today by the current KDT president. Yeah, um, not sure when it is, maybe lunch or SSR. It's nice to know when it is, but after looking through the school website, announcements, and the email which was shared to those who have to go (the email was literally just a spreadsheet of the outline for the meeting, no timestamps or anything), apparently there's nothing that says what time. So, just gonna have to keep my phone off "do not disturb" which is really nice when you don't like getting stressed off of stupid notifications. Anyways, see ya.
Week: 40
Songs to Remember: Collection - Kevin
I forgot to say this in the past couple posts but I'd like to thank Ct for being reasonable with me. Like, having the same sense of humor as me as I talk shit about the movies we watch in Bio and stuff.
Psych, we continued another day of watching "Juno." It's still going good, there's some dramatic parts to it that make it seem more sincere over the comedy that it portrays. We'll finish the movie by tomorrow, then start on another movie I guess.
English. The complaining that my classmates and I do in our group-chat on Facebook is justified, just by today. Usually, the teacher gives us some studying tips the night before a quiz or test or essay or whatever. He posts it on schoolloop. Last night, he did not, only posting the homework assignment which was to read. I suspected that it was because this constructive response was not going to be a big deal.
I was wrong. First of all, it really was timed. He gave us exactly, 20 minutes or so, maybe 15, I kinda forgot the time. Secondly, what he was hinting to us, moving us towards a direction to think about in terms of teen grief or a psychological disorder in terms of discussing it all AS A BOOK, that was for nothing. Because, the prompt he gave us was entirely different. Instead of "Tell me if Holden is experiencing teen grief or actually has psycho disorder and explain why," it's "You're an expert in psychoanalysis and a person comes in with the case of Holden. She has been visiting him multiple times for months now and presents you with the book as his transcript. Diagnose whether he has teen grief or anti-social disorder and give a treatment."
I'm sorry, Honors English? Or AP Psychology? Apparently the prompt wasn't made by him, it was part of the "Smarter-balanced" system bullshit. He's like "I'm not making you do it, the government does." Oh, did the other Honors English classes do the same thing we did? A week and a half before the end of the school-year? Where there are apparently people aren't allowed to do re-writes anymore and some are on the verge of failing?
And yeah, I did get down only one sentence for my conclusion, which was "Treatment for Holden is Psychoanalysis." That was probably the stupidest part out of it all. The teacher explained in class before that we'd have to, for our conclusion, we connect it back to a bigger theme and shit, the book as a whole. When he gave us the prompt, DrewN asked how we were supposed to connect it to a bigger picture if we're talking patients and real-life instead of referring to the book as a book. "You're conclusion would be, the treatment."
The whole time he talked about the prompt, misleading us on what we were gonna write about, I just kept thinking of JonTron saying his trademark "STOP." Jesus fucking Christ, it pissed me off. Even, even my classmates have wondered what's going on in this dude's head. Like, people literally asked "Who is he?" "What is he?" I'd like to know too.
Anyways, enough of that cancer for today. Bio was the polar opposite of this, where we basically could just do whatever we wanted. Some dudes played Smash in class again today, essentially what I wished I could do. Instead, I'm thrifting through bulk work, and procrastinating. Still have the Bio stuff to do, which is due on the 25th/20th, 20th if we want a bit of extra points.
Math was the usual again, I actually got reminded that I needed to pick up a Calculus textbook. It's fucking thick, no lie. If I gotta carry that around next year, fuck me, man. Uhh, lunch was a bit on the off-side today, as well as yesterday. I thought yesterday was a one-time thing, but, guess it's a bit more than that. Ek said said we should go have lunch at our old hang-out spot. You know, like last year. I'm not sure if she just wants to reminisce about old days, or for fun, or, just wants to be alone from the other cast members for a set time, or whatever. I don't know. Hopefully this ain't a permanent thing. I don't think it is.
History is garnering a bit more work than I'd like. We got another art assignment due next week. We gotta draw pictures in a 5-point box. Umm, straight-forward but, I just don't feel like it's worth my art efforts. I've put in a lot more effort for History this year than I would've liked, for example, the board game shit. That, was a barrel of monkeys alright. Also there was a quiz today, where, after checking my answers afterwards, I found out I didn't do as well as I thought I did, heh.
And finally, Chinese, where we had test re-takes and went to the art show. Like, the annual school art show where you can look at art students made over the year. Remember? Like freshman year. I remember. Umm, yeah we spent around 5 minutes in there, aaand then it was time to leave.
Alright so. I've been holding off on things, a lot of things actually, both good and bad. I've been holding off on doing work, most at least. I've also been holding off on about, an hour of my naps, which is good. Instead of going from 4:00 PM to 7:30 PM, I go from 4:00 PM to 6:00 or 6:30 PM. And, I don't even need coffee. Maybe not yet, maybe, tomorrow or something 'cause I gotta get to making my KDT senior letters and start on that Bio work, which I am holding off.
And yeah. Saturday, I (and others) will be going to Jb's house from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM, uhhh, just, help putting together the gifts for the seniors. Other than that, nothing really else to expect from the weekend. Oh yeah, Skype call my cousin for once. Alright, that's about it for now. See ya.
Ohhh, almost forgot to mention. Tomorrow, club group cabinet members and official are supposed to meet in the library. Tomorrow. I was informed of this today by the current KDT president. Yeah, um, not sure when it is, maybe lunch or SSR. It's nice to know when it is, but after looking through the school website, announcements, and the email which was shared to those who have to go (the email was literally just a spreadsheet of the outline for the meeting, no timestamps or anything), apparently there's nothing that says what time. So, just gonna have to keep my phone off "do not disturb" which is really nice when you don't like getting stressed off of stupid notifications. Anyways, see ya.
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Tuesday, May 17, 2016 "Packaging Work."
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Week: 40
Songs to Remember: All In - Monsta X
What gives me energy? Would coffee work? Because I need to write some letters for graduating seniors, as well as watch movies and write about them for Bio.
Going from Schizophrenia to pregnancy, we're watching "Juno." I expected it to be, well, 2007-ish. And it was. The comedy's there, it's pretty good. One thing I didn't expect was the lingo. Like, I've seen the parody movie "Disaster Movie" which includes a parody of Juno, having her say some bootleg lingo. I thought that was just a thing in the movie, but apparently, that's true in the original movie.
She says some crazy fucking lingo that I'm not even sure was prevalent in 2007. Anyways, for English the teacher's hitting us with his "Counter counter" trap card. Apparently we're doing a constructed response tomorrow, talking about whether Holden has teen angst or is just crazy. There's some problems in assigning us this, and it's not just me this time who finds problems with this either. First of all, we've only read 1/3 of the book, we didn't get the in-depths of everything yet. Secondly, this is more scientific rather than, English. Like, you gotta be taking AP Psychology to know differences between psycho-disorders and teen angst, and that still is a debatable.
Third, the teacher said that there ain't gonna be anymore essays for the year. "Tomorrow you guys will be doing a 20-minute (most likely longer) constructed response discussing Holden's mentality." I'd argue that he said there wouldn't be anymore essays this year. He'd activate his "Counter counter" trap card and be like "It ain't an essay, it's a constructed response."
And no, he won't curve it, there is no curving here. And don't even think about rewrites, because people are still working on their revised essay from last last week, and some still haven't finished yet, and, there's only 2 real weeks left of school. Next period was Bio, in which we finished watching "Something the Lord Made." Wait- no, fuck, we didn't finish it yet, almost though. It's pretty good so far, it inspires me to become a doctor. And I would do it, if it weren't for the obvious problems, including, but not limited to: my GPA, money, location, and motivation. Seriously, 4+ years of medical school. Crazy.
In math, we got back our tests. I was hoping for that god-awful train wreck, but, luckily the teacher had mercy on me, heh. She gave me partial credit on shit, seeing as how I had 99% of the steps down but struggled towards the end of finding the answer. For some of the problems, of course. It was a 56/82 I think, which wasn't actually that bad. Very, very surprising. That's why I'll be sitting on a solid C, and that, I'll take it.
Same old lunch, same old jeopardy play in History. It was guys vs. girls as usual, and uh, the girls won, as usual. I'd blame it on the girl to guy ratio which is like, 3:1, but I'd say most of it has to do with how my memory, when it comes to History, is that I need to recognize the answer, rather than recall it. Like, multiple choice, rather than fill-in-the-blank. That and I hesitate raising my hand sometimes, heh. That and how some of the girls are better in History terms than us guys too.
Finally, it was Chinese where a funny coincidence happened. We were all given articles, in pairs. They were Chinese articles and we had to practice using the Google translate camera translate function on our phones. The article my partner and I had had a picture of what appeared to be 2 Korean dudes. I jokingly said "Hey, I know this guy." Taking a closer look, literally, I thought "Hmm, the dude looks a lot like Kwang Soo from Running Man, but it's probably not him." I took an even closer look at the text and there it was the words 'Running Man" in quotes in the article.
"Holy shit, I actually know this guy, it's Kwang Soo from Running Man!" Now that was fucking funny as hell. What are the odds that the article my partner and I get be of something I know? We translated the article and apparently it's entertainment news, talking about how the Running Man members of the Korean show appeared as guests in a special with the Chinese Running Man members. I completely forgot that they had a Chinese cast version made of the show, appearing in China.
So yeah, that was pretty unexpected. It was pretty hot today, highest was 85 degrees. I think it'll keep a steady pace of the heat from today on. Uhhh, so as for current events, we all know what's happening in terms of work. There's English stuff tomorrow, math work in the next couple days, oh fuck. That was me realizing I have to pick up a Calculus AB book from the book-room this week, or next week. Thank goodness this shit helped me remember, heh.
But yeah, English, some math work, constant Chinese bulk work, and then whatever. As for KDT stuff, we're planning for the group social to be either at the cheesecake factory after finals day, or, at the park after finals day. With a large group, some are arguing that people will split into groups if we sit at tables and stuff and shopping, etc. At the park, we can plan activities and whatever to be more, social, and connect. I like the idea. So, that'll be on June 1st, I think. Maybe.
Umm, it's 9:42 PM right now, which is making great time. I just need my teammates to finish up a bit of the bulk work for Chinese (I did about 80% of the portion tonight), upload it, then I'm good. In the meantime, Isaac. Alrighty, see ya.
Week: 40
Songs to Remember: All In - Monsta X
What gives me energy? Would coffee work? Because I need to write some letters for graduating seniors, as well as watch movies and write about them for Bio.
Going from Schizophrenia to pregnancy, we're watching "Juno." I expected it to be, well, 2007-ish. And it was. The comedy's there, it's pretty good. One thing I didn't expect was the lingo. Like, I've seen the parody movie "Disaster Movie" which includes a parody of Juno, having her say some bootleg lingo. I thought that was just a thing in the movie, but apparently, that's true in the original movie.
She says some crazy fucking lingo that I'm not even sure was prevalent in 2007. Anyways, for English the teacher's hitting us with his "Counter counter" trap card. Apparently we're doing a constructed response tomorrow, talking about whether Holden has teen angst or is just crazy. There's some problems in assigning us this, and it's not just me this time who finds problems with this either. First of all, we've only read 1/3 of the book, we didn't get the in-depths of everything yet. Secondly, this is more scientific rather than, English. Like, you gotta be taking AP Psychology to know differences between psycho-disorders and teen angst, and that still is a debatable.
Third, the teacher said that there ain't gonna be anymore essays for the year. "Tomorrow you guys will be doing a 20-minute (most likely longer) constructed response discussing Holden's mentality." I'd argue that he said there wouldn't be anymore essays this year. He'd activate his "Counter counter" trap card and be like "It ain't an essay, it's a constructed response."
And no, he won't curve it, there is no curving here. And don't even think about rewrites, because people are still working on their revised essay from last last week, and some still haven't finished yet, and, there's only 2 real weeks left of school. Next period was Bio, in which we finished watching "Something the Lord Made." Wait- no, fuck, we didn't finish it yet, almost though. It's pretty good so far, it inspires me to become a doctor. And I would do it, if it weren't for the obvious problems, including, but not limited to: my GPA, money, location, and motivation. Seriously, 4+ years of medical school. Crazy.
In math, we got back our tests. I was hoping for that god-awful train wreck, but, luckily the teacher had mercy on me, heh. She gave me partial credit on shit, seeing as how I had 99% of the steps down but struggled towards the end of finding the answer. For some of the problems, of course. It was a 56/82 I think, which wasn't actually that bad. Very, very surprising. That's why I'll be sitting on a solid C, and that, I'll take it.
Same old lunch, same old jeopardy play in History. It was guys vs. girls as usual, and uh, the girls won, as usual. I'd blame it on the girl to guy ratio which is like, 3:1, but I'd say most of it has to do with how my memory, when it comes to History, is that I need to recognize the answer, rather than recall it. Like, multiple choice, rather than fill-in-the-blank. That and I hesitate raising my hand sometimes, heh. That and how some of the girls are better in History terms than us guys too.
Finally, it was Chinese where a funny coincidence happened. We were all given articles, in pairs. They were Chinese articles and we had to practice using the Google translate camera translate function on our phones. The article my partner and I had had a picture of what appeared to be 2 Korean dudes. I jokingly said "Hey, I know this guy." Taking a closer look, literally, I thought "Hmm, the dude looks a lot like Kwang Soo from Running Man, but it's probably not him." I took an even closer look at the text and there it was the words 'Running Man" in quotes in the article.
"Holy shit, I actually know this guy, it's Kwang Soo from Running Man!" Now that was fucking funny as hell. What are the odds that the article my partner and I get be of something I know? We translated the article and apparently it's entertainment news, talking about how the Running Man members of the Korean show appeared as guests in a special with the Chinese Running Man members. I completely forgot that they had a Chinese cast version made of the show, appearing in China.
So yeah, that was pretty unexpected. It was pretty hot today, highest was 85 degrees. I think it'll keep a steady pace of the heat from today on. Uhhh, so as for current events, we all know what's happening in terms of work. There's English stuff tomorrow, math work in the next couple days, oh fuck. That was me realizing I have to pick up a Calculus AB book from the book-room this week, or next week. Thank goodness this shit helped me remember, heh.
But yeah, English, some math work, constant Chinese bulk work, and then whatever. As for KDT stuff, we're planning for the group social to be either at the cheesecake factory after finals day, or, at the park after finals day. With a large group, some are arguing that people will split into groups if we sit at tables and stuff and shopping, etc. At the park, we can plan activities and whatever to be more, social, and connect. I like the idea. So, that'll be on June 1st, I think. Maybe.
Umm, it's 9:42 PM right now, which is making great time. I just need my teammates to finish up a bit of the bulk work for Chinese (I did about 80% of the portion tonight), upload it, then I'm good. In the meantime, Isaac. Alrighty, see ya.
Monday, May 16, 2016
Monday, May 16, 2016 "Extending the Good."
Monday, May 16, 2016
Week: 40
Songs to Remember: Knock - KNK
Another day, another 18 hours of "unnecessary work, procrastination on that work, and asking myself "What am I?"
Also, another 3 days of school, another 3 days of a movie for Psych. Today we finished watching "A Beautiful Mind." In the beginning it seemed kinda dodgy, and even though I only got to focus my eyes on the screen for about 2/3 of the whole thing, I liked it. Tomorrow we're gonna be starting to watch "Juno." Umm, yeah, heh. Not gonna lie, I never watched 'Juno." I know that's apparently very good, and has to do with a pregnant teenager.
English is still dragging me around. The teacher still hasn't put in out grades for our homework packets we had to turn in on Friday. My grade's still sitting at that 67%. The teacher's also telling us that the next thing we'll be viewing Catcher in will be the teen angst lens. Like, is it teen angst or does Holden have a psychological disorder? Now I know for a fucking fact, everyone else too, that he stated that there will be no more essays for the rest of the school-year. I swear, if he gives us an essay, or something, the cell multiplication rate in my cancer is gonna fucking double.
Bio was what you'd expect: free period. We finished "Contagion" so now the teacher's playing "Something the Lord Made." It's the actual name, and it's not really like, a religious movie or anything. It's actually a drama about a doctor and his apprentice-person trying to find a way to fix like, the "blue-baby" syndrome. And also it takes place in the 1920's or something, around there, so there's some racial discrimination stuff going on too. Also it stars Alan Rickman, aka, Snape.
Math is almost a worry, but, I'm sorta just floating right now in it. I know for a fact that I am sitting around the 75% right, aka, a solid C. Am I fine with that? I'd say that the tests my teacher gives out are the hardest for any other Honors Pre-Cal classes at school, so, that shouldn't bother me. Umm, yeah, so it was just the usual math shit today. And you know me: saving the work for 1st and 3rd period tomorrow.
US History is starting to take it's toll on me, 'cause, well actually, it's just bulk-work. I got a drawing to finish that's due tomorrow (which, I'm saving for tomorrow) and a "study guide" due tomorrow. Am I planning to do them in 3rd period and lunch? Yeah. Is it worrisome? It shouldn't be. And finally Chinese, where we do bulk-work in class. Uhh, we got our final exam "project" that's due like, sometime next week maybe. She's giving us portions of it, due by 11:00 PM each night. Normally I'd be like "What the fuck dude" but, considering it's a group thing, and the chunks aren't that large, it's practical and justified.
And yes, I did do my group's portion tonight. Like, all of it, which wasn't actually that much work, mostly just a lot of copy/pasting and formatting. Although, my group members did appreciate it and uh, I expected them to "start" working on it tonight, which they did. They logged on at like, 9:00 PM, only to find that it's already done. I did feel guilty that my teammates had to cover for me, I thought that working a bit over would pay back some of the effort I didn't put in last night, heh. And no, the performance thing wasn't an excuse either, I had 3+ hours on Saturday to work on some portions of it, so.
Speaking of work, I have not started my movie marathon for the AP Bio assignment yet. Considering we only have to write a couple paragraphs (literally) for each part, it ain't even that much work. I just gotta remember to turn it in before Friday, and I'm gucci. Speaking of good, my dad came back from his vacation in France. He's still the same old, same old. One complaint he had over in France was that it was that, the wind was pretty fucking crazy. Like, scary, crazy.
Uhhh, so tomorrow I got some shit due. I still need to finish folding envelopes and start writing letters for the seniors for KDT. It's due by like, this Saturday, the 21st. Also looks like The Days will be ending it's run on it's 43rd season. Now that already seems like a hefty amount of season, dont'tchu think. And no, there are no details yet of the next series. I wanna make this one last a bit longer (just a bit), and only the good parts, because I still need to tie those ends, and uh, fill in those plot holes, answer unanswered questions, that sorta stuff.
Now as for the past couple days, ever since the performance, also walking around school, it could be the withdrawal effects of spending time with KDT and experiencing those different point of views, the more "interesting" ones, and having to go back to school the day after, having to experience these same ones for another, couple weeks. I've also been feeling a bit insecure, like, well, that, and the fact that I would like to act differently from what I am right now. I just don't think I'm interacting ENOUGH. My vocabulary, even though it sounds nice on paper, it's been reduces to sub-meme talk now, heh, consisting of "same." I fucking hate that word now.
So, for current events, I haven't been interacting with my cousin for a while. You know, the one who'se graduating in a couple weeks, yeah that one. Or two, I actually have 2 cousins graduating in a couple weeks. It's Jn, him, and the cousin from my dad's side, En. She's uh, she's going to Brown University, heh. My mom's side, the highest education would probably be, I don't know, San Jose State Probably, and that title is held by my cousin, who's graduating college this year I think, or next year. Maybe this year, I don't know for sure.
As for my dad's side, yeah, Brown University. It's an Ivy League school, if you didn't know. And both fortunately and unfortunately, it's in Rhode Island, New York. Or, somewhere really far east, I'm kinda shit at Geography. I don't know if they'll invite me for their graduation or not, I know I'ma have to go to Jn's graduation soon enough. I'll call him up on Skype this weekend and see what's been happening. As for my Discord buddies, ya know, Mc and Ec and all them, we've been busy with, you guessed it, school. We still make some meme talk daily just a bit. Girls, social media shit, etc.
Well, today's been a record time for 2 things: finishing a post before 11:00 PM (which I think I've done earlier but I haven't done one this early in a looong time), and uh, it's not 11:00 PM yet. I'll be playing some Isaac to relax for a bit, then, off to bed. If I can keep this pace up, hey, I think things will go smoothly. See ya.
Week: 40
Songs to Remember: Knock - KNK
Another day, another 18 hours of "unnecessary work, procrastination on that work, and asking myself "What am I?"
Also, another 3 days of school, another 3 days of a movie for Psych. Today we finished watching "A Beautiful Mind." In the beginning it seemed kinda dodgy, and even though I only got to focus my eyes on the screen for about 2/3 of the whole thing, I liked it. Tomorrow we're gonna be starting to watch "Juno." Umm, yeah, heh. Not gonna lie, I never watched 'Juno." I know that's apparently very good, and has to do with a pregnant teenager.
English is still dragging me around. The teacher still hasn't put in out grades for our homework packets we had to turn in on Friday. My grade's still sitting at that 67%. The teacher's also telling us that the next thing we'll be viewing Catcher in will be the teen angst lens. Like, is it teen angst or does Holden have a psychological disorder? Now I know for a fucking fact, everyone else too, that he stated that there will be no more essays for the rest of the school-year. I swear, if he gives us an essay, or something, the cell multiplication rate in my cancer is gonna fucking double.
Bio was what you'd expect: free period. We finished "Contagion" so now the teacher's playing "Something the Lord Made." It's the actual name, and it's not really like, a religious movie or anything. It's actually a drama about a doctor and his apprentice-person trying to find a way to fix like, the "blue-baby" syndrome. And also it takes place in the 1920's or something, around there, so there's some racial discrimination stuff going on too. Also it stars Alan Rickman, aka, Snape.
Math is almost a worry, but, I'm sorta just floating right now in it. I know for a fact that I am sitting around the 75% right, aka, a solid C. Am I fine with that? I'd say that the tests my teacher gives out are the hardest for any other Honors Pre-Cal classes at school, so, that shouldn't bother me. Umm, yeah, so it was just the usual math shit today. And you know me: saving the work for 1st and 3rd period tomorrow.
US History is starting to take it's toll on me, 'cause, well actually, it's just bulk-work. I got a drawing to finish that's due tomorrow (which, I'm saving for tomorrow) and a "study guide" due tomorrow. Am I planning to do them in 3rd period and lunch? Yeah. Is it worrisome? It shouldn't be. And finally Chinese, where we do bulk-work in class. Uhh, we got our final exam "project" that's due like, sometime next week maybe. She's giving us portions of it, due by 11:00 PM each night. Normally I'd be like "What the fuck dude" but, considering it's a group thing, and the chunks aren't that large, it's practical and justified.
And yes, I did do my group's portion tonight. Like, all of it, which wasn't actually that much work, mostly just a lot of copy/pasting and formatting. Although, my group members did appreciate it and uh, I expected them to "start" working on it tonight, which they did. They logged on at like, 9:00 PM, only to find that it's already done. I did feel guilty that my teammates had to cover for me, I thought that working a bit over would pay back some of the effort I didn't put in last night, heh. And no, the performance thing wasn't an excuse either, I had 3+ hours on Saturday to work on some portions of it, so.
Speaking of work, I have not started my movie marathon for the AP Bio assignment yet. Considering we only have to write a couple paragraphs (literally) for each part, it ain't even that much work. I just gotta remember to turn it in before Friday, and I'm gucci. Speaking of good, my dad came back from his vacation in France. He's still the same old, same old. One complaint he had over in France was that it was that, the wind was pretty fucking crazy. Like, scary, crazy.
Uhhh, so tomorrow I got some shit due. I still need to finish folding envelopes and start writing letters for the seniors for KDT. It's due by like, this Saturday, the 21st. Also looks like The Days will be ending it's run on it's 43rd season. Now that already seems like a hefty amount of season, dont'tchu think. And no, there are no details yet of the next series. I wanna make this one last a bit longer (just a bit), and only the good parts, because I still need to tie those ends, and uh, fill in those plot holes, answer unanswered questions, that sorta stuff.
Now as for the past couple days, ever since the performance, also walking around school, it could be the withdrawal effects of spending time with KDT and experiencing those different point of views, the more "interesting" ones, and having to go back to school the day after, having to experience these same ones for another, couple weeks. I've also been feeling a bit insecure, like, well, that, and the fact that I would like to act differently from what I am right now. I just don't think I'm interacting ENOUGH. My vocabulary, even though it sounds nice on paper, it's been reduces to sub-meme talk now, heh, consisting of "same." I fucking hate that word now.
So, for current events, I haven't been interacting with my cousin for a while. You know, the one who'se graduating in a couple weeks, yeah that one. Or two, I actually have 2 cousins graduating in a couple weeks. It's Jn, him, and the cousin from my dad's side, En. She's uh, she's going to Brown University, heh. My mom's side, the highest education would probably be, I don't know, San Jose State Probably, and that title is held by my cousin, who's graduating college this year I think, or next year. Maybe this year, I don't know for sure.
As for my dad's side, yeah, Brown University. It's an Ivy League school, if you didn't know. And both fortunately and unfortunately, it's in Rhode Island, New York. Or, somewhere really far east, I'm kinda shit at Geography. I don't know if they'll invite me for their graduation or not, I know I'ma have to go to Jn's graduation soon enough. I'll call him up on Skype this weekend and see what's been happening. As for my Discord buddies, ya know, Mc and Ec and all them, we've been busy with, you guessed it, school. We still make some meme talk daily just a bit. Girls, social media shit, etc.
Well, today's been a record time for 2 things: finishing a post before 11:00 PM (which I think I've done earlier but I haven't done one this early in a looong time), and uh, it's not 11:00 PM yet. I'll be playing some Isaac to relax for a bit, then, off to bed. If I can keep this pace up, hey, I think things will go smoothly. See ya.
Sunday, May 15, 2016
Sunday, May 15, 2016 "You Could Hear a Pin Drop."
Sunday, May 15, 2016
Week: 39
Songs to Remember: Body Lotion - Sleepy
Dear lord am I fucking tired, heh. What sucks the most out of all this is that there's school tomorrow.
So. Got to school at around 1:20 PM. I was not late though, fortunately. Performers were in the small gym, which was like, the headquarters for everything. We went over formations for "Mansae" and all that. It was pretty loud, as in like, music-wise. I could barely hear shit of what the coordinators were saying.
We did 2 run-throughs, like, on-stage ones, and that was it. And no, there was no stage, it was literally just like, a semi-circle of the gym on one side. From around 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, I went along with Di (the KDT president), Tu, Eh, Th, Ei (the KDT co-president) and Mn in Di's car. She drove us to get like, milk tea and shit. I recognized that they talked a lot about, I don't know, drama stuff. Like, or, gossip. Just, the generalest conversations. It ranged from like, gossip about people, to work and jobs, driving, food, K-Pop, just everything.
We got back, I changed to my outfit which consisted of a DIY Tie-dyed shirt and black jeans. I unfortunately forgot my math textbook at home, so, I couldn't really do my work, heh. We had to perform pretty early though, earlier than expected. And boy, was that the shittiest I've ever felt. The audience, consisting of people from our school and Key club members, were dead silent. Like, as I was dancing, I could clearly, clearly hear the music. No cheers whatever, heh.
Pretty shitty. Others felt the same too.We decided to garner some hype for the rest of the performances by cheering for them, but alas, the crowd sucked ass. After our performance, we tried to find a place to sit. We did reserve seats, or like, a table, but, we didn't get our spots. We then tried to get food and well, they ran out of food, and plates. Some ate pasta in cups, there was salad but like, shit, that ain't food. So, after waiting what seemed like 30 minutes, or so, maybe longer, the management finally got us some pizza. And shit, that was some of the best pizza I've ever fucking ate. Probably because I was really hungry. Also, there was a small cameo by that one dude. Ya know, from my old elementary school, from my old group of friends in elementary, who are basically all in Key club or Interact now. I was like "Ayy" and he's like "Hey, I remember you. You're the guy who was like 'Hey I remember you'" It was a nice gesture, for him to cameo in the special. But uh, that'll probably be the most it'll ever be again, just cameos.
We took pictures outside the small gym, and uhh, people kind of just scattered after this. Some watched the rest of the "show" inside the large gym, others stayed in the small gym in a circle. Umm, yeah, I'd say that, we worked pretty hard on this performance aaand we got fucked over by the crowd. I'd say the silence threw me off, I had a hard time trying to smile when the crowd was bored out of their mind, heh.
So anyways, the whole thing could've been better. Really better. Sadly, it was hanging by its limbs, on a tree, left out to dry. And no it's not the last. Well, last performance, yeah, but, not the last special, oh no. There's still much more shit that'll blow this out of the water. Definitely.
And what's nice is that this upcoming week will be like, starting the knots in order to tie up those loose ends soon. And yeah, it's 11:47 PM now. I'ma play one round of Isaac and then it's off to bed. Thank goodness for 2 free periods. Oh yeah, shout-out to my group members for carrying me in the group project final for Chinese (even though it's just the progress assignment, not the whole thing). I essentially had to do... nothing. Almost nothing. I would've helped, had I not have a PC for 8 hours. Anyways, see ya.
Week: 39
Songs to Remember: Body Lotion - Sleepy
Dear lord am I fucking tired, heh. What sucks the most out of all this is that there's school tomorrow.
So. Got to school at around 1:20 PM. I was not late though, fortunately. Performers were in the small gym, which was like, the headquarters for everything. We went over formations for "Mansae" and all that. It was pretty loud, as in like, music-wise. I could barely hear shit of what the coordinators were saying.
We did 2 run-throughs, like, on-stage ones, and that was it. And no, there was no stage, it was literally just like, a semi-circle of the gym on one side. From around 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, I went along with Di (the KDT president), Tu, Eh, Th, Ei (the KDT co-president) and Mn in Di's car. She drove us to get like, milk tea and shit. I recognized that they talked a lot about, I don't know, drama stuff. Like, or, gossip. Just, the generalest conversations. It ranged from like, gossip about people, to work and jobs, driving, food, K-Pop, just everything.
We got back, I changed to my outfit which consisted of a DIY Tie-dyed shirt and black jeans. I unfortunately forgot my math textbook at home, so, I couldn't really do my work, heh. We had to perform pretty early though, earlier than expected. And boy, was that the shittiest I've ever felt. The audience, consisting of people from our school and Key club members, were dead silent. Like, as I was dancing, I could clearly, clearly hear the music. No cheers whatever, heh.
Pretty shitty. Others felt the same too.We decided to garner some hype for the rest of the performances by cheering for them, but alas, the crowd sucked ass. After our performance, we tried to find a place to sit. We did reserve seats, or like, a table, but, we didn't get our spots. We then tried to get food and well, they ran out of food, and plates. Some ate pasta in cups, there was salad but like, shit, that ain't food. So, after waiting what seemed like 30 minutes, or so, maybe longer, the management finally got us some pizza. And shit, that was some of the best pizza I've ever fucking ate. Probably because I was really hungry. Also, there was a small cameo by that one dude. Ya know, from my old elementary school, from my old group of friends in elementary, who are basically all in Key club or Interact now. I was like "Ayy" and he's like "Hey, I remember you. You're the guy who was like 'Hey I remember you'" It was a nice gesture, for him to cameo in the special. But uh, that'll probably be the most it'll ever be again, just cameos.
We took pictures outside the small gym, and uhh, people kind of just scattered after this. Some watched the rest of the "show" inside the large gym, others stayed in the small gym in a circle. Umm, yeah, I'd say that, we worked pretty hard on this performance aaand we got fucked over by the crowd. I'd say the silence threw me off, I had a hard time trying to smile when the crowd was bored out of their mind, heh.
So anyways, the whole thing could've been better. Really better. Sadly, it was hanging by its limbs, on a tree, left out to dry. And no it's not the last. Well, last performance, yeah, but, not the last special, oh no. There's still much more shit that'll blow this out of the water. Definitely.
And what's nice is that this upcoming week will be like, starting the knots in order to tie up those loose ends soon. And yeah, it's 11:47 PM now. I'ma play one round of Isaac and then it's off to bed. Thank goodness for 2 free periods. Oh yeah, shout-out to my group members for carrying me in the group project final for Chinese (even though it's just the progress assignment, not the whole thing). I essentially had to do... nothing. Almost nothing. I would've helped, had I not have a PC for 8 hours. Anyways, see ya.
Saturday, May 14, 2016 "Tấn Công."
Saturday, May 14, 2016
Week: 39
Songs to Remember: Touch - A.cian
I'd like to thank my group members for not making me go to the school for like 30 minutes, only for me to go back home for another 4 hours.
Two of them were apparently already there and so they had one of their friends record them since the skit only required 2 speakers. So uh, me and my group member didn't have to go at all, which I greatly appreciate.
So in those 4 hours I stayed home before going to DrewN's house, I made some great progress in work right? Yeah, no, heh. Unfortunately it basically slipped my mind. Once it hit 5, I was already on my way to DrewN's house. There, uhhh, it was Ag, Ek, Lw, Jh, him, Jk, Vb, and I. We did some CS:GO, SCP, and Slenderman. We then watched an episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog, then proceeded to watch "Rosario Vampire," which is not for kids.
Didn't go the way I expected it to, umm, there was a lot of "Tấn Công" yelling. Umm, yeah. Got home by 9:30 PM, tomorrow I gotta get to school by 1:00 PM tomorrow for practices, espcially run-throughs for "Mansae." And then, the my last KDT performance for the year. Oh and the work thing, yeah I got shit I still need to work on, but by the time I decide it's a good time for it, it's already 11:50 PM. And I already had a shit time waking up today. I snoozed my alarm at 8:00 AM, didn't wake up at all until 11:00 AM.
Also, today was the KDT president's birthday, so that was, kinda fitting, and unexpected. Uhh, not much else to say here except that, I'ma have to do some gosh darn work this upcoming week alright. This is ranging from keeping up with work, doing work, finishing work, and tying ends. I'll see you, tomorrow night. Maybe. The charity dinner lasts 'til like, 9:30 PM. Anyways, see ya.
Week: 39
Songs to Remember: Touch - A.cian
I'd like to thank my group members for not making me go to the school for like 30 minutes, only for me to go back home for another 4 hours.
Two of them were apparently already there and so they had one of their friends record them since the skit only required 2 speakers. So uh, me and my group member didn't have to go at all, which I greatly appreciate.
So in those 4 hours I stayed home before going to DrewN's house, I made some great progress in work right? Yeah, no, heh. Unfortunately it basically slipped my mind. Once it hit 5, I was already on my way to DrewN's house. There, uhhh, it was Ag, Ek, Lw, Jh, him, Jk, Vb, and I. We did some CS:GO, SCP, and Slenderman. We then watched an episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog, then proceeded to watch "Rosario Vampire," which is not for kids.
Didn't go the way I expected it to, umm, there was a lot of "Tấn Công" yelling. Umm, yeah. Got home by 9:30 PM, tomorrow I gotta get to school by 1:00 PM tomorrow for practices, espcially run-throughs for "Mansae." And then, the my last KDT performance for the year. Oh and the work thing, yeah I got shit I still need to work on, but by the time I decide it's a good time for it, it's already 11:50 PM. And I already had a shit time waking up today. I snoozed my alarm at 8:00 AM, didn't wake up at all until 11:00 AM.
Also, today was the KDT president's birthday, so that was, kinda fitting, and unexpected. Uhh, not much else to say here except that, I'ma have to do some gosh darn work this upcoming week alright. This is ranging from keeping up with work, doing work, finishing work, and tying ends. I'll see you, tomorrow night. Maybe. The charity dinner lasts 'til like, 9:30 PM. Anyways, see ya.
Saturday, May 14, 2016
Friday, May 13, 2016 "Saving It for Sunday."
Friday, May 13, 2016
Week: 39
Songs to Remember: Dynamite - Vixx
Things may not be going according to schedule, because I got assigned a lot of shit and including regular class days, I gotta manage those, while managing the shit that those classes give me.
Like just this morning in Psych, I checked schoolloop and apparently my English teacher assigned us to read chapter 10 last night, and, have our homework, Catcher questions, and participation log filled out and ready to turn in. Like, today. So, I spent basically the whole 45 minutes that I had in Psych to rush to finish answering half-assly 10 chapters worth of "study" questions.
And yes, I barely finished. Barely, as in some questions were disregarded. English was, you guessed it, a quiz. "Reading comprehension" was apparently all it was. I'd beg to differ because remembering exact, exact quotes, I wouldn't count that as listening comprehension. Also some questions didn't even have anything to do with the reading, it was more of like, philosophy shit and outside sources.
I don't think the teacher curves for shit, he puts in the raw, raw score for everything. Anyways, enough complaining abut it, for Bio, we finished watching Contagion. Holy hell was the ending kinda shit. It turned into like, a teen romance which was like "Okay, I guess." And then the actual ending was like, alright, ya know. Regardless of the positive reviews, I liked only some parts of it, but mostly, kinda all over the place, some shit was irrational, I'd give it a 5/10. It's eh.
I also spent the time in Bio studying for math, of which, I know for a fact that I failed the test as well. Why? Because, out of the 7 sections we had to study, more than half the test was all on 1 fucking section. Thank god I remembered the formulas, but like, I focused more on studying the sections that were more, like, central and integral to the chapter, rather than just that 1 section. I'd really appreciate it if the teacher told us, specifically, the amount each section is on the test, so we know how much to study. And it's justifiable too, because for AP tests, for example the AP Psych test, they tell you the percentage of questions of subjects that'll be on it, so you don't spend 5 hours studying social behaviors for just 1 question or something.
Lunch was the usual, History was just watching Ronald Reagan do shit and work on an assignment due Monday. Chinese was a test, for which I did forget. Umm, I blame my 46/100 on the teacher not telling us that we'd have to know how to write dates and times for the test. I thought it was just random shit, like, just something random, which isn't uncommon. Our lesson doesn't even have anything to do with dates or time, it's about fucking renting apartments, heh. But uh, guess she included that shit for some reason, and bam, 46/100.
After school was practice for the last performance of the year (officially, not counting Fanime). We didn't actually get much practice time to be honest, we didn't get to do any full-runthroughs, not even run-throughs of most songs either. We didn't get to work on "Dope," didn't get to work on "Hello Bitches," we did however, work on 2 dances, aka "Heart Attack" and "Twice." We also worked on positions for "Mansae," and that was it. So, I'm guessing I'm not the only one doing shit last minute, heh. It's alright though, there's been a lot of testing, not a lot of room for scheduling, so it makes sense. Likewise, we got time before the performance to practice anyways, so.
So tomorrow, I gotta meet up with my group members to record our skit for Chinese, that'll take 'bout an hour. Then around 5:00 PM, I'll head on over to DrewN's house for a nice reward: a fucking, game night for once, heh. And so, see ya.
Week: 39
Songs to Remember: Dynamite - Vixx
Things may not be going according to schedule, because I got assigned a lot of shit and including regular class days, I gotta manage those, while managing the shit that those classes give me.
Like just this morning in Psych, I checked schoolloop and apparently my English teacher assigned us to read chapter 10 last night, and, have our homework, Catcher questions, and participation log filled out and ready to turn in. Like, today. So, I spent basically the whole 45 minutes that I had in Psych to rush to finish answering half-assly 10 chapters worth of "study" questions.
And yes, I barely finished. Barely, as in some questions were disregarded. English was, you guessed it, a quiz. "Reading comprehension" was apparently all it was. I'd beg to differ because remembering exact, exact quotes, I wouldn't count that as listening comprehension. Also some questions didn't even have anything to do with the reading, it was more of like, philosophy shit and outside sources.
I don't think the teacher curves for shit, he puts in the raw, raw score for everything. Anyways, enough complaining abut it, for Bio, we finished watching Contagion. Holy hell was the ending kinda shit. It turned into like, a teen romance which was like "Okay, I guess." And then the actual ending was like, alright, ya know. Regardless of the positive reviews, I liked only some parts of it, but mostly, kinda all over the place, some shit was irrational, I'd give it a 5/10. It's eh.
I also spent the time in Bio studying for math, of which, I know for a fact that I failed the test as well. Why? Because, out of the 7 sections we had to study, more than half the test was all on 1 fucking section. Thank god I remembered the formulas, but like, I focused more on studying the sections that were more, like, central and integral to the chapter, rather than just that 1 section. I'd really appreciate it if the teacher told us, specifically, the amount each section is on the test, so we know how much to study. And it's justifiable too, because for AP tests, for example the AP Psych test, they tell you the percentage of questions of subjects that'll be on it, so you don't spend 5 hours studying social behaviors for just 1 question or something.
Lunch was the usual, History was just watching Ronald Reagan do shit and work on an assignment due Monday. Chinese was a test, for which I did forget. Umm, I blame my 46/100 on the teacher not telling us that we'd have to know how to write dates and times for the test. I thought it was just random shit, like, just something random, which isn't uncommon. Our lesson doesn't even have anything to do with dates or time, it's about fucking renting apartments, heh. But uh, guess she included that shit for some reason, and bam, 46/100.
After school was practice for the last performance of the year (officially, not counting Fanime). We didn't actually get much practice time to be honest, we didn't get to do any full-runthroughs, not even run-throughs of most songs either. We didn't get to work on "Dope," didn't get to work on "Hello Bitches," we did however, work on 2 dances, aka "Heart Attack" and "Twice." We also worked on positions for "Mansae," and that was it. So, I'm guessing I'm not the only one doing shit last minute, heh. It's alright though, there's been a lot of testing, not a lot of room for scheduling, so it makes sense. Likewise, we got time before the performance to practice anyways, so.
So tomorrow, I gotta meet up with my group members to record our skit for Chinese, that'll take 'bout an hour. Then around 5:00 PM, I'll head on over to DrewN's house for a nice reward: a fucking, game night for once, heh. And so, see ya.
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