Monday, February 23, 2015 "Off and On Notes."

Monday, February 23, 2015
Week: 28
Songs to Remember: Twilight - Free Tempo, Fire - JJCC

        To prove how off I was today, I thought it was March. That one post on Facebook with the image macros of that one scene from "Hot Fuzz" where the kid's like "February 22". People commented that it was the 22nd. For some reason, that convinced me that February has only 22 days. Yeah, I don't. I'm off. Hard.

        Fortunately, I wasn't that off in 1st period because the movie we were watching actually kept my attention. I had completely forgotten that we were watching a movie last, last week. The movie'a called "Life is Beautiful" by the way. At first I thought it was, pretty funny. It's an Italian movie, subbed, better than the dub. A summary so far, uhh, a really clever and cheerful dude travels with his buddy, he meets this one girl, does crazy shenanigans in impressing her, fast forward several years, they get married and have a kid. Then, Nazis invade France, the family's taken to a concentration camp, and the dad is trying to cover it all up for his son, just, everything.

        He tells his son that this is all a game, and that the first person to reach 1000 points will get a cool toy tank. There was comedy during the beginning of this part, then it got dark, still a bit of comedy within the dad and son's relationship, but under really dark circumstances. I mean, this one scene, where they first show the dad carrying an anvil and he's like "Oh, this is too much. I must rest, I can't go on. I'm just gonna lay here" and his buddy at the camp was all like "What are you doing? If you stop, they'll sentence you to death" and like, you could see the dad's face and emotions how tired and sad he was. But when he heard that he would be killed if he stopped, he carried on. Like, he isn't worried about his life, he's worried about his son's future. Really, really good actor, and damn is this f***ing movie making them feels on the bus go 'round and 'round.

        Oh god, English class. It really is my least favorite right now, mostly because of clueless group work. But first, we had to take a quiz. The teacher said "Everybody get out tour cellphones!" Now this made me jump a bit, heh. It scared me for a second 'cause I thought I was going off HARD. But no, she did say cellphones. And it was unexpected, and loud. We had to download this app, "Socrative: Student Edition". You could do like, live quizzes and stuff by the teacher. Of course, the quizzes were on the stories we had to read over break. Luckily it was true/false questions, and only 10 of em'. I was hoping for multiple choice, but it was instead true/false, and that was even better, heh. I mean, I remember what I read, I just need a reminder on what I memorized. But yeah, the quiz was easy. I missed only 1 out of 10 questions like an off-person, but not bad. My classmate next to me didn't have his phone today, so the teacher asked if I could share mine with him.

        This dude never really does his English homework, he really just does like, part of it and then asks the dude behind me to copy off of. I've talked about him before I think. Anyways, he tells me "Aww s***, I didn't do the reading!" And I'm like "Don't worry, it'll be like multiple choice or something". So I finish taking the quiz, I hand my phone over to him, he finishes, he tells me "I guesses on all of em' and I got 8/10!" And I'm like, trying to act enthusiastic but not too enthusiastic 'cause the teacher's like, right there. So I'm like "Haha, wow". Then, while we were working in our groups on discussions for those stories, the teacher came over, went to the dude, and was like "Not doing the work won't get you anywhere. You WILL suffer for it" or something like that. But damn, did I get chills off of that. Just straight up, bam. Very, very scary.

        So I wanted to turn in that Honors English application form by this week or something, so I went to the counseling office, stood in line, and tried to make an appointment. I was like "Hi, I'd like to make an appointment". She said "Reason?" I replied "For to receive a transcript" and she was like "You could just go over there and request one" and I was like "Oh, aight, thank you". My friend Hd just came out the door, she's like "Oh, you're getting your transcript too? I'll wait for ya". I go in, sign up on the sheet, it says "Unofficial Transcript Requests", I have no idea how I'm gonna receive it or when, oh well, leave with my friend. I ask her "Ay, so what are you doing for P.E?" And she's like "Table Tennis/Badminton of course" and she's like "How 'bout you?" And I'm like "Yeah, Table Tennis/Badminton". Oh how I hoped that was true.

        Chemistry, very, very boring now. Seriously, I don't talk to anyone in there. Besides this one dude who keeps coming to me and wants me to watch videos on YouTube on his Chromebook or show me Clash of Clans. And sometimes with my lab table members. So, we did a lab today. Very short lab. Do some math problems, find amount of salt needed for a concentration, made salt water, the teacher came around with a "Filipino Christmas Tree" (which was just a ping pong paddle with some wiring and a red, green, and white lightbulb. Basically a thingy that lights up when the wires are placed in ion waters and stuff), and did a little demonstration for each lab table. Very fun, but very boring in doing the actual lab. But, we are doing an ice cream lab eventually so that'll be nice. And uh, yeah, I, just kinda do whatever now in Chem. Yn doesn't really make contact anymore. She goes another route now, going left instead of right. And no, I'm not gonna sing The Fray's "How to Save a Life" because that s*** is f***ing depressing and reminds me of my past buddies at my old old school. Which I'm hopefully gonna see some at this Friday's charity dance. Thing. Those dances where the money goes to a good cause. Those.

        I was expecting to not change today, but of course, we were. Upperclassmen (that's us) all had to go to the gym to pick our new classes. The teachers started off pretty pissrd 'cause of so many people that weren't dressed. I mean, it was a weeklong break, people forgot, today we were expecting to not change because we weren't going to be exercising really, aaaand you make us change so, people who usually do didn't bring em' today 'cause they expected no clothing changes today. But, s*** happens. They announced the classes, and because of how the Table Tennis class went, there will probably be some changes on who gets accepted into that class. And there was. They called down people for Table Tennis only first, and only people who had an A as their last grade. They strictly said "Not an A-, an A". Welp, a B+ isn't really considered an A to them. And the teacher, I expected her to check each student card handed to her, so I was pretty afraid to give her my B+ card and hope she didn't notice.

        She then called down all the "A-" students only. Well- I mean- oh come on. M card says 89%, just give me that extra percent already. Oh and I forgot to mention, they called down all the Seniors and Juniors FIRST, for Table Tennis. If they want people to show up consistently, why are they letting dudes with C+'s in there, just 'cause they're a Senior or Junior? They didn't specify any grades for them, just, any Seniors and Juniors. Come on now. Then after that, were Sophomores with A's, then A-'s, then, THEN, they were done. Basically a s*** ton of people with A-'s came down, filled up with 37 cards. Yeah, f***ing stupid. After that, they were like "Okay, the rest of you, uhh, B+ people". 'Course there wasn't really a rush anymore, so I just chose Weights/Cardio, along with some of my buddies who couldn't get into Table Tennis 'cause we all had B+'s. Then after that, the teachers were like "Alright, the rest of you with cards, come on down, you're with me for Rugball". Now, there really isn't a choice here actually. They're offering Rugball, Table Tennis/Badminton, and Weights/Cardio. It's not much of a choice anymore, considering you basically get picks into which class by your previous grade, and if you don't like your new class, you'll do bad, and therefore, get stuck in an endless loop. Besides, they always offer Rugball, mostly for the overcompetitive people and the chumps who don't dress or show up. And even if they do ball hard in Rugball, they do s*** on the test and end up in it again.

        Yeah, I was, ehh, sorta off in math. The teacher took 10 minutes explaining how fun the coding was when she tried it, and also liked how she us progress through the coding course and see each of our silly little code drawings. She described one of the challenges in the course where you had to create a dinner plate of food and she saw a drumstick made out of an eclipse and rectangle, and in my head, I was like "Ay! That's me!" I made a bootleg drumstick, along with a bootleg pile of mashed potatoes and 2 meatballs. It was supposed to be spaghetti, but I gave up. And so, during that 10 minute talk, I was able to get back on and was able to understand part of the lesson, for the most part. When we were correcting the homework, I looked backa at the one from 2 weeks ago, and it finally clicked in my head. You know that feeling when you realize "Oh s***" and you know how to do it? Yeah, I had that little moment. Also, test on Thursday.

        So, I'm in Chinese class. I was very, off. During brunch time, I asked my buddy if we changed seats last week. He said "No, we didn't change any seats". And I'm like "Yeah, I'm off" Honestly, I remember a scene where I was in a different seat. It probably was a dream or something. Anyways, I'm sitting there, Zi's acting tired and stuff when I know she has the spirit of a thousand eagles. Our group member dude behind us. I feel pretty bad for him 'cause he's by himself, like I was in that one group. Group, 4 I think. Group 4, the 2nd one.

        We didnt really do much today. The teacher told us what she did over break, Chinese new year, etc. She also had some people share what they did as well. Zi, she just told me she woke up early each day for Badminton try-outs. Yeah, she made em'. After the sharing, the teacher passed out some Chinese New Year candies, those soft ones with like, coconut, uhh, etc. I only know the coconut one. Then, we went over the reading and stuff for this lesson, vocab, etc. Along with other lessons as review too. I noticed today, that Zi is always writing. She writes, very small. I mean, very small. Like, it looks printed, and spaced out. She spaces here letters very widely. In my honest opinion they look like tiny blocks, just saying. Not hating whatsoever, just that I find it unique how her writing is the 2nd smallest I've seen (the first being that one dude in my Chem class).

        As I was saying, I would always find Zi writing, and previously, I've seen her writing stuff on a small piece of paper, rolling it up or something, and lighting a blunt. Just, just kidding, heh. She writes on it, the paper's like inches in diameter, rolls it up or crumples it, then, throws it away or something. Today she did that exact thing, she wrote on a small piece of paper, crumpled it up, ripped it a bit, then while the teacher was still doing the reading stuff, she undisturbingly went to go throw it away in the trash. Also I have photographic memory when it comes to s*** like this so for me, it's very vivid and that scares me. Now, what she's doing intrigues me. Like, I sometimes do that. Not the crumpling part and throwing it away, but I sometimes write down s*** I'd like to remember, maybe a joke or something stupid someone said that I'd like to write here.

        After thinking for a bit, it could be like a spiritual thing, where she writes down negative stuff from her day and gets rid of it, by crumpling up the paper, written on it are the negative things, and throw it away. Or maybe she writes down what's happened to her throughout the day, then, to signify that there's more to come, she throws it away, or- I don't know, aight. I'm leaning towards the first one, I don't know, maybe it's a hobby, oorrrr, something Key Club/Interact club members do or something. She is in Key Club/Interact Club, and a majority (if not all) members of that club are high spirited/lost the ability to not smile. I don't know. Nothing weird really, honestly. Just intriguing. Maybe I'll ask her about it tomorrow when she's doing that. It'd be pretty cool to talk about that in one of my posts.

        This got me thinking about that Facebook page "Humans of New York", where that dude takes pictures of people with a quote from an interview with them. It'd be pretty cool to replicated what he did, here where I live. Inspiration coming? Yes. Talk about it? That's, for another time. I just realized I wrote for about an hour and a half straight. Now that's what I mean when something interests me and can keep my attention, I could go on and on. Also, one last thing. I saw a dude sag his oanta today as I was walking to the locker rooms. He had an Arizona in his back pocket, so, that amplified his sag to maximum levels. But seriously, stop that, heh.

        God this was write. I'll see you nerds tomorrow. That's, that's just a joking term I use with my buddies over Curse Voice and Skype. No offense intended. And now, see you tomorrow.