Friday, March 20, 2015 "99 Seats."

Friday, March 20, 2015
Week: 31
Songs to Remember: 99 Red Balloons - Nena

        Finally it's a Friday. Finally some well deserved sleep. Hopefully.

        World History, is ehhh. Well, not totally ehhh. The teacher played some representative songs about wars and stuff, like "99 Balloons" by Nena, or "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel. There were some technical difficulties, most of them consisted of trying to find the English version without any type of remix or kareoke or s***. After getting a decent original English version of it (it's a German song" on Spotify, the song kept on pausing. Then other songs would play as well and my teachers like "Alright, who's doing it? I'm not kidding, I just saw the volume slider move by itself". No one was doing anything actually. She was like "Wooh s***, there's some ghosty stuff going on". Then she looked it up and turns out that a Spotify account is connected so if one person pauses it, it pauses elsewhere and whatever. She was using her brother's Spotify account and he just so happens to call. She was like "I'm trying to play for my students some war songs and you're ruining it!" Jokingly of course. And uh, yeah. Very nice songs though. When she first played "99 Red Balloons", it had some really nasty bootleg (not the good kind) mixes in there, so I'm like "Alright, this gotta be a 90's song here". Turns out it's actually an 80's song and it was actually the 12" club mix version of it. But yeah, really bootleg.

        But what's really bootleg is the movie "Pleasantville". There were some pretty bootleg scenes we watched today. One of them consisted of firemen not responding to a fire, but to a cat instead. And uh, didn't expect there to be sex scenes in there, but there were. Well, implied sex scenes. And a dude was cleaning the countertops with a rag for an hour or so. Left some indents and marks on that spot. All in all, cool movie so fair.

        Chemistry, yeah we got new seats. I was like "Hmm, it'd be really nice to sit next to Yn again". But this time there was no plot twist to help me, instead I get seated next to the same girl but in the back of the column of seats now instead of the front. Like, directly back. And Yn sits about 3 seats in front of her. Today we did a lab, where we mix some solutions and record the color changes. Aqueous solutions, solids, etc. Those. P.E, was ehhhh. Really hate weights now. Oh I'm sorry, "weights/cardio". But now it's really just weights. Math was- ehhh. The teacher had the people who completed the JavaScript Khan Academy lessons present to the class some of the projects. I expected a lot more people to have done it. I was surprised, only about, like 6 people had done it. And theirs weren't up to par as I expected them to be either. And, the teacher only had them present like a couple of the projects. I'm like, "What the f***". Also this dude was like "Can I present a game my friend and I made for extra credit". She allowed him, had some dude played it, he got some points. It was just a simple Unity 2D platformer, but not much of a platformer considering the "hero" had the power of unlimited jumps. Like, what? Also the "boss fight" was just a jump on the boss's head type deal. And the boss just moved left and right using a simple 2-frame Mega-man enemy sprite animation. It made me so frustrated, 'cause I was like "What the f***, I could've made a larger-scale game than this, an even better one". The dude said it took him and his buddy about 4 weeks to make it. I'm like "Oh, really?" What I saw could've probably been made in 2 days at most. I've seen some demo games from those 24-hour game competitions where you make a game in 24-hours and share it with a community. It's just- I never have the motivation to continue making a game. So if there was a reward, maybe a bit more than just 10 points, and if I were granted creation of whatever I wanted to make, then yeah, I'd go for it and continue it.

        Anyways, it's just 'cause I've spent many weeks working on barely completes games and stop working 'cause I lose interest in em'. Umm, Chinese. New seats. Zi and I had a nice conversation when walking from math to Chinese. I brought up the subject of new seats today for Chinese and she was like "Oh yeah. It was nice sitting next to you, but now we probably won't be able to anymore". Because of how the teacher changes our seats if we sat next to the same person before. Semester-long only. I'm like "Yeah, it was nice sitting next to your. Very fun". Anyways, she enters the classroom, I follow, she picks a random card, it's 17, I pick a card, pray, and I get 29. I'm like "Alright, 29, 29, where is 29". I find myself sitting in front of my old group member who sat to my right, as well as that one girl who I sat next to, around during the time of right before Christmas break. I'm like "Well, I can't be sitting in the same group as my previous group member, gotta change". And so, the teacher was switching people around, Vh's sitting in the exact same spot, she gets switched. Then it came to us (my group member and I), and the teacher was looking around for a spot to switch one of us. She asked El "El, can you switch over here with *insert group member name here*?" And she's like "Umm, I really like my spot, I don't think it's be good for me to move" or something cheeky like that. I'm like "Ugh, she's at it again. Now I actually want her to sit near me, just to have fun and make her uncomfortable". Only because she makes it uncomfortable, there's nothing wrong with being next to each other. She's just being, *sigh*, should I say it? B****y. There.

        So, the teacher then switches me to this spot 2 seats behind me, next to this one girl who's pretty fluent in this Chinese stuff. I guess the teacher really only seats next next to people who know Chinese really well. I'm like "Come on, if I needed help, I'd ask people around me for it. Come on now". Now that I think about it, I was seated next to a lot of people who are fluent in Chinese. Well, that's how it goes then. I think this will be the second to last seating for the year. Ahhh, might as well make it last. As in, talk as much as I can. I actually made a lot of small talk with the girl next to me. I'm very proud of it actually. Experience gained.

        Aaand, home. League. Surveys. Music. Eventually work this weekend. Eventually. In the meantime: catching up on shows, gaining more League knowledge, and sleep. Yes, sleep. So, see you tomorrow.