Friday, August 14, 2015
Week: 1
Songs to Remember: AOAO - ZPZG
Last night's sleep was soooo good. Slept like a baby. I had to sleep at 12:00 AM because I was busy finishing up the series premier post yesterday. Took a lot longer than I would've liked.
Oh hey, it's the 2nd day, the 2nd episode of The Days. Let's see what's going on now. Woke up, actually felt a bit tired. Wasn't as excited as yesterday, that's for sure. I actually decided to wear a different pants instead of the same every 2 days. I'll be switching around one every other day so they both get worn for a total of 2 days, and it won't look like I wear the same thing every day.
Anyways, got to school just a bit early. I usually get there just in time for the bell to ring so I go to class immediately and not have to sit like a loner and wait (just kidding). AP Psychology's going a lot better now. Not because I actually got a new seat that I wanted. Okay, ya got me. I went in and all the desks were arranged differently now. It wasn't in table groups, it was like, classroom sorta organized. You know what I mean, the usual way desks are set. Single, usually facing in one direction, or to the center.
So I, with all the desk positions changed, as well as people who are already sitting at/near the spot where my seat was yesterday, I was like "Well, guess I gotta pick a new seat". And so I proceed to sit near this girl who I was in my English 2A class last year. That was, pretty much it. Her friend comes in and was expecting to sit where I was I guess. I was like "Nope, not today". She sat behind her friend.
Our teacher wasn't here today, under some bad circumstances she can't teach today. So, we all went to go get our textbooks (as well as a workbook, not to be written in though), and we were assigned a little packet to do in class and finish over the weekend. I took one look at it and I was like "Oh. Okay". The fucking thing was the exact same format as the vocabulary worksheets my World History teacher had us do last year. It was the exact same thing, same font, but instead of History terms and whatnot, we had to look up Psychology terms.
I wanted to be a good boy and actually read through the chapter in the book for the terms. I tried looking for the first word "structuralist/ism". The text barely explains what it is, but sure gives a long-ass statement about its origin. I just went to the glossary. Fuck it, heh. From reading that people could barely decipher what it meant. So uh, yeah. Not hard, just, a bit tedious is all. I also heard the dudes who sat near me (well, now). They were talking about how they were gonna fail the class and whatnot. I was like "Yeah, even though it is AP Psychology, it's still AP, heh".
Definitely a calm morning. And just because fans were complaining about Yn not showing up in the premier yesterday, the writers were forced to have her show up today. As the bell rang, I exited the classroom and went on over to Honors English, at the E building (which is conveniently located next to the F building where I was at). As I walked on over, bam, Yn appears. Like, just straight up, she was with her friend. I was like "Ay" and waved, and she waved back. You know, I could settle for Hello's each day, I wouldn't mind.
I almost forgot to explain how I spent a little bit of time in the morning at school studying, since I got to school kinda earlier than I usually would. I think that little bit of studying helped, because we were taking a test on the Joy Luck Club today. Also, apparently there's a seating chart. I'm, actually kinda glad. I wasn't in the most favored spot yesterday. I ended up sitting to this one girl I don't know, and this one who I do know (she was in my 8th grade English class), but not sure if she remembers me. Oh and my seat, I basically sat one seat to the left from yesterday.
I'm a bit more comfortable now in this spot, about a 25% bit better. Anyways, uh, we had Chromebooks to take the test on. I was relieved just a bit because I prefer typing than hand-writing stuff. That's why I'm doing all these posts online, heh. Easier to keep track of, and, I won't lose my hand after the 3rd post. The teacher had us do a short survey to see how confident we were. It was just one question, on a scale of A to F, how well do we think we would do on the test. Well, I certainly don't feel average (come on, average is kinda boring just a bit), I didn't really study last night so I knew I wouldn't ace the thing. Above average, B, now that was what I was feeling.
He showed the results and whadya know, 40% of the class picked B. A little picked A, a little picked C, no D's, and a tiny bit of F's. He didn't exactly go ape-shit, he was like "Hmm, I understand, some of you are confident, some of you are a bit less, etc". It was very calming actually. So he started up the test and bam, multiple choice. I was like "HOLLA FAM". I was very happy, heh. It was mostly just questions pertaining to what happens in this scene, who said this quote, ummm, why is this chapter called blah blah blah".
It was A LOT less difficult as I expected it to be. 36 questions in total, about 4 free-response (he said it wasn't constructed-response, so that meant we didn't have to type a whole essay, heh, just enough to explain), the rest were multiple choice. Oh baby. I actually got confused on the An-Mei and Ying-ying characters. They just weren't as interesting to me, so I didn't remember who's story was what. I blame it on organization. So he checked the results after everybody finished and said the majority of us did pretty well. I was like "Awww yeah son, one down, a million more to go".
After that it was break time. I think I'll keep it to, hanging out at my old spot (yes, I consider it old now), and during lunchtime going around with uhhh, the new addition cast. That includes Ek (she's now kinda moved into the main-main cast), Ag, Jk, Jv, and some others. Not as important to list 'em for now. And uh, that was I did. Nothing exciting happened during break really, just, people. Anyways, it was time for 3rd period.
I walked in, tried to remember where I sat, sat down, and noticed the teacher wasn't here, but, there was her TA (teacher's assistant). The teacher's assistant then got up and went over to the main counter/desk and I was like "Holy shit, that was the teacher". Ya see what I mean when I meant "Wow" yesterday? Fucking crazy man. And so, class started, and uh, there was a seating chart for assigned seats. WOO. Now this is what I'm talking about. It's doing a re-roll with dice. Except this time I wasn't so lucky, I'm sitting next to that one girl who I sat next to during the beginning of Algebra II/Trig last year. Not that it's bad, just, I was expecting something else alright?
The teacher just did a lecture the whole period basically. Apparently we're supposed to do a lab, about measuring mice tails, which, I was excited for. Turns out, they ain't real. What kind of fucking shit is this? I'm just kidding. We didn't have time for the lab today, too much lecturing, which, I don't mind. Even though I was yawning twice per minute, I don't mind. She talked about statistics, like, basic statistics, ya know, mean, median, and mode? This is so that after we measure the tails, we collect the data, get the average, etc, etc. It seemed fairly easy, umm, the teacher talked about a lot of side things, which, again, I don't mind, it adds flavor to the lecture (huh, never thought I'd say that).
One of the more impacting things she said was how my Chemistry teacher from last year, Mr.Seals (it doesn't matter at this point if I say his name or not), had started teaching at a different school, one where it's closer to his house since his kids are starting to attend school and he wants to be closer to them, which I understand. She said his commute to our school was 40 minutes each morning and afternoon, and now his commute is about 4 minutes. Pretty big difference. Glad I was in one of his last few classes he taught here, he made science pretty nice. I think I started thinking towards a science-y study in the future because of his class (don't quote me on this, aight).
Of course we had homework. Some "cut-it-out yourself flashcards then glue 'em back to back after watching some videos online and shit". Nice, nice. Anyways, 4th period, go to that place we call Honors Pre-Cal, sit down in what I presume was my seat (thank goodness it was). We got our textbooks today, and as we were walking, Jc was talking with her buddy, we mentioned how I have 6th period Chinese, then Jc's buddy was like "6th period Chinese?" and I was like "Ohh yeah, you're in my 6th period Chinese". She sits right smack dab in the middle, with sorta an empty seat next to her. Not sure if someone sits there.
And uhhh, our lesson today was, the usual math stuff. The teacher also said how the textbooks we have are pretty old, but the math department can't find any better book (not with updated/better material, but, format). She said it was made around in the 1980's, I flipped to the publication page. "Copyright 1991", I was like "Holy shit this book is OLDER THAN ME". Fucking crazy yo. Ummm, the lesson and notes were basically the same as last year's. Ehh. We do have homework of course. Never let your guard down Drew.
Bell rings, lunch time, I go over to my old spot to eat my lunch, then, I headed on over to the lockers from yesterday, where Ek, Ag, Jk, and I all went. I'm guessing their lockers were over there. I went on over, I see someone who I thought was Ag, but upon closer inspection, was actually just Tn (from So Don't Be on With Her). Nope, just kidding, heh, it was actually Ag. I thought it was Tn until she said "Hey it's Drew". And now I just wanna say, she reminds me a lot of Jn. Jn? Was that her name? Or Jt? Whichever, she reminds me of her. You know, from my original elementary school. Also the one who took photos at the dance from March 2015.
Ag was with her buddy, I forgot her name already, heh, and we met up with Jv. Apparently I'm a new "member" of the "group". I don't like that man, don't do these group things, it's so, so, ehhh, I'm not sure how to describe. Ya'll know what I mean right? Whatever. I tried to make myself relevant besides someone who just listens in on the convos. We were walking to the book room for Ag to turn in her locker form. Ya know, I probably shouldn't have turned in my form so early, in case I wanted to change lockers, like I do now, heh. Like, I didn't think they were gonna keep form submissions for 2 whole weeks!
We walked back to the lockers and ran into Ek on the way, who was at the old hangout spot. We hung out at the lockers, in the shade, had lunch. Well they did, I already had lunch. And uhhh, yeah, I expect more crazy shit to happen as the series goes on. This, now this is a nice different direction that I actually like. Keep the show fresh man. *sigh* okay. Uhhh, 5th period now. The teacher said that it's usually SSR during this time, always after lunch. I was like "SHIIIIIIIIIIIIT". I completely, COMPLETELY, forgot about SSR.
For those of you new to the series, it's basically homeroom. Except, not in the morning but after lunch. And it's in the same room as your 5th period. Also homeroom rules apply differently to everybody, it all depends on what the teacher says. Can you do homework? If the teacher allows ya to. Usually it's just reading though. Silent, sustained, reading. Well, since it was SSR, for the first time of the year, I guess the teacher thought it was a good time to recommend people books. As in, he went on over and like, did brief summaries on all of 'em, going like "Oh this one's about a hitchhiker. Great read, anybody wanna read this one?" except, it was more enthusiastic, detailed, and overall he made each book sound pretty exciting to read.
He has like a line of books across his desk. It ranged from like, Maze Runner, to Hunger Games, uhhh, Life Without Limits by that man with no appendages, toooo fictional assasination novels (which he doesn't really recommend actually, he doesn't encourage people to have thoughts of killing others), aaand some other stuff. For those of that didn't really want a book, he suggested we can study in our History books for a quiz on naming and listing from the 1st to 44th president. A practice quiz of course. I chose to study, mostly because I have the slightest knowledge on U.S presidents. I know the names of of a few, but, have no idea their order, besides George Washington, heh. I guess after seeing so many of us choosing to study over reading a good book, he got out a stack of little uh magazines but with those card stock covers. He was like "Who wants to read about street drugs?", in a comic way of course.
It's a fairly old magazine book thing, published in 2001. It had information on all kinds of drugs I suppose, I only got through the first 3 pages. Lots of pictures, lots of pictures. Of Ecstasy. Very colorful, very colorful. So uh, yeah, then SSR was over and it became US History. We had a map of the U.S to name each to state and capital, and every president and when they were elected. That was when I remembered why Geography gave me such a hard time. It was the fucking maps. There just wasn't anything to 'em, ya just gotta memorize that shit. I better look up some bootleg songs to memorize all them states, capitals, and presidents.
That was basically the whole period, just a short little study time. Anyways, the bell rang and I started walking to 6th period. I see someone from the back wearing a periwinkle backpack with the same colored shirt that Zi was wearing today, as I was walking my usual route to Chinese class. She seemed to be walking the same way as well. "Yep, Zi". I still find it kinda weird that I can do this kinda shit. And uhh, yeah, I was walking to Chinese along the way, she didn't notice me at first, but then she comes up behind me and is all like "Drew!" in that optimistic cheery voice she always does when she calls people's names. She was like "Are you going to Chinese?" and I was like "Yeah" and she's like "Omg me too!" and hugs me. "It's just like last year!". So I'm guessing she transfered to 6th period Chinese 2, heh.
At this point at I was a bit more uh, optimistic for Chinese class. Yesterday it was kinda depressing a bit due to people around me in class. Today it topped that, in terms of depressive-ness that is. I go to my assigned seat (there's no such thing as free choice anymore, heh) and well, there was a dude here, I'm guessing he transferred to 6th period as well as I didn't see him yesterday. Zi and him are buddies (being both Sophomores, everyone's basically buddies in the class) and so she was like "Miss, can I sit with him over here" and she was like "Ah, fine". Guess where they sit? The same, fucking, place that I tried to sit at yesterday. FUCK. The writers basically just teased me with this "Hey, Zi's gonna be in one of your classes now, hopefully this will please some of the fans" and then just fucked me over and be like "Ha! Just kidding, ya gotta wait 6 seasons kid for even a chance to have Zi be in the supporting cast again". Right now she's kinda like, interactive background character level. *sigh* fucking scripts.
Knowing that this was all hapenneing around me, holy shit was I fucking miserable. The sophomore dude next to me doesn't give a fuck, the two sophomores behind me (who were both in my exact same Chinese class last year, I even sat next to one twice) don't even bother talking to me. The rest of the class knew eachother as well as Kobayashi knew hotdogs. The plan for today (like, lesson plan) was to have each group come up to the front and with one person at a time, ask the teacher a question having to do with Chinese 2, as well as state their 3 objectives (last night's homework, ya gotta list 3 things you wanna learn in Chinese 2). It was pretty cringy at first. One dude, he, he asked a question about the syllabus, about how why there were two like, columns or something in there. I just- I just didn't do anything. I couldn't do anything.
More groups came up, then it was our turn. I was like "Hello all, my name is Drew" (that was all in Chinese by the way) and "I would like to ask you, what are we going to learn in Chinese 2?" (because j didn't fucking care really, I could've done a more bootleg question but uh, yeah, didn't really have the energy for it I guess *sigh*). "My 3 objectives are that I would to learn about how to order off a menu in Chinese, etc, etc, generic objectives everybody else put". The class didn't really know who I was, hell, I didn't even know who I was during this class. I still have yet to find my character, and no it's not Drew from The Days, nor is it Drew from 100% Chance of Bad, nor is it Drew from So Don't Be on With Her. Anyways, after a couple groups went after mind's, this lady comes in. She was like "Sorry to interrupt. I'm a new adminstrator at the main office. Don't be afraid to say hi" or something like that. I guess she wanted us to be familiar with her, and vice-versa.
But the most bootleg thing I've noticed this whole day. Was this. She asked "How many seniors are in here, raise your hand". Nobody raised their hands. "How about freshman?". A couple raised their hands. "Okay, Juniors?". About 1/5 of the class raised their hands, including me. " What about the sophomores?". Fucking the whole class raised their hands. She's like "Woow! Looks like the sophomores rule it over here, heh". And uh, yeah. After that I had to sit through more of cringer-rola. It's just the same people over and over again. Fucking, I'm stuck at my seat for 6, more, seasons. FUCK. This contract is too long. I can't even walk to my mom's car anymore, man.
*sigh* Well, I got work to do. Homework that is. And work too, in general. Things are very bumpy right now. Hopefully the writers are refining the script. Just kidding, there is no script, it's all improvised but there is definitely some plot lines for all this shit to go on. Just gotta try and keep it calm for now. Besides, 5 other action-packed periods. Well sorta. Maybe not all 5. Anyways, 2nd episode so far, shit's new but I don't like some of the directions these plots are going. Let's see the rest of season shall we? Oh wait, it premiered Thursday. Which means, on Sunday it'll be the end of season 1. Uhhh, it is Chinese 2 after all, so let's see how the 2nd season goes then, hm?
Also Ln messaged me on Facebook about how she feels sad in Honors English, and that it's partially due to PMS. Then we moved on to other shit, her crush, my crush, bleh, apparently she hopesbto message me all about her problems, which I don't mind. And uh, yeah. Very random, very, very random. Not bad though. Alright, time to sleep. See ya.
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