Thursday, August 11, 2016 "Precisely Refined."

Thursday, August 11, 2016
Week: 1
Songs to Remember: Dollar - Hobby, Let's Play House - Hobby, Hold Over - Wheesung, Ah-Ha - Double S 301, Firetruck - NCT 127

        "Move your body, pick it up. Shake (following) the way you feel the rhythm. When things get hot, make some noise... Kill me."

        Out of all the series premiers, this was one that was absurdly different. Is it because there hasn't been a series premier that went like this, the writers wanted to spice it up a bit? I don't know. All I can say is that it didn't go as expected, nothing ever does, heh. Now the question is, will tomorrow go as I think it will? We'll see, but for now, it's the series premier of Precisely Refined.

        6:00 AM, I woke up. Woken up, actually, aaand, it wasn't even 6:00 AM, it was 5:52 AM. Last night I did not get any sleep at all. For starters, I opened up Schoolloop and saw that I had Anatomy 1st period, which kinda broke my heart a bit. I closed my eyes, thinking to myself "Alright brain, you can go to sleep now, anytime now." I think I probably had my eyes closed for about an hour before I was actually able to sleep. Suited up, I'm darting for that sub-6:30 AM time, got to school around there. No traffic, 'cause well, nobody's really supposed to come to school this fucking early and would rather spend that time for a couple more snooze hours.

        But nonetheless, basically empty besides seniors who were walking around (presumably for senior sunrise). DrewN got the cast and I a table, the picture he took was literally of the table, and no POV, so I couldn't really locate it. Met up with Jk, in which we met up with DrewN a few seconds later. Apparently our table is this small one next to this tree, at the left side of the green field in front of the theater stage. Not the best, definitely not the best, and sucks ass 'cause the grassy ground's gonna be wet (like this morning), and when it rains it's gonna be shit too, but, hey, better than nothing.

        No signs of Ag, Lw, nor Ek. I wanted to hurry up and get in line so Jk, DrewN, and I went to browse lockers. We got one that was basically to the right opening of the original lunch ground spot, same building and all, aaand, we had our lockers on the best row (out of 4 rows, we got the 2nd to the top row, aka, the best row. Not too high, not too low). Umm, afterwards, Jk and I waited in line at the counseling thing, with DrewN for a while while he got in line to turn in his locker form. We waited a good, 30 minutes maybe, went from 6 something to 7 something, like, 7:20 AM.

        Aaand, out comes an office admin, who proclaims from the top of her lungs something along the lines of "What are you all lining up for? We aren't doing schedule changes right now! Leave! Disperse!" I commented to Jk that this is of the reasons why school shootings happen. Same thing happened to the line for turning in locker forms, somebody came out and announced that they weren't accepting them yet. You see, I think it'd make sense to label that on the paper and shit, or, put it on the school website so that, people don't have to waste oxygen in shouting. But, no.

        They also said that the classes that we see on our Schoolloop accounts are apparently "wrong," and that we gotta pick up our paper schedules first before we schedule any changes. Well, me, Jk, DrewN, and eventually Ag, we all got our schedules and as we were walking around, we witnessed the same events, the office admin telling people to fuck off, even with discrepancies on their schedule. Yeah. I was informed that the counselers were only doing schedule changes for those with technical errors in their schedules, like, somebody not having a 4th period listed.

        If you have an actual class you can go to, I guess you just gotta go to it. At this point, I just felt depressed, like, fuck. I woke up super-early, I waited in line, shit was shit, didn't get a schedule change, and I gotta attend classes that I thought wouldn't matter (thinking that my entire schedule would get rearranged since Korean is only 4th and 5th period, and, organizing shit around that, along with Digital Art, would be a hassle). I was like "Well, no point in going to class really." Jk, DrewN, and I got reintroduced to some characters who appeared in the last series, including El, Vh, Jb, Jv, I saw Mt, Rh, and others.

        Jk, DrewN, and I were sitting at this bench next to the theater, Ag was talking to some mutual friends, aaand, just waited for the inevitable. Bell rings, I'm excited to see the freshmen scramble, didn't actually feel it. Like, the fear, heh. I guess I'm too desensitized to it all, 'cause it looked pretty calm. Jk and I waited, took in a bit of the atmosphere before finally going to our classes. And from there, started part 1 of the series premier. 1st period, Anatomy, aka, period I don't care about because I'll be switching out of it anyways.

        That was partly the case. I came a bit late 'cause everybody else already had their seats. Uhhh, coming in I see an old buddy of mine from middle school. We talked a lot about Call of Duty, and, I see him around every now and then but we don't, talk. Partially because we don't talk, and, we got no classes together, 'till now, heh. So I'm sitting in front of him, next to him is a dude whom I know, like, know, but don't actually talk to, was also in my AP Psych class. To the left-back of me was that one girl I had in Bio class in freshman year, and also the one whom I had a convo with during uh, registration. What a coincidence.

        I didn't care much for what we were doing in class, what tomorrow' homework was, next week's homework, extra credit, etc. The teacher was this one dude who was the adviser for the VSA club/organization, a pretty well-known one. Apparently this is his last year teaching here, or, maybe in general, but, here at least. He's a real chill dude. He described how some of the labs we were gonna do for the year would include, blood sampling, checking our pulses, urine sampling, digestive system simulations, etc. His descriptions and personality almost made me felt like I was okay with staying in Anatomy. ALMOST, okay, heh. I was like "Hmm, maybe Anatomy wouldn't be so bad after all."

        I take a look around the room to see who I'ma be sharing the learning space with, for now. Yep, just like my middle school buddy's buddy said, "There's barely any guys here." That is true. It was around, 80% girls, 20% guys, of which I'm totally okay about, if it weren't for it being Anatomy. One of the craziest things about all this is the person sitting in front of me. As the teacher was doing attendance, he called out the name of the person in front of me (by the way I'm sitting to the right-back of the room, 2nd column to the right, 2nd to last seat in that column).

        "Lk." Yeah, it was Lk. Normally it'd be whatever, but considering the history on what I know about her, I thought it was kinda funny finding her here, heh. "No wonder she's taking Anatomy." But anyways, not my problem anymore, just thought it was a bootleg twist the writers did. We did the boring syllabus stuff, did a bootleg activity on naming body parts, that was that. Next period I was hoping for something a bit more, ehhhh, enticing, more twisty. And that's a bit what I got, in fact, almsot all my classes currently have some bootleg twist to them, which, all the more makes the series start off with excitement.

        Next was AP Calc. The teacher had a very unusual name. Her last name was just two letters, her first name on the schedule was just one letter (because it couldn't fit apparently), so, it did look unusual. I thought, in my mind, it was a male teacher, and, a new AP Calc teacher, because there are only 2 AP Calc teachers. I look at the classroom number, went in, and oh boy. It was the teacher whom I got my schedule from, of which I felt a bit fearful, heh. She seemed just like my math teacher from the past 2 years, except, mark 2. Like, Ms. Blank 2 point 0. I'd say I'm fairlyaccurate with my description.

        I go in, the room's essentially empty, I was gonna sit down at what I thought was a nice spot before finding out there was a seating chart. I take a look at it, I find out that I'm sitting to the left of the classroom, the right-hand seat of the double column seats on the left, and 2nd to the last down it. I see some people who I recognize (don't talk to, but recognize). One of those people happen to be this one girl I had in AP Bio class. I know who she is, whom she associates herself with, but never really talked to her, except one time (literally, one time). And, of course, with her having the same last name as me, her seat's right next to mine.

        Now you'd think I'd be glad that it is what it is, and I gotta say (considering this is an AP class so, no real switching besides switching out, or, if you wanna miss out on some material), I am glad. Especially because I knew part of her nature, and I only knew her full nature after I greeted her and we had a convo about seniors. She asked me if I knew what my senior quote would be, and, being the fucker that I am, said "I don't know. Memes?" In this particular case, it worked, because she replied with "I'm thinking maybe fitting the whole Bee Movie script for mine's."

        Not gonna lie, that did make me laugh, heh. Well, I can say that my math partner is definitely one to enjoy working with. Besides the terminator that the teacher is, she does let us use our phones in class as long as we're not texting and we use it for Google searches/ calculating, so, there's that. There's a test tomorrow, I'm kinda scared, didn't study yet but I will after I finish this shit (at around maybe 11:00 PM. I'm thinking it's gonna take an hour to do this post, and, it's currently 10:25 PM). So there was that. Fortunately after this was break, and, didn't seem to find where the cast as they weren't at the table.

        I was like "Well, 4th year's the charm to go back to the usual spot for break times." Fortunately I ran into Jk aaand, we went to go look for more people to apparently "ward off" the freshmen who were sitting at our table (they were like piling on top of it). We found that Lw, DrewN, Ek, the rest of the cast were there telling off the freshmen and, we got it. Felt kinda bad for them but, hey, they're gonna get our tables next year, they can wait, like us. About an hour after we sat down, the bell rang, we headed for 3rd, which for me was Digital Art. Now I wasn't too crazy about it because I unfortunately realized I'd might need to change it to something else due to, changing to Korean class and class swapping and all that, you know the drill.

        But, when I discovered that my buddy Bd was in the same period as me, I felt a bit better. And, I'm sitting next to this one girl whom I think is a freshman. Whole class was almost 100% dudes, besides like 3, 4 girls, but it's whatever 'cause I got my buddy to meme around with. Also I've had this teacher before, and he's a chill dude, respects our work, creativity, encourages is, tells cool stories, rambles on a bit but I enjoy it. In fact, he spent about the entire class period talking about the class, what we're gonna do, etc, up until maybe the last 2 minutes or so. And yes, at this point, I'm conflicting whether or not I should stick with this schedule and ride it out, with how well it's going (besides the fact that I'ma probably die in Anatomy).

        After that was not lunch, but in fact 4th period, English. This one was real, disappointment really. Because my class is so far away from my English class, I basically missed out on the good seats. Good, meaning, not next to the teacher's desk, nor in the island in the middle where the whole class can stare you down, nor by yourself, nor next to a plant, nor being next to those with IQ's lower than -50. Now, I'm not looking down upon like, others' intelligence, it's just that, this is a bit too much freelo, that it's BORING. So I chose a seat that was probably the best seat out of all the bad seats, which was the seat to the left of the door-way, in front of a plant, next to the teacher's desk, and, seculded from the people I do know in the class (who were all in this one corner with each other).

        The rest of the people in the class, were those of who I mentioned before: the ones with -50 IQ's. Not saying they're intelligence is low, but, I'm saying they don't put as much effort into work or are as motivated as me. I know it's a basic English IV class (more like, English in general but whatever), but c'mon. An icebreaker game we played in class was that one game where you go in a circle, listing people's names and stacking it on and on. Shitty for the person at the end, awesome for the person starting it. I, both unfortunately and fortunately, was in the middle.

        That wasn't the problem. The game included alliteration, and so you'd go like "Hi I'm Drew, and I like dragons" and shit like that. The problem was, I don't think people knew what alliteration was until today. The teacher asked "Who here knows what alliteration is? Raise your hands." "One, maybe two, nope one." That one, was me. Now I know that corner group of people I was talking about, I know they know what alliteration is, but for the rest of the class, dear lord, kill me. That was, that was my thinking, just, kill me.

        The teacher however, was chill. He was essentially like my freshman English teacher who disappeared the next year, but a mark two. So it was like a Mr. Blank, 2 point 0. It's crazy, I know. Although he's hip and cool, it's not enough for me to want to stay in the class. So far, I'm willing to stay in 2nd and 3rd period only. This one I don't care to stay in (and considering it's 4th period, I'ma be switching to Korean with this one, and then Anatomy's gonna get removed and I'll be put in an English IV class for 1st period. Boom, it's perfect).

        Up next was 5th period American Government. The teacher I had, I knew was hip, cool, trendy. However the class, was just about the same as the last one. This was maybe the 2nd time I said "Kill me," heh. There's, there's nothing to offer but the cool teacher! The only person there really worth being in the vicinity of is that girl whom I sat next to in math last year (second semester), but she's the fucking T.A. And I do have to admit, I did try to impress her a bit with the icebreaker thing we all did in class, where we say our name, something about ourselves, the social science classes we liked or our thoughts on 'em, and, answer a question from the U.S citizenship test (which should be, common knowledge).

        I did so by saying I liked hiking and art, okay? That was it. And yes, that was the whole period. Currently it's 1st, 4th, and 5th I wouldn't have a problem throwing out the window. And finally, 6th period Chinese, 3 years in a row, of which I had the same teacher, same period. Except this time it was different. I'm walking towards there, I'm hoping to see who I'd be in the vicinity of for the rest of the year (didn't plan on swapping Chinese), I picked the Popsicle stick, it was number 1, I sit next to this one junior dude, which was not bad, not entirely bad. More and more people started coming in, a dude I know that plays video games like me sits to the back of the junior dude, it's alright, alright. Aaand, Zl, comes in, gets (or I should say, picked) seat #2, right behind me.

        I was expecting to pick our seats, but this is fine since we'll be rotating. And uh, after everyone got in, I took a look around. "Yep, this is bad." Not even kidding, but there were about 2, 3, maybe 4 seniors in the whole class. I'm serious. The rest, I did not recognize whatsoever, and I recognize a lot of people, but since I didn't I assumed they're all juniors, and not even the juniors whom I do know, besides some, of which sat right behind me. We did the simple stuff like going around, asking each other questions, going on the Chromebooks to do some online surveys (it went smoothly since everybody here has been with the teacher for about 3 years in a row now, so).

        And from there, I found out that the teacher only teaches Chinese 3 during 3rd, 4th, and 6th period, the rest, were Chinese 1. Wow, that uh, that does not fair well with what I had in mind to change my schedule. 3rd period Digital Art, I'd really like to keep, don't think my Digital Art teacher teaches it during 6th period, and uh, 4th I gott save for Korean, unless, I swap shit around and get Korean for 5th period, but, I don't know if my counselor can do all that, considering I got 5 minutes. Why 5 minutes? Well, tomorrow the counseling office is giving out 5-minute appointment slips, netting us 1 appointment each at some interval of the day.

        They're giving them out as early as 7:45 AM, so, I'll be waking up at 7:00 AM tomorrow, unfortunately. Even more unfortunately, it's 11:02 PM right now, and I gotta study for a test tomorrow. Hmmm. And you wanna know another nice plot-twist? When the teacher was calling out for attendance, she called out "Lt." Yep, I looked around the room too. I would've noticed her beforehand, but still, I was surprised. She wasn't here, the teacher asked her cousin where she was and he didn't even know. So yeah, there's a possibility that she'll be in the class, in the case that her schedule doesn't change and shit. Unexpected, huh?

        Besides that, nothing else too exciting. Lots of assignment posts on schoolloop, always something nice to see right. I actually went to the Korean teacher's room to ask her if she has enough space to teach another student. Unfortunately her classroom appeared to be closed, so I just left. Well anyways, hows that for a series premier, huh? Totally, entirely different from all the others, and damn, was that a series premier if I ever saw one. Definiftly, not one I was expecting.

        So what's there to do now? I got a lot of perfecting to do, like, my schedule, surviving for as long as I can 'till my schedule does get fixed, and see what it goes from there. I'm working on it all, I'm trying to get it all precisely refined. See ya.