<p>Usually I'm the most laid-back person in the world, but this week has been crazy. </p>
<p>It's the last week before spring break. That means exams. But in every class we have an exam in, our teachers have given us a normal test the day before. Then we have our group 4 project due tomorrow. I have a huge annotated bibliography due in history tomorrow. I'm not doing my math homework because I think my A will be able to survive without it.</p>
<p>Last night I had a lacrosse game that was an hour and a half away (we lost) and my friend had to go to the hospital because of an injury in the game. I'm already on prescription strength ibuprofein, and my ankles started acting up during the game. I got home at 11, and didn't get to bed until 12. I set my alarm for 4:40 so I could finish some take home tests. I got up at 4:40, and realized there was no way I was ready to be awake yet. I slept until my dad woke me up at 6:10. At this point I decide that I am going to rebel against my teachers, and take a "snow day" (even though it's florida, and 80 degrees outside... haha).</p>
<p>So I got some more sleep, finished my bio take-home test. I'm about to go pick up my girlfriend from school and give her a ride, just because I need to see her to calm my nerves. Then I'll come home and do the annotated bibliography. Finally, I'll go finish our group 4 project at my friend's house, and maybe I'll be able to get a reasonable amount of sleep tonight.</p>
<p>To top it all off, I have to miss half of our lacrosse game against the hardest team in our conference because of stupid group 4 presentations. And I'm a starter... pshhhh.</p>
<p>Oh well, I just needed to vent. If you read that, thanks.</p>
<p>Tell me about it. This week has been one of the worst ever.</p>
<p>Monday wasn't too bad actually. I had a quiz and that was about it. It got really bad after school though. I had four math assignments and 52 index cards (research paper purposes) for English due the next day. On top of that, I had a math chapter test and a Spanish quiz as well. In the end, I decided to take the emergency plan I thought I would never ever have to go through.</p>
<p>I skipped school.</p>
<p>I still feel guilty about it. I've never cut class like that in high school. I've never missed a day for the past three years. So I just ruined my personal perfect attendance record. I mean, it's nothing really big, but it's like completing 99 of 100 things. You wished that you were able to complete the last one, but for some reason, you can't. Anyway, I'm planning on making up everything during my 85-minute free period tomorrow. I would've left school by 12:35, but thanks to all the stuff I missed, I have to stay. Wonderful.</p>
<p>The weather has been getting warmer, which means that I'm getting more and more allergic. I was teary-eyed and runny-nosed the whole day today. On top of that, I had a Spanish vocab quiz, and I lost the vocab the sheet. I had to cram the words in 5 minutes before the quiz.</p>
<p>Then there're the stupid summer programs that I still haven't started applying to and of course, APs/SATs. </p>
<p>It has been so aweful... Spring Break isn't for three weeks, but at least we have no exams.</p>
<p>//rant
Academic team on Monday was terrible - our coach decided to invite some of the stupidest sophmores he could find, put them in against the hardest team, and make me the captain since I am 'calm and levelheaded.' I couldn't take it - Houston does not have a rocket launchpad, tangent is not positive in quadrents 2 and 4, and carbon is not a synthetic halogen. At least he said most of them won't be invited back.
Apparently, I also caught stomach flu. I've been sick for two days, and all my community college classes deduct a percentage of the assignment if you aren't at class to either take the test or turn it in. It makes sense because most of the people there are huge slackers, but there is no way anyone wants me to go and start vommiting during our test on 'Lazarillo de Tormes'.
//end rant</p>
<p>I hope you guys have nice spring breaks and that everything starts to go better....</p>
<p>Wow, you all have breaks that start way earlier than mine. It doesn't start until mid-April.</p>
<p>I hope the rest of our week (the next two school days) end up better.</p>
<p>And even though I'm sick, I'm going to the premiere of She's the Man (it looks so pathetic, but it's free, so why not?), which should be fungiven if I haven't passed out from my cough medicine, lol.</p>
<p>Exams for me were two weeks ago. Can you hear 3am bed every night!?! Yeah, it was hell. Now a new trimester started. My teachers are nice enough to know that now that grades are in, a lot of us would like to start on a new page, and they are being nice about that.</p>
<p>Sorry to disagree with y'all but this has been one of the best weeks ever. I got a 95 on my chemistry exam, a 98 on my history exam, and a 96 on my Spanish exam. So far so good, but I have a english and a math exam tomarrow...</p>
<p>Even my teachers were saying "It's only Wednesday?"</p>
<p>Spring break starts next Friday, and since it's third quarter (most meaningless one), we're just crawling along. English class has been fun - we've been watching Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, which has been really enjoyable. I've also been reading Catch-22. </p>
<p>The only bad bit of this week was taking the AP art history test on Monday and getting a 79. But I don't care, I still have an 86 average in that class.</p>
<p>Track has been pretty good too. On Monday we ran a 600, 500, and a 400; yesterday we split up the sprinters into two groups (me and another 4x400 guy picked the teams) and did a 400m relay race (my team won, of course) and then a 200m relay (won again). Today we just did 5 200s, going pretty hard. </p>
<p>Now I'm eating a Mexican Pizza from Taco Bell and about to continue Catch-22. I plan to read Brave New World, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Things They Carried, and The Awakening by the end of next week. Unfortunately I started with the longest book, but now that I've started, I can't put it down.</p>
<p>ugh YES it was a horrible week. I began the week off with a Lit test. Now i was sick the week before and so my lit teacher said I could make up the lit test on monday morning. but then i arrive at 6:30 am and voila, shes not there. how UNRELIABLE. so then i simply take half of the test at 7:00 am and the second half afterschool. and i ended up getting an 81% on the test, dropping my A in lit to a stupid 85.8%, and upon seeing this, my counselor said it was 'atrocious' since he knows that i am good at lit and am looking towards english and humanities as a major.</p>
<p>anyhoo, thats not the major thing.
I go to a VERY competitive hs and my best friend has caught the contagious disease of 'Overachiever'. She is CONSTANTLY complaining about how her spanish teacher dropped her grade from an A to a B, and the only logical explanation for this is she probably screwed up somewhere. Whenever her grade drops, she ALWAYS blames it on the teacher. She thinks that she is SUCH a good writer and honestly, she needs to stop idolizing herself. It makes me sick. and so for the past week, I've been just getting some space and sitting alone by myself at lunch. So when she asks me why im being so antisocial, I cant say that its HER. yah. and she thinks sheS THE BEST writer. quite frankly, the only thing she can write is sob stories. she wants to apply for the high school newspaper (which i am applying for and have a burning passion for) because she thinks shes like the best writer. i want to scream at her that newspaper writing isnt writing up some crap sobstory. that isnt journalism. UGH >:[</p>
<p>theripcurl, I try. I haven't read a new book in a while (but I've reread a bunch of mine), but that's because my library card has $20 in late fees and they won't let me take out books until I pay that off.</p>
<p>But then my AP Lit teacher gave us an assignment where we choose a book not previously studied and write a six page paper (due like next month). We need our topics soon though. So then I went to my college counselor's office because she used to be my English teacher and said, "Hey, could I borrow some books?" So I grabbed a bunch of them off the shelves and now I'm caught up in reading again. Fear and Loathing was lent to me by a friend.</p>
<p>Currently, I'm taking a break from Catch-22 and reading The Things They Carried.</p>
<p>hmmm this week I started to do better in my blow off international affairs class, achieving 100 percent on all of the hw and doing extra credit, and now I have a C instead of last week's B. (The teacher is horrible!) I have an A/- in every other class but this ****ing blowoff. My teacher has lost my assignments and "forgotten" to enter others, and it's not my fault. The stoners have 100% in that class, and I have a 75...
Not to mention I had to write 2 takehome impromptu essays for ap lit this morning, and one was by Henry James...5 paragraphs and all you deduce is "he said hello", and then the other was robert frost and emily dickinson...needless to say I completely misanalyzed them. AND we had a total of 40 calculus assignments due today on the big test day...now i have a calculus project 2 weeks worth of calculus hw, and international affairs project, and the entire don quixote reading to finish for monday.
Hey, but we're going rock climbing and scuba diving this week in my outdoor gym class!</p>
<p>I had an essay in AP euro due today and a quiz in euro, a test in Spanish and one in chem yesterday...</p>
<p>Friday morning the orchestra's leaving to play at some conference...I haven't gotten any of my teachers to sign the permission slip. I'm missing a euro lecture on WWI (probably the second one so far that I was actually looking forward to - the other one was the lecture on Marx). I'm missing a weekly vocab quiz in English, and the make-up assignment entails copying the 25 definitions 5 times each and writing 2 sentences for each of them. My orchestra teacher planned a concert out of nowhere tomorrow night, when I was supposed to be packing for the trip. Over the weekend I'll need to do the Calculus hw, stats hw, spanish hw, read a couple of chapters of 1984, do that monster vocab assignment, and do a bunch of euro outlines - sometime on the bus.</p>