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The past two days have made me happy:

1) Democrats take the House, and quite possibly the Senate!

2) Tuesday my English teacher told me that my grade (an 85) is a lot lower than it should be based on how good a writer I am and that I just need to boost my multiple choice tests and rock the next essay, and today she told me again today I'm one of the better writers in the class. I was feeling super unconfident about my writing, so that makes me feel much better. I'm going to reread Woman Warrior this weekend and really pay close attention and annotate it and crap and know it inside and out and do awesome on the essay Monday. Hopefully.

3) I enjoyed Veronica Mars last night (not one of my favorites, but I still thought it was pretty good, and next week looks awesome), and I have episodes of Studio 60 and House waiting to be watched.

4) I got my first A on a chem quiz in like a month today. This new unit makes me happy. Let's just hope my test next Friday goes the same way.

5) The girl I was going to tutor in FST realized she didn't need tutoring in FST because it's super easy, but she's struggling in honors chem because she has Mr. Tran, so I'm going to be tutoring her every week in that instead.

6) This isn't really about the last two days, but there's no school Friday and we're marching in a parade at Disneyland that day, so I'm looking forward to that.

And, lastly, 7) Rumsfeld steps down!

Good couple of days. :D

blah. I'm getting sick of this layout and have wanted a new one for awhile, so today I finally tried to make myself a new header, but... bleh. I've made like 500 different variations of the same header, just minor alterations each time, because I'm just not satisfied with it. And like half of me really loves it but the other half isn't sure, and I'm afraid I'm going to be sick with it in, like, a week. And the other problem is that I don't really know what colors would work well with it, especially for the very background of my LJ. So, I don't know. I think I'll try to make something else and if I hate what I come up with, I'll go back to this.

I meant to mention this yesterday, but ugh. Ok. I really love my English teacher and my English class, but my teacher got pregnant and had her baby a few weeks ago and now she's on maternity leave so we have this sub for 5 weeks who used to teach at my school so she can actually teach us stuff for English rather than us just sitting around for 5 weeks. But she's been starting to really irritate me. I mean she seemed really nice and sweet at first, but now... bleh. Like yesterday, we had group presentations and my group was making a point I totally didn't agree with (I had done my work separately from my group because they weren't really listening to me), but I had something that was kind of similar to their idea, just not as... extreme, maybe? So I started to explain my opinion, but before I had even reached my point, she totally cut me off and just said the exact same thing she had said about theirs (which was negative). And I'm like "...uh, could I even finish? Because that wasn't what I said at all." And so I finally did but then she just said the same thing she did before and totally missed my entire point. bleh. It really pissed me off. Only like 1 1/2 weeks left, though, and Mrs. Moore will come back.

Anyways. Ever since Seher totally screwed me over on Wednesday (well, ok, she didn't screw me over, but she caused me massive amounts of unneeded stress) she's been trying to talk to me like... all the time. Like she'll see me walking kind of near her and she'll come over and try to be all buddy-buddy, or at the beginning of class she'll come to my desk when I'm clearly trying to read something or do something else and start talking about other stuff, and it's like wtf are you trying to do? I think she's just trying to like... make me not be angry at her, but the more she bothers me, the more irritated I get. If she'd just leave me alone then maybe I could forgive her more easily. I mean, it's not like we were such great friends before all this anyways, so I don't understand why she's acting like we are all of a sudden. bleh.

Is it possible to have senioritis when I'm only a junior? Because I think I have it. I mean, before it was like... half of me wanted to be out of high school and get to go off to college, and the other half didn't want to leave my friends and life here and didn't want greater responsibility and work. But recently it's been... a lot more of me wanting to be out of high school and off to college. And it's not even that high school's becoming horrible because it's not, it's actually really great, far better than last year. But I keep looking into colleges for my assignment for my college counselor that I go to outside of school, and looking at courses you can take and stuff and I'll just be like "omg I want to take that course" or "omg it would be sooooo amazing to go there". I don't know, there are still good things about being here and being in high school, but right now I think the pros for going to college outweigh the pros for staying here. =/ At least next week I get to go to Boston and visit bunches of colleges. That should be excellent.

( Babbling about English )

So, I don't think I'm going to be around very much for the next four weeks. Four weeks from now is when I have my AP test and SAT II's and I also have a final in Euro the week before my actual AP Euro exam, and I really need to start studying for it. And of course next week I'll be in Boston. So yeah, I'm going to try to cut down on LJ time and TV (of course, there are some shows, such as Veronica Mars, that there's no chance I'm not seeing the second they air).

ugh. So, the thing I worked on with Galaxy and Arjun on Sunday, it's this ghost scene from Pride and Prejudice for English. And on Sunday, Arjun was all "Give what we have so far to me, I'll type it up and add stuff and then send it to one of you and you can add stuff" and so on. Well, I came up with the "We can pass it around and add stuff", but he volunteered to type and add first. So he sent it to Galaxy on Monday, and it was crap. I'm sorry. But everything he wrote was completely out of character and he changed so much stuff that we had already written, and it was just very bad. So Galaxy tried to fix it and add stuff back and we asked him for the original we wrote just because "we wanted to see something" (i.e. change everything back to how it was) and then this afternoon I started changing stuff and I edited everything closer to how it was and I edited later stuff as well and I was pretty pleased with how it was. It needed editing still and probably more things added, but it was better than it was. But then. Then. I went to send it to Galaxy and I saved it, except I forgot that I opened it from the email attachment she sent it to me and didn't choose save to computer, so saving it did nothing, and I didn't realize it until I already closed Word. ugh. So pissed at myself.

So yeah. Today has not been my day. (Actually, the math test third period went very well, as far as I could tell, so at least there's that. And English is always excellent, when we're not writing essays.)

Ah, speaking of English, today she tried to rush us through what we were learning because she didn't think we'd have time, but we ended up with like... 15-20 min at the end of class (that sounds like a lot, but it was a block period, which is 1 1/2 hours long, so yeah) and she was saying that we should start this other thing she didn't think we'd have time to get to but she said that she didn't want to teach us anymore. So then someone was all of a sudden, "We could watch Colin Firth dive into the lake!" because Mrs. Moore is totally in love with Colin Firth (she has magazine clippings of him on the wall of our English class. It's excellent) and she was all "OH! WE COULD TOTALLY DO THAT!" because she was saying we wouldn't have enough time to finish the whole thing in class, but she wanted to show us that scene, so she did, and it was excellent. I mean, I've already seen it, of course, but it's always excellent seeing it, and Galaxy's never seen the BBC version so she was especially giddy about it. And now on Saturday we're potentially watching all 5 hours of it in a row, since I've only seen it in chunks, never all straight through (and also I think I've become more obsessive since the last time I saw it), provided we can find a time that works for us.

Oh, and also, I wanted to mention, because it'd be appreciated here, that yesterday when everyone came over Zi was one of the people over and he was looking through the DVDs I have up above my TV and then he saw Firefly and was all "...is this? OMG YOU HAVE FIREFLY!!!" And it turns out he's this huge fan of Firefly and loved the show and loved Serenity and everything, and it was hilarious and awesome, because I'm not used to finding people who love shows like Firefly like I do that I haven't forced to watch the show myself. So yeah. It was awesome.

I found myself getting sucked into Lost tonight, which is kind of odd. I haven't been as into it recently. But I don't like Charlie as much as I did back at the beginning of the first season, and that makes me sad.

Today Galaxy and Arjun came over and we worked on our Pride and Prejudice project for English. We got... some stuff done, I guess. But we're nowhere near done. sigh. This project sounded kind of cool in theory, but I'm really disliking it now. I kind of felt bad for Arjun because Galaxy and I are such good friends and have known each other for so long and we've barely spoken to him ever so it was kind of just us talking a bunch and him sitting there. Oh well. I'm looking forward to this project being over.

( Charmed )

Bleh. School tomorrow. Not looking forward to it at all.