brokenrecord

My lesson this morning actually wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be. He said he was being nice to me because my mom wasn't there. I'd think that would have the opposite effect, but whatever. Plus, I'll have at most one more lesson before my 2 months of no lessons, and I may not even have that one. I think it's Labor Day.

Band camp starts tomorrow! Insanity. That means registration's just one week away (yay!) and schools' a little more than 2 weeks away (darn.).

I did some summer reading! [is proud] I'm up to either chapter 4 or 5 in the Jane Austen mystery book. I'm not enjoying it that much, but it's not as bad as other books I've had to read for school, so I'll deal. I just need to get through these books, and possibly read How the Irish Saved Civilization twice, since it's the book required for honors, and I'm betting we'll have to write an essay on it on like the first day. Maybe the second, if they're feeling kind.

I got my STAR report back (standardized tests we take in CA every spring). I did best in Algebra 2 which is, duh, not surprising. And worst in Coordinated-Science 2 which, again, not surprising. I did a lot better in History than I thought I would, though. I got 496/600, which is the same I did in English. I got 523/600 for Algebra 2 and 391/600 for CS-2 (eep. 1 point away from no longer being in the "Advanced" category. How terrible). In science, I shomehow did best in Biology/Life Sciences. wtf? That's my worst subject! It's probably because like... they give the same science test to you freshman year and sophomore year, even though in freshman year there's a bunch of stuff you haven't learnt yet. CS-2 is pretty much all biology/life sciences, so it makes sense I would do well on that. I did worst in Investigation and Experimentation (...I don't even know what that means. Science fair stuff? Figures.) at 50% (heh. That's bad.) and then Earth Sciences which makes sense as we haven't done any of that since freshman year. Um, yes. I don't know why I just wrote all of this up, either. These scores have absolutely no relevance at all, except they reflect on the school I guess, but whatever, as long as it doesn't hurt my college chances or anything. I think I just wrote all this to delay returning to my summer reading. I suppose I should get back to it now.

Edit: Oh, heh, I remembered for the tests they tested us on Eurpoean History for the history part because most sophomores take Euro and juniors take US History, except our school is backwards so our sophomores take US History and then some juniors take Euro and we take a Euro-type class called Global freshman year, and yeah, the point of this horrific run-on sentence is that that makes it even more surprising that I did that well on history. I must be a good guesser. Also, watch as Lulu (violetmist2003) posts that she got 600/600 in every category, because it'd just be like her to do that well. >:O

I hate the day after the X Games. I get so invested in it and excited about it, that when it's over, it's just like... a huge crash. And of course, it doesn't help at all that QAF ended last night so I'm crashing from that as well.

To make things worse, of course today has to be a Monday and I had to have a tenor sax lesson. blah. And then, when we were starting the car to leave, the battery started to die. The car would barely start up. So we went to the place (...the dealership? My mind is totally dead right now, but I think that's the correct word) and then left the car and rented another. We should have the car back by tomorrow, but it was still annoying to have to go through. I tried to use the oppurtunity to convince my mom to buy me a car since we were surrounded by hundreds of cars waiting to be sold but it didn't work (...not that I really expected it to).

Tonight is another SAT diagnostic test. sigh. But it's the last one until the actual test in October, so I'll deal. We only have SAT class Tuesday and Wednesday this week, and then it's over. Then I have my first full week of being able to do absolutely nothing all day of summer break. The week after that, band camp starts, and then school. eck.

So, yeah. I'm looking forward to it being Thursday. At the very least, I'm looking forward to this day being over.

edit: Lulu, I finally made your header. I checked it against your layout and I think it looks all right. I also have a fully black and white version if you want to use that instead. Hope you like it. :) If you don't, just let me know what you want changed and I'll try to make a better one.