Looking Upwards

Recently, I've been having a lot of trouble with Chemistry. I honestly, just haven't understood the chapter we're currently working on. But today, things are looking up. My teacher explained everything I wanted to know, so now I understand most of the chapter, she put in my extra credit so my grade's up to an 85, which I will definitely be able to jack up to a 90- something so I can get all A's again. She also announced what the extra credit essay is so I can start working on it and get some more extra credit. Now I'm about to start studying so I can ace the test we have tomorrow (supposedly it might be postponed until Monday, we'll see though).

Last weekend, the day of the Oscar's, my Dad and I went and saw No Country for Old Men, which was incredible and definitely earned the honor of Best Picture. The bad guy in that movie was crazy creepy. His main weapon through the movie was some sort of oxygen tank that shot gas into people at super high speeds like a completely silent gun. It was sooooo weird, but amazing at the same time. I definitely recommend it, even though it had a sort of Sopranos-ish ending.

Okay, I'm gonna go study for Chemistry, and hopefully go to bed at a decent hour.

stress.

I'm a little stressed out right now. I have a Japanese Test tomorrow, I have to finish some sort of an art project, I have a field trip on Wednesday (which I'll have to miss a test for), and I have a C in chemistry cause my teacher gave me a zero for something I definitely did. For those reasons, I'm shredding a little in the mind. I can't get a C in chemistry. It just can't happen.

Coolie Oolie

I saw "There Will Be Blood" today with my Dad during my sister's DI meeting. It was the weirdest thing. It wasn't a really defined story line (it just oversaw this one man's life), but it was still an amazing movie and it kept my attention the entire time. Daniel Day Lewis was amazing, as always, in the movie. He's such a good actor, you can't imagine him as portraying any one else, even though he's done a great deal number of other movies. I definitely recommend it. Next weekend my we're going to see "No Country for Old Men" since we both love the Coen brothers, who wrote and directed it. I'm excited.

I'm still on my Alice in Wonderland stint. Today I made an Alice in Wonderland shrinky dinks necklace (nothing better to do). I love the Alice-Reggie pairing sooo much, so do all my friends, which makes it all the better. My friends have different interests so its good to have something we can all relate to. Tomorrow I most likely won't update, I have an orthodontist appointment and I'm getting my new "The Looking Glass Wars" book. I'm excited!

Almost sick.... Again.

I think I'm getting a cold again. My throat's super froggy. I feel gross. I'm really tired too.

Today was slow and boring. Almost went to a pep rally, but they let ALL of the freshmen in before the Sophomores so none of us got in. It SUCKED. I also got another 5 letters from college's that I had to sign up to get information from. All of this annoys me.

On a positive, I started reading The Looking Glass Wars. It's very good. The artist Bri-chan on deviantart (www.bri-chan.deviantart.com) inspired me to start reading it. I definitely recommend checking out her Alice in Wonderland comics, the pairings a little awkward, considering it's Hatter and Alice, but it's absolutely adorable. It's my new fandom. I love it.

BEST DAY EVER!

Okay, today was ah-mazing. Not because it was Valentine's Day (gag), but, because, believe it or not, science fair. Usually science fair's a drag, but this year it was AWESOME. First, it got me out of Japanese (I hate that class with a firey passion) forty-five minutes early. Then, I got to miss all of second period, and some of third, while me and all of my Summit friends waited to be judged. During this whole thing, there was a fire drill and laying under tables where the boards were on.

After we were judged, I went to my third period class and checked in. But it turns out we weren't doing anything in that class, I ate lunch and met back up with some of my friends that were chilling in my English Classroom and stayed there for the remainder of third period. It was soooo much fun, and soooooo crazy.

Then the pain of Valentine's Day came back, and now I feel more emo than usual.

P.S.

This is the only picture on my Camera that I'm actually in, but I look really bad. Figured what the heck, why not. My friend Win looks really good in it though.

Icy Traffic

My mom, my sister and I were coming back from Annapolis Mall today (we had off school because of primaries) and we had ice on and off all day. So, of course, we got stuck in beyond crazy traffic. We were shuttled from road to road, hitting slowed speeds. Eventually we were about five-ten miles from home and we were stuck in dead stopped traffic. We weren't moving. It ended up taking us an hour to drive what would've taken fifteen on a regular day. It sucked. There's still freezing rain, so we'll probably have at least a two hour delay. Fingers crosssed.

This evening, while doing my impossible geometry that NO ONE knows how to do, I watched the movie Across the Universe. The music was good, but overall the movie was pretty boring. I really didn't like it. It was confusing, but eventually I got the gist of it. I wouldn't recommend it.

>.< shun the nonbelievers

I'm a little hyper today, even though I have a headache. My mom and I are cleaning off my bookshelves so I have a place to put my make up, then I'm gonna chill. I need to go to Sephora to get some new liquid eyeliner too, but I'll probably do that tomorrow. OH, I figured out how to draw people accurately (finally) so I think I'm gonna start a webcomic I've been meaning to start. *thumbs up* Here's hoping it turns out good.

Government

I've been working very hard for the past three hours to finish my government summaries for our chapter project, as usual, but I needed an emotional break (not really, I'm just side tracked, but an emotional break sounds better). One of my best guy friends turns 16 tomorrow, and he's having an all guy XBOX 360 party tonight. The problem though, is that all of my guy friends are friends with him so I'm incredibly bored. Even my best guy friend isn't texting me at this point. It's been over two hours. *sigh* He must be having fun. I'm wicked jealous, considering I'm so bored my brain might melt.

Today has sucked pretty bad. My dad took me out to play tennis again today. He made me run laps like a real coach would, so, yeah, it sucked. I hate running with a firey passion. I mean, it hurts, I don't look good running, and I'm not fast AT ALL. Especially not for long distances. Also, we had Mexican food for dinner (I really don't like it) so I didn't eat much. Also, I had to rehabilitate my computer yesterday (pretty much wipe the harddrive back to factory state), so I spent today moving all my music back, but I'm not sure I got it all, so it's probably all curropted. This whole deal was caused by AIM 6.5, which curropts files on Windows Vista and just causes problems. I almost lost sound, but whatever.

Good news is though, my webcam works now! Hopefully I can use it soon, for something. I dunno what yet though.... I'll figure it out eventually.

Another thing that happened today was that my friend Heather came and visited, she moved back in 8th grade to North Carolina, and she moved back earlier this school year. It was nice to see her.

Me and my dad are going to the mall tomorrow, I need an outfit for a lobbying day thing that's going on at school. We're going to the state capital so I need a professional outfit and shoes too. We're gonna go to Tyson's Corner, which is one of my favorite malls because of how massive it is, and all the nice resturaunts too. It has a huge Nordstroms, a Bloomingdales, a ginormous Sephora, and a big Lord and Taylor. It's a reasonably long drive though, so I'll have to load up my Zune.

Out for Blood

I've been beyond stressed. I'm getting a B in chemsitry because our teacher has been giving us tests on stuff that have nothing to do with what she's teaching us, so I end up studying the wrong thing and getting bad grades. So now, I have to raise my grade at LEAST 10 percentage points, which will be near impossible. I haven't done this bad all year, two quarters, doing the same routine and doing FANTASTIC, then third quarter comes and everything's crazy hard. I have 5 weeks to bring my grade up. I have to buckle down and NOT FAIL. Also I have a test on monday in government, and I'm barely scraping an A in there so I have to at least get an A or a high B to keep it that way.

So, now I need to start on my most recent project so I can go to the mall this weekend. I need an outfit for the SGA lobbying day that's coming up in two weeks, that looks half decent. Another thing on my agenda is that I have to pick three elective alternatives to put on my registration for next year. I have NO idea what I'm gonna take. No idea whatsoever. Ugh. School sucks.

I reallly want to go to this Spring Gala that's at the Kennedy Center in May. It's a big tribute to the best of movies and music in movies featuring the national Symphony Orchestra. It's being conducted by John Williams!!! How amazing is that??!! But we can't go, it's at least $1,000 a plate, just for one person, and you get crappy seats. I still want to go though, I haven't had many opportunities this year to buy a really nice formal dress, at least, not as many as I usually have.

Now, I'm gonna go take a shower and work on my government project. It shouldn't be too bad. I wanna finish about half of it today, then half tomorrow, and all the extra stuff on Saturday. Wish me luck.


P.S. These are two of my favorite music videos right now. Check it!




(Even though this is more of a movie than a music video, Jared Leto is HOT. End of story. That's all there is.)

hug an asian day

Today was the hug asian day event on face book, and thursday is hug a blond day... here's what I want to know, WHEN IS HUG THE BRUNETTE GIRL DAY???? I NEED LUV.