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[Mar. 25th, 2007|09:48 pm] |
Re: School
Apathy sets in.
Screw it. There are more important things, at this point.
Hear that, Yarchi? I'm not letting you win. I could stress over the poor grades you give my papers but I'm not going to, and I'm not going to stay up all night revising this paper either. I'm going to bed and I'm going to get a good night's sleep and I'm going to spend tomorrow shooting things with arrows. I'm going to get the best grade on the AP test out of anyone in the class, excepting Jessie, so I don't give a damn how well or badly you think I write. |
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[Mar. 25th, 2007|04:59 pm] |
"All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at
their peril."
--The Picture of Dorian Gray |
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[Mar. 19th, 2007|01:01 pm] |
El examen AP de la lengua española me da mucho miedo.
Yo estudio en una clase de español IV... pero no es una clase, de verdad. Es parte de la clase de español III, y nosotras en español IV sentamos al lado del salón, y hacemos nuestra tarea del libro (y sí, también es un libro de la clase de español III).
Yo busco por el internet, y veo otros estudiantes yendo a presentar el examen AP, y han estudiado español por 5 años... y no puedo creerlo. ¿Que yo presente el mismo examen que ellos? ¡Increíble! Es muy simple -- yo no puedo lograr un '5'... no puedo lograr un '4'... ni un '3', yo creo. ¿Un '2'? Es la misma nota que yo logré en el examen AP de química.
Me *encanta* el español, así que me encantan todas las lenguas. Pero no puedo escribirlo, ni hablarlo, ni oírlo tan bien que los otros estudiantes, en otros colegios, que han sido preparado mucho mejor que yo.
Creo, que no podré hacerlo. :( |
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[Mar. 5th, 2007|03:20 pm] |
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No one should be allowed to have to put together a newspaper by themselves. That is not how newspapers work.
I can't write headlines, dammit. Where is that team of editors we used to have, who knew what they were doing? Cause I sure don't feel like I do anymore.
Trying to put together 8 pages...when you do not have 8 *stories* in, to begin with...is a bad idea.
I have much more important things to be wasting my time on than this. |
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[Feb. 27th, 2007|08:07 am] |
What do I wanna take spring quarter at UC Clermont?
Certain -
Beginning ASL III - Thursday nights 6:30-9:10
Possible -
Vietnam War - Wednesday nights 6:30-9:10
Plagues & Witches - Wednesday nights 7:00-9:40 (I may be falling asleep during this class) -- "Social history of lowest levels of medieval society and how they lived and survived under control of the nobility and church. Devastation of the Black Death and the social upheaval of the witch hunts."
Painting I - Wednesday nights 6:30-9:10 - Have to see if there's a prerequisite for this one
Philosophy & Sexuality - Monday nights 6:30-9:10
Women in Art - Wednesday afternoons 4:00-6:40 (couldn't the damn thing end just a *little* sooner?)
I could take Women in Art and Plagues & Witches, leaving me prettymuch no time at all on Wednesday nights to do anything else. I don't know if I wanna take 3 or just 2 classes this quarter. Just having 2 classes this quarter was really easy. Philosophy & Sexuality sounds really interesting.
Hmmm. *ponders* |
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| I write like a goddamn literary critic now, and a bad one at that |
[Dec. 11th, 2006|11:52 pm] |
AP English essays have killed my ability to write journalism articles.
:( |
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| MSN convos are hard to read, sorry |
[Dec. 7th, 2006|09:00 pm] |
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| | Pink Martini - Let's Never Stop Falling In Love | ] |
[Ben] I have teeth again! says:
Drop-bears and hoop snakes aren't real, though
Joy says:
XD
[Ben] I have teeth again! says:
They're a nation-wide conspiracy against foreigners.
Joy says:
Thanks for that Ben.
[Ben] I have teeth again! says:
^^
[Ben] I have teeth again! says:
They're a giant Australian joke for anyone from America or Britain.
[Ben] I have teeth again! says:
'cos it's fun to watch Yanks avoid trees.
Joy says:
rofl
Joy says:
Do people actually fall for it?
[Ben] I have teeth again! says:
Yup.
Joy says:
That's amazing.
[Ben] I have teeth again! says:
One of the teachers I went to school with was in the Army reserves.
[Ben] I have teeth again! says:
They were out with a British unit
[Ben] I have teeth again! says:
And when they were digging trenches, they put all their dirt behind the trench, while the Poms put theirs in front
[Ben] I have teeth again! says:
When the Poms asked about it, my teacher and his unit said "So when the hoop-snakes roll down, they hit the dirt and fly over the trench. If the dirt wasn't there, they'd fall straight in."
[Ben] I have teeth again! says:
The next day all the British trenches had their dirt moved behind.
Nooo moooore college classes until January.
-No more scapegoats ("Please don't make this due tomorrow, Mrs. Yarchi... I have a 5-page paper to do tonight for my History class")
-No more Sign Language D:
-No more 5-page papers (except for English)
-No more actually studying for tests (except for Calc)
-No more annoying driving back and forth, rushing in the afternoons and driving home tired in the nights
-No more class rules and schedules that actually make sense
Next quarter I'm signed up for ASL 2 and Medical Anthropology, Wednesday and Thursday nights. Which works out well because I won't have to bother D'Ann to change my work schedule (it took her about two months to change it the first time...).
Anyway. Winter yay! One more week of school! Then winter break will go by in a flash and all I'll have to look forward to is spring break. Meh.
(Optimism? What's that?)
~Joy feels lazy. |
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[Nov. 29th, 2006|10:54 pm] |
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Damn.
I think World War I is my favourite class I've ever taken.
Tonight was the final class, sadly. Next week is the exam. So we wrapped everything up, talked about the Treaty of Versailles and the impact of the war and such, and I'm taking a step back and looking at my half-a-composition-book-ful of notes and all my handouts and everything we've done in what, only 9 weeks?
Crazy.
Best class ever, Joy? Really?
Yeah, I think so. For what I got out of it and everything overall, yeah.
That's not to say I was excited to go to class every week (I wasn't looking forward to going tonight at all, actually. I wanted to stay home.). There were some lectures too, that bored me to death. You can tell a lot about how interested I'm in a subject by the notes I take. For say, 75% of the classes in this course, there are pretty detailed notes organised well with minimal doodling. When you get to the night we talked about the naval war... I'm pretty sure that after about a page of notes I just stopped writing them period, and doodled or fell asleep for the rest of the time.
The class wasn't easy, either. Definitely not. There's a lot of concepts, and a lot of things to wrap your head around. It was challenging, but not discouragingly hard. Yeah, I worked for 5+ hours to finish a homework assignment, but how fulfilling did it feel once I got it done? How great did I feel to have it passed back and I got an A on it? Hard work paying off is always nice. (To contrast with my other two college classes: I worked pretty hard on my Sociology term paper and got a 75 on it. I didn't work hard at all on my Sign Language book report, and it wasn't really very good either, and I got a 100.)
Like I've said before, it helps that I like the topic. I'm not going to be taking Mr. Westheider's WWII class next quarter, because it would probably kill me. The teacher is absolutely awesome, but I just would not be motivated to do it.
The first time we ever went over WWI at school was in 9th grade. Gawd, Mrs. Napier was the worst. I don't entirely blame her, because if I had to teach freshman history all day for years on end I would probably be horrible to everyone too. But the next year, Spitzer was our teacher, and he was the best.
He put a big emphasis on the cause and effect of the war, and he motivated me to go and read All Quiet on the Western Front and he was just a young, hip and totally awesome teacher. He knew lots of random stuff and was just this big, fantastically huge nerd.
Anyway it's probably all Spitzer's fault that I like WWI.
Fantastic class. I'm so glad to have taken it. Very rewarding, and I learned a ton. And I've got two history books in my bag right now as a direct result of the class, that I'm now reading for pleasure.
Gaah, I'm turning into Faye! I shouldn't be reading history books! Hell, I shouldn't even be reading nonfiction! What's wrong with me? :P
~Joy's changed this past year, though probably not for the worse. |
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[Nov. 29th, 2006|06:14 pm] |
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Senior pictures are here. Who wants 'em? I want yours if you got 'em. I have a nice little photo album I want filled. XD
Maybe I'll write a nice letter to go along with it. Y'know, with pretty illustrations and stuff. I'll probably write it during AP Calc when everyone else is paying attention to finding the highest point of a parabola or some ridiculous stuff like that.
I pay attention to my other classes, I swear. It's just I don't give a rat's ass about math at all. I'm still doing pretty well in it. I think I have a B. Which isn't what I'd like, but...
I probably have a higher grade in Math than in English. At least in Math I know for sure that I get something right or wrong. In English, it's all a matter of interpretation. I'll probably never get a perfect score on an English paper this year.
Realised something the other day. On the weekends and at the beginning of the week, the days that I'm working, all I can ever talk about is work. It helps that two of my best friends work at the same place as me, but I can't talk about anything else. And then from Tuesday through Friday, all I can ever talk about is school.
I'm sick of it. Meh.
Not like I have much time to do anything else. I can't remember the last time I went out and saw a movie. Ah well.
Applied to OSU. Cross your fingers for me I guess. :)
Christmas season is nearly upon us! (Or already upon us, depending on who you ask.) I've started my shopping. Got through about half my list, but my list is pretty short.
Winter makes me happy.
~Joy wants more snow. |
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| What the hell should I take next quarter? |
[Nov. 15th, 2006|05:16 pm] |
Winter quarter registration at UCC opens soon. I still have next to no idea what I'm taking.
Things I know:
-I want to continue with Sign Language, Thursday nights.
-I do NOT want to continue with Sociology.
-WWI is a one-quarter class. :( Even though it took me about 7 hours to do one homework assignment, I really like the class and the teacher is funny and I'm interested in the subject matter. But if I were to take any other history class like that, on, say, the Revolution (sorry Faye) I think I would probably die.
-I can't take any class that starts before 3:30 or so.
-Almost everything offered in the 2nd quarter (2nd quarter out of 3... I know, it doesn't make any sense, but summer counts as a quarter too) is a continuation of another course.
-Any other remotely interesting course has some kind of prerequisite. All the English courses and computer courses and art courses do.
-I don't think I could handlle any more than 3 classes, but 3 classes is a good balance.
Right now I'm looking at Medical Anthropology, Intro to Modern Philosophy, and Intro to Psych. I can only take two of those three, not only because of the whole I-wanna-take-3-classes thing, but also because of schedule conflicts.
However, all those classes are relatively similar, so if I can get some more variety that'd be good.
SO! O ye all who are or have been in college already: Any suggestions? I know you don't know what all I have to choose from, but if you know some classes that are cooler than they sound, do tell. For instance, if you took Underwater Basketweaving last semester and IT WAS TEH COOLEST CLASS EVAH!, tell me.
Or, you know, anyone else can pipe in too.
I dunno. Just help me out here. :P |
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[Oct. 25th, 2006|08:31 pm] |
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I guess I should be really grateful to Mrs. Beckett, our APUS teacher last year, for making us write all those essays every week. Because I never would be able to write those stupid short history essays in one hour without that.
I had my midterm tonight in WWI. I'm not going to say that I aced it, because I don't know that. If it were a high school class, then yeah I totally aced it. But being that it's not, I can't say. The teacher doesn't like to give As.
What I do know is I worked my butt off on it. Last night I was printing out a bunch of Wikipedia articles relating to the essay topics, this morning and during Spanish I was reading them over and highlighting, during English I was making outlines, during 5th bell I was all over the internet doing more research. I haven't worked so hard preparing for something like this in a long, long time.
...It's a good thing I only picked post-secondary classes that I'm interested in. Otherwise I think I would be completely burnt out about now.
Woooooo the midterm is over, and next week we have a guest speaker coming in to talk about poetry and literature and stuff! Which sure beats that week when we had an entire class about the naval war, when I actually ended up falling asleep...
~Joy hasn't fallen asleep in aaaany of her other college classes, but BOATS ARE BORING K? |
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[Oct. 22nd, 2006|10:07 pm] |
Slithy Joy: ...all of my 10 required service hours this quarter are going to be between two different things.
Slithy Joy: These coloring pages, and a Honduran girl I help at the elementary school.
Slithy Joy: It's been 2 hours coloring these things already.
HemlockMartinis: How many pages do you have to color?
Slithy Joy: I'm about halfway through
Slithy Joy: lessee..
Slithy Joy: hahahaha, there's only like 25 of them total
Slithy Joy: but I've been spending forever on them
HemlockMartinis: Haha wo.
Slithy Joy: It's like, a bingo board and I have to color pumkpins and tombstones on them and stuff.
HemlockMartinis: This is obviously vital service to the community.
Slithy Joy: yup
Slithy Joy: the little kids will have something to keep them quiet on Halloween
HemlockMartinis: Horse tranquilizers do the same thing. |
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| So this is higher education, then? |
[Oct. 19th, 2006|10:29 pm] |
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History teacher:
"Are you being followed?
"...by students, I mean.
"I meant, there's a new stalking class here and they're doing their midterm."
I got an A- on my history paperrrrr! :) I worked my butt off on that thing, and the teacher doesn't give many As.
Tuesday in Sociology we talked about Sapir-Whorf. :]]
And the teacher was talking about how Angel and Devil's Food Cake are racist terms. It was the biggest load of crap I've heard in quite some time.
Today in Sociology we played Monopoly.
Yeah. Monopoly and The Game of Life.
Then I had to meet up with some people in my ASL class to practice for the midterm.
Speaking of which...
ASL club has increased my vocabulary triplefold, if not more. Hooray!
As I said in that, I haven't been home all day and I'm really really tired. But as I also said (or tried to say), something really cute happened today too.
During my free bell (when I normally work on Journalism stuff and/or screw around on the computer), Jessica and I went over to the elementary school to help Yessica.
She's the cutest thing on Earth, have I mentioned that yet?
So I had a post-it note out for her and she was drawing stuff. Jessica was trying to get her to say the letters and Yessica started writing something on the paper.
'choe', it read.
Choe?
She pointed to me.
Say it quickly a few times. Choe, Joy, Joy, Choe.
Golly she's cute. *grin*
Okay so now I am tired and hungry and I have an English paper to work on and also eat and shower and presumably I'm going to sleep at some point after that. I guess.
~Choe |
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| Things never do work out. |
[Oct. 10th, 2006|12:19 pm] |
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Um.
The Costa Rica trip was canceled.
And the teacher organizing it has lymphoma (caught it in the early stages, so he should be okay, or so I'm told).
It was apparently canceled last week and no one told me. No emails, no announcements, no nothing. We already paid some $300 as a deposit, I don't know what's going to happen with that. With any luck we'll get it back, but who knows.
So now some things have changed. Not all of it bad, I guess. I'm still really disappointed. Now:
-I can save my money for other things
-I can get the rest of my PE credit in the springtime, instead of having to take a whole semester of PE
-I won't have to deal with taking off work for a week/making up college stuff
-I...uh...won't have to get a passport? It's getting tougher to find the bright side of this the more I think about it.
Meh. This is what happens. Things seem to be going really well and you get yourself all psyched up about it, and then it just gets knocked down. |
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[Sep. 27th, 2006|10:24 pm] |
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"I don't want to go to English, Joy!"
"Me neither!"
"Let's kill each other at the same time so we don't have to go."
"...no, thanks."
(that's a lot funnier if you know the girl who said it, Sammie. She's all bright and happy and a gymnast and really not the kind of person to make such a dark joke. I was surprised.)
Today was a half-day at school (we got out at 11), but as always it seemed just as long as a normal day and I didn't get a lot out of my extra 3 hours. I went to the bank with my dad and set up an account to cash my paychecks into (I got my first on Friday, huzzah! But I need to save most of it, for Costa Rica et al.). Then I took a nap. I also had to taxi Paula around a lot today, which is just starting to get on my nerves.
The WWI class continues to be awesome. It's a little tedious when we're going over each individual battle, but for the most part I'm completely interested.
We also talked about the Christmas truce today. :]
Also, the teacher compared France's Plan 17 to the movie Plan 9 from Outer Space. XD
Sociology yesterday was kind of annoying. UC Clermont is a community college, which means they let anyone in who wants in and there are a wide variety of students, from high school age to regular college kids to middle-aged parents continuing their education. I'm completely fine with that, and it's kind of cool at times getting different perspectives and whatever.
In the Soc class, there's a lot of group work. Aaaand in my group, this one woman is so. aggravatingly. stupid.
We had to go around the building, finding faculty office doors and analyzing them... but that's not important. What is important is this woman spent the whole time out there complaining and apologising and making excuses for herself about how she hasn't been to school in 15 years, she doesn't have money for her books yet, and she's bad at spelling. She didn't do any of the work for the assignment. I guess she tried, somewhat, but...
Say there's a poster on the door. On a math professor's door, there's a poster for the TV show Numb3rs, saying something about how we use math every day. There's a Paramount Pictures logo on the poster. We're discussing how this relates to him being a math teacher and all, and we look to her for any input she might have. She sits there for a moment and then points to the logo. "Paramount," she says.
...yeah. It was irritating.
Um... happier note!
Actually, random note segueing into a happier note: Today in the hallway of WeCIPA, which is the performing arts part of the school that Paula's in and the people there are creepy and scare me sometimes, there was a group of girls standing by their lockers singing La Vie Boheme from Rent. So random.
WHICH REMINDS ME. (See? It's a transition.)
Paula and her thespians group are going to see Rent, and since they're not allowed to make it an official school trip because of the subject matter and whatever, people outside of thespians are allowed to go and that means me!
So who was it around here who's a Rent fan? Lupie I think? :3 Bwah!
I work for 8 hours on Saturday... 9 on Sunday... I hope I can survive the weekend.
This week is going by quickly. I wish it weren't.
~Joy does not have enough time. |
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[Sep. 20th, 2006|10:33 pm] |
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It's going to be some work, but I think I'm going to enjoy this. :)
The teacher (professor, rather?) seems pretty cool. I came in late (THERE WERE NO PARKING SPOTS ARRGH, and I had to get all my textbooks) but he didn't care, he's one of the teachers that doesn't take attendance and doesn't care so long as you show up for tests. He looks like Penn Jilette and acts like my 6th grade history teacher. The lecture was interesting and he made a lot of jokes too. I must've taken 6 or 7 pages of notes, front-and-back. (If you saw my AP US History notes from last year, you'd be as amazed as I am at that.)
On grammar:
"To, too, two and 2. Believe me folks, it doesn't add up to 8."
"They drove through Sarajevo in an open-top car. Didn't they learn anything from Kennedy? Wait..."
All in all, it was a good class. I daresay it was...fun? At any rate I'm learning tons.
Tomorrow is Sociology and ASL. I'm flipping through my ASL textbook already... :3
On an unrelated note, it is chilly! Really pretty cold this morning and this evening. Wasn't there supposed to be some sort of transitional season between summer and winter, when all the leaves start to fall to the ground? The name escapes me, but I'm sure I remember something like that...
~Joy likes it too cold better than too warm anyway. |
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[Sep. 20th, 2006|01:08 pm] |
/me is both very excited and nervous about the classes starting at UCC
The syllabus for the WWI class is up on the internet already... 2 tests, 2 homework assignments (4-5 page papers).
This will be, um, different. Drastically different from anything I've ever done.
Wish me luck? |
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[Sep. 14th, 2006|12:34 pm] |
Aaaawesome. <3
My student aide bell is no longer in the computer lab but in Stautberg's room (which, ironically, means I can use the computer).
It's during her AP English class. They're playing some card game. I'm jealous.
So after any calculus/art history homework and journalism stuff, I might be able to goof off here a while. :3 |
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| ayyy es tan preciosa :3 |
[Sep. 13th, 2006|04:13 pm] |
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Eeeee. :D
I just got back from my old elementary school with another girl in NHS. We had to help this cute little girl named Yesica (Yésica? Yessica? However it's supposed to be spelled).
She's from Honduras and speaks virtually no English. She's also kind of quiet or shy (at least to me), which is a problem.
But she was really adorable and I enjoyed coaxing what words I could out of her. She probably knows more than she lets on, but she's also probably pretty scared. Just a few weeks in a new country, away from all her family, everyone speaking a strange language and no one who can understand her? Poor thing.
She can read and write at least a little bit. I told her dibuja una casa for me, but instead of drawing a house she wrote out 'casa'. She could also name the letters (in Spanish). She knows the English numbers 1-10 but she doesn't know any colours. I wonder if she knows shapes. I guess I'll find out next week.
Little kids mumble when they talk. It was impossible to understand her sometimes.
It was fun though. :3
~Joy should talk to the guys in the kitchen at work some time, maybe. One of the guys who washes the dishes has a crush on Jessie. XD |
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| Life is a test, but I confess, I like this mess I've made so far |
[Sep. 7th, 2006|10:37 pm] |
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Uhm. *plops down*
*kicks off shoes and puts down the stupid hat*
That was kind of draining. Granted it was my first day and I had no idea what I was doing part of the time. I'm good at pretending to be nice and personable when the only thing I wanted was for the clock the strike eight already, but I'm not as good at counting out money and doing split-second mental math when annoyed customers think I've shortchanged them and I get all flustered.
Right near the end of my shift Jessie came in and we talked and had dinner afterwards. It was really nice of her and it was good after talking to strangers all evening.
In addition to general cashier stuff, I also had to keep the salad bar stocked and clean. I will now, for the rest of my life, truly appreciate a tidy salad bar.
So here's hoping I get used to this. I probably will. Tomorrow's going to stink though - you know those people out on the corners of intersections dancing around holding signs, and you think 'How embarassing for them that they have to do that'?
That's what I'm doing for two hours tomorrow. Ohhh lord.
In other news, we had our first Journalism meeting today. Staut is, really, the best teacher ever. She's going to be the one I'll miss like crazy once I've left Glen Este. Ayyyyy. :(
There was a good turnout - almost 30 people. Who can say whether those people will stick with it, and whether those people can write, but they came to the meeting out of their own free will so at least they're interested.
Journalism is a club now, rather than a class. We're not getting any funding from the school at all (last year we struggled with money, but at least we had some student fees to start us off) and by cutting our numbers in half, Staut thinks we should put out a 4-page paper at first (last year all our issues were 12 pages).
It's going to be tough but I'm going to put as much into it as I can. People used to read The Torch, and it was important to the school. It caused controversy last year. It's important for us to keep putting it out, despite the obstacles.
Between the classes at UCC and my job now, I've dropped Choir. After 7 years, I hate to jump the boat, but it's for the best. The district doesn't care about music programs for people who don't want to specialise in it - that was evident enough when they gave us to a middle school choir teacher last year (we sounded terrible, by the way).
This year, they dumped us on a new middle school teacher, who has for the past few years been teaching elementary school choir.
The group is full of freshmen anyway, and I don't think I would be able to take it. All my friends that made choir bearable last year are either gone or dropping the class. So it wasn't that hard of a decision.
I feel like I should be totally overwhelmed right now. So much is happening, there's so much to do and I certainly don't have as much downtime as I'd like, nor as much time to talk to the people I want to. But, for the most part, I'm happy with the way things are going.
Granted everything is going to bite me in the butt eventually, be it at the end of this semester, or in a month or two, or in May during the AP tests. We'll see.
TIME FOR A SHOWER AND THEN SLEEP, DAMMIT!
~Joy
-PS: Oh by the way...you guys...I got a manga sequel to Labyrinth. Yes, that Labyrinth. With David Bowie.
Huh?
I haven't even opened it yet (the mail came not long before I left for work) but... yeah. It's strange. If there's anything worth writing about it I will be sure to let you know.
Labyrinth manga! Wha! |
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| Excuse me while I spazz out, probably only Warren and Lu are interested in hearing this |
[Sep. 5th, 2006|05:04 pm] |
OMGOMGOMG
I love online registration at UC!
You see, the way you register for classes is completely online. It's all updated in real time, so if a class is full and someone drops out, another person can immediately join the class.
There was one spot open for Begining ASL 101 evening class and I just got it yayayayayaayay
This means I am going to have to not be able to work at all on Thursdays...butomg I'm happeeeee. |
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| Traveling! |
[Sep. 5th, 2006|04:25 pm] |
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Hahahahaha. I just picked up the phone. It was my dad, and he thought I was Paula because I usually answer the phone with "Aló."
There is stuff going on in the foreseeable future! Kinda big stuff! Stuff that makes me glad I'm going to be working to get money!
A weekend in the middle of November, Danielle and Trey are going up to Nyack, NY for a TMBG show. I have no idea if I'd be allowed to join them or not -- I haven't exactly done anything like that before, y'know? It would be fun. It would also be a long-ass car ride.
Curless was talking today about our Art History class might take a trip to Chicago in the spring! Yes! It'd be 3 or 4 days, and only cost about $200 too (that's about half of what the NHS trip in April cost). I don't know what all we'd be doing there, other than the Art Institute which I love and Jessie and I were late to the bus last time trying to see everything we wanted to see and it would be great to go back. I cannot articulate how much I love that city.
And of course there is Costa Rica, which por eso estoy muy emocionada. Even though I get sunburned just thinking about it.
Today is a rare empty evening which I plan on taking full advantage of by doing not much of anything. I don't have any homework (I would work ahead on Art History but even Curless doesn't have the stuff written up yet) and I did have a volunteering thing for NHS scheduled today, but it got cancelled because no one else could go.
So tomorrow I have choir, Thursday and Friday I have work, Saturday both Jessie and I are off work so we're probably going to do something, Sunday I have work in the afternoon.
I am really, really glad I got that planner I was talking about to write all this stuff down in.
~Joy, whose life was so boring last year, who suddenly has all this stuff, what happened between then and now?
PS: I saw a Darwin fish on a car the other day. :3 |
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