Category: high school

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Man, what a jam-packed day…a lot has happened for just one day. Woke up, went to church, Sunday school was pretty darn boring…got home, gave my mom a hug and cleaned most of the house. (Dusted, vacuumed, sorted) and reogranized the basement. That was nifty. Brian dropped his computer by for fixing again…hopefully I can do it right this time. I really hope so. Ate some grilled chicken with bbq sauce for dinner…again…that was good. Did some poking in Brian’s computer, determined it needs a good old format. He’ll come by later tonight and drop off his CD’s, which I will then use to format the HD. I’m supposed to have that back to him tomorrow. Tomorrow also includes the Boy Scout meeting and some lawn mowing, so that’s gonna be a busy day. In top of all this, I do have a hefty load of homework…an easy set of German, but Math is killing me…Biology will take some time, too. As the final topper, I once again have approached problems.

I’m walking a fine line right now, between blaming my genetics, and just being stupid. Genetic depression/OCD, methinks, is really only a minimal issue in my life…having it still breeds self-reproach, however. It comes to mind a lot more being Mother’s day…I just wanna think and feel normal for a while. I’m gonna try and concentrate on schoolwork, get down to studying for the SAT II, try and finish this school year with a 4.0. Perhaps the work will get all this crap off my mind…I don’t know. However, my situation seems not so far from what SK was like…one would think I’d have learned my lesson the first time through. I’m quite aware that none of this really makes sense…but, I doubt it really needs to. Someone needs to invent a concentration pill. Think about whatever you wanna concentrate on when you take the pill, and poof, there you are, consumed with school for a full 24 hours. Of course, druggies would probably just say Ritilan, but I’d prefer something legal, non-addictive, and unharmful. That’d be just dandy. As I contemplate how not to be stupid, I shall finish my homework on Quadratic equations.

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Alrighty….. been having a fairl good few days here, nothing spectacular, but life has kept on moving – which is a good thing. Spent Thursday doing various stuff…stayed after school with Ben to work in DDP. I’ve been on a roll of incompetency…he managed to do at least twice as much work as I did. Normally I’m pretty competent in there…oh well. In any case, we got most of the work done. Walked home with Ben and Zach afterwards, perused the Dollar Store – lots of fun. I downloaded Litestep yesterday….truly is a wonderful thing. At the moment I’m contriving to get a screen shot, but I have yet to do that…I’ll get one up later tonight. I think it looks really neat-o. Because there’s nothing on it! Bwahaha. So I’ve spent my night looking at code and changing stuff, instead of going to the Spring Fling (dance). I feel accomplished.

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Whoo, confusing day so far. Having an ortho appointment at 11:00 – 11:15 ish. Which sucks. A lot. Paul gave me a nifty C++ book, though I now need a program to try whatever I learn in it. I feel so ungeekish….I was just introduced to a group of guys who are actually making a game. And it’s actually 3D. Chances are it will suck, but even so. I feel so pitiful now. :-/ Oh well.

Comics.

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Prety average day, I managed to get some sleep, all good stuff. Uncle Jim left while I was gone, he’ll be back for a day later next week. 5 week reports come up this Friday…I’m fairly sure I did pretty well, but for a while I had some low grades because of missed stuff. I’m not too worried. In other news…got back my Halo PC CD, and I was gonna download HaloCE (Custom Edition) and the HEK (Halo Editing Kit), but it seems a bit in over my head. When I have time, I’ll try it out. For now, I think I’ll wait until I have a good amount of free time.

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Today has been funky, ups and downs, it’s been somewhere between a “…” and “O.o”. Biggest factor was alack of sleep, I only got 5 hours of it last night. Rents randomly tell me that my uncle will be here in 5 hours (he’s here now). Not a bad thing, he’s cool, just sudden. Gotta do lots of reading…only I homework I have to do tonight. Must make timeline of the book. Must read 100 pages. w00t. In any case, I must be going to do important things. As a side note, I hooked up my stereo speakers (as in full size speakers, that are as big as my moniter) to my computer. Sooner or later I’ll bother setting up surround sound, but not right now.

OH! I keep forgetting to post my school schedule.

»Math 10 Honors

»Global 10 Honors

»English 10 Semester Double Periods Honors (Semester 1)

»German 3 Honors

»Physical Chemistry

»PLTW: Digital Electronics (w00t!)

»Intro to Programming: 1 (Visual Basic :-P) (Semester 2)

»Intro to Programming: 2 (Java! :-D) (Semester 2)

»PE

It’s gonna rock.

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Today has been turbulant, again. I woke up at 12:30, longer than I had expected but not bad. Stupid alarm woke me up at 7:15, for a moment. Bah. Besides that, I got a haircut, which I’m pretty pleased with. Did some more work, for a grand total of 7 bux. Played Halo with Daniel. And talked to people. A good Saturday, but the whole “talking to people” part could have been better. Oh well. :-/

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I managed a good day at school, but my time at home has been rather turbulant, having come to the end of another week. My dad managed to get me signed up for the SAT II’s – and I’m SO RELIEVED! The gigantic handbook they gave me has previous questions from SAT II’s, and man does it look easier than I thought it would be! I was really scared since I haven’t started studying, but, I think I’ll be ok with some extra poking around in the review book. In other news, I did nothing today. Gonna get myself all these hairs cut tomorrow, and then…I dunno. I’m starting to detiorate as it gets late on my full 5 hours of sleep. It’s not 12:50 and I need sleep. I started this at 11:00. Wow.

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Wow, I haven’t updated for exactly 4 days. Sorry! So I’ve been having the best week ever, and I managed to avoid a nearby crash in the middle of the day. My goal is to stay this way until Saturday! A stupid goal, but not an unworthy one. So for this week has been “straight out of Compton”. Anyways, I just mowed my first lawn of the season today – which earns me 15 dollars. I’ll do some random yardwork for about an hour / hour and 1/2 for 10 dollars on Friday or Saturday, and I’ll actually have some money. On the subject of jobs, I still haven’t recieved word from the Computer Room about the job. All I can do is wait, really.

I realized the other thing I wanted to get over the summer – some ThinkGeek t-shirts. (www.thinkgeek.com) They have some really cool stuff….in specific, I want the “-Binary- You Are Dumb” shirt, the “Caffeine Molecule” shirt, and the “All Your Base Are Belong To Us” shirt. Would be really sweet! A show of my geekhood…and stuff. Anyways…I think I might take another shower..I feel icky.

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This has been an amazingly great Monday. Nothing particular happened…just went really smooth. Smooth like butta. Yo. So I’ve been thinking about this summer…and my possibilities seem endless, now that I can work for a real job. It would mean having to get a work permit (physical, anyone?) but even at minimum wage it beats mowing by at least twice as much if I worked the same hours, which I wouldn’t be. Best case scenario, I’d get hired and earn minmum wage for working 6-8 hours a few days a week, helping repair computers. I have a strong feeling I won’t get hired, but I really have nothing to lose. If nothing else, maybe they’d let me observe what they do and just be a servant-ish person. Something like that. But I have high hopes. Providing I get the money I have a list of stuff to apply it to.

»Halo Soundtrack ($20)

»Last Samurai Soundtrack ($20)

»Halo 2 (probably somewhere in September-October) ($50)

»Fable (probably in June – July) ($50)

»Eventually, a new computer. Probably not till next year, though. (I’m probably gonna spend $1200 on that, at least…)

I’m definately psyched. The experience at that place would be wonderful – but I’m 15, and 15 year olds have a hard time getting jobs. I’m still hoping, though!

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After a rough/odd day yesterday, I’m feeling pretty good about stuff. Yesterday was pretty lame – woke up tired, had to go to church (at which Benjamin and Jesse were not) and ended up leaving earlier than normal because there was no high school class. Anyways, I got home at 11:30, and spent my entire day playing random flash games and listening to techno. Not all that exciting. However, I did eventually get all my homework done and stuff. Sort of. Didn’t do that good old English reading, but that class is so incredibly boring, I think I’ll just take the risk of having a pop quiz. Seriously – that woman doesn’t know how to teach freshman. She normally teaches seniors, but a lack of teachers required her step in. Besides that – she overestimates our classes ability to understand stuff. Oh well. Win some, lose some.

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Ooof. Pain haunts me. So I went over to Sam’s house on Firday, at about 5:00 (PM), played Airsoft with Weilin and another dude (Mike Salle) till about 7. Ate pizza, went over to Weilin’s house for the night. Went to sleep at 3:00 AM and Mike woke us all up at 8:00 AM, as well as Weilin’s little sister screaming “NO!”. Went to Sam’s at 10:00 AM, played Airsoft till 12:00 (this time with Weilin’s little brother Wayne, too), at which point we cleaned Sam’s yard for an hour. We ate more pizza and played more Airsoft till about 5:00 PM. *twitch* Too much airsoft. Still fun though.

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Important!

I now have a new email address – my yahoo one is becoming spammed due to signing up for stuff. Blogger offered me an infinitely better one (1 gig of storage, no ads, mail searching) for being an active user. Sweet deal!

NEW ADDRESS: Salandarin@gmail.com

I’ll still check the yahoo one, but it is now my spammage account.

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Yesterday really sucked, even though I had a lunch, and a study hall, AND it was a Thursday. *sigh* Just not fun. It doesn’t really help that I’m asked to start playing a stressful game of Halo (yes, stressful) immediately when I get home.

I managed to get a fair amount of sleep (7, maybe 7 1/2 hours) and I’m feeling pretty pleasant right now. I spent most of last night doing absolutely nothing, too. I’m going over to Sam’s house at about 5 or 6, then I spend the night, and get to help them clean their house. 😀 It’s kinda weird, I haven’t been over there in MONTHS, although I was going over there pretty consistantly before Thanksgiving. Should be fun. Now to go read the comics…

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I have had the weirdest day ever. And it rocks. So today’s a wednesday, right? I forgot to set my alarm for 30 minutes early, so i could catch the bus – I missed it and so I stayed home til 8:45 and slept. (my dad can’t take me on Wednesdays, he has a meeting). So my dad got me to school at about 8:50, and dropped me off at the back. Now, dealing with the moronic security officials known as the hall moniters, the back doors were locked. I banged on the doors fr 5 minutes (with a random dude) and finaly got in. Walked all the way to attendance, where which the normal secretary for being late was not there. I kinda waited around for 2 or 3 minutes, and another secretary gave me an illegal tardy pass, despite the fact I had an excuse from my dad. Anyways, I went to my second period class (it was around that time) and she told me to go to my homeroom. I did that (keep in mind how many times I’m walking around the school) and my homeroom teacher gave me my schedule for the day. Because it’s career day, I’ve missed the first career day class, and I have to go to my second one now, which is already half done. I got to the assigned room, and it’s empty. The teacher in the room says the instructer never showed up, so I left and went to a programming class, which was actually all about hackers. I didn’t learn anything new, that’s for sure. After that, I went to my first period class. But wait! First period is actually at the END of the day! So I go straight to my second period class. So awesome! I’m now in my first period class. This is so cool. So disorganized. So awesome.

What a day.

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I’ve had a really interesting day…yet again I managed to not get any sleep. Only four hours of it, at least. I’m just not sleeping well this week. I was really concerned with a little personal situation I’ve been mulling over, but after talking with a friend (from college) things don’t seem so bad, or as if they weren’t really bad in the first place….I dunno, it’s weird. I’m feeling a lot better now, I think. Anyways, I went to church today (half asleep), and then danced in the thunderstorm (I love thunderstorms…and tornados…and thunder…and wind…), after which I went to Daniel’s and played some 2v2 Halo over XBoxConnect against Benjamin and Nolan. We creamed em’….lots of fun anyways. I still have a large chunk of homework left, which is bothering me to no end. I’m trying to think out what to do for the next weekend….I don’t normally plan weekends, but I feel like I should, for some reason. In any case, I need to get to that homework. Finishing before midnight is a desirable thing.

EDIT: I should really give Jonathan a call…I need some of his big brotherly advice…

ANOTHER EDIT: My blogs section contains only those blogs which have been updated in the past 40 days. If they’re inactive for more than that, I remove them. Also, the order in which they’re in is irrelevant, I add them as I remember or they become inactive/active.

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Woke up at 2:00 today, and haven’t really done all that much besides eat and play W3. Oh well…in case you haven’t noticed, my counter reached a nifty 1000 in the past week. Another note – blogger has been acting funky lately. If the page comes up in jumbled code, just refresh a time or two, it should fix itself. It’s blogger’s fault, not mine. At the moment I’m about to start looking for my next background…I can’t really keep this one for more than a month….and considering how long it took to find, I should probably start early. 🙁

I’m having a boring day…I wish I had woken up earlier, and gotten out before it clouded up. A waste of a weekend, really. Lack of sun always depresses me. Not to mention my parents are being obsessive compulsive in small fits, really just a pain in the neck. I have this nagging feeling they’ve found it again…and it bothers me to no end.

EDIT: A moment ago I was also slightly concerned with what other things I’d take pictures of later on…I just realized, I can take pictures of games I get, and CD’s and books and stuff….doesn’t really cheer me up but it’s nice to know I can communicate whatever I’m doing better.

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Well, I’ve had a lot of fun with this pictures thing…a few people I don’t know from here, that I’ve never met got to see my picture, and I’m sure you can all feel much more informed with true, live, pictures to look at. Unfortunately, the camera sucks up batteries at the rate of 4 per 4 hours of running time, so I won’t be going crazy like today…but I don’t think I expect to.

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This was easier than I thought! This is AWESOME! Here’s some picture of stuff….a few of my room, two of daisy, two of sam, one of the front of our house. Heeheehee. This is so cool!

This is DAISY!

And this is SAM!

That’s mah rooooom! [Before I cleaned it up, obviously]

Here’s what it looks like cleaned up!

I won’t post too many at a time, to save some of you dial-up people a pain. Wow, this is fun…