back in school, wtf.
so, mild panic attack.
district band tryouts tomorrow and i don't know any of my music very well. i really don't care if i make it unless the directors decide to use it as an indication of what chair/band i should be next semester, which is very possible. no time to really learn the music now though. maybe shouldn't have slacked over the thanksgiving holidays so much. oh, well. in addition, test tomorrow in english over the night thoreau spent in jail, and another one on thursday over the glass menagerie, which i have yet to pick up. also, apush cards due wednesday (what i need to do is do them while i'm busy learning nothing during classes tomorrow, so i would need to make sure i have all the supplies to do them in my backpack...) and physics project (constructing a roller coaster, omg) due friday. i'm sure there's other things, but just kind of stressing at the moment.
on the bright side, my grade went up 6 points in precal today from an 82 to an 88 because i got back two tests that i did well on. there's at least one more that she hasn't graded yet that i know i got an a on, so it's possible that i could bring my grade up to an a by the report card time.
i just got through talking with mom on aim. she's at work on night float this month, and she works from about 5 p.m. to 8 a.m. and she's the only person taking care of the patients overnight, or that's how i understand it. so basically unless one of the nurses or someone pages her, she doesn't have to do anything except make sure that the hospital doesn't catch on fire or something. anyway, so she was depressed about never seeing us and vice versa, so i told her to get on aim express at work and explained it to her, and she's been on twice, so we've gotten to talk for a while in between pages. pretty cool. :o)
in other news, more spending of the soul tomorrow as i go to make good on my promise to suncoast that i'd buy pirates of the caribbean there. can't wait. i think we're inviting the atkins over for dinner+movie but we have to work it out with me being at band auditions. maybe i should just not go to those. it wouldn't be the end of the world. well, i already paid the $15 entry fee, so i guess i'll go.
i should be doing something more productive. wah.
oh, home-theater-christmas-presents-room-in-the-attic-thing update: mom is now intent on a projector (which is going to be incredibly awesome, but i don't even want to think about lamp replacement cost - ~$350 every 4000 hours of lamp usage). she is also having me convince dad to get a home theater surround sound system for her, since she's now convinced that the room in the attic is infeasible at the moment. we've had jay (friend, owns construction business) and steve (uncle, builds houses) over to look at the attic, and we've received two completely different, but i believe valid, opinions as to how we should go about it, ranging from "taking out that board will make your roof collapse" to "i can saw it down for you right now." both of them now want in on the project, and they're offering us free stuff out the wazoo, especially steve ("oh, i have some sheetrock laying around, you don't need to buy any"). in any case, both of them told us we need to have a building permit to add floor space to the house, and that we'd be better off calling in an air conditioning person to reroute the air ducts up there rather than do it ourselves. so that basically makes a christmas finish impossible. what we're thinking now is just get the permit, reroute the ducts, have a floor laid out, and the walls and ceiling framed by christmas. that way she'll be able to see where/how big the room will be, and it will get the hardest part out of the way. so for a while, the home theater setup will go in the current tv room. the hardest part is convincing mom not to shortchange herself when buying stuff because she thinks we aren't going to have the attic - most notably when she goes overboard and buys a superbright projector thinking we're going to use it in a heavily-lit room. it's still nice to have the brightness, but not necessary.
monday, december 1st, 2003 at 10:11 pm • permalink • 1 comment
week from hell
so this week went from pretty bad to horrible. but at least it's over now. the last two nights have been dominated by the retarded roller coaster project that i had to do for physics. we thought we were pretty close to finishing on wednesday night, but boy were we wrong. leif and i worked for like 5 hours on friday before andrew came over, and then we worked another 5. didn't take them home until 3 a.m. and got about 3 hours of sleep. so i went in this morning to take the project in and then came back home to sleep. only went to physics and to ensemble practice for band. the only bad part is that i wasn't there for a history test, which will have to be made up, and i also didn't turn in all my galveston extra credit, which was due today. :o( i really hope she lets me turn it in late, but probably not, since it was long term and i think she may have seen me at ensemble practice today, so she may know that i skipped. even though i think she still doesn't know my name. le sigh.
am thinking of going out to dinner with katleifdavid and maybe to see master and commander. dad also wants me to get haircut tonight, which i really need, but dunno. i should be more relieved, but i'm really not. only one more week, and then finals, and then christmas break, which i can't wait for. wah.
also, 11 days until return of the king!
friday, december 5th, 2003 at 5:53 pm • permalink • 1 comment
i can make it
currently addicted to: cold - stupid girl
so, had my apush and english finals today. apush was by far the worst test i've ever taken. basically, my eyes glazed over about halfway through, and i started guessing because at that point i was having trouble remembering things like "george washington" and "gettysburg," much less "daniel webster's seventh of march speech" and "social upheaval in the mid-18th century." long story short: there'd better be a nice big fat curve on that thing. last years class claims to have gotten one, so who knows. english test was much more encouraging, except that it covered the crucible more than anything else, and that's what i'm the most shaky on. but still, pretty easy. i think i did well on that one, but probably not well enough to pull an a for the semester. in any case, i only need three as - one in band, and two in honors classes - to have a 4.5 for the semester. i'm counting on physics and spanish. anything over a 4.5 gets dropped before averaging into your gpa, so once you lose your perfect gpa, you get to play the "half the distance back" game each semester. le sigh.
anyway, tomorrow is precal and comp sci. both are pretty manageable, and i have as in both when i only need bs, so not stressing at all.
and.
omg.
return of the king.
tomorrow.
so.
excited.
(squee.)
tuesday, december 16th, 2003 at 9:17 pm • permalink • comment
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