Hwy 10 E

The oil meter thingy on my mother's van stopped working, so on her way back from her business trip near Jacksonville, she ran out of fuel. My father made my brother and me come along, and we drove out to rescue her. My dad brought a communist-colored gallon of oil. The entire trip took about 1.5 hours, and luckily began right after I finished my Euro notes. This is probably the most exciting thing that's going to happen all weekend.
There's this guy who I can't decide whether I like, which is pretty sad because people should know whether they like other people. Still can't figure it out. = ="
I'm glad I set up two couples, though, and I think I'm going to set another one up in the near future. I'm just waiting for my friend's word.
I can't find a piano concerto that I like and isn't too difficult or too easy in my teacher's point of view. It's getting really frustrating.
The Twelve-finger piano piece in "Gattaca" is really easy and you don't need twelve fingers at all. I kind of sight-read the fun parts today. It's an Impromptu by Schubert that looks more difficult that it is when played. If I don't die of boredom tonight, I don't know what I'll do.

Pathetique

I found out that I'm the only girl who I know who hasn't EVER been asked out, which is pretty sad, no? There must be something very wrong with me. Am I missing something that everyone else seems to know or have?
The batteries in my graphing calculator stopped functioning right before the Stat quiz. Thankfully, I could use my scientific calculator to do the work, but I can't do the homework without it.
I haven't begun my Euro IDs and notes yet, and it's probably going to be a really bad weekend. MAO isn't doing the concession stands this week so I will probably spend the entire weekend on homework. Hah. Fun.
There isn't much to say because I'm just really depressed again. Why can't I just get used to it? I'm so selfish and weak these days...

FSU vs. Miami

We had a concession stand on the first floor. Diana and I were at registers and Jack was our runner. It was interesting to see so much orange and green at the same time and random outbursts of screaming and FSU warchants as usual. We didn't sit in a single chair all day and became incredibly stressed during the halftime show. By the end of the game, FSU was winning but Miami must have done something good because we ended up selling $5 scorecards near Gate J. It was kind of weird to see mobs of unhappy FSU fans and ecstatic Miami fans on the other side of the stadium. The scorecards were very profitable- we'll just have to see how much money we get back. My parents and brother were driving outside Subway when Diana, Jack and I got to the van. It was nice to spend a day trying to convince Jack to run to Georgia to get Chanyang and flinching every time we saw orange and green (and it had nothing to do with the team). I stalked Ryan with the camera and he laughed at Diana and me when we took off our visors before we left to sell scorecards. He should have seen himself.
Yesterday was much easier than the NC State game, and now, I'm really worried about how I'm going to find an accident investigator to interview for my FLVS homework.

"You're stealing everyone's guys!"

That is what Ryan said to me during 7th period. He has no idea I know what HE smells like too. And believe me, it was kind of... obvious... Jack could smell it too.....................
The power of caps...
Stefany Beraldo (West High) wrote
at 8:25pm
"Feelin purty special" Wow, I guess you must be...jk!
Anna thought it meant she called me "jk." I knew it wasn't supposed to be connected but then I realized that she was saying that "jk" made me feel special. First of all, I do not feel special because of a guy, but because Blair, Erica and Lacey (I always put people in alphabetical order to be fair) invited me to hang out with them in preparation for Homecoming tomorrow, and it really made me feel special when they were typing "YES" a lot.
There's a Euro quiz tomorrow on the entire chapter. During PSAT and Homecoming and end-of-the-quarter!! And the teacher doesn't seem to know the information of the class?
We got our $12 tickets today at lunch. Crazy expensive.
Blair said that the general in "Mulan" is hot because of his.. chest.. and then how it Won would be hot if he had er black lines on his chest too? So, Erica suggested that I bring a black marker to school tomorrow. Just for Blair, who will be very excited about it.
Anna, on the other hand, is excited about meeting jk. Good for her. She repainted her nails her favorite color very recently.
Chanyang called Mrs. Findley, asked if Jack could go, and she said "okay" and Chanyang made sure she gave him $12. Joseph's the only other guy in our little family who is going. Or, Joseph's the only guy in our little family who is going if Jack's a little sister. Joseph is my nephew, Draco, and it's odd how he married Luna Lovegood (Katelyn).
And I did not consciously steal anyone's guys!

Homecoming

Yesterday night, Pack-Attack started around 7:00pm. John was awesome and gave me a ride, and unfortunately, everyone had to pay $2 to get a little ticket stub that Mrs. Watson tore into halves. It was almost sad. The drum line, ITS, SGA, MUN, Psychology, Anchor, and STAND performed some very, VERY contrasting skits. The Anchor people were just screaming most of the time, which was pretty scarring because it's the only one I've joined. Nelson was cheering on Psychology Club a bit unenthusiastically because their skit wasn't amazing, but he was president, which Noli informed me. I felt slow. Michelle, my fabulous big sis, informed us that we didn't actually have to go, which contradicted Mrs. Chason's "you'd better be there, I'm taking attendance"-ness that people described to me because I missed the meeting for MAO.
This post is taking a while to type because I'm looking at the phone tree. The Rickards Invitational money is due this Thursday (I don't usually make announcements on here, Lacey, just so you know). We're helping out at the FSU vs. Miami game this Saturday at 1pm, which will be interesting like always. I hope people show up to it.
In English, we had to vote for the Homecoming king and queen, and I voted for John M and Alicia, and Jack didn't know what to do so he closed his eyes, twirled his pencil point in a circle in the air, and it landed near Alicia's name. His eyes were closed. He repeated these steps with the guy column and landed on John M's name. It was hilarious. Jack's face was in a state of traumatizing shock when he looked down the second time.

Haha.

275th post. =)
I got Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 and Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 today at Beethoven and Company. I hope my teacher will allow me to play the second movement of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 because it's the easiest the six movements altogether. It's quite pretty, though.
I've gotten a lot further in my English novel, and my father wants me to finish the assignment this weekend. That's probably a good idea, since I have tests for which to study and the book is due in a week. I have about 60 pages to go, which is a phenomenal improvement from this morning, when I wrote the DBQ that Ryan and Chanyang didn't really help write at all, except Ryan contributed the first sheet of looseleaf paper. Chanyang is at something band-related yet again, so I can't really blame her for not working on it.
The portable device manager on here was updated, so now I can't see the songs that are on my mp3 player by using Musicmatch Jukebox as usual. There isn't really much I can do about it besides perhaps looking at the files with Windows Explorer. Even now, when I add a song, it does not show up the next time the mp3 is plugged into the USB port. As long as I don't want to take any songs out or am too lazy to be much more than indifferent, it shouldn't be a problem.
There is some sort of dance at the LDS church in Tallahassee tonight. Katelyn said Rachel described them as guys asking girls to go and attempting to convert people to Mormonism. At the same time, it is the JCL induction party at Logan's house. Ann, Brandon, Ryan, and I had expressed wishes to join JCL, but Mr. Yates asked a woman who had more authority regionally and was told that students must be in Latin in order to be in JCL. We were still invited to the party.

Church

Jack just noticed that BC goes to his church. Ironically, Jack doesn't actually go to church. Him, Anna and I were at the chorus concert from about 7:30 to 8:40pm. I don't know how I convinced Anna to go, (jk) but Jack and I hope to get 10 points of extra credit in English by writing a page of critiques and attaching the program. I have to do the Bio homework I didn't do but is still due tomorrow (amazing, I know).. on the digestive system.

Hot cocao is good!

Somehow, I don't really care about the changing status of peasantry in the 1660s

Which sounds pretty selfish, but I don't really care that Henry II died while engaging in a recreational activity so it was kind of his fault that Coligne died.
It's kind of bad that I haven't really studied any Euro within the past few hours, and I have done NO studying for Pre-Calc except looking over the answer of one problem (online) that I never actually did. Big tests in each tomorrow. For some reason, I thought we had our AP Stats test tomorrow, so I got really worried because I need an A on the test, OR ELSE.
It's really all my fault for procrastinating, but I don't really want to read about 30 pages in the textbook in preparation for the quarter's last test, and I hope I get a passable grade on it. I have a 98%, so hopefully, I won't have to do amazingly on it. It would be nice to go out with a strong grade, though.
The Medea essay in English was actually 100 points, which is probably a very bad thing because it was the one writing assignment in English in which I finished as physically quickly as possible because I had no patience to do well with it.
I think the Europeans had a lot of problems. They were too nosy about other people's religions, and from all this warfare and famine, they never managed to learn how to cook properly. I mean, I'm sure they know how to make good food, but OVERALL, it isn't as awesome as Asian food. And then, it got much worse in the US because they were people from Europe who were just trying to survive and all VIVE LA RESISTANCE with the British and such so they never really learned how to cook, either. I'm getting really hungry. The DUTCH, on the other hand, were smart and made a lot of profit. I mean, they sold firearms to their enemies, didn't rely on an important of gold and silver, and were just plain awesome compared to the Spanish (who were still awesome because they spoke Spanish but not so awesome because they weren't very good at being economically gifted). Bodin is so mean. Absolutism is stupid. Montaigne wasn't very smart, and deicded to be open-minded and skeptic at the same time, so then everyone hated him. Grotius just wanted to die, I guess, since he wanted the natural laws to be above all the rulers. But the Swedish king, Gustavus Adolphus, put his book under his pillow. If you don't read the text carefully, the whole world seems absolutely chaotic. Brahe probably deserved to lose part of his nose for not believing in heliocentrism. Not really. That is a bit harsh. I'm just being bitter because they had to exist so I'm being tested on them.
I don't know how I slowly flipped through the pages, not really reading but kinda paying attention the fact that certain stuff happened, and I mean STUFF. It all kind of leads to more things and more things and more crazy dead European men.
All this complaint will probably result in a very poor grade tomorrow for me, but I can focus on things like how Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim is such a cool name because Hohenheim was Ed's father's name in "Full Metal Alchemist".
OH right... My English novel needs to be read.

24 Pages of Agony

I saved much of the Euro notes for today, and I never really read the information very thoroughly in preparation for the quiz, so I have to read the entire Chapter by Tuesday without going off to random tangents elsewhere.
Yesterdy was exhausting, but the ride home was so long that I got a nice rest at the end of the day. My first football game was good for the home team (FSU vs NCS), but I found out that WI lost because Ryan had to call and ruin my day.
There's something about walking up and down the stands with loads of drinks and trying to sell them that really makes you tired of life in general. However, the freshmen were really amazing yesterday because they almost wanted to work. =)
I'm off to write vague Euro notes and worry about the test and my Stats grade.

Anna and Katelyn love soccer players...

Thanks to David for reminding me that I haven't written a new post in a while.
The MAO candy sale was amazing this year. Chanyang got the last bag. The copious amount of active Algebra II kids and the incentive of half your profit going to your MAO account really helped.
My Stat grade is sloooooooooooowly dropping bit by bit. I did very poorly on the last quiz and I realized that even though we haven't gotten it back, but hopefully my grade won't go down that much. I really need to do well on the test to obtain a safe A, though. I can't concentrate! Stat is a constant reminder that I don't like Stat, and the teacher is really good at explaining the concepts to us, but I just can't pay attention to the important points of the course. Imagine how many minor details go missing when I sit there during third period.
Blair and Erica are awesome, by the way.