The AntiSymantec viral software just sent a notification. Apparently another trojan is now in quarantine.
My piano teacher wants me to play Bach because it is like the Bible of music. Basically, if you make a tiny mistake with about one note, everyone can easily tell you did because of the style, as with Mozart.
Going to lessons provides about an hour or more to think about life while listening to music. This can get rather depressing after a while if all the songs seem to be remorseful or regretful. It's also a good time to stare out the window, looking at the reflections that various Summerbrooke ponds cause throughout the neighborhood, or staring at the sky. Alternatively, one can think about speeding down Meridian on a dark night (was that redundant?), completely in control but so bordering a fatal turn. Although, thoughts can't get really violent if one's mother continues to put on the CD with your favorite piano concertos and decides it wasn't loud enough already, so you have to turn off the iPod because there really is no way to listen to Rachmaninoff and The Killers at once.
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me: blogging
you?
hoh4britaccents: blogging?
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Friday, February 29, 2008
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Running! Out of things to say.
Today, runiteking1 was describing the nicknames of the people around him in Bio. He pointed out that Linda's nickname was "Lulu," and that Azn's name was "Yiggles." Someone else said that Marshall was "Marshmallow." At this point, I voiced my question and asked what I was. Azn said, "smart and beautiful." Some people really know how to suck up to their "older sisters."
The pep rally was immensely boring, and some of us ended up standing behind the teachers. It was slightly queer to see a bunch of teachers who knew me in a small area, watching high schoolers participate in questionable acts.
I finished my main homework by about 1800 today. So the entry of my assignment notebook already has ten checks.
There was a Black History Month assembly during third period. Someone extremely optimistically asked if Ms. Chan had signed up for it. Someone else realistically reminded him that this was Ms. Chan of whom he was speaking. As the bell was held back for a while, our fourth period was drastically shortened, much to the enthusiasm of people who were going to Chemistry.
I've spun my pencil backwards three times altogether. So this is getting intense.
Hi, Lacey. I'm replying to your message on your blog in addition to the comment, I guess.
I don't think many people think as highly of me as you do. Sometimes I think you overestimate me and forget how awesome you are. Did that sound superficial?
Hi, everyone.
I don't know why I haven't posted so much recently. But this blog has definitely not been abandoned. Just to throw that out there.
The pep rally was immensely boring, and some of us ended up standing behind the teachers. It was slightly queer to see a bunch of teachers who knew me in a small area, watching high schoolers participate in questionable acts.
I finished my main homework by about 1800 today. So the entry of my assignment notebook already has ten checks.
There was a Black History Month assembly during third period. Someone extremely optimistically asked if Ms. Chan had signed up for it. Someone else realistically reminded him that this was Ms. Chan of whom he was speaking. As the bell was held back for a while, our fourth period was drastically shortened, much to the enthusiasm of people who were going to Chemistry.
I've spun my pencil backwards three times altogether. So this is getting intense.
Hi, Lacey. I'm replying to your message on your blog in addition to the comment, I guess.
I don't think many people think as highly of me as you do. Sometimes I think you overestimate me and forget how awesome you are. Did that sound superficial?
Hi, everyone.
I don't know why I haven't posted so much recently. But this blog has definitely not been abandoned. Just to throw that out there.
Sunday, February 24, 2008
So smile.
At the end of lunch, many of us waited in Freed's room, ready to abandon our afternoon classes to sit on a bus for about four or five hours. We traveled to the same hotel as last year and the same mall (Universal Mall). It was nice to
::EDIT:: I forgot to finish this post. No wonder.
relax and almost forget about school. I suppose our shirts were constant reminders. We played a bit of ping pong, which translated into one-sided domination. At this point, I don't remember all the fine details of the trip because it's Thursday.
Blahblahblah, good experience, glad to have gone, passed around Erinma's cell phone so Jack ended up talking to about six people in one phone conversation and was told that he would fail his tennis tournament.
Walking around the mall... and walking... and walking... Got confronted by two women, one of whom was using sign language that I definitely could not understand, and the other explained that they were learning Chinese. She gave me a Chinese magazine about something. I really don't know what it was about because I didn't pay enough attention to what she was saying, and cannot really read my first language fluently. I slightly conversed in Chinese, and walked away with Anna. Oh, we were surprised.
The actual competition wasn't so bad. Hilary and I finally found a room that wasn't entirely occupied, and were the only two Chiles people in that room. Waved to You-jin. Team round was very relaxed. Somehow, Ryan and I answered more questions than William did. The ones we both confirmed proved to have a 100% correctness rate. Not bad. Really, if it were a regional we would have pwned to no end. But it wasn't.
A substantially large number of people were in each division, and schools like Middleton and Buchholz definitely showed us how challenged we were.
Chiles Regional is next.
Peace out.
::END EDIT 02/28/08::
::EDIT:: I forgot to finish this post. No wonder.
relax and almost forget about school. I suppose our shirts were constant reminders. We played a bit of ping pong, which translated into one-sided domination. At this point, I don't remember all the fine details of the trip because it's Thursday.
Blahblahblah, good experience, glad to have gone, passed around Erinma's cell phone so Jack ended up talking to about six people in one phone conversation and was told that he would fail his tennis tournament.
Walking around the mall... and walking... and walking... Got confronted by two women, one of whom was using sign language that I definitely could not understand, and the other explained that they were learning Chinese. She gave me a Chinese magazine about something. I really don't know what it was about because I didn't pay enough attention to what she was saying, and cannot really read my first language fluently. I slightly conversed in Chinese, and walked away with Anna. Oh, we were surprised.
The actual competition wasn't so bad. Hilary and I finally found a room that wasn't entirely occupied, and were the only two Chiles people in that room. Waved to You-jin. Team round was very relaxed. Somehow, Ryan and I answered more questions than William did. The ones we both confirmed proved to have a 100% correctness rate. Not bad. Really, if it were a regional we would have pwned to no end. But it wasn't.
A substantially large number of people were in each division, and schools like Middleton and Buchholz definitely showed us how challenged we were.
Chiles Regional is next.
Peace out.
::END EDIT 02/28/08::
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Lunar Eclipse
It's really only just begun. I've never seen something like this in the past because I always managed to forget about it until too late. There seemed to be an orb of brightness around the moon. A dark mass was enveloping the southwest side of the moon. I would have stared at it for a longer period of time if I had not wanted to get cold. I'll look again in about an hour.
Gets me thinking.
Gets me thinking.
Don't Cry.
Maybe my posts are going to be too depressing to upload to The Quirky Quintet.
I've been thinking about my little situation, and it's pretty much gotten worse. Getting further into it, anything that might go against what I really want is a clear indicator of a severe drop in happiness. There is one way to make that go away, but it's not worth the trouble. It's time to grit your teeth and get through it with no more regrets.
Are you ready? No, not really.
Because the whole time, there is a little question. What if?
What if you're not as pathetic as you thought?
Oh, right. You are.
By the way, someone out there is waiting for you to say...
I've been thinking about my little situation, and it's pretty much gotten worse. Getting further into it, anything that might go against what I really want is a clear indicator of a severe drop in happiness. There is one way to make that go away, but it's not worth the trouble. It's time to grit your teeth and get through it with no more regrets.
Are you ready? No, not really.
Because the whole time, there is a little question. What if?
What if you're not as pathetic as you thought?
Oh, right. You are.
By the way, someone out there is waiting for you to say...
Sunday, February 17, 2008
JETS/TEAMS
It was too good not to write about it.
At about 7:00am, my mother decided that she wanted me to slowly eat the sandwich that she had made. This would sound normal, but this is a Chinese mother who almost never makes breakfast because there is no need. It was two slightly toasted pieces of white bread with honey ham and cheese inside. Very plain, but I wouldn't get picky over it. In addition, she actually made hot chocolate. I was pleasantly surprised, and late to get into the car at about 7:41am, but first following my father out of the garage.
Driving downtown was slightly nerve racking because it was blatantly obvious that we were not going to arrive at the Challenger Learning Center by 8:00am. My father accidentally missed a street, and since it was one-way and at one point he was going the wrong way until I said "You're going to the wrong way," and he say a car coming the correct way, so he had to back into a driveway to a parking lot (the wrong way) and assumed the correct way eventually.
I pretty much ran into the building, where I found an assortment of Chiles upperclassmen, including Clara and Carolyn. All of us stood around the lobby sort of area, and someone I didn't know took pictures of Chiles Team A (Clara, Carolyn, Kavita, Won, Gaku, Ann, Roland, Patrick) and Chiles Team B (Brandon, Jerrod, Jinoo, Tom, Peter, Calvin, Nelson, Epsieanniishct).
Each team was given four rectangular tables, which were placed in squares. Nelson and Calvin removed the plastic covering for Part I, and distributed the eight scenarios. Each scenario began with a few paragraphs, and gave a multiple choice question that we calculated for the answers. A couple paragraphs were added, and another question was given. This was basically the format for each scenario, which included things like baseballs, soccer, the Beijing Olympics, architecture, and multi-channel communication. Brandon stole my scenario after a while because his was pretty much impossible. I felt really special for solving a problem or two on Jerrod's, and before we knew it, we had guessed "C" for all the problems we hadn't finished, and submitted our answers.
Most of us had hot dogs for lunch, a bag of chips, and some soda. We ate in the planetarium, where I accidentally spilled my soda... The water bottle in my bag really helped. The show was about the possibility of discovering an earth-like planet in space, and the simplified explanation about how they would do this.
We sat back down to do Part II, in which four of the eight scenarios had "extensions." This provided more paragraphs to read, and a few free response questions. I received the extension for Scenario 8, the multi-channel communication one. Brandon tried reading it too, and we basically realized how screwed we were about it. He left early for something band and tuba-related. Jinoo and Jerrod took turns in futile attempts to understand the concept better than me. Nelson and Calvin finished their scenario early, so they tried to make some sense of the concept too. Peter ended up "fluffing it up" by using our words to gather some English into a short paragraph. Nelson sketched an extremely rough graph of a cosine wave, which I quickly reminded him was a sine wave, so he had to draw another one. And another one. I really have a headache from reading about analog systems and bandwidth.
Later, Gaku said he also had to read about Scenario 8, and he didn't have a clue what was going on.
After standing near the entrance to the planetarium for a short time frame, we walked to the awards ceremony, which was basically the lobby with a table and t-shirts and trophies on it a few feet away. Soon, it was announced that 2nd place varsity went to Chiles Team B ("Chile's", according to the labeling of our tables). Oh we were happy. After that, it was announced that Chiles Team A got 1st place, so you can imagine the relief of those seniors. The t-shirts were all large, some of our certificates said things like "Jarrod" and "Jang," but it was all good. We were all surprised, and "Coach Johnson" was proud of us.
And we lived happily ever after.
At about 7:00am, my mother decided that she wanted me to slowly eat the sandwich that she had made. This would sound normal, but this is a Chinese mother who almost never makes breakfast because there is no need. It was two slightly toasted pieces of white bread with honey ham and cheese inside. Very plain, but I wouldn't get picky over it. In addition, she actually made hot chocolate. I was pleasantly surprised, and late to get into the car at about 7:41am, but first following my father out of the garage.
Driving downtown was slightly nerve racking because it was blatantly obvious that we were not going to arrive at the Challenger Learning Center by 8:00am. My father accidentally missed a street, and since it was one-way and at one point he was going the wrong way until I said "You're going to the wrong way," and he say a car coming the correct way, so he had to back into a driveway to a parking lot (the wrong way) and assumed the correct way eventually.
I pretty much ran into the building, where I found an assortment of Chiles upperclassmen, including Clara and Carolyn. All of us stood around the lobby sort of area, and someone I didn't know took pictures of Chiles Team A (Clara, Carolyn, Kavita, Won, Gaku, Ann, Roland, Patrick) and Chiles Team B (Brandon, Jerrod, Jinoo, Tom, Peter, Calvin, Nelson, Epsieanniishct).
Each team was given four rectangular tables, which were placed in squares. Nelson and Calvin removed the plastic covering for Part I, and distributed the eight scenarios. Each scenario began with a few paragraphs, and gave a multiple choice question that we calculated for the answers. A couple paragraphs were added, and another question was given. This was basically the format for each scenario, which included things like baseballs, soccer, the Beijing Olympics, architecture, and multi-channel communication. Brandon stole my scenario after a while because his was pretty much impossible. I felt really special for solving a problem or two on Jerrod's, and before we knew it, we had guessed "C" for all the problems we hadn't finished, and submitted our answers.
Most of us had hot dogs for lunch, a bag of chips, and some soda. We ate in the planetarium, where I accidentally spilled my soda... The water bottle in my bag really helped. The show was about the possibility of discovering an earth-like planet in space, and the simplified explanation about how they would do this.
We sat back down to do Part II, in which four of the eight scenarios had "extensions." This provided more paragraphs to read, and a few free response questions. I received the extension for Scenario 8, the multi-channel communication one. Brandon tried reading it too, and we basically realized how screwed we were about it. He left early for something band and tuba-related. Jinoo and Jerrod took turns in futile attempts to understand the concept better than me. Nelson and Calvin finished their scenario early, so they tried to make some sense of the concept too. Peter ended up "fluffing it up" by using our words to gather some English into a short paragraph. Nelson sketched an extremely rough graph of a cosine wave, which I quickly reminded him was a sine wave, so he had to draw another one. And another one. I really have a headache from reading about analog systems and bandwidth.
Later, Gaku said he also had to read about Scenario 8, and he didn't have a clue what was going on.
After standing near the entrance to the planetarium for a short time frame, we walked to the awards ceremony, which was basically the lobby with a table and t-shirts and trophies on it a few feet away. Soon, it was announced that 2nd place varsity went to Chiles Team B ("Chile's", according to the labeling of our tables). Oh we were happy. After that, it was announced that Chiles Team A got 1st place, so you can imagine the relief of those seniors. The t-shirts were all large, some of our certificates said things like "Jarrod" and "Jang," but it was all good. We were all surprised, and "Coach Johnson" was proud of us.
And we lived happily ever after.
Friday, February 15, 2008
Woke up with some nagging feelings.
Well actually, as soon as I woke up, a chill ran down my neck reminding me that I'm going to die one day. It wasn't very nice. I told myself to think of something else, and the first thing or person who popped into my mind wasn't exactly anything I wanted to ponder. I pushed the morbid feeling out of my mind.
Tomorrow will hopefully be mildly exciting because of JETS. Logan is going to be scoring for Cobb, though. And getting ridiculously paid.
Today is actually International That's What She Said Day.
And nothing else. Nothing has really changed, improved, or been altered dramatically.
Tomorrow will hopefully be mildly exciting because of JETS. Logan is going to be scoring for Cobb, though. And getting ridiculously paid.
Today is actually International That's What She Said Day.
And nothing else. Nothing has really changed, improved, or been altered dramatically.
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Wooooohhh.
I really shouldn't have gone, but I really thought I was getting better. We stood outside some doors for a while. By the way, I feel really dizzy and might stop making sense which I probably don't already. Dehydration. Possibly. Won and I were high-fiving each other, and after a little while, I reached my hand back and accidentally whacked Gaku in the face. During team round, I was basically captain and ripper for team 2. Blair, Caroline and Ariane were really supportive. They didn't really do much but it was all good. Actually, we (or I) scored a few times. I don't know how I survived through it. We ended up getting an honorable mention. According to Diana that means we would've placed but school's teams can only place once... So too bad. Dude, I'm such a beast at team. Individual was really bad because I started feeling even worse. Diana gave me some pills before the test began, but they didn't really do anything. The test. Gosh, it was horrifying. The highest score ended up being a 70-something. It's pretty certain that the number of points I scored on the team round was higher than my indie score. My "BFF" (Brianna) and I sat on the grass in the sun for a little bit, and then I sort of walked around within a small area as people scored their tests. At lunch, we ran across a really busy and fast-paced street twice. The awards ceremony was exactly like last year, but I think last year some sort of hydraulic problem happened and they had to get another coach... (I feel really out of it right now.) On the bus we made paper airplanes. A lot of them. By the end of the trip my fever was getting really bad again. I must have gone to bed before 7pm or something. Woke up with a fever, I'm wondering how choppy my sentences can get today, and took a shower which felt a little better but not really, and right now I think the fever went away but I feel really really really dizzy or something. Maybe I'm just that dehydrated.
Gina told me, "I love you!" so I said "I love you more!" and she said "I love you more!" and the funny thing is, she ended up saying "I LOVE YOU MORE! See? I said it louder than you. Oh, don't say it back! Your throat hurts." It was hilarious.
Gina told me, "I love you!" so I said "I love you more!" and she said "I love you more!" and the funny thing is, she ended up saying "I LOVE YOU MORE! See? I said it louder than you. Oh, don't say it back! Your throat hurts." It was hilarious.
Friday, February 08, 2008
Oh double, you see.
Tomorrow is the OWC Regional. My mother tried to convince me to stay at home, but I'm getting better, so hopefully I'll be at the front of the school at 5:15am, courtesy of my father's insane talent for getting up early when he feels like it. Actually, he rarely stays up past about 7am.
Today, I found out about JETS, and from Logan through Jerrod, found out that I'm on Team 2! So the world is ending and what not, but I'm really excited about the opportunity. 2010 represent! (Brandon, Logan, Jerrod, Jinoo, Calvin, Nelson, Tom) Hopefully I don't get kicked off before next Saturday. It basically made my day.
I've been trying to cram some MAO into my head during the past few hours, with absolutely no idea how effective it has been. My throat hurts a lot today, but it's slowly getting better. The fever, thank goodness gracious, has abandoned me. I've never wanted to get up at 5:15am so badly.
I guess I'm captain of Pre-Calc Team 2. I'm so excited. Gonna have to fix that.
Today, I found out about JETS, and from Logan through Jerrod, found out that I'm on Team 2! So the world is ending and what not, but I'm really excited about the opportunity. 2010 represent! (Brandon, Logan, Jerrod, Jinoo, Calvin, Nelson, Tom) Hopefully I don't get kicked off before next Saturday. It basically made my day.
I've been trying to cram some MAO into my head during the past few hours, with absolutely no idea how effective it has been. My throat hurts a lot today, but it's slowly getting better. The fever, thank goodness gracious, has abandoned me. I've never wanted to get up at 5:15am so badly.
I guess I'm captain of Pre-Calc Team 2. I'm so excited. Gonna have to fix that.
Sunday, February 03, 2008
Go... whoever.
Apparently, the Super Bowl is tonight. I'm still not over being bitter towards the Giants for beating the Packers in really cold weather. However, I can't go rooting for the "Patriots."
Yesterday, I wrote about seven MS Word pages worth of notes, severely breaking the rule of 10-15 important bullet facts per source. I still don't have my last source, which should come in the form of a physical book, but hopefully the crate that Mrs. Winsett said she'd get will come before Wednesday. Nothing is due on Monday, so it's going to take some sort of incentive to start doing a lot of this work.
One of my not-so-new favorite activities is defeating opponents in ping-pong by slamming it down in a sort of spike so they have no chance.
After reading this, I feel like they were talking about my family. http://www.theonion.com/content/news/cia_america_may_have_an_unknown
I need to go biking some time soon.
Yesterday, I wrote about seven MS Word pages worth of notes, severely breaking the rule of 10-15 important bullet facts per source. I still don't have my last source, which should come in the form of a physical book, but hopefully the crate that Mrs. Winsett said she'd get will come before Wednesday. Nothing is due on Monday, so it's going to take some sort of incentive to start doing a lot of this work.
One of my not-so-new favorite activities is defeating opponents in ping-pong by slamming it down in a sort of spike so they have no chance.
After reading this, I feel like they were talking about my family. http://www.theonion.com/content/news/cia_america_may_have_an_unknown
I need to go biking some time soon.
Saturday, February 02, 2008
Supremacía
Today was the JCL regional at Leon High School. So all of the cool non-Latin kids didn't go, like me. I pretty much sat and did homework all day, and occasionally played some piano and my forearms felt ripped after doing so.
Interims were moved a few weeks earlier so they wouldn't intervene with FCAT Writing, or something ridiculous like that. Walking into Chem every school day, all I can really think about is, "Oh yeah, I'm going to be doing this next year, too." That is, I'm going to be walking into that classroom next year.
Ketan and I have been slightly bitter lately. In addition to Ryan and perhaps a few other people, we wanted to join JCL but the sponsors said that we couldn't join because we weren't taking Latin. It might be traitorous to want to join the club, but it sounded like such a good idea at the beginning of the school year. Of course, Ketan has an ulterior motive, which can be translated into "distracting Vicky and himself throughout the competition so they both fail." Actually, that is precisely what they managed to do at the Lee County Invitational.
My brother is going to be in the Howard Wilson piano competition next Saturday when the MAO people are at Okaloosa Walton College for the MAO regional. It would be nice to know who's on the Pre-Calc teams at this point, but apparently we bombed the last one so badly that Freed is at lost with what to do to us.
My life is sprinkled happily with entirely Spanish conversations. Es beatitud.
Interims were moved a few weeks earlier so they wouldn't intervene with FCAT Writing, or something ridiculous like that. Walking into Chem every school day, all I can really think about is, "Oh yeah, I'm going to be doing this next year, too." That is, I'm going to be walking into that classroom next year.
Ketan and I have been slightly bitter lately. In addition to Ryan and perhaps a few other people, we wanted to join JCL but the sponsors said that we couldn't join because we weren't taking Latin. It might be traitorous to want to join the club, but it sounded like such a good idea at the beginning of the school year. Of course, Ketan has an ulterior motive, which can be translated into "distracting Vicky and himself throughout the competition so they both fail." Actually, that is precisely what they managed to do at the Lee County Invitational.
My brother is going to be in the Howard Wilson piano competition next Saturday when the MAO people are at Okaloosa Walton College for the MAO regional. It would be nice to know who's on the Pre-Calc teams at this point, but apparently we bombed the last one so badly that Freed is at lost with what to do to us.
My life is sprinkled happily with entirely Spanish conversations. Es beatitud.
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