Oh so balla'.

The past week has contained a slew of unfortunate occurrences. Going down the list, Spanish is probably the only class that has no worries. It would be a nice way to begin the day if it weren't incredibly dull. Thankfully, today, we didn't actually do any new work. European history was nice when my grade went to a 95% for doing well on the FRQs, but I got a 4/10 on the reading quiz today. William got a 5/10. The reason for this dramatic drop in performance has been that I've been doing my stat and bio projects, trying to study, and not really getting anywhere. In Stat, I prepared to cry during lunch yesterday, but I am incredibly thankful because somehow, I got a 104% on the Chapter 5 test, so I actually had a 102% even after the 64% on a quiz. Chem has just been torture. I had a 90.1% and then got an 88% on a homework assignment. I thought I had a B, but when I finally checked during bio, my grade hadn't changed at all. After doing the roll-up timeline, my grade rose by .4%, but I know I messed up on the big test today. I got an 87% on the last test somehow, and I don't think I got an A on this one so there's pretty much no way I'm going to have an A in this class no matter how easy it is. At one point during the week, I broke down crying right for many, many reasons that I will never reveal to everyone because it would take a long time and it would sound really selfish talking about oneself for a very extended period of time before I even sat down at the lunch table. That day, I had problems with doing my airplane problems for Pre-Calc for a mysterious reason. The next day, then entire class was forced to rush through the test. English is just... ugggh grammar. The book doesn't teach it well, and we end up making educated guesses on the work that we do in class.
Four people know who I like, and if you're not one of them, it's not because I hate you. I don't know why they know. But don't worry. There's nothing that can be done except giving up. It's just so hard.
My awesome brotherly friend wrote a short letter to me after the night when I told him about some of the reasons why I was going through such a hard time. I didn't rant about everything, but I still got a lot out there and he was so sweet. Letters have always been one of my favorite things, and the act really made me smile. He's an amazing guy and I am still smiling for him.
Today, William called me to ask why I wasn't at the jazz band rehearsal. I don't know if German will accept my excuse, but it's kind of funny how I don't actually have a band grade to get lowered.
One of my friends who was mentioned above is probably going through the worst time of her life. The fact that she's gifted and in challenging classes with loads of coursework isn't helping a bit. I really want to make her happier, but there isn't much I can do to improve the situation. Crying at lunch isn't fun when you're trying to have a nice lunch and to finish your homework and study for an upcoming test. I wish we wouldn't know that.
Someone awesome and incredible and smart even though she disagrees burned me a copy of Sawdust. It was the only thing that excited me throughout the entire day, and it was wondrous.
It is time to name the new FLVS building, but today is the last day to turn in an entry and also the day I found out about it. And I have no ideas.
I want to relax. Work work work work work is all we ever do these disappointing days. I'm going to Disney World for the first time during Thanksgiving Break. Meet you there?

Mr. Brightside

I'm posting this from imeem.

What did you get? What did you get? What did you get?

I don't know yet.
Today was the Rickards Invitational, and oh my goodness gracious!
We had to arrive around 8am, and when I got to the bottom of the school, I found Roland. Before we headed to the cafeteria like it instructed us on the itinerary, Kavita came and told us to follow her to the auditorium. There, half the people had already arrived, including the massive amount of Algebra II kids.
Ryan was late, so Chanyang decided to call his cell phone. However, during the day of the band concert, I had reprogrammed that exact number as jk's cell phone number. Chanyang described the conversation: "Ryan": Hello? Chanyang: Hi Ryan!!! "Ryan": You got the wrong number..
After that, Chanyang got a different number from Jack, which was actually Ryan's phone number. Then, after I changed William's entry of Ryan's cell phone number, Wiliam and I walked up to Chanyang and asked her what the phone number she had was. William, showed her the "real" number, and she changed hers. Jack and I changed the real number to the "real" number too, and we also told Chanyang what "Ryan's" number was. Chanyang yelled at Jack for giving her the wrong number the first time even though he hadn't.
Heading off to the Comprehensive Individual round, we realized that there was a slight upgrade from last year. Instead of an intensive reading-like classroom, we sat in an AP Literature and Composition room. The tests were also much easier, but we were up against the Calculus kids, so we had no chance. Disputes were longer, too, and we didn't have problems with QUITE as many. The Comprehensive Open round was mainly Algebra II problems, which we absolutely forgot how to solve.
Lunch was pretty cool because so many of us were there. William and I walked into Abercrombie for the first time and Hot Topic. After we entered Hot Topic, Ryan, Joseph, Jack, and perhaps James Yan all walked inside the store, too.
I still haven't graded my tests.

Two hours for two minutes.

Yesterday was the band concert, and I went there for two house to play "Soul Man," which definitely didn't take very long. The piano had some really boring chords and that was about it.
My friends were going to set me up with a guy tonight, but one of them wouldn't let two of them go ahead with it because she said he has a girlfriend, which he doesn't. Hah. I knew it would be impossible. =]
I can't go anyways because my mom wants me to go to the Seafood Festival and St. George Island with the family and Shirley's family. I will most likely spend my time reading for Euro, English, and Bio. We have to read about nine Cantos for the weekend which is completely insane, in my opinion.
My teacher said I can play the second movement of Rachmaninoff's second piano concerto! Sounds interesting. I really hope the competition is not one of of my AP exam days.
We have a Euro project, Chem project, and other random homework and I have FLVS and I don't know how I'm going to complete my homework. Chanyang is coming on Sunday evening so we can do the Euro project. I have to go to dinner so I get's this is the end of this post. I need to post more often.

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.