I Will Blog Now, Thanks
I have literally had no time to blog in recent weeks. I forecasted many entries ago that my time would be severely limited because of school, and it is. Now I have the following things to worry about/do homework for/study for/work for/etc.
- Honors Algebra 3-4
- Contrary to popular belief, this class is not hard, and never will be. I’m not trying to brag, I’m not trying to say that I’m just too good at the math we’ve been doing to care, but it’s true. DelGrosso is a nice teacher, but like many nice teachers (though not all), he isn’t the best one I’ve ever had. I find myself impatiently wanting to skip ahead a section or two and get some homework done in advance, only to have my plans foiled by the fact that he never puts the homework up on the board until after he has given us a long and droning sermon on what amazing things there are to know in Section X.y.
- Honors Chemistry
- I shudder when I think of this class. The Safety Nazi is ever vigilant and will stop at nothing to bore us out of our minds with pointless experiments and tedious worksheets. I really, really hope this class improves, for the sake of my sanity. I will say no more, less I faint with the pain.
- AP European History
- I wanted a challenge, and I got one. This is the hardest class I’ve ever been in, and though I’ve done pretty well so far (97% on one essay, 93% on second one, 95% on the last test, 100% on everything else), no matter what I do, it is never enough. I can take notes ’till the cows come home (to use one of those neat down-home sayings), and I can study hours at a time, but it really doesn’t make much of a difference. What matters most is a) attending class and taking extensive notes during lectures and b) understanding the underlying concepts of a period in order to remember the rest of it. It really isn’t that bad, and it sure is interesting, but I still spend more time each night on AP Euro than on anything else.
- Web Development
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Things have been sketchy in webdev lately. First, Trapani is currently not at school for reasons that I won’t write about here, though I will say that he won’t be back for at least another week. This is okay in some respects because it means that I am left alone to pretty much do whatever I need to do on the website without interruption. Not that Trapani is particularly annoying or anything; it’s more that when he is at school I have a constant flood of things that need to be added/modified/changed on the site, whereas right now I’m in a very relaxing quiet period. Let it be known that I work best in either complete silence or seclusion, or in seclusion with some good music playing in the background.
Anyway, I’m sort of juggling three projects right now: 1) moving pages from the old site to the pretty new design, 2) coding a nice, new, dynamic site with database-driven functions and such, and 3) a registration/scheduling application for schools which could be quite profitable. This is a lot for me to need to do, but once the first one is done I’m supposed to be able to delegate the remedial tasks of updating pages to some minions provided by the school, which will help a lot.
- Kulinski
- I’ve been a bad kid. I really haven’t been working on my stuff for English at all. I’m supposed to have read at least half of Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, by the 7th, and I’m only on page 15-ish. I’m also supposed to be jounaling about my reading, which I haven’t started doing yet. Oh, and I’m also supposed to write three essays by the 21st, at which time I should have finished the book. It isn’t that I can’t handle this kind of work-load, it’s just that I have no time. I NEED TIME! Where does it all go? Why can’t I buy more when I run out?
- Nasr
- After a hard day, Spanish class is all I need to loosen up and feel better about things. Something happens to make the entire class start laughing at least once every period, and my table, comprised of Marion Thiefain, Kyle Short, and Kyle Rimmer, is a good one. We all tried to pronounce Marion’s last name and came up with THAY-fawhn, which is nowhere near right, though fun to annoy her with. There is much binder-stealing and general joking around, but we still manage to learn something. And I’m finally getting back my ability to speak and write Spanish, which is great seeing as we’re already three weeks into the semester.
- Debate
- Yes, I joined the school debate team. As far as I know, I’ll be competing in the Ted Turner (partner) event and impromptu, which is where you make up a speech about a random topic. The only problem is that I have no talent when it comes to public speaking and am mortified about having to present in front of a large audience. We’ll see how far I get.
- LitMag
- I’m in LitMag again too, and I’m determined to do more this year than I did last year. I can do Photoshopping, web sites, etc, whatever they need, just ask and I will obey. I have a meeting tomorrow after school, the first one this year. Hopefully there’ll be some new members.
- Work
- Technically I still have a part-time job. I haven’t done much since writing a contact-management system for a theatre awards organization a week or so before school started. I dunno if I’ll have time for much else.
- Continuing Technical Education
- Supposedly I’m still learning stuff about PHP. I got a new book last weekend called Advanced PHP Programming, by George Schlossnagle. I had to pay for it in quarters because I’m poor. Hopefully I can talk the school into some financial reimbursement for my services (they’d better pay…or there will be no more website….BWAHAHAHAHA!).
So yeah, that’s about it for now. I might post again this weekend; it’ll be a three-dayer.
Quote of the Day (sort of)
There’s no need for John Kerry to campaign. All he needs to do is put on one commercial on national TV the day before the election with this short message: “Elect me…or there will be no more ketchup.”