Why bother?
Why bother?
Ugh, painting & Drawing class. Don't mind the 'ugh', I actually LOVE it even though I suck at drawing. It's a nice, fun, light class. The perfect way to end a monday at school. The teacher is helpful and doesn't mind if you talk and I'm with some people that I don't mind being with. Today though Jessica really irked me. She accidentally painted on the desk and then just covered it up with her paper and laughed. It wasn't funny and I told her to clean it up before it smudges and dries but she wouldn't. I'm not a neat freak or anything but that just seemed so... grade two. Alisha and I spent about 15 minutes telling her to clean it up and she wouldn't - saying it was an accident. That kinda made me mad, I mean, lets say you knock over the milk at home, you clean it up even though it was an accident. She hadn't done it by the end of the lesson and so the teacher cleaned it up which I thought was not fair at all because we'd told her over 20 times to do it and she still hadn't and so the paint had dried up and smudged. Plus the tables were all smooth and shiny when we came in and though another guy in the class had got paint all over the table he still cleaned it up without anyone asking - and he is like the most immature person in the grade. So Alisha, Emily and I ended up leaving the class kind of angry at her. I mean, for godsakes, we're in year 9 now and this is stuff a grade two needs to be told to do. Some people need to show some responsibility for their actions and grow up.
l x w = area of a rectangle
l2= area of a square
3/4 x pi x r3 = volume of a sphere
(b x b) x h = volume of a cube/rectangle
pi x r2 = B x H = volume of a cylinder
4/3 x pi x r2 = volume of a sphere
pi x r2 = area of a circle
angle/360 x pi x r2 = area of a sector
b x h = area of a parallelogram
0.5 x (a+b) x h = area of a rhombus
pi x d = circumference of a circle
2 x pi x r = circumference of a circle using radius
angel/360 x 2 x pi x r = arc length
too bad I won't remember half of this in the math test tomorrow
So today I felt positively SPARKLING!
YOUR INFO.
Start Date: Monday March 23nd, 2009
End Date: Sunday March 30th, 2009
Todays Thing: Get all work due in on time/Ask for help when needed/be a good friend
Info: So I have a habit of getting things in late... I finished my homework this morning before school and only one thing was due so I felt I kind of cheated. I'm struggling in math at the moment because I've been away and the teacher can't control the class and she doesn't make sense. So I swallowed my pride and asked Caitlin to help me, and it was good, she really did help a lot. There are still some things I don't understand so she said she would help me tomorrow too. And today, I found out that we have a CLOSED book math test tomorrow. how awesome right? I'm so going to fail. Today at lunch time Jess (one of my friends) was kind of exiled from the group because she said a mean thing to Jasmine and Jacqui doesn't like her much. She did apologise and she did say she wasn't thinking, and I know its hard to forgive but she's a friend of mine and I don't have a problem with her because she doesn't tend to think before she speaks. So at lunch time she was standing all alone and my heart went out to her, it really did because I know what it's like to be that girl. So I told her to come stand with us, and she didn't get a very walm reception but I tried to include her and asked her to sleep over sometime and invited her to the library with me and Caitlin. It looked like Jasmine patched things up with her while me and Cait were doing math so it's all good? I felt kinda warm and fuzzy afterward.
Tom's Thing: Smile more. I don't do it a lot so I should make an effort to. Maybe smiling all day will rub off on me.
happyStart Date: Monday March 23nd, 2009
End Date: Sunday March 30th, 2009
Todays Thing: Make my feelings known
Info: So I usually just let people forget when they forget about me but when it's a really good friend who's doing it I should tell them how I feel... and so I did today. Cait and I did a lap of the oval just talking and stuff and I think we're okay now. I wasn't gonna do the 7 Day Challenge but that inspired me to
Tom's Thing: Get all due work in on time.
( The woman stretched below the flickering streetlight. )
So feedback would be awesome. Obviously its not finished yet but I'm not sure whether to continue.
So I stayed home today, Jasmine gave me her illness. Nothing eventful happened, I fell asleep again and woke up at 11 or so. Talked to Mir. At about six I went to the doctor and apparently I have a throat infection.
Which is weird because I'm faking sick.
Well, kind of. My nose is all runny and crap and my ears sometimes pop when I swallow but my throat doesn't hurt at all.
When I was getting my medication (yeah, I have to take antibiotics... not sure thats good) the chinese lady who was serving me kinda lent over the counter all secretive right and she was like "are you taking oral contraceptive?" I dunno why I found that so funny, maybe I'm just immature lol.
Jasmine slept over on Saturday night, it was weird that her parents let her. She might be sleeping here on Sunday which is cool and we're getting Chinese for dinner (mainly because the hottest guy i have ever seen works there and she wants to see him). I told her some things to say in chinese *insert perverted smile here* (thank you google translator!).
I should probably go now even though I'm not going to school tomorrow.
We had an assembly so it meant our periods were 10 minutes shorter or so. Year 9 takes place in the gym and I met our co-ordinator, Mr. Gorman who is quite nice. He read out all the boring announcements and then told us someone was here to speak to us and this lady stepped forward and intoduced herself. I don't remember her name but she was talking about exchange students and stuff. I was so tempted to tune out because I thought my dad would never ever let me go because it costs a lot but something kept me listening. She read out the list of countries we could choose from; America (aka, United States), Ireland, Germany, Italy, France, French Canada, Denmark, Finland, Holland, Japan, Norway, South Africa and wait for it - SWEDEN! That made me listen and she told us all about how when she was 15 she went on a trip to Sweden, and she stayed with a host family just outside of Stockholm, and on her first week she came face to face with a moose and people wanted to know if we had kangaroos going down our streets. She said we didn't have to know the language to go there and yes, it would be hard but people were friendly and translated for her. By then me and my friends were all OMGYES!
Recess was fun! Fun! I didn't realise how much I missed Caitiepants and Jacquetta and Jasmine Tea till I saw them again!
I went back to Mr O'Neil because I didn't have a locker yet and got my stuff and he told me that I had English and Science next. I have Mrs Manarcus for English and she was quite nice! I sat with some girls I vaguely knew and she got my name wrong and called me Chantelle. Seriously. So far this year I've been both Chantelle and Catherine. Great. I finished my rough draft before anyone else and started my good copy. The aid, Mrs Baker came up to me and started talking to me in really small words and slowly before asking if I was supposed to be in a different class and I explained and all of the sudden she used big words and talked faster. It was a little bit funny.
Science was alright, I sat with Anne Marie and Stephen Kenny, two people I knew that were okay and we made a map of the human body. There were too other people with us too but I only remember the girls name - Anh. The teacher was a bitch but bearable.
After lunch I went to Mr. Gorman, the co-ordinator and he sorted out my math class and electives, Painting and Drawing on Mondays, Japanese on Tuesdays (I only did that because that would be so awesome to be with Issy and Caitlin and drive Mr. Yoshi mad), Wednesdays Drama and then Japanese, Thursdays Painting and Drawing and Friday Drama with Caitlin. I got slotted into MAC with Mrs Owen and by the time I got to Maths there was only ten minutes left of the period so I didn't have to do any work.
IFT was fun! The teacher we had, Miss Frankish was just like Mrs T. from year 7, absolutely awesome! I didn't do any work in that class either because I didn't have any login info but I got the newsletters and stuff. It was funner than I thought it would be and I hope tomorrow is the same.
I have MCSATAN for math
For math!
How is it possible for a sport teacher to be a math teacher?
A stupid sport teacher!
Those who can't do, teach. And those who can't teach, teach gym.
and she's pregnant!
WTH
Seriously, is the universe out to get me this year?
What did I do that deserved a shit load of bad luck?
Did I kill anyone?
Only in stories.
Did I kill animals?
It was not my fault that the water holder fell on our mouse! You can't blame me for that!
Wish I had the money for hairdye right now.
stressed[out of nowhere]
DAD: By the way
CJ: What? *turns off music*
DAD: You're going to school on friday
CJ: What? Where?
DAD: At Werribee. You'll be doing the foundation course *walks off*
Why am I so tempted to dye my hair pink and pierce my nose?
Because Werribee has an anti facial piercing policy.
And anti natural hair colors.
So I'd get suspended/expelled.
One thing is clear.
I am NOT going back there.
Not while I am still alive and breathing.
I've been moping under my covers for four days straight, only coming out to eat, pee, see Jasmine and shower.
There is a 1% chance Werribee will change their mind and let me back in... I want to go back, I don't want to go to Galvin.
My dad is halfway willing to let me attend school at the Werribee Community centre where I can get my year 10 pass a year early. My sister went there for a year and a half.
It's a school for misfits, people with problems, people who are different. People like me?
Maybe I need to get help. I don't want to end up a basket case like Dixon off Greys. Or maybe its too late.
I'm worried about my friend Courtney. I know its propbably stupid and all but I used to see her online at least once a day and I haven't seen her online since before I left. Caitlin says she is fine but I dunno, I just worry.
I'm worried about Jasmine too, about leaving her at Werribee. I know she won't be alone, she'll have Jacqui, Caitie and Issy and Jessica and even the pansy Josh and his angry friend Jesse (who she thinks is hot or something? I dunno, you two would make a great couple?). But I kinda feel like I was her outlet for... prawns (inside joke) and other things. I guess Jacqui could be her new 'me' but I dunno how I feel like that I'm afraid of losing contact with her.
Speaking of Jasmine, we caught up on Thursday. Got some Slurpees and walked down to the tables where we laughed about stuff and I found the initials I engraved into the table. We went and saw Chantel B. too, she has not changed at all lookswise. I havent talked to her long enough to see if her personality has changed.
Today I was awoken by my dad who said we had people coming to look at the house. I was sooo tired and quickly got dressed and made my room perfect in 5 minutes flat... Then I came out and they had left! I was very annoyed by that. My dad left shortly after and I retreated into my bed and waited for Dollhouse to be uploaded. Mir came on and we talked a bit.
I'm dying my hair tomorrow, either going Ella Scott Lynch:
( Ella Scott Lynch )
or Drew Barrymore:
( Drew Barrymore )
With both I'll also have to bleach my hair and by some kind of black hair color spray to cover it up while I'm at home. My dad would have a fit.
I'm going to my sisters tomorrow, might see baby Danika. Kathleen can help me with my hair seeing as she has done hers a million times.
I should probably sleep really soon so I'll cut this post off here.
The bell went and we went to English. I collected my poems and stuff and we did a little bit of theory and then spelling. I hope I land up in 9E next year and have Mrs T.
Recess was spent with Jazz Pants of course.
Art. The usual chillout zone. Mrs G weirded up the tables so we were all squished together. Sat next to my fradentical woglet and the other woglet. We did a weird painting thing with Gesso (Which reminded us of Gello). The Fradentical Woglet and I spent half the lesson drawing Deliah and Delores, the two dinosaurs which would carry Bella, Jacob, Rosalie, Mike, Eric, Tyler and Esme off to some land away from the other vamps. Alter Ego Jacqui and Alter Ego CJ controlled the dinosaurs while Siti sailed overhead with a kite made out of her headscarf and Nicky and Alisha glided along on her leg. Down on the ground Edward carried Jacqui off to his love nest and Carlisle and I danced.
The Fradenticle Woglet and I hung out at lunch with Jazz Pants and we talked about beauty and inner beauty. We had a skank attack when McSatan and two Identical skanks walked past us. I wonder what Identical skanks are called... Skadentical?
Had Japanese next... actually did a little work. Issy got sent out. I have a jam packed weekend, my party on the Friday and hers on the Saturday. Geography and The Fradentical Woglet and I sat together and listened to the teacher lecture at the start and then we did our work...
Other news: I started editing my NaNo 06 novel (unfinished), Almost Perfect.
Monday... the first day back at school. It was alright but it still sucked, I honestly can't remember anything much. Tuesday was very much the same, apart from the Baby jesus thing.
Today.
Wood Tech. I nailed a few things... Caitlin did the rest for me. I suck at everything at school. I used to be good at english, but now I think maybe I'm not cut out for it if they want perfection, because I am not perfect, I do not have the perfect rhythm, the perfect beat, I run by feeling, by emotion, not by "four lines a stanza".
Geography... Mrs R was in a very lecture-y mood. I forgot my text book. Math. Difficult and confusing.
English... my usually bright and shiny latern of hope. Today it was horrible. No, we weren't doing debating, we were doing poetry. I decided to finish off the Midnight Girl for my ballad and I didn't know how to so I brought it up to Mrs C hoping for some insight. She slaughtered it. She took away lines that were crucial to the feeling of the poem, to the beat, and she reworded stuff that didn't need to be. It was fine the way it was, I could have made it four lines a stanza if that was how she really wanted it and it would have been fine... but she slaughtered it. What was once a piece of writing filled with what I call feeling, hope and sadness and she turned it into a mindless piece of dribble that didn't mean anything at all. I know I have to take critism and what not and okay fine, but she took away the life of Midnight. She took away its soul.
Of course I was sad. I almost cried at seeing it ruined like that, I really did. Caitlin and Alisha tried to cheer me up, but it didn't really work. I used to think writing was a way to express one's self, it was my second breathing system. But now I'm not so sure that I'm cut out for it... I don't want to write mindless pieces of crap that are filled with cliches, I want to write feeling, I want to write from my soul.
( A refresher on what I'm talking about... The Midnight Girl )
People would say it's a wonder that I havent already cracked and punched the smirks off of others faces but generally I'm not a violent person. I have never actually hit anybody out of anger, just playfullness. I try to stay away from people, it's not like I don't have friends but they are limited and they are not the problem. I stay away from people, hoping not to be bothered and yet they see it as some invitation to rag on me. I swear the next person who does it better have good reflexes or they will end up with a fist in their face, regardless of my consequences. Screw the suspension/expulsion I just don't want to put up with it anymore.
Maybe I'll survive tomorrow. It's the last day so if I manage to survive I have two weeks to get it out of my system, because right now all my sensible thoughts are so tired of constantly trying to convince me out of the violent acts I so desperately want to do.
I won't do the usual run down as I have limited time, but Monday, nothing much happened, Science, English were the usual... Art we started something new, and I actually kind of like mine, it's a picture of two planets that I drew and they have half love hearts on each and I call it World Peace :P Caitlin argued (or was it Jacqui?) that it technically wasn't the world but I liked World Peace better than Planet Peace.
Tuesday Mrs C requested an interview with my dad (for parent teacher interview day :( ) Mrs. R didn't yell much on account of the fact she was sick...Science and then Math, closed book test which was a pain... think I failed. Textiles was the usual, sat with Jacqui and laughed because Jake and Siti crawled into a really small cupboard (and fit... but not together obviously lol)
Wednesday we had PE... yeah, it was pretty much the usual horror except period two Mrs C's yr9 Dance class came in and performed for us so we didn't have to do much. Three and Four were so awesome, we had this incursion where the guy brought in SNAKES!!! and Lizards, and a baby crocodile! There was a turtle and some frogs too which weren't as interesting... But oh my god, he let us hold all the snakes and stuff, and I got to have one around my neck and it was so freaky! I didn't wanna touch it while it was on me incase it crawled up my face lol, but it was really cool, Jacqui's snake kept trying to crawl into her hair!
then periods four and five were a bit of bore... Everyone kept saying that the world would end because that LHC thing was being switched on... It was annoying lol, and the funny part was all they did was switch it on and fire a particle around... the good stuff happens next month or something, a day after my birthday (or so Jacqui said), which would seriously suck if it did end the world (lol I doubt it will). It is said it may produce tiny tiny tiny black holes which would disappear almost instantaneously because they were so small.
Today was sort of eventful, I left for the bus at the usual time... and after ten minutes it still didn't come... but I knew I hadnt missed it because there were four other people there. Eventually Scott left and the rest of us waited for an hour and fifteen minutes for it to come. I missed a whole period of school. A guy in my class was bragging to his year 7 friend that I write like 'a year ten and a half' lol. The rest of the day was boring and uneventful.
Got home and got addicted to the Time Warp song from the Rocky Horror Picture Show (which me and Jasmine are going to watch on Saturday when she comes over and perhaps I can bribe my dad to take us to the Op shop, and we can look for cool stuff from the seventies and some really ugly clothes for the Fron Chestcar costume.
First two periods was Drama and in the second period we watched the Princess Bride (well... half of it) and it was so awesome, even for an old movie. I might see if I can either dwnld it or see if the video store has it, but I doubt it as I am pretty sure the video store closed down. ( >:-(= )
Recess was okay, I can't remember what Leighton, Jasmine, Stacey and I did but knowing us it was probably something immature and totally random...
English. More spelling. Seriously ew. It was alright though and Mrs C. called me her muse (Jacqui came up to me at lunch and told me it was creepy how Mrs C keeps complimenting me and that she must have a crush on me... needless to say, I lol'd). Math was pretty much uneventful, Angles is our new topic and our closed book test is on Tuesday(for probability).
In Japanese we had a test and I am pretty sure I failed lol, but then again I am not doing Japanese next year so I don't really care all that much about it. Geography was well... odd lol. We were all standing around waiting for Mrs R and dreading it because she's well... she's so scary sometimes. But Miss K, the nicest, most awesome teacher (we had her for IFT last semester) turned out to be our sub so nobody got any work done... well I got six questions out of fifteen lol but who cares, it was a fun lesson. Caitie and I talked to the dudes in front of us (Fabian, David and Daine) and I asked Fabian to marry me lol and he said no but someone (I think it was me?) performed the ceremony and it was too late so I drew on my rings and then I asked David if he would marry Caitie and he said yes so they got married too but then Caitie wanted out so she married Fabian too... it was a very random funny afternoon.
After school I watched the last half hour of Bones and omg, I am sooooo happy it is back on! I love, love, love, LOVE Bones sooo much!. I really didn't like how they only mentioned Zach once though... seriously, the writer people could put him in a bit more but apparently he is coming back in a few episodes so I cant wait. He was seriously cute with the floppy hair.
Anyway, I am reading Wicked, finally. It is soo good so far!
Yesterday, I also got bugged by Leighton so I put the site up for the script... http://OzHorrorHigh.webs.com
Recess and I hung out with the usuals, finished up my oral presentation stuff. Something really gross happened though, I touched the railing on the stairs and someone had like blown their nose on it so I couldn't stop gagging for about five minutes.
The oral presentations in English were quite scary, I hate being up in front of a group of people, but I'm pretty sure everyone in our grade is too. Caitlin and I speculated a Mexican Wave Cough :P but decided Mrs C would get pissy.
Math was alright, Angles is our new topic. I got my math test back, 41 our of 49, I even got more than Jacqui! I was pretty sure it was impossible. I don't talk much in Math and the teacher was going to keep us in for some of lunch but she let the good people out but didn't say my name, and when all the good people left she was like "alright all of you are in here because you've been bad" and then Lindsay went "What about CJ?" and she looked at me and she kind of laughed and said I was her blindspot. I guess being invisible is better than being constantly noticed though.
After lunch we had Jap, and I did a little of my work for once and then helped Issy with her Once Essay. Kind of boring actually, Issy got sent out near the end of the lesson for laughing really loudly. The Snoggers (aka, Caitie and Josh) snogged a bit and then we went off to Geography.
It was scary, seriously scary. SHE WAS IN A GOOD MOOD! There was half a lecture but it was about studying. Turns out I am second from the top in the class, missed it by 3%. She handed back our tests and I got a suprisingly high mark considering the fact that I'd been away almost two weeks and hadn't studied. It was so funny that after she said that she was like *points to me, Lindsay and Tony* "These people got the highest because they studied. They actually went over there notes! Nobody can wing it in a test, it takes hard work and preperation!" and I don't even go over the notes or the work lol, and I'm pretty sure that Tony and Lindsay didn't study either. She joked around somewhat with us and then let us pack up five minutes early and she talked with Caitie nicely for those five minutes.
All in all, it was actually a good Friday, except the recess incident.
HHR and we played puberty-themed board games. They were quite funny actually and my group had a good time. English was alright, but we have our Oral Presentations tomorrow which will be an absolute nightmare.
Math and it was an open book test. Kinda easy and the closed book one is on Friday. As long as it does not include Tree diagrams or any of the later excercises I will be okay. Jap was boring as usual.
After school I went to the library and at the grocery store I saw my aunty Rina. I hadn't seen her in years. She looks awful... she has breast cancer. Aparently the success rate is 95% or something, I don't know, I wasn't listening.
On the drive home my dad told me he is kicking my sister out. I won't go into details but I keep wondering if it will be me next. My family deteriorated one by one and now it looks like it is just me and my dad.
English next and I entered my books for the premieres Reading Challenge and then did my work which was a paragraph where we pretended to be a journalist for the olympic games... it was actually interesting.
Art next and we finished our Charcoal pictures and then worked on our hands. This is when we (Caitie Jacqui and I) came up with the King of Oz Horror High which is like a crossover parody of The Lion King, The Wizard of Oz, The Rocky Horror Picture Show and High School Musical. It will be majorly funny and we plan on filming it and sticking it on youtube.
Since I have been given the dubious task of writing the script I have come up with a list of characters :P
GLINDA THE LOUD.................
THE WICKED WITCH OF WEZZA.......
SNOWELLA........................
BOY TOY.........................
SHARP A.........................
THE WIZURD......................
OLE GREG........................
THE BOY WHO DIED................
DRONGO MALFOY...................
RILEY CYROUS....................
FAY BEE ANNE....................
POSHUA DALLYBOY.................
FRON CHESTCAR...................
contentI have a day off on Thursday anyhow, and my dad still doesn't know. I was planning on seeing a movie with Jasmine but I am definitely not desperate to go an see Mama Mia. All the good movies come out on the Holidays. (19th of September is the last day of term three, so that means just a month to go! Which is 4 weeks! I can practically taste the freedom) I can't wait to see the second Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants movie, but I have already seen the one I went crazy over yesterday which was titled Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging. Seriously funny movie and the accents on them (they were all English people) made it even better and the Nunga Nunga thing made me laugh my ass off. I've read one of the books from that series and it was seriously hilarious.
I have fallen in love with two new songs. People who know me wont be surprised. Regina sang in one of them and Superchick sings the other. (I love Superchick, even if they are slightly on the Christian music side. Their lyrics are really meaningful and stuff)
Song number 1 is called Post Modern Girls - The Strokes and Regina Spektor
*The favourite part of it:
You were right
Modern girls always have to go
Right on time
Old-fashioned men always want a mistress
You were right
Modern girls always get their way
I was wrong
Modern men dream of what they can't say
That's alright
(That's alright)
I don't belong
Song number 2 is called It's On by Superchick
*Favourite parts:
And the view will never change
Unless you decide to change it
Don't feel like it today
Just show up anyways
And though life will take you down
It only matters if you let it
Get up, go through, press on
Today's your day
And though you wanna quit
Don't think you can get through it
You've come too far to walk away
It's not gonna be today
And no matter how you feel
It's what you do that matters
This is your moment to be strong
Today's your day
I seriously love them. They are totally worth a listen.
So what have I done today except mope? I read a lot lol but my book stack has diminished substantially so I only have the ones I have procrastinated from reading the past month. I suppose I should start reading. It has occured to me that I have been doing a lot of that lately. Maybe it's the lack of Bones. It comes back on September Third though so thats okay, and its a two hour one as well which I will have fun watching it. It will also mean I'll get to watch it on a Thursday here so that will brighten Thursdays up a lot. I still have to check the return dates for Pushing Daisies, Greys Anatomy and Private Practice... wow now I know where my brain cells went when all the good shows were on. I wonder how I did Script Frenzy... or was that during the writers strike? SF totally wiped my brain clean. Can't remember much before then. Will I be reduced to complete mush by NaNo is over? Will I even finish NaNo? If I finish NaNo and it isn't a complete pile of crap will I show it to whoever possible. (I still have not gotten over my fantasy of being one of those really young authors because Erin Skiffington was 14 when she wrote The Day After Forever, so I still have a whole year ahead of me to stick it to society)
Anyway I have to go... nothing important, just more books... Yes, I lead such an exciting life.
depressed
frustrated
tired
hopeful
pissed off
blah
crushed
infuriated
busy
geeky
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