math tests, losing one's boots, and snow snow snow

Hello there; how's your Tuesday been so far? Pleasant, I hope. Mine's been okay, though this morning was soured by having to take an extremely hard math test, i.e., the AMC. This test is twenty-five questions long; the beginning is okay, but it gets progressively harder as one goes along. It's one of those tests in which you get some points for leaving an answer blank but you get nothing for answering incorrectly. So I didn't guess very much and left, like, half the answers blank. >.>

Yesterday, I left my snow boots in Chinese Club, so I trekked through the snow in sneakers this morning. It wasn't that bad, actually, since I mostly just walked along the road and the sidewalk near the school was salted (the sidewalk is now permanently stained blue; it's pretty disgusting to look at) and therefore easy to walk on. However, my feet were rather cold; fortunately, I managed to find said boots later in the day. 


. . .That wasn't really very interesting, was it? I just have a really boring life, I guess.


Anyway, yeah. It's snowed a lot recently where we 6LCF live; the piles of snow bordering the parking lot at school have grown to almost five feet tall, more or less. I do hope it doesn't all melt at once. Then everything would be soggy and unpleasant.


Yeah, I haven't much to say today. G'bye.


xiy

Hi

Hello, curly fries et alia! I am writing this on sunday (again) because I don't think I will have time tomorrow. I just finished dinner and I can bet that House didn't wake up too long ago...that's funny. There is a lot of snow here in Germany--is there still lots of snow at home? I would like to propose that we choose our secret santas soon (are we still doing that?) because I want to buy that person something special here. I bought you all the same little things that were hand made by this lady at the Weihnachts Markt (Christmas Market). They were the only things that I could afford five of, though.
I builted me a snow man today!!
I will go now to play a game!

--Momo

IT'S ANOTHER SNOW DAY WOOT

It's so odd. Our school district has a reputation of never giving snow days, and then suddenly they drop two in a row on us. And right now, it's not even that bad out. It's cold, yeah, and still a bit windy, but nothing like yesterday. Not that I'm complaining, of course. ^.^

As you probably have realized by now, the Winter Special kind of failed yesterday. Everybody either couldn't or wouldn't leave the house, so we never ended up doing anything. (I was one of the 'couldn't' variety; I had to babysit my little sister while my mom was at work.) Our last chance for a Winter Special is going to be next Saturday; hopefully, we can all come?

So I've been watching the 1999 cartoon version of Journey to the West on YouTube recently (I've never seen all of the episodes before, so I'm working my way through them in chronological order; it's really fun), after not having seen them for a year and a half (the last time being at Science Olympiad, when Lynda kindly brought in a two-episode disc for us to see) and to honor such an event, I've made quite a few icons (screenshots=♥).
Here's a few I particularly enjoyed making:

haha, sorry about the language in this one? :P

Greek finals are tomorrow; we missed a review day yesterday. ARGH. I think I might truly die tomorrow morning. 


I don't really know what else to say. Um. Snow days are sort of boring, really, though it certainly beats weight training and physics.
--
A Note for the Curly Fries: Hey, guys, when are we going to start book club? Our book of choice was the D'Aulaires' one, wasn't it? Weren't we going to start after NaNo? Is book club another one of those ideas that'll never see the light? Enlighten me, please, as to our current situation.


xiy

Sorry to Ruin the Winter Cheer

I noticed that xiy has posted the winter holidays banner...it made me feel slightly guilty that I'm completely not feeling the happiness. Why? Because

TODAY IS THE WORST DAY OF MY LIFE

Yes. That's why.

Let me start off my story (my, lotsa stories there's been) with an explanation: Yesterday, it snowed so bloody much, I thought there was gonna be a *SNOW DAY* today.

A corner of our backyard. With a wisteria.

Ha! My face is pixelated. I love playing with Photoshop. Me+fence door+lights

 

 

As you can see, it was pretty...I was happy yesterday... Anyways, so I really was hoping for a snow day...but today, not a snow day got progressively worse.

*#*#*

EVENTS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER:

1. I wake up at 7:50. School starts in 10 minutes. I panic, rush out of bed, brush teeth, throw on clothes, rush out door.

2. Forgot lunch, run back in, get lunch.

3. Forgot keys, run back in, get keys.

4. Rush to school, see xiy's dad point to indicate xiy is long gone...DUH. This irritates me as I am still in a sleepy/panicky stupor.

5. Goes to 1st period. Math. Takes math test. Fails math test. (I'm not even kidding. Math teacher calls me up after 10 minutes of grading, asks, "What happened?" I've gotten all the problems on the last page: WRONG)

6. Goes to 2nd period. French. Gets told that store project thingy is next week...Is irritated

7.Goes to 3rd period. Global Studies. Does stupid worksheets in stupid class filled with stupid people who ask stupid questions and can't answer any other way but stupidly to stupid crossword puzzles. 

          Where was the first atomic bomb dropped in Japan? Stupid Person: Uhhh...Tokyo? Me: NO. Stupid   

          Person: Shanghai? Me: THAT'S IN CHINA YOU STUPID PERSON!!!

          What happened to the US in the Pacific that caused the US to declare war on Japan? Stupid Person: 

          Uhmmm...WWII? Me: NO. Stupid Person: They shot the president? Me: NO. Stupid Person: The  

          D-Day Invasion? Me: NO YOU STUPID PERSON, THAT WAS IN NORMANDY!!!!

8. Goes to 4-5th period. Orchestra. Director informs everyone that the trip to France picture is being taken today. Wear black. (I'm wearing bright purple with white stripes)

9. Goes to lunch. *sigh* peace...

10. Goes to 7-8th period. Science. Idiot teacher TinRabbit tells everyone: "That super-huge-outline-you-stayed-up-the-whole-night-finishing-and-then-failed-your-math-test-because-of? It's not due until tomorrow."

11. Goes to 9th period. English. Nothing, really...

12. Goes to 10th period. Gym. Gets picked to be on a stereotypical black ppl team. Rowdy, cussing, competitive, thinks Asians are useless. Gets pushed around by a fat bitch on said team. Screamed at by team captain: Arrogant, stupid, obnoxious, skinny-jean-wearing, ugly-butt, disgusting, stinky brat (boy). "You just standin' there lookin' retarded!" Loses to all other teams. Loses the Win-a-Popsicle round. Doesn't get popsicle for 4th day in a row.

13. Goes to crew practice. Dies of exhaustion. But fun. :)

14. Goes home. Freezing. Turns on heater.

15. Parents come home. Dad still giving silent treatment.

16. Eat dinner. After dinner, dad yells about how I should just quit the Middle School Science Olympiad team cuz I don't practice. Also cuz the teachers had high expectations, thought I was good enough to come back and help. Dad says that I should tell them I quit because I'm not good enough. I suck. I suck at life, I suck at school, I suck at not being fat as a pig for slaughter, I suck at running, I suck at crew, I suck at committing to things, I suck at this, I suck at that..etc.

17. Goes upstairs, feeling very, very, very depressed, angry, sad, hurt...etc. Mom yells at me for talking to her funny(I didn't), tells me to go downstairs and make brownies for my dad. I ask why, she yells at me for being nosy...?

18. End of the day...If all of my wishes had come true for today, a lot of people would be dead or tortured.

19. Writes post...goes over day...feel awful.

*#*#*

 More pictures from yesterday! (trying to force myself to be happy here)

Another look..See the specks of snow on the camera lens?

My hand is on the ground. You can barely see the top of the snow!

*#*#*

THEME WEEK!

YAY! It's another theme week! (Oh gosh, my posts become so long)

Here's a story in my diary that I wrote on March 9th when I was in 3rd grade...Yes. I know the date. I wrote it in my diary...

Copied exactly, no changes at all:

Story (Cindellian*

                           Ellian Genine**

Once upon a time there was a princess who loved a prince but her father would not allow it. "BUT FATHER I love him!" "NO!" Knock Knock "Your Magessty.*** You have a message From King Hall and Queen Senia." "You are invited to dinner." So when King Genine (her father) left she sneaked off with her beloved and got married. King Genine was actually quite happy! "I love You" was what Ellian told Mike her husband.

The End

*This was completely scribbled out with purple gelpen

**This was written approximately in that place relative to the title in purple gelpen

***The extra "s" was scribbled out.

The purple stuff is where I started to write in purple ink. The gray is when I wrote with pencil...

Hope you enjoyed my professionally written story!

Luv, Lynda

P.S. Greek tomorrow....*groan*

[Enter Title Here]

Hiya!

Well, today has been just wonderful. :D

^Yes, I'm being serious. No sarcasm there, folks!

What has made my day so wonderful, you ask? Well then, I must tell you... in song! Lawls. JK!

Anyway, yeah, story time!

It was a beautiful Wednesday morning. I woke up bright and happy at the loving hour of 6 AM and went to go take a shower... -Fast forward some time- In band, we actually got a chance to run down our hardest song and it actually sounded pretty legitimate. Which is good since our concert is on Monday. Yay. (Momo knows what I mean, she was there.)

During second period, which is German, I finally took my spoken exam and, what I believe, went incredibly well. Yay. While we were taking notes on Familie Vocabulary, I somehow ended up, quite literally, sharing a desk with one of my class buddies. How about we call him Kuddles*? Yes, I was sharing a desk with Kuddles and Herr didn't care. :) I mean, we were taking notes and all but it was just on the same desk and we were sitting in the same desk-chair combination thing that teachers refer to as our "learning positions". And Kuddles kept tickling me. I almost fell off the desk-chair combination that we were sharing.

Did that last part make you giggle/laugh? ;)

In global studies (Aka, third period) We had a sub, and Momo will also agree with me, which was quite nice as compared to our regular teacher. *Slight shiver* I mean, she's not HORRENDOUS. I just don't really favor her on a regular basis. Anyway, we actually got our assignment done and all was well. Yay.

Yes, I do realize that I'm running you through my day.

During fourth/fifth period, I had geometry. Nothing special, just geometry. Although, I got a C+ on my test... Oops. Okay, moving on...

Sixth/seventh period was science. The first half of class we just did our daily quiz and finished up our worksheet. The second half of class, our teacher had to leave and we watched a terrible video which luckily ended just as class did.

Eighth period was lunch. Noms. :) I had a very good lunch and received my [almost] daily piece of gum from the kid behind/next to me.

Ninth period was English. I think that all of the curly fries (except House) will agree with me that English was, in a way, rather enjoyable/entertaining. Tenth period was gym. Gym means volleyball. Actually, it wasn't all that bad today. Lynda, what did you think of it?

And of course, I had to walk home. In the snow. All, what seems to be now, at least 1 foot of it. Probably over 1 foot of snow within less than 24 hours. And I had to walk home in it. None of the sidewalks were shoveled. It was bad. In fact, there was so much snow that I was able to make a list, a *list*, describing how much snow there was. Yeah, not fun.

So how was your day?

DFTBA!♥

Smiles, hugs, and lots of love,

Carrie

*Kuddles was my nickname for this kid back in, like, 8th grade? So, yeah. 

Woah, woah, woah. There was a theme week??? should I add the tags even though I didn't really... do a theme week post???  o.O

There's a seriously legit amount of snow on the ground outside....

Hi guys.

I'm sick. 

It's not contagious though, so don't back up like that. I have pneumonia. It's not fun. It's not the really bad kind, just the basic cough/fever kind. There's this weird crackling thing going on in my lungs and it feels weird. There's also not as much oxygen going to my brain as there should be. Hence, not much writing is going on. Not much of anything is going on.

I've barely edged past 5k in my novel. The last sentence was.... (oh God, I haven't even looked at the document in three days)...

"The feeling of freedom was short-lived. Unfortunately, Xerxes would always be Ajax’s master." 

I renamed the story-within-the-story protagonist as Ajax Wolfe. The previous name did not please me, so I changed it at the last minute.

(Xerxes is his cat's name. I think that was xiy's idea.) 

Happy NaNo-ing and merry Christmas!!

Virgil

Leave your doting messages of sympathy in the comments. 

Oh and p.s. our school is starting a Quidditch club, and I think my life is complete.  

P.P.S OHMYROWLING THERE'S LESS THAN TWO WEEKS LEFT UNTIL HARRY POTTER