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Thursday, April 06, 2006

One of those "eventful" days...

9:00 PM

Gah. I woke up this morning...at 9 AM... School starts at 8:30. Pretty bad, huh? Actually, I woke up at 6 AM, but hit the snooze button on my alarm clock. Either the alarm clock didn't go off again, or it did and I didn't hear it, so it turned itself off. Usually when this happens, my mom wakes me up, but since she's in the hospital, that didn't happen. My dad and my sisters just left me sleeping in my bed. BAH.

So I showed up at school at the end of first period. Mr. Grissom asked me why I wasn't at rehearsal, and I tried to explain it to him, but he said, "I don't need to know the details." Meh, whatever.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm failing Calculus more now. There were 7 questions, and I answered 3, though I'm sure they're all wrong. I attempted a lot of them. I just don't know how to integrate! The first semester I was doing okay, getting high C's to low B's. The second semester, it got way worse: 70's (nothing higher) to, well, 20. There's obviously some distinct difference between the first and second semester considering the huge drop in grades. I think I know the reason. The first semester, we usually copied notes down from Mrs. Waldrum's lesson. This semester, she simply gives up copies of the notes she made herself. Sure, this helps my laziness, but it doesn't help me learn. I think because I had to write the notes earlier, the stuff stayed in my head and I did reasonably well in the class. Now that we no longer have to write the notes, all I'm doing is copying down problems. So, yeah. There you go. Maybe I should start rewriting the notes she gives us.

We (the band) were excused from school early today due to UIL contest in Mt. Pleasant (unfortunately, this was AFTER the Calculus test). We got out around 11:30, during lunch. Me, Natalie, Keith, and Ariel went to Capizzi's. That was my second time there. It was a really nice time there, at least for me. I think I did too much talking, though. So I eventually promised that I wouldn't talk. Bad timing on my part. Some interesting conversation came up during my vow of silence, and there were many things that I wanted to say, but couldn't. Eventually I got fed up and started talking anyway, but by then, I was less energetic and eager to socialize. Meh. I ate yummy food. I had a "Baked Ziti" or something on Natalie's recommendation.

We took a charter bus to Mt. Pleasant for some reason. It's only a 45-minute ride. Man, it's hard to sleep on those buses. I didn't have much to do. I only had my PSP to entertain me. Because I was in such a hurry to get to school this morning, I didn't have time to bring my DS or digital audio player. I really had nothing to do, because I was getting kind of bored of Me and My Katamari.

So fast forward to band contest. We did pretty well, I suppose. Straight 1's. I guess that's a good thing.

I ate at Burger King. Not much cool stuff happened there.

And now I'm at home, typing this stuff.