I just finished this up. Twelve sets of five literary terms each. And, yes, the word appositive was on the list twice. I know I know.. some of these examples are just horrible, but whatever. This will raise my grade from a 82.83% to a high A. Can’t wait.
Along the rooftop he runs, gliding through
the night. But no one hears him on his way,
and yet as he gets closer, closer to
his goal, he thinks about his kid’s ballet.
He silently arrives at your front door
and waits. Watch out for his great ninja sword,
it will slice you in two. He hears you snore,
defeat is something he cannot afford.
Your house is quiet as the ninja treads
through it and finds his way to your locale.
Not hesitating, he prepares his edge.
His deed now done, he leaves to see his gal.
As with you and I, ninjas too have kin
that will forgive and bear their father’s sin.
(’Tis a sonnet, by the way. A Shakespearian sonnet. ‘Twas a bitch to write.)
So… Yea. Stuff. I was actually thinking of stuff to write, let’s see if it all comes out, shall we?
I just checked my work schedule… I work 6-11 tomorrow and 4-11 the day after. Fun times ahead. Maybe.
Um.. School’s been pretty cool. Swimming in the morning is really nice. But, damn is it tiring! We’ve been kicking around with the kickboards these past few days my legs get tired after a while. Walking back to the shower, I feel like my legs are gonna fail me! Sociology looks to be fun. If not for the fact that Megan sits in front of me and she’s usually pretty talkative. As I said, Mary sits behind me, but we don’t seem to talk as often 
Um. I’ve actually been thinking about this homecoming thing. 
I was planning on asking… a certain someone… but I don’t have any classes with her… I think her third hour is close to mine, but I don’t know for sure.
I’ve been getting a nice amount of homework as of late. Physics homework every night. Trig with good ‘ol Verlinde every night (but then again, I can finish most of the assignment, if not all, in class). Honors homework isn’t much worse than last year. It’s just that I already seem to be on my normal… thingy… of procrastination.
Yesterday in German, Frau handed out these sheets for us to fill out and give to our parents. The two blanks were “Blackboard username” and “Blackboard password.” This was so that the parents would know our login and pass and be able to see what we’re doing in our classes. Phil said he didn’t want to give his mom his password. I said “change the password” and Frau gave me a dirty look. “Seriously, change it to something he’s not afraid to give out.” Every freaking head in the room turned to me. It was creepy. I attribute it to the fact that I don’t speak much in that class (nor any other, for that matter) except when called upon to read something. And even then, it’s in German.
The spent loads of money on new carpet for the entire forum over the summer. Personally, I think that money could have gone towards things that were actualy needed. But anyway. There are these big “NO FOOD OR DRINK IN THE FORUM” signs right outside the forum doors. That hasn’t stopped Jason, Andrew, and Greg from drinking cranberry juice and cokes in there, respectively. Well, until today, that is. Jason, somehow, spilled his cranberry juice when he went to get up or something. He got it all over his shoe and on his leg, but more importantly, he got it on the new carpet. Teachers came from all over and got all riled up over a spill. It was hilarious. It took the principal, an associate principal, and the hall monitor to tell Jason that no drinks were allowed in the forum. The hall monitor picked up the bottle and asked “Is this the bottle? Is this the bottle?? Is THIS the bottle????” As if she couldn’t figure it out for herself. She picked it up with a paper towel though. I couldn’t stop laughing. Jason says they incarcerated his drink. Tim was making fun of the hall monitor by saying “We’ve got the evidence! WE’VE GOT THE EVIDENCE!” in his crazy, exaggerated voice that he so often does. Hilarity all around. Jason says nothing happened to him, though, so it’s all good. Mr. Monroe was asking us if he went to MST (for Jason was getting paper towels to dry the carpet), we suspect it’s because they wanted to take him down to the office and punish him. Luckily for Jason, though, he has MST in the morning.
And that’s the funny story for the week.
Um… What else is there?
I recently got Kirby Canvas Curse for the DS. It’s freaking awesome. The main game levels were pretty easy, but it seemed like that got loads harder for the last few sets. I’ve got two more levels left in main game, but I’ve only completed 24.7% of the game. There’s a ton of stuff to do otherwise. You can go through the levels to collect medals, of which there are 250. I only have 65. You can also choose “Rainbow Run” mode and play through the game levels and several extra levels. Depending on what option you choose from there, you either have to make it through the level as fast as possible, or you have to go through the level while using as little ink as possible. For those of you unfamiliar with the concept of this game, your goal is to guide Kirby and protect him by drawing lines with your stylus. This is because he was turned into a ball by an evil witch which (hehe) also happened to turn the entire world into a painting. The entire game is controlled with the stylus. At first it seems easy, but it does take a bit to get used to. I’ve sent Kirby into the lava several times.
I guess that’s everything… I can’t think of anything more… so… here it is!
It’s been a while.
Where to start..? Um.. I beat Mario & Luigi (GBA) two nights ago. I had been stuck on the final boss for a few months now. I’ve had the game for over a year. It’s a good game, ’twas quite rewarding to have finally beat the game after all this time.
I set myself two goals before this Saturday. 1) Ding level 90 in PSO so I can access Ultimate. 2) Ding level 30 in FFXI so I can do the Dark Knight and Beastmaster quests (those ones specifically, but really I can unlock most any advance job now). I hit level 90 in PSO with ease. However, I’ve had a harder time hitting 30 in FFXI. I am currently level 29 with less than half of the needed exp to go. SO CLOSE! I eventually gave up though, as there was no chance I was going to get an invite from any party in the area. And now I’ll have to wait a whole week just to get roughly two-thousand experience points! Agh!!
I bought a copy of The Good Earth at Border’s so I can do the second part of my summer assignment for Honors. This part’s due on the fifth. I won’t be back until the sixth or the seventh. Whatever. Ms. Szmiegil can’t honestly expect people to be doing these assignments and turn them all in on time. It’s the freaking summer. We’re going to procrastinate, we’re going to turn them in late. We’re not going to give a shit.
AndrAIa’s been acting up a bit as of late. I can’t run installshield installation programs anymore. At least, not on my user. I can do so just fine from the administrator account. o_O Things seem a bit slower overall, and blackbox hangs on shutdown. As far as I can tell, however, this only happens when I play FFXI on my computer. After I force-close blackbox, I have to force-close PlayOnline (after I already closed it before hand). This abnormal behavior of POL and FFXI can be attributed to the windower I use. FFXI doesn’t natively allow one to play in windowed mode, so I downloaded a program (recommended by Tim) that allows me to play with FFXI in a window so I can still chat on AIM or look stuff up. Funny thing is, the windower causes no problems on Brian’s machine. o_O
I think I may have to wipe AndrAIa clean… I’m not looking forward to that… All the backup… At least I have another partition to put things on AND my external harddrive (which still has >50% disk space free). I’ve been kinda worried about her lately, though. You know how during the summer, temperatures rise? Well, it’s not uncommon to see her running at 120 degrees Fahrenheit. Infact, the only time I’ve seen her running lower is when I had the air conditioning on in our room piping cool air into the office when it was already somewhat cool out. Mom said to turn off the air conditioner, though, as it was apparently “too cold” outside for it to be running. I saw AndrAIa’s temperature readout shoot from 108 to 120. :cry::cry:
I’ve been getting about one shift a week at work. Last summer I was averaging two or three shifts a week. But now, all the shifts are g oing to the newbies (understandable, i guess) as well as the rehires. People are getting rehired at their old wage, in their old position, and getting MORE HOURS than I’m getting! WTF ::kicks a wall::
Oh. I’m going on vacation tomorrow. Mackinac Island. Going with Dad, Pia, Brian, David, and Ali (how DO you spell her name?). A week. Away from home. Usually I look forward to vacations… But right now… not so much… I dunno why. There’s nothing really.. going on around here. Heh, unlike last time we went up north. The whole Jason-Heather thing… Whoo, glad that’s over with.
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Anyway..
I wanna get back on FFXI to see if there are any parties willing to accept a lvl 29WAR/MNK in lvl 17WAR gear for just one more level, but I feel as if my endeavor would just be in vain.
I’ve started playing Final Fantasy 2 on the GBA compilation Final Fantasy Dawn of Souls and it’s pretty cool. I wanna bring the PS2 up with us so I can play Final Fantasy 4, but I seem to have left ALL PS2 discs at Mom’s. (FFXI doesn’t require any discs, harddrive for the win). Oh well… Brian seems to recall them having a TV last time we were there… Maybe we could bring the PS2 to watch some DVDs or something. I dunno. I also wanna play Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, but there’s only two saves on the cartdridge and they’re both taken by Brian and David. David just started playing the game again after I kept bothering him about not playing it… I doubt we’ll have time to hit up an EBGames or something on the way Up North. (And I seriously doubt any of the local ones will be open at 9AM, when we leave)
I’m don’t have a Final Fantasy fetish, I swear.
Shelby’s birthday party was last Saturday. It was pretty cool. I didn’t go swimming, though I brought all the required gear. Near the end of the night, most everyone partook in a game of Apples to Apples. It was quite fun. Basically a card is pulled from the green card stack and layed down in a place where everyone can see it. Then, everyone else (everyone but the person who layed the green card) looks at their hand of red cards and tries to find a card that most fits the description on the green card. The person who layed the green card then flips over all the red cards and chooses the one they agree with most. They then give the green card to the person that layed the winning red card. Next person in line lays a green card. Rinse and repeat. To spice things up, there were cards that had people (people at the party) and descriptions or phrases that described them. Most were red, some were green. o_O
It seems I kept to myself most of the night until Catherine showed up. We mostly talked geek/nerd stuff <_<
Well, I’m out, gotta shower and pack for tomorrow…
So when I logged into Blackboard today to check my homework, I saw this:
That’s been up there since the beginning of the second semester, I wonder if anyone’s caught it yet?
