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When it comes to proofreading, the red penis your friend.
Most times I avoid blogging because I don't like to think about some things in my life. Sometimes I feel stupid for posting certain blogs because after re-reading them, I realize how emotional I was when I wrote them.
So, so! We got our new groups in Media Academy awhile ago. After the first major project of the year, our teachers allow us to request people to be in our groups. I didn't turn in one of those slips because I wanted to be surprised. I had regretted not turning in one of those slips but I'm more satisfied with my new group now. And this is the poem we chose:
Affirmation by Donald Hall
To grow old is to lose everything. Aging, everybody knows it. Even when we are young, we glimpse it sometimes, and nod our heads when a grandfather dies. Then we row for years on the midsummer pond, ignorant and content. But a marriage, that began without harm, scatters into debris on the shore, and a friend from school drops cold on a rocky strand. If a new love carries us past middle age, our wife will die at her strongest and most beautiful. New women come and go. All go. The pretty lover who announces that she is temporary is temporary. The bold woman, middle-aged against our old age, sinks under an anxiety she cannot withstand. Another friend of decades estranges himself in words that pollute thirty years. Let us stifle under mud at the pond's edge and affirm that it is fitting and delicious to lose everything.
I was so proud that I was able to pick up on the water motif.
My English teacher, Ms. Thurston, played this poem for us at school
today. It's called The the impotence of proofreading by Taylor Mali.
Listen to it.
A couple of days ago, I got a dollar for doing a radio survey. Lol, yeah, I feel cool. I have a lot of tests this week that I don't wanna think about and my dad's side of the family is celebrating my grandpa's 90th birthday this Saturday. Yeee!
On Friday, I watched The Laramie Project at school. I also finished a 1000-piece puzzle in 5 hours and 3 minutes but the the bright colors and little people made the puzzle easy. Then on Saturday, my family and I went to San Jose and I bought these shoes. When I was younger I wanted shoes like these because I thought they were cool when my dad wore them but the colors aren't really me.
Our documentaries premiered on Thursday at the SRHS auditorium. About 30 people came, yeah. After watching my group's documentary on the screen, it wasn't that impressive. There were so many things I wished I could have fixed especially the sound. Gosh, it was horrible. Oh wellz.
Yeah, I went to school today, yeah. Then I came back home, ate...food, and watched tv. Yeah.
On Friday, I went to the Red and White Cavalcade (it's what they call the talent show at my school). The Cavalcade is a big deal because the last Cavalcade was when I was a Freshman. But it was fun and hilarious, especially the teachers' performance. "I gotta have more cowbell!!!" Yeah, yeah.
(They did a parody of this.)
There's STAR testing this week and I'm really excited because I'm a Senior and I don't have to take them (the tests).
Okay, yesterday, I fell asleep at 4pm, woke up at 9pm to eat dinner and then went back to sleep around 12am and only woke up again to turn off the lights. Then I had to wake up at 7am to do my homework but I didn't actually start it till 8am (I was watching Pokemon Diamond and Pearl). Gosh, I don't like Dawn, she sucks; I liked May more even though she was annoying too, lol.
I worked on my Biology homework till 11am and spent the rest of the time working on my career search for US History. Hmm, how is a career search related to US History? Oh, it's because we're in Media Academy. (Media Academy is a two year program for Juniors and Seniors, and it involves US History/Government/Econ., English and TV Tech.. We use what we learn in Social Studies and English and our technology skills to produce different projects.) Last week while the Juniors were prepping for the US History STAR test, our US History teacher (we had a different Social Studies teacher last year) decided to make the Seniors do a career search because someone told her that we never did a career search in Government/Econ.. Yeah, really fun.
And because of STAR testing, my first period of the day didn't start until 1:05pm. I was a little angry though because I spent most of my time doing the Concept Check questions for Biology and she didn't even collect them. I know that by doing them, I'll be helping myself but I spent a lot of time on my Biology homework and now I feel like I shouldn't have spent so much time on it and that I should have spent more time on my career search.
We're starting our music video projects in Media Academy soon. Yep.
On Sunday, I spent hours working on my US History project. We had to make a chart comparing the Presidents in our decade and I had the fifties so the Presidents were Eisenhower and Truman. I thought my chart looked really cool because I drew pictures of them, lol. I'm not an artist and the pictures I drew don't really look like who they're supposed to be but I still like how they turned out. Haha, I wasted a lot of time drawing those pictures (because I had other homework I should have been doing) but it was fun.
I'm so easily distracted. Yesterday I started my Biology homework, which was reading about circulation and gas exchange, and on the second page, I saw a picture of a jellyfish and I started thinking about all the different animals we were discussing about in class the other day (because jellyfish are pretty amazing). And one of the creatures I remembered most was the octopus, so I looked up octopuses in Wikipedia. So on the octopus page, there was a link to another page about mimic octopuses and I use to watch this show on Animal Planet called The Most Extreme and the mimic octopus was one of the creatures with the most extreme disguises. Then I wiki-ed The Most Extreme and started looking up the other 'extreme' animals that were featured on their show. Yeah, I guess it sounds boring but I spent two hours doing this.
I resumed doing my Biology homework around 12am, I think, but I wanted to rest for a moment before actually starting the homework and I slept till 4:45am. Yeah, I woke up at 7am to do my Biology homework and I was late to class.
"I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours....Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." --Thoreau
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