Textbooks = Appropriate Tornado Protection?

(just to explain the title, on friday we had a severe weather drill and had to sit against the walls protecting our heads with books.. yeah) Anyway..
My favorite season: FALL. ..and spring too, but it's fall right now so, YAY.

Halloween was lots of fun, I was a witch. Now it is November 7th and last week went strangely fast. (again.. what is it with this? am I just getting really good at zoning out every day?) Seriously, Friday felt like a Tuesday. Odd.

I have a lot of homework this weekend. :[ But I've already gotten some of it started/done, so yay for accomplishing stuff! Also, I need to get some interesting books to read. I'm feeling literature deprived. ..of course I also need to find time to read...

So. Over fall break my(the "family's") camera broke. Who knows why. Blegh. So now we have a new one! ^_^ It is gray brown.. not candy red like the old one, but who cares when this one isn't broken!

Let's see, anything else.. oh yeah, poor Spencer had to get up at 4:30 this morning for debate/speech team. He's doing Lincoln-Douglas debate in a meet (the school they're going to for the meet is two hours away, hence the early rising) ^_^ I'm looking forward to seeing how it went when he gets back. (at 8:30pm, what a long day)

And now my mother has returned to me with lunch from McAlister's. ^_^ Joy.

Hugs Are Valuable Just Like Sarcasm

It is FALL! Halloween is nearing! Excitement! Fall break was last week (Oct. 22-25) and my family went to the most wonderful New York City! It was great fun, doing touristy things, visiting the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, sitting in Times Square, seeing Wicked on Broadway. :] I had a nice time. I'd definitely love to go back again sometime, although I have to wonder what it's like to live there. Probably pretty tiring. Maybe even more so than school! If you can believe that... Darn all this homework and such, I haven't been able to get to carving my pumpkins. :[ I shall be resolute in getting to it tomorrow!

We Are Dropping Like Flies

Again. Another week zips by! A little different this time though because I'm home from school this Friday, sick with a sore throat and slight fever. Sigh. I've spent the day sleeping, coughing up my insides, and drinking tea with honey. The first and third activities helped a bit. I dislike being absent from school. I guess I'm just a nerd like that, though mainly I'm just not a big fan of figuring out and doing all the work I miss. Work. Blegh. Oh look at that, seems it's time for another nap.

If You Want To Destroy My Sweater

This week went by like... "BOOM. Whoa, it's Friday?" Exactly like that. Of course, it was an uninteresting week. Let's see. Laura, Chris, and I worked together on a science project where groups had to construct a holder that would keep an egg from breaking from a long drop. OUR EGG DID NOT BREAK! Yay. :] Other than that, on Friday the band had an event planned that happens every year where we play with the other middle school bands and the high school marching band before a football game at the high school. It rained all Thursday and Friday. The event was canceled. Darn. Oh well, at least it was nice this weekend which allowed me to have a campfire! Yay campfires! :] And my only homework this weekend is a book report where I need to describe my book to the class and write a short summary, that I'm done with! YAY! :] Now... Now, I need to find something interesting and productive to do..

I Will Set Fire To It/Him!

We only have two weeks left in this school quarter. Can we really almost have a fourth of the year over with? Wow.

Besides this quarter going by in an oddly quick way, this past week did the same. I was anticipating running the 1.8 mile in gym class all week, but it was again avoided. (we were supposed to run it Monday, I think? I'm not sure, but it just keeps getting pushed away for our class)Anyway, the 1.8.. not so bad, yet I'm not looking forward to when it comes. I need it though. I need all the good grading I can get in gym frankly, as I have a B+. Or something like that. It's bothering me. I cannot possibly end this quarter with a my only B grade in wellness. I refuse!! The reason I have it is that my darn wellness(gym, health class, p.e., whatever) teacher's tests over sports such as football, tennis, and rugby are all just 10 questions so when you miss only 2 or 3... it's not good. Blegh. Is it really all that important that I understand the rules of these sports? I mean, if these were tests over health information, facts about the human body or staying fit, well then it would be a different story. But sports? I exercise and put forth effort when we play in gym, shouldn't that be enough? Anyway, enough of that rant. I've been complaining about it for some time now, and I will accept it's my fault I missed the problems on these tests that have cost me my grade. (even though I studied A LOT, and stilled failed, for the tests following my first blunder)

Now. It's almost 12.. Why am I up this late?! It's Friday! But I really should sleep.. And sleep I will! I think I may get up at 11am.. On Sunday. That seems sufficient.

Is This How Pack Mules Feel

It's the weekend. I have a literary analysis to write on the first parts of the Odyssey, practice on my flute to be done, a technical writing document I would like to finish or work on a little, and a bit of studying for a science test. This week I've just felt somewhat heavy on the homework. It isn't too much this weekend, but over the course of the week it seems I've just had a lot to get done. For instance, in social studies we had to make part of a newspaper as if it were made in America in 1793 with the class in two groups headed by two specific team leaders. We were competing to make a better newspaper section that would move on to be judged with those created by the other teams. I ended up as the "team leader" in this Apprentice style project. Blegh. It was additional work, and I am quite happy to be done with that now. We also had a project in science on Friday that we needed to bring in various materials for so we could build an efficient device that could roll down a ramp and achieve a certain distance. Also, in math we are going through a chapter in our Geometry book as a project where we need to design examples of rotational and reflectional symmetry, tessellations, knot designs, optical art, and more geometrical designs of that sort. Aaaand in yearbook I'm designing the two band pages with my partner Sarina. We've had to do quite a bit of work to figure out when we can interview the band teachers and get their pictures because they aren't available when we have our yearbook period.
Anyway, this shouldn't be so long.. I'll make my weekend quick(not that it's all that lengthy in the first place): working on homework today, having brunch tomorrow with family, more homework, and oh look it's Monday already. That's pretty much how it's going to go.

Muffins. I Eat Them.

Feeling somewhat out of sorts. It may be a result of the lingering sickness. I still have a sore throat and some congestion. Guh. At least last week went by quickly. I'm glad it's the weekend, though I know that won't stay long either.
Last night we went to dinner at Chili's with my grandparents. They're visiting this weekend from Florida for a friend's surprise 70th birthday party. My grandpa used to play jazz with a group (he plays the trombone ^_^) and they're playing a few songs for the event. Spencer was originally asked to play with them because they needed an alto sax(although he hasn't played in 2 years...), and now my cousins Cara(trombone) and Kelsey(trumpet) are performing also. How fun! Of course, being a flute player, there's no part for me. pout* :P I think I'll be content with just watching the show.
Also, momma got me some banana nut muffins from Meijer. Yay!

Later: That did not go well.. Spencer ended up not performing. :(