I'm such a badass

So today in English we were discussion Hamlet, and I was going off on this (very intelligent, if I do say so myself) exposition on why Hamlet treats Ophelia so awfully in the "get thee to a nunnery" scene and how it ties into the disconnect between soul and body and the "rotten state" of morality thus far. Meanwhile, I was playing with a stapler, because I like to have something to do with my hands. Then OW,I stapled myself in the finger.

Me: "OW!.... hot damn." *pulls staple out of finger. Blood wells up*
Camille: Oh my god, are you okay?
Me: Yeah I'm fine. Okay, remember that Hamlet believes that (etc etc etc)
English Teacher: *cracks up*
(I BLEED ON THE TABLE)
People: DUDE GO TO THE BATHROOM
Camille: *Attempts to wrap my finger in kleenex*
Me: Guys just let me finish! This is more important!
David: You have lost all your credibility.

So I finish my thing, after many interruptions, and everyone starts talking. My English teacher's like "that was such a me thing to do", Thomas is wiping blood off the table, etc etc. So then I went to clean it off. But I think that's awesome

TLDR: I analyzed through my own bleeding finger. I am a hardcore English student.

ETA: I stapled my finger again on Friday. orz

I don't get calc again :(

I think I'm getting a B+ right now in that class, which makes me sad. I got an A first quarter! Bet I can bring it back though, with the exam.

I only have exams in two classes, actually. Calc and Econ CIS. (Damn, I do quite suck at econ though). I have projects and papers in most everything else.

Speaking of which: I freaking love Hamlet. He is a snarky bitch, and the fashion motif and the saying/words and the learning– it's awesome. Surpassed Macbeth as my favorite Shakespeare already.

Also I just want to hear back from UChicago and Georgetown. It's nine days until Georgetown though, and UChicago is "mid-December". Agonizing.

I'm never going to get into Yale if I get a B in calc. They would scorn me.

First on-snow ski practice of the year is tomorrow! It's not too cold, either– 22˚ today. I hope we get to free ski tomorrow, I haven't been on snow since last January. It won't be pretty.

I've been in a poetry mood recently– I wrote a poem, edited one right down, and have fragments of a couple more that look promising. I miss original, creative writing. Sometimes in class I get all twitchy about it and spit out a couplet in the margins, but it's bad for focus.

Also I miss diet coke. Quitting an addiction sucks.

I don't think it's ever too soon for Billy Mays jokes. Anyway-

LIMITED TIME OFFER

School starts on Tuesday and I'm going to be doing even less writing than I already am (I do do some, just... nothing's ready to be posted). So, in order to get it out of my system, I'm going to comment-box fill prompts for the next two days. From... now, until let's say 10 PM my time (CTZ), post one prompt in every comment (comment as many times as you would like) and I will write fills. Nothing under a hundred words, no less, but it would not be amiss to expect exactly a hundred for some. Comment box'd, so not exactly my most polished or edited work. Forgive errors, either grammatical or stylistic.

GOGOGO.

First college trips tomorrow; I'm going to St. Louis and then on Tuesday to Chicago. Should be.... not particularly fun. But on the fun side, I am working on the arrangements for my dad and I to go spend ten days in Poland in August, which will be *awesome*.

Got my grades; they were good. Somehow managed to pull off an A in Chinese, mostly probably because the final was easy as hell, although my working my ass off second semester probably helped too. Got the highest score on the math final, with over a hundred percent, but that was because my teacher decided to make it out of 124 points instead of 135. Whatever, I'm just glad that class is done. My China/Japan teacher is keeping the three manga panels I drew and laminating them as an example, which I think is hilarious because they're actually terrible. I can't foreshorten so I just.... didn't. Still no word on APs, how agonizing.

Decided I'm reading War and Peace this summer. We'll see how that goes. Anyways, will update after Chicago!

Wow, actually, it's been a while. I'm definitely going to update more now– finished my last final exam yesterday! No grades yet, but surely you shall be hearing about those soon-ish. AP grades are the third week of July, and oh TRUST me you will hear about those. If they're good, there will probably be sparkles.

No, so I saw Star Trek for the second time yesterday. It's so. freaking. good. I've been working on a bit of fic (Smoke's seen it) that'll probably go up later today. Indoctrinated Erin anyways, she thought she was a proper nerd but hadn't ever seen Star Trek. What the hell. About 75% of my time now is dedicated to thinking about Star Trek though, which is probably bad. Also bad that everyone that's seen that movie with me came out, looked at me and said, "You're Bones." Literally, that was the first thing Heather said to me after the first time. But I'm okay with that.

I had my first flight lesson today! My instructor's super nice (and actually really adorable... albeit married and too old for me) and we're going up in the air tomorrow. He though I was 21 and smart, one of which is totally false and one of which is partly false, since I don't know a godddamn thing about airplanes. Twas fun though, and I'm looking forward to learning!

Thursday went to a Twins/Red Sox game with my mother, which was... interesting. Redmond, Gardenhire, Varitek, and Frankona all got thrown out in less than 20 minutes and 1 inning. Can they even *do* that? Plus, that umpire was SO biased for the Sox it was ridiculous. But cool to see and fun, even if we lost (3-1). Beckett pitched a great game.

Tonight my Euro class is havin' a party at Ms. Helbrecht-Wilson's house. It will be hilarious and fun. I believe we're playing Risk and watching WW2 movies. I'm going to make cookies, though, so I'd better get a move on and get to the store. Also, wash my car. He looks disgusting.

ETA: Helbrecht-Wilson thing is actually tomorrow, but car is washed and cookies are made. Also fic is posted.

OH MY GOD EURO AP EURO AP EURO AP I NEED TO STUDY

I'm only on, like, the freaking wars of religion. I have SO MUCH WORK TO DO

In other news, the English Civil War is like a messy divorce. See my study guide:
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It's.. wow. Isn't it always?

I think I'll go in chronological order backwards, okay?

( End of First Semester: Cue Me Whining About Grades )

( The Inaugural )

On a final note, I am SO excited about closing Gitmo, I cannot even explain.

So what if I'm a Jew, my grandmother's a Catholic. I'm doing the Christmas memes.

( Meeeemmeeeees )

So, news post. Let's see.... Halloween was fun, got to hang out in SanFran, see Art. My Sarah Palin costume was quite the success. I didn't get to see Iambic though, that was a great tragedy, but hopefully we'll arrange the same thing next year and get to.

Um... November was stressful as hell, lots of debate tournaments I did badly at, but I got a couple of funny stories out of them. We were this one really kinda illegit tournament, because most of the judges suck, and Erik, the AWESOMESAUCE AMAZING CRAZY GOOD debater on my team, that always wins first speaker, was like, "I probably got horrible speaks". So when they're giving out the Varsity LD awards, there're cute blue mittens for the 1st place speaker, which is usually him. And so I'm like, "Erik, if you win, I want your mittens," and he was like, "Fine, 'cause I'm not winning." And I was like, "Believe in me who believes in you," and he was like, "*self-deprecating laugh*" So we go through the speaker list, and then they're like "AND first speaker, from the BLAKE SCHOOL, is..." and I'm like, "OHOHO" and they're like, "ERIK!" And so he goes up is like "wow" and gets the mittens and then WON'T GIVE ME THEM. But I finally got them last week. Ohoho. And then at Glenbrooks I watched his round seven against the reigning Tournament of Champions champion. Going in he was like, "I'm going to lose I'm going to looose" and I was like, "You're gonna pwn, believe in me who believes in you" and he was like, "You always say that when I think I'm fucked," and I was like, "Yeah well you're gonna pwn." And then he was like, "PLEASE don't watch this round" and I was like, "PSHT." So he was negating, and it was literally the funniest round ever, like I've never seen a debate round so funny. In the middle of his first speech, he's responding to some argument about stigmatization when he breaks from debate-speed: "Astohisargumentaboutstigmatizationthisdoesn'treallyexistImeanwhenyou'rewalkingdownthestreetyoudon'tjuststopandgo, 'Dang, there's a felon!'" and then everyone started laughing, it was so random. And then during cross ex the aff cracked a Minnesota politics joke, but the judge and Erik didn't get it, it was just me and him laughing. Then Erik started his next speech by singing: "You know that song, "you don't know whatcha got till it's gone"' and it was very funny.

And so at the end of the round, I was like, Erik DEFINITELY won, and then the judge was like, Erik won! And I was like, "See I told you." So then the schedule comes out for doubleoctofinals, and of course Erik broke, and so we're all like, "Who's he debating?" and it's the SAME GUY, but now Erik's AFFIRMING. So he lost which was a bummer but it was still funny.

Oh so then Thanksgiving was cool. I went to Boston, saw my family, hung out with Smoke, ate food.

Oh wait what was that last one? I ate food. No no before that. Oh yeah I HUNG OUT WITH SMOKE. It was epic, because we were IMing and I was like, so you should come see me, and she was like, haha that'd be funny, and I was like, yeah I'm in Boston, and she was like WAIT I LIVE HERE and I was like, orly? I thought you lived up in P-town and she was like no. So we wandered around Harvard Square and talked for like three hours, it was awesome. Yeah.

So now it's December. The epic n00bness that occurred during December later, after I get back from correcting the epic n00bness with Erin. That girl is a SAINT.

I'm such a procrastinator. Seriously.

Anyways, one more day of regular school left, then exams and awards and then freedom! I bought my Spanish class candy for tomorrow~ Because I wanted to thank them for being so amazing to me. They're all older than me because I skipped some levels in Spanish, and so I was kinda sorta really afraid of them at the beginning, but they were very helpful and lovely and we're all friends now. I'm also bringing apples to apples to play during free period xD

So anyway, I was procrastinating today and was shopping online and found some really cute stuff. Internet indie shopping is way more exciting than mainstream shopping, and there are no obnoxious people in the store. I'm not too much of a mall rat, fyi. And then I did a meme.

Rules:
1. Put numbers in the boxes instead of ticking them off with x's. (example: 1, 2, 3, 4...)
2. Repost as "I have lived through ___ of these 158 things."
( I have done 99 of these 158 things )

And Iambic, remember. Stop, drop, and roll. All over the state.

Wow! I'm updating from school again. This is going to become a habit. I'm in study hall, and my proctor thinks I'm writing a paper. Hah! How gullible thou art :) Anyways, I know I haven't mentioned this much here, but I've totally become addicted to Bleach (the anime, not the manga), and I've seen up to 116. I'm such a IchiRuki HitsuHina fangirl, I must say. And now I've gotten one of my best friends addicted too, although she's only up to episode 4. I had my ski banquet just last night. The season's over for good now, so you won't have to listen to me rant about it anymore, for a while now. I won a Coaches Award for participation/attendance, although I sadly didn't letter. My captain's award was quite funny, though. But I have this persistent cold that has given me the most obnoxious headache. I just wish it would LEAVE! Have you ever noticed that it's the little things that make you miserable? Like, colds are horrible, and that you got a point off for forgetting enterarse was reflexive on your spanish quiz, etc. Anyways, I'm off to research my history day topic. Cheers! Ari