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submitted by Melody, age 14, The Jolly Roger
(September 18, 2012 - 4:48 pm)
(September 18, 2012 - 4:48 pm)
Gah, DtE is dead. So, what's on your mind?
@Zach L.: I just learned about feudalism too! We're studying the Middle Ages.
(September 29, 2012 - 7:43 pm)
@L
Sorry, I play alto. But one of my friends plays bari and the other plays tenor and my other friend plays the TUBA.
Sorry. Randomness. Actually, he also plays trombone in jazz band, so . . . yeah. And the friend who plays bari in jazz band plays alto in regular band but only plays bari in jazz band because he couldn't make it in on alto. *evil laugh*
Was that confusing? Probably. Sorry.
Actually, the pep rally wasn't for homecoming. Randomly, our school has one pep rally every trimester and that's all. Usually after a "Spirit Week," the last of which I didn't participate in because I didn't own any polka-dotted and/or neon clothes.
Halloween is in a month. Anybody know what their costume will be? Last year I went to a friend's house (the same friend who plays the tuba, in case anybody cares) and put a horse mask on a stake in their front lawn so it stuck up out of the hedge. Then we put a rainbow afro wig on top and gave it a glow-stick nose ring.
The candy obviously made us weirder than usual.
This Christmas, we're planning to put it up again and top it with the friend's four-foot-long Santa hat. MWAHAHAHAHAHAAA!
Cue Grinch theme.
This was one of my more random posts, by the way.
Spammy says wygt. Wig t. He likes the idea of the rainbow afro.
(September 30, 2012 - 10:45 am)
I really want to play bari sax. But the music program I go to has only like five options, and they are ALL COMPLETELY ENTIRELY CLASSICAL or Baroque. Which I despise. I'm torn between my costume being a werewolf or Mahatma Ghandi. Long story on the Ghandi bit. The most interesting Halloween thing that happened was the Wicked Witch legs sticking out of our porch. Hee hee.
(September 30, 2012 - 7:43 pm)
@Zach- NOOO! Okay. I'm actually okay with that.
@Gollum- Do you mean the music you play is classical/baroque? Our program plays a lot of modern and romantic. It's... interesting.
I am probably going to be bringing back the Incredible Speaking Mime, or, more succinctly, the Mime On Strike. White face paint + sharpie + black jeans + black sweater + black shoes + striped scarf. Relatively simple.
(October 2, 2012 - 2:45 pm)
I'm actually in orchestra, and we play the stupidest songs ever this year. Because our old orchestra teacher got cut from the budget and now the MINI BAND teacher is now the orchestra teacher. Nyarsh. So, to get to the point, the music I do outside of school is extremely restricted and Baroque and thouroughly 19th century. Except for the bass teacher, who teaches music theory which ruins everything. So, the closest thing to a saxophone I would be able to play is flute. Which is not the same. Nyarsh.
(October 2, 2012 - 7:09 pm)
Argh!! How do you stand it?
Tips: Find a REALLY GOOD private teacher. Do saxophone outside of school, jazzy and awesome or however you want. Try playing flute or clarinet (I would suggest clarinet, I played it before switching to tenor/bari sax and they're really similar - also, baroque has some pretty decent clarinet parts). If you want to pursue saxophone, keep playing it and maybe try to get into college with it. I don't know if you want to do a musical career or whatever. But it's there.
Mini band? I do not compute.
Spambert Spamstein says aemo. Don't be emo, Spambert!
(October 3, 2012 - 2:24 pm)
Mini band = band for first year players.
(October 5, 2012 - 5:45 pm)
Ooh. Ech. Does (s)he treat you like kids? Because that happens a lot. I had a sub who usually only subbed for elementary school kids come for physics. That class was FUN. We didn't actually have to do anything, she just sat us down in front of a Bill Nye video that everyone's seen before. Those kinds of classes are where I come up with the best plots.
(October 7, 2012 - 3:30 pm)
We just get excruciatingly easy piece.
(October 8, 2012 - 10:29 am)
I have this cape (not superhero style, Red Riding Hood style) that I bought last year so I could just throw it over something and call it a costume. I think I'm going to steal... I mean borrow... Blu's costume from last year to wear underneath.
(October 1, 2012 - 7:14 pm)
Today:
Science: did some Fun Group Work to fill out a study guide for the test tomorrow. It was actually honestly pretty fun, since I got to draw plants and a cartoony owl and....and I just, JUST realized that I, in fact, did not finish drawing a diagram of mitosis and that science class is first period tomorrow. *facepalmheaddesk* And the study guide, even if I DID want to label chromosomes right now, in the middle of the night, is at school. Nice job, Katia.
Spanish: Owned the worksheet. Everything was easy, honestly. I'm good at it, maybe that's why.
Music: Wanted a grade above a ninety-five and can't play piano anymore, so sung 'Sorting Hat' in front of all the girls in the grade. Mistake o' the Morning, seeing as I can't sing to save my life. Oh well. On the bright side, my music class hadn't heard the original.
Break: Nommed on a cucumber and talked to my friend.
English: Covered indefinite pronouns. Here's a dialogue from the end:
teacher: _insert best friend's name here_, could you pick an indefinite pronoun that would fit the sentence "We hope ____ misses the fair"?
Friend: We hope everybody misses the fair!
Teacher: Katia, could you pick a pronoun to fill in the sentence "Last year, ___ went well"?
Me: *dramatic tone* Last year....nothing went well.
Math: Talked about variables and equations. WHY WHY DO WE HAVE TO REVIEW SO MUCH I HAVE LEARNED ABOUT VARIABLES AND EQUATIONS EVERY YEAR SINCE FOURTH GRAAADE. At least my math teacher made it mildly entertaining. How does my math teacher explain probability? She discusses The Hunger Games. How does she explain open sentences? Why, she gives us a problem about eating sixteen cookies then proceeds to explain that we have a time machine and that we get to watch my crush regurgitate cookies (not for real, luckily. And actually more like the cookies are flying out of his mouth). Also got three wrong on the section pre-test. That's not much, actually, compared to others.
Lunch: I can't remember...oh yeah, we might have eaten some food... *sarcasm*
Social studies: Got a study guide and reviewed climate, ecosystems, etc.
Lit: Talked about subplots and parallel episodes then proceeded to split up and do Fun Group Work: writing about the subplots and parallel episodes in the Flowers for Algernon short story. It was actually mildly entertaining, but that was because of the people I was grouped with.
So that's my day. At school, anyway.
(October 2, 2012 - 11:29 pm)
I'M WATCHING THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBA-ATE
...and most of it I really don't get.
It's all so...technical. I'm not informed at all. Not a responsible citizen. But I get four more years until I get to vote. So yeah.
What is really hilarious is when Romney gets on a roll and starts talking really passionately with the moderator squawking in the background. Obama does it too. And I've learned thet even presidential candidates go on bunny trails in their debates.
(October 3, 2012 - 9:07 pm)
BIG BIRD.
I turn on the radio and hear Romney talking about Big Bird. What has this world come to?
(October 4, 2012 - 3:30 pm)
If Romney shuts down NPR, I will be so mad that I will start singing about ketchup. "Life is flowing like ketchup in eggnog..."
(October 5, 2012 - 5:47 pm)
I play ze clarinet! It is awesome. Think of it as advanced recorder:)
I'm so happy about clarinet because I found out yesterday I got second part, fourth chair. That's technically seventh chair, and there are 14 of us. All the kids who got better than me are older than me (except for my friend), and I beat juniors!
(October 4, 2012 - 2:34 pm)