Contemplating the vast concept of the human brain...

So today I have several things to talk about. First of all, I love Chex Mix. Yumm! I can hardly type, my fingers are all covered with the flavor. Anyway... today was a great day. Let me take you through the highlights:

- I have like, hardly any math homework which is a plus! Yay! Because I have a ton to do tomorrow. 

- Oh, and the dreaded Geography test? Passed with an 89! I know, it's not a 100, but I'm happy with it considering I hardly studied. Oh, and Mrs. Devil-Lady was actually not so devilish today. So today she was more like, Mrs. Possesive Demon Lady. Quite an improvement...

- Spanish today was super fun, like always. We laughed a lot and talked about gay people in Spanish movies. Hahaha it was funny.

- Study Skills today was actually very interesting. In spite of my head-splitting headache, I had a good time in that class today. We talked about this quiz we took that was supposed to tell you what kind of learner you are. For example, I ranked very high in the visual/spatious, interpersonal, and kinesthetic (sp?) groups. And it is so freaky how well they described me. I "think in pictures" and can read people very well, I spell very easily because I can see the word in my head, I love to write, and I memorize very well especially when I'm doing something like washing the dishes, cleaning my room, ect. I thought it was pretty nifty. Those kinds of things interest me greatly. The whole physiological part of it intrigues me. 

- Oh in Geography we were put into groups to do a little mini project and I was put in a group with... guess who, RS. I was the only girl in the group so I mean, it was a little weird, but not really. But the thing was, I didn't really give a hoot what part I looked up as long as we do a topic I liked. Which, thankfully, RS and I think alike, so we ended up looking up fair trade. But when we were talking about how we were going to split up the work, I had no opinion so I was really quiet so I probably looked like a shy freak who has some crush on him (no comment) which made it awkward. So Thursday I'll have to speak up and show him that I'm not this awkward person. 

Speaking of RS, I have a few things to say about him. I've noticed while watching him, that he is very... mmm... not a tree-hugger, but something like that, just not to that extreme. He knows the fine line between being a maniac who doesn't shower, and respecting the land God gave us. And he is really strong in his faith and he is definitely a speaker. He is one who will get up there and talk and explain his thoughts and be willing to back it up if someone argues. He is very.... professional... yet still a teenage boy. It's interesting, he intrigues me. I'll have to watch him some more. 

Anyway, that's basically it for now. Other than the superdy, duperdy exciting news that I get to see Elzabe this weekend!!! Whoo hoo!!!!! For those of you who may be confused by this, let me explain. I have a friend (Elzabe) who is from South Africa and was living here in the US for some... 8 or 9 years (give or take a few). But her family could never get their greencards, or visas, or whichever one of those it was, so they had to be deported this summer. So they were gone for months and we really missed each other but we talked and sent "love notes" to each other via Facebook and kept it touch. :) So now she's back and I get to spend the weekend with her and I am sooooooooo excited! :D I want her to teach me how to say "I love you" in Afrikaans. Or something... Um.. yeah. 

So I gotta go to some homework now. (boo!) You'll hear more about my silly thoughts of high school another time. Voy a ir a la tarea de español ahora! Hasta manana!

Yours truly,

SD

Eh... That's OK, Let's Watch a Movie and Eat Ice Cream Instead...

Don't ya just love it when you have a perfectly open weekend to do nothing but relax and all your teachers give you a big crap load of weekend homework? 'Cause I sure as heck don't! And at this particular moment, there are a number of things that really should be doing to prevent unnecessary stress and possibly a few arguments and/or breakdowns that could really ruin my day tomorrow. 

For instance, I could be studying for my Financial Planning take-home test due tomorrow evening. First of all, what kind of class is "financial planning"??? What 9th grader wants to watch Dave Ramsey videos for an hour each Friday and learn about saving money and compound interest, and ect.? By the time we're old enough to actually use half this stuff (besides the saving money part) we'll probably have forgotten all of it! Plus my Financial teacher is just so... average looking. I mean he just LOOKS like he is a "financial person". He always wears black slacks and a striped polo tucked in with a belt. He has some like... half black, half grayish hair that's always perfectly combed. He bugs me. I don't know why...

 Another thing I probably should be doing is studying for my Cultural Geography test Tuesday for DL. Oh doesn't that sounds as fun as a barrel of monkeys?! Ha... NOT. I'd much rather not spend my evening memorizing the definitions of alluvium, tributaries, and drainage basin, nor do I want to read over my biomes and climate charts until I know them like the back of my hand, only to go and forget half of it once we move on to the next chapter. It's a pitiful life when you're a freshman. You're in high school so you get all the work but you can't drive yet, you can't even hardly get a job yet, so you're stuck at home with homework and no life. At least that's the way it is for me. Maybe I'm the only one... the only little dork out there who has no life. That's a sad thought...

As for all the other homework I have, well... it sucks just as much. Except Spanish. Though I started off way behind the others in the class, Spanish 1 has been one of my favorites. I love learning other languages and I love South America so it's probably a good thing I'm learning the main language there. (Did you know Brazil is like the only country in South America that does NOT speak Spanish as their national language? Interesting, I know.) 

Oh well... instead of complaining (which is probably the main thing I'll do on here, sorry to say) I should just get off the computer and get my butt up and do it. On the other hand, I have all day tomorrow to do it (I go to a private school that goes Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday). Eh... that's ok, let's watch a movie and eat ice cream instead. Besides, tomorrow will take care of itself. :) 

Yours truly,

SD

Our Salvation is Here! and other thoughts involving boys...

Ah, praise God, it's the weekend. I have not been able to focus at all today. But now I get to turn off the brain for tonight and just relax... *content sigh* 

Oh so, I got some news that may be more exciting than what I've written so far. So... as  the young, juvenile female that I am, sometimes I fall under the spell of... well... a crush. It's shameful, I know, but it happens. So if you're some guy that wants to know what goes through a girl's head when she's crushing on a guy, read on. 

First off, I have to come up with a code-name for him, just in case. Um... how about we call him RS. So today through a series of events that are too complicated and long to write all out here, RS ended up sitting by me for about half and hour. And no, I did not get all goo-goo eyed because a cute guy sat next to me. It just gave me a prime time to study him. Now to explain; I watch people, not like a stalker. I just observe and can tell a lot about a person by watching the way they react to things. Anyway, so I studied him more closely than I have before, and found good things. :) He's really cute, and kind of little-boyish. So I added the things I'd observed to the things I've seen from him since school started and found the sum to be rather attractive. But it's a secret, so shhh! 

I know that was a poor explanation of what it's really like, but it's hard to describe! Oh well... depending on how far this crush goes, you may hear more about it, which is actually terribly embarrassing. But I'm trying as hard as I can not to blow it all out of proportion by listening to gushy Taylor Swift songs and getting myself all worked up over nothing. It's just silly and immature and can be easily prevented. It's just not as much fun when you don't. ;) 

Anyway... that's all for now. I'll write on other topics later this weekend. Right now, I have to go get comfortable and get ready to just veg. But before I go, here is the music video to a song that I am currently obsessed over. :) 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NJqUN9TClM&ob=av3e

p.s. just a forewarning: I am a bit of a hopeless romantic... so, sorry if I ramble on about silly, sappy stuff. 

Yours truly,

SD

Another Day Wasted

I am so tired. My eyes have been scratchy since second period. But, I'm going to try to fulfill my blogging duties for the day before I eat dinner, read, then GO TO BED. So... here I go.

This morning, I sat down in Physical Science (1st period) and felt like I had just crawled out of bed. Even after a shower and half a cup of coffee. Once class actually started, I had to use every muscle of my brain to stay focused. Once I realized my teacher was talking about something I've already learned, I kind of zoned out and just looked at him and nodded a knowing nod every now and then to make it seem like I was deeply interested.

And so the day went on without me, my sanity floating somewhere outside it, and my eyes feeling so heavy that I thought my eyelids might as well just glue shut.

By lunch I was so hungry I could have fainted, though I didn't. And after thoroughly inhaling my sandwich, sesame cracker sticks, Oreos, and a few of my friend's chips, the bell rang and off I was to Spanish 1. Talk about a headache. Not only did I start the year off behind because everyone else took a pre-Spanish course last year, but this is the 7th period (counting lunch, that is). So I am pooped, bored, ready to get out of here, and now learning a foreign language. Hooray. But luckily I find Spanish a very interesting (or, intersante) class. My teacher is awesome. :)

After finishing off the school day with the worst teacher ever (let's call her Mrs. Devil-Lady, or DL for short) I threw my books in my bag only to come home to homework due tomorrow. What kind of world is this? Oh yeah... a kind that actually thinks education is important.

Oh well, I have to go set the table. I may write more about my week during the weekend. Hasta luego!

Yours truly,

SD

Let's Start at the Begining

Well... here we go. High school has started. The only thing keeping me from living life and doing what I love is four years of education. Only four years right? Everyone says they fly by in no time. That seems very hard to believe, in my opinion. But maybe if I can just muddle through it all, doing things here and there to keep me sane, I will make it out without any permanent damage and maybe even some good memories. Which brings me to the point of this blog.

 

I've noticed while browsing through other blogs, that the majority of them are new mothers who write novels and post one hundred million pictures of their precious little bundles of joy. But I... I am not a mother (nor will I be for quite some time). You will not see pictures of a baby sleeping or me changing one's diaper. No, instead you get to read about my misadventures in high school. This will hopefully be one of the things to keep me sane as I muddle through it all. 

And again, my mind goes in another direction and this comes to surface: isn't it terribly funny, how different adults and children look at high school. It's like standing on each end of the spectrum. The adults, our parents, look back at high school as the glory days. Back when they were young, in love, popular, maybe. And my generation, my grade, looking up at the four years that tower above us, look at it as one big, stressful workload. Or at least I do. But we don't look at it as the prime time of our lives. Now we may be excited for getting our driving permit, and going to dances, and etc. But we don't appreciate it like you do when it's gone. I guess that's just how life is... funny, isn't it?

So now that I've stated the general purpose of this blog and now that you got to see a glimpse of my thought process, I must come to a close for now because... I have homework. Yeah, exciting, huh? Well maybe something interesting will happen tomorrow at school. You never really know. But for now, hasta luego. 

Yours truly, 

SD