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commotiocordisI'm up to a B- in calculus, which is good, but I'm down to a B in spanish, which isn't terrific.
Realized that I really haven't been drinking enough water lately when after I got off the treadmill, I wasn't sweating at all. My face was just hot and dry. Bad.
Hip gave out when I got up after ER, and so I pretty much can't walk at all now. I'm hoping it gets better before tomorrow. I really should buy myself a sexy cane for days like this.
The other english teacher just extended their paper (after having deadlines for shorter drafts later than ours) to be due on Monday instead of tomorrow. Grr. Very much not fair.
We're doing bits of The Cherry Orchard by Chekov in theatre. I didn't want to have to become familiar with loads of lines, so I gave the big part to my partner. But I don't know if I can sit there and listen to her butcher them all day after day. I'm basically making up the blocking, as she's not really good at that sort of thing, and I told her that the way we go blocking-wise at one part depends on how she plans to say the line; incredulously, or more defensive. And I read it both ways, doing the blocking bits for each one to show her, and I asked her which one she liked, and she read the line, saying "This way," and I had to restrain myself from saying "No, monotone wasn't a choice."
I'm sort of on the borderline between an A and B in there, so I might just switch parts with her tomorrow, because the bigger part might boost my grade up. But I'm pretty sure the teacher was listening when I was doing most, if not all, of the blocking and reading both her part and mine to demonstrate to her how she needed to say things, so I think that the teacher knows that I'm trying to help her and that I've got the skill to do Lubyov. Meaning whichever part I end up with, as long as I do passably, I should score okay.
Talked to the school counselor for most of 7th hour today, about college and dual-enrollment and how soon I can graduate and whether graduating soon would screw me for college. And about medicine, as she wanted to know what I was doing, and I told her, and ended up discussing what I wanted to board in, and from there to medical procedures in general (thorocotomies? So much fun) and then we geeked out about the ER premiere a bit, and then back to medicine and procedures, and from there to driving (as I still haven't bothered to learn). So that was fun. I really like her.
Teacher came up to me in the hallway and just started talking to me. Complimented me on my hair. That was nice. She was saying how she used to bite her cheeks to try and give herself dimples when she was little and always wanted red hair, and she was jealous that I got both. It seems like it should have been weird, (even at the time, I was thinking that I should be more weirded out by someone just walking up to me in the hall and striking a conversation) but she was just very nice and asking my name and grade and such and introducing herself, and it wasn't weird at all. English teacher. I wish I had her for english instead.
Day in general wasn't that bad. Had conversations with two nice teacher-type people, took a nap, got my math test back and had an 88%, some good TV was on. It doesn't take much to make me happy. Though the english paper that I'm currently not working on is very much about to cancel out the happy.
Re: ER. I was yelling at the TV when Abby told Neela not to come up to OB with her. Because, jeez, Abby, she just came from her husband's funeral. Let her worry about somebody else to take her mind off of things. But then it was good that Neela wasn't up with Abby, with the whole Jerry thing. Then, if not Neela, I wanted Kerry to be up there with Abby after she told Luka to leave, so she wouldn't be alone. Because they're pretty close, with the whole miscarriage and Henry in the NICU and Sandy's death and hip surgery. But I knew that Kerry was going to find her in the beginning, as Abby found Kerry when she was miscarrying way back when.
Yay, Sam. Dunno why she ran to the car first, though. I would have taken it, then run to the car.
Re: CSI. Yeah. Didn't think they were going to do that. This and the next episode, Catherine's life just is going to suck. I had surmised from the previews that such things were going to happen, but I didn't think TPTB would whump on her twice so quickly in the season.
And I hoped that she would have called Sara when she woke up. Just as a "It would be too embarrassing to call any of the guys, and we're not exactly friends, but you're a woman and I need you now" type of thing.
Missed the beginning and most of the first half, though, so I didn't really know what was going on in the case. Had a hard time following it.
Re: Shark. Taped it, haven't watched it yet save bits when I was flipping on commercials. One thing though. Jeri Ryan's still got it going on. She was probably the best actor on Voyager, IMO, and she's still good.
Realized that I really haven't been drinking enough water lately when after I got off the treadmill, I wasn't sweating at all. My face was just hot and dry. Bad.
Hip gave out when I got up after ER, and so I pretty much can't walk at all now. I'm hoping it gets better before tomorrow. I really should buy myself a sexy cane for days like this.
The other english teacher just extended their paper (after having deadlines for shorter drafts later than ours) to be due on Monday instead of tomorrow. Grr. Very much not fair.
We're doing bits of The Cherry Orchard by Chekov in theatre. I didn't want to have to become familiar with loads of lines, so I gave the big part to my partner. But I don't know if I can sit there and listen to her butcher them all day after day. I'm basically making up the blocking, as she's not really good at that sort of thing, and I told her that the way we go blocking-wise at one part depends on how she plans to say the line; incredulously, or more defensive. And I read it both ways, doing the blocking bits for each one to show her, and I asked her which one she liked, and she read the line, saying "This way," and I had to restrain myself from saying "No, monotone wasn't a choice."
I'm sort of on the borderline between an A and B in there, so I might just switch parts with her tomorrow, because the bigger part might boost my grade up. But I'm pretty sure the teacher was listening when I was doing most, if not all, of the blocking and reading both her part and mine to demonstrate to her how she needed to say things, so I think that the teacher knows that I'm trying to help her and that I've got the skill to do Lubyov. Meaning whichever part I end up with, as long as I do passably, I should score okay.
Talked to the school counselor for most of 7th hour today, about college and dual-enrollment and how soon I can graduate and whether graduating soon would screw me for college. And about medicine, as she wanted to know what I was doing, and I told her, and ended up discussing what I wanted to board in, and from there to medical procedures in general (thorocotomies? So much fun) and then we geeked out about the ER premiere a bit, and then back to medicine and procedures, and from there to driving (as I still haven't bothered to learn). So that was fun. I really like her.
Teacher came up to me in the hallway and just started talking to me. Complimented me on my hair. That was nice. She was saying how she used to bite her cheeks to try and give herself dimples when she was little and always wanted red hair, and she was jealous that I got both. It seems like it should have been weird, (even at the time, I was thinking that I should be more weirded out by someone just walking up to me in the hall and striking a conversation) but she was just very nice and asking my name and grade and such and introducing herself, and it wasn't weird at all. English teacher. I wish I had her for english instead.
Day in general wasn't that bad. Had conversations with two nice teacher-type people, took a nap, got my math test back and had an 88%, some good TV was on. It doesn't take much to make me happy. Though the english paper that I'm currently not working on is very much about to cancel out the happy.
Re: ER. I was yelling at the TV when Abby told Neela not to come up to OB with her. Because, jeez, Abby, she just came from her husband's funeral. Let her worry about somebody else to take her mind off of things. But then it was good that Neela wasn't up with Abby, with the whole Jerry thing. Then, if not Neela, I wanted Kerry to be up there with Abby after she told Luka to leave, so she wouldn't be alone. Because they're pretty close, with the whole miscarriage and Henry in the NICU and Sandy's death and hip surgery. But I knew that Kerry was going to find her in the beginning, as Abby found Kerry when she was miscarrying way back when.
Yay, Sam. Dunno why she ran to the car first, though. I would have taken it, then run to the car.
Re: CSI. Yeah. Didn't think they were going to do that. This and the next episode, Catherine's life just is going to suck. I had surmised from the previews that such things were going to happen, but I didn't think TPTB would whump on her twice so quickly in the season.
And I hoped that she would have called Sara when she woke up. Just as a "It would be too embarrassing to call any of the guys, and we're not exactly friends, but you're a woman and I need you now" type of thing.
Missed the beginning and most of the first half, though, so I didn't really know what was going on in the case. Had a hard time following it.
Re: Shark. Taped it, haven't watched it yet save bits when I was flipping on commercials. One thing though. Jeri Ryan's still got it going on. She was probably the best actor on Voyager, IMO, and she's still good.
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Date: 2006-09-22 06:56 am (UTC)You have red hair? Go you! My brother has striking red hair, and he's always getting complimented on it. Mine is a kinda boring dark blonde colour.
English teacher. I wish I had her for english instead
I feel so blessed to have an awesome english teacher. Mine is the best. Sometimes (mostly in our Friday class, because that's the last period of the week) we just sit around and talk with her. She's a bit of a big kid herself, but when it comes to work she really knows her stuff, and my marks have soared since last year. We get into these huge in-depth, analytical class discussions and everything. She's totally my favourite teacher. We're trying to convince her to teach year eleven next year, so we can have her again. [/pointless story sharing]
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Date: 2006-09-23 04:12 am (UTC)It's actually a lot darker than it even used to be back when I started dying it, because I think the layers of dark on top of each other as I redo it are making it much less of the bright red and more of the auburn.
Twas originally a tad blonder than this :
Sometimes (mostly in our Friday class, because that's the last period of the week) we just sit around and talk with her.
I had an english teacher last period of the day last year who was like that. But she moved to the middle school to teach gifted kids, and we were all sad.
We're trying to convince her to teach year eleven next year, so we can have her again.
I was hoping that my aforementioned teacher would move up with us, as one of the two who used to teach this year's english left, but she had her gifted teaching certification, so they had to move her. They did the same thing to my dad; he was one of the few teachers who was certified to teach gifted kids and the district needed somebody, so they bumped him out of US History to middle school gifted (at a different school).
Yay not-pointless story sharing. I love learning things about people.