The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Today was a fairly typical day, I suppose. During 6th period we attended the COOL (Career Opportunities on Location) Week training session in the lecture hall, which was a good waste of about 20 minutes. The only thing I learned from the little session is the fact that we have to fill out a little workbook while we’re on site. Right, so I have to fill out homework while I’m supposed to be concentrating on job shadowing and internship? Uh-huh. Anyways, I’ll be working at Sony Online Entertainment with Cassandra Hart, a student from Cedar Park HS, and one from Leander HS. Unfortunately, we don’t get to stay the entire week; we just get two days of oh-so-exciting fun. Apparently we’ll be working with video game development (even though that’s one area of the industry I’d rather -not- join; I’m looking more at network security or software programming), although with two days I don’t know how much we’ll be observing. It’s a 10-3 job, so nothing major.
During 7th period, my French teacher and I continued our reading of Moderato Cantabile (by Marguerite Duras). I noted that I’ve gotten very good at reading French rapidly and the impression of fluency. I still don’t like the novel very much, however. It’s very short and abrupt and would be suited for screenplay much better than a novel. It’s almost too simple, too fake, too humdrum and somber. But hey, I didn’t pick the required AP Literature reading lists. If such was the case, I wouldn’t have put the Death of Ivan Ilych on the English Lit. one either.
Speaking of the Death of Ivan Ilych, my answers to the worksheet for English ended up being rather lengthy! I hope this seriously helps my grade, because right now I’m not doing so well in my classes. I don’t know if it’s because senioritis is finally kicking in (despite my habitual 3am-7am sleeping pattern), or if I decided to focus attention only on science fair and nothing else. My bet is a combination of both. For example, my grades are currently: 108 (Calculus), 93 (Biology), 50 (French), and 87 (CS2). Not exactly the best way to start out my 4th six-weeks grading period. I still need to make up a ton of work too, including the Calculus test (which I’m ready to severely fail) and the Biology test (guaranteed fail).
And yet here I am, sitting on the computer still reading up about Scientology, listening to music, downloading web resources, colour-coding SnM assignments… I can’t wait until its the summer and I can actually do all this and more -without- feeling guilty about the fact that I -should- be doing schoolwork. During the summer I can just sit back and read Slashdot and Digg articles to my heart’s content, Photoshop the days away, mess with my laptop (can’t install Kubuntu; I need XP for recording, rawr), and download all I can get my hands on.
Ahh, if only graduation and summer would hurry up.
Let’s see, when is the next major holiday… that would be Valentine’s Day, right? Or Singles Awareness Day, which I will be celebrating with all of my friends =) For some reason I kind of can’t wait for it to come so I can get chocolate from people and speed up graduation, but at the same time I don’t want it to come so fast because SnM V-day things aren’t anywhere CLOSE to being done!
By the way, is Last.FM working for anyone? It stopped scrobbling my tracks about 6 hours ago, at “DJ Mystik - All My Heart”, but since then I’ve listened to 35 or so tracks that haven’t appeared, including all the music I downloaded off Steven’s torrent. Actually, according to the”Recently Played”tree on the Last.FM application, I’ve been listening to Infected Mushroom’s “The Missing Symphony” for the past hour and a half, give or take a few minutes. There is something about that song that is terribly addictive and I really don’t know what it is.
P.S. Affiliates, sorry I haven’t been commenting back lately - I promise I’ll return all your comments this weekend when I’m NOT swamped with homework to do! Thanks.