Well, happy Valentine’s Day to all my visitors, though I call it V-day to conserve syllables. Besides, “V-day” sounds more pleasant to the ears and could be taken to stand for various other things. Such as “Very-overly-hyped-lovey-dovey-Day”. Already I’ve seen three girls with giant balloons and flowers, and before the day’s over I’m sure I’ll see a lot more. As for me, I just have candy for everyone and cupcakes for my French class. I don’t really do the V-day thing. Although I did bust out my new jeans for today since they have a pink lace sash and the word “love” embroidered on with some other pretty motifs.
These past few days I’ve been anxiously catching up on schoolwork, but I guess that’s how AP (Adv. Placement this time, not Associated Press) classes go. I miss -one- single day of school and it feels as if I’ve been constantly playing catch-up. I need to stop procrastinating, as I told the 10th grade parents when I went to give a speech to them. My hard work -has- paid off some, however. I can’t say my grades are stellar at the moment, but that’s mostly because of overdue lab reports. I owned my AP Physics C and AP Calculus tests yesterday; 91 in Physics, which is so hard most of us usually fail the tests (she probably gave us a slight curve, but even with the curve that’s still an awesome grade. After all, the AP tests themselves are curved, so this emulates perfectly an AP test experience)… and a 98 in Calculus! It -was- a slightly easier test, but that doesn’t matter. I got a great grade, and that’s what counts!
I rejoined the staff at Ballads & Bows, the BSSM/PGSM/Myu music review site. Granted I was disappointed I couldn’t take up the spot of Saturn again, but Chibimoon isn’t that bad either. I’m excited we’re reviewing music from all three media instead of -just- PGSM (which in my opinion had the worst music out of the three). I can finally start expressing my love for Triple Dreams and Sailor War Supreme and Tuxedo Mirage, etc.
By the way, I started writing this post at school, but during 5th period, while I was typing it, all of a sudden a popup window appeared. Out of reflex, I tapped the enter key before reading what it said, and then all of my IE windows closed. Frustrated, I opened up another and tried to come to this page, but I was greeted with another shutdown of IE. My desktop began to behave strangely, as if someone was sporadically taking control of my machine. So I opened up a new Notepad document and typed “I don’t appreciate members of the administration and faculty spying on my actions on the computer” and left it there long enough that whoever was looking at my screen would be able to see it.
I’m just more than a little irritated at the monitoring system that runs rampant at our school. In fact, I was sitting in a classroom with the Credit Recovery kids. Nearly all of them were playing games. None of them had their Internet shut off, but I did. WTF indeed? I wasn’t even playing games or looking at shallow entertainment sites. I was making a post on my blog about how I successfully passed my AP Physics/Calculus exams. I wasn’t bashing on teachers. I wasn’t using crude language. I wasn’t spilling all my personal info and the school’s secretz to the world. Was there -any- premisis for me to get punished while many others around me were doing things just as if not more nonproductive?
I’ve also about had it with my school’s filter system. Can’t wait until I don’t have to be around it anymore. Seriously, Sekai no Melody is my singing organization, and whenever I want to work on it, I don’t even have access to it because it’s blocked for being a forum. Yes. That’s why it’s blocked; it’s a forum. I can’t visit perfectly harmful graphics resource sites, read blogs, anything. I mean yeah the computers are for educational means, but just because I want to read articles about PHP programming doesn’t mean I’m looking at illegal items. I wanted to visit a forum to ask scientific questions, and was unable to. I want to work on SnM when I have spare time, but no. I can’t even access some scholarship sites. Is this an oppression of free speech or what?
Either way, I had better get working. My grades have been less than stellar lately.