Yes, other things happened of course. But the walkathon was the highlight of my day. Well... highlight is the wrong word. It was the major event that happened during my day. I also got an assignment back; and got an assignment. It just never ends.
Period 1 was Maths, in which we worked out mathematical proofs using congruent triangles through the principles of deductive geometry. And while that may sound like a complete bore, it was actually vaguely fun. Engaging is properly the better word. It was very engaging. It was a bit like Science, in that we apply established principles to work out things. Except Science is all about applying the principles, and Maths is figuring them out. But, I digress. Next was Drama, and Kolodziej for some reason or another, wasn't here. So we went to one of the computer rooms, and we had Nicholls. We were just finding definitions on the net, and copying them down. When I finished, as Geometer's Sketchpad wasn't on my computer, I surfed the net. Or, rather, surfed it in the best way you can, with all the blocked sites that in no way should be blocked. Luckily, news.com.au, Wikipedia and xkcd are not blocked. But blogs are. So, damn. At one point, the Hurlstone website was blocked. Oops.
Recess was the usual. Period 3 was Commerce, which was switching rooms in order to watch some video performances over the projector. Lizzie's group's went first. Their video was the one that they filmed the other week, which would have been pretty good, if the sound quality was. Probably just a fault of the camera. Next was Javery's group, which bypassed the whole sound quality problem by making it seem like it was from the 1920s, with the music instead of the talking, and the subtitles, which worked very effectively. It proved that you don't need voice to make a good movie, and that someone has way too much time on their hands making a Commerce video. Period 4 was Science, in which Robson explained all about dominant and recessive genes. Courtney kept saying all the answers in class. That was funny. Robson also made a sort of self-referential joke: 'As you can guess, I love Punnett squares.' Nobody laughed but me. Does nobody enjoy word play anymore? Then came Lunch.
Lunch was the walkathon, and it quickly became obvious that not many Year 10s were doing it. Of the people in our group, Kevin, Mango, Shafi, Ian and I were all doing it. Around 15 minutes after the bell went, we all set off. Me being an idiot, I took my bag, as I couldn't be bothered putting it down. Stupid, stupid me. I spent the whole time complaining and making up mock military chants. I tried to play GBA, but it is hard to walk, avoid mud, and try to catch a Latias. Or at least find it. After that was English, which was reading; and getting an assignment for the holidays, a 4 minute speech on 'Animal Farm'. It just kept happening. Last was History, in which we got an assignment back, and watched a video. So it was a big bludge. And when I got home, I blogged, finally catching up on my schedule. Thank god.
Comments now, 1 from Ebony.
*Ebony: Wednesdays are indeed OK. And stop being an aeroplane. You are a human being. Not a bloody Qantas jet. What do fists have do with anything? And that's not a long comment! I remember when your comments were long, back in the days... Anyway.
And that was my Thursday. It was a good day, I think, especially with the catching up on my schedule. The walkathon wasn't as good as I would have hoped though. Ah well.
Schedule catching up is good,
AB
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Thursday, July 2, 2009
Friday, June 26, 2009
Friggin' Friday
Surprisingly, it was a Friday that was not particularly good or relieving. It was just one of those days. It just had to be a Friday. Bugger. But the weekend should be a relaxing one. Also a late post. Because, you know, that happens. You know who to blame (society!)
Before school, I dropped by the library, and printed out my Commerce assignment so far. When I got to talk to the people at the table, I was struck: The people there, in full, were Andy, Ebony and Victor. It quickly turned out that Cameron, Eric and Mango were doing sound and lighting, and John was sick. I think Ian and Shafi were sick as well, but I'm not sure. They were away, at least. Period 1 was Ag, and Schippers was away. So we had Contado again. We had her in Period 6 yesterday. I finished off the sheet, then finished off the period by doing basically nothing. Period 2 was Geography, in which we handed in our assignments, thus ending an era of a seemingly endless amount of work. Recess was 13 with Andy, Victor and Ebony. We also played some games of 1, and of 5. The most rigged hands of 5: Andy's quad 4, and Victor's bomb.
Period 3 was Maths, which started off doing some actual work, and ended up listening to a song, and watching a presentation of it, called 'That's Mathematics!' By, get this: Tom Lehrer. Further proof of Lehrer's awesomeness. I've read him in several books, and heard his songs in Science and Maths. I love when my ideas of awesomeness are backed up by other people (see end of this post for a comment reply for proof that it actually does happen). Period 4 was Science, in which we marked a sheet we did for homework. Lunch wasn't cards, and more surprisingly, I didn't feel like playing 13. I talked to Victor, and did a few Monty Python quotes, and talked about my GBA game. I enjoy being a nerd.
Period 5 was Commerce, in which Andrew and I told the class about our assignment. In effect, we read from a sheet. The whole class was a bludge, as Commerce classes have quickly become. Lastly was English, in which we did more work on 'Animal Farm.' Tiana also proved to the class and the teacher that she had not read the book by asking the class, 'Who's Napoleon?' Napoleon is the main character in the book. That's like reading 'Harry Potter,' and saying: 'Now who's this Voldemort guy?' When the bell went, I took the train to the station. And that's where the trouble began. Suffice to say after a long series of extremely unfortunate events (which I shall not get into), I didn't get my laptop back until 9:30-ish.
To comments now, one from one person.
*Ebony: I am going to blog about every day. Stop telling me how to blog. And you have just proven that you saw it by saying that you can back me up. Hehehe. And I told you Holy Grail was awesome. Everyone who sees Holy Grail agrees it is awesome.
And, well, that was my Friday. The weekend looks promising; with no assignments, I will be very relaxed. Oh, how I have waited for this.
Late posts, late posts,
AB
Before school, I dropped by the library, and printed out my Commerce assignment so far. When I got to talk to the people at the table, I was struck: The people there, in full, were Andy, Ebony and Victor. It quickly turned out that Cameron, Eric and Mango were doing sound and lighting, and John was sick. I think Ian and Shafi were sick as well, but I'm not sure. They were away, at least. Period 1 was Ag, and Schippers was away. So we had Contado again. We had her in Period 6 yesterday. I finished off the sheet, then finished off the period by doing basically nothing. Period 2 was Geography, in which we handed in our assignments, thus ending an era of a seemingly endless amount of work. Recess was 13 with Andy, Victor and Ebony. We also played some games of 1, and of 5. The most rigged hands of 5: Andy's quad 4, and Victor's bomb.
Period 3 was Maths, which started off doing some actual work, and ended up listening to a song, and watching a presentation of it, called 'That's Mathematics!' By, get this: Tom Lehrer. Further proof of Lehrer's awesomeness. I've read him in several books, and heard his songs in Science and Maths. I love when my ideas of awesomeness are backed up by other people (see end of this post for a comment reply for proof that it actually does happen). Period 4 was Science, in which we marked a sheet we did for homework. Lunch wasn't cards, and more surprisingly, I didn't feel like playing 13. I talked to Victor, and did a few Monty Python quotes, and talked about my GBA game. I enjoy being a nerd.
Period 5 was Commerce, in which Andrew and I told the class about our assignment. In effect, we read from a sheet. The whole class was a bludge, as Commerce classes have quickly become. Lastly was English, in which we did more work on 'Animal Farm.' Tiana also proved to the class and the teacher that she had not read the book by asking the class, 'Who's Napoleon?' Napoleon is the main character in the book. That's like reading 'Harry Potter,' and saying: 'Now who's this Voldemort guy?' When the bell went, I took the train to the station. And that's where the trouble began. Suffice to say after a long series of extremely unfortunate events (which I shall not get into), I didn't get my laptop back until 9:30-ish.
To comments now, one from one person.
*Ebony: I am going to blog about every day. Stop telling me how to blog. And you have just proven that you saw it by saying that you can back me up. Hehehe. And I told you Holy Grail was awesome. Everyone who sees Holy Grail agrees it is awesome.
And, well, that was my Friday. The weekend looks promising; with no assignments, I will be very relaxed. Oh, how I have waited for this.
Late posts, late posts,
AB
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Good Luck, Bad Luck
Any other day, this title would be somewhat of a rant about how I had way, way too much work after school (4 hours! Bloody History assignment...). But I had very good luck at school today. So it was a bit of a mixed bag today. And, yes, it is a late post, as usual. History assignment strikes. As well as a few other things.
Before school, I blogged, but I could not finish in time. Period 1 was English, which wasn't doing much at all. Just more work on Animal Farm. Bludging ahoy! Period 2 was Maths, in which we were called up to the board to work out various geometric proofs. It sounds a lot of work, but really it wasn't. It was just another day in A1. Pretty boring. You can guess what Recess was.
Period 3 was Drama, which was talking about our new topic, advertising. Which sounds exactly like something we should be doing in Commerce. Commerce is money, not law. Legal Studies is law. Advertising is money. Making a Bill into an Act is not. I spent most of the period talking to Cameron and messing around on my calculator. Period 4 was Commerce, and as Kearney was away, we had Blake instead (I forgot how awesome she was). For the first half of the lesson, I did a sheet. That was very straight-forward, so for the rest of the lesson, I listened to my iPod and played my GBA, which I have started to take to school. I brought it yesterday, but I forgot to blog about it. I love utter bludges.
Lunch was more 13. At one point, it degenerated into a throwing of cards at each other. For some reason. That's funny, because whenever Andy does it, he says 'Shuriken!', and then proceeds to miss. Periods 5 and 6 were PE, which was pretty boring. Period 5 was some sort of soccer game, at which I sucked. I was yelled at about 5 times for kicking it high. I'd like to set the record straight: I'm not trying to get it high. I tried to kick it along the ground. There is a reason I don't play soccer (I work best at goalie, where I can pick it up and kick it.). Period 6 was basketball, in which we played basketball. I was the source of fun (for me and everyone else), as when it came to playing, I was good (I could dribble and run fairly well), but when I went to put the ball in the hoop, I could not get it in. I got it in once, after I was directly under the hoop and I already missed one. So Estelle and Matthew spent 20 minutes trying to show me how to throw the ball. From 20 tries, I probably got it in once. Towards the end, I decided I wanted to have one last shot at a hoop. This bit deserves its own paragraph.
OK, there are two hoops in the hall, the lower one near the bavk, which is probably something like 2 metres off the ground, and the higher one near the front, which at a guess is about 4.5 metres off the ground. I thought to myself: 'Well, if I'm not gonna get the low one, I might as well not get the high one.' I took the ball and positioned myself directly in front of the hoop. I took brief aim and threw. The ball traced a gentle arc through the air, and went directly through the middle of the high hoop. 'Oh my god, OH MY GOD!' I said, as the ball fell into the hoop. Two thoughts immediately ran through my head: 'Oh my god, I did it!,' and then immediately, 'I need eyewitnesses. Now.' I went to Ebony and Shailin, who were sitting on the stage directly in front: 'Please tell me you saw that.' Luckily they did, and now I will tell the story of the high hoop to anyone and everyone who will listen, and a couple who won't. And Ebony can back me up.
Then at home, my luck turned for the worse, as Mother Nature balances out my so far fantastical luck. I promptly spent the next 5 hours on my History assignment. I had to scrap everything I'd done at the beginning as I couldn't find any relevant quotes, which the assignment demanded. So I restarted the whole thing. When it was finally finished, my computer stuffed up, necessitating two restarts, and then the printer refused to work right the first time. Now the title of the post becomes clear.
And that was my Thursday. Sorry for the really late post, there was a big thing on Friday that stopped me from blogging in time. And as this is two days late, Friday's post will be late as well. Saturday's and Sunday's maybe. It'll remain to be seen. Also... it's 100,000 words! That's a blogging milestone! Thank you Word Count!
100,000 words I've done, and many more still to go,
AB
Before school, I blogged, but I could not finish in time. Period 1 was English, which wasn't doing much at all. Just more work on Animal Farm. Bludging ahoy! Period 2 was Maths, in which we were called up to the board to work out various geometric proofs. It sounds a lot of work, but really it wasn't. It was just another day in A1. Pretty boring. You can guess what Recess was.
Period 3 was Drama, which was talking about our new topic, advertising. Which sounds exactly like something we should be doing in Commerce. Commerce is money, not law. Legal Studies is law. Advertising is money. Making a Bill into an Act is not. I spent most of the period talking to Cameron and messing around on my calculator. Period 4 was Commerce, and as Kearney was away, we had Blake instead (I forgot how awesome she was). For the first half of the lesson, I did a sheet. That was very straight-forward, so for the rest of the lesson, I listened to my iPod and played my GBA, which I have started to take to school. I brought it yesterday, but I forgot to blog about it. I love utter bludges.
Lunch was more 13. At one point, it degenerated into a throwing of cards at each other. For some reason. That's funny, because whenever Andy does it, he says 'Shuriken!', and then proceeds to miss. Periods 5 and 6 were PE, which was pretty boring. Period 5 was some sort of soccer game, at which I sucked. I was yelled at about 5 times for kicking it high. I'd like to set the record straight: I'm not trying to get it high. I tried to kick it along the ground. There is a reason I don't play soccer (I work best at goalie, where I can pick it up and kick it.). Period 6 was basketball, in which we played basketball. I was the source of fun (for me and everyone else), as when it came to playing, I was good (I could dribble and run fairly well), but when I went to put the ball in the hoop, I could not get it in. I got it in once, after I was directly under the hoop and I already missed one. So Estelle and Matthew spent 20 minutes trying to show me how to throw the ball. From 20 tries, I probably got it in once. Towards the end, I decided I wanted to have one last shot at a hoop. This bit deserves its own paragraph.
OK, there are two hoops in the hall, the lower one near the bavk, which is probably something like 2 metres off the ground, and the higher one near the front, which at a guess is about 4.5 metres off the ground. I thought to myself: 'Well, if I'm not gonna get the low one, I might as well not get the high one.' I took the ball and positioned myself directly in front of the hoop. I took brief aim and threw. The ball traced a gentle arc through the air, and went directly through the middle of the high hoop. 'Oh my god, OH MY GOD!' I said, as the ball fell into the hoop. Two thoughts immediately ran through my head: 'Oh my god, I did it!,' and then immediately, 'I need eyewitnesses. Now.' I went to Ebony and Shailin, who were sitting on the stage directly in front: 'Please tell me you saw that.' Luckily they did, and now I will tell the story of the high hoop to anyone and everyone who will listen, and a couple who won't. And Ebony can back me up.
Then at home, my luck turned for the worse, as Mother Nature balances out my so far fantastical luck. I promptly spent the next 5 hours on my History assignment. I had to scrap everything I'd done at the beginning as I couldn't find any relevant quotes, which the assignment demanded. So I restarted the whole thing. When it was finally finished, my computer stuffed up, necessitating two restarts, and then the printer refused to work right the first time. Now the title of the post becomes clear.
And that was my Thursday. Sorry for the really late post, there was a big thing on Friday that stopped me from blogging in time. And as this is two days late, Friday's post will be late as well. Saturday's and Sunday's maybe. It'll remain to be seen. Also... it's 100,000 words! That's a blogging milestone! Thank you Word Count!
100,000 words I've done, and many more still to go,
AB
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