mood //	sick
music //	sounds from the tv

01.10.04 [18:53]   // dream //   I Love Sudafed.

I feel decidedly horrible today. All week I've been suffering from a cold that won't go away. Or rather, I'll wake up and feel all stuffed up and be determined to constantly take my echinacea. But then when I get home from school, I no longer feel so congested, so I forget to take echinacea. Then the next morning I wake up with a runny nose again, and the cycle repeats.

Today, I woke up with the cold, again, but during the day it's grown into a sinus headache like whoa. :/

...Not at lot of fun. Thankfully, mom finally went to the store and bought me some Sudafed. <333 Truly was necessary because the only other thing in the house was Tylenol. Damn Tylenol! I hate Tylenol. It takes too long to start working and it does not combine well with milk. >:o


Sooo, anyhoot. Yesterday was report card day at school. We got our six weeks grades for the last marking period as well as our final semester grades. Won't go into the details. Managed to make all A's. Surprisingly, and amusingly, my two science classes were my highest semester grades of all. XD I swear, someone up There is conspiring to try to make me a science buff after all.

The only bad thing was that I actually had something below a 90 on my report card. Luckily, it was only an exam grade; namely, my Art final. See, I told you that test was bullshit!! My grade (85) was actually one of the highest ones in the class, too. That tells you something about that test. Annoyingly it lowered by semester average to a 94. I suppose it could've been worse, but still.. argh. It's a regulars class so that'll really knock my GPA down a couple of decimals. :|

Also, amusingly, my highest grade on a final was in Pre-Cal. o___o And I thought I was totally doomed in math. Maybe not. Or maybe it was just an easy final. THEN AGAIN.. Curtis only made an 86. =DDD Bwahaha!! It was funny when we got to see our grades on Wednesday. Curtis was before me in line and she told him he made a 86. He cursed and went back to his seat. Then she looked up mine and saw the 99, and she yelled, "Cuuur-tissssss! Nara made a 99!!!!" in a very teasing way. She knows how competitive he & I are. Almost everyone does, now. XD


Curtis is an asshole, though. He was being a jerk on Friday. I made one mistake on a Physics problem and he wouldn't shut up about it. You know, being competitive is one thing, but I don't spend the rest of the day taunting him when he makes mistakes. (And he made several that class period. I grinned but didn't say anything.) I didn't even make fun of him when we found out I'd beaten him on the Pre-Cal final by 13 points!! (I let Mrs. H do that for me. XD) *huff* He's such a meanie.

Also, I made a very good drawing of a penguin in class on.. Wednesday or Thursday. Don't remember. I'd drawn the penguin in a note to benvenuto, and I really liked how it came out. So, I decided to draw a bigger version for myself later in Pre-Cal, and colored it with Lisa's markers and everything. It was very cute. But then I showed it to Susan K. and she dared me to give it to Curtis, and of course I couldn't back down. :[ So I gave it to him, and he just took it without saying a word. And I didn't even intend to give it to him because it was good and I liked it!! So now he has my elite baby penguin drawing. :[

Then again, the fact that he took it without saying a word could be a sign. A good or a bad one, I'm not sure, but I think it's a sign.


Okay, enough about that damned Curtis Porter.

Other than that, not too much has been going on. Study Hall still rocks my socks. Mrs. Peanick is relentless and wouldn't accept it when I told her I didn't want to enter the Rodeo contest. So, I am expected to sit here all weekend and color my stupid chicken to have it ready by the end of class on Monday. *sigh* Luckily I have been able to use my terrible sinus headache as an excuse not to do much coloring today.

I have Pre-Cal and Physics homework, but I don't have to do them until Monday morning thanks to beloved Study Hall. Also, thanks to the aforementioned awesomest class in the world, my scrapbook for Lisa is going to be a smashing success after all. ^o^

On the sad side, Sarah's gone for good. =( She told us she was going to be at school at least until the end of next week, but then she and her family decided she would finish her academics at a charter school before they move to Iowa at the end of February. So Friday was her last day. ;_____; Damn it, what is it with me making friends who always leave or move?! *sniffle*


I have discovered the wonders of the author James Clavell. The library is still being uncooperative (all three copies of Obsidian Butterfly are checked in according to the website, and I'm the only one who's made a request, but the book isn't even in transit yet!! ARGH) so I am once again forced to peruse my parents' vast collection of books for something worthwhile to read. Unfortunately, this collection consists mainly of three genres: modern drama, historical fiction, and sci-fi. What decent sci-fi there is, I have already read. The rest is written in old Dutch. Or, well, old.. it's like the Dutch equivalent of the style/lanuage Tolkien writes in. Not a bad thing, but more strenuous to read than otherwise. Especially since my grasp of the Dutch language is steadily deteriorating and I am beginning to prefer English because it's easier for me to read now. So, I am shying away from all the sci-fi I haven't read. Better to try to find English translations. (For which I'd have to go to the confounded library.) So, I am forced to read realistic. Not always bad, but I still prefer my fantasy books. However, James Clavell is awesome stuff. I am reading his book Tai-Pan and am moving onto Shôgun after this.

So, I have reading stuffs again and am a very contented person at the moment. Life is always better with a good book. Especially when it's a long good book and not something you can finish in one day. Tai-Pan is 570 large pages in small print. That will take me at least the better part of two days, probably three, to finish. Whoohoo!!

The rest of the family is going to the movies tomorrow. I'm not, because aside from seeing RotK again, which I won't do for another while and hopefully when I've found a friend who also wouldn't mind seeing it again, there is nothing I particularly want to see. So, I'll stay home feeling sorry for myself because of my sinus headache, reading Tai-Pan, and coloring my stupid chicken.

I'm sorely tempted to restart Xenosaga, but I probably shouldn't do that until my project is finished, or it'll never get finished. (Damnit, they better come out with Episode II soooon!)


Okay, so there's my babblings. Now I'm going to go and read more of my book, unless something else comes up. XP

Peace!

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