Surprise!

I haven't died!

Christmas Eve!

Even though I'm sicker today, I'm feeling much less sick! It's Christmas Eve, woohoo!

Guh

I still haven't started writing the essay that I'm supposed to have a draft of. That essay-... I hated that silly book. Writing the essay would be heaps easier if it was just for my teacher - but we're not writing them for our teacher. We're writing them for the Ayn Rand Institute. That being said, I can't completely diss the book in the essay, because they have a big ol' contest with thousands of dollars in prizes because of that book. Besides! Having an institute in the name of Ayn Rand is against everything Ayn Rand believed in! She was pro individualism all the way. She hated collectivism! So having a whole institute (a group of people who have relatively the same mindset) that picks a panel of people to judge somebody else's work is just silly-talk!

...

I think I may be allergic to something. I have itchy, puffy, watery eyes all the time. Well, right now I'm sick, so that makes it worse, but still. There's a flaw in the system!

Happy Christmas, sicky!

Who Even Knows

It's a toque day.

Officially Day Two of Holidays

Even though I've been out of school for four days, technically two of those days were weekend.

My holidays are going good so far! I went to a friend's Christmas party on Saturday, and I babysat all day yesterday - money is good! One of the friends at the party has a dad who can print off pictures for free, so she's going to make copies of a bunch of them for us! I asked for two really fun ones of the group, and they may have a place on my wall (this is a big deal). Today I'm making cookies with my dad -shortbread cookies- but I have to go do some laundry before he gets back so we can start right away.

I figured one post was better than none post !

Day Sixty-Eight!

Schoooool's out. For. Christmas! Schooool's out. For. Ever!
that was... Alice Cooper.. Just - never mind.
So I got to school this morning at seven fifteen for pancakes with my ugly sweater, but then everybody was in pyjamas too! I had changed my outfit about four times at home trying to find one I liked for today, when I could have just stayed as I was! Doh! So then I ran home and got jammy's on, and was very glad I did. The contest was cute - There was a senior and a junior who both won (bragging rights), and the senior was wearing a Bruins sweater. Ha! At one point I was walking around the halls, and some of my friends were outside, and they saw me through a window in a class room so they banged on the window. We were all wearing our ugly sweaters, so the guy started pretending to flash me, or strip or something, then all of a sudden we heard clapping from the corner of the classroom, and the teacher was definitely in there. He came to me and was like, "... Tell your friend not to quit his day job." Hahah!!
In English we watched Shakespeare condensed! It was these three guys who did Hamlet in like forty minutes or something, and it was freaking hilarious! And I handed in my essay. Whoo!
In math I brought my delicious candy cane brownies, and The Nightmare Before Christmas! There was yummy food, and then we all pitched for Subway. The teacher got a big platter of subs, but then he had a separate little baggy that was my veggie sub - aw!
And, as if to make the day better, during lunch I hoedowned. I didn't know any of the dances except the Macarena and the YMCA, but I hoedowned. I did some square dancing type moves... A dance where you kick and say, 'HEY!' and... Some spinning ones. Then there was slow dancing, but I didn't want to leave like a lame or a shy, so I ran up to the first kid I knew (a grade 9!) and made him dance with me. It was pretty grand. I have no shame when it comes to dancing. I will dance until I can dance no more! Oh, and may I just say how wonderful my school is? At one point they made all of us (way over five hundred kids in that gym, I'm sure) make a massive circle around the middle for a special presentation - so we were all standing against the walls. Then the same girl with down syndrome who cat-walked on Halloween walked into the middle, and the guy with the microphone said she would be doing a dance to Billie Jean, and everybody just went nuts! While she danced we all clapped in time to the music. She was dancing away, and at one point two guys ran up and danced beside her, then left so she could keep doing it. She had moves! Then as the song was ending, the announcer said something and we all ran in to her at the very same time and we all danced and sang and cheered. It was so great.

I was going to go home at spare, but my friend wanted me to stay so I did. I saw some kid that I met at the pier in the Summer. I don't think he goes to our school, but he chills sometimes (but he's from Delta. It's kind of a long way away to chill). Then for the rest of spare (school only went till 1:30 today) we sat at the tables in the deck. Then when gym class got out everybody came and started singing Rudolph and stuff, then the bell rang. It was so fun. Everybody was so happy! Hooray!

This is my ugly sweater.

Perhaps another view?

Oh yes.

Day Sixty-Seven!

Math was frustrating today - but I'm not the only one who doesn't get it. I think there's one kid who gets it. ... I think I started to get it... Maybe.
I retyped my English essay! Finally. It took long enough! First, I wrote about three drafts. Then I couldn't print it. Then I got it printed! I handed it in, but it had no title. I took it back. I had to retype it all, because with a title the page setup changes, but there was no free computers in spare in the career center. Then, I couldn't print it in a different location. Saved it to my friend's school login and she said she could print it at home. Figured out she couldn't print it at home. Managed to print it in art class and bring it to English. He gives me a B, and says I can take it back and try to get an A. I type it. Save it. Lose it twice. Delete it once. Find it. Type it up. Can't print at home. Print at the library. I am so done with this essay. I better get an A, haha! We did our oral projects, mine went well! In art we got cookies. In acting I stepped in for the other group's project, because the one girl is disgustingly unreliable, and wasn't there. But I was really glad I could help the other group out!
Tomorrow is the last day of classes till January 3rd! Wahoo!!! Ugly sweater contest, pancake breakfast, hoedown at lunch, and no teacher actually tries to teach anything! I'm pumped!

Now, that really old Rudolph movie (you know. The clay one) is on TV, and I'm going to go watch it.