ok. i shall say in advance: forgive me for all the ads/pop-ups if you click but lookee! 'tis some of the stuff i've been working on for almost all last week. *does a happy dance* and i still remember some javascript! (quite surprising as i haven't touched that stuff since august.)

mmm, there's still some fireworks going off as well as an obnoxious dog. AND my brother's lovely optical mouse keeps squeaking. hehe. 'tis so weeeird.

time for bed. Happy New Years to you. =)

oh.my.goodness. doing history hw is so insanely boring. or maybe it's because i somehow always find more interesting things to do while researching, who knows. but right now i'm debating whether i should do all this extra credit stuff. after all, i got D/D+'s on the last two 'tests' BUT that's actually quite normal in our class, getting D's. =P ugh, but really, i'm starting to dislike prendy's teaching cuz so far i?ve learned practically nothing. (and yet i? ve already filled a 2-inch binder w/all my history stuff. quite odd.)

oh oh! and today i almost killed the old and pokey computer while scanning all my calendar pics. evidently, the pics were taking up a bit too much memory so the computer started complaining and giving me warnings; grr, the stupid thing. but yay! now all i have left for the stupid project is filling in the days and making them colorful. that makes me happy. =)

mmmm, and one last thing before i plop myself into bed (omg, which reminds me. i need to get up at 7:30 tomorrow for a doctor appointment or something. major yuckness.) ok, back to that last thing. i was poking around on the internet and found this about RotK (a bit spoiler-ish). hehehe. quite amusing, especially on the descriptions of certain things, i.e. gothmog being a giant potato. i like that part. =P although i must say, his head looked more like a blob of ... rotten dough? to me.

anyhow, off to beddy bed. 'tis already 12:30. i get sidetracked so much...

first of all, merry christmas and happy b-day to jesus. =)

omg but mass squeeness. i went w/kat to watch rotk today and we saw/sat with lydia, her dad, peter, rachel, and ian. omg, it was AWESOME. actually it was kinda long and i didn't like the beginning that much. kinda... very strange. but the rest was sooo good. 'twas a sad and depressing movie though. i almost cried.

yay for christmas break!

hehehe, yesterday kat, (mei but she dropped out) and i decided to go watch rotk but they sold out for 7:15. so kat's family went to dinner and i just kinda sat there and spun chopsticks (which is really quite fun). then we went back to kat's house to watch potc. and OMG, it is NOT fun trying to watch it with 3 big slobbery dogs, one of them being exceedingly hyper beyond belief. for example, we were maybe half way through the film and then dusty, the hyper one, decided to jump up on the couch. needless to say, i wasn't happy b/c i couldn't see the screen (after all, she is a gold retriever, and quite big). AND THEN she decided she wanted to lick our faces. me being the don't-like-water-on-my-face kind of person, i ducked under the blankets but dusty managed to lick.. maybe my contact or something. and then she kinda missed and started licking/chewing on my hair. of course, during that time kat was laughing her head off at me (the meanie), but w/e. at least nothing bad happened to my stuff. (like kat's glasses is quite bent and her retainer has a nice chunk missing now.) what a destructive dog. i think i might reconsidered my wish about owning a dog now...

on a different note, the youth group went caroling today. pretty fun despite the fact that most of the songs were way too high. and the nursing homes were so very ... warm. oh, but alvin has one cool house. =P

wow, that was a lot.

oh wow. the study room's so very cold (and it's very hard to type in the dark) but w/e, i'm finally done with the bloody spanish project and the english vocab (well, most of it).

omg! but my brother went to see rotk today. and he didn't bring me! (actually i wouldn't have had any time to spend 3.5 hrs watching a movie. but still!)

ok, off to beddy bed.

good ROTK-day to you. *squeeness*

sigh, but life is evil. i've given up on the spanish project. after working on the stupid retarded brochure for 3 hours, i'm only done with a third of it. i really hope chernick'll understand that i simply had no time to do the freaken thing. let alone the cake. now i'm off to some other hw. i really really really wish there could be a snow day tomorrow. sadly, it's not gonna happen. =\

oh yeah, and psat scores came back. definitely do not like the verbal sections. math is cool though. that is, if i learn how to avoid careless mistakes. heh :D

*squee* four more days!

oh yeah, and my brother's home for christmas break!

hehe. how awesome is this? i'm actually finished w/all my hw before one! (actually, i didn't do the history reading but since we're having a dbq {groan} tomorrow, it hopefully won't matter whether i did it or not.)

omg and today at kumon, delayne was telling the funniest school stories ever. for example, there was this one about how her physics teacher was scooter-ing his way down the hallway, and halfway to the end he smacked right into the principal (coming from a different hall) so they both went flying in opposite directions. then there was one about science teachers who liked to imitate the fire drill and trick the principal; another about teachers moving furniture out of the classroom and into a courtyard (and not to mention, freaking out another teachers abt their missing furniture); another about science teachers beating each other up for their beloved moles, etc. heheheh, it was mass fun (but sadly ruchi missed most of it). hopefully we didn't distract the kids too much. =P

bet you didn't know that mimi likes to look around when she drives (meaning she doesn't always have her eyes on the road while driving). scary thought. other than that, it's awesome that she can drive people around. =P

oh oh oh! and i can twirl a pen now! but it's still not guaranteed 100% but it's almost. =P =P =P sorry, that was kinda random.

wow. 'tis not fun trying to type in the dark. but *shrug* i need to finish my spanish narrative. (my teachers seem to love narratives)

ugh, so far this week, i've fallen asleep twice in chem (meaning i've fallen asleep everyday so far) and once in history. to sum it up, note taking first thing in the morning = bad idea for stacy. AND i was late to first bell cuz the car clock lied to me, saying it was 7:14 instead of 18. ah well, mr. prendergast didn't really say anything. i just got a few funny stares and that was about it. i'm such a bad student. =P

omg omg, and mrs. allen is trying to learn how to count in different languages. so far she's done chinese, japanese, german, and now korean. even though it's definitely not working that well, it's quite hilarious.

funfun. my mum's started to restrict my bedtime to before 1 again. isn't that just too bad...

ooh, but 16 more days until rotk. yay!

off to go finish my lovely narrative that i've put off until.. well, now.

ok, so i got bored. and this was the result: version 2.0 Into the West, featuring annie lennox's song from the RotK Soundtrack. [*edit*: and hopefully this'll last longer :D]

yay, stacy finally saw Finding Nemo ! 'twas so very cute. (squirt and that shrimp-like thing are the best! =P) now i must go hw b/c this weekend's been/being eaten up by swro.

!! i can't stand people who enjoy narrating their life story to me every single freaken time they see that i'm on & not idle.

on a happier note: ~1 month until rotk. heh.

argh i'm sick again. i think it's from the lack of sleep i had all this week. (after all, i did go to bed at 3 from mon-wed and at 4 on thurs). but anyway, mauku pics:

*cries* i got a b in english. and that's my first b on a report card since.. 4th grade (where i got a b+ in art. ART! THAT IS SO PATHETIC! just because i didn't talk enough in class.)

anyway, would anyone like to buy the rotk soundtrack for me for christmas or something? :D *squee* i likes them all very much.

and on a sidenote: juanes- a dios le pido is one awesome spanish song. (yeah, we listen to spanish songs in spanish. funfun unless you're told to fill in the blanks)=P

kumon tomorrow. and all the tutors minus delayne will be sycamore ppl! heheheh.

having literally a landslide of papers to be graded, recorded, etc., a kid next to you who claims she doesn't get division (even though she really does; she's just too lazy to do the work), and about five more standing on the other side of the table all simultaneously asking you random questions (including 'have you graded mine yet? it's been x minutes!') is really quite stressful. (wow. that was one long sentence.)

wow. thirteen days... but anyway, first some amusing excerpts from a 2 o'clock convo w/ruchi:
(whee-ness)
full convo here.

hehehehehe, and this totally cracks me up:
(Mei's Essay)
oooh, and i have smilies now!
(Wow, this is turning out so random)

ok, now for update on my life. life pretty much... sucks, as usual. =) there was a pop quiz in math on friday where i totally could not remember the shortcut. (i knew it had to do with a or b over 2 a or b but that doesn't really help does it?) chemmy moles are starting to get really really annoying. since we're having quizzes almost every other day. and i ROUNDED (rounded, not sig fig-ed!) wrong on the last one. ugh.

omg, and mrs. allen is getting wackier by the day. like on tuesday/wednesday (or whenever we did the mneumonics), she started singing "i'm a little teapot" at the top of her lungs while dancing around the room. and she simply would NOT shut up. needless to say, it got annoying after a while.

mmm, and dorky orchy concert next thursday. come and watch us saw away at our instrumentes!

ambiance <-> ambience. same diffy...

o.O that's just wrong. my brother has never used hair gel before... until now.

pics from cmu. [pardon the boring labels. it was a little late when i did these.

okay, so i swapped the old cheery layout with this very boring one. oh well... it's staying liike this for now. i really should've been doing my history and spanish though. heh oops.

oh yeah, and i found this quite amusing. oh oh and rotk trailer came out! :D click. (no chinese subtitles this time. and it's SO much clearer.)

Sigh...

argh. why is blackboard always down when you need it?

Knipperdollinck. very cool name. =P

on a different note, i'm getting extremely sick of this oh-so-cheery layout.

Happy b-day Daddy (who's halfway around the world in Bejing)!
poo. i wanted to go to england with him! =P

wow. for once, stacy is finished w/all her written work before 9:30! well, work that's due tomorrow.
blah. today was not a fun day.
history i'm never awake in anyway, but we have a DBQ test tomorrow which does not sound fun.
orch was totally not fun cuz i didn't practice the test passage at all (but at least it's not a permanent seating. phew).
chem was ok. at the end my hand seemed metal-y.
then math. hm... we'll skip that
eng sem- eeps. mrs. allen gets stranger by the day. i've noticed that she seems to crack herself up over the weirdest things. ('jumped the sentence. hahahahaha... you can put any verb you want on the test, just not jump. [laughs some more]') and she likes to imitate a toddler voice and yell and prance around (ok so not so much of the prancing, but she still does).
spanish- hmm. i seem to forget about every single test that we have. at least i know we have a vocab test tomorrow.
OOOH! and mrs. sullivan found my paper. it was a little wrinkled (i wonder what she did to it) but hey, i still got it! but she made me waste three perfect pieces of paper, some black ink, and a staple.

oh and the wrinkling thing reminds me of something else. so daniel, delayne, laura (ebetino) and i were working at kumon one day and laura gets shiza and alina's reading packets which are quite wrinkled (like you knew it had gotten wet). then she starts speculating on what might have happened and finally concludes that they were (do NOT ask me how she got this) sitting in the bathroom doing their hw. so she's kinda like "eeew. to think that i'm .. touching ... this. and i contaminated all the other papers! i think i'll just go and wash my hands." then she runs out the room. it was quite amusing. heh and the rest of us were cracking up when she came back later.

yikes. that was looooong. oh, and double-sided tape is spiffy stuff. that is all.

my mummy's finally had it w/my going to bed at 2 so now she's very conveniently decided that i hafta be in bed w/lights out by 12:30, at latest one. and she still expects me to practice both piano and violin. oh yes, and i've also been banned from the computer unless i ask for permission. really all she's saying is that she rathers that i get a big fat zero on my hw than "die studying." (somehow i find that quite amusing.)
another not-so-happy note: mrs. sullivan lost my summer reading paper. and i'm pretty sure i'm the only one who hasn't gotten it back yet. so now i hafta print another copy for her to grade which very muchly annoys me.
oh yeah, and history is just not agreeing w/me. i got a 79.4 on the first test (mainly cuz i forgot about it). and mr. prendergast, i think, has lost my renaissance flyer. at least this time i'm not the only one. but i certainly did took a long time on that stupid thing.
::sigh:: oh well. life goes on.

tip of the day (paraphrased): if you space out, smile. you're normal!
yeah, mrs. allen is one odd teacher.

to jennie in my euro class, i'm known as "the person who's smart but never does her homework." 'tis not my fault that i don't but i do agree w/her. i didn't have the flyer when everyone [in my class] turned it in on thursday (but it said explicitly in the calender FRIDAY) or the printing press cartoon (and i don't think i'll ever turn that in). oh yes, and then there was the comparisons of Petrarch, Vergerio, Pizan, & Machiavelli but that didn't really count since he never collected it.
now something not school-related. i uploaded the new layout for the notebook story. and no more ads! (well, in the iframe).

holy crap. viruses suck. i just got around 30 emails full of that junk in 2 days. but oh well, it all went byebye so all's good so far.

wow. mrs. allen was dancing down the aisles today.

grrr. i will kill geocities. it just got rid of my entries from about the beginning of july til the middle of august. which means my account of retreat, put-in-bay, and camping are history. the evil thing.

random rambling about school--
euro first bell is just not my thing. i am seriously gonna die. and my class is just like last year. with all the preppy people and freakishly smart. other than that, it's ok. prendergast (i hate spelling his name) has a very cool british accent but he lectures kinda fast (although some people thought not. i think it's cuz we're his first bell so we're kinda like.. the guinea pigs. oh well.)
orch is quite amusing. we have lots more people this year. especially cellos and violas (yay, we might actually be able to hear them this year!). oh and might i add that we have two freshmen kevin lin's who both play violin?
chemistry is... ok i guess. not many people i know in that class. ignatz reminds me of mr. shrimpton who used to enjoy interrupting nimeskern's class. which is not a good thing. but he's a very nice change after scrase.
barbian. i almost spelled her name as barbarian in my textbook (blame it on history). hehe, i'm sure she would not have enjoyed that one bit. another note: chris yen is in my math class which is quite freaky as i graded his work at kumon.
allen was just weird with her poofyish hair. (at least it's not like fisher's). and she's very energetic which is quite freaky to me. ruchi suggested that she might be related to hart and fisher which would be a very scary thought.
spanish was ok although i kinda forgot everything. not many people i know well. and chernick scares me a bit too.
sullivan just reminds me of leblanc. but my class is cool since lots of my friends are sitting near me. hehe.

I'm DONE! DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE!!!

as of 3:30 AM on 8/25, stacy has finally finished all her summer hw! =)
ok, well i'm pooped. let's hope 3 hrs of sleep will be sufficient enough to keep me awake in school as well as at work. night night.

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geez, it's quite hard to type in the dark. but w/e, i feel very bored. No one's on at this ungodly hour. especially since school (ok schools excluding mason and lakota and any others that i forgot) starts in approximately four and a half hours. yeah i'm such a freak for leaving so much for the last moment. but i doubt i'm ever gonna learn the lesson.
hw update: as of 2:45 AM --

• falling leaves annotations - done (actually, i might do some more during lunch if i'm not sleeping then)
• midsummer night's dream - done
• 8 euro essays - DONE DONE DONE.
• of mice and men - 50% done

yeah anyway, so i finished my last essay (which btw, is full of nonsense and ramblings) but still need to type it. then i've got at least 50% of my composition left.

::yawn:: so i'm almost finished with my hw after staying up until five last night/this morning. anyway, hw update: as of 5:15 PM --

• falling leaves annotations - done (there's no way i can do more annotations before tomorrow)
• midsummer night's dream - done
• of mice and men - 40% done
• 5 euro essays - hopefully done
• 6th essay - done but not butchered yet
• 7th essay - 90% done but not butchered yet
• 8th essay - haha er. not started yet.

(ok, so technically it's already the 23rd cuz it's 1:01 am right now but oh well...)
ho lovely. school starts in 2 days and GUESS WHAT? i've still got 3 essays to write, the of mice & men composition to finish, and 5 essays to butcher and piece together again. wheeee. let's all watch stacy testing her procrastination skills! er yeah i think i've definitely gone a bit too far this summer.

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