Little Update

I have no idea when I last wrote a journal and I'm not sure if I even know what it was about, but I think it was all about Schmid. The only happy thing concerning her is that I found out that if I ignore her, she'll typically return the favor. That's probably a bad mindset to have against a teacher in a classroom setting, but it makes the class bearable. I have yet to learn more than a simple few things in German, but I hope that I can find a German penpal again and actually stick with the penpally part of it. Plus, I must state that "ich muss Duetsch lernen!" Warum? "Meine Lehrerin ist eine schlechte Lehrerin." Another thing I could do is chat it up with Crystal all in German, but we both are probably learning the same ... actually, that's not such a bad idea.

German's not the only class that I have issues with. Actually there isn't really a class this trimester that I don't have some problem with. Trigonometry probably wouldn't be so bad if we could learn from our mistakes. The teacher teaches, sure, but the process is so weird. We begin the day by getting together in homework groups and we're supposed to talk about what we did. *silence* Yeah, that works. Because there is so someone in my class who'll talk to me. Besides, this is a fricken' math class! Math. Is not. Social. Kind of why I like it so much. I just want to know the answers to the homework so a) it feels like I actually did something worthwhile and b) I can find out if I did something wrong, and if so what I did wrong. Is that so much to ask for? Out of math class, even. Then, after homework group time, the teacher goes over problems the student body didn't quite get. That much, at least, is normal. Then we end the hour by going over a new section. Yay. -_-

The only problem I have with Oceanography is that I discovered too much of Wells frazzles my brain. She's so scatterbrained it's hard to figure out what she wants. So far, though, I'm not even enjoying the content of the class. We just had a test on ... I don't know what on Friday and I remembered that her partner test things are so comprehensive that it often contains information she merely mentioned or never taught at all. Don't know how I could have forgotten that. Seriously.

I'm not really sure why I don't like Into to Journalism. I think because right now a sub's running the show. He's a frickin' jerk, doesn't know diddly-squat and he just makes the class angry. Every day. And I already know that I'm not going to like journalistic writing. I am a story writer. I like a beginning, middle and an end. I like descriptive language that doesn't require shortening. Also, while I prefer my RPing and stories to be scientifically correct as possible, that's the realism I like. Not reporting. That's just not ... me.

The only class that I'm halfway enjoying is Government. That's so out of character for me, it confuses me. It's not like I'm learning something completely new, like last year in History A. I've see this material before. I think it's the way the teacher presents the information. Funny, really. Rarely has it been that a teacher is the reason I like the class over the material. A teacher can cause me to hate a class I typically like easily. Not the other way around.

I don't even have Alyssa in my day anymore. She always made me feel better, no matter my mood. She's my bestest friend. And I miss her.

This weekend my family went to the band festival or whatever it's called. Each grade (or high school section) took their turns playing and what not, and it was pretty cool. But before it started, I found Alyssa, called her name and was mauled by her, Stephanie and Katie. It was great. I think, some time over the next couple weeks, I'm going to try and invite them all over for a night or something. We geeked out at Katie's house with X-Men before. We could do something similar, I think. The only problems are finding a time when Alyssa's free from Drama and the state of our basement. It's a perpetual struggle down there.

Learn something new today. Seniors can wear whatever they want on the last day of school ... or something like that. Amber didn't answer me when I asked for clarification. Random tidbit of information, but I do still want to cosplay as Rogue for a day. The only reason I haven't cut my hair. I do not like long hair.

And I completely forgot the other thing I wanted to mention.... Joy.

I've been making changes to the New Nation lately. Just a few changes. Last week I spent about four hours changing the code for the homepage message center. I still have to add something new to it ... but it's interactive now, complete with tabs. The only problem I really ran into was that Forummotion doesn't support Javascript ... which is really weird ... so I had to host the contents of the table on Webs and place it on Forumotion with an iframe. I set it so that it doesn't have a border, so it looks like it's a part of the webpage. Then I learned that target="_parent" breaks the frame to make it even more seamless.

In the future, I also hope to make the bio application a little more aesthetically pleasing (I have a thing with that), which means a more comprehensive coding. The only problem with that is that people have a hard enough time with BBC. How would they respond if I throw CSS and HTML at them? I could throw together some PHP for a more formula-like application. Fill in the blanks, it'll spit out a code. It's not as hard as I first thought. Unfortunately, paragraph formatting will be my problem. I'm sure I'll figure it out, though. But before I can put that together, I'll need to come up with a parent code for PHP inserting. Oh yeah, bet that made sense. Then again, this isn't something most people typically talk about.

That's about the only things that are going to change. But I do want to learn how to use SQL. Maybe I could make my own wonderful forum in time. I could make it however I'd like. That would be awesome. Because all of the forum hosts that I've ever used have annoying setbacks. Proboards ... I don't know the issue I have with it besides the groups. Forummotion has issues with linking. Actually, all of them have problems beyond that as well. They can be a wee bit annoying.

But I probably should learn Javascript, too. *grumbles* I don't like it that language. It would be really helpful to learn, though, I know that.

I talked to Storm (don't know her real name) yesterday. We haven't caught up with each other in a while. She still works in the meat department , still doesn't have a role playing muse, but she did point me to watch Young Justice. Typically I don't like DC, but that mainly applies to the comics. I'll admit that they do have alright cartoons. ^^

I'll cut the journal short now. Wasn't too much to say anyway. Oh wait! Midgey. I dug around her box yesterday, hoping to find bunnies. I didn't find any. Just a lot of her fluffy fur. Disappointing, really. I had been looking forward to bunnies. On the bright side ... she lived. I like that.

And now I shall end.

SONG OF THE DAY: Blackthorn Asylum ~ Nox Arcana