KillerGremlin
08-28-2004, 01:20 AM
It was inevitable; I had to go back to school. I knew it was coming, but I only utilized my last week of summer “to the max.” Meaning, I stayed up till 4 every morning, I got by on 6 hours of sleep, I played as many videogames as I could get my hands on, I went to the mall and hung out with friends, and I burned about 40 CDs. All in one week.
Well, good times must end, and sure enough, school started last Thursday. I’m not anti-school or anything like that, so I don’t really mind going back. And even though this is my junior year, or the most important year of High School, I’m still not that worried. I got the ACT and SAT to look forward too, and of course, I’m taking a full load of classes this year, but it’s still all good.
I got my schedule, which looks something like this:
Period 1 – Honors Physics
Period 2 – Electricity
Period 3 – Advisory
Period 4 - Math Analysis
Period 5 - Gym
Period 6 – U.S. History
Period 7 – English
Period 8 – Option
Period 9 – Orchestra
Overall, my year isn’t that bad. Honors Physics is essentially AP Physics B, according to my teacher…but, it’s probably slightly less work. I’m a lazy kid, so I’m only doing one honors class. However, I still get to take the AP Physics test, if I choose too, which I most likely will do. My physics teacher, without a doubt, kicks ass. He’s a really really nice guy, but he’s intelligent too. He doesn’t like the physics book that the school is using, and for years he’s said that he could write a better book. So, sure enough, he’s writing his own physics book, and we get to use what he has so far. That is pretty cool, because he knows EXACTLY what he is teaching us. The rest of my classes shouldn’t be a big deal, thankfully, but the school year isn’t exactly my core issue.
I’m holding a job right now. I work at jewel, I bag groceries, and it sucks. Best Buy just called today so I could go for an interview, I was very excited. The keyword is WAS, and I shall elaborate on that in a tad bit.
Being in Orchestra has yielded an opportunity, one that my parents think I should accept: We get to go on a trip to Europe, more specifically, England, as a “super field trip” or whatever the hell you want to call it. The trip is optional, naturally, and will cost an upward of $2,500. That’s an upward of $2,500 that does not include food, so we’re talking something along the lines of $3,000. Now….the trip is going to be for about 10 days, which I suppose is a decent trip, but there’s two catches. Catch number one is: it’s an expensive trip! I know a lot of people that aren’t going, simply because they wouldd rather keep the $3000 for some better more practical use. Now, England is probably very nice, and I have never been there. But…this leads me into catch number two. Catch Number Two: I have a Ford Taurus. It used to be my dads, until he got a new car. It’s a 91 Ford Taurus, it was purchased in 91, and it’s a really nice car. If we where living in 1991. The car’s transmission is due to die, within the next…oh, say few months. Fixing the transmission would cost more then the car value itself, so it’s not a practical route to take. Also, the car needs to take an Ignition test in December, and I’ll be damned if it passes that. Again, more repairs will be due to get the Ignition clean, and it’s just not worth it. So, the bottom line is, a new car seems like something that might come in handy in my future. A new car costs money. $3000 dollars is a decent chunk of money. Now, my parents keep telling me they have enough money to look at a car and a trip, but I’m not sure they do. So I’m in a mental debate, which is really irritating. Okay….onwards with catch number 3.
Catch number 3 is more like……a story in itself. Today was Friday, my second day of school, and I drove to school. I didn’t drive on Thursday because I wanted to see who was on the bus and whatnot. On the ride to and from school, everything went swell. After school, my friend and I decided to go see Hero. I’ll elaborate on Hero later….since I’m basically telling you guys my life story here, LOL. Well, I drove up to the theaters in my car, and everything was fine. On the way back, the engine was making A TON of weird noises. I wasn’t sure what it was, but I dropped my friend off. As soon as I pulled out of my friend’s driveway, the car starting smoking and steaming really badly from the engine, and the front lights wouldn’t stop blinking. So I hauled ass to my house, and the minute I pulled onto my driveway, my car orgasmed a liquid everywhere. My dad thinks that it was radiator coolant, but whatever it is, all of it came out. The car also smoked and steamed a lot. So good times.
This means that I might have HAD A CAR. For all I know, the car is dead, pointless, bye-bye. So more mental debate comes into play. Mental debate play….why not call it Mindbation. Anyways, Best Buy is a good distance away, and there is no way in hell I’ll be able to commute there without a car. So, I can basically scratch that off my list of ‘hoorays!’. Jewel is within biking distance, but I’d rather just quit that job and focus on school, especially if I don’t have a car that I need to spend lots of gas money on. I saved up a thousand bucks this summer, and I’m sure I can use that for gas/games/other stuff over the school year. Again, more mindbation.
Of course, my dad, knowing a lot about cars, is going to look at it tomorrow. The car was supposed to die in 2 years anyways, and we were told that…oh, I don’t know, longer then a year ago. The point is, $3000 might need to go to a new car, Best Buy might not work, and yeah, Hero was a kick ass movie.
Hero was probably the better part of my day today (compared to getting assigned 50 physics problems). Hero was really good, and I’m pretty sure that the same director that directed Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon directed it, and it had a lot of cool scenes. I wouldn’t call it an in-your-face-kick-your-ass martial arts movie, but it did have some really cool fight scenes. They did a lot of the “defying gravity” stuff that they did in Crouching Tiger, and that’s a lot of fun to watch. They did a fight in the trees, and in one scene there is a sword fight over a lake. The movie felt very “arty,” which isn’t a bad thing. Some of the scenes where just beautiful, and the movie put a heavy emphasis on the style. It wasn’t a western style action movie, it was much more calm. However, it was a lot of fun to watch, and I thought the story was very good. The movie used subtitles, which is a far superior method to dubbing the thing. The subtitles gives you an opportunity to hear the original emotions expressed by the actor’s voices, and even if you cannot understand the language being used, you can pick up on emotions such as anger, sympathy and compassion. After seeing Hero, I wish I could…well, skip around on water and like do stuff with a sword. The scene with the arrows is pretty cool too.
I’m not sure how Tarentino got tied in with Hero…but they mention him every time I see a preview for the movie. This IS NOT A FREAKING TARENTINO movie. There are absolutely NO F-BOMBS, and it is not over-the-top…..well, I take that back. But it’s not Tarentino over-the-top. Go see it though, because it’s one of the better movies that has come out this summer….if you still consider it to be summer.
Umm…..and if you read all this…..I give you…..a pretzel! Hooray!
Well, good times must end, and sure enough, school started last Thursday. I’m not anti-school or anything like that, so I don’t really mind going back. And even though this is my junior year, or the most important year of High School, I’m still not that worried. I got the ACT and SAT to look forward too, and of course, I’m taking a full load of classes this year, but it’s still all good.
I got my schedule, which looks something like this:
Period 1 – Honors Physics
Period 2 – Electricity
Period 3 – Advisory
Period 4 - Math Analysis
Period 5 - Gym
Period 6 – U.S. History
Period 7 – English
Period 8 – Option
Period 9 – Orchestra
Overall, my year isn’t that bad. Honors Physics is essentially AP Physics B, according to my teacher…but, it’s probably slightly less work. I’m a lazy kid, so I’m only doing one honors class. However, I still get to take the AP Physics test, if I choose too, which I most likely will do. My physics teacher, without a doubt, kicks ass. He’s a really really nice guy, but he’s intelligent too. He doesn’t like the physics book that the school is using, and for years he’s said that he could write a better book. So, sure enough, he’s writing his own physics book, and we get to use what he has so far. That is pretty cool, because he knows EXACTLY what he is teaching us. The rest of my classes shouldn’t be a big deal, thankfully, but the school year isn’t exactly my core issue.
I’m holding a job right now. I work at jewel, I bag groceries, and it sucks. Best Buy just called today so I could go for an interview, I was very excited. The keyword is WAS, and I shall elaborate on that in a tad bit.
Being in Orchestra has yielded an opportunity, one that my parents think I should accept: We get to go on a trip to Europe, more specifically, England, as a “super field trip” or whatever the hell you want to call it. The trip is optional, naturally, and will cost an upward of $2,500. That’s an upward of $2,500 that does not include food, so we’re talking something along the lines of $3,000. Now….the trip is going to be for about 10 days, which I suppose is a decent trip, but there’s two catches. Catch number one is: it’s an expensive trip! I know a lot of people that aren’t going, simply because they wouldd rather keep the $3000 for some better more practical use. Now, England is probably very nice, and I have never been there. But…this leads me into catch number two. Catch Number Two: I have a Ford Taurus. It used to be my dads, until he got a new car. It’s a 91 Ford Taurus, it was purchased in 91, and it’s a really nice car. If we where living in 1991. The car’s transmission is due to die, within the next…oh, say few months. Fixing the transmission would cost more then the car value itself, so it’s not a practical route to take. Also, the car needs to take an Ignition test in December, and I’ll be damned if it passes that. Again, more repairs will be due to get the Ignition clean, and it’s just not worth it. So, the bottom line is, a new car seems like something that might come in handy in my future. A new car costs money. $3000 dollars is a decent chunk of money. Now, my parents keep telling me they have enough money to look at a car and a trip, but I’m not sure they do. So I’m in a mental debate, which is really irritating. Okay….onwards with catch number 3.
Catch number 3 is more like……a story in itself. Today was Friday, my second day of school, and I drove to school. I didn’t drive on Thursday because I wanted to see who was on the bus and whatnot. On the ride to and from school, everything went swell. After school, my friend and I decided to go see Hero. I’ll elaborate on Hero later….since I’m basically telling you guys my life story here, LOL. Well, I drove up to the theaters in my car, and everything was fine. On the way back, the engine was making A TON of weird noises. I wasn’t sure what it was, but I dropped my friend off. As soon as I pulled out of my friend’s driveway, the car starting smoking and steaming really badly from the engine, and the front lights wouldn’t stop blinking. So I hauled ass to my house, and the minute I pulled onto my driveway, my car orgasmed a liquid everywhere. My dad thinks that it was radiator coolant, but whatever it is, all of it came out. The car also smoked and steamed a lot. So good times.
This means that I might have HAD A CAR. For all I know, the car is dead, pointless, bye-bye. So more mental debate comes into play. Mental debate play….why not call it Mindbation. Anyways, Best Buy is a good distance away, and there is no way in hell I’ll be able to commute there without a car. So, I can basically scratch that off my list of ‘hoorays!’. Jewel is within biking distance, but I’d rather just quit that job and focus on school, especially if I don’t have a car that I need to spend lots of gas money on. I saved up a thousand bucks this summer, and I’m sure I can use that for gas/games/other stuff over the school year. Again, more mindbation.
Of course, my dad, knowing a lot about cars, is going to look at it tomorrow. The car was supposed to die in 2 years anyways, and we were told that…oh, I don’t know, longer then a year ago. The point is, $3000 might need to go to a new car, Best Buy might not work, and yeah, Hero was a kick ass movie.
Hero was probably the better part of my day today (compared to getting assigned 50 physics problems). Hero was really good, and I’m pretty sure that the same director that directed Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon directed it, and it had a lot of cool scenes. I wouldn’t call it an in-your-face-kick-your-ass martial arts movie, but it did have some really cool fight scenes. They did a lot of the “defying gravity” stuff that they did in Crouching Tiger, and that’s a lot of fun to watch. They did a fight in the trees, and in one scene there is a sword fight over a lake. The movie felt very “arty,” which isn’t a bad thing. Some of the scenes where just beautiful, and the movie put a heavy emphasis on the style. It wasn’t a western style action movie, it was much more calm. However, it was a lot of fun to watch, and I thought the story was very good. The movie used subtitles, which is a far superior method to dubbing the thing. The subtitles gives you an opportunity to hear the original emotions expressed by the actor’s voices, and even if you cannot understand the language being used, you can pick up on emotions such as anger, sympathy and compassion. After seeing Hero, I wish I could…well, skip around on water and like do stuff with a sword. The scene with the arrows is pretty cool too.
I’m not sure how Tarentino got tied in with Hero…but they mention him every time I see a preview for the movie. This IS NOT A FREAKING TARENTINO movie. There are absolutely NO F-BOMBS, and it is not over-the-top…..well, I take that back. But it’s not Tarentino over-the-top. Go see it though, because it’s one of the better movies that has come out this summer….if you still consider it to be summer.
Umm…..and if you read all this…..I give you…..a pretzel! Hooray!