finals

so...finals begin tomorrow...that's why i haven't really been updating. i've been too busy studying for math and science and stuff. luckily, i only have finals tomorrow and thursday, so i don't have to go to school on friday. which will be awesome. i think i might sleep.
the one thing i always forget to do during finals is to get enough sleep/eat an actual breakfast. but i'm actually go to try to get at least 9 hours of sleep tonight(i know...shocking)
so...i better get going...i've got math problems to review...
good luck on your finals, you guys!
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double meaning

do you know what is annoying?
the word for school in latin is also the word for games. games and school are nothing alike. in fact, they are polar opposites. so why would you have a word that has two completely opposite meanings??? it makes no sense. and also, the word to eat and to be are the same word...that could cause some complications
it's like in french that means nightclub and box...which is really weird...
whoever invented language/came up with the vocab/whatever is really weird and had some major issues...
i actually don't even know why i'm writing this blog at the moment...i guess i'm just antsy from waiting for the election...
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homework(or lack of)

i feel like i haven't really had that much homework lately for some reason...it's kind of nice, but i have a feeling that that's going to change...
WAIT...it is. because i have a crazy amount of tests next week, including two quizzes in latin and a history test on monday that i probably should study for...it's so annoying...one week, i'll have no homework and plenty of time to check my facebook/watch youtube videos and then the next week i have major projects and/or tests in every single one of my subjects(not counting pe)...maybe i should just enjoy my lack of homework and not worry about what it means...
i finished making all my cupcakes for halloween. it took longer than i expected thanks to a lack of eggs, a broken timer and some miscalculations...
if anyone wants any cupcakes, i have about six/seven that i won't be needing anymore...
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halloween

this year for halloween i'm not trick-or-treating or anything. i'm having a really good friend of mine come over and we're probably just going to eat candy and watch bad action movies. i'm kind of excited for that. i'm not really in mood for going out and asking for candy and all that fun stuff. i did that last year with a group of friends and we kept getting these weird looks from everyone we asked for candy from because obviously, when you are thirteen, it is not socially acceptable to trick-or-treat. so i doubt it's all right when you are fourteen.
actually, the whole idea of halloween isn't all that appealing this year...
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cupcakes

i'm sort of feeling sickened by the thought of frosting for some odd reason. maybe because i'm going to have to make quite a few cupcakes tonight and i'm not looking forward to it. because i already know i'm going to eat tons of frosting because it's so good and then feel absolutely sick to my stomach. i was trying to explain halloween-o-grams to some of my fencing friends, but none of them really got it. i honestly should be used to that. i guess there are some casti traditions that people don't understand...
ugh...but frosting...the thought of it is making me feel a little queasy. i doubt that even funfetti will help...

days off

we don't have school today b/c the teachers need to write comments and such...which means i should be finding out how i did in the first quarter sometime around...let's see...mid-november. that's the problem with living in the middle of nowhere. you get everything in the mail a week after the people who live in civilization.
i have mixed feelings about not having school. when you have a day off, but no one else does, you can either 1. take advantage of that and go shopping/out doing fun stuff with all of your friends and not have to wait in any lines or something. or 2. sit around at home watching youtube videos/reading fanfic and being a total loser. i'm currently doing the second one. and i am bored out of my mind and am waiting for a video to load/reading gofugyourself.com/hoping someone will interact w/ me on facebook or something so i won't go insane. and in a few hours, i will need to begin worrying about starting all the homework i have to do...
it's almost as bad as being sick. b/c when you're sick, you lie in bed all day and relax and then watch tv for a few hours. but then at around 5, you realize that you missed a day of school and have to get all caught up...which is very annoying...
whatever...i'll go and stare at the amazing shoes i bought yesterday for the fddd or something to amuse myself
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the opera

today, my class is going to the opera...oh joys...i'm actually kind of excited/anxious about what is likely to happen, especially since we may be getting cookies during intermission.
my mom was making listen to some music from the opera we're seeing(the elixer of love). it was...interesting. couldn't exactly understand what was going on b/c i don't speak french/italian fluently. at least at the opera there will be subtitles.
going to the opera reminds me of how last thanksgiving/new years(i forget which) my parents made me watch some french musical made in the 1960s with subtitles. it was the most pointless thing ever. and i'm still not sure why i sat through it.
i don't think the opera will be as bad. i've been to the opera before and it can be fun, especially if it's motzart. motzart's not half-bad. and my mom is taking us to see the most famous opera of all time or something this year...should probably start trying to get excited.
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the things you learn in latin

latin is a pretty weird class. we sit around and learn how to say things like "the slave's blood splatters on the ground as he is torn apart by lions". and learn about roman food/weddings/how the romans sacraficed animals to the gods. it can be really really really boring sometimes, especially when we are conjugating endless verbs, but then we learned something kind of weird/sick/out of the ordinary and the class becomes a bit more bearable.
in the past two days, i found out that cleopatra married her younger brother. he was ten and she was eighteen. might just say that i am hugely glad that i do not have a little brother. and then we found out that julius ceasar's big rival, pompey, was caesar's son-in-law. b/c caesar had his fifteen/sixteen/underage daughter marry pompey who was fifty at the time...that would be like me marrying...i don't know...hugh laurie. except if hugh laurie wasn't hot. and finally, we learned, that the guy who killed caesar, brutus, might have been caesar's son. way to show the love. (yeah. we're reading about caesar right now in latin. is it that obvious???)
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epic greek poems

so...right now in english, we're reading the odyssey. at first, i thought it'd suck because it was some old epic poem. and let's just say i had a bad expierence with beowolf while i was in england.
but the odyssey is AWESOME. i'm not even kidding about how awesome it is. i thought it'd be all boring and hard to explain, but it isn't. it's actually really easy to explain understand. and the plot moves on really quickly, so it's not boring....
and the best bit is that Telemakhos(probably spelling it wrong) is HOT!!! i know he's a fictional character and all, but if he was a real person, he would be hot. like seriously hot. i'm not even kidding. the stuff he says is hot. plus he's all day-dreamy and stuff.
now, i'll go back to reading the odyssey and obsessing over telemakhos...
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ps. btw, i got this awesome email a few days ago from this girl in my grade who wanted to read my blog but didn't have the address. it made me feel all warm and fuzzy on the inside...

spirit week

usually, i'm not a spirited person. if i went to a normal co-ed school, i would not be on the cheerleading team(well, for other reasons as well). i wouldn't be one of those people who'd go to football games and pep rallies and all that fun cheesy stuff...
but this week at school, it's spirit week. and spirit week is crazy fun. at my school, everyone dresses up. if you don't dress up, no one will talk to you for the rest of the day. well, that's not quite true, but most people will be kinda pissed. and everyone puts up tons of decorations. like today, our theme was meat and we had red streamers and signs everywhere. literally everywhere. it was awesome. and we had a sign that said "welcome to the butcher" with "blood" on it.
anyways, each day, a grade's supposed to win spirit. but the seniors win every day because it's rigged and all that good stuff. but even so, we all dress up and run around and act completely insane. but that's half the fun...

5:50

do you what is insanely unfair? the fact that i have to wake up at 5:50 tomorrow to get to school on time. basically, we're going on this class bonding trip and we have to be at school at 7:15 so we can get there on time. it's not that bad if you live only a few minutes from school, but if you live in the boondocks like me, it's not so cool. especially when you hate getting up before 6:30.
whatever. i'll survive. with lots of sugar.
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all-girl's school

okay...confession...i go to an all-girl's school. oh the horrors! no. actually, it's not that bad. we don't go running around in slutty school-uniforms or make out with our friends between classes or seduce our teachers or anything like that. if you want a basic idea of what my school(castilleja) is like, watch "st. trinians"
okay, yeah...if you go to an all-girl's school, your social life is pretty much hanging out with your friends, doing homework and acting insane. but, hey, you can still meet guys(this is a hint for all my guy-friends to comment on this post)....um...yeah. all-girl's schools aren't that bad. you just need to get used to wearing a sailor suit once in a while