shit. shit shit fuck.

i've got 10 pages to outline,
and to study,
and take this at home test.

fuck.

thanksgiving break: in pictures

tuesday, november 25 (baltimore, md)

my brother and i went to baltimore to spend the night at my sister's. she exchanged ava for the night with my parents. we walked around a little bit and then they got some alcohol. i drank beer, got into two bars (was served at one), and took many pictures. it was a good night... it was kind of cool finally being old enough to be 'in' with my older siblings, as i have always seen them going out and partying and i always staying at home with the parents, watching 20/20 or To Catch a Predator. and i think that's what made the night fun, and the alcohol consumption was a bonus.

pictures:

siblings [mustafa, neelab, myself]

baltimore bridge at night

tilted building... very cool in real life

wednesday, november 26 was half spent in baltimore and half spent on the road. we got to waynesboro around 8 and i fell asleep shortly thereafter.

pictures:

on our way to Donna's, somewhere in downtown baltimore


ava made a gingerbread house with her bibi jan (my mom, ie farci for grandmother).
she was pretty excited to show us when we got home.



thursday, november 27: thanksgiving

does anybody see a face in the spinach dip?

thanksgiving was spent rejoicing everything that we're grateful for... kind of. actually, it was a day to clean, clean, cook, clean, and have family over. only i didn't do much of anything, which means kudos to duh' parental units! mom made a huge dinner of everything and it was delicious. and i drank some more. i ate ate ate some turkey turkey mashed potatoes. and we've got leftovers, too! joy!

pictures:

family


i love my mother.

friday, november 28 was a day to sit back and chill. no pictures taken. i slept in, had breakfast, and played with ava. neelab and ben and ava were planning on going home at noon so they could start priming the walls of their home, but their contractor, Phil, was still not done priming their ceilings. so around 3 neelab, my mother [who invited herself, heh, jehkay], and i went to go see the new james bond movie. we ran into emmett and some of his family -- i met his cousin -- at the end when we were leaving. i didn't see them while coming in.

saturday, november 29 (blacksburg, va)

so on saturday, mustafa and i woke up around 6 to head out to blacksburg. we parked at the same spot he used to park at, in front of the apartment he lived in for 3 years. it was free parking, up for grabs to anyone who wanted to park there. then we went to the Hokie House, a restaurant/bar. i had a Hokie Burger, fries, and water, it was delicious. mustafa got his ticket from a scalper, which is cool, because there's some law that says scalping is legal in blacksburg, but illegal pretty much everywhere else in virginia. umm, then the game! that was lots and lots of fun, especially because VT beat UVA, 17 to 14. we made new friends while there, but i doubt we'll ever see them ever again. heh. there was horrible traffic on the way back.

pictures:

inside cassel coliseum (yees, it's spelled like that)

this girl is a bio major, and it was her last game as a student, ever.
she's so lucky.

new (drunk) friends made.

and now, it is sunday. mustafa leaves back for california tomorrow, and i'll be heading back to school. i've done no homework, meaning, i've not even opened my backpack except to send some notes on the caste system to carter.

i still have half of chapter 14 to outline, the take home test, and the some graphic organizers to do for apush. i've got an essay for humanities, wrap up an essay for apes, and maybe, hopefully, a lab before i fall asleep for apes too. but all in all, i'm quite pleased with the way thanksgiving break went.

3 weeks till winter break,
-alex

i'm determined to by happy

and if that means not going to bed tonight, well, hotdamn, i'm not going to go to bed.

i'm an everybody, just like you.

i'm starting to slack, i'm starting to fall behind. i haven't done homework for two nights in a row because i fear the amount of work it will take. so i went to bed instead. and i woke up really late this morning, 6:53 to be exact. i managed to take a shower and everything, though.

today i started to fall asleep in APUSH, multiple times. that last 30 minutes was the worst. i can say that i paid no attention in those 30 minutes. which makes me feel like shit.

and now, i'm in 'envioronmental science' - what a fucking joke. i'm 2.3 units behind. i've got to retake a quiz, do 2 labs, write 2 resolutions, and finish my essay (i'm a little over half way done, so that's 800 more words) over thanksgiving break. which isn't all that bad. but.

and APUSH, oh, shit, apush. i've got a hell of a lot of outlining to do. somewhere around 30 pages left? which isn't all that bad, but that will take a while. and i have a rough draft of a rhetorical situation paper due on friday, but that shouldn't be too terribly difficult. hmmm.

after next week, and after thanksgiving break, i'll be on track, and these dreary posts will be a thing of the past. i'm looking forward to that.

-a

a funny thing just happened

i thought class was over. i'm sitting in the very front of the library (or rather, on the very side, facing the inside of mrs.galenis's office). anywho, so i thought it was over because i heard paper shuffling and backpack closing from the class behind me. i closed all my windows, signed out of virtual virginia, and saved my (lack of a) essay on global warming. i put all my books away, unplugged my flash drive, and got up. when i turned around, the class was still behind me, still working on their papers. i felt pretty dumb.

...i think they're watching.

ps) travis came back today, hooray. i was starting to get worried that he was laying dead somewhere in china town. he actually just went to see his girlfriend; supposedly he stayed in her dorm with her, and got a round-trip ticket for $20 (the china town bus - i looked it up and it's legit! https://www.apexbus.com/BuyTicket.aspx?from=2&to=1). so, yeah, that's what he did. his parents aren't mad, but all the teachers are. and he went to a hookah bar last night. i wish i were that cool... uhhhhhhhhh

week/end

these are a few of the pictures i took throughout the week. i'm procrastinating doing my homework. after this is time to hit the books.

(1) this is katie fitzgerald's pet gerbil. she brought it to school in her hoodie pocket.
it was precious. i held it for a little bit and then passed it on to sam.


(2) this is me throwing up. jeremy drew it in humanities the other day
[friday, actually] on a piece of notebook paper. i put it into photoshop and added
the color. random fact: green and yellow makes people queezy.


(3) ellen was putting the mixed media installation up in the junior lounge. i
snapped a picture because she usually jumps out when you tell her you're
about to take her picture. kekeke

(4) this room was empty, right across from the tea bazaar [house?] in
downtown staunton.


(5) hunter's arm. location: outside the tea house in staunton.


(6) the opening band at last night's show - iodic
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(7) tyler played a small set while freak scene set up


(8) freak scene played. and very well. so did everyone else.
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now. time to do homework.

EDIT: it's now 10:04 pm, i've barely gotten anything done. i've got a rough night ahead of me ... i even already emailed mr.calhoun and told him i won't be able to attend duh' quiz bowl tomorrow night.
ps) how do you complete the square of x^2-4x+5?

EDIT 2: now it's 11:45. i've gotten the most done between the last edit and now today, which isn't saying a lot for me, because that's only 11 math problems. UHHHG.

untitled

i love you, standing all alone in a black coat

as of lately

these are my feelings from the past week. in one clump:

on school:
1. we have 1 and 3/4 of a year left until senior year, which we'll be going to college after. which means i won't see a lot of my friends.
2. where the hell am i going to college? in state or out?
3. what major should i go into? architecture? industrial design? ... pornography?
4. when should i start filling out scholarship stuff?
5. when am i going to retake the SATs?
6. how am i going to get back on track with science and history?
7. how am i going to start making cream? [keke]

on home:
8. i miss: my father's old lumina
8a. the comfort of riding in my father's old lumina
8b. going to cub scouts in my father's lumina
9. i miss: being in elementary school
[this i realized on friday night, when sawyer and i were playing on the playground, and we cloudily reminisced about the old days, and how the playground used to be so much bigger, and the bench that we always sat in during play time because we had time out. on a side-note, i laid down on the ground and the sky was clear as day, and then i realized how small i am, and how big the stars that coincide with the moon and the sky are, and how i'll never, ever be that big. it was not as overwhelming as i make it seem, rather, it was ... breathtaking to say the least]
9a. and i miss the innocence that comes along with being young

and finally, ten.
10. i can't belive fall is already here again. time is going by so quickly and it feels like i haven't gotten a chance to soak in a whole year yet.. fuck.

10. fall:


i'll miss you, i'm going back home to the west coast.

uhg

so, damn.

i failed my apush quiz, and my apes quiz too. and i received an apush test earlier this week that i failed. so, that's 3 F's in 1 week. but i'll retake the apes quiz next week since i have a second attempt. but.

i used to be so studious and so such, but i've gotten lazy lately. i think it's my lack of focus, which, at the end of the day, makes me feel like crap. and then i see people around me, like tyler and peter bihl who seemingly don't do very much outside work and manage to get straight a's. how come i stay up until 1 or 2 some nights, doing my homework, and still can't manage to get my stuff straight? why, why, WHY?

i suppose i'm just being bitter. although, i still do in fact feel like complete shit. and will tomorrow, and the day after, and the day after that too.

hello, new president.

yes, we can.

here i am

i have a few minutes, in the library. i'm definitely ignoring what i've got to do. i'm confused as i have no idea how i'm going to go about doing my homework tonight - we have quizbowl and hopefully i'll get stuff done on the bus.

i've got about 20 pages to outline for APUSH, a chapter to read for MATH, and a LAB for apes. wish me luck.

love, alex.