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I got second place in Extemp Girls and lost to a senior, so I did okay for a first time extemporaneous speech. It's so different talking to only two people than 100. My topic was "Is America doing enough to support military personnel when they return home from service." Over all it was an easy topic, it just took a lot of heart-string tugging. I wish I had done better, spoke a bit smoother, one judge docked about ten points for tapping my foot, so I guess I shouldn't have done that...*sigh* I hope my Model UN Coach is happy, she put me up with the Drama teacher to do this, for which I am forever grateful. I'm hoping to go and see her early in the morning on Monday. 

I went with the Thespians as a tag-along to fill a slot and give the school a better chance at winning, the scoring system for schools is by totals, not averages (1st-7 points, 2nd-5 points, 3rd-3 points, and 4th-1 point.) We finished fourth with a score of 19. It was  a really enjoyable time though, there are so many talented people from our school, most of the events were for singers or groups of singers. 

Hi,

I haven't posted anything in two days (that's a long time for me), primarily because I've had lots of AP World to study for a test that was supposed to be today, but my teacher moved it to Monday, but I took it today anyway along with a friend in my class, (It's a long story). 

Anyways, I just wanted to rec a book I was currently reading. It's the novelization of "Cowboys and Aliens." I didn't see the movie (I weird),  but I saw the book in the bookstore, while I searching for a Star Trek book that I haven't read from my Dad's limitless collection (It was even bigger until he met my mom). And I just sort of got distracted by the cover really, and it was in paperback!! 

It's amazing so far (I'm on page 138). So far the only thing I'd don't like about it is the swearing, which is almost blush-able, but I'm also a social outcast so I've heard them before for the most part, so not really a big deal. 

It mixes my two favorite things, Sci-fi and a good western. 

TGIF 

It's homecoming week and the dance is Saturday, and I'll start by saying that I'm NOT going, but my friends and I decided that the perfect date for me to take (if I wanted to go) would be a cardboard cut out of David Tennant, and then I found out that those actually exist. 



And before you ask no, I'm still not going. 

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I'm sorry that I haven't up loaded the  next chapter of Doctor We Have an Emergency. I've been properly slammed recently with school work and now I'm making typos every other word because my finger is in a splint...Grrr. I will try to type it up though, now that I have a bit of a lul in accel math and honors lit (AP World is still chucking it out pretty rough).

Anyway on a happier note I caught a flyball in softball without a glove (hence splint) and got an out, it would have been a double play, but the person I threw to fumbled a bit. :(  (This is definetly why I should stick to libraries.) 

( Cut for new rant on vocab list... )

DTH does like Doctor Who now, but only the Matt Smith era, so he can keep his nickname. (How can anyone hate David Tennant?) I have no idea why he's suddendly captured by the Math Smith, but not David Tennant. He's not a head over-heals fan like me...yet, and he claims that he never will be. 

I think part of it is that he seems to be very interested in Amy and her whole history or something. 

The good news is that I don't have to tutor him in math to watch a new episode (grrr, he's a horrible student)

My dad's in the same boat but he does recognise David as the better Doctor (yay!); his favorite companion is River though. 

Now, I just have to convince my mom...

Grrrr! This isn't Doctor's Who related, but i'm hoping that typing something will help me get this essay out. Its worth half of a test grade, the other half was a multiple choice test that I took friday. I studied for hours every night to get the multiple choice section right and I think that I got at least a high 90% on it, but that won't be worth anything if I flunk on the writing. Ughh! 

Thanks for listening to my rant. :-/

I haven't had internet acess since late monday night, so I haven't been able to reply to anything or review. Please, don't think I'm being rude, but the modem burned out or something and it's going to take 'til like Saturday to get it fixed (unless we're really lucky.) I'm posting at from a Starbucks now. We're here, so DTH and I could shoot and e-mail to our Chinese teacher and tell her we can't go to the internet session tonight. Anyway, I'll get back to y'all as soon as I can I promise, but please don't unfriend me. 

Thanks.

I know I said that I would have writted the Emergency!/Doctor Who/Adam 12 crossover by now or at least the first chapter, but I'm still a bit bogged down. Last weekend when I had planned to write it I was ankle deep in Ancient History, geography, and every consivable technical issue with virtaul Chinese (I'm still trying to figure that one out.) 我 不  喜欢 电脑. Things have lightened up a bit and I'm trying to transfer to a different Chinese class, so fingers crossed that I get something written this weekend. 



Ughh, I'm loving highschool, but at the moment I feel like it's eating me alive. D: 

I spent hours researching on my computer for facts for my AP World paper, and couldn't find anything that wasn't biased, where all the facts seemed to be buried under pounds and pounds of loop holes and flim flam. But at the library in a BOOK I found the statistic that shall make my whole paper. (By the way, that was less than an hour to find that perfect fact, as opposed to hours of endless websites and headaches.)  

I so, so excited. I've already written the introduction, so I just have about eight more paragraphs, easy peasy. :) 

If I stick to my schedule, I should be able to start rereading "The Golden Filly." I read it in seventh grade, and it's one of those rare books that's adult reading level with no adult material. I have lots of trouble finding those. Apparently, if you can believe the tests they give you in school (I've been scoring the same since fifth grade so...), my reading level is 12 + which means I guess means books above 12th grade level. My problem is I still have the maturity of a 14 year old, or lower I suppose if you wanna compare to my peers. Anyway, the books in the series are great, perfectly clean, and encourage strong religious values, so I'm game to read again.  

I tried to get DTH into fanfic and he actually tried, and he found a site for his favorite TV show, "Emergency!"  but he didn't like it much. Oh, well that's the first time he has ever tried something I told him to, maybe he's softening. ;D