well, the group four project wasn't so bad. we didn't really do anything productive. oh, and our topic has now changed to "cooking". hooray. cooking is fun. and talking to people, especially allie and eddie and chaffin, was fun. hmm, i'll have to drop by the counseling office tomorrow so i can see what i scored on the psat. poor eddie did horribly. it's stupid that these standardized tests count for so much. but chaffin was complaining because he got in the 88th percentile for math. it was really funny actually. but now i wanna see what everyone else got! i did not see srav during eighth today, because i was busy rewriting my intro and summary paragraphs for the grinch-bazarov paper. oh well, at least he won't be counting my first attempt. i didn't finish it. he really hates that. i didn't finish the last essay he handed back, and he gave me 60% on it. blech. yes! only three more school days, and i'm off for two weeks! 16 days, i think. see, you have to add on the weekend, so you add two days to however many weeks you're off. so, for fall and spring break, you get one week - 7 days - and add the extra weekend in. so you get nine days off. but, anyway, i'm really happy about the break. i can just relax for 16 days! sweet! and i'm going to san diego to visit my grandma and grandpa. i get to sleep with them, in their little apartment thingy. see, they've retired at this uber-fancy retirement home place. it's really exclusive, and expensive, and everything. so they get cooked meals every day - 3 meal tickets per day, basically, but they usually go for dinner which costs three - and they live in a pretty nice sized place. they've told my mum that they're not going to go on any more cruises, because living there is like being on a cruise for them! and they get a much bigger room... but, so i'll visit them, which will be really fun. and i'm going to drive up to L.A. with my parents to see my dad's relatives. yeah, so, i'll be seeing my grandma and aunt and uncle and two little cousins. they're the most adorable things you could imagine but we don't really get along. they steal my dad away and they both seem to hate me and my mom. the only bad part of going away over christmas is that, we're not going to have much of a christmas. it's kinda hard to bring a lot of gifts with you on the plane. so, i'm probably going to only get one present this year, the mp3 player thing, which i've already picked out. eh, i don't mind. hopefully i'm getting a new computer for my birthday... mwahaha. oh, i suppose i should advertise for japanese club. everybody come! ha. it's on wednesdays, which sucks, because everything is on wednesdays. but, we're meeting tomorrow and we're going to watch anime - magic knight rayearth - and eat snacks. and there's gonna be a trivia game afterwards apparently. so that should be fun. still, i wish more people came to the club. it's fun when there's lots of people.