current mp3: beauty dies young (graham coxon remix) - lowgold

well, i suppose school is back, but not too horrible so far. having done almost no homework over break (reading we was the only productive thing i even attempted), i return to find that slacking is bad. however, since i already knew this, i feel little remorse. and other than that, it's nice to see my friends again. one tends to get a little lonely over the holidays.

well, despite the lack of sleep my brain seems to be functioning normally. interesting events of the last two days?

well, we've started presenting those lovely pieces of art we created for lit. nathan and i have not presented ours yet. but, how lovely, we get to go first thing tomorrow, since eric and chaffin were the last ones to present today. the sad part is, they did a better job of explaining our painting than we're going to, i'm sure. we didn't think of all the things they did. ah, well.

science has been a group 4 week. this whole week we're going to work on our group four projects. which is... fun, i guess, since i'm with alex and chaffin, but still rather uneventful. much more productive than most of my projects are. we actually are going to do something other than sitting around and either: a) talking about random crud, or b) arguing about what we're going to do for the project, and never reaching an agreement. so, we'll melt wax. i need to remember to ask mum if she wouldn't mind if i stole one of her cooking pots.

history, fascinating as usual. we've been talking about france. and the horrible 3-part semester final we're going to take. gah.

lunch... well, yesterday poor nikki was waiting for ryan the whole period, apparently. i had an appointment with my counselor, to talk about the lunch / no lunch thing. well, she said i should try out my current schedule for a few days, then come back and talk to her if i really want to change. today, i was listening to ex-ibers talk about college. pretty much, they said that dorm food was repetitious, that colleges granted scholarships based on need, that although ib didn't do much for them credit wise, it sure helped them with time management! ick. i hate time management.

math. lovely. since apparently everyone failed the math test we took before break, she's letting us retake it on thursday. hopefully i'll do better than last time, as i don't think a 50% test score really makes the cut.

we've been working on our dossier - our internal assessment, basically - in computer science. which is causing me a great deal of pain. hopefully, i've figured out what to do for it. i'm thinking, a nutritional information program. it'll read recipes off the net, or whatever, and tell you what the nutritional information is per serving, or whatever. so that ought to be fun. kind of. mum was saying it wouldn't be too hard if i thought of each ingredient as a separate object, with associated info. like, the ingredient object butter might have a size of "1/2 stick" and a fiber content of 0, or whatever...

spanish has, over the past two days, consisted of taking part of a practice ib exam, reviewing tests, writing journal entries, and talking about winter break. nothing too stressful. she still hasn't collected the homework yet, but hey, i'm not complaining. speaking of which, i might want to work on that a bit...

eighth has been exciting, of course. it's always fun to bug srav when she's trying to do homework.

ninth period i'm not even gonna talk about. monday was not any more fun than tuesday, but i didn't get much of a workout on monday. hmph.

other than that, the days have been rather unexciting. i have been put on a low sugar diet (i take back the sugar "free" i said earlier) and may become depressed as the week rolls on, but only time will tell...