You may be wondering, though probably not, what has occupied my time since my last post about two months ago:
- I got a boyfriend! :D
- I lost a boyfriend. :(
- I started working again! :D
- I'm really not convinced I like my job anymore. :(
- I've completed everything except orientation for college! :D
- I'm learning Russian! :D
- I'm finally competent with the piano piece I've been working on for over a year (Debussy's La Cathedrale Engloutie)! :D
- I've had three lovely AP exams (English, Physics B and Calculus AB). :(
- Mrs. Grigg (AP English) loves assigning projects. I've had lots of them. Fun.
- I've gone to All State Chorus and the chorus spring trip and was a lead in a musical (Sir Harry: Once Upon A Mattress).
Shew! Glad that little "me me me" bit is over.
Recently, procrastination and a bit of apathy has begun to plague my existence. Such horrible traits can be aptly attributed to a disease of the mind called "senioritis." This affliction tears at one's mind forcing him or her to abandon many of the tasks he or she may have been assigned. For instance, following the AP Calculus exams, my wonderful teacher gave us about 3 classes of break, and has once again resumed teaching and assigning homework. This is utterly useless to me, as I've already taken the test the class was designed for and I will not remember anything taught between now and graduation anyway. I understand why teachers must continue to teach, but that doesn't mean that what they teach is going to be of any use to anyone.
From what I've seen of the world so far, integration doesn't come up very often as a necessity to continuing the day. Why couldn't there be a project like in all the other AP classes? In English we are making "Totem Cords," which are 6 foot long ropes that will have ~10 items that represent the maker hanging from them. In Physics we are making trebuchets in groups. Ah...what a lamentable travesty it is to have such a waste of time occurring in the school building.
Fortunately, I'm an auditory learner and can simply sit and listen to the explanations and, with very little effort, pass all the quizzes and tests.
Further fortune is found in the literature with which I have recently been drawn to (not that I would ever read in class! That would be wrong! ;) ). Using alibris.com, I managed to purchase six books for $28, including shipping. Fabulous! Winter Birds by Jim Grimsley, Boulevard by Jim Grimsley, A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White, Justine by Marquis de Sade, Rainbow High by Alex Sanchez, and Rainbow Road by Alex Sanchez. Along with the other books I purchased at a different time (Dream Boy by Jim Grimsley, Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez, and a Russian verbs and grammar dictionary) I've had plenty to procrastinate with. I would easily recommend all of these books, though particularly the Jim Grimsley novels. They are just so spectacularly written—very detail and imagery oriented, he leaves nothing out. It is all important and goes very far in creating the story for the reader. Most of the above, by the way, is gay literature. They are either coming-to-terms/of-age type stories or they are gay experience type stories. They've made me happy and sad and all of the various (and more descriptive) emotions that fall in between.
I feel like I'm ranting a bit too much about stuff that doesn't really matter and isn't very interesting, so that's the end of this message.
