Part I: The Girl
I’ve made a decision on the Emily situation, since my constant switching of sides has surely caused some confusion. I have decided (not so much a decision as it is common sense) that I will try to be friends with her as best as I can. I will still get to hang out with her this way, on good terms, and no harm can come from having a female companion in life. If something happens to come up I may go for it, or I may not. It depends on how it feels when, or if, it comes up. Maybe it will feel right, or maybe it will feel weird. Either way, I won’t try to interfere with anything because I don’t want to fuck over someone’s life due to my own blundering selfishness. I’ll just be friends with Emily as much as I can manage, while respecting her separate life. Seems simple, and seems like what I was doing already, but I can at least treat her as more of a friend than just another girl in class.
Part II: Red Vs Blue
In other news, I’ve really gotten into Red Vs Blue just recently. I had watched a few clips of it on youtube, (a ‘The Best of Caboose” clip) and I decided to check out the whole series! I remember Binkle tried to show us a few episodes way way back when. Unfortunately our sound wasn’t working for some reason, so we couldn’t watch it. But now I’ve watched the first four seasons on Google Video, and caught up to where they have left off at the end of Season Five.
I was amazed that on the Monday that I got to episode 99 was the day they had released it! After than I had just found out that they were only making 100 episodes! I was excited to know I had jumped on the Red Vs Blue train just before it was finished, but at the same time I was disappointed that the series will end just as I get on board with it. Just like The Show with ZeFrank, it was a very strange feeling that something this good would be ended forever very soon.
It is a very clever show, funny from the beginning, and the plot becomes surprisingly genius as the show progresses. There is not a character I find annoying, and they’re all played so well. It’s a very well made series and I recommend you all check it out from the beginning, if you haven’t already. They make a lot of throw-back references, and the first season is pretty good anyway, unlike a lot of online material which takes a while to really get off the ground.
I’m currently getting each episode of season five in their low-quality offerings. It will have do for me unless I can suddenly purchase things from the inter-tubes, and feel like spending $20.00 (USD) a season!
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In other, other news: exams are starting soon. According to my planner, Period 1 starts on the afternoon of Thursday, the 21st, followed by period 2 on the Friday. This is the perfect set up, because I have my less important/difficult Religion and Communications Technology exams on those days, and then I get the whole weekend to review my Math and English, the more difficult (and important) of the two.
Studying should commence on the weekend, although I don’t know how faithful I will be to studying for Religion, and Math and English will seem so far away! At very least I will begin to review my math work, seeing how I find math to be my most difficult, as well as my most important, exam. Wish me luck and I will probably go into exam hibernation before I can update again, so prepare for radio silence until Tuesday the 26th!
Also: feel free to discuss why it’s stupid to have the period 3 and period 5 exams on the Monday, and the period 4 exam on the Tuesday, thus resulting in ruined lives of those university-hopefuls with something like University Physics Period 3, and University Chemistry Period 5, dealing with those two exams on the same day would be fuckin’ hell! Why not just give them period 3 and period 4 exams on the same day, thus giving them a break due to a period 4 lunch?
I leave you all now with this:
3 comments:
Wow. The staff at St. Mikes really love to tweak that exam schedule. Why can't they accept that - sometimes - it just works better the way it is.
If they still have lunches the way they usually do (Gr. 9, Gr. 10, and Gr. 11 and 12), then the exam schedule should always have period 2 and 3 exams on the same day. This way, Grade 9 and 10 students, who are just being eased into exams (mostly) will have only one exam a day, and then a lunch period. And, as for the seniors, they will get two exams on the same day, which is preparation for the hectic workload of university.
All that "prep for university" stuff is absolute bullshit. We've got 2.5 weeks with NO CLASSES in which exams are placed, that gives us as much as HALF A MONTH to prep for 5 exams; and a minimum of 4-5 days. Sure, sometimes you're unlucky, and they all clump up near each other, but a lot of the time you win and get them spaced out reasonably.
Stupid things should not happen. If a stupid thing does happen, it should be called a stupid thing; it should not be called "preparation" for anything. Should Stu's mom start serving him undercooked food made with unwashed hands to prepare him for life in the cafeteria in university?
As for why it's 3 and 5 on Monday; it's the same old story. Apparently Gr. 12 teachers need the extra day to calculate all the marks for awards for the grade 12s.
I'm pretty sure that this is bullshit (let's face it; the teachers know that there's a group of five students that do really well in a given subject, one of them will certainly be highest. In our year all they had to decide was whether the highest was Andrew, Jordan, or Dianne in any given subject). The only tough ones would be things like "most imporoved" - but even with that, it should all be in a computer program somewhere, so they can just plug in the latest marks (since they plugged in all their other marks weeks ago, right?) and then hit "calculate".
The machine could then spit out "most improved" "best overall" "best in arts" "best in sciences" "most improved in sciences" "most improved 4H student" etc. etc. etc.
Binkle, I never said the exams of high school are prep for the exams of university. I said the exams of high school are prep for the hectic workload of university.
Here at university, I have about five assignments due every week. Most are fairly complicated, and many are due on the same day.
If you cannot handle two high school exams on the same day, good luck handling your loads of weekly university assignments with often conflicting due dates.
And yes, in theory, they should have some sort of program that calculates who - statistically - would be most deserving for the award. Then, if they want to weigh in criteria like "good standing", which seems to be a bullshit ranking, they can just pull that out of their ass and add 2 to the rank of those who are worthy...or whatever.
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