Hey these last few days have been pretty good... That physics test I made an 88 on, the Precal quiz a 100 and the test Monday a 98, which almost gave me the A i need. Yesterday we got our class rings, and while they were giving them out, my guidance counselor pulled me over and said "Don't tell anyone I told you this, but you did VERY well on the PSAT... yours was the highest score in the school. The scores will be passed out tomorrow act suprised." So today I got the score... a 225. That beats last years top-in-the-school scorer, and he was a National Merit Finalist... hello scholarship $$$!! and then today I got a call from the person I've been missing most lately and she's coming to town saturday! I did the paid city hall camera work for the first time on monday, and I get the paycheck next monday! Oh and haha Mr. B. told me that he's putting me in the Who's Who Among High School Theatre Students and the Who's Who Among High School Scholars, neither of which are that important, but hey they look good on a resume... The show closed Saturday and I was out partying until 2... luckily my parents didnt wake when I got back b/c I was supposed to be back by midnight. :) and then of course alex ellis was in town so I spent part of the afternoon sunday with her, which was a lot of fun.. I'd forgotten how refreshing talking to her can be.
So all in all, after the last few days, I'm feeling pretty good about life again. :)
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Thursday, December 6, 2007
update
Let's see. Yesterday, I stayed home from school for the first time all year. I was sick and I just simply needed a day off from Production. So I slept till 10 which felt amazing and I was in bed by 10, also amazing. During the day, I caught up on my Physics homework, wrote an English paper, and studied some Precal. Compared to any other day in recent memory, very relaxing.
Today, on the other hand, I went to school. Back to the grindstone, as it were. Not much went on during the day, just like always. It never sets in until 2pm. At 2, I went back to my APUSH class to make up a quiz i missed yesterday, then I went over to Production and settled down for a while. Today was "blurb day," so I filled out that form for my show and turned it in, I edited some Robin Hoods (or tried to for a while, as I've been given the more ghetto of the two types of editing systems to use... oh how i wish i was using the Avid!!). I wrote the scripts for two episodes of the show I produce, which is taping its January and March episodes tomorrow, and sketched out the times for the taping. I encoded some 'Perils for Pedestrians', a 'Conn Jackson Show', and a couple 'Army Newswatch' episodes. At 6:00, they closed up the studio, which is much earlier than usual, so I went back to the business office to get the paperwork needed for payroll. I've trained twice for our City Hall broadcasts, which means that I'm eligible for $$ every time I work it from now on, starting next Monday. Then, at 6:45 I went from school to a piano lesson to rehearse the 31 page Rhapsody in Blue that I'm supposed to play at recital in two weeks... haha that'll be interesting. Got home around 7:45 and started homework after dinner. So far, I've written an English paper for some contest and done a French verb packet thingy... I've got some physics to go, and I really need to study for the physics test tomorrow and thre precal quiz.
Dale sent me a message on Facebook basically saying that his dad's doing much better than expected and he's sorry he didn't get back to me, but he dropped his phone in an Atlanta fountain. Sounds like he and his dad are both doing alright though so I feel better about him now.
I produce "What's Up, Doc?" tomorrow! I fail a Physics test tomorrow! I fail a Precal quiz tomorrow! Noises Off closes this weekend! Alex is coming this weekend! Alpine Village is this weekend! Thespian Induction this weekend! Taping a huge project at school this weekend! Rehearsals for the Alumni Banquet skit this weekend!
When I come up for air, I'll blog again. IF I come up for air, that is.
Today, on the other hand, I went to school. Back to the grindstone, as it were. Not much went on during the day, just like always. It never sets in until 2pm. At 2, I went back to my APUSH class to make up a quiz i missed yesterday, then I went over to Production and settled down for a while. Today was "blurb day," so I filled out that form for my show and turned it in, I edited some Robin Hoods (or tried to for a while, as I've been given the more ghetto of the two types of editing systems to use... oh how i wish i was using the Avid!!). I wrote the scripts for two episodes of the show I produce, which is taping its January and March episodes tomorrow, and sketched out the times for the taping. I encoded some 'Perils for Pedestrians', a 'Conn Jackson Show', and a couple 'Army Newswatch' episodes. At 6:00, they closed up the studio, which is much earlier than usual, so I went back to the business office to get the paperwork needed for payroll. I've trained twice for our City Hall broadcasts, which means that I'm eligible for $$ every time I work it from now on, starting next Monday. Then, at 6:45 I went from school to a piano lesson to rehearse the 31 page Rhapsody in Blue that I'm supposed to play at recital in two weeks... haha that'll be interesting. Got home around 7:45 and started homework after dinner. So far, I've written an English paper for some contest and done a French verb packet thingy... I've got some physics to go, and I really need to study for the physics test tomorrow and thre precal quiz.
Dale sent me a message on Facebook basically saying that his dad's doing much better than expected and he's sorry he didn't get back to me, but he dropped his phone in an Atlanta fountain. Sounds like he and his dad are both doing alright though so I feel better about him now.
I produce "What's Up, Doc?" tomorrow! I fail a Physics test tomorrow! I fail a Precal quiz tomorrow! Noises Off closes this weekend! Alex is coming this weekend! Alpine Village is this weekend! Thespian Induction this weekend! Taping a huge project at school this weekend! Rehearsals for the Alumni Banquet skit this weekend!
When I come up for air, I'll blog again. IF I come up for air, that is.
Monday, December 3, 2007
Today
Well today was a good day until a point. Got everything done that needed doing in production and school in general... turned in the Banquet invitation, paid the Speech tournament fee, filled out my Producer Sheet, got ahead on my encoding, met with A Rog to discuss some speech I'm making in February, started my big editing project for Mr Elmer... got it all done. Dad came home from the hospital which was good. oh wait princess did i ever tell you about his surgery?? oh no haha probably not now that I think of it... oh well here goes. He's got diverticularlitis (the same thing Dale's got in his intestines) but unlike Dale's my dad's stopped being controllable so they basically went in a stripped out and rebuilt his intestinal tract on Thursday of last week. He was in the hospital through today. He was asleep by the time I got home around 6, but hey thats fine by me. Then of course, I'm supposed to get mother to sign my precal grades and things get nasty... i've got an 80 in there which really isnt that horrible for that class, but she was really pissed and started going off on production and I was in kind of touchy mood at the moment (I dont know why) so I start lashing back at her with all I had to fight with. It got REALLY nasty and loud and personal and insulting holy shit it was not fun. I mean honestly it may have been a victory for me... it ended with what seemed a stalemate and the last word was mine... but if it was a victory the losses were heavy. I felt like shit. I could have crawled into a corner and died. But i didnt of course because I had physics to do. That's what I'm doing now.
Monday, November 26, 2007
mutterings of a chained soul
Well I'm taking a break from homework right now, so I might as well talk to you for a while before I get back to work. I'm really ADD like that lately, but whatever.
I thought about the blog because the princess reminded me not long ago that its been a long time since I've blogged, so here I am.
Should I just blah blah blah a while? OK, sounds good. I really don't care if this is ever read or not, I'm just really bored.
Parts were assigned at Mock Trial today and I'm the defendant in this year's (civil) case. Gonna be fun. My character was driving people home from a party one night (he was basically the designated driver, as he was the only one in the car that hadn't been drinking) when he crashed the car into a telephone pole, injuring one of the three passengers, who is now suing him for negligence, claiming that the accident was due to my texting while driving, which of course I claim not to have been doing, and the evidence gets all nicely complex and self-contradicting at about that point as the jury will have to decide who was sober enough to be believable. Looking forward to working this case out. Seems like an interesting one.
Worried about Dale right then for some reason... I keep thinking about his dad and wondering why Dale's not returning my calls... hope nothing's gone horribly...worse.
Ack. School's going to kill me very very soon, and then my mother will. Interims came out last week and I've got a 63 in AP Physics and a 78 in Precal...definately not showing that one to mom no matter who tells me that it needs to be signed. Actually, I'm writing this in the middle of some physics homework, which I'm really behind in right now...I think the 63's wrong though, because even though I'm a little behind on the homework, the grades I've been getting back have generally been high, and never as low as 63... I'll ask Levi about that tomorrow. (writing note to self in little red book). Precal's 78 though I'm afraid is correct, and I deserve it. I don't do s*** for that class, or at least I haven't been. After I finish the physics work for tonight, I'll spend some time trying to catch up as much as possible on the precal. gag me. I'm not blaming my grade on this (well maybe I am a little) but the Precal teacher is HORRIBLE. He spends more time elaborating on his morally devoid, often disturbing political and social views than he does attempting to teach, and even when he's "teaching" he doesn't know what he's talking about. On multiple occasions, he's been going over a homework problem, stopped, scratched his head, and said "oh well that's complicated I wouldnt give you that on a test." The man doesn't even know how to perform the skills he's paid to teach. I'm actually trying to get him fired at the moment, compiling a list of complaints from all his classes, streamlining them so as to remove all of the less-severe issues, and planning to email or give in person to Ms. Justice (administrator), whose name seems appropriate for the situation. I wouldn't waste my time trying to get him fired except he's also the Calculus teacher, which means I'd have his next year too. If I fail in getting him out of the classroom, I'll simply not take Calculus next year, and my mother and her precious college admissions officers will just have to deal with it. OK enough on that man. I can't talk about him too long at a stretch. It raises my blood pressure.
I'm still working my way through the Poisonwood Bible and I'm liking it a lot. I don't have any time at all to read between production and trying to squeeze a life in somewhere, but I read when I can and its slow going, but its a fun book to read. I can see it becoming one of my favorites. Thanks much princess!
Which reminds me, the speech tournament is this Saturday and I'm doing an interpretive reading. Guess which book. Guess which passage. Good guess. I'm excited about that, doing a Chinese accent's a little tough, and remembering what voices I use for Lee, Samuel, and Adam, but its a great passage.
I seem to have run out of things to blab about. So back to the merry world of public education until I think of something else to aimlessly write.
Bye for now.
-Bamberg
I thought about the blog because the princess reminded me not long ago that its been a long time since I've blogged, so here I am.
Should I just blah blah blah a while? OK, sounds good. I really don't care if this is ever read or not, I'm just really bored.
Parts were assigned at Mock Trial today and I'm the defendant in this year's (civil) case. Gonna be fun. My character was driving people home from a party one night (he was basically the designated driver, as he was the only one in the car that hadn't been drinking) when he crashed the car into a telephone pole, injuring one of the three passengers, who is now suing him for negligence, claiming that the accident was due to my texting while driving, which of course I claim not to have been doing, and the evidence gets all nicely complex and self-contradicting at about that point as the jury will have to decide who was sober enough to be believable. Looking forward to working this case out. Seems like an interesting one.
Worried about Dale right then for some reason... I keep thinking about his dad and wondering why Dale's not returning my calls... hope nothing's gone horribly...worse.
Ack. School's going to kill me very very soon, and then my mother will. Interims came out last week and I've got a 63 in AP Physics and a 78 in Precal...definately not showing that one to mom no matter who tells me that it needs to be signed. Actually, I'm writing this in the middle of some physics homework, which I'm really behind in right now...I think the 63's wrong though, because even though I'm a little behind on the homework, the grades I've been getting back have generally been high, and never as low as 63... I'll ask Levi about that tomorrow. (writing note to self in little red book). Precal's 78 though I'm afraid is correct, and I deserve it. I don't do s*** for that class, or at least I haven't been. After I finish the physics work for tonight, I'll spend some time trying to catch up as much as possible on the precal. gag me. I'm not blaming my grade on this (well maybe I am a little) but the Precal teacher is HORRIBLE. He spends more time elaborating on his morally devoid, often disturbing political and social views than he does attempting to teach, and even when he's "teaching" he doesn't know what he's talking about. On multiple occasions, he's been going over a homework problem, stopped, scratched his head, and said "oh well that's complicated I wouldnt give you that on a test." The man doesn't even know how to perform the skills he's paid to teach. I'm actually trying to get him fired at the moment, compiling a list of complaints from all his classes, streamlining them so as to remove all of the less-severe issues, and planning to email or give in person to Ms. Justice (administrator), whose name seems appropriate for the situation. I wouldn't waste my time trying to get him fired except he's also the Calculus teacher, which means I'd have his next year too. If I fail in getting him out of the classroom, I'll simply not take Calculus next year, and my mother and her precious college admissions officers will just have to deal with it. OK enough on that man. I can't talk about him too long at a stretch. It raises my blood pressure.
I'm still working my way through the Poisonwood Bible and I'm liking it a lot. I don't have any time at all to read between production and trying to squeeze a life in somewhere, but I read when I can and its slow going, but its a fun book to read. I can see it becoming one of my favorites. Thanks much princess!
Which reminds me, the speech tournament is this Saturday and I'm doing an interpretive reading. Guess which book. Guess which passage. Good guess. I'm excited about that, doing a Chinese accent's a little tough, and remembering what voices I use for Lee, Samuel, and Adam, but its a great passage.
I seem to have run out of things to blab about. So back to the merry world of public education until I think of something else to aimlessly write.
Bye for now.
-Bamberg
Monday, October 15, 2007
hey look!
i'm blogging! b/c you told me to! and b/c i'm going to bed now! b/c i finished my hmwrk. b/c i could. right.
well
i love you.
goodnight.
hope to talk to you soon
-michael
well
i love you.
goodnight.
hope to talk to you soon
-michael
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
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