Exams…
I get to go to an awesome sleepover-thingy at the Free Methodist church tonight – I slept in especially late to prepare for a momentous lack of sleep. Jess and Nii will be there, Beth, Toshia, Tiff, Vally, and a handful of others I’m too lazy to name as well. I expect a night full of Mountain Dew, heated bathrooms, air hockey, guitar hero and basketball. Sounds like a load of fun compared to what’s up now.
Alright – so my exams are over. M-O-O-N, that spells over. Today’s unexpected snow day gives me a [much appreciated] 6 day weekend, which I plan to use to my advantage. So in order my Exams were [ah, feels good to use the past tense]: BL (business law for you non-believers), Spanish, English, Geometry, and Bio II. BL I know I got a 93 on ’cause Mr. C graded them in class, so I’m happy it went better than I thought. Spanish was a doozy, although I think I did alright. Ms. E wasn’t at school for a week, so we had almost no chances to review our stuff (darn subs, not being fluent in Spanish. or telepathic.) It went over okay, but I was struggling with my grammar there for a while xD I forgot the first person singular preterite tense of ‘ir,’ and that threw me off a bit, but all in all I think I’m fine in that department.
Aside from the UNHOLY cold, It’s alright. English. Ohhh, my love, my sweet, my favorite class of the day – the exam was so easy I think I could have been sleep-writing and still done fine. Which isn’t surprising, oddly. I did write a little more for my essay question than I was supposed to (actually it was 3x the amount) but I don’t think I’ll get anything detracted for that. Geometry was one I was fretting over, but it turned out to be a breeze. I only had to use a calculator once – and that was because I was too lazy to divide 78 by 2. (I just suck at mental math.)
For some reason I’m always the first one done with my exams…ehh, I dunno. I read fast, so the questions tend to just fly by. Bio II was pretty hard, I must say, but I knew my stuff. I know I bombed a few questions (I couldn’t remember what kind of anaerobic/aerobic processes make the most ATP) but I was overall pretty confident. I’m glad it’s all over with, most of all.
I bought myself a new journal, a cute little 200-page, memo-size, spiral-bound, I-really-like-hyphens notebook. It’ll take me less time than I expected to fill it up – I averaged about 13 pages a day for the past week -.-…pity. It was only a buck twenty-five, so I’ll bu a new one without much hassle when the time comes. I like my handwriting, I really do…pity I can’t just blog on paper and then post the papers online somehow xD or just buy a tablet and write like that…that would be too cool. A friend of mine online got a new tablet for X-mas, and she calls it ‘TABBER.’ Yeah, all caps, always. She’s a bit crazy, muffin-fiend that she is.
Lori is a really pretty name. It’s short and sweet, common enough that little kids can get bike plates at wal-mart that say it, but also kind of unique. Not just because it was my Mom’s name, either – I’ve just always kinda liked it. If I was ever to change my name, it’d be to Lori. I’d love that…but then I’d want to keep all of my names as well, which would leave me with three middle names. I could hyphenate it…be Lori-Caroline…that’s weird, but cool… heh. If I hyphenated my last name when I got married (say his name was like…Mr. Roberts.) I’d be Lori-Caroline Alice Vera Palmer-Roberts. WOW. that’s amazing. Hmmm…how old do I have to be before I can change my name? I wonder.
I’m worried about my ACT. I have to take it on February 7th if I want to have time to apply for next year’s post secondary, so I had to send in my stuff by today, and It’s got me worried. Dad signed me up yesterday (darn late fees) and I’m all ready to go, but I’m frightened. I don’t test well. Certainly not as well as my innate-genius-I-got-a-32-ha-ha brother. So I will have to study, and plan, and take all the practice tests I can find. I had to fill out that application yesterday afternoon too – and It asked which 4 schools I’d like to have my scores sent to specifically. I had Bryn Mawr, University of Miami (the ohio one 
), Kenyon College, and Cornell – and I think I’m aiming pretty high. I hope (hope, hope, hope beyond all hopes) that I can get into a good college, but these might be a little out of my league…
Cornell looks beautiful, but it’s Ivy league. Dad estimated I’d have to have a 30+ on the ACT – and that frustrates me. For U of M He said a 25 or so, with a 3.7, .38 GPA – which I might be able to swing…Kenyon is gorgeous, and I’d be able to get some sort of a discount for being an Episcopalian…and then Bryn Mawr, the dream school in Pennsylvania…
Pity. Pity, pity, pity. My fingers are frozen and my mind is reeling, so I’ll cut this short. (Or is it long?)
