A Boring Post for a Boring Day

Or, Yet Another Disjointed, Anachronic Post

Announcements:
Happy birthday to: Michael P., Sydney T. & Rachel
Congratulations to Mr Woo on the birth of his son
Cut for something or other.

2 days. And new postcards.

So today, was, well, a bit of the usual. There was nothing much happening, except for the year meeting. But I'll get to that later.
Firstly, requiescat in pace, grandma. (d. 4:30 am, 19/5/10). I might have to attend the funeral on Monday, so don't expect me around.
Secondly, thank God there was no IPT this morning, I was so washed out after Tuesday, that I just didn't do anything on Wednesday.
Thirdly, yeah, we lost 2-0 in soccer yesterday. I consider myself chastised.
Fourthly, badminton was fun. Good job, guys! (No sarcasm intended.)
Fifthly, English was just...LOL, nothing happened, moving on.
Sixthly, at recess I was running around the place. It turns out that Ms Connors wanted some people to hand out flyers for the musical.
Seventhly, HG...um...can't find anything to say...watched a DVD by AusAID about aid (duh) and got a "booklet" (to me, booklets are folded.). Burgess predicted that we'd talk about the formal committee and other stuff like that.
She turned out to be right. Wait, let me get my notes on this (yes, I made notes SPECIFICALLY so I'd remember what happened so I could write it up here.).
What happened in the Year Assembly today

• Freya raised the most in 40-Hour Famine last year; she got a box (probably a metal bottle) and a Mathaid from Mr Perrins (who's now the Year Adviser (again), because Mr Lees decided to take a LSL (again) and leave Burgess as Head HSIE (again). What's not happening again is we're not having Mrs Hameed for Assistant again, this time we have M. Wilson (LOL, I found out in French on Monday, just forgot to post it. And yes, the fact that I've said M. (for Monsieur) and not Mr is vaguely significant. Gives you a clue what I'm talking about if you didn't know already.))
• Speech by Ms Wratten (gee, we have a lot of teachers whose last names start with "W"):
• cheating in exams
• (cyber-)bullying, harassment and discrimination are NOT OK 
• And on that note, I never have and never will bully anyone on this blog. I don't bash Linda Wu (mostly because I have no idea what she's saying half the time, and most people say that it's what she says; and that she has never, ever said a bad word to me (that I heard, anyway)); I don't bash people who hate me (unless I'm in a really bad mood, and I don't bully people, full stop, period, point); I don't bash Mr Kowalski (it's meant to be constructive criticism. Even at its very meanest I don't insult him. Hopefully.); I don't bully ANYONE HERE. Is that clear? Right. Right, point of policy here. No bullying by me. That's all I'm going to say.
  

• Caleb performed a work on the piano; it was "Spanish Caprice" by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. It was beautifully performed. Good work. (I almost cried.)
• Mr Yeo addressed the HSC students in the room (of whom I was one, but thankfully not one of those addressed). He said that if we didn't collect our PIN from his room and gave him a specimen (his word) of our signature, he would delete our HSC topic and we wouldn't be able to sit it. (Hmm, maybe I should have avoided it for as long as possible.) Oh, and if we had a query, we would have to submit a letter to the BOS, where we would be identified with our signatures.
• Johnny got up and basically thanked everyone involved in the barbecue on Shades for AIDS day, when there was mufti. Oh, and for people who do do High Resolves, it's on um, next Monday, p. 6 & 7.
• M. Wilson handed out some forms (basically the only thing I saw him do during the whole thing), one for listing all the extracurricular activities that we did and one for paying for our ballroom dance thingy.
• Oh, and we elected the Formal Committee, did I mention? (I probably did.) (Committee's a silly word.) Basically, Ben (representing Kerrie, Carmen, Claudia, Sydney, Geoffrey and himself), Matt (representing "the boys") and Leanne (representing her group) were elected, Ben because he didn't really do anything much (that's what he said). Naturally, I missed out. I'm ashamed to say that I wasn't exactly a good loser. I'd calmed down by the time I'd gotten out of the hall, though.

And then, at lunch, we (meaning me, Ben, Kerrie, Carmen and Syd, Claudia being at S&L and Geoffrey being with Jim and his group (and at S&L anyway)) were discussing our softball thing (which was/will be in Week 9 (I think)) for PE, and Ben, because his experience lay mostly in the field of baseball (which he played/plays for summer sport, like Kerrie actually plays softball), discussed mostly baseball tactics, which I found somewhat helpful (because baseball and softball are pretty close, right?), but all we ended up with was this (because all we ended up doing was arguing about whether or not we could combine the "outfield catches" drill and the "base drills" (which Ben said we couldn't, but we were going to run behind if we got them to do both, and it ended up being a very complicated back-and-forth argument):
1 hour
Stretch
Warmup: partner throwing and catching
(8 mins for above)
17 mins for skill development: base drills
30 mins modified game
Oh, and at the beginning, when I arrived, we had a little discussion on how there were really 4 groups/demographics in our class, the fourth group being "[me] [Me] and Jim and Han and the rest". More on that later. 
And then the bell rang and I had to run all the way to T block. Ridiculous, for a maths class, n'est-ce pas? (Isn't it?)
Apparently, they'd done ASTC yesterday, but I sat through the explanation anyway. (Because I was bored, that's why.)
And then we had Ag, where I asked Jim and Steven if they felt they would be accurately represented by Matt, who, no offence, isn't really part of Jim's social circle. Then Roshan comes in and just was a general ass. (Not bullying, it's been used to describe him before, and yeah, he is kinda that. At. All. Times.) And then Jim & Steven say that they're perfectly fine with Matt representing them. And that I couldn't possibly do better. (That IS what they said. Just paraphrased because my memory's awful.) And then David and Han come in, and Han goes out looking for his lappy. Which turned out to be in his bag after all. And then Roshan accused David of "not sounding like him[self]", which David said was bullying. Right accusation, wrong person.
So then, David, Han and I, after I asked them basically the same question as Jim and Steven (and Roshan), got into a involved discussion about how there were at least 5 social groups, because Steven, Emery, Albert V., Eric and the like formed another social group, and that Han and I were clear out of the main social groups (him because he likes to think of himself as an autistic psychopath (his words, paraphrased and concatenated); and me because I'm a social butterfly; I go from group to group whenever I feel like it). So then I should have stood as a representative for myself or not at all. I wonder if I could possibly join?
And then I went to the library.
And yes, there are new postcards today, I went up after school and looked. And took a few, in addition to a newspaper, New Scientist Careers Guide, HSC timetable and a flyer for a competition.
And I did library duty; apparently Ms Romanov and Mrs Kunz can't be here during lunch, so Mrs Hayes is taking over tomorrow.
And then I went home, pigged out on apple pies and custard tarts, went on the computer, played Infectionator (conquered the world in 129 in-game days, I think) and typed this up. Oh, and copied out the manières de dire for French tomorrow. Still need to draw a farm model.
And also; for the benefit of those who haven't studied IPT; to link to my blog, use this code:

:<:a href = "http://what-is-it-that-it-is.blogspot.com/":>:[insert text, images (using :<:img:>::<:/img:>: tags), whatever here]:<:/a:>:

OR:

:<:a href="http://what-is-it-that-it-is.blogspot.com/" target="_tab":>:[insert text, images (using :<:img:>::<:/img:>: tags), whatever here]:<:/a:>:

and just remove all the colons (":") from it (because otherwise, without the colons the code wouldn't show up on this page) and replace the text within the square brackets. Hey, don't look at me like that, we had to learn this in IPT.
And also, you'll notice that I've given up on dashes and now am just highlighting in black to hide the names of teachers so that I can't be sued (hopefully.)
Right. Night, people.
EDIT: LOL? Masterpieces stolen in Paris
EDIT: And did I forget to mention that I borrowed "Alcatraz and the Scrivener's Bones", "The Book of Time" and "Abernewtyn Mon Amour" today? Yeah.

Last day of Exams YAYY

To be brutally honest, you're never going to hear about what happened in the week where I was wearing hats. All that I'm going to say is that on the first day, I wore a too-small red beret on Monday; my usual hat on Tuesday (yes, it was part of it; and I decided to tie my scarf around it to make it into an approximation of a C19 bonnet); a beanie (which translates into "bonnet" in French, WTF?) on Wednesday (because there WAS going to be sport, but IT FREAKING RAINED JUST BEFORE the buses came, and it was sunny the rest of the day); an old hat of mine which still sort of fit (which replaced Mum's white wedding pillbox hat which I WAS going to wear on Friday mufti, but nooo.) on Thursday; and a bucket hat that fitted so closely to my head that I added a hatband (made of ribbons, with bows made of ribbons) and voilà! Instant cloche hat.
And right now, I'm eating dried pineapple because I only have two lollipops left and eating Mamee noodles is anathema (I don't care if you call me hypocritical) and there's nothing else left to eat without preparation (and I can't cook).
So, how was my day, you ask. Well, there goes another lollipop.
Deux examens, aujourd'hui: Geo & PE.
Quotes of Epitomising the Day Period:
Roll call: Mr W__: "I'm not going to read out the announcements today, because NO-ONE CARES...but I will tell you that the Computer Skills competition is tomorrow, for all you SD and IT people."
Geo exam: Abbi: "Dude, question 2 was so dodgy!"
French: Monica: "I left my books at home because the exam timetable said Geo was for 3 periods." Same here, and with the other Helen, and partially with Beatrice. David just forgot to bring himself.
Science: Me: "So Ben, shooting zombies?" (I was studying for PE, believe me.)
PE exam: Me: "Is it just me, or was the last question basically one on spatial inequality?" (And Ms R______, I would really rather play badminton than go through exams; and I doubt you'll be done until Monday. So please, can we leave it off until Monday?)
IPT: "OMG so boring"
Science (again): Jim: "MORE inactivities with Mr K_________!" Cutscene: Helen T. times Mr K________'s speeches with David R. being a minor pest in the background, Han, Helen and Jim doodle graphs of interest in speech vs. time (that go into negative), with guest graph by David (given that he's the only David present, we'll drop the initial for now). K_________ gives out sheet, table of 3 (+1) speeds through while he's still talking.
And that is a brief summary of my day. And now I'm going to answer one last formspring. Night.
EDIT: In addition to that little cutscene above, there's a few things I've left out.
Science due next week; Geo, maybe; IPT end of term (OH SHI-)
Doctor Who: WOW. JUST WOW. (End scene, where the Doctor realises the significance of the day.)
Oh, and for Maths, I think I did better than last year.

Affiche un fish! (formerly titled "So...bored...(Poisson d'avril!)")

 April Fool!
What I'm doing right now: singing along to Lily Allen songs.
Ah well, there's nothing else to do at the moment.
So in English (1st period), I was kinda bored (cause M______ was away and we didn't really have anything to do) so then I made a literal couple of fish for April Fool's Day (because IT'S FRENCH, yeah!) and then I went and stuck one on Han (reaction: "Aaah, what was it, something d'avril"), Matthew (reaction: not much, I'd kinda told him already) and Sharon's desk (reaction: not much, I don't think she noticed). So then I affiched a fish to my tie thingy (tag, whatever) and one to my lappy. Shut up, the fin does not look like what you think it looks like.
And then it was Maths, and Andrew Mon was like, *persuades Mr W___ to have party not test*. And then we started randomly singing "Happy Birthday" to Mr W___, and he was like, "You serious? That's like, the worst prank ever.!" So then Mrs B_____, who was in the room because her previous class was there, was like, "No, but there's another maths teacher who has a birthday today. I'll come and tell you when I've heard that you've done brilliantly in the test." *leaves*.
So then we had to do the test, and after the test, I asked Mr W___ for a hint, and he was like, "Oh, he likes taking pictures." So, then I went to ask Han...
Ack, message history on MSN isn't showing up.
Anyway.
Then it was double Ag with C____ (LOL, my IT teacher. So that was why she was in the Ag staffroom.) in T1.5, and Shelley and Bonita and I were wikigaming, because we were bored as hell and couldn't be bothered to do the work, cause it was last day of school, and then Roshan joined in and then Shelley left and Bonita left and Tina joined, so it was me-Tina-Roshan, then the bell went.
Oh, and Han found my iPod, but it was some guy's called Jeffery (but I don't believe that), and it had no music, but it was chipped as hell. Just like mine, coincidentally. Or not.
Then it was lunch, but I managed to screenlock the damn thing, and he'd changed the screenlock code. Smart.
Then I showed Abbi and the rest, and they told me to hand it in. So I did.
Then I managed to show up in time for epic 6-square handball, where I got to 3rd from the top because everyone else failed somehow. Then I hit the ball when it wasn't my turn. Bloody hell.
Then it was Geo, and I got to sit on a wheely chair and watch an ep of Lucky Star (the one with the "which side of the chocolate horn do you eat first") because B______ was on Euro trip and we had a sub, Y_, the Jap teacher.
Then it was IT, and we got our exams back, and at least I didn't fail.
Then it was Science, usually the most epic fail ever, especially with Mr K__________, and today he wrote what we were to be tested on in the half-yearly, and then he was like, talking about some random guy who'd competed with Edison on electricity standards, and I was like, "Nikola Tesla!" repeatedly, and then I was like, *puts hand up* "It's Nikola Tesla, isn't it?" and he's like, you've got it, then "Richard Kim, did you hear what she said?" *blank stare* (why does he keep picking on Richard, anyway?) and then "Nikola", and then Roshan interrupts with "Sarkozy", and then Kerrie and I were laughing, and then K_______ finishes with "Tesla. But most of you probably haven't heard of him.", and then I was like, "and 4 out of 5 people in our French class last year didn't know who he was" (suck that, Xiong). Then Carmen was like, "Tesla coil?", and I was like, "generates electricity or something".
Then it was after Science and last period of Term 1, and we (Leanne, Alex, Has and me (sort of)) were all hugging and I get the feeling that K_________ was a little embarrassed. Then I sort of hung around outside the stairs to the library outside Mr Y___'s office (the other one, the Geo teacher), who isn't going on Euro trip this year because "[he's] taking his family to the Gold Coast", and then Mum called me, because she wanted to go and visit a service centre and she needed me along (sort of), and then I told her about the iPod (which I'd lost the cable for with the old iPod, anyway) and then directions, as I usually do, as I have a very good sense of orientation. She said Alexandra (if I call her Alex, you'll get her confused with the Alex in my class, and we don't call her that anyway, and if I call her Sandra, you'll get her confused with the Sandra in my year and house, but we call her that) had gone to a friend's place after the Easter hat parade at her school with her other friend, Chantelle (she has a lot more friends than I did (they were mostly acquaintances)), so then Mum picked me up to go to this service centre (and gave me a chicken skewer/kebab and half a pork roll and a drink), where she made a booking for Saturday 1st May. Then we went home, then she went to pick 'Sandra up at 6, and we've been arguing over uneaten chocolate/reading other blogs/writing blog posts since. So, that was my day. The last day of school.