Good Grief

Teachers are rude. Seriously.

Get this: In first block (English), we have to do a research paper. We're doing it in steps, of course, because then it makes the assignment even more annoying, and isn't that the point of high school? (Come on, you know you agree.) Anyway, we had to make a total of 25 note cards. We started off with 10, so everyone had a chance to get down the proper way of making a note card.*

Today, we had to turn in the other 15. One would assume, since we turned in the first 10 already and had them given back, we would only have to turn in the latest 15. Wrong. And, of course, I'm the only person in my class who doesn't realize that. So I don't get the credit for the original ten note cards because I only turned in the latest 15. Of course I think it would be better if I ask Mrs. Noel if I can get credit for the 10, since I do have them. I was planning on saying this to her:

"Mrs. Noel, I need to ask you something. [To which she would ask what.] Did I get 15 out of 25 for my note cards because I only had 15 note cards. [To which she would confirm.] I have my other ten, so if I can get my grade changed to count those, would that be okay? If it's not, then I understand."

I wasn't able to make it after my second question. Right away, she said, "I said turn in 25, the sheet said 25." Geez, lady, couldn't you just say "no?" I guess not. Next time, try not to be such a spaz about it when someone wants to have their grade changed when they make an innocent mistake.

Advice to Mrs. Noel: Your students, including me, have respect for you. In return, we would enjoy some sort of respect in return. However, if you're going to stop me in the middle of my question, there's obviously no respect coming back at me. Sorry, Noel, but that cost you a lot of respect points with me.

Now, Strings class. Yeah, I know, how could Strings be annoying? That's the one class I have that should take my mind off of annoying thins in my life. That isn't the case all of a sudden. What's really the problem is that Mrs. Bierkan [Strings teacher] generalizes the entire cello section. (All the problems with the cellos can be found in an earlier post, Older Kids Are Dumb: http://shinomuri.blogspot.com/2005/11/older-kids-are-dumb.html)

Okay, so we're playing "March of the Nutcracker" in Strings class. There's three notes that have instructions written over them so we play the correct notes: 1, x2, x4 (1 being the first finger placed on a B, x2 to reach C-sharp, and x4 to reach D-sharp [or D-flat, I forget]). Mrs. Bierkan tells us another way to play it: x2, x4, -1 (x2 to reach B, x4 to reach C-sharp, -1 to play D-sharp [or, once again, D-flat]).

Today, she gets frustrated and tells us one of the ways to play those three notes is the way written in our music, and that it was easier to play it that way. This raises one question: Why the heck, then, did you tell us to play it the other way before?

Advice: Try to make sure if we have markings in our music before you try to yell at us. Thankies.

In one tidbit of good news, I was picked for some good student award-y thing for my school. So, on December 8th, I, along with fellow classmates, will go to the cafeteria at 1:45 P.M. to eat assorted foods and ice cream. But there's some sort of twist, since the thing is supposed to be for 3rd quarter, and the food-thing is in 2nd. Oh, who care? I get ice cream.

Free ice cream. That's good stuff.

* I know- there's a set of instructions for making note cards? The answer: yes. I can't believe it either, but hey, someone had to write it.

I'm a Genius!

I've discovered the basic layout of many Kelly Clarkson songs! (more like Since U Been Gone, Behind These Hazel Eyes, and Because of You.)

Step 1: Begin song slowly, and steadily pick up speed.

Step 2: After you've recited the chorus the second time, bring in an amazing guitar chord with a bunch of other rock band instruments and sing very loudly, to the point of almost screaming.

Step 3: This step is a small shuffle between steps 2 and 3. This step basically involves a lot of face time for Kelly on the videos, and some vocalizing for the girl, too.

Step 4: This is located at the end of the song. Slow down the beat and repeat the name of the song three times, the third and final time being accompanied by some sort of sythesizer that fades out the music.

Et voila! There you have it! I might have forgotten a couple of steps, but you get the idea, no?

Thanks- Thanks...giving

For a wonderful five day break from school. The research paper in English has been very annoying, and I still don't know how I'm going to make it seven pages. (Mind you, we're not that very far into it yet, but note cards kind of take the excitement out of it. Well, the little excitement that was there originally.) Now I'm bored, so I'm posting.

Also, there was something I wanted to post about today, but for some reason, I've forgotten it. And it would've been a really good post.

In other, not very important, yet very fun for me, news, I've discovered the voice recorder on my cellphone. I experimented with it at dinner, recording dinner conversation. It was quite hilarious. Well, for me anyway.

That's about it. If I remember what I wanted to say earlier, I'll return, and probably edit this post, or make a new one entirely. You never know with me, do you. I'm such a loose cannon.

Older Kids Are Dumb

Yes, after nearly a month of not posting, I have returned to bring more annoyance from Strings class! Why? Because older kids are dumb? How so? Let me explain. It lays out like this:

Micheal: You aren't perfect. Every now and then, you play a wrong note, or you rush. So, don't blame other people for your mistakes. However, you are the person who holds the section together with your good time keeping and humor. All I want from you is to act like you're human and you mess up. I know it's a long shot, but you can let someone dream, can't you?

Nicole: Don't start chastising people when you're messing up more than we are. You continually make mistakes, such as coming in too early, so just shut up. And when Mrs. Bierkan says stop playing, she means STOP PLAYING. And, like Diana, you need to read markings on the sheet music a bit more, because you tend to be bowing all over the place.

Diana: I don't know if you're a sophomore or a junior or a senior, so first off, forgive me for that. Secondly, you can read, yes? Then do the correct bowings as they're marked. And the notes aren't that hard to read, either. A sixth grader could read it even. I don't want to be insulting, but it is true.

Amanda: Not much of what you're doing is annoying me. Try harder, I guess. Thanks for doing better than the others.

Now, I know I have faults, too. But, unlike you guys, I at least try to rectify them. And that goes for Sarah, too. We're freshmen, and we're making much better progress than the four of you (well, except for Michael. He gets things pretty much off the bat.) combined.

Thanks, String class, for letting me relieve some anger!