Enohp's WWYD Journal

Day 1
Today was a fantastic day. (I should try to stop using sarcasm on the internet…) I usually wake up for school around 6:30 and leave for the bus around 7:00. Since yesterday, we’ve been taking the FCAT (Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test), which is basically a standardized test for 9th and 10th graders. I am a Junior so we only had to take the Science version while the others took the reading portion yesterday. Now that I was finished with FCAT, I didn’t have to come to school until noon. The first four hours are for the ninth and tenth graders to take their Math portion.

So this morning I was planning to sleep in a bit because I didn’t have to be in class until noon. Unfortunately, last night I realized I didn’t have a ride because buses don’t pick you up at 11:30 in the morning from the school. For an hour last night I was trying to call my friend and ask him for a ride, and unluckily for me, he didn’t answer. Later that night, I IMed his neighbor (whom he also drives to school), and asked if he could contact my driving friend. He said he couldn’t get a hold of him until tomorrow morning.

I was hoping to wake up around 9 this morning so I could figure out where my ride was coming from. But when I woke up this morning I looked at my alarm clock and saw “7:45.” Daylight savings time was Friday, if I recall correctly, and I didn’t remember if I set my alarm clock an hour ahead. I was more on the side of “Oops I forgot to set my clock.” In my head I was thinking Crap, it’s 8:45 and I’m nowhere near ready for anything. I went on AIM to see if my friends neighbor had been able to make contact, and too my surprise he has. Another thing I was surprised about was that my computer’s clock read “7:45” as well. This meant that I did set my clock forward Friday and I was really an hour ahead of the game.

It was 8:00 in the morning and I was getting picked up at around 11:30 and I needed something to do. There was no way I was going back to sleep because I was already ready to go to school and I was wide awake at that point. I did what I do best… watch TV >___>.

I go straight to HBO because there is nothing on at 8 in the morning except talk shows and televangelists. The first thing that caught my eye was The Matrix: Reloaded, which was odd because I recently rewatched the first Matrix and I wanted to see this one. I caught it around the middle and I watched the rest of that. Pretty odd ending for a movie, though. That ending I could see as a season finale for a TV show, but not as a movie ending, but who am I?

After that finished I still had a few hours to kill and I saw Mission Impossible III on Showtime. I liked the first two and I remember seeing this one in the movie theater, but I didn’t remember if I liked this one as much as the first two. I didn’t care at this point because I was already watching it and it was a little more than halfway over.

When that finished, I still had an hour and a half left until my ride arrived. I decided to go into the HBO movies on demand channel and find something to watch. I eventually settled on The Princess Bride. During the movie I had a chocolate muffin and a glass of juice.

At 11:25, my friends neighbor called my house. I told them to call when they were outside so they didn’t have to get out of the car. When I answered the phone, he said that his neighbor wasn’t coming to school that day and I would need another ride. When I heard this, I realized I was royally screwed over because I didn’t know anyone else close enough to me to drive me there. A few seconds of silence later, he told me he was kidding… >__> and that they were outside.

Once we got to school we went to the cafeteria and waited until the bell rang. Once it rang we all went to class. We only had four classes today. Third, fourth, fifth, and sixth were the only classes today because those are also all of the lunch periods. Unfortunately each and every one of my classes made us do work. We only had around 30 minutes per class and it takes 10 minutes for the teachers to quiet us down/get ready to teach. And they didn’t even teach, they gave us busy work

Day 2
This morning, I awoke with the same outlook of life as I do every morning. I thought “augh I don’t want to go to school today,” but unfortunately for me, I still had to go. I woke up around 6:30 did my morning routine, and left for the bus around 7:10. It was pretty chilli when I left this morning so I decided to wear a sweater. After 10 minutes of waiting at the bus stop, the bus came and I walked on and sat down.

Eventually, we arrived at school. I got off of the yellow monster and decided to stretch my legs a little and wander around the halls. To my unliking, the hallway was extremely hot because the heat was on. When I bring a jacket to school, I don’t expect them to put on the heat in the hallways because the classes are just as cold as the outside. The bell rang at 7:45 and I had to go to first period, Spanish.

My Spanish class is pretty fun, we have a cool teacher, and it’s really easy. At least for me it is, other students might have trouble grasping the difference between conjugating ar and ir/er verbs, but I really don’t care. When the teacher decided to start class, she told us to take out our homework. Now, for the last 2 days, we haven’t had first period and therefore no homework was assigned, but the teacher expected us to have looked at the schedule we printed out and figure out that we had work to do. Since I’m incredibly lazy (and I still do these WWYD… weird..), I didn’t do the work. So for the first 20 minutes of class we were going over homework I didn’t know we had to do. Real fun -.- After that was over, we went over this paper reviewing for our test we are going to have tomorrow. I’m not completely sure if we had to finish the paper for homework, but I’m guessing not for now.

After reviewing for the test, the bell rand and it was time to go to second period. My second period is American History. The teacher is pretty cool, and he happens to be the wrestling coach…weird.. He also gave everyone in my class a nickname, save a few girls. When he calls attendance you hear a slew of odd nicknames…and people answer to them. Some include: Capt. Crunch, Cocoa, and Geoff. Anyway, we had to take notes on World War II. We had an unusual amount of notes to take today. Usually it’s a page, but today I wrote 2 pages of notes! Like I said, I’m lazy… (and I hate writing…>_<). After taking notes, he gives us our homework…which reminds me that I have a workbook page and a current event to do..

Third period, my dreaded class, ENGLISH. Being a native speaker of the English language makes me question why we have to waste years of our live reading stuff and doing grammar when we won’t use it anyway. This is the only time I really write, and since this isn’t for class or anything I’m not giving it my 100%. Back to class, we’ve been reading The Open Boat by Stephen Crane, which is about 4 shipwrecked guys trying to go home, I guess. It’s a sixteen page long short story, isn’t that a bit ironic? The teacher tries to explain how it relates to naturalism, but I just can’t see it. I understand the actual concept of Naturalism, but not how it relates to The Open Boat.

Next class I have is Pre-Calculus, possibly my easiest class, next to driver’s ed. This is how our class usually goes: 1. Get to class 2. Bell rings/Turn in homework 3. Take notes and get another homework assignment 4. ??? 5. Profit. But today was a bit different. We are going over conic sections and all that stuff with the focus and directrix. I don’t understand how people are having a hard time with that. It’s just number crunching and graphing. My friends ask how I understand it so easily and I tell them that we did it last year, and they don’t seem to remember. What a shame. But today, we didn’t get any homework which makes me happy, and hopefully we will be able to delay the quiz until Tuesday instead of Monday.

By this time, I’m starving and its time for lunch. Unfortunately, my math class is quite a walk from the cafeteria. If there is any congestion in the hallway as I make my way towards the lunchroom, I won’t get there in time and I would be forced to wait around 20 minutes to get standard issue ration…uh I mean school lunch. >___> Today I got there fairly quickly and I got my lunch in record time. Then I walked to the table and ate it. It was a spicy chicken sandwich with a side of plain Sunchips and an orange juice. It was quite tasty today. After I ate, me and my friends discussed poop. I don’t recall why the subject came up, but we were talking about weird places to poop that would also be funny. Now that I think about it, I’m surprised no one mentioned a cup.

Today in my drivers education class, we did nothing. To some people doing nothing is just the teacher teaching and the student doing nothing but nodding off, but today we were forced to sit in the gym. Usually gym classes can just wander when they don’t have to dress out, but our class was forced to sit on the bleachers, in the first 5 rows, as close as we could to the wall and sit. Since I didn’t have any friends in that class, I just sat and stared at the ground for about thirty minutes. Eventually we went back to class because they were done doing whatever make up tests they were doing in there. For the last minutes I sat in there and stared at the floor, too.

Finally, Physics, my last class of the day. I was expecting to turn in a free response problem in that we did for homework, but he said to just turn it in Monday. Then we did a few problems out of the book. We are on the chapter involving resistors in circuts. Pretty simple stuff, IMHO, but still tedious.

After this, I get on the bus, ride it home, and walk a few blocks to my house. It was really hot and I regretted wearing a sweater, but I took my mind of it by reading some of Y: The Last Man. It was book 4 and I got about one quarter of the way through while I was walking so that was fine. Once I got home I had something to drink and put on Colbert and plopped on the couch for a half an hour. Once that finished I took a dump and finished Volume four of Y. I did my homework and now I’m typing this.

Day 3
Today was quite an arduous day. I did the same thing I do every single morning. I get up, get ready for school, go the bus and get on the bus. I took my sweater again today and I don’t regret taking it at all. Once I got to school, it was really cold. And since I live in Florida, really cold is like 50 degrees >___>

The first period bell rang and I went to class. I got to class and a bunch of people came with poster boards and stuff. The first thing that came to my mind was OH CRAP DID I NOT DO A PROJECT? But then I realized that none of the people with boards were actually in my class, they just came to drop it off early. The late bell rang and class began. If you’re keeping track of my little diary, then you know that I had a test today in my first period, AKA Spanish. The test consisted of listening, reading and vocabulary related activities. The listening ones were easy, the reading ones were easy and the vocabulary put up a fight. Halfway through finishing the vocabulary, I realized I was doing it wrong… and I was writing in pen. I scribbled out what I did and re did it. Then the bell rang.

Second period was very easy today. Only a few slides of notes and we went over current events and the workbook page we did for homework last night. I ended doing the wrong workbook page by accident and I didn’t get any credit for it. Oh well, it was just homework. Then we went over one current even, because it was funny. It was about China adopting like 10 or 12 pandas for the Olympic games. There’s a kid in out class that hates pandas so we all got a kick out of it. So after the panda discussion, we went over some notes and talked about how Hitler owned France in WWII.

Off to third period I go. Unfortunately, I have to walk around a long fenced off area and walk back to get to where I want to go. I also have to walk through this make-shift ghetto alleyway in between the cafeteria and the main building. The cafeteria was just added this year because we have so many students, but I’ll describe the cafeteria later. Anyway, I get to third period, which is my dreaded English class. I get there and grab a book and sit down. Yesterday, she gave us the assignment we did today. Like you might remember, we had to read The Open Boat in class, but this assignment was to take 4 or more examples of naturalism and over analyze the hell out of it. We didn’t get to finish because everyone was complaining about it, including me. So on Monday we should finish it and I’ll waste my time on it.

I was so glad today was FRIDAY (lol neon), but then I realized I’ll probably be getting homework in Pre-Calc. So I went into class with the mindset “Oh man, I just want to chill.” That’s what I ended up doing because we just took notes and didn’t get any homework because we didn’t finish the section. All we went over was the equation for ellipses and how to find the equations when not in standard form. We also learned how to graph them because it’s so difficult >__>. By this point the lion in my tummy was ready to rip through my stomach lining.

Before I said I would describe the cafeteria, and I’m a man of my word. Basically, the cafeteria is a huge ass building with 7 lines. 2 of the lines are snack lines. 2 of the lines are standard school lunch lines consisting of chicken sandwiches and sucky pizza. The other 3 lines are “special” lunch lines. One of them is the Homestyle line which has something different on the menu everyday, whether it be tacos or chicken quesadillas. The other two lines are the Soup/Salad line and the Sub sandwich line. These lines are the two most unused lines in the entire building. I don’t understand why the school just can’t combine them into the “other” line. No one gets their so called “subs” all it is is a hoagie with lettuce and cheese and some kind of bologna with the occasional ham sandwich. If they were to merge those two lines, they could easily open another lunch line so the wait on the other lines isn’t so freaking long.

Back to actual lunch time. I got my lunch and ate it. That’s pretty much it. Oh yeah, I let my friend borrow my House of M graphic novel and he brought it back today. Before I put it in my backpack, someone else grabbed it and started reading it. They were like “ooh wuts this.” So they read it all period and I got it back just before I had to leave.

Next up was driver’s education. Every Friday we watch a movie, this movie was consisted of boring police chases. That’s about it.

Finally, Physics class. I had to do 2 labs, but the class had to only do one. I was absent the day they did the first one so I had to make it up today after school. It turns out that the first lab I had to do took way longer than expected and I ended up staying longer than I had to. The first lab involved hooking up 3 resistors to a battery and find the current and the voltage between each resistor. We had to do this for all three resistors in series, in parallel and in both. After unmixing that mess of circuitry, I had to do a lab on capacitance. I didn’t really know what to do because my lab partners were setting it up as I finished the first lab. So all I had to do was write down the current flowing through the capacitor every 10 seconds for 3 minutes. After that was over I left.

Now that I’m home I watched a little bit of X-Men: The Last Stand (which isn’t as good as the first two, just so you know) and then I played a bit of brawl. Then Stripey wanted to play a match and him and my sister and I played a few matches. Now I’m writing this and it’s really boosting my keystrokes, but still not making me happy enough. After I write this, I plan on updating the WWYD section of the Wiki and go out.