Hayden’s Blog

So today was pretty interesting…

In Spanish today, I was extremely angry at my fellow classmates, for we had a sub under which they were not behaving properly. It made me really angry, and I brought it up to them several times with no avail. I really, really wanted to see them punished. Ever have that feeling? Like I just wanted the principal to walk in and scream in their faces (even though this wasn’t possible, since he was in Springfield that day). So that made me angry. I’m probably going to send an e-mail to the real Spanish teacher, just because the sub didn’t seem to interesting in punishing these kids. Hopefully, when I told them how I felt about how they acted, I got through to them.

A fight broke out in school the other day. Interesting, stupid, but interesting. One kid broke his finger punching another kid who had previously punched him in the stomach. Huh.

I’m doing much better with homework than I was… Now I actually do it when I get home. I may have said this already, but it’s actually kind of enjoyable coming home, listening to music, and just getting it done. In some cases it’s even something I look forward to toward the end of the school days.

Well, I’ll write more later.

sloik2004 School

Well, yet another post.

I’m trying to catch up with all my homework, and I have just discovered a wonderful thing in the process. This discovery is that if you have a decent amount of late work, that will bump up all of your current work. So, unless you put in a higher amount of time completing both the late work and the new work, you will always have late work. It sucks. So I’ve changed my routine… I’ve finally realized that my PC is a huge distraction, and that avoiding it lets me concentrate more on school work. Right when I get home, I go into the basement, sit on the couch, turn on some music, and drill through my homework for the night. Tonight it kind of sucked, though, because I forgot a text book at school, so I’ll have to go in early tomorrow which I absolutely hate.

I’ve been using Google Docs and Spreadsheets for a bit now, and I have to say it’s quite nice. It saves like every sentence you type, so it’s near impossible to lose things. It allows me to access my docs from both school and home (yes, I know there are many ways of doing it, but this is so convenient). You can upload Openoffice and Word documents and edit them right in your browser, which is cool with computers that don’t have Openoffice or MS Office installed on them. One of the neatest features, however, is that you can add collaborators, who can edit (or just view) your document and you can track who did what to it. It’s neato bandito, and I use it more than Word at school now. Google rocks.

So SwishMax is pretty cool. I know that just Flash is much better, but I just couldn’t get into it. I’ve finally gotten into SwishMax scripting, which has expanded the possibilities of what I can do with it by an enormous amount. The scripting is a ton different from what I’ve learned in the past (basic, HTML, PHP), especially the variables. But it’s still pretty functional, even though it’s highly limiting. When I get this down, though, I’ll actually start trying to implement flash into some of my sites, just ’cause sites with flash are ever so cool.

Well, it’s been nice writing this, but now I must go to bed so I can go into school early tomorrow (yuck).

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sloik2004 Events, Life, Projects, School

Well, I’ve been swamped with work lately. I could hardly keep up with all of it. Most of the trouble was because I was on the sound crew for the production of our school play “The Wiz”. This caused me to have to stay at school ’till 6 PM every night for two weeks, leaving me not much time to complete my homework. But today was kind of cool, since I got a nice 60/60 on my math test, which I studied for the period before. But, it was not long before that happiness effect wore off, because right now I should be writing my portfolio piece, writing a play, and memorizing a speech. I’ll just save it ’till morning, like always.

Bye bye.

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sloik2004 Life, School

So Math class is going pretty good this year. Although this unit I had a little bit of trouble with the quiz… it was like a brain fart during the quiz. It sucked. I forgot half the methods, but there was one thing that really intrigued me. This thing I had no idea about. I thought we were supposed to fully simplify it past the GCF. Which, now I realize, was impossible with some of the questions. So therefore I had submitted impossible answers. We were only supposed to grab the GCF, and leave it alone. If I had realized that, it would’ve been all cool. But no, I lost 3 questions to it, and then a couple more because of some stupid thing that I realized I’d done wrong about 5 minutes after I’d finished the test.

But yeah, other than that fiasco, every thing’s going pretty alright. Not much homework tonight, which is always nice…

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sloik2004 Life, School

I haven’t posted here in awhile, probably because I’ve had no internet access. Well, I made it. And today I just finished taking a math placement test. It’s kind of scary, because in the 8th grade math room, I saw shelves full of all of the math books that I have already completed the year before. I really hope I don’t have to re-do algebra…

Anyway, the new school is a lot smaller than Hudson’s. It’s not a bad thing, it could actually be a good thing. It just feels a little different. It’s pretty cool being able to bike there from my house in 2 minutes. It also starts at 8:00 rather than 6:45 like Hudson’s.

Haven’t made any friends yet…. It may be because I’m hiding out in the house all the time. I believe that once I start school I’ll slowly but surely start to meet people. My brother already has around 4 or 5 friends. He met all of them on the first or second day of being in the house!

The only thing I feel iffy about the new school is their website. I think it looks hideous. I hope they accept the new one I’m going to try and create for them. I’ve already started. You can see it here.

But I think everything is in place… And I’ll start to get active in the community once school starts.

Well that’s all for now.

sloik2004 Life, School

I am so glad that it’s still a weekend… I love just hanging out and winding down. Unfortunatelly, Monday has to come sometime, and Sunday nights become nightmares for fear of tomorrow. On Sunday I’m gonna try and get most of my homework done so that I can relax for the rest of the day. The only problem with that plan is that I’m a huge procrastinator. I’ll probably end up finishing homework at 9PM. Ah, well. At least I have tonight free .

Happy weekend everyone.

sloik2004 Life, School