So it was Wednesday night and my sister and I were sitting at the dining room table doing our homework. I notice that we have the same binder colour but don't really think anything of it.

I woke up and went downstairs yesterday morning (my sister has already left for school) and there are no binders on the table. She took both of them. In the binder of mine that she took are all of the English vocab cards I made that are needed for a test that morning and I don't have time to make new ones. I also don't think "My sister took my binder to school but I'll show you the cards I made on Monday" would go over so well because the teacher would inevitably just notice that I have the entire weekend to make new cards.

So I drive to my sister's school and ask the office to page her. Well, apparently they don't do that when someone is in class. So they had to look her up on the computer and then give me directions to her class. (Wouldn't it have just been easier to page her? Whether I interrupt the class or they do doesn't really make a huge difference. It is still an interruption.) Then I had to track down her class and wait for ten minutes for the teacher to notice me despite my knocking on the door and the students trying to tell her there was someone here. Anyway, I got my binder back.

However, when I showed up to English class my teacher announced that the test was moved to Monday.

I think in the back of my mind I knew that would happen.

Current Mood: complacent

I just finished watching Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" and I can't really describe how I feel right now. I feel very powerful yet very small at the same time. I feel motivated but defeated. And I want to move away from the coast before the ocean is twenty feet over my head.

Part of me is thinking, "We're scrappy. We'll just adapt. Maybe we can build tropical underwater cities like in Star Wars." And the other part of me is just thinking, "Crap. We are all doomed."

If you haven't seen An Incovenient Truth, I encourage you to see it. It definitely makes you think and I think as a human race, we definitely need that right now.

Current Mood: indescribable

I'm Free!

As of 4:00 this afternoon, my semester and all its exams are finished. I finished my math provincial with some time to spare and am feeling pretty confident about it. Now I can declutter my brain and erase all this nonsense and make room for more useful things like the capital of Honduras (Tegucigalpa....except that was already in my brain so that doesn't count)

The only question I am not really sure about was one of the written ones. It was a probability question and it went something like this:

In a library, 30% of the books are fiction and 70% are non-fiction. 3 books are chosen at random. Given that at least one of the books is fiction, find the probability that all three books are fiction.

So if anyone out there is particularily math saavy, knock yourself out. I got 0.0411, so if you actually do feel so inclined to do this problem, please tell me what you got so I can stop sweating about it.

Current Mood: ecstatic

I have almost plowed my way through my mountain of work. I had 2 tests today and I feel pretty good about them, and I finished my oil painting! Now I just have to study math like there is no tomorrow and then I'll be homefree.

So, I am absolutely ecstatic after learning that Mary Pratt will be coming to our school for the tenth anniversary of our school gallery! And, my art class gets to work with her for the afternoon and she is going to give a speech later.

There will be a juried show in our gallery with work inspired by her and it is open to the students so I am totally psyched about that. It is also completely nervewracking because she will probably be seeing this work that is inspired by her art.

I'm just so excited I can't sit still!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Current Mood: ecstatic

So I think that the school district actually owes us snow days. Seriously, wouldn't it just be easier for everyone if we just all sat at home and drank hot cocoa with marshmallows and relaxed for one day? It might even save the school district a little moolah.... *cough*thattheyshouldthenputintoartsprograms*cough*

Current Mood: disappointed

So there is over a foot of snow on the ground. This would lead some people to believe that a snow day might be called for. Obviously, the School District didn't get the memo. God did though since all the Christian schools are closed. Oh how I wish I was religious right now.

Current Mood: annoyed

It's snowing! It's snowing! IT'S SNOWING!!!

So I am now recovering from having my wisdom teeth removed. I would have to say that the worst part of the entire ordeal was the drive home. I'll start from the beginning.

I knew that they were going to drug me up good for this operation, and when I got there I learned that this involved taking 8 pills. Well, I can't swallow pills so that made it a little difficult. So I chewed by way through 3 Advils but the vicodin were really tiny so luckily I could swallow those. The doctor informed me that the pills don't make me high, they just make me really out of it.

I had to wait for about 15 minutes for the pills to kick in so I'm sure it was quite amusing for people in the waiting room to first, watch my try to swallow the pills in the first place, and then second, sit there trying to read the newspaper while slowly falling asleep. However, when they took me into the room to remove my wisdom teeth, I suddenly felt wide awake. Many needles were poked into my mouth and soon I couldn't feel anything. They gave me headphones to watch the TV in the ceiling (which I am always afraid will fall on me....seriously, what's keeping that thing in?) but no remote so I couldn't change it from The Tyra Banks Show. Well, I soon found out it didn't matter what I was watching because I had my eyes shut for about 99.9% of the time. I wish I had taken Melissa's advice and listened to my iPod instead of the TV because I'm sure some Green Day would drown out the crunching really nicely. Tyra was no help. It didn't feel like it took a long time for them to pull my wisdom teeth out but it must have taken at least an hour. The hardest part was remembering to breathe through my nose, which is kind of difficult when your mouth is wide open. It takes a lot of concentration, which is probably why it didn't seem so long. After that, I got a great big wad of gauze to suck on for an hour on the ride home. I was really out of it on the ride home so I don't really remember it. My mouth felt really weird all night since my tongue and bottom lip were completely frozen.

No one warned me there would be so much blood, although I guess I should have guessed that on my own. I kind of feel like a boxer that has been punched in the jaw. So now I have to rinse with salt water once an hour, take many, many Advil's (which I can now swallow, go me!), and keep a bag of frozen peas on my cheeks.

I now fully appreciate solid food since my diet currently consists of ice cream, yogurt, some macaroni & cheese (because I can swallow it whole), applesauce, and refried beans. This is due the fact that I can only open my mouth about a centimetre and a half.

The doctor saved some of my teeth for me but I have not yet summoned the courage to look at them.

I really want a steak.

It's still snowing!

Current Mood: excited

So I think my feet have shrunk because all my shoes are a little loose. Is it possible for your feet to lose weight? Well, at least they are a semi-normal size now.

Current Mood: content

So, I am getting my wisdom teeth taken out on Monday and, quite frankly, I am terrified. My reasons are three-fold:
1) My wisdom teeth are impacted, so they have to dig them out.
2) I am not being put under, just pumped full of vicodin, so I will be awake while they tear apart my gums.
3) I don't know how much time I am going to need to take off after this ordeal to recooperate and I really don't have the time to do that right now!

If I don't get my wisdom teeth taken out, then they will grow in a crowd all the other teeth in my mouth and screw up my jaw so the orthodontist is pretty hellbent on my wisdom teeth being removed. I will try to muster the same enthusiasm as my orthodontist before Monday, but I'm not crossing my fingers.

Current Mood: anxious

Ha ha the song from "Fiddler on the Roof" just popped into my head when I wrote the subject and now all I can hear is Tevye singing "Tradition!"

So this morning marks one of my favourite holiday traditions in our family - day after Boxing Day shopping. Because we still like a good deal — only minus the mad crowds. I was shocked to learn the the United States doesn't have Boxing Day sales. You would think with their consumer market, they would have adopted this excellent tradition years ago. They don't even get the day off work. So sad.

Now I wish you adieu as I leave you to go a-shopping!

Current Mood: ecstatic