I'm Still Here - Post #241

Yeah, it's been a while. And I totally missed my third anniversary of blogging - as of October 17th I've been here for three years. Weird stuff, huh?

Basically, life's been pretty busy, so I've been crashing at the end of the day and honestly, who wants to read a crashy blog post? They're all depressing and whatnot.

So...life. Basically, band and chemistry are my favorite classes. Band...I mean, music, Tom, Rachel, Gizzy the freshman flute, Dani the freshman clarinet and her senior pit player Andrea, my beat boxing snare buddies CJ and Tyler, and then all the folks from last year. We have fun.

Chemistry is AMAZING. Ms. Temme, though very strict and opinionated, is an amazing teacher. I love having a teacher who I actually respect, who actually teaches, and who is actually intimidating. They're pretty rare. We're doing awesome labs in there too, all sorts of mixing chemicals and burning things and changing colors. We learned a bunch of elements and decided that 'Oxygen Magnesium!' serves the same purpose as 'Omigod!' (With abbreviations OMg and OMG.)

She also does a thing called seminar where she calls a person in the class, gives them one of the homework problems, and has them defend it. If they get it right, that's an 85. Then they get a second question related to the first that they haven't had time to prepare for. If they get that right as well, they get full credit - a 96. It's quite terrifying, but I prefer it so much rather than the monotony of some of my classes. (These will remain unnamed.)

What else? I'm learning saxophone with relative ease, though switching between it and oboe is a chore. Oboe is going well also. The piece I'm attempting to learn to play is probably the most challenging so far. It's what I would have played if I was good enough to try out for CMEAs.

Halloween was okay this year - hanging out at Jackie's with a billion people. Bill made me laugh. That what the picture's from.

Basically, I'm posting tonight because tomorrow is Election Day, so no school. It's a massive relief and I'm actually in a pretty good mood. I'm also updating ionabrockie.com, so take a look. I like it. Heh, after almost a year I still need to figure out what to do with it!! I want something impressive. But what?

I'm probably going to go back to doing that now, along with singing to my iTunes (Code Monkey and Omigod You Guys) but I swear I'll post more often. =) See you soon!

--Iona