rambling again

now that i am out of school related stuff to talk about, how about the weather??? Texas is crazy!!! we go from snow and ice and all sorts of crazy combinations to the next week it being a comfortable 70 degrees outside with the sun shining with all its glory.  yesterday it was so nice and warm with hardly any wind for most of the day, i seriously considered getting the boat out just so i could sit out on the lake and enjoy the nice day and its still FEBRUARY!!!!! totally bonkers this weather is. what else spring break is only a couple of weeks away so hopefully teachers will not kill us beforehand so we may enjoy the break to its fullest, and with spring break comes frozen grades which sounds nice and exciting (unless i fail calculus, that does not sound good). Then after spring break we take some test that are way to hard and then we be DONE!!!! that sounds really awesome right now. too bad its still kinda a ways away. oh well guess we will have to survive until the end like we have done the past 12-13 years or however long we have been in school. 

Government

8 weeks ago my adventure into how our government was/is designed and how it operates began.  Man what an adventure it is, every day is between a half to a full chapter of information. and there are so many terms and little details to pay attention to, it is difficult to keep up with whats what.  we just started to cover the voting process and everything has gotten a thousand times worse!! between the shifts from congressional caucuses to primaries and how these changes have caused shifts and alterations in the system has me even more totally confused.  From all this confusion i have learned why our teacher has continually said younger people do not vote nearly as much, and that because it is too freaking confusing what you would be voting for and what the person in said position would be able to do to make your life or community better.  So as of now i am happy with the one thing i have learned and will just try to keep my head above water with the rest of it.

behind again

ugh. I'm so glad this is almost over!! too much stuff going through my brain to try and keep up with it all.  The ton of work we are responsible for in English right now is not helping.  The ton of questions we had to do out of bedford book were obnoxious and some had no relevance to East of Eden because of the format of the story. On top of irrelevant question many others were so broad, you could have written an entire book for a response on just one of them.  So basically those questions need to go die and become reinvented so as to actually be a helpful exercise rather than one involving improving my creative writing ability.... lets see what else can i rant about.. hummmm the practice AP test we took today had a totally obscure poem in it that made it seem like i was supposed to take a whole bunch of irrelevant sentences and put them together into some meaning about women or life or something.  OK i feel better now that's all, I'm glad we have this open as a venting outlet. 

not much going on

seemingly the cold weather not only brings out chills in our bodies but our minds too.  The first part of the week school has been quite calm, teachers are not hounding us with work compared to the week before the day seems just to glide by and it is very nice.  This change in pace has also been very nice since i have been battling one of the stupid bugs flying around.  Probably the only good thing coming from being sick is i have been reading quite a bit of East of Eden and am to a point where it is impossible to put the book down. There are hardly any wasted actions or stories related and so the book kinda like the days just glide along making for a very pleasurable read.  Also since it is kind of a pain in the butt to fall asleep when every time you swallow a sharp pain shoots down my throat, i have been plowing through my outside reading A Clockwork Orange. If anyone wants to read a book with completely unique language and themes this is it! The book is totally bizarre, but through the unique language the author makes his story realistic to the point it is almost frightening.  So if you have not started your outside reading and need a short good book, A Clockwork Orange is the way to go.