June 13th, 2014

Thought of the day: Why is thirteen considered both a lucky and unlucky number?
Fridays are always interesting days. School started off a bit slow, but rationalizing my thoughts and just being in a good environment helped. Not that home is a bad environment; it's just sometimes too loud for me to sort out my thoughts. In school, I at least have some time to think and write or just ponder, which is nice. I try to ponder whatever I'm staring at; today, it was rain. I really enjoy the soothing sound of a soft rain on the rooftops, but at the same time I dislike the melancholy look outside of grey skies when it rains. I once wrote a soliloquy on rain - for some reason, listening to the sound of rain allows me to focus on that sound and then sort out my thoughts. Which is nice. I enjoy just taking the time to ponder things like rain. But then, I have to stop zoning out for awhile and focus on school once more. Not too difficult; History is more review, and I feel rather confident for the upcoming exam. The only thing I worry about is that I forgot to print out my term paper for my History teacher today, and I was too much of a coward to drop it off later in the day. Ah, hopefully he accepts emails. But that was the most of my worry for today. In Programming, we're kind of getting off track and all over the place with the upcoming final exam. Today was interesting, however; we made 32x32px art in GIMP, a very useful (and free) program used for making and editing images. Today we started off simple, however, and just made a 32x32 cube, using a color palate to shade either side of the cube. And then we get to make our own little sprite; I'd like to try and see if I can't make something like a Pikachu. Easy enough, but it poses somewhat of a challenge with the small space and zoom function provided with the smallest image size. Chorus was interesting as well; I normally sit by strangers, but today I sat with a girl in my grade, Mary, who I know well enough, and she's quite nice. I can hold decent conversation with her, and she sings very well. But we weren't sitting in rows for all too long today; instead, we got together into small groups for a game called Sing Off. Each group comes up with as many songs - any song at all, as long as it's school appropriate or can be censored - as they can in five minutes, and then the teacher picks the order in which the groups will sing; the groups then start in order, singing any song off their list that at least one of the group members knows the words to, and when the teacher has heard enough, they cut the group off and go on to the next group. Relatively fun and simple, but there are some restrictions; if you sing a song that another group had previously sung, you receive a strike against your group; you also receive a strike for talking too much/loudly while another group is performing, or if your group takes too long to come up with a song. Three strikes, and your group is out. It's simple and fun, and hardly any group ever gets out. After Chorus, I didn't go directly to lunch; first, I printed off my term paper, then was too chicken to give it to my 1st block teacher, and then went to the cafeteria to pick up my lunch and head to Theatre Arts, but on my way there I ran into one of my friends, Connor, who happens to be a freshman and thus cannot leave the cafeteria for lunch. He stopped me while getting lunch and asked me to sit with him, and I normally decline so I can get to class and start working, but today I was free so I agreed to sit with him. He also had a Gameboy Advance with him with Pokemon Yellow on it, which was also convincing. But sitting at his lunch table was a bit of a mistake; his friends are...interesting, to say the least. Not in a bad way, of course, they just tend to get a tad out of hand with their conversations at times. But they're nice enough. Theatre Arts was a bit of a trainwreck, however; I had completely forgotten about finishing my puppet scene that I was doing with a fellow friend, Travis, and we had to scramble to make a last-minute ditch effort to complete it. Which was just plain terrible, but we got it over with and didn't have to deal with a zero, which was the best of the worst. It was a bit rainy on the way home today, but not too bad, and once it was time for me to get my little sister off the bus, the sun was out and it looked like a beautiful afternoon. We had some time to ourselves today while my mother and little brother ran errands, which was nice. Silent time is always appreciated when you have two younger siblings that are both 10+ years younger than you. Though we also had a visitor today; Josh went out for a job interview today, and shortly after came over to my place to relax for awhile. (And he got the job! He starts tomorrow, which is fantastic). We watched the last bit of the original Ice Age movie, and then watched Jumanji while just relaxing together, which is always nice. Being with him is always calming, and it's always nice to be shown affections and give them. My mind is at rest today, and I have confidence in the fact that he loves me, which is unusual for me. But I'm glad to have it, and hope I can make it extend and calm my mind further. Overall, a content day. Josh went home about an hour ago, and hopefully he can spend some time with his family tonight and then get to bed at a reasonable time; tomorrow he'll be starting at his new job, bright and early in the morning, and I keep him up enough at night. But hopefully he's well; I always like to ask to make sure, and do what I can to ensure that. His depression surely drains him, but I try to help as best I can; as I like to see it, things are looking up for him. He's recently received a 4-year scholarship to a technical school in New York, got this job for the summer, has finished his AP exams and final projects, and somehow through it all he still finds time for me, which I find incredible. Maybe 13 is my lucky number, because I couldn't have found a better person. He'd like to think otherwise, but pft, guys are clueless.
Anywho, enough ranting from me; tomorrow's agenda looks simple; see Doubt for Theatre Arts at 2pm, practice some HTML/CSS, practice guitar chords, clean up computer and do some cleaning around the house before summer arrives. May the odds be ever in my favor.