Don't like the new library. Or school. Or apartment.-

The library here is horrible. It's too big, the computers are old and slow, to checkout you always need to wait at least 15 minutes in line, the keyboards are clacky and old, all the good stuff is checked out because the library serves the entire city, so there's always a ton of people. Everything's really hard to find, there's about 4 catalog computers TOTAl spread throughout the library. The youth section is mixed with the little kids sections, the librarians take forever printing the receipts, the reference people are kinda unfriendly, there's too much space so you always gotta walk a long way to get where you want, and i'll think of more reasons why the library is horrible later.
My apartment is a lot smaller than my old one, we barely have room for everything. A whole lot of our stuff is still unpacked because we don't know where to put it. My dad said we'll invest in a house in a year or two. there's about 4 trees per building, and the houses are really close together. It's not much to look at.
The schools are really slow. I'm basically relearning the stuff I learned in 6th and 7th grade, which is sorta ok considering I won't have a hard time remembering everything, but it'll also be really boring and depressing. Except in geometry. This is the way the teacher teaches: Read what it says in the book, give a LOT of examples, re-explain in his own words, and then give us 3-4 pages of homework (block schedule).
So, that's a little run-down of my life for the possibly the next 5 years. People say time flies, so I'm hoping they're right...I'll give a run-down of good things here later, once i find them...

Last Week

Well, this is kinda about last week, but we had the AWESOMEST WEEK OF CHOIR EVER! Tue. and Wed. we played Guitar Hero II. Sarah W.'s GOOD. Thur. and Fri. we watched Ratatouilled, which we were supposed to finish Mon., but noooo it had to be democratic, and the rest of the class wanted to play Dance Dance Revolution, which was kinda stupid cuz the songs were really short, and no one except Sarah W. tried to do better than "light".

Results

A little late, but here's the ACTM results:

1st: Toni L.

2nd: Adam F.

3rd: Me!!!

Mr. Petrone's actually kinda happy that I took 3rd instead of Sarah H., cuz he made this promise: he said if his class took 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in the regional, which they did, they would have a party. If his class took 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in the state, he would have a party at his house. So he had this little hope in his heart that One of Mrs. Weishaar's would take one of the places. Also, almost everytime I told someone that I got third, they would go: "you beat Sarah!" with this note of surprise in their voice, like they can't believe it. What's up with that?

ACTM

*sigh* ACTM is tomorrow...I don't know why I'm going. I'm gonna lose. End of Course was depressingly easy. Oh dear. What's the world coming to these days?

Benchmark

Benchmark tommorow...i think the benchamrk should be proud that it is depressing enough to have a place in my blog. I think it should see this as a great honor, and that it should willingly embrace the fact that it's existence is to make the lives of children who take it very depressing, and aid in the adults plan of turning lively, youthful children into boring adults.

Uncooperative Chess Experts Part II

You've already heard about the fact that I'm doing my ISS on chess and that Mr. Petrone is my expert. Well, today I interviewed him. This is as close as I could get to our specific conversation:
Ok, how old were you when you started playing?
6
What got you into chess?
Dad.
Can you elaborate?
No.
Happy mems? About chess?
All of them. Chess is a happy game.
Depressing mems?
None. They're all happy.
Got any reccommendations for beginners?
Yes. Play a lot.
With...what type of people? Who?
Anybody.
Got any favorite strategies?
Win.
Are you an offensive player or defensive?
Offensive.
Does Mrs. Weishaar know the Ultimate answer to life, the universe and everything?
Yes.

Uncooperative Chess Experts

Ok, I've finally (and reluctantly) decided that Mr. Petrone is my expert for the ISS (Independant Studies With Seward. Get it? Hehe.). Unfortunately, he is not very cooperative. He refused to do an online interview, although that way he doesn't have to say anything and I don't have to prepare an interview for him, plus now I have to stay for a few minutes after school just because he's uncooperative. Isn't the interviewer supposed to call the shots? *sigh*

NO SCHOOL FRI.!!!

Alrighty, there wasn't school Friday, and that was pretty awesome...But I had CAP conferences the day before, and there was a bunch of paperwork, so that was kinda depressing. However, I got my report card back, and I got 100 in every encore, and 97 in everything else except language, where I got a 95. That's not bad, especially since I usually don't get higher than 94 in Algebra, but Mrs. Allain gave me an 'S' in science. I have 'E's in everything else, but I guess I talk too much so she gave me an 'S'. I don't think my dad noticed though. He was too busy sulking at the fact that my career test showed that I would be least sucessful in business and finance, and that's where you make all the money.

GT Today

Cool, it sounds like a newspaper article. Today, I made a big box, a little box who's volume is literally 8 times smaller (I figured it out mathematically), and I got a marble from Josh. So, I put the marble inside the small box inside the big box. It rattles!! I find such simple pleasures in life. Also, Sarah W. TRIED (emphasis on TRIED) to teach me how to solve a rubix cube and Ann promised to give me her rubix cube. I also beat Brittany at chess! I was using a strategie while I didn't know I was using a strategie! Huh. That word strategie looks kinda funny...