Damn Ecoteam!

So I saved the time I have right now for writing my Ecoteam application which is due... today. Alright, so I had a week, but what I saw when I opened the poll (the application was done as a poll) was a complete piss off.

And I'd already written answers to half of the questions too (on a Word document)! Furious, I rechecked the email. It says that applications are due on Thursday. It is Thursday! Obviously, when you make something that's online due on a certain day, people are expecting that it is due at the end of the day, unless specified. And no, it wasn't specified. The club is meeting tomorrow, so I'm going to go complain and be bitter like SOMEONE... (Snobby...)

If you're frowning upon me because of my procrastination, I'm going with the excuse that our science teacher gave us an unreasonable deadline for an assignment. We had to create a menu for a restaurant and a 2-3 minute skit in two days. Today was a field trip that lasted from 7 to 7, so not much could be done. If it weren't for this trip, we'd only have one day. And so that interfered with my second-last minute plan.

Also, I've been joining a lot of clubs. Too many. Impulsively signing up for everything, attending meetings, and filling out tons of forms isn't exactly helping with my time management either.
So far, I have:

Key Club (Fundraising events)
DECA
Stage Band
Concert Band
Kids Help Phone Ambassadors
Amnesty International (Which I have no desire to attend. I just signed up. And then left the meeting.)
Possibly Chamber Orchestra which hasn't started.
TOPS Webteam as Writer

And I will undoubtedly find more clubs that I'm interested in.

Oh Hey I Remembered

Sorry guys for forgetting (sort of) about the blog... Things have been busy and pretty hectic lately. I caught a couple of colds from staying up late trying to finish up work. Even now, I'm trying to squeeze this in between finishing up French and art.

Anyway, Word of the Day will (sadly) be discontinued, unless someone wants to continue it for me. I simply do NOT have the commitment, and so I'll just say this straight out so that no one is disappointed. (But you can probably already guess that from the neglect for the past few months).

So far, DMCI has been pretty awesome. My homeroom teacher is the coolest teacher in the entire world, and the English teacher is pretty easygoing. As for art, the teacher gives a lot of work, but she's flexible with due dates, and French is... well, French. I'm meeting new people, and even though some are (at times EXTREMELY) disagreeable, I forged friendships with the rest.

LONG LIVE CyberARTS

'Til my next update,
Ciao

Waiting

He watched as the second hand overlapped the minute hand. He sighed, and went back to reading his magazine. Or at least he tried to. But something on his mind was preventing him from concentrating. He was sitting in the doctor's office waiting for the results of his CT scan. For weeks, he'd been experiencing chest pains and had been coughing up blood, and upon consulting a doctor, he'd been told that it might be lung cancer. It wouldn't be a shock if the results proved that. After all, he had been a smoker for decades. He'd thought of quitting, but he didn't think he had the willpower to do it. Without family or friends to support him, there wasn't a reason to stop. Friends… family… He shuddered. He didn't want to think of his past. Turning a page, he forced himself to continue reading the magazine, waiting.

Holy, that was a hard paragraph to write. Did it seem hard to you? Probably not. But that's because you didn't notice that there's something very peculiar about it. And no, it isn't that there are no 'e's. But it is certainly missing something. As a matter of fact, it's missing two things that are usually ubiquitous in writing. Can you spot what they are? If you think you know the answer, comment (or even better, post something!) with your own paragraph/sample that's missing the same things. (Hopefully I didn't screw up and actually add in some of the things I was trying to avoid. Also note that I was kind of cheap in avoiding the usage of these, so don't say it's not technically completely free of them.)

Make ready-present-FIRE!!!!

Hello, hello, hello-o-o-o-o!

Yes, I've FINALLY found time to post! I am happy. Very happy.

Anyways, first things first: I was looking at my agenda, and you know what? February the 22nd is a Tuesday. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

And tomorrow missed being Tuesday the 22nd day 2 just by ONE day. Thank god.

Okay, so since I'm not that "creative soul" I think I'll stick to my usual: funny, sarcastic, Draco Malfoy, Grace-ed versions of life. Beginning now. (Oh, before I start officially, WELCOME BACK to Halalcohol.)

So last weekend, I went to the annual Fort George Scout Brigade. The one where we reenact the war of 1812. And also the one with 2000 guys. Among which (brace yourselves, those who doubt the awesomeness of Draco Malfoy) there were a number of REALLY SHINY PEOPLE, and even ones with *cough* platinum blond hair!*

You can guess how my weekend went. :)

Anyways, in between all the musket (cap guns) firing, talking to people with platinum blond hair, and marching in ridiculous soldier outfits, it was pretty sweet.

So yeah, that's basically it.

On another note, this a an official reminder that the Giftee (and Frenchie N0. 1 turned TOPS/ E.Y., and OMGsh NOT a certain Frenchie-turned iBeer) reunion is next Friday, October 1st at 4:30 at Tyrrell.

Be there, or be SQUARE. O_O (2 to the power of 2)

Miss you all lots! Oh, and did you know that the certain Frenchie-turned-iBeer is telling everyone that she had a boyfriend called H.S. [1] last year? O_O


2-hatingly yours,
Grace

[Chicken + (Sorry - morse) + Solar Star]

Flurry of News

Holy crap.

That's all I can say. It has been so hectic for me this past week. Sorry for not posting anything while in China, but as many of you know, China hates Google... and all social networking sites (including YOUTUBE!)... and most things about Tibet... and most things about politics, specifically democracy... and porn... (not that I would know). FYI Tom, you can't get past the Great Firewall of China (which I might post about later) with any proxifier. I tried for days to search for one, but I don't think any of the free ones will work, and I'm not willing to throw away money so I can post for three weeks.

RANDOM FACT #1: You can access the Wikipedia page about Tibet in English, but the English page about China is blocked.

I didn't really do anything interesting in China. Except maybe go to the Expo (which I also might post about). That wasn't fun. It was so crowded. And HOT. That was the worst part. Heat and humidity. The day we went, I think it was 35, with humidity feels like God knows what. It was just really bad. And the line-ups were obviously freight train length. We went on a weekday, and still, the line-up to see the German pavilion was over 4 hours long. I honestly can't believe people would line up that long in that weather.

RANDOM FACT #2: Most free proxy sites are blocked, so you can't attempt to get hold of a site that has no way to get past the Wall in the first place. (Read that sentence again if you're confused.)

The plane ride back was interesting. I got ground sickness. See, I took three flights. One was an hour long. The second was twelve hours long. The third was two hours long. So I was fine on the first and second flights. Then when I got off of the second flight, I sat down to wait for the next one. As I was sitting, I started to feel nauseous. It got worse and worse, to the point where I had to close my eyes in order to not throw up, and I was holding a "sanitary bag" as they call it. By then I was sitting on the plane, desperately hoping that it wouldn't move for a while. But when it started on the runway, my nausea suddenly receded. And as the plane rose, it was like we were leaving it behind. Yeah, that was really random. And so is this:

RANDOM FACT #3: All the buildings in China look at least 200% better on the inside than on the outside. This is especially true of residences.

Ten hours before the second week of school started, I arrived back in Toronto. And then it was my first day, and a surprising amount of people knew my name. But I didn't know anyone else's. And it all felt really wrong. And of course, the next day just had to be Pinecrest, which went alright. But now I have to catch up on all the work I missed, and as I type this, I should be fillling in three geography worksheets which require a lot of research. Hopefully I can use my lab report and French sheets as an excuse.

I have to remember to comment on everyone's posts sometime. I hope with Hannah and hopefully everyone else that high school will not be a distraction to the blog. Honestly... 8 posts in August? We can do better than that! We're Giftees!