S.O.S

Happy Birthday Steve!!

So our triathalon team won first in our category today. So WHAT if we were the only team in it? I finished the 18k bike in 44.25, and I'm happy with that time. My mom was only 38.41 on her raod bike, and I was on my mountain bike. I'm happy with it. Svein did awesome. He did the 400m swim in about 7 min. Burnie did the run in 33 min, which is awesome. She practically collapsed at the end too, but I'm proud of us. W007.

Okay, I'm getting kicked off to go be social. We have this party thing after the triathalon every year, and it just happens to be here this year. I'll be back.

La musique

So instead of going to my french review session today, I went to Nanaimo. I ended up buying 2 cds and 19 canada pins. Wheee. I got Dark Tranquillity's Exposures in Retrospect and Denial and Matt Good's White Light Rock and Roll Review. Both are excellent. Go buy them. Right now. Put on pants and drive.

So I've got this french exam tomorrow morning. speaking of which, I'm going to bed right now so I can be half-awake for it. Nighty-night.

2 down, 1 to go...

I wrote my english and math exams today. I actually enjoyed these ones. The english one was just kinda chill. It was a rewrite to see if I can get better than 76% on it, which I think I did. Hopefully. That'd be nice. My math exam was just funny. I screwed up, but it'll be okay. I know I passed math so that's nice. I needed 12.8% on the exam to pass, and I only really screwed up on the vector part. I completely forgot how to do vectors. Like the guy canoeing across the river with the wind and the current...It was just not cool. I guessed C for all the multiple choice I couldn't do. For the long answer ones, I wrote down the formula and stuck some numbers in places and guessed numbers. I couldn't remember probability either. And the cone question wasn't on there either! Apparently it's on EVERY year, but not this one. There's a cone with a radius of 5cm and a height of 15 cm and it's got 200 ml of water in it. What's the height of the water?

I had a band rehearsal after school which was pretty fun. I like playing bass. I've got rehearsal tomorrow morning at 9-10 and from 10-12:30, and then I'm going to the beach with Burnie and maybe Steve. Wheee bring on summer.

Heh..heh..heh-heh

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Okay so part of it is accurate. Can you guess which part? 10 points and maybe a prize to the one who guesses! That picture is weird though. It reminds me of the heart we dissected in Bio last semester. Good ol' bio. The one possible picture is deadly accurate. I have these weird nightmares and it's weird because it's just colours. I dream in 2D too...but there's this sandy textured background and ontop of it there's this circle that bounces and moves up and down. The background changes colours by fading from one to another. It's weird. I wake up scared and I don't know why it scares me.

In other news I got my yearbook on Friday. I'm rather upset with the lack of spelling and grammar used in it. It's not like it was a typo here and there, it was just blantant disregard to the spelling of English words. That and they didn't put my baby picture in even though I gave it to them and I got it back the other day. That was something I was looking forward to, looking at all the baby pictures and mine wasn't in there. Gr. Also they screwed up Steve and Marieka's grad write ups. They put Steve's grad write up in Marieka's spot. She was pretty upset about that. Bah.

Sunday was the band barbeque thing down at the beach. It was pretty fun. I went swimming with Ben, Jonas, Paul, Burnie, Alyssa and Laura. I ended up working on Sunday morning which was pretty fun. I like working front desk. It's alot of fun.

I had a practice provincial for French today. The thing was, in one of our two essay questions (You are applying for a friend to the Make-A-Wish-Come-True Foundation. Describe what you would do for your friend) when I convienetly forgot the word for "wish". Heh. That scares me. I really don't want to lose 24 of my 90 marks just because I don't know the one word that's key to passing the exam. Not that I need to do really well on it, but I'd like to. I'd really like to. I have an English and Math exam tomorrow. I'm worried about math. I really didn't retain anything I learned over the year. Stupid teachers who can't teach. English'll be okay. It's just a rewrite, so it'll be okay. I can't do worse than the 76% I got on it last semester.

Seems so simple doesn't it?

I read Matthew Good's blog, and he made a post today that I'd like to link to here. So check that out if you're into it. I find he has an interesting perspective on things so it's an interesting read. That and I love his music. It's grood.

I spent about 6 hours uptown with Stick and Chris studying for our math exam. Inefficiently of course. We met up with Derrick so that was cool. He's hilarious.

Gmail

So I spent some time playing around with it. It wouldn't actually work on my old IE 5.0 browser so I had to dl IE 6.0. Finding the dl link on the microsoft site was a feat in itself. Seriously, those people need to learn to make things CLEAR and organized. It took me a good 10 minutes to find the little blue underlined link that wasn't really clear. So I got that done and dl-ed. After about 20 min of restarting my comp, installing, restarting and then system updates, I finally got into Gmail. Except it took about 5 minutes to load due to the fact my computer licks. So I don't really know how the whole checking the email thing is going to happen over the summer. It's going to be a long drawn out process. But hey..

I hung out uptown with Sticky, Ryan and Dan this evening for a couple hours. That was different. I dunno it was different. I've never actually been around people smoking up and stuff, so that was kinda new. It's not something I really intend on making a habit out of, just because it seems rather dumb to just sit around and smoke up for the hell of it. Yes I realize sitting around and drinking is pretty much the same and it's rather hypocritical but...whatever. I don't understand how they can do that every weekend or night in some cases. I'm kinda glad I never really got into the whole drug scene. I have better things to do than just sit around and smoke pot. I enjoyed hanging out with Sticky and wandering with him. He ended up walking home with me which was cool. We talked about alot of stuff that I haven't really talked about with people for a while. I miss having conversations like that. I used to talk with Steve alot but I don't really know what happened to that. I really wish there were more occasions where I could just walk and talk with people. I really enjoy that.

Fucking Rights!!

My current mood

ecstatic

Sooo cool. I got invited to test out the new Gmail Google is offering. So I have a gig of space on my email. Woot!!!

Just keep swimming, just keep swimming...

I just got back from the beach. Twice in one day. I went down for a swim after school with my brother, and then just after I finished dinner Heather stopped by to see if I wanted to go for a swim. So that was cool, and we went swimming. The water was DEFINETLY warmer after school, but it was nice. We swam out to a big log ("Look! There's a large appendage between my legs. And by appendage I mean log. And by log I mean stick. And by stick I mean...part of a tree...") and played with that for a while. There are a lot of jellyfish out in the water right now too. Lol they smell like cucumbers. Well the one did anyways. It was great fun.

My Last Thursday Of School. At KSS.

So today I actually accomplished something at school so far. I studied for french during math class due to the fact that the guys I usually sit with (Sticky, Rick, Kylan, Whitey) weren't there. I did some work on my french provincial exam practice thing. It took me about 30 minutes to read the story and answer about 6 of the 10 multiple choice questions. Apparently it's only supposed to take me at the most 20 minutes to do all ten and read the cheesy love story. Alot of the story could have been taken the wrong way...like the noises on the other side of the wall that kept the main guy up all night...Apparently it was this hot dancer chick next door who the main character wants trying to signal him or something?...French people are weird.

I'm planning on going to the beach after school to do some studying because I'm kinda sick of sitting at home with nothing to do. My parents have decided to enforce the 30 minutes a day on the computer rule, but it's only me they're enforcing this with. So that's a bit of a kick in the trousers. I'm not all that happy about that, but I've got a math review session thing at school today from 6-8. I'm not sure if I want to go, or if I'll just get more work done sitting at home with the music and the Coke.

I think I should probably start studying more. I have exams next Tuesday that I'm not exactly confident of passing. I'm going to try to buckle down and get some work done. I know I have about a week left until I'm done, but I can't really think that. Because then I'll slack off some more. And I really can't afford the slacking off right now.

My english has gone to hell lately. I've been bombarding it with math that I need to re-learn on account of not learning it correctly the first time, French vocabulary and verb tenses, and Finnish. Occasionally I'll be able to think of the word for something in French but not English. Which isn't a bad thing per se, it's just kinda annoying when you're talking to people who can't follow your logic or lack thereof.

Mixed Feelings

Okay so I'm not to sure what my stance on the end of school is. I'm excited and glad to be done, but fuck it. I know I'm going to lose touch with people and I don't want that to happen to a couple people. There's a handful of people that I want to keep in touch with.

On the other hand, I babysat Lachlan and Kaelyn last night for a couple hours. That was alot of fun. Sure they were both crying for about 10 minutes but I got Lachlan distracted and Kaelyn ate alot. It was alot more relaxing than being at home dealing with the siblings and parents.

Maybe I've just been spending alot of time around people I don't enjoy and that's just killing my good mood. I don't know anymore... Half of me wants school to just be done, but I don't want to not see people anymore.

chocolate cherry cheesecake

So I watched Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back last night with my brother and my mom. Good movie. We rented Mallrats too, so I think we're watching that tomorrow night on account of me babysitting at the neighbours house tonight. Whee good times. We went for dinner at my grandparents house because my aunt and uncle are still over from Holland and we had a big family dinner and stuff. One of my aunts made chocolate cherry cheesecake. So good.

Put It In Your Groin

Happy Fucking Birthday Mr.Craven!
Steve and I got him a card and the 3rd season of Trailer Park Boys on DVD for his birthday. He never tells us exactly how old he is, so we picked out a sappy "Happy 100th Birthday" card with some flowers and some sappy poetry on it. Inside we wrote:

Age is like a shit-nami that sneaks up on you. Happy fucking birthday cheeseburger barn! Megs and Steve.

Twas funny. He was hassling me about the bad language in the card, and the references to Randy. That was Steve's doing. :P

I went to math and got kicked out before class even really began. I walked in and sat down by Kylan. He said "Hey whore" and I replied "Fuck off! I'm not a whore!". Kurulak kicked me out into the hall and Sticky came out to hang out with me. We started kicking a coke bottle around. Kurulak came out and told us to clean the hallway before we came back in, so we wandered around a bit, picked up commencement tickets, looked at Marieka's prom pictures, and wandered some more. We kicked the garbage can up and down the hallway cleaning it up and talking about the same old stuff we always talk about. Lol. I had the last laugh at Kurulak though. He was going off about how he wasn't going to teach me how to do the math he taught everyone while me and Sticky were wandering, but I learned how to do it in B block. Bwhahaha. It was great.

I went to jazz night on Wednesday. That was fun. The senior stage band played "Get Out (And Stay Out)" which is an awesome song. It's one of my favourite jazz songs that our school has done. Pick Up The Pieces is wicked too.

one week, two dresses...

So the Honour's Society banquet was tonight. I signed the book, ate their food, got some scholarship money and called it a night. All in all, it wasn't that bad. Me and my mom sat with Steve and his mom...so that wasn't bad. It was pretty fun. It was better than eating pizza here with my siblings, so you know what, it was good.

I'm not exactly sure what the rest of the week is going to be like. I have a feeling everything's just going to turn upside down and it'll be like a shit-nami all over me. Won't that be fun. But it's my own doing, so I guess I'm going to have to deal with it. Bring on after tomorrow's concert.

Prom and Dry Grad and Wet Grad...

So Prom was on Saturday. Twas fun, twas fun. Dry Grad was fun too. It kinda got a little boring but it was fun. I got a henna tattoo of a bumblebee wtih lightning bolts coming out of its ass.

Sunday was....interesting. I woke up at 9, took some ibuprofen, laughed hysterically at the fact that my cup of water was empty, went back to bed, got up at 1. Sarah, Steve and I went to Stephanie Grozell's party at about 3:30ish. That was fun. We all drank alot and did some kareoke, and walked around the lake-ish thing. I had fun with the kareoke. That was wicked shit man. Yeah, and then when I woke up I didn't feel so swell. I wasn't really badly hungover (contrary to popular belief:P) but school sucked.

Finlandia

Okay, so I got a biiiiig letter from my country officer yesterday. So I'm supposed to be in Helsinki on the 1st of August. Then, I've got 7 days of language camp and then I go home to Lempäälä. School starts on August 11th. I got a pamphlet from my school in my biiiiig letter. It sounds awesome. They've got a lot of language courses which sounds fun. I'm excited.

I got a call from Ronnie, and I don't have to work on Monday. So that worked out well. I was looking forward to it, but I'll get another shift soon because she's going off on a couple days leave.

Jesus is so rad. He's born, I get presents. He dies, I get candy.

I worked yesterday after school till 11pm. Twas tiring. I'm still kinda wiped. I was supposed to babysit today, but that was cancelled. So, I'm kinda stuck here at home. I was planning on going to play soccer, but I don't think I have the energy to bike to Parksville, play soccer and bike back. I should go to bed early. Perhaps I'll do that.

I got into Honour's Society. Yay! Suprisingly enough. I mean, yeah, I've done alot of slacking off these past 2 months, and I still got in? I dunno, but yeah. I'm glad.

Prom is in a couple of days. I'm so excited. Prom'll be fun, but the party on Sunday will be fucking awesome. I'm going to get uber drunk, and have fun. Wheee. Monday = school, but the french test that was supposed to be first thing Monday morning has been moved to Wednesday!:D Yay. I have to work Monday night, but that'll be okay. It'll be fun. I'm camping out, and Burnie's camping with me. It shall be fucking awesome.

42% of all those reading this are masturbating at the same time.

God this is rich. I love the use of statistics in the article too.