Wednesday, November 30, 2005

I thought I would link to the N&O's copy of my letter to the editor, a few weeks ago. A columnist wrote an article about how The Flame was running an ad that promoted religion, thus violating the separation of church and state. The article talked about how the paper allowed capitalism to win out in the end, and how it was promoting religion in schools. (The ad said "In God We Trust" and was a full-page ad). Here's my letter. Dr. Humble's letter said pretty much the same thing and was printed directly under my letter, which was pretty cool.


Gas-Leak-Update: apparently, everything's been fixed because we have school tomorrow, according to the RCHS website.

My birthday is in 21 days, 1 hour and 9 minutes. YAY! (not that I'm excited or anything...)
Wow. Today was an exciting day at school! The 100/200 building was having a gas-leak, and so by 8:20am, or so, they had evacuated the building and study hall was held in the 300 building instead. For any of you who don't go to RCHS, the 100/200 building holds about 2/3 of our classes, and the 300 building holds the other third.
Students who were supposed to have 1st period in the 100/200 building were told to find a classroom-- any classroom-- in the 300 building and hang out there. Teachers who normally teach in the 300 hall tried to carry on first period class like normal, but it didn't work very well, as there were 30-40, maybe more people per room. Needless to say, by 9:30am, the day was looking like it would be pointless and chaotic. That was about the time that Mr. Hames and Ms. Klein came around to each room and told students that they would dismiss school. It was like a snow day, only without the headaches of snow on the ground (like last year when it took hours and hours for each of us to get home). Anyway, that's the big story--- gas leak. School cancelled. Day off. Woot.

In other news: there are 22 days until my birthday!!! :)

Sunday, November 27, 2005

I got this from Nick's blog, and I went into it skeptically, but...it's sooo true. The only thing is...I think I have much bigger weaknesses than being picky and/or rigid...but you guys might know better than I would...

Your Birthdate: December 22

You tend to be understated and under appreciated.
You have a hidden force to do amazing things, doing them your own way.
People may see you as strange and shy, but they know little.
Your unconventional ways have more power than they (and even you) know.

Your strength: Standing up for what you know is true

Your weakness: You tend to be picky and rigid

Your power color: Silver

Your power symbol: Square

Your power month: April

Saturday, November 26, 2005

I got this from Nick's blog, and I decided to try it. It was actually dead on, except that I refuse to be referred to as "picky." Other than that...it's pretty accurate.

Your Birthdate: December 22
You tend to be understated and under appreciated.You have a hidden force to do amazing things, doing them your own way.People may see you as strange and shy, but they know little.Your unconventional ways have more power than they (and even you) know.
Your strength: Standing up for what you know is true
Your weakness: You tend to be picky and rigid
Your power color: Silver
Your power symbol: Square
Your power month: April
What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

Saturday, November 19, 2005

I'm not sure where to begin when I update...

I definitely think Senioritis has taken its toll. Most, if not all of us seniors, are feeling the complete apathy towards schoolwork that most people who have previously been in our position have warned us about. And I must admit that now that I have been accepted into a college- senioritis is only worse. lol.

That's about all right now-- psychology gets the "Lindsay's Favorite Class Award" and also the "Best Substitute Ever Award (which is particularly in reference to Emily Atkinson, who is like the coolest sub ever!" Statistics gets the "Slacking-est class ever award...but definitely fun!" English gets the "Lindsay's Second Favorite Class Award" cause we get to throw different-shaped stress balls around the room-- which is super fun. Southern Hemispheres gets the "I'm Slacking off way too much in this class-- but I'm super glad I took it because it is one of the most interesting classes Award." And last, but not least, AP Spanish gets the "I'm totally freaked about the midterm (as is the rest of the class, I think) Award."

My birthday is in 33 days (and Christmas is in 36 days!!!) YAY.

Friday, November 11, 2005

I went to see Capote today; it's about Truman Capote's quest to write his nationally acclaimed book, In Cold Blood. While this R-rated movie is anything but uplifting, it is a must-see for all you avid readers out there who are interested in book-related movies. This is not, however, a remake of the movie In Cold Blood, but rather the story of how the book came to be written.

Yesterday was the first of two Citizenship days at school. I am in the gleaning group, and got to go out to a farm and pick up sweet potatoes that were left behind after the harvest. We picked more than 3,000 pounds of sweet potatoes, and each pound yields about 3 servings-- i.e. 9,000 people will get food solely from what we picked. And we only picked for about two hours. Wow. It was really awesome to be working so hard at something, and knowing the whole time that a hungry child, an impoverished woman or a man who had a string of bad luck would be able to eat because of what I was doing.

Oh yeah, my letter to the editor (N&O) got published on Monday (11/07/05)!!!! AND I have been accepted into my first college! Purdue University has rolling admission and I went ahead and applied. I got my acceptance letter last week, and I am very, very happy, and much less stressed. I don't think I have a first choice school per-say, but I think Purdue would be a pretty cool school.

I got a semi-part-time job with a friend of the family. He owns his own business selling records/LPs on eBay. I am going to log records into the computer database for him, which is pretty cool. And the pay is decent for the seemingly mindless work. I'm excited, because I get to have a job, but it doesn't require insane numbers of hours.

My birthday is soon!!! 42 days!!! And Christmas is in 45 days. I can't believe how quickly time flies...senior year is going to be gone before we know it! And that makes me pretty sad.

I'll post more later.