I Fight For My Friends! :B
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popo_liciousTurn up the volume and watch I this. I promise you that it's not a RickRoll, as fun as that would be. XD
Happy Saturday, everyone! I'm so glad it's the weekend; I thought it would never arrive! :D
It's hard to believe, but as of today, I officially have less than a month of high school left! Graduation is on June 16th, and even though seniors are done with school on the 10th, it won't feel official until I've walked the stage and snagged my diploma. It's going to be such a long ceremony though... XD The class of 2008 at HHS has about 500 students walking so it's going to take forever. Nooooo! XD
Good news! Lori and I are top ten regional finalists for a $5,000 scholarship! We had to write and illustrate an original, 20+ page children's book with a storyline pertaining to the importance of tolerance and diversity. I think we had a pretty good entry, though I had a huge knot form in my stomach when I noticed we sent in our pages with a handful of tiny spelling errors.
The whole process was an ordeal that I'll never forget. XD We had only found out about the contest a month before it was due, and we were forced to work on it during prime robotics competition time, so it was hard to actually sit down and work. As expected, we waited until the last day to start getting down to business, and ended up working from about noon Friday to 2am Saturday. NON-STOP. XD We wanted to murder our characters about six hours in, and by the time we zipped up the story and emailed it to the judges, I think we were about ready to murder each other. XD The worst part is that a few weeks later, Lori sent me a link to the submission page, where I discovered that shortly after we had turned our entry in, the contest had been extended by another week or two. ARGH! XD
That said, I hope we win. Heads will roll if we don't get something because both of us are scarred for life by that experience. XD
I'm not really sure how I should recap yesterday's events because it was all just so strange. I got off to a bad start in the morning because I overslept and ended up missing a test -- something very unusual for me -- and I suppose it messed up my sense of time for the rest of the day because after that I felt like the clock was speeding up, then slowing down, then stopping, then blasting forward again. It was uncomfortable, to say the least, and the situation wasn't helped by the fact that I was awfully nervous about the afternoon.
I was invited out to eat with some friends after school, except that, you know, there was someone invited to come along who I've had a bit of a crush on [COUGH XD] and I'm pretty sure I was acting like some sort of bashful idiot the entire time because I couldn't think of anything to say, and Lori made me nervous the day before when she said that the feelings were requited by the young man in question (('Not even sure if that's true. ^^; )), and I felt like something was expected of me, though I don't know what. You know that expression there's an elephant in the room? It felt like that, or at least, Lori's intentional double-date atmosphere made it feel like that. XD I had a chance to redeem myself later at a Brawl party but I was so put off that I failed miserably. My heartfelt apologies to all those involved. Social Retardation = 1. Popo = 0 XD
I feel like mentioning that the weather today is beautiful. It's breezy and warm and cloudless, which is nice because it's rained incessantly for about two weeks now. I went out this morning to get a tan but was chased inside by an angry bumble bee. XD
Love,
Popo
PS: Superbus, if you're out there reading this... What do you know about wayward Ctrl keys? TT__TT
PPS: I'm still working on that meme from my last post. I haven't forgotten anyone! XD
Happy Saturday, everyone! I'm so glad it's the weekend; I thought it would never arrive! :D
It's hard to believe, but as of today, I officially have less than a month of high school left! Graduation is on June 16th, and even though seniors are done with school on the 10th, it won't feel official until I've walked the stage and snagged my diploma. It's going to be such a long ceremony though... XD The class of 2008 at HHS has about 500 students walking so it's going to take forever. Nooooo! XD
Good news! Lori and I are top ten regional finalists for a $5,000 scholarship! We had to write and illustrate an original, 20+ page children's book with a storyline pertaining to the importance of tolerance and diversity. I think we had a pretty good entry, though I had a huge knot form in my stomach when I noticed we sent in our pages with a handful of tiny spelling errors.
The whole process was an ordeal that I'll never forget. XD We had only found out about the contest a month before it was due, and we were forced to work on it during prime robotics competition time, so it was hard to actually sit down and work. As expected, we waited until the last day to start getting down to business, and ended up working from about noon Friday to 2am Saturday. NON-STOP. XD We wanted to murder our characters about six hours in, and by the time we zipped up the story and emailed it to the judges, I think we were about ready to murder each other. XD The worst part is that a few weeks later, Lori sent me a link to the submission page, where I discovered that shortly after we had turned our entry in, the contest had been extended by another week or two. ARGH! XD
That said, I hope we win. Heads will roll if we don't get something because both of us are scarred for life by that experience. XD
I'm not really sure how I should recap yesterday's events because it was all just so strange. I got off to a bad start in the morning because I overslept and ended up missing a test -- something very unusual for me -- and I suppose it messed up my sense of time for the rest of the day because after that I felt like the clock was speeding up, then slowing down, then stopping, then blasting forward again. It was uncomfortable, to say the least, and the situation wasn't helped by the fact that I was awfully nervous about the afternoon.
I was invited out to eat with some friends after school, except that, you know, there was someone invited to come along who I've had a bit of a crush on [COUGH XD] and I'm pretty sure I was acting like some sort of bashful idiot the entire time because I couldn't think of anything to say, and Lori made me nervous the day before when she said that the feelings were requited by the young man in question (('Not even sure if that's true. ^^; )), and I felt like something was expected of me, though I don't know what. You know that expression there's an elephant in the room? It felt like that, or at least, Lori's intentional double-date atmosphere made it feel like that. XD I had a chance to redeem myself later at a Brawl party but I was so put off that I failed miserably. My heartfelt apologies to all those involved. Social Retardation = 1. Popo = 0 XD
I feel like mentioning that the weather today is beautiful. It's breezy and warm and cloudless, which is nice because it's rained incessantly for about two weeks now. I went out this morning to get a tan but was chased inside by an angry bumble bee. XD
Love,
Popo
PS: Superbus, if you're out there reading this... What do you know about wayward Ctrl keys? TT__TT
PPS: I'm still working on that meme from my last post. I haven't forgotten anyone! XD
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Date: 5/17/08 11:14 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 5/17/08 11:54 pm (UTC)And unless you are into one-nighters - seemingly unlikely - I'd beware of any romance at this stage of your life. You ARE going from the DC area to Blacksburg soon.
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Date: 5/18/08 12:02 am (UTC)Anyways! Randomly, my keyboard will react to my typing as though the CTRL key is being held down, and the only way I can remedy the situation is by restarting my computer. For example, if I try to type an "a" my computer will select everything on the page. I looked into the issue but I couldn't make much sense of the information I was finding.
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Date: 5/18/08 12:07 am (UTC)As for your CTRL key, do you have Sticky Keys enabled? Hit Shift a few times until something pops up (if you're using Windows; if not, let me know), and then hit "Settings" in the dialogue box that pops up. Is anything checked?
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Date: 5/18/08 12:51 am (UTC)Anyways, nothing is checked off on the settings screen.