Slow Ride

This school week went by fast. Like, really fast.

I don't even remember doing anything in school this week. I think we watched a movie in Creative Writing, or maybe she just reminded us about the permission forms? It's a blur. We spent the last two days getting missing tasks taken care of. I had a list of missing work that was almost an entire page long. This is odd, as I did every assignment I was given, I just don't organize things well, and most of them were lost to the ether. I had a 61 at my last check, but I did a great deal of the missing tasks, and aced a vocab test today, so hopefully things will pick up.

We started graphic creation in eComm, that I remember. Working with Paint Shot isn't something I enjoy a great deal. It isn't that I don't like graphic design, it's something I have to know in order to be a decent web designer, it's just that I don't like having to follow tutorials word by word. We've been doing just that for the last two or three days. It wouldn't be so bad if we were using FireWorks, as that's a program I use a great deal; I would be able to just look at the end result and recreate it without having to walk through three pages of directions.

We mostly worked on our projects in Latin III this week. We turned them in yesterday, and should have grades back tomorrow. I hope ours was good, as I need the good grade to stop my god-awful binder grade from dragging my 73 into sub-60 territory. I'll admit that I didn't do a lot of work on this. I just sort of slacked off the entire time, and then asked Mandy (our group's only smart person) if there was anything that needed doing the day before it was due. She told me that there were still two essays that needed writing, and a glossary that needed defining. I did said items, and handed them over to her so she could put them with the rest of the stuff. Levi was gone for the majority of the work time, and didn't really do a whole lot, but that isn't really his fault. He was across the country. It doesn't bother me at all, either. I've enjoyed a similar slide on more than one occasion.

I don't remember much of anything from English. We've been reading poems and teaching them to the class for the last two days. We've also got a large project due in about a month on one of two Shakespearian plays. We haven't decided which one to do yet, but whatever we do, we're just going to make another movie. It worked out great last time, as I assume we got a good grade for it. We've got even more time to make a better movie this go around, but I doubt we'll take advantage of it. We'll just slack around until the weekend before it's due, meet up at Levi's, ride to the nearby store, and act a fool in the parking lot with camera rolling. I'll then spend some two and a half odd hours editing it up and adding good music and "bumps". It's gonna' be awesome.

I've been playing my GBAsp non-stop in school. On the bus, at breakfast, at lunch, even during Latin III couple times. To my credit, I'm playing a really good game, and we weren't doing anything important in Latin. I finished Advance Wars a short while ago, and now I'm working my way through Advance Wars 2. I recommend both greatly. So long as you like turn-based strategy, and don't mind spending hours and hours on a single mission developing your tactics, you'll love it. I haven't played the third in the series, Advance Wars: Dual Strike, as I don't have a Nintendo DS, but Jameson (I think that's how you spell it) has it, and he says it's the bee's knees. With the quality in the first two games, I have no reason to doubt him.