Reasons, Glitter and Flu

Anyhow, time to update. And since I've just caught a cold, no-one should question my right to hog the computer all for myself.

[15 min later someone does question my right and takes the computer away from me]

About last Friday. Yes, my reason to skip school was great. I spent the day at this seminar-meeting-politics-thingy. Very honorable and cool. My bio teacher was very impressed and didn't mind at all that I missed my lesson even though it was supposedly an important lab.

Halloween. A great excuse to dress up in a weird way and have fun. Naturally. I had an awesome time at a friend's halloween party. And my costume was great. Especially the gloves. They rocked. The bad thing was the glitter. The tiger fur pattern was made of golden glitter, which got stuck everywhere. Literally. But I must say that the pvc tail was going slightly over the top. Probably why I didn't wear it except for the few minutes when we picked the best costume. Anyhow, I had a great time, despite the glitter that I found from my face/hair/top even the next day.

I spent a few hours on Sunday at a books/food event. I got loads of freebies, including two books. And they had all sorts of yummy cheeses etc to taste. Then I got annoyed on monday when I didn't find the herb feta from the shop they said it would be. Bad.

And I caught a horrible flu. I felt like sh*t for days, but had to go to school because of the labs we had. I hate labs. And my chemistry teacher. And... many other things

Way cool

I had the best excuse ever to skip school today. And a reason good enough to gain you lots of respect from the teachers, luckily including my science teachers whe didn't end up minding that I missed an apparently important lab on how to use some Vernier equipment. My chemistry teacher seemed a bit angry at first, but when she heard why I'd take the day off and that the bio or physics teachers not to mention my group teacher were ok with it, she didn't complain. Sometimes I get this feeling that all the teachers in our school have been kidnapped by aliens and replaced with clones which are loads more sympathetic. Why do so, I have no clue. But that happens to be the only logical explanation.

Gah. I have to stop now, thanks to my brother who apparentlyneeds the computer right now. Boo. I'll write more on what I actually did today later, if I bother. Maybe. Who knows.

An unimportant notice

I started a new blog, to put the ranting there and the other stuff here. The possible problem with that is, that I'll end up not writing here anymore. Check out http://aboveallthat.blogspot.com/

Oh.

I nearly forgot. I did pass my Bio exam after all.

Where did my hug button go???

I.Hate.The.IB(O).

The title is self-explanatory. After hours of trying to find out the other major source of error in our lab on the salt content of a sausage. Who cares, anyway? After all, our teachers in A1 and A2 languages repeat over and over thet "the IBO doesn't care" if someone adds something personal to an essay. So, no-one cares. I might have found out the source of error. And it took only 3 hours or so. Par-tay. Our chemistry teacher is such a bitch to give our first real lab report on CE (conclusion and evaluation), the hardest possible area.

Another reason to hate the IB, or more accurately, my school, is the whole environment prize it won. Now we have to watch The Inconvenient Truth (ok, nothing against that) and go visit a dump. Honestly, could anything be more useless??? And they are during school hours, theoretically. Bad thing is that the event iis tomorrow. I happen to have school for the first two lessons only, so I'd have to waste an afternoon at a dump. If I'd miss lessons, I'd be totally into the whole thing. But no. And I have a praparatory meeting for this seminar I'm going to on friday, and I'll miss its beginning because of this. I've got nothing against the movie, but the dump? No thanks.

I also have a problem. How on earth do you pronounce "touché"? I feel dumb. Someone help me. I have a feeling that I know, but it sounds weird.

Never mind... What else...

My calendar is a chaos. No, seriously. It's got way more stuff than there would fit. Every night for the next two weeks I'd need to be in two places the same time. And that's excluding my cycling practises. Oh dear.

And I'm a bad person as well. According to the quiz at http://www.myfootprint.org/ my ecological footprint is 13,2 global hectares. If everyone live like me, we'd need 7,3 planets. Whoops. The average ecological footprint in Finland is 8,4 global hectares. Now I feel even worse.

Back to school... blah.

After a week (plus the weekend before, obviously) without school I had to return to my ordinary rhythm of waking up way too eary, going to school, doing something and going to sleep way too early. Or then going to sleep way too late, ie normal time, but too late when considering that I have to wake up really early.

I happily spent the autumn break thinking about everything else except for school. Now I should have read the most boring book ever (Kazuo Ishiguro's The remains of the day) by tomorrow. Whoops. Something's telling me I maybe should have read more that 100 pages so far. But the book happens to be really long and totally boring. How it ever won the booker prize or had a movie made of it, I have no clue. Ok, I kind of get it that the theme can be related to any time d the book is kind of deep, but still! Gah. Thank God for SparkNotes. I love that website.

What else? Um. I spent last monday and tuesday shooting a tv program, and the rest of the break raking our backyard. And the yard of our summer place. Fun. not. Oh and I went swimming. In a lake. It was cold-ish. Around 4 C. Ok, freezing.

And I tried to find new jeans, but failed so far. Honestly, who buys all that weird stuff theshops are full of? I have to try again. Bah.

WTF? (blond syndrome attack)

On my dashboard it says that I have 53 posts, on my blog it says that I have 48. weird. One more after this, maybe. Or then not. Weird.
Haha. I'm such a blonde. Never mind

Of ambiguosities (<- is that a word???) and withdrawal symptoms

I'm lazy. I had to check up the "withdrawal symptom" word from the dictionary, but I was too lazy to go find the one from my room. Like less than ten meters away. Instead, I had to go to an online translator, or many (all of the real sucky) and I ended up not finding a translation. Darn. So I had to go to my room and fetch the dictionary anyway. What a waste of time.

And it's too bad I don't own a phrase dictionary of Italian, since I want to know the real translation of "Così è, se vi pare". I found the quote somewhere a few months ago and then I forgot the translation. And when I googled it, I found two different translations. Gaah. I so hate ambiguous cases. It's either "Right You Are - If You Think You Are" or "As you like it". In either case, I like it. And as I think I'm roght, I am. As I like it.
Problem solved.

I saw a great movie with my friend. It's fifteen years old or so. A Chinese Ghost Story, by Ching-Siu Tung. I think that's how you spell the name. I'm way too lazy to check. Anyway, it was awesome.

Our better computer is running out of memory (who told my brother to rip all those cds?) and we have to remove loads of stuff. Most of it will be burned on dvds, so my brother had to change the cd-thingy (no clue whatsoever on the real word, and couldn't care less either) to one which reads and writes dvds. So, he spent an hour or so doing it, and then loads of time burning his stuff to dvds. Then the internet stopped working. I got on a really bad mood because he was annoying (although I plead the fifth and blame withdrawal symptoms) and hogging the computer. Oh and he questioned the quality of the music I was listening to (Ame no Orchestra by MUCC). He was all like "do you call that music" and "that hasn't seen music, ever" and "That's nothing". Such a nice guy, he sure is. Always. NOT. And then his girlfriend came over and I can't be nasty to him. His luck.

The internet works again. Yay.

And speaking of burning stuff, we were discussing the memory problem of our computer a week ago or so. I asked would my parents pay for the dvds/cds I needed for my stuff and they said yes, and my brother said "Yes, everything you want to keep will be burned". Accidentally. Lol.

Yay!

I got a 7 from English A2.

My little brother thought it was funny and laughed at me because he thought that I was really sucky. Then he was told that the IB grade system is 1-7, not 4-10. Ha!

It all makes sense the way I say it

Like when they sell chocolate unforgivably cheap, I just have to buy it. But where did all those people appear from? Like half of the city was at Stockmann. I seriously need to be there earlier tomorrow. Good thing my school starts with our group meeting at 10:55, So I'll have plenty of time before that. Yay! I so love shopping. I saw the cutest dress ever (a status which changes often, I tell you), at Zara, and only 49,95. And lots of other things too. The bag which I had planned to buy from Stockmann wasn't es nice as it seemd in the catalogue, so I skipped it and bought food instead. And still 4 hours before the meeting of our set design (or is it script) group's meeting. I may have to go to Stockmann again. If I get bored or the library staff shoo me out. Hope not, cause that would be destructive to my bank account.

<3 GALNA DAGAR

Yes, I hate the heart symbol too. I used it just for the sake of being annoying. Title is supposed to be self-explanatory.

My luck

... to get my estimated score in the Swedish matriculation exam on the border of an L and an E. Well, now all I need to do is to wait until december and hope that the other 11000 people were really sucky and that the person checking my exam at the YTL will raise my points in the essay. Hope so.
No, I'm not frustrated at all. But I did do better than some others in my group. And an E is really good anyway. Hey, No swedish studies ever again. Par-tay!!!

But still. I'm kind of annoyed. Ok, it's pretty sure that I will end up getting an E, but still. Aargh.

Movies

I just finished watching the totally best movie ever. A Terracotta warrior, by whats-his-name. Who cares. Anyhow, it was like the best movie I've seen in ages. Although it was quite sad. Really sad. I almost cried. Ok, I bawled my eyes off. Not. But there was a happy end, kind of.

Now I want to see A Chinese Ghost Story. there were some trailers in the Terracotta warrior, and I got totally hooked to A Chinese Ghost Story. They have it in the library, so I'll get it in a few days. PAR-TAY!!!

WTF?

I did pass physics. Even with a grade a lot better than I thought. And the sale at my favorite shop starts next week. And I even have money. Now that's something, considering my inexistent skills at saving money.

I also passed every exam I've already gotten back. I'm pretty sure I passed bio as well, but I'm not that sure about it because papers 1 and 2 might be graded separately. That might be bad, considering how I lost a lot of points with that essay. But I think I passed. If the grade boundaries are around the same as in other sciences' paper 2s. Hope so. Cecause then I did actually quite well. Hey, if the grading is like in Chemistry, I might get a 7!

My abs hurt like hell because of the pilates and the 30km cycling. Otherwise it would have been no prob whatsoever, but halfway through it started to rain. I got totally soaked. Not fun. And I might be getting flu or something. BUT because I feel ill, I decided to skip today's cycling practise. Good thing too, because we'd have a test on how good form we are in, like how many abs or pushups you can do in a minute or running the totally horrible line thing or something. The moral of the story: excercise on the previous day without stretching, and you can skip next day's horrible practise.

A fortune for the ground to swallow me... but no.

Well. The good news is that I passed my bio exam. Ha. And that I have no exam=no school tomorrow. But the bad thing...

The bio exam as a nightmare, and I had a scrap paper with me. I was writing there bullet points for an essay answer, and I was really frustrated and on a crappy mood. So, I start to write all kinds of stuff on the paper. Not positive stuff about the exam, seriously. Why did I do that?! *slaps self*

Well, when I go to return my exam paper, I accidentally leave also my scrap paper on the teacher's table. And then when the teacher returns our exams after a break (we corrected each others' papers) she says something about an extra paper. I realize that it was my scrap paper and fetch it and crumple it and drop it to the paper recycling container. The teacher looked at me in this really weird way. One of these moments when you wonder do this kind of things ever happen to anyone else. Why was I so dumb as to leave that paper there??? Nooo. Now the teacher will always stare at me in this really angry way. And I've got Higher Level bio. Darn.

But then again, I've got every right to write whatever I wish on my scrap paper. Hey, it's my scrap paper.

And the essay I was writing the bullet points about... turns out I wrote about a wrong topic and got zero points.

Exam week SUCKS!

No, seriously. I have no reason to love studying chemistry and BIO and all these other subjects. Ok, I've only got one exam I need to study for left, but still. And then I end up spending my time doing everything else which is more interesting than studying. Like yesterday I even spent an hour or so cleaning the house. Hello, desperation?

Ok, but after the Bio exam tomorrow it's all over (ok, I've still got the english exam on friday, but thats only like an essay on some media issue, so no way I can study for that one. And no exam=no school on thursday. Par-tay!

And I'm like five entries behind on my CAS diary. Lazy me. I better finish them today, before I'll have any more to write about. And the weather is sucky. As always.

I found a totally cute leather jacket from my mom's wardrobe. She got it from her sister, and now I hogged ot for myself. Finders, keepers. Although my mom was all ok about me using it.