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Over the weekend I asked Umma to get some Cap’n Crunch and she asked if she could get the Kroger brand. Unfortunately “Crispy Berry Crunch” tastes like Trix.
Sam and Tori fought for us to have a Bio party, and they won! So I’m going to bring in cupcakes b/c yeast (a fungi) makes dough rise.
Wednesday we had our Gatsby party. Everyone looked beautiful; it made me want to have a 20s party not for class.
Jason and I’ve had an on-and-off thing ever since 4th grade. We revived our friendship again this year (we didn’t talk all through 10th grade). At the Gatsby party, he wore a suit and I wore a dress, and we looked at each other, and we could tell that a thing could possibly come up again, but it wasn’t going to because of all the things that have changed since 4th grade.
Thursday Aliya and I went to the school performance of Oklahoma.
Things that were good:
Corbin singing
Ana dancing
Virginia dancing
The orchestra playing
Everything else wasn’t so great.
Aliya and I decided that if there was a musical called Corbin Singing And Ana Dancing, we’d go see it.
Friday my schedule was:
1st period: We listened to speeches and then had free time when Murtaza, John, Trey,and I did our math homework.
5th: We got a rubric for a project and then watched a video for 40 minutes, during which I slept.
6th: Sub and busy work. Jason and I were like, “UGH THIS IS STUPID,” so we didn’t do it.
7th: Pep rally
There was a mosh pit at the end of the pep rally, and I wanted to join in, but I was wearing my stupid Destinos clothes, so I didn’t.
Saturday I felt like an adult, b/c I was giving rides to everyone. I gave Hyunwoo a ride to and from the musical for the morning and the afternoon show (he’s in the orchestra), I dropped Franny off at work, I went to Praise Team, blah blah blah. Now I just need a job and I’ll really be an adult (kinda).
I found all the songs for Franny’s mix CD! Now I just need to put them in the right order. Birthday present for next Thursday!
Sunday Hyunwoo and I drove around to get Rockband shit so that we could play Aliya’s Beatles Rockband that she gave me for my birthday. We figured out the cheapest plan that would also enable us to play with Franny before she left for Korea:
We got Rockband at Gamestop b/c we called ahead and we knew it’d be there (apparently Target hates the wii. And phone services), and then we went to Target for the controller. It wasn’t there, so we went to another Target. It wasn’t there. We went to best Buy, and IT WASN’T FUCKING THERE, but there was a black Wiimote + 2 Motion Pluses for $80, and by that point I was too tired to care, so we bought the thing.
When we came home, we realized we didn’t need Wiimotes for the Rockband controllers to work. We also realized that we didn’t need another guitar controller, b/c we’d only have up to 3 people playing (me, Hyunwoo, Franny/Dad). So I need to pay Hyunwoo back $50 to try to even things out, since I paid $50 for a controller that we didn’t even need and he paid $140 for the Rockband bundle.
The Beatles Rockband is fun, although sometimes the guitar’s not difficult so Hyunwoo gets bored, but then there are things like the Hard Day’s Night [1:20] and the Ticket to Ride Solo [1:24] which are actually pretty difficult, even on Rockband.
I wanted to finish recording Pilot this weekend, but I put it off too much, and we did find a great lead guitar part, but when we recorded it, it sounded weird, and we figured out that our previously-recorded vocals + rhythm part was a little off, so the lead would also sound a little off. So we had to record everything again, and Hyunwoo was frustrated and annoyed, so I let him play Rockband while I recorded the vocals part, and then Dad told us to go to sleep.
I’m gonna try to get Hyunwoo to record this week if he doesn’t have a lot of homework. I want to record 2 more songs this weekend to send to bassist Matthew Clark and drummer Alex Dollard. I figured even if New Gibraltar wasn’t going to be a forreal band, we can at least make one album just for us. Maybe after we’re through, we’ll decide we actually want to be a band and do shows.
This week I got really lazy. After the SAT, I felt like I deserved a break, so I slacked off a bit. I hope I get back into my zone soon.
Monday I decided that Erica hates me. I mean, I guess it doesn’t really matter now, but I have a good chance of being editor next year, and Erica’s definitely going to be editor next year, and I hope her hatred of me doesn’t get in the way.
Hayes: Brigid, why do you want to kill me?
Rahim: Because she hates you!
Brigid: B/c I hate you.
Kenny: Do you hate me?
Brigid: No, b/c you’re actually polite when you need to be.
Hayes: What? I’m totally polite.
Brigid: No, you’re not.
Kyle: You’re not polite when you abandon your friends!
Hayes: Shut up, Kyle!
(Kyle told me later that a long time ago, Hayes and Matthew were approached by scary older teenagers, and Hayes just biked away when the kids threatened Matthew)
The main purpose of this was that Hayes read my post last week. How? Why does everyone read my blog?
Tuesday we talked about monopolies in APUSH, and people were like, “There are no monopolies today,” and I tried to tell them that Quaker Oats was a monopoly over oatmeal, but a lot of people didn’t believe me b/c there are other tiny oatmeal companies. Does “monopoly” mean you have to completely dominate the field? Or just be the main one?
I wrote a Valentine’s personal for my brother:
To: The Paullinator
From: Big B (Kenny calls us these names)
Hi, Brother. Is this embarrassing to all your cool friends? Mission accomplished.
… “embarrassing to all your cool friends” means “your cool friends are embarrassed.” Damn.
Wednesday I decided to go through a personal reform.
1) A posture reform. I have terrible posture, and I need to change that. Now that I know how to stand up straight w/o looking awkward, I just need to get in the habit of assuming it so that soon I’ll do it w/o thinking a/b it. (“a/b” totally isn’t a legit way to say “about,” but I’ve always wanted an abbreviation for “about,” so I’m doing it)
2) A clothing reform. Mom said I was allowed to completely change my wardrobe. I think I’ll spend my $20 monthly cash allowance on getting new clothes from Goodwill.
3) A personal reform. I have to be nicer to people. I’m stopping saying mean things to people (To people, not about them. But still, I gotta mitigate the insults on my blog).
Exceptions: Alex, Charlie, Wilson, Amit, Bryan. These guys are totally cool with it. I love being mean, and I sit in the corner with these guys (minus Bryan, but we still manage to include him in our group), and we just make fun of everyone in the class. I love it and I’m not giving that up.
I feel really different b/c of my attempt to be nicer to people. Hyunwoo (who is thinking about changing the spelling of his name to Hyun-oo maybe? I changed mine so that the awkward “EO” is just a “U” Hyunwoo’s silent W is awkward) yelled at me for getting the lyrics to The Star Spangled Banner mixed up, but instead of yelling back at him, I just stayed quiet. Instead of seething w/ anger, I was offended and then moderately sad. It really feels strange. Aliya told me that if I didn’t feel right doing this, then no one’s stopping me, but I really want to change.
Hyunwoo and I still need to decide if we’re going to get an XBOX 360, a PS3, or if we should just wait until the next system comes out.
Thursday I got a 104 on my Helpful/Harmful Bio project. She looked it over, said some of the organism names out loud, yelped in joy when she saw that I put the bibliography in APA format, and wrote a giant check plus on my rubric. And then walked off to the next project.
Hyunwoo and I got on JV tennis! Good for me, bad for him. And Jenna’s with me! Woohoo!
Dr. Parrott’s getting lazy! She started playing videos for us and ordering us to take notes while she hid in the back doing god knows what. I’ve been waiting for this all year!
Saturday I went to GHP in the morning. Mom made cookies the night before for me and Virginia on the way there and back in thanks of her giving me a ride there.
There were three essay topics: the first essay topic was about music, but I couldn’t think of anything to write about. The third topic was about something political or economic or social, so I just skipped it. The second topic was to write a dialogue between a fictional character and a historical figure. I wrote a dialogue between Gatsby from The Great Gatsby and Nicholas II—the last tsar of Russia. They both loved someone so much that they based all their decisions on their loved one, and ultimately got killed b/c of it.
The interview was pretty good. I think I saw each of the people interviewing me sometime before. Hm. They looked really bored, like they’d been drafted for the job. But I think I said the right things in the interview. I’m proud of it.
I went to praise team afterward, and Subin was taking over w/o even thinking.
“I’m gonna do this part as a solo, okay?” when she’s teaching me the new song.
“Well, let’s just sing it this way. Everyone knows it this way,” when I tell her that I sang Forever differently than she was singing it.
It was really frustrating. Why do I even need to be at Praise Team if you’re just gonna blow me over like that? And then turn my mic down really low on Sunday so no one can hear me? I feel like I have no purpose in Praise Team.
I didn’t have time to go to Goodwill to get my Gatsby Party Costume, so I went home and tidied up the place before Aliya and Emily came over and we went to karaoke. We sang for about forty minutes or so before the others came. Emily chose all the embarrassing pop songs, Madi and Mal chose a Muse song and a couple Music and Lyrics songs, Aliya and I sang the Strokes songs. It took a while for Virginia to loosen up and sing, but it was great and really fun once she did. Overall we had a great time, even if the Korean people who owned the place kept looking at us funnily.
Presents:
Emily – An Old Navy gift card for the exact amount (“To the penny!”) for a pair of pants so that I can “buy more girl pants and be hot.”
Aliya – Beatles Rockband for Wii
Virginia – A signed album jacket for The Sun and the Moon
Mallory and Madison – Two tiny potted plants and a waffle-maker
Man, I love my friends.
I watched SNL that night. Michael Buble really isn’t anything special. Why can people nowadays sing but not write?
Sunday I had my LAST TENNIS LESSON! I win.
I checked my email, and it turned out that I missed the deadline for the technology fair. See what I said about slacking off? And I cost my whole team’s 2 points on their final grades. Bollocks.
I felt like an adult: I drove to Goodwill by myself to buy a Gatsby dress, went to Blockbuster to return some DVDs, and then stopped by Outback to say Hi to Franny. Later, Franny, Hyunwoo, and I went to Outback to get my free birthday ice cream and meet Franny’s server friend Chuck, who looks like Thom Yorke, and then I got a latte from Caribou, which didn’t help me stay up that well.
Vyvy (it’s actually a Vietnamese name, it’s not short for Vivian), Franny, Hyunwoo, and I played Brawl. It was fun.
This week was pretty much a blur, b/c I was studying for the SAT and I was trying to do homework and I was tired, tired, tired. And sad.
Thursday Vyvy left before I could really say goodbye. I hugged her Wednesday night. She was pretty cool.
Mispronunciation is a huge pet peeve of mine.
Friday we presented our viruses in Bio.
Dr. Parrott: Brigid! Alex!
[Brigid and Alex approach her w/ projects in hand]
Brigid: Hey! You and I both did Hepatitis! And we used red paper! And we’re both Asian!
Dr. Parrott: Brigid, I really don’t understand why you drew a bacteriophage!
Brigid: Okay, no, listen to me. I saw that it said “icosahedron,” so I immediately thought that it was the whole icosahedron with the tail—
Dr. Parrott: Why?
Brigid: Dude, we’ve been studying bacteriophages for the past three days!
Dr. Parrott: I taught you three types of viruses: icosahedron, spherical, and bacteriophage.
Brigid: Okay, fine. But at least I made my model an icosahedron.
Dr. Parrott: And what about you, Alex? You missing some information there? You have, like, ten lines on that poster.
Alex: You counted?
Hyunwoo went to his friend Ryan’s birthday party and slept over. The next day Ryan came over for Hyunwoo’s birthday party and slept over.
Saturday I finally took the SAT. While waiting for the test to start, I hung out w/ Charlie, Jonathan Whittington, Alex Iscaro, Anastasiya, Nicole, and John Twomey. It was a fun crowd, though I’m pretty sure we were The Annoying People Who Are Talking When Everyone Else Is Silent.
The proctor asked Vincent if he was in seventh grade. Hahaha.
The math was trickier than the practice tests I took. The writing was just as easy. My essay was better this time, I think (I hope the judges don’t say that I went off-topic). The critical reading was easier than I thought, which is great. I had time to go back on every section. Whew!
When the SAT was over, Dad bought me some fries at McDonalds. Yay! I think I’d been dreaming about those fries all week, man.
Hyunwoo had his birthday party.
Garrison – Franny and I agree that she was the best out of all of them. I never heard her say anything stupid, and she’s really pretty.
Elizabeth (Jack Lane’s sister) - She’s all right, but she’s weirdly close to my brother. On her birthday card, she wrote, “Thank you for letting me warm up my hands in your armpits,” and I heard her say, “We washed and dried his clothes all in one night.” (in reference to my brother)
Ryan – I don’t really know this guy, but I like him (for now). He’s pretty mature and he’s not super annoying or loud.
Owen – He’s definitely the Weird in the group. He doesn’t want me to hate him, but I still kinda do. Kinda, though, don’t worry.
Hayes – I want to kill this boy.
I’m thinking about doing the first weekend in February as the weekend I watch 9 w/ Bryan and Kyle. I’ll have to ask Kyle, though.
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Last week we tried to record Pilot on Franny’s mac. We got stuck on making the lead guitar part, though. I only wrote a rhythm guitar + a voice.
All week I stayed up until 1:00 or past 1:00 to work on SAT critical reading. I thought I should do math, but I did a practice test, and Franny said I did fine and that I needed more critical reading help.
Monday Joey was talking about his SAT score, and he said he did really badly on the Writing section (a 500-something), and I was like, “Really? I thought everyone did well on that,” and then I immediately felt bad for saying that, and I apologized, but he was like, “No, I did really badly overall,” and I was like, “Don’t tell me what you got, I’ll feel bad,” and he didn’t tell me, but I overheard him talking to Margaret, and he said he got a 1960, which is what I got!! This made me feel good, b/c Joey’s really smart. I feel like we both are naturally gifted, but we also work hard (well, me more than him, b/c he doesn’t study as much as me and he’s smarter. Not in, like, a mean way; just saying.).
It’s hard to talk to Franny about love and relationships, b/c if we talk too much about it, she starts crying and I feel bad. I showed her the Halo music video, and she started crying. [hugggggggggggg]
TENNIS CONDITIONING’S CANCELLED!!! AHHHHHHH! God loves me (sometimes).
Tuesday I got news that Jason Castro (4th runner up of the 7th season of American Idol) was having a concert at our school and I was to interview him. I checked him out, and I decided 1) he’s high all the time, 2) he’s dumb, and 3) I can’t listen to him for more than a minute.
Parrott assigned us a bunch of bio shit. I hate that woman. Two projects in one month! What is wrong with you!
Thursday I turned in Vincent’s article. Weiss was like, “Brigid! This guy is outstanding!” and I was like, “His writing’s very fluffy, isn’t it?” and she was like, “What?” and I was like, “Nothing. He’s good. We should get him to try out for next year.”
Friday I finished The Great Gatsby. It was all right. I really feel uncomfortable reading about rich people and “Oh, he’s lower than me, I can’t talk to him.” I don’t know how the fuck I’m going to dress up for it for school.
Saturday The Ting Tings came on SNL. We decided that Shut Up and Let Me Go would be good if Yeah Yeah Yeahs were doing it, but it just sucked with these untalented novices.
Franny wants me to make her a mix CD. I don’t know what I’d put on it. I think she already has most of my music. She said the same thing to me. What?
3) Sun Seng Nim was really tired and frequently played the wrong notes
4) Subin had a cold, so she couldn’t sing.
“Lots of things went wrong today, but I’m glad none of them were my fault. Last week was my time to shine, when I dropped the guitar.” -Hyunwoo
We went to Hard Rock Café to test it for Hyunwoo’s birthday party. I looked at the appetizers and was like, “Holy fuck, what is this!” and Hyunwoo was like, “$9 for an appetizer isn’t that bad, Brigid,” and Mom was like, “Yes, it is. Only choose something under $13 and under the sandwiches, burgers, salads, or appetizers.” I guess this is where I got my frugality.
Franny’s roommate Vivi came over tonight! She’ll be staying with us until Thursday.
Franny featured at Javamonkey. She was great. I got teary at her poem about military wives. I hate listening to things about lost loved ones.
I haven’t done SAT stuff all day. I feel disloyal to myself. Ah! [gets on it right away]
Monday I finally had my chill day of the winter break! I got to do whatever the hell I wanted, and it was sweet! Now if only I can have more of those days.
Tennis was cancelled!! MUAHAHA! I danced around the house I was so excited.
Franny and I went out to get 2010 calendars. I wanted to get the House one and give Hyunwoo the Woodstock one, but when I looked closer, I realized the pictures were pretty shitty. So I gave Hyunwoo the House one and I got a calendar of early sketches of the Pixar movies. It’s pretty cool. I love seeing the animation process; I don’t know why.
While we were at Borders, Franny and I saw a book called The Legend of Zelda and Philosophy. It cracked me up. “So why do you want to kill Gohma?” Because she’s a fucking giant scorpion spider queen thing! “Who is the real Ganandorf?” There is no real Ganandorf!
The road was closed off when we were going home, so Franny and I drove around for a while before finding a way home. We called Dad to help us. What is with males knowing their way around everywhere?
Hyunwoo and I looked on Hulu and found a [I blanked, what’s a word that means “a large summation of”?] of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood waiting for us! Ah!!
Tuesday was the first day of school. asjdijkcamskldmcklasmdcsd. I already got homework from 4 teachers!
Wednesday we presented the bio project and got 100 on it. What what?
Thursday everyone was talking about snow, snow, snow. I got tired of it. Charlie’s eyes were glued to the window in Math. “Brigid, it’s snowing … oh, it stopped … it’s snowing again … oh, wait.”
It snowed while we were all going to our buses. It was really pretty.
Friday I woke up at 3 and checked my phone to see Jono’s text saying, “No school!” I checked on the county school system site, and it confirmed his statement. I told Hyunwoo, called Aliya, and then went back to sleep until Virginia called me at 9:30.
I worried and cried about love all day. I talked to Franny and wanted to talk to Andrew out of all people (sorry, man, if you’re reading this, but you know we’re not really that friendly w/ each other, man).I eventually got it all settled out before Andrew replied to my Facebook message.
Saturday Subin and Jieun came back to praise team! They’re great singers and very musically talented, but they do have their flaws; Jieun’s slightly dumb, and Subin’s a control freak. Whatever, I’m glad to have them back on the team.
I asked Vincent to help me out with the reviews in the newspaper this issue. He took The E.N.D. by the Black Eyed Peas (thank god) and The Fame by Lady Gaga (damn, I wanted that one). Which leaves me w/ Fearless (Talor Swift), I Am … Sasha Fierce (Beyoncé), and Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King (Dave Matthews Band). Great.
Saturday Virginia, Aliya, and I met up at Goodwill. Virginia was late due to musical rehearsal, so Aliya and I shopped and picked out clothes first. I got 3 shirts (2 short-sleeved, 1 long-sleeved) for $14. I need to change my wardrobe (I’ve been wearing the same clothes for 4 years!), and I think, even though it’s not glamorous, I can do that cheaply and efficiently through Goodwill.
Afterward we poked around Toys R Us. The adults there were looking at us like we were one of those teens who ruin children’s lives. I think, at that moment, we were. It was sad.
We ate at Monterrey for a semi-early dinner. We divided the total amount evenly and then I paid the tax, just b/c I had my wallet out already. I was fine with it, but when I told my mom (I was feeling too lazy to lie, honestly), she flipped out. I had to explain to her that I always get something cheap when I eat with other people, so I’m not an irresponsible kid.
Sunday’s the Chuck premiere! Eeeee! It’s gonna be great.
