Oh my

My mom just taught me a lot of my family history. On both sides.

It was very enlightening.

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Today Ms. Edwards called me in to see her during 5th period. I was taking a test in bio, so she is gonna see me tomorrow morning instead. I hope she takes me out of Bradley's class. Or economics.

Bradley update: Today Mrs. Bradley got really mad at a kid in class. Someone was whistling softly and Bradley got all flustered and said, loudly, "can you please stop! God!" Poor Mrs. Bradley. We continued to read the Book of Ruth. For, what, the seventh day? Gah.

Today in economics Mr. Lipman had us do a stock market simulation. We each had to make up a company and incorporate our names into the company's name. A kid named Luke Greenaway made up the best one. His company was Luke's Pool Cleaning and his slogan was "we take the green away." I thought that was pretty funny. Luke's a cool guy. He was one of the top three nominees for homecoming king and he plays a sport of some kind. I had a class with him in the ninth grade and he's been really nice to me ever since. He always says hi to me when he sees me around. I just like him a lot.

Well, my company was Grayce's Auto Dealers. My stock was worth ten dollars. I didn't really know what we were supposed to be getting out of this game. I guess we'll go over it tomorrow.

I really hate playing games in class. Mr. Lipman had us play a review game a while ago in preparation for a test. I just think they are kinda pointless. Do you play games in college?

Actually I don't really care for Lipman's class at all. He treats us like we are in the sixth grade. He has us fill out this assignment sheet that tracks all the homework and quizzes that we've had. We have to write the date assigned, the date due, how many points it's worth, and how many points we received. He gives us credit for this. Is it just me, or is this sort of childish? He also gives us points for taking proper notes.

Now this is why I like my bio class. We just do our labs, take our tests, and take our own notes the way we want to do them. We study how we want to. And if it doesn't work, then we change it. Lipman checks on every little thing as if we are incapable of doing it on our own. That just really bugs me.

Today was lab day in physics. I sort of understood it, but not really. The Newb's directions and explanations did not help whatsoever. As usual.

In the Newb's class there are handful of seniors. I know them all and have tried to work with them in the same lab group, but they kind of shut me out. Maybe it's because I'm... mean? Naw, couldn't be. So I started my own lab group with a couple of juniors. One I have seen around since middle school. His name is Frank. My lab group is better than theirs, na-na. Just kidding. I think they are a lot smarter than we are.

I had to see how far I could run in 9 minutes today in PE. I ended up running 4.25 laps. That's just over a mile. My teacher said we should shoot for 6 laps. Yeah, not happening.

Well I probably won't be driving A.J. tomorrow like we had planned. My car is still in Hayward and may not be ready until tomorrow. So I have to call A.J. and tell him that. Jeez, I want to drive my car, dang it!

My car does sort of have a little... quirk. When I don't touch the steering wheel it swerves to the right. My dad says that might have something to do with the tires. But oh, well.

Tomorrow is the NLCS!! Rockies and Diamondbacks. I am really looking forward to this.

Now my mom wants me to go clean the floors.

See ya!

Edit: I came home today to find my neighbor taking magazines out of my garbage can and bringing them over to his house. Why? I dunno. They are some seriously weird people though. The cops have come asking about them a few times.