So I was pretty upset about the 75% I got on that paper...but I'm over it now.  *Shrug*  I can't expect all of my papers to be A-worthy.  And...it didn't seem to scare off Ms. Cobb.  She still makes a lot of eye contact with me while she's explaining stuff.  I guess I figured if she read my paper and had a problem with it, she'd avoid anything to do with me (besides my work, of course).  I was wrong.  Every time I think someone's going to react in a terrible way, they have a "whatever/it's okay" kind of attitude.  That's good. 

I got a 75.  Out of 100. 

A 75%.

A couple weeks ago I wrote a paper for my language arts class.  A narrative.  I had a hard time finding something to write about.  Then I decided to write about something that had happened to me recently.  One thing stuck out in my mind...so I wrote my paper based on that. 

Writing that paper was a bold step for me.  And though I say that, I won't post openly about what the topic was.  It was just...something...I had to get out somehow.  While I was typing it up, I was so comfortable and not worried at all.  The next day, when I turned it in, I got a little nervous.  Our teacher is known for failing papers if the person doesn't have the right opinion, her opinion. 

She was grading those papers today during class and when the bell rang, I started to leave...Walked past her desk and saw that my paper was next to be graded.  I freaked out a little, got the shakes.  My friends were trying to calm me down, assuring me that it was a great paper and if she gave me a poor grade just based on what it's about, "that's wrong".  Yeah, I know.  I just don't want it to affect how Ms. Cobb treats me.  I know on a certain level it will, but...gosh.  Everyone else who knows about "the topic" is fine with it.  I don't know how to handle rejection(?) yet.  I do know that not everyone will be okay with it, but I look up to Ms. Cobb (in certain aspects) and I don't want her to think less of me. 

Hopefully I'll get my paper back tomorrow.  I'm curious...

A couple weeks Dustin and I were talking after school.  He asked how I was doing and I said, "Great".  I smiled hugely, I remember.  He laughed and said he could tell.  "Really?"  He said yes.  I asked him if he'd noticed a change in me since we came back to school.  A good change.  He said yes.  "Really?"  "Yeah, I don't worry about you anymore.  You look so much happier now.  It's great."

Computer was down for a week.  Just got it fixed today.  Lost all of my music and pictures.  Not too happy about that.

Monday I only remember because of the girls' softball game.  I asked L to go with me since we never get to hang out anymore.  Went over to her place after school since we had an hour to kill.  On the way, I watched her and realized just how much I had missed her.  Seeing her sitting up in her 50s truck, driving barefooted, smoking a cigarette, and singing along to Rilo Kiley...I smiled.

Tuesday there was another softball game, but L couldn't go because she had Tae Kwon Do classes.  She had to teach a couple, too, I think.  So I sat with Dev and Lauren.  Right as the JV game started (I think) L called me from my brother's cell and said she was at the volleyball game if I wanted to head over.  So I did.  And we barely talked.  My fault.  I was thinking about R a lot.

The rest of the week was pretty lame.  Some random moments made me laugh, but for the most part, I was bored.  School's bad about that this year.

I wish I could blog as often as I used to...

This past week of school was not very exciting.  At all.  Nothing to talk about.

Yesterday I went to the MU vs Troy football game with Erin, Taylor, Merrill, Mike, and Nathan.  We tailgated with Erin's family and her family's friends.  Had a good time.  I think that was the...fourth? game I've been to with them.  I haven't been feeling well for the past few days and at halftime I started to have a fever.  Grandma found me some ibuprofen so after awhile it went down.  Still didn't feel 100% better.

School is so incredibly boring this year.  I've tried to update this thing but each time I realized I had nothing to update it with.

Plans changed again...Jonathan did come up yesterday.  :-D

He arrived at my house a little before 11:30.  He met my mom, brother, and step-sister.  We talked for awhile and then decided to head out for lunch.  Chinese in Mexico, like we had planned.  lol

Right as we were actually entering Montgomery (the town where I live), we heard a noise outside the car.  Jonathan asked, "What's that noise?!"  I looked at him..."Do we have a flat tire?"  We pulled into the nearest driveway and sure enough, Jonathan's back right tire was flat.  He went and knocked on the people's door to let them know what happened...They let us stay there to try to fix it.  Well, we didn't have what we needed.  Luckily my friend Mike lived right down the street.  We walked down there, told him what happened, and he came and tried to help, but it still wasn't working.  I got on Jonathan's (and then my own after his died) cell to call my mom.  lol  What a great way to start out, yeah?!  She came to help and had to bring my brother and step-sister along.  After we got the tire off, we thanked Mike and went into town to get the tire fixed.  Ron was on lunch break and said he'd get to it in 30 minutes...so we went to Dairy Queen.  Mom and the kids were hungry, but Jonathan and I didn't eat.  We were having Chinese in Mexico!  We got drinks.  It was reeeeeally hot out.  Theeeen we headed back to the shop to pick up the tire.  After waiting about 10 minutes, it was ready.  We went back to Jonathan's car and put it back on.  Thanked Mom and we were on our way!

The drive to Mexico was very fun.  We sang along to Joy FM and laughed and joked.  It was as though we'd met a million times before.

We got to China Star, got some yummy food, and had a great time.  Was a bit tough getting some service, though.  lol  All we wanted was our drinks refilled!  Gosh.  Finally, before we were leaving, a lady came to refill them.  So we drank them.  lol  And left. 

Drove through Mexico (leaving) and spotted the Statue of Liberty!

Came back to my house (my step-dad was home so he got to meet him) and hung out in my room with my brother and step-sister.  Then they kinda left us alone so we loaded the pictures we took onto the computer to look at them.  They turned out great.  lol  We also got on cam while I was talking to one of my friends.  We couldn't resist taking a couple screenshots.  :P

Jonathan and I headed back into town to see if he could find some church shoes at Alco.  lol  We didn't find any...so we just walked around the store acting goofy.  I bought him a red dot! 

After that fun adventure, we had to come home and say goodbye.  :-(

We're hopefully going to get together again soon!  

So...Saturday with Jonathan isn't happening.

I think I'm already tired of school.  Today was only day #3.  Wow...I knew I shouldn't have developed senioritis during my junior year. 

Stayed up till 2:30 last night talking with R.  Surprisingly, wasn't tired during school.  Tonight will most likely be a repeat.  I have a thing I do on the days she works...I come home and nap so I get some of the rest I'll lose while talking to her.  lol  Then I get on when she gets home from work.

Got up around 7:30 this morning.  Had no idea what time Lindsay was coming to pick me up for breakfast.  I thought it was Amanda who was going with us, but it was Sandi (L's friend who graduated this past year).  L called me a little after 8 saying Sandi was running late, would be at L's ASAP, and then they'd be on their way.  We chatted for a little while and then Sandi showed up at L's.  "See you in a jack flash!  I love you, bye."

Went to the bakery.  Yum. 

Got to school right after the first bell rang.  So much for socializing before class.

Walked into band...Everyone was already sitting down.  Gave Wells a hug and he told me he wants me to play sax at football games.  I threw my arms into the air and was like, "YESSSSS!  YESSSSS!"  Funny.  See...I play clarinet during concert band, sax during jazz band.  I asked him last year if I could play sax sometime this year for concert band, but he said he had too many + I'm clarinet section leader/first chair.  So...I'm pretty excited.  I haaaate pep band music with an absolute passion, but it'll be fun to play it on sax for a change.  Weee.

I'm Wells' assistant this year.  As well as drum major.  I asked him during class how I'm going to play sax at games and be drum major.  He was like, "We're talking."  I was like, "What?"  "We're talking, we're talking.  Don't worry."  I thought I was like...interrupting him and another student or something.  I just looked at him.  Then Erin (best friend) said, "He means he'll talk to you about it later."  Gosh.  He's so goofy.  I <3 him. 

He's having a bbq for us seniors at his house this coming Wednesday.  Fun.  I don't think he did this for any of the other senior classes.  We've been his favorite class the whole time he's been at our school.

Lots of pressure for contest this year.  For the past five years we've gotten 1 ratings in both concert performance and sight reading.  He's really excited about this year's group, though, so I don't think I should worry much.  It's funny having my brother in class with me.  And Erin's little sister Devon, cousin Merrill, and their friends are also freshmen.  :-)  They're cute.  I sat next to Dev during band this morning.  That class is going to be such a blast this year.  I'm assistant!  ha ha *Major band nerd*

I never thought I'd miss Ms. Cobb/Mrs. Ellis (we all still call her Ms. Cobb and she doesn't mind at all, prefers it), but during class today, I realized it was great to see her again.  She has the craziest sense of humor.  Half the time I don't think she's even meaning to be funny...However, her grading gets to me a bit sometimes.  Like last year, when I put one too many spaces in between my sources on my works cited page...She took off four points.  I had everything written out correctly.  She took off four points for spacing.  Erin showed me her paper and there were marks everywhere.  Ms. Cobb rearranged some things.  Did she take any points from Erin?  Nope.  Erin agreed it was insane and after she and some other friends convinced me, I went up to Ms. Cobb's desk and asked why she took off the points.  She flipped through my entire paper...looking for a reason to take off of my works cited page?  All she said was, "I guess you want some points back, right?  How about 2?  I think that's fair."  Gaaaah.  What's fair is being told why they were taken away.  I didn't want them back if I didn't deserve them.  Just tell me what I did wrong!  *Sigh*  Okay, enough of that.  It was good to see her.  lol 

And before that class! I saw Henkster!  My dear little Mrs. Henke.  Gah.  She's the greatest.  I don't think we'll be able to walk to lunch anymore.  The past two years we would, but this year I'm on the opposite side of the school and I think she still has third shift.  I have second.  :-(  The tradition has been broken.  But we can still have our morning talks over coffee!  <3

Fourth hour was hilarious.  Had study hall so I just talked with Mel, Samantha, and Lauren the whole time.  Tried having a conversation with a new girl, Monica, but that died pretty quickly.  lol  At least I let her know I'm friendly.  :-)

I also tried being friendly toward one of our foreign exchange students.  Auden (I probably butchered that) is from Norway.  He reminds me of the Anthony Federov kid from this past season's American Idol.  Aaaaanyway, seventh hour in marketing, our class was PACKED and some kids had to grab random chairs and crowd around someone else's computer desk.  (Marketing is in one of our computer labs.)  So Auden came in and was looking around for a seat.  Mrs. Lovelace told him to just share with someone.  I was like, "You can share with me, big guy."  lol  Tommy was sitting behind me, started shaking his head and said, "Hitting on the foreign guys".  Nooo.  Just being friendly.  And I meant it when I said 'big guy'.  He's tall!