bored, pagan group, park event

This is not a good start to the end of high school. I've been bored ever since I got home from commencement practice today. Well, bored of the computer, that is. I could have read, I could have helped to pack stuff. But I didn't feel like doing any work, especially when I've been doing the same stuff for three years. Yes, I know there's more ahead with college and everything, but at least I have more choices in college for what to do.

I've also been communicating lately on the Yahoo! Group for SPIRAL, the University of Iowa's pagan student group. I'm thinking of joining them once I move to Iowa City. I'm not necessarly a pagan, nor do I follow a pagan religion (at least, not yet), but I think it'll be a new and interesting experience if I join.

I'm also disappointed in how the sun's remained out all day without rain or a storm. There's supposed to be some event in a city park tonight with food and concerts and that stuff, but I don't really want to go. I just want to freakin' relax.

Aztec Dancer, Closing In On Finals

I love blogging when there's other homework I could be doing. I still feel productive even though I'm not reading a textbook.

Recently, I found the site of an Aztec-descended dancer. The pictures of his performances are enough for me to crave to see this guy in motion. Not only is it some of the most eye-catching regalia I've ever seen, but to actually witness the dances he does in it has to be quite a sight.

It's approxmately one week till high school is over (end date: 5/26). By sometime next week, I have to analyze some essays I have to find on Native American human rights for Composition and create a project on the immune system for Anatomy. And then there's the finals I'll have to do for those classes. I did my Biology final a little more than a week ago and it happened to be an old AP exam. Scored between a 3 and a 4 on it, but I didn't take this year's AP test for it.

Nothing really much more to talk about, except for another reason not to buy a Mac Mini.

Yea Yea, I'm still surviving

I know it's almost been a month since my last post, in which time there's been more turmoil threatening my idillic lazy life, but there's a silver lining in there.

I recently survived two Advanced Placement exams (The AP English Language & Composition exam and the AP English Literature & Composition exam). I'm not too confident of my results on the Literature exam, since I ended up writing a long-winded and incoherent essay on Ethan Frome with only being able to remember the name of the title character. Not something I want to go through again in college, and thus another insentive to get me to study better in college. I also had our AP Biology final, which was an old AP test. I scored just between a 3 and a 4 according to the scoring guide, which is why I'm not taking the real AP Biology exam. I don't want to go into my essay score...

My computer monitor has also become just as annoying as any homework. Apparently, when tilted upwards, the picture has a tendency to jump around and go all weirdly. Luckily, I'm keeping it tilted forward and that seems to do the trick for now. Hopefully soon, I'll be able to stop using this...

Which leads me into some good news? A friend from school, and a Linux buff to boot ('boot'=not intended as a bad pun) is giving me one of his old computers and putting a linux distro, Debian, onto it. It's only a 433mhz Celeron, so I only expect it to be able to do schoolwork and small multimedia tasks like playing music and potentially playing DVDs if I get a suitable drive in it.

And one more thing to add about today. I went to Iowa City, where I'm going to the University of Iowa this coming year with my mom and grandma to look at apartments. One we saw was decent, but also the smallest townhouse I've ever seen. The bedrooms are a very pitiful size and the living room is laughable. The kitchen was a one-lane corridor. The second property we looked at was a mobile home park, and I'm glad mom was disgusted with that one. The roof showed more than several spots where it had leaked, or was still leaking, particularly around areas like light bulbs and ceiling fans, not to mention that the windows didn't close properly. The rooms though were of a good size. So it's back to trying to find a spot. My mom's been toying with an idea: Get a 3 or more bedroom place and rent out the 3rd room to a student. I'm planning to run this possibility around some guys at school going to Iowa next year. Better than shelling out 6K a year for room and board on campus.