Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Things making today a good day

1. It was supposed to snow, but instead it rained instead, all day. To me it felt like nature was defying the recapitulation of winter in favor of the awesomeness of spring.

2. We didn't have to go to school again today until noon since the sophomores and juniors were taking No-Child-Left-Behind standardized tests.

3. I went to the valedictorian meeting this morning (there's thirteen of us; too bad the GPA isn't weighted, because I think I would have the highest GPA if it was, which would be pretty cool) and my idea was basically chosen for our speech, and I get to start the speech (that's also a negative thing, but it will go into my positive day recipe).

4. Tomorrow is early release, so I gathered a bunch of friends together to have lunch at the Green Iguana (or rather linner, since we have to wait until I'm out of math at 3).

5. We learned about the history of literature in thirty minutes in English today.

6. I got 14% higher on my revision of my Death of a Salesman essay, making my grade of 98.7 (no extra credit involved) like the highest grade he's ever given, which doesn't really matter, but it kind of boosted my self esteem.

7. I practiced my piano solo for district after school for a while (or rather after my violin lesson), and I think I'm going to be able to pull it together.

8. I finished all of my math homework! Although I missed one of them, meaning for the first time ever I won't get all of the points for the homework since I was only allowed two attempts on a problem and I was being stupid. But we are learning about forced dampened and undampened harmonic oscillators, which is seriously way cool because it's how they make bridges and any other oscillating systems.

9. I found out I'm not the only one obsessing about the UC notification; I looked on the admissions blog, and a lot of regular decision people are freaking out (I just need to know about the scholarship! I really hope I get it!).

10. (This is kinda for yesterday, but whatever). I had my senior project presentation last night, and my presentation was during Alayna's, so I thought all of our mutual friends there would just go to hers, but they all went to mine! Which made me feel really loved. And they all told me afterwards that they really wanted to read my book!

11. I am me. That feels like a positive thing today. Minus the whole weight and body image and eating disorder thing, which isn't going fantastically at the moment. But the rest of me is pretty cool.

5 comments:

æ said...

you are entirely cool lindsay, ed/body image thing included. all of it.

and not just because you said "linner." (gotta love that word)

love,
ae

Shea said...

"5. We learned about the history of literature in thirty minutes in English today."

This made me laugh. Really. Hard. :)

P.S. I though the "linner" thing was a typo, but apparently I'm not hip enough to understand your slang? :p

Lindsay said...

yes, 3 pm= lunch+dinner-->linner

thanks ae. i'm trying. but i'm sure you know how hard it can be.

view_from_the_fishbowl said...

hehe- i had to pause over linner too...
did you write a new one for your senior project? i really haven't talked to you about it since the beginning when you were deciding to go with a genetics project or what you really wanted to do.

Lindsay said...

yeah, the senior project book is an allegorical fantasy novel about politics and philosophy.