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| OH MY FUCKING GOD (and yes, this is serious enough that I need to spell it out) |
[ December 14th, 2006 | 4:38pm ] |
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I GOT FUCKING ACCEPTED INTO CORNELL UNIVERSITY!
Um fuck yessssss. I think I really enjoy telling people that I'm going to an ivy league...even if it's not Harvard or Yale =)
I love life right now. No more college apps to do. I am fucking done. Senior year..partay baby!!
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| hey guys |
[ December 3rd, 2006 | 2:32pm ] |
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I apologize for the long time no update thing. Yeah...basically, I've been busy...attempting to have a life...work...and at the same time, I'm worried sick about college apps..etccc.
So yesterday, the family and I went to Jackson...we found this really pretty park place..and camwhored. I mean..see, this is why I'm such a camwhore!! Because my parents are too!! hahaha. So have fun guys!
( yeah...so.. )
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| The deed is done |
[ November 2nd, 2006 | 4:54pm ] |
So I'm officially a college applicant. Submitted my common application online 10 minutes before it closed..
oh fuck ya. Dis bitch hardcore.
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| Alright, so it's been awhile guys... |
[ October 25th, 2006 | 8:57pm ] |
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SINCE I FUCKING CAMWHORED! YAAAAAAH!
I totally got my camera back like last week, but I was too preoccupied with college stuff to camwhore before then. Today, however, I realized I needed a de-stresser. AND CAMWHORING IS SERIOUSLY THE BEST STRESS RELIEF EVAAA!
( + plenty more )
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| oh...nothing really important |
[ September 17th, 2006 | 6:20pm ] |
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So yesterday me and a bunch of friends went kayaking. It was sooo funnnn. Except I fell down a rapid and got a billion bruises...but let's ignore that for now.
So I'm stealing some pics from my friend since my camera is STILL in the process of getting fixed.
( you know you want to click here )
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[ August 2nd, 2006 | 6:44pm ] |
So um..I've decided, in my quest to become more perfect. I want to look like Jolin Tsai...yeah..she's skinny and yet she has boobs. Perfect.
Also, I successfully sewed back a button that fell off my jacket! OMG. I didn't even know what I was doing, but I guess the natural instincts of how to sew was all in me. Seriously, it made me so happy, I've never before sewed anything in my life.
I also found out college admissions people are not very patient, and they tend to get very bitchy after a little while...how depressing..cos I'm probably gonna be calling them lots.
Finally, my suspicisions have been confirmed. Yeah, that's right. I hate math. Somehow, I just can't do it..and whenever I think I'm doing a problem right..it turns out to be wrong. WHY MATH WHY!! I was so good at you when I was in elementary school!! What happened to us math??? *tear*
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| Back from China |
[ July 26th, 2006 | 1:35pm ] |
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Hi everyone,
I'm alive.
Yes, I am back from lovely, lovely China.
I haven't been back in 6 years, and the city Nantong has changed SO MUCH. I hardly recognized it!
Nantong is considered a small-medium sized city in China. But wow...it's SO SO SO metropolitan...especially in the downtown area...there's skyscraper after skyscraper until your eyes can't stretch any further...it's amazing. haha..kinda makes me think of big cities in the U.S. like New York. It's really nothing like medium sized cities in America..
However, the pollution problem in China is also rather apparent, there's hardly a single day where I see blue sky..it's always grey or foggy or raining..='(
Kinda depressing..
The living condition in China is not at all under-par compared to the U.S. Most people have a/c in their houses, and all my parents' friends' houses are really nicely furnished...and from what people have told me, salary for all professions are on the steep rise, so most families have more than enough money to spend on luxury items. YAY.
Shopping in China is AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME!!! Everything's SO cheap, and most of the time, you can still haggle with the seller to lower the prices even more..teehee, I love haggling! I can reduce something from 200 RMB to 70 RMB or so...amazing.
I really regret not being able to take any pictures of China because my camera BROKE!!!!! What happened was...I went to visit this museum, and it was raining...the floor was marble, and I slipped...of course, when I went down, my camera went down as well since I was holding it in my hands...STUPID STUPID STUPID! argh. ='(
While I was in China, I got a facial done..and a full body massage....I've decided I like facials A LOT, but I hate massages...it's painful!
A rant I must make about Chinese people in China...they stare A LOT...at anything that catches their attention: ppl...events, things. It's really quite rude, and awkward.
During my stay in China, I also got reallly really sick one day, and had to go to the hospital and get some fluids transferred into my body. I'm not quite sure what the procedure's called in English, but they had to get a needle into my veins, and then these medicine water just flowed into me....in Chinese, it's called "gua shui"..erm..yeah. It was painful, and I had to get shots on my butt cheeks too..ow.
Finally, I took like 849328492849032 photobooth pictures with my cousins. They are SO CUTE and SO FUN. I LOVE PHOTOBOOTH PICS! haha. I also got some studio pictures taken. I think they turned out ok. My uncle paid for them since he works for the government, and his office is right across from the studio potrait place..I'm pretty sure he got a big discount..
So, now I will proceed to exhibit the pictures.
( more more more )
That's it. Leave me lots of love guys!
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| so... |
[ June 9th, 2006 | 8:54am ] |
( bored )
It's Friday, and this is my last day working in the lab. I'm dead tired. I can't believe I've had to wake up at 7 every morning despite it being summer holidays. Life isn't always peachy, but these few hundred hours of work experience will look pretty peachy on a college app.
Gov's school this Sunday. I'm pretty pumped. I still need to pack everything though because I'm a lazy ass who haven't even started.
List of things I need to bring with me:
-pillows
-sheets
-blankets
-stuffed animals
-iron
-pretty clothes
-formal dress
-2 pairs of swimsuit
-2 flip flops
-2 tennis shoes
-2 "formal" heels
-1 dressy heel
-radio
-mp3
-shower gel
-shampoo & conditioner
-tooth brush
-tooh paste
-face wash
-3 razors
-tampons, pads etccc
-necklaces
-earrings
-hair stuff
-hair spray
-lotions
-sunscreen
-umbrella
-makeup
-nail filer
-nail polish
-perfume
-2-3 purses
-hair straightener
-alarm clock
-money
-spiral notebook
-pens & pencils
-pjs
-jackets for cold dorms
-camera
-battery recharger
-comb
-towel
-contacts
-contacts solution
ummm...I think that's it. If you guys have any other suggestions of stuff I need to bring to make myself feel more comfortable, then please help a pal out. THANKS. much ♥
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[ May 25th, 2006 | 2:49pm ] |
After picking up a BROKEN glass pipette and getting 2 huggggeee cuts on my fingers (the blood didn't stop for like 10 mins), and not knowing what kinda chemicals was used in it before...and then later spilling sulfuric acid everywhere and watching it hit a piece of sponge and boring a HOLE all the way through the sponge....
I feel very lucky to be alive.
Thank you world for having me.
I swear I'm gonna cause major injury upon myself before I'm done with all my lab work. *sigh*
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| renewing my license |
[ May 24th, 2006 | 3:33pm ] |
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Today, I made THREE trips to the DPS (driver's license place) to get my license renewed, it was the gayest thing EVER.
I spent from 8:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. driving back and forth from my house, to the DPS, and then back to my house to get my citizenship status (visa stuff), and then back to the DPS, and then to my dad's work to get my birth certificate, and then back to the DPS.
Yeah.
And because there's always like a million people at the DPS, you take a number, wait 2 hours, only to be told "no, you're missing so-and-so document, go back before you can renew your license."
GAY!
I seriously think this lady at the dps was racist. She looks like a racist red-neck, and sounds like one too.
My license is a special kind that says "non-u.s. citizen" at the top because duh, i'm a non-u.s. citizen. I don't get what the fuss is about, but once they see those words at the top of my license, they totally freak out and pass my license all around the room, and act like as if I'm a freaking terroist. Right, me and my 105 pounds of steel. *sigh*
So yeah, usually with a regular american citizen's license, all they need is your old license, and like $20 to renew it. With me, they told me I need to show my citizenship status to make sure that I was still legal etcs. So I said ok, went back home and got it. When I came back, I got called by the racist red-neck lady, and she was all mean and bitchy with me.
racist red-neck whore: Ok, where's your social security card? Where's your birth certificate? HUH? OH OH. AND WHERE IS YOUR EDUCATION FORM THAT SAYS YOU ARE STILL IN SCHOOL???? HUHUHUHUHUH??
me: well....I'm a non-u.s. citizen so a social security # is not required.
racist red-neck whore: oh..that's right. where's your birth certificate then?
me: I forgot to bring it. But since I have my passport, is that ok? Since it shows my date of my birth, and it's probably the most reliable document since they verify everything before putting information on it??
racist red-neck whore: *smacks mouth really loudly and really impatiently* WELL. I KNOW I HAVE YOUR PASSPORT. BUT I ASKED YOU WHERE YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE IS!! WHAT IS YOUR POINT?
me: *starts to get really pissed off but supresses it* ok. I'll go back and find it, but what about the education form? I thought it was only required of minors. I'm 18, do I still need to bring you an education form? Especially because my school's already over, so where would I go to get one now?
racist red-neck whore: Go to the superintendent or something, or wait until school starts, but you need to get me an education form for sure.
me: but...you can only get your license renewed within like 2 weeks after it expires...and school starts in 3 months.
racist red-neck whore: oh well.....number 82?????? 82!!!???
OMG. I wasn't even done with her!! And she asked for the next number. BITCH. And she was sooo rude to me when I was asking her questions. what a fucking bitch.
So I went back to my dad's lab, got my birth certificate, and then I went online and looked up the main DPS office's number in Jackson, called them, and told them the scenario. And they were like " I don't know who told you that, but they definitely CANNOT ask you for your education form if you're over 18"
HAH BITCH! WHAT NOW? I WAS RIGHTTTTTTT!
So I drove back to the DPS ready for a verbal fight, cos there was no way I was leaving that place the THIRD time without a fucking up-to-date license in my hand.
And........I didn't get that lady again, this fat, nice man called my number. And he was reallly agreeable. He looked at all the documents that I AM SUPPOSED TO HAVE, not the MADE-UP-ONES BY RACIST RED-NECK WHORESSSSSSS!
Ok. I'm done with ranting. At least my driver's license picture looks ok. Thanks fat, nice man for taking a good picture. YOU ROCK! Unlike your racist co-worker. Thank you for fighting the good fight. Rock on man!!!
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| DA WOMAN |
[ May 22nd, 2006 | 8:53am ] |
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So I AM OFFICIALLY 18 TODAY!
Oh man oh man, I remember I was 15 when I first started this LJ. haha, those naive, innocent days.
I'll update later with what all I did today. It might not be all that exciting since nearly all of my "FUN" friends are out-of-town or grounded or etc etc...gahh...conspiracy I say.
Nevertheless, I'll try to have fun.
Leave me lotsa love. *muah*
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| again in the lab |
[ May 19th, 2006 | 1:57pm ] |
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Something really funny..
when I go into the lab storage room that's full of chemicals and DANGEROUS stuff, there's all these bottles with thin plastics over them..so I look closer and they usually say stuff like "proven to cause cancer" or "suspected to cause cancer, handle with care."
Hmm..like a thin, cheap plastic is gonna prevent it from causing cancer. Wow. So weird.
Whenever I'm at school handling some of the substances I handle at my dad's lab, the teachers are always like "OMGZ. EVERYBODY PUT ON YOUR GOGGLES! WEAR AN APRON AND USE GLOVES!!!!!"
Here, everybody just touches stuff with their bare hands, and handles them like it's no big deal.
But since I'm new, I'm made to wear gloves. Which is good I guess, cos if not, I'll probably touch something reactive and kill my hands. meh. that's my life.
I'm actually starting to enjoy working in the lab now, cos it's fun...I guess. At least it's something to do during the holidays. Plus I feel extra productive and smart working with chemicals that I can't even pronounce.
My mom's going back to China next Monday, so I get her car for like 2 weeks before I go off to governor's school. YAY. Next Monday is also my birthday. It's weird though. When I was younger, turning 18 seemed like such a big deal. I always wondered what I would look like, be like when I'm that old. Now, it seems like I've pretty much remained the same, and I'm still a kid.
I don't feel that excited about growing older. meh. I wanna be a kid.
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[ May 13th, 2006 | 9:37pm ] |
I have so much to do this weekend.
Prepare an English project worth 2 test grades, and do my 300 calculus problems before the final exam.
But the good thing about this is that after Monday, I'm basically done with school.
A part of me is kinda sad because all the seniors are leaving....I'll miss a few select ones a lot. ='(
And I was really stupid, because I didn't take my camera to school on Friday, and that was senior's last day. *sigh*
On another note, 9 more days till my birthday.
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| AWESOME ABS PLZZ |
[ May 13th, 2006 | 1:04pm ] |
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Man.
I'm so out of shape.
I tried working out today...and um..I lasted a total of 15 minutes...like 5 of those were spent "resting." -_______-
lol. I have no endurance.
No worries, it'll get better..um..hopefully.
I WANT AWESOME ABS. CHYEA!
And I'm gonna get it. kthnx.
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[ May 9th, 2006 | 8:51pm ] |
I am going to FAIL AP chem
=)
Shoot me.
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[ May 6th, 2006 | 5:40pm ] |
I need to buy new bras.
I luv chicken, I'm cooking some now.
8th and ocean = ♥ I luv attractive people with drama- filled lives. I want their lives...except not really.
And I should be studying for chemistry now. But I'm not, as you can all see.
I'm awesome as hell.
Except not.
This is a pointless post. I'm really sorry.
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[ May 3rd, 2006 | 8:33pm ] |
I hate my neighbor and their dog.
ARGH.
Their dog keeps stealing our shoes.
And no, our shoes are NOT outside, they are INSIDE the garage.
I SEE THE DOG TAKE OUR SHOES!!!
And you know what our neighbor lady says everytime I ask her to check around her yard/house??
"um....no, because I don't let my dog into your yard" (she says it like "eww gross, your house?? I'd never let my precious doggie into your lawn")
I mean the least she can do is check...
They are so rude...especially b/c I've seen their dog take the shoes...
So I've recently lost like 4 pairs of shoes...ugh. And before, I didn't really care cos they were all cheap/crappy/old shoes anyway. But a few days ago, I LOST MY FREAKING NEW, SPARKLY, CUTE, AWESOME flip flops. I AM SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO PISSED off now because I just realized I DIDN'T HAVE THE RIGHT PAIR OF SHOES TO GO WITH MY AWESOME OUTFIT TOMORROW!
OMG! And all this anger that was bottled up from a few days ago is coming all back...*fans self* *self talk* calm down Julia...calm down...you can beat them up after all your AP & SATII exams..
phew. phew..
ok.
I'm good.
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| relay for life and other things |
[ April 29th, 2006 | 8:31pm ] |
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My gmail won't load. rawrrrrr! I hate not being able to check my emails.
Is this problem happening to anybody else?
Anyway, yesterday I went to help out RELAY FOR LIFE. BOOOO CANCER!
And I only um....raised like $80 by myself in 2 hrs!!! w00t w00t!
okay, fine. it was more like me and my two friends...but mostly me.
My strategy was actually really easy....I just walked around and harrassed people until they gave me money.
Wait, that made me sound like a robber...
well...kinda sorta, except it's going to a good cause.
This is Julia hard at work:
"um hey there, would you like to donate some money to cancer research???...what? NO? Okay, dude, you don't think about coming to relay for life without some cash ready to give. okay? what? you wanna see people die of cancer??"
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actually, I only said something like to one person..-_-
And I didn't do it again cos I received wayyyyyyy too many ugly looks...woah now, why are people so sensitive nowdays?? I was just kidding...
But ya, it was fun. And I got lots of free food cos my school's national honor society sold food there, and by the end, they had so much junk left over, they just divided all the food amongst the volunteers. So I took home like 3 gallons of red diamond sweet tea, hamburger buns, brownies, ketchups, mayonnaise..ya, okay, I'll stop listing..cos this is making me sound really cheap...
But I stayed at relay for life until around 12, then I went home. And today, I just studied major xcore for APUSH, and attempted to fend off my parents' assults at trying to get me to clean my room (it hasn't officially been cleaned since like 3 months ago).
But it seems like I must go and do my dutiful chores of cleaning the room. *sigh*
Oh, and here's my eventful next week's schedule (since I'm sure you're all really interested & stuff like that):
Monday: AP english lang. exam
Wednesday: AP calc. exam
Thursday: some gay state test on american history (UNIMPORTANT)
Friday: APUSH exam
Saturday: SATIIs: Math II, literature, and American history
joy joy joy. Watch me fail all of them and ruin my future. Gee. I can hardly contain the excitement.
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| JKLJFKLDSJFKLJSDKLJFDKLSJFLKDS UGH! |
[ April 18th, 2006 | 4:48pm ] |
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I think the world just proved to me that no matter how hard I work, I just don't have natural intelligence.
Why am I so stupid?
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[ April 17th, 2006 | 2:07pm ] |
Alrighty.
I'm officially starting the first part of my evolution vs. creationism/intelligent design essay.
This should be fun.
Later, APUSH reading and studying.
More later, power point on the history of Asian discrimination in America.
My life...the fun....never ceases. o Joy.
In the meantime,
enjoy this rather interesting image:
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p.s. I forgot to mention, I watched 2 movies this past weekend:
Pride and Prejudice- Disappointed. =\ I guess if you read the book, it kinda ruins the movie.
Thank you for smoking- Hilarious. Some good debate strategies on it as well. hah.
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| YAY! ANOTHER ONE! |
[ April 16th, 2006 | 12:47pm ] |
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I babysat my brother yesterday. So yah........
( pictures pictures pictures )
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| "model minority." holla! |
[ April 8th, 2006 | 3:39pm ] |
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Why Asians are the best:
In as little as 100 years of American history, Asian Americans have gone from being the bucked-toothed, slanted-eyed, uncivilized "yellow peril" to the hardworking, musically-talented, and mathematically-brilliant "model minority." Constituting approximately 4% of the population, Asian Americans are spoken of as a 'model minority' group because the group has been more successful than other minority groups.
According to the United States 2000 Census, the median household income of Asian Americans is $55,521.
As of 2000, about 44 % of Asian Americans aged 25 or above had a bachelor's or higher , as compared to 24% of the whole population. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's 2003 report Crime in the United States, Asian Americans have the lowest total arrest rates, and high family stability. Asian Americans have also achieved higher Math SAT scores and IQ scores than other ethnic groups, even when more socioeconomically deprived or in cases of transracial adoptions, which can control for environmental and cultural differences in upbringing. (DAMN RIGHTTTT! WE CAN OVERCOME SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC BARRIERS!!)
Why Asians are so successful:
Cultural factors are thought to be part of the reason why Asian Americans are successful in the United States. East Asian societies themselves, in general, will often place enormous resources and emphasis on education. For example, the Chinese culture places great value on work ethic and the pursuit of knowledge. This cultural value is associated with Confucianism. In traditional Chinese social stratification, scholars were ranked at the top — well above businessmen and landowners. This Confucianistic view of knowledge is evident in the modern lifestyle of many Asian American families, where parents will push their children to study very hard and achieve high marks. Similar cultural tendencies and values are found in South and Southeast Asian families, whose children similarly face extra pressure by parents to succeed in school and to achieve high-ranked jobs.
Also, many Asian Americans believe greatly that work ethic and education trumps natural-born intelligence on the road to success. Many Asian Americans will say that a not-so intelligent person who works diligently in his or her studies will surpass one who is naturally gifted with high intelligence but is lazy or unwilling to work hard.
Why I sometimes still hate being Asian:
Because of their high degree of success as a group, Asian Americans do not generally benefit from affirmative action policies the way other minority groups do. In fact, some schools routinely choose lower-scoring applicants from other racial groups, even European American, over Asian American, in an attempt to promote racial diversity and to maintain some proportion to the society's racial demographics. One of the highest gaps is at UC Berkeley where the gap between Asian American and African American is about 300 SAT points.
According to a 2005 Princeton University study, if affirmative action were eliminated in college admissions, nearly four out of every five spots lost by African Americans and Hispanic Americans would be given to an Asian American. (ugh. so unfair!!)
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_minority
HOLLA! POINT OF THIS POST: ASIANZ ROXERZ AT LIFE. KTHNXBAI.
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[ April 7th, 2006 | 5:03pm ] |
I long to be able to wade in the river, shop in trendy Asian stores, eat watermelons at 2 o'clock in the morning. And I mean..realllll watermelons hand picked from the field...watch Chinese soap operas and cry and whine and joke about life with my cousins, help my grandmother make lunch, talk to my grandfather about life in America...etc.
wow.
I long to go to China! T_T
I really hate school.
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| 3 day outline |
[ April 3rd, 2006 | 5:03pm ] |
Yesterday (Sunday):
Studied from the minute I woke up until 3 a.m.
Today (Monday):
-I woke up at 6 a.m. to finish my APUSH reading because I have a test today...which I never ended up finishing.
-Struggled to copy somebody's calculus hw in English without English teacher catching me..but I think she knew anyway....who cares, I have a freaking 99 in her class, she has no reason to complain about me.
- Found out I got a 74 on my last Calculus test. Calc teacher: "aw Julia. You can pull that up!!!" Me: "No."
-Felt super pissed/emo for the rest of the day.
-Complained to everybody and made up excuses for own poor grade-- "well, I only slept for 3 hours the night before I took the test..so it's understandable...right? right?!!??".
-Whined continously.
-Told mom about the bad grade...surprisingly, she didn't care..."well...at least you passed!" <--Omg. What have you done to my mom???
-Found out mom confirmed my airplane tickets to China this Summer. JULY 3rd BABEH!
Tonight:
*20 English notecards for research paper
*English research paper outline
*Calculus homework for two chapters
*Study for fucking calculus quiz tomorrow which I will undoubtly fail
*Study for Chemistry test
*Read entire chapter 18 for APUSH (like all 50 pages of it...)
Tomorrow (Tuesday):
More hell and life-hating-ness from school....
The cycle never ends.
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