The Things This Week Has Taught Me:

  • Exempting an exam is so so so so completely worth it when you can smile at your other friends with a little smirk. Not to mention one less exam to study for.
  • Knitting makes everything better. I would suggest that right before exam day everyone learn to knit, so we can blanket the school in fuzzy soft happiness. Knitting soothes, so I knit during exams, in between exams, during lunch and when I should have been studying for exams. It was completely worth it.
  • Hanging out with the IB kids and exchanging pickup lines is probably one of the most fulfilling ways to spend a lunch hour when you should really be studying.
  • Equally fulfilling is coloring with crayons and a veggie tales coloring book with the IB kids during lunch when you should really be studying.
  • When your Social Studies teacher, instead of telling you that you mysteriously missed some work (even though you were there for it, and have been working your butt off in that class) just decides to lower your grade average from a ninety something to a eighty five keep your patience and wait until you can vent with your over achieving friends who can commiserate.
  • When you finish your exams and realize you have a seven day weekend the feeling of bliss is just a bit overwhelming.
  • When you start your seven day weekend and realize that you actually are going to have a social life this break instead of hiding out in your room with  your best friend the internet the entire time the feeling of ‘why the hell am I not being anti social as per the norm, this is weird if enjoyable’ is just a bit overwhelming.
  • When you wake up two days into your seven day weekend and realize your nose is full of grossness and your voice sounds like a cross between batman and gollum less the cool the feeling of ‘words I can’t say on my blog because my dearly beloved relatives read it’ is just a bit overwhelming.
  • Sherlock is amazing amazing amazing amazing and holy the first episode in the new season was a just a little bit amazing.
  • Baking gingerbread, no matter the time of year, will lead me to the steep and slippery slope of singing Christmas Carols out of season.

I think Sherlock has the right idea.

Kaelen.

 

 

Nerf-Derf

Today was started off ignoring my little sister throwing a temper tantrum two feet away from my tired carcass as I desperately tried to sleep in. I feel that getting up at nine was hardly a fair compromise. (The feeling you get when your siblings have to go to school and you don’t almost makes up for the tantrums. Almost, but not quite.)

After copious amounts of youtube intake I actually did two things on my weekend list: Reviewed math. (An entire afternoon’s worth of studying. I even oddly enjoyed factoring complex trimonials, which I never would have  thought possible when I was learning them.), and cleaned my room. Not beautifully spotless, but good enough. (anybody want to place a bet on how long it will stay in that condition?)

To sum up my weekend plans:

  • Study for exams.
  • Review for exams .
  • Cram for exams.
  • Be annoyed by the ever increasing length of my hair. When I first cut my hair I wasn’t planning on keeping it short, but now that it’s reached the unpleasant shaggy almost-a-bob stage I can’t wait to get my hair cut.

  • Adventure uptown. (I really doubt that adventuring uptown counts as a hobby, but if it did I would probably be considered quite adept at it.)
  • Finally watch the new season of Sherlock. Gleeful squeeing optional.
  • Knit something with the pretty yarn that Miss Murgles aka Mozart Nerd gave me for my birthday.

Is there anything you are particularly looking forward to this weekend? Or dreading? Or just feel positively one hundred percent evenly neutral about?

~Kaelen

A Very School-ish Post

Sooooo….it’s currently four minutes after one in the morning and I’m skipping school tomorrow (Not because I’m rebellious, because school tomorrow is only for those who could use tutorials or are writing their ELPA’s.), which means that I can sleep in in the morning. And what better to do with my time than blog post?

I have no idea how this blog post is going to turn out though, seeing as today is now technically tomorrow (Also, my blog is probably going to lie about the time I publish this post. I don’t know why it tends to be a couple hours off, it’s just mean like that.), so hopefully this post is semi-coherent to people not drunk on the sweet nectar of exhaustion.

Today was the last ‘official’ day of the semester. We have tomorrow, which as I have explained, doesn’t really count, the weekend, and then exams. Am I very nervous for my very first very real, very live exams? Yep. I’ll survive though (probably).

I chose to exempt my English exam (probably a good idea seeing as I’ve never really learned how to write a commentary, and learning on the fly when I have two hours to make up about twenty five percent of my mark doesn’t seem like something a smart person would do.), which means I have to do Social studies (I enjoy history to the point of stupidly doing more work than I really should for this class. I’m either going to come prepared for this class and completely pass this exam or I’m going to come cockily thinking that I actually have some idea what I’m doing and have my *rear end* handed to me on a silver platter.), Math (A class I’m enjoying, strangely enough. Also, the same two possible futures that apply to social studies apply to my math exam.) and Science. (The exam I should really review the most for, yet have been putting off reviewing since if I have to review something I’d rather it be math or social studies.)

The class I’m going to mourn the loss of the most is my English class. I loved my teacher, found my classmates cool, and (for the most part) enjoyed the subjects. (Romeo and Juliet- well…I enjoyed studying the play. Just wanted to smack the horny adolescent crybaby main characters in the face.). This coming semester both social studies and English get funneled into what everybody considers to be a useless class, cultural foundations. I don’t get to keep either of my teachers from English or Social Studies, which makes me sad since they’re both pretty cool.

The class I am absolutely positively one hundred percent and without a single faint little old doubt wonderfully excited to say goodbye to would be science. Fun Fact for you: at my school we don’t have grade nine science. Grade nine students just skip over their science and move on straight to grade ten science. Which means that if you are a grade ten transfer student you get to do all grade ten courses- except you have to spend your first semester in a grade nine science class. I love grade nines. Many of my dear friends are grade nines. But the niners in my science class (especially the boys) were probably some of the most racist, sexist, dirty-minded,homophobic and all around lazy people I have had the horror of meeting.This coming semester I will be doing biology eleven (except…wait for it…it’s biology for tenth graders!) next semester, and I. Am. So. Happy!

(I do realize that writing all this down makes me sound like a complete snob who sticks her nose up at everyone and everything. I would like to assure you that this is fairly untrue, and in day to day life I am a more or less decent person. I just really dislike that class, and as my blog you get to feel the pain of my venting. Please feel free to browse through the venting if you’d rather.)

On another note, I realized today that for someone who self-professes to be extremely un-musical I’m sort of (although not entirely) proving myself wrong. I’ve been teaching myself guitar over the last couple of months (with…interesting, if not necessarily melodic, results.) and as of today I’ve joined my school choir. The long story short behind me joining choir would probably go a little like this:

  • A bunch of my friends told me to join choir.
  • I decided to follow their and advice and to try to join choir for the coming semester.
  • My friends got me into choir today without telling me.
  • I was randomly told, “Oh, hey, you’re in choir now! You should come to practice after school today!”
  • So I came, had a good time despite the fact I didn’t really know what I was doing, and am really happy I’m a part of it!

I’m afraid I really don’t have anything else to say to you. But seeing as it’s nearly two in the morning that may be for the good.

Goodnight? Good morning?

Kaelen.

Soup?

My dear friends, small children, and assorted limbs,

I do apologize that I have been using bullet point format so much lately. I promise that I will write a nice blog post with paragraphs and everything one of these days. But it is not this day. (points if you get the reference.)

And so. My addiction  love for the humble bullet point shall be expressed, as I love to write in list format, and even more so I love to not write in english proper as work of school makes me tired of this whole writing proper doodle ma thingy.

Now then…

  • Exams exams exams, GAH! I think I might just have a little bitty bit of freak out induced panic type thing that is all pent up inside and is going to pop sometime soon in a very noisy mess of Kaelen Stress. Hopefully no bystanders will be injured.
  • However, I kind of have a tendency to stress out over things a riduclouss amount. Like the other day where I had a mini freak out about University, except the mini freak out was spread out over a 24 hour space. (yeah. I’m fifteen. Grade ten. I’m stressing over uni. This is a perfectly valid fear.)
  • On the non stressful side of things, I have I-act for the first time in exactly a month today! Very happy about that! Approximately half an hour until I get to go play happy improv games in a room full of people who I may or may not know.
  • And now ’tis time to go eat soup.

What an odd post this has been. Random much? Ah well, love you too.

Kaelen.

“Idle Meanderings Of A Wannabe Optimist”

(post title sardonically generated by: this generator right over here)

My weekend is going to/has so far consist(ed) of:

  • Iact coffee house last night. Beautiful time. I have a bunch of talented friends, and they have talented friends, and their friends friends are talented. And when all these people preform together they make this little explosion of talent under the impressively high roof of the  Sanctuary Theater. Happens every month, costs five bucks, is a thing you should check out if you live in the saint john area and like to listen to hipster kids sing.
  • Semi-cleaning my room so that I once again have something resembling habitable. I’m not a hoarder- I just find the sentimental meaning in objects from two years ago! I’ve discovered that the Petshop Boys make for very good cleaning music. (same goes for the Smiths)

  • Finding out that I need to teach myself physics over the weekend, in addition to my social studies homework. It’s nearly one in the afternoon on Saturday and I still haven’t’ started.

Shall we darlings?

Kaelen.

Let me ‘splain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up.

How did my first ever real live christmas break/fifteenth birthday go you ask?

Why, (more-or-less) fanfreakingtabulous, thanks for asking!

An example of a birthday spent well.

My birthday, I will admit, I was not something I was looking forward to especially, but once it actually happened I had a good time. The morning was a mix between the realization that I should help clean my extremely messy house and helping to clean my extremely messy house. The afternoon I spent with my friends walking around uptown (basically if somebody ever asks me what I want to do with my spare time the answer is “Let’s go adventure uptown!!”) and at my (clean!) house watching such things as Tim Burton’s big fish (I’ve professed my love for that movie on this blog before.)and playing truth or dare. (which is how I learned that I apparently have nice legs. Hey, I’m not going to complain!)

As for christmas break, it started off well, and got boring after approximately six days. I spent most of my break as an anti-social hermit, hiding out in my room with my best friend the internet. By the end of it I was quite ready to go back to school. Which I was supposed to do today- but seeing as I woke up yesterday with an eye infection (Why hello there pink eye! I thought you were supposed to be an elementary school type of thing?) today was a ‘laze in bed with my extremely unflattering-but-cozy-flannel-yellow-penguin-pajama-bottoms-and-mismatched-shirt’ type of day There may have been some watching of certain Disney acapella mashups. (there always is.)

Good points of Christmas Break:

  • Going to see Tintin, which I dressed up for (I make one fine European reporter), for which there is sadly no photographic evidence.
  • Adventuring! around uptown (and, yes, you pronounce the exclamation point.) two days in a row.
  • Certain acapella disney mashup videos, such as this one:

  • And this (not acapella, but most certainly disney mashup) one:

  • Clarification that, yes, my life is awesome.
  • Actually living out my childhood dream of buying over-the-top amounts of candy at one time in one place. (Long story short, you have to spend gift certificates for Freak Lunchbox at one time. Ten dollars worth of bulk candy is a lot of bulk candy.) The sad side to this story is that being forced to buy ton of candy is not as fun at it would seem to a nine year old me, and since I apparently have no self control the candy was eaten in two days-ish. The sugar crash was terrible.
  • Sleeping over at Mozart Nerd‘s house.
  • The relief of wearing glasses after over a week of them sitting sadly forgotten at Mozart Nerd’s house. There is a reason the optometrist’s tell you not to wear your contacts all the time.
  • The youth group new years fun time out thingy. Despite the fact that it was held at the Elders hall in Macey’s Bay (or perhaps because of?) it was a good time!
  • Receiving THIS tee-shirt as a birthday gift from THIS lovely aunt.
  • And, while we’re on the matter of doctor who, the doctor who christmas special. Not as good as a new season, but a nice taste nonetheless.

Good evening chickadees!

Kaelen.

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