Greetings once again to my fanclub/assorted readers. I’ve just realized that this is January, and my freshmen year at Career is about half-way through.

So why don’t I update you all on how this year is going, hm? You’ll love this.

Two weeks before the midterm, and two of our teachers leave. One had a replacement waiting, so that didn’t do much harm to Keyboarding. (Actually, that’ll keep loads of people from failing, because Ms. Garris had about 75% of the class with grades under 60% when she left, and the new teacher is giving us 100s for assignments just for trying to do them. Won’t help the bloke with the 11 much, but whatever.)

The other teacher that quit was our Algebra teacher. He was not replaced. The school is currently seeking a new teacher for us. And oh boy, does that mean we are screwed…

It took them nearly three months to find us a temporary English and Keyboarding teacher. The subs we had in those classes didn’t make us do a damned thing, or even bother teaching, for that matter. Since neither of these classes are ever hard, I didn’t worry.

But we are lacking an algebra teacher. Everyone in that class except for myself and Meghan are also in Algebra Lab, meaning they need extra help. And that extra help comes in the form of the special ed algebra DVD set. (This thing has ‘cute’ bugs doing math with ‘amusing antics’ thrown in. We’ve had to watch them three times in algebra. Every time we watch one I can feel my sanity draining away and the urge to kill rise.)

So the lack of teacher to finish teaching what will be on the midterm and review (read as: teach everything again three minutes before the test is given and still be expected to give you the answer to every other question), I really worry. Not as much about my grade, but how having half the class get zeros will make us look.

I figure I can bullshit through the test like I always manage to do, but something may come up. This happens to be the only test that I’m worring about, including the Spanish one.

Yup. Back to my project, then.

EDIT:
Suddenly, I feel like adding to this entry. I don’t know why, but I shall.

I’m bloody amazed with my nanowrimo. I never finished the thing (I haven’t looked at the text in months, and I probably won’t ever read it because I’ll hate my work), but the fact that I wrote twenty eight thousand words in the period of seventeen days shocks me.

According to the report card, I spent about sixty eight hours writing it. When time off of school is taken out (time that I can’t use), that means I spent 23% of my free time working on it in those 17 days.

Daamn. Where did all of that time come from? 1677 words per day (something like 2 and a half pages, I think). I had trouble writing the stupid little paper for world civ tonight, but I managed to write better than half of a novel in 17 days?

I make myself wonder. I really do.

EDIT AGAIN:
No end to this tonight, is there? It’s rare to find me editing once in a week, nevermind twice in a night. But shit happens.

This news has just reached me. The whole story, not just the ruling. When I read it, I nearly cried.

For those too lazy, I shall summarize for you. A court ruled that stickers stating that ‘Evolution is a theory, not a fact’ put in biology books had to be removed because they were sponsoring religions, which is against the consitutuion (of course).

And thank Tux for that. I always thought this sort of story was some sick urban legend, designed to make fun of the ubar-anal political correctness in America’s broken-down school system.

But I guess I was wrong. A school put stickers telling us that evolution, our best theory on how humans and the rest of the life on Earth, came to be is, in fact, only a theory, and that we should keep an open mind. (Read as: Creationism r0xx0r!!!!!1oneoneoneeleven!11) The stickers were added because 2,000 parents bitched and moaned about their kids learning evolutionism.

Guess what, you whiney fucks? YOU ARE FULL OF SHIT. GO STRAIT TO HELL. DO NOT PASS GO, DO NOT COLLECT TWO HUNDRED FUCKING DOLLARS.

You are all MORONS. The book is about SCIENCE. It is *NOT* one of your Chistian storybooks about a superhero named Jesus and his sidekick Rocky Peter saving the world from sin and darkness. It’s about EXPLAINABLE, DEFENDABLE, ALL-AROUND WONDERFUL FACTS.

Yes, that’s right - FACTS. Not stories about God springing out of nowhere (which sort of contradicts the idea of a God creating life - He’s life, where the fuck did he come from?) and slapping down some water on a ball of rock which already existed and calling it Earth.

No no, right-wing christian bible-thumping bastards! A FACT is something that you can PROVE. Not wonder about. Not preach about endlessly without giving me any explanation whatsoever.

The fact that nearly *TWO THOUSAND* parents complained about the book teaching evolution scares the living shit out of me. What kind of people would piss and moan about that, of all things? Do you have any life AT ALL?

I realize that, for some odd reason, you find this Jesus cat to be really hip. I can almost accept that, because you aren’t shoving it in my face and saying ‘HI LOOK THIS IS JESUS HE IS KEWL WE ALL LUVE HIM KTHXBYE OWLY TOWLY OWLY TOWLY HOW DUZ UR GARDEN GROW LOLLOLLOL’.

But honestly, DO YOU HAVE A FUCKING LIFE? I recon that *I* put you to shame life-wise, if you have time to call up a school and moan about your kid learning properly. Get some hobbies, you fucking nutcases. Pick your nose, watch the telly, call your mom - ANYTHING. Just LEAVE THE GODDAMN CHILDREN ALONE.

Gah. Right-wing-Christian-bible-thumping parents should have their children taken away from them. I don’t want people like that fucking around with the future. Keep crapping all over the enviorment like good old people, and leave us youths the hell alone. We’ll need to know FACTS later on to clean up your mess and unfuck the world, because SuperJesus sure isn’t guna do it for us.

Mhm. Now I’m done. Gnite.