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I've been under the weather for about week now, too. Last Thursday, I came down with a cold, and it wasn't too bad. On Sunday it got bad. Like I'm coughing-it sounds really bad, like I'm about to hack up a lung-and sneezing and runny/stuffy nose, and all that other good stuff that comes along with a cold. I hope you feel better soon, Para.

I'm just curious to see what you guys think about this:
I wanted to do Mathletes at my school. And my math teacher is the coach for the sophomore team. She said that she is going to choose the people for the team based on what their overall grade was last year in Honors Geometry and so far this year in Honors Integrated Geometry/Algebra 2. So basically, if you didn't have an A last year and this year, she won't pick you because you're supposedly not good enough to be on her team. But what you do is you sign up for an area of specialty-either the frosh/soph 8 person team, coordinate geometry, area, or quadratic equation-and she SHOULD pick the 4 people who are the best at that area of specialty, because I signed up for something I did really well on in geometry, which is area, but I still have a low grade (like a B-) because I don't do very well at taking tests (tests are 45% of our grade), but I understand what we do in class. She thinks that if she picks the ones that have the best grade in the class, then she'll have a good team, but what we're doing for Mathletes is stuff we learned in Algebra 1 and for the most part has nothing to do with Geometry, so she shouldn't base it on that when it's something we did in 8th grade. She should have everyone who signed up for a certain area take a test and take the 4 who did the best on the test are the ones on the team, because just because you have a bad grade doesn't mean that you're not good at it. So she basically doesn't give anyone with a grade lower than an A a fighting chance. Because my friend who has a high B this year and last year didn't make the team. And it's really frustrating because I love Mathletes, and I love math. And I really hate my teacher.

But other than that above rant (sorry, I needed to vent my feelings) everything has been just dandy.

To answer your question Jedi, I think your teacher is being totally unfair in not letting people just people they don't have an A be in the mathletes, its discrimination against people who don't get A's!

I know your pain because in my freshman year in high school, I wanted to get into AP European History but to get in you have to get a recommendation from your english teacher. My teacher was a jerk and said, "if you don't have an A in my class, then you don't belong in AP, you are not smart enough for it." Even though I had a B+ at the time, which was the highest you could ever get into his class, it still wasn't good enough and because of him, I never got into AP. Funnily enough, 2 years later, my english teacher in junior year told me I was too smart for regular college prep english and recommended me for advanced senior english, even though I wanted to take senior poetry but he told me no, it would be too easy. So my whole point, is just because one teacher tells you something doesn't mean another one won't be.

ωσσℓιє says "^_^ Thanks."

Kitsune: That stinks about your friend, and you if you have it.

I went to see New Moon last night-it was ok (better than Twilight, in my opinion), and I saw a preview for Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, which is only one of the best book series out there besides Harry Potter and Eragon. So I was having a geek-out spazz attack in the theater, and when I got home, I called my friend who is also obsessed witht that series, and we spazzed out together. It comes out 12 days before my birthday, so I'll probably get some friends together, and we can see it.

Today, we had the first Scholastic Bowl tournament of the season, and it was pretty fun. We won 1 match thingy out of 5, which wasn't too bad because we were playing really good schools. And then I came home and slept for 4 hours because I have a lock-in at my church that starts in an hour, and we have to stay up all night, then go to 7:45 mass tomorrow morning, and then I can go home and sleep. So in a way, I'm looking forward to it, but I hate being tired and I don't like staying up all night because that requires sleeping during the day, and I don't like doing that because in my opinion, that's a waste of a day. Plus, I'm probably going to be like the living dead on Monday for school. Oh well, we have 5-hour school days on Monday and Tuesday, and no school Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday for Thanksgiving, so it won't be too bad I suppose.

Minerva: I hope your ankle feels better! I've never sprained ankle before (almost sprained my wrist playing tennis) but it sounds like it hurt when you sprained it.

I hope all the Americans on here enjoyed their Thanksgiving! Mine was really fun, but now Thanksgiving break is over, and I have to go to school crying Oh well. Only 13 more days of school left until winter break and then we have 2 weeks of no school. But supposedly my history teacher always assigns a huge project over winter break and I have to work on my oral part of my Spanish final with my friends over winter break. That sucks. I hate projects and finals. Ah well...that's school.

Hello, all, I'm back momentarily.

The muggle world has been giving me the most extreme, testing, situations of late that make the O.W.L.s and Apparation tests seem laughable. However, not being able to use magick to aid me in these situations... they've become quite tiresome.

Anyways, if any of you remember I was working on a thread of 'harry potter themed items' for Gaia. I have a few to add, alnot with other work as well...

-Slytherin house scarf
-Student Cauldron
-Gryffindor team quiddich robes

... of course nothing for poor rafenclaw or hufflepuff. We're so overlooked in the movies... If I was to write a fanfic I'd be sure to give all of the houses equal attention.

I'm sorry Minerva. I know what it's like. My uncle died of pancreatic cancer back in July (of course, on my best friend's birthday). He'd had it since January. The doctors found it by accident. Like, they weren't looking speifically for it. He'd had a hernia in his hip or whatever removed, and they noticed something strange, they tested it, and it was cancer. And if you know anything about pancreatic cancer is that it's almost incurable because by the time they catch, it's too far advanced that all the doctors can do is prolong your life with chemo and radiation.

I can't wait til Winter Break. I'm tired of school. Yesterday, I had tests in all of my classes except P.E. I thought I failed my Spanish quiz yesterday, turns out, I got a 100% on it. I was shocked. And I just want to be able to sleep in.

I had an eye doctor appointment today, and my mom is FINALLY letting me get contacts. We already ordered them, and they should be in by Wednesday next week. I probably won't wear them to school til after the holidays so I can get used to wearing them I'll just wear them around the house.

And yeah, my life has been pretty boring lately.