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oi what a day
28/1/06 21:38Okay, so, a little over an hour (or is it two hours) left of Hogsmeade voting I believe, so I'm going to attempt to work on this journal entry and vote at the same time... haha. Well, for some Hogsmeade communities. -isconfused-
Okay, so that didn't work out... I ended up voting my little heart out and then coming back to this x) Ah well. I got it all done, so that's good.
I think I stand a chance at placing in one thing. I checked maybe 3/4ths of the things I entered to see whether I was placing, though, so I don't know about any I haven't checked... whatever. And in one I made the most ridiculous mistake in the world XD Still get participation, though.
/hogsmeade
Okay, so, got up early this morning for SATs. The getting up was fine, surprisingly enough. Shower, Cocoa Puffs, brush teeth, check email while waiting for mum to do her thang so we could go. Went up to the test center. It all went smoothly, really, aside from our proctor being late and some guy who wasn't sure what he was doing stepping in until she arrived... but the guy was amusingly adorable, so it was okay with me.
I'm used to having 45 minutes for the essay portion from the FCATs x_@ So yeah, I didn't quite finish. I got in a good three paragraphs and would have been pretty finished if I added a conclusion, though given the 45 minutes I was trained with in Florida I would have ended up with 5 paragraphs, an extra stuck in before the conclusion for good measure. So. I finished my sentence and everything, and the essay went onto the second page, so I shouldn't have done too horribly despite not finishing it. I hope. (Anyone know if not finishing is unusual?)
I wish that you could work on any section you like during the testing time instead of being confined to one. I was cutting it extra close on the math, but I always had like ten minutes left over for reading x_x; For my first section I didn't finish filling in the two final student-answer ones or whatever, but I ended up remembering the problems and solving them mentally on break, and sneakily filling them in later -shame- Oi. Then on the second math section I skipped one that I didn't have time to go back to, and there was another from the first section like that. The third section I finished, though. Which means that out of the three sections, at least two I missed simply for not completing them. Completed everything on reading though.
So, yes. That was the SAT for me.
Then we went to Arundel Mills to watch The New World. We got there exceptionally early and bored ourselves silly wandering around the mall... I got a new necklace and shirt, and a necklace for Ash in Alaska from Hot Topic / Spencer's. Mmm... So yeah, then we went to the theater and I waited in line for concessions... the whole theater was running about 20 minutes late because someone had pulled a fire alarm earlier, so our movie was going to start later than scheduled as it was. A guy testing movie previews on a bunch of laptops recruited my brother and me to watch the previews and fill out a survey about them. Ice Age 2. Meh.
People coming out of The New World mostly said it sucked. Dad thought it may have just been because it was interrupted by the fire alarm so they were in a bad mood, but we discovered that it wasn't the fire alarm's fault. At all.
The movie was slow. Sooo slow. I spent the first half of the movie wondering when it was going to start. I spent the second half wondering when it was going to end. And the narration was annoying. Aaaagh.
High points: Colin Farrell looked pretty damn good in the movie. I never thought much of his looks before this movie and couldn't understand why people fawned over his hawtness, but now I don't think I can look at them with quite the same look of nervous uncertainty on my face. Oh, and the previews were cool. I love trailers.
Low points: ...everything else. Yeah.
Yup, that's about it. -iztired-
Okay, so that didn't work out... I ended up voting my little heart out and then coming back to this x) Ah well. I got it all done, so that's good.
I think I stand a chance at placing in one thing. I checked maybe 3/4ths of the things I entered to see whether I was placing, though, so I don't know about any I haven't checked... whatever. And in one I made the most ridiculous mistake in the world XD Still get participation, though.
/hogsmeade
Okay, so, got up early this morning for SATs. The getting up was fine, surprisingly enough. Shower, Cocoa Puffs, brush teeth, check email while waiting for mum to do her thang so we could go. Went up to the test center. It all went smoothly, really, aside from our proctor being late and some guy who wasn't sure what he was doing stepping in until she arrived... but the guy was amusingly adorable, so it was okay with me.
I'm used to having 45 minutes for the essay portion from the FCATs x_@ So yeah, I didn't quite finish. I got in a good three paragraphs and would have been pretty finished if I added a conclusion, though given the 45 minutes I was trained with in Florida I would have ended up with 5 paragraphs, an extra stuck in before the conclusion for good measure. So. I finished my sentence and everything, and the essay went onto the second page, so I shouldn't have done too horribly despite not finishing it. I hope. (Anyone know if not finishing is unusual?)
I wish that you could work on any section you like during the testing time instead of being confined to one. I was cutting it extra close on the math, but I always had like ten minutes left over for reading x_x; For my first section I didn't finish filling in the two final student-answer ones or whatever, but I ended up remembering the problems and solving them mentally on break, and sneakily filling them in later -shame- Oi. Then on the second math section I skipped one that I didn't have time to go back to, and there was another from the first section like that. The third section I finished, though. Which means that out of the three sections, at least two I missed simply for not completing them. Completed everything on reading though.
So, yes. That was the SAT for me.
Then we went to Arundel Mills to watch The New World. We got there exceptionally early and bored ourselves silly wandering around the mall... I got a new necklace and shirt, and a necklace for Ash in Alaska from Hot Topic / Spencer's. Mmm... So yeah, then we went to the theater and I waited in line for concessions... the whole theater was running about 20 minutes late because someone had pulled a fire alarm earlier, so our movie was going to start later than scheduled as it was. A guy testing movie previews on a bunch of laptops recruited my brother and me to watch the previews and fill out a survey about them. Ice Age 2. Meh.
People coming out of The New World mostly said it sucked. Dad thought it may have just been because it was interrupted by the fire alarm so they were in a bad mood, but we discovered that it wasn't the fire alarm's fault. At all.
The movie was slow. Sooo slow. I spent the first half of the movie wondering when it was going to start. I spent the second half wondering when it was going to end. And the narration was annoying. Aaaagh.
High points: Colin Farrell looked pretty damn good in the movie. I never thought much of his looks before this movie and couldn't understand why people fawned over his hawtness, but now I don't think I can look at them with quite the same look of nervous uncertainty on my face. Oh, and the previews were cool. I love trailers.
Low points: ...everything else. Yeah.
Yup, that's about it. -iztired-
