Slice of Life #4 - What I had for lunch today...

March 4th, 2013

It's horrible, the kinds of things people feed to poor schoolchildren. In elementary school, it was yellow, mushy carrots and stale mash potatoes, and the only thing to look forward to was a slushie (for 2 dollars). Of course, they decided to take that away too. Middle school was slightly better--if you got the server lady to like you she would heap your plate with spaghetti ;D
And then high school came. College food costs about twice as much as middle school food, and we get half the food we got in middle school. One serving of tater tots has about 8 tater tots--and costs $1.50
Meanwhile, in middle school we spent a dollar for about 20 tater tots or a sleeve of fries. Of course, I ordered tater tots today, because I was too scared to order soup or pizza....For all you guys that go to HTHS, you know how scary ordering soup is.

 

Meanwhile, pizza is never a good choice. True, sometimes it actually looks and tastes like pizza. However, on some select days, the pizza turns out strange. For those of you who sit at my lunch table: Remember those times when my pizza was all yellow and had no sauce? And remember that time when the pizza wasn't cooked enough and the dough was still able to be kneaded? The good old days of terrible pizza.



 If you have any complaints about your lunches or past lunches, please comment. :D

Slice of Life #3 - Pepperoni Pizza

March 3rd, 2013

The mundane art of having lunch just became even more mundane for me. This was made possible by the infamous pepperoni pizza, a food that is a desecration in the hallowed halls of food.
After I came home from my piano class (at which my teacher made us pay another 10 dollars, for what I don't know) I found out that my mother had already ordered pizza for lunch. I opened the box, hoping to find mushroom pizza or plain pizza.

But of course, my hopes and dreams were shattered. Because, oh, THE HORRORS, there was pepperoni pizza.

Just to make myself clear, I consider pepperoni pizza terrible. Well, at some places, pepperoni pizza can be quite delicious--but it's not very good when you get it from Marlboro Pizza. Or basically anywhere that serves its pizza topped with about ten gallons of orange oil.
I think my distaste started back in middle school, when my friend used to buy pepperoni pizza every other day--and then she would get a napkin, lay it on top of the pizza, and sop up all the oil. Within two minutes, that napkin would be saturated, so we would have to get 2 or 3 more to reduce the oil amount to a decent amount. Okay, I might be exaggerating. We usually only used 2 napkins. Same thing. xD
Whenever I go to the mall, I get plain pizza, and people always look at me like I'm weird. They order pizza salad (pizza with salad on top? ._.) or pizza pasta (pizza with pasta on top? .________.) or something else that's really pizzare. <--That was a typo, but I will not fix it because it turned out to be a pun. :D
But pepperoni--why? You taste all spicy and slimy and ughhhh. I usually pick you off my pizza. WHY MUST YOU TASTE SO TERRIBLE!?

Slice of Life #2 - Sleep Deprivation

March 2nd, 2013

Usually, I go to bed at a decent time--but that doesn't mean I'll go to sleep. I'll TRY, of course, because sleep is great, but previous occurences or regrets that day keep messing around with my head. So yesterday, I ended up going to sleep after midnight.
I don't know if I'm the only person who experiences something like this. Yesterday, I came home from school particularly tired, hoping I could go to sleep early that night. But, it seems like the more tired I am, the harder it is to fall asleep. There wasn't even that much homework last night.
However, on the days that we DO have homework, I think mainly of what my doctor and school nurse tell me. "You must have at least 8 hours of sleep for your body to grow properly." Well, I guess that explains why I'm so short xD Short people, do not despair--"Tall plants might be uglier..."-Mr. Roche
^That was not an insult to tall people.

Sleep deprivation also leads to stress (this was a major theme of my musings from last night). Although I tried to force myself to sleep, the more I thought, the less sleepy I was. When I woke up today and went to chinese school, I was even more awkard than usual. (For those of you who saw me, I copied the wrong number of papers, I walked into a lady's chair, and for some reason I let 2 people cut me in the copying machine line.)
Another thing: I was so tired I didn't even feel like going to swim practice today. Even though I'm seriously out of shape...

Slice of Life #1 - Recent Woes

MARCH 1ST, 2013

If one simply stepped up to a High Tech student and asked him/her what was the worst thing about their day, I can guarantee that most students would either say, "The horrible quiz/test I took today" or "Nothing, really." (Note: those who do not mention quizzes or tests probably did not have a quiz or test that day. Which is extremely unlikely.) I will dedicate this post to the terrible past week, chock full of tests, quizzes, and projects.
While I'm hearing great news all around me ("VIVIAN! GUESS WHAT! I GOT INTO S&E AND MEDSCI!" congrats, by the way, to all the people I know who made it into the schools they applied to :D), I am remorsefully staring at my computer watching a pitiful slump of my GPA. It might have just been me, but I started my third marking period pretty badly. The first week was basicaly cramming, handing in one project after another, and then the second week was handing in another 5 assignments within the first two days and then studying for about a million quizzes. I'm sorry if I complain too much, I just had to let off some steam :'(

Then after studying for those quizzes and tests, I epic fail all of them. Alright, maybe not literally, but I Asian failed --according to the wise words of Tom Li, I "will bring great shame to my famiwy!" Ask Tom if you don't understand.
I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who's depressed (short sidetrack here): in Latin today, Nivetha was sprawled out on her desk, being generally depressed, while Prashil and Elvis were making faces. Of course, it was incredibly funny and Nivetha eventually laughed. But, Nivetha soon got mad at us for ruining her depression, and went back to being sad. I'm sorry for ruining your depression, Nivetha. I sincerely apologize. :(
I think part of the reason many people epic failed (of course, excluding the couple of you who got hundreds on everything. * SHUN T.T *) is sleep deprivation resulting from working continuously on one project after another. Another reason was very well likely the fact that I stink a lot at drawing auxiliary views--and I found out right as I was taking the test. ANOTHER reason I did poorly on my history quiz might have been that I did not learn from my past mistakes and still changed 2 of my answers at the last second. Of course, these were the two questions I got wrong. It figures.
Anyways...I hope the marking period improves in terms of better assessment grades. :) Wallowing in despair won't help much.