13/04/2024
most important thing first... homestucks, happy 4/13!!! okay, now for the superfluous stuff you don't care about: 1. i went to the final city math competition of the season and my school's [grade that i'm in] team got first for the entire season!!! all the seniors are gonna leave in like two months which really bums me out :/ (but one of our seniors got the "highest score of all 4 years" award (not the actual name) which rocks. jl i hope you continue to slay w/math in university.). 2. after that i went to see the school production of Failure: A Love Story which ruled. fun stuff all around
02/04/2024
break ended yesterday. site got a big fat update, as you can see. my grandparents visited!! we went to a few art museums and a bunch of walks together. we also ate out a lot, which was strange but nice. i wish i had been more productive in practicing piano and prepping for the ap test, though. first day back at school was wild. in homeroom we checked our chromebooks' compatibility with the psat testing software (psat is in a few weeks). in ap world our teacher straight up dipped without telling anyone. this is a month before the exam. so now we have a permanent sub who's honestly better at the job than she was (with like a day's worth of prep time). i'm now studying my ass off to prep. in piano we're doing a duet of the addam's family theme yayyy! and in bio we're doing the city-mandate service learning project. oh joy. i hope i fucking pass the ap exam good grief.
22/03/2024
hiiiiii it's finally spring break!! i'm literally so psyched to get more sleep for a week oml. also my grandparents are visiting, so that will be fun. next quarter of school we're doing gym again instead of health, so i'm gonna miss all the "study" (surf da web) time i got over the winter in that class. i'm so fucking psyched about how i'm doing in bio (that grade is higher than my health grade. which is insane). we're getting through wwii in ap world, and i'm soooo stressed about how we're gonna cover all the material before the exam in may. imma probably have to self study during break :(. i've been reading a lot more, and having a lot more time to do things that i like by myself. but also i've kinda noticed how bad i am at interacting with others and maintaing relationships (ugh). the day after the previous entry, my good friend and i exchanged birthday gifts a month late (we're born 3 days apart), so now i have a cute crocheted strawberry on my keychain. very nice very fun. oh and also over break i'm gonna try to make this website more of my own, instead of just using a template someone made. maybe get a little into iframes hehehe. see you around o7.
24/02/2024
february is going fine i guess. as usual, i spent valentine's day alone. well, kind of—a kid at the dojo was giving out vd bookmarks to all the senpai, so me and my mom got one each. oh and we had a party for el diá del amor y la amistad in spanish, and i volunteered to bring brownies. my mom and i put dulce de leche in them, which was sooooo tasty, and somehow not all of them were eaten in my block, so my friends finished the rest at lunch. in spanish we also started a new unit for reading this book called "Mi Propio Auto". this would be fine if i wasn't bored to death with how much time we're given in class to finish the comprehension worksheets (at least sr lets us have our phones out when we're done). in ap world we finished our imperialism unit and started on wwi with this big fat google doc (no actual teaching was done by our teacher). part of it involved listening to metal songs about the war, and i also had to conclude it by writing this edgy fucking poem about what i learned (and we just finished the poetry unit in english! agh i hate it here.). god i hope she doesn't actually read it. everything else is pretty unremarkable at school; i just wish my teachers would enter grades in a timely manner (*cough cough* mr. c lemme see how i did on the right triangles test please and thank you. i would like to have higher than a 94 in your class). yesterday i went to a little concert after school thing that some of my friends + seniors i admire from afar played in. good stuff. today was the dojo kid's tourney, so i volunteered as a scorekeeper for the junior's kata and then competed for sogo against the three other jr. shodan. i did pretty bad (2nd in kata, 3rd in kumite, 4th in tameshiwari, 3rd overall), but my good friend did win sogo :). i think i'm most pissed off about kata because i lost first by 0.1 of a point. had a good almost-cry session in the basement about that. there was pizza + lemon-poppyseed cake after, which was nice. weirdest thing was that someone walked out with my shoes. the pair that was left behind vaguely looked like mine, but two sizes too big, so idk how they didn't notice. thank god my dad could drive me home instead of making me take the subway home.
31/01/2024
january was a good month for me. the start of second semester is going pretty smoothly, and i feel like i have less homework these days (yippee! woohoo!). i went to a math team competition and got a new personal best of 10 (out of 20 lmao). the day after was my birthday! i saw a play, The Immortal Jellyfish Girl, and got brunch w/my father dearest at the diner. good stuff. webmastering has been a fun new hobby. i've learned a lot of stuff about filepaths, html formatting, some baby css stuff, and a little bit of pixel art for my site button. see you next month :).
01/01/2024
woah my god it's the year after i started this website! nye and nyd were super fun. i had a little party w/some friends, including my grade school bff who moved away, that spiraled into a sleepover. the next day we went and did a little urbex in the freezing cold. shoutout to university cops for not giving a shit about what happens over break. and also to heating grates over steam tunnels. i think january is going to be a good month for me. i'm finally understanding stuff in math team and most of my classes are fun. hopefully i don't have another grade panic with bio. i heard about this criterion collection challenge that i'll probably do (thank you father dearest for having such easy passwords for your streaming services). see the movie log for more about that in the future. until next time!