with words I thought I'd never speak

Monday is my last official day of school. I have an Italian final on Tuesday and a Physics final on Thursday; my two writing revisions are due in by tomorrow (and they're finished--OMG BEFORE THE LAST MINUTE, YAY ME), and I have a "self assessment" for that class (yeah, I don't know either) due by Monday. And then? FREEDOM. ...for, like, just over a week. UNFAIR. BUT FREEDOM.

So, tomorrow: Italian presentation, which hopefully will go okay. My lines are partially memorized. And how did I end up with the two longest lines in the script? >.< AND THEN, a quiz in physics which I'm sure to fail, because I've pretty much stopped paying attention in that class, and he's trying to cram all this crap into the last week, and everyone in the class is just like OH FUCK OFF. So which is better: sucking in two classes, or sucking HORRIBLY in one and hopefully doing mildly okay in the other? Or do they average out to the same thing?

The sucky part about physics is that I would probably do well with it... with a different teacher, on a different schedule. *sigh*

I'm going to be reciting my Italian lines in my sleep tonight. My two hardest lines:

Io e la mia famiglia ci siamo andati agosto scorso e non ci siamo divertiti. (WOO, THAT ONE'S MEMORIZED! hopefully it will stay that way.)
Che??! No!! I miei zii abitano le a Tragani, e sono pazzi! Se andrò ci avro dovrò a visitare loro. (...yeahhhh, that one's still killing me.)

And then next weekend (directly after my physics final), I (and hopefully Tiffany) will be going down to Tacoma to do the FIRST stuff, which will last for like, 3 or 4 days. It should be fun though. I think my official job is "prop assistant for the announcer", which should mean that I'm gonna be handing the guy a bunch of weird crap and getting a lot of down time while being right up front so I can see the action. LOL I love that my mom's the volunteer coordinator.

am officially sick. most likely with the flu. and i think i was having auditory hallucinations last night. it sounded like someone walking over gravel with plastic grocery bags on top, so kinda crinkly and stuff. but the footsteps never faded away, so it was like someone walking in place. and none of the rest of my family heard it, so. O.o am on drugs now.

i was so dead yesterday afternoon that i completely forgot to do my online physics homework. oooops. and today i have 2 writing thingies due, which i haven't started. more oops. but at least my italian test was postponed until monday, and physics was easy today because he just drew a bunch of stupid-looking pictures on the board and didn't really explain much. but now i've eaten some soup, i have 'the archer' on my kindle, and am gonna go take a nap.

oh, yesterday, my physics teacher came out of the classroom and started talking to me and cute physics guy (we'd been chatting for a while), and he started telling us about learning the building blocks that'll be useful throughout the series of classes (of which there are 3) and i felt guilty about not taking the class next quarter, like, really guilty, but then i thought about how i've been doing so far and it almost erases my guilt. because seriously, i can't take another class with this guy, about this subject. it's just not happening.

also, i've been thinking about going friends-only. fic will remain public, of course. but i think i'm seeing the appeal of f-locking. something to think about, anyway.

title: Uncle Charlie
rating: PG
summary: Jack's nervous about meeting Charlie
a/n: this is for Specimen, which is supposed to be an anecdote about an interesting character. omg this one needs some WORK. It kinda doesn't work for the prompt at all, or at the very least just barely. I'm not sure it even works outside the prompt... it's kind of silly and not very well thought out. and yeah, I used the name Charlie again. but only because it's more common a name than Dominic is. and, it's got kind of a crap ending. *headdesk* it's embarrassing, really.

title: I'm Here Now
pairing: Reilly/Patrick, though I wrote it as a companion piece to this Monaboyd fic, just with different characters.
rating: PG-13
warning: implied death! what fun. do I need to mention angst as well?
a/n: In my mind, this is Billy's POV of that other fic. I might get around to rewriting it as such, but then again, I'm lazy, so I might not. This is for the prompt Last Lap.

title: Long Distance
rating: PG-13
summary: Dominic gets some bad news
a/n: For my writing class, for the prompt Trauma. I wrote most of these ficlets with Dom and/or other LotR guys in mind, but I changed the names around. It's getting really hard for me to think of new, good characters... >.<

 

got to school a bit early today, so I was able to sit around in the parking lot to wait, only I was an absolute mess because my mom kept up a steady rant over the phone the entire time. so that pretty much set the tone for the entire day, but there were a couple of highlights. 1) my Italian teacher waved at me when I passed her office window, 2) class itself was pretty easy even though I found out I did horribly on the last test, 3) the guy in my physics class kept me laughing during the (boring) lab today, 4) I came home to find Krispy Kreme doughnuts on the counter and I made a veggie-burger for lunch.

so that's all the good stuff. the bad stuff is: I got a 77 on my Italian test, and all from little tiny mistakes; my physics teacher is an ass, but he *tries* to be nice, which makes it that much worse; the moron in my lab group is such an annoying IDIOT; vista's still giving me issues and I can't turn in my writing assignment; pretty much all recent conversations with my mom; I have a physics exam on Thursday that I'm so not ready for.

and I need to start a new painting.

My sister had to go to the hospital last night 'cause she fell weirdly on her leg while rock climbing. So now she's all doped up on pain meds. What fun! O.o

Italian was cancelled today. It would've been nice to know that before I left the house, but oh well. The teacher's Spanish class was cancelled too, so I dunno if she's sick or just doing something else today or what. It'd be nice if it was cancelled tomorrow....

Physics, though. Unfortunately, not cancelled. I hate this class. I was kinda like this during the whole thing today: @___@. And that moron guy? This time he nearly fell asleep (I could hear a bit of snoring) and when he woke up, he was picking ear wax out of his ears. It was disgusting. Anyway, I stayed after class to talk to the teacher and he didn't really answer my questions, but he's just weird and I don't like him so I just left. Oh, but the class after mine is taught by my old math teacher. He was so nice... I wish he taught my physics class and not the engineering one, or whatever specialized one he does.

Can you believe that I'm having trouble writing my 'Trauma' vignette this week? I don't usually have any problems with traumatic stuff. >.< The other one this week is 'Specimen', which is "a story telling one anecdote about a memorable character." Hmmmm.... *thinks* Any ideas?

And finally, voting for the mome awards - I am having so much trouble deciding which fic to vote for in the Billy/Dom Long Fiction category. THEY'RE ALL SO GOOD! I had slightly less trouble for the Short Fiction category, but still, those were all good too! I want to vote for them all. LOL

Oh wait, one more thing. I don't remember who I downloaded this song from, Everything's Alright (I Think It's Time) by Jude. But I really really love it, so thank you, whoever you are. Who would'a thunk I'd love such an uplifting song? My favorites usually tend towards angsty... :P

today was much with the wtf-ness.

( to and fro )

Anyway. That was my day at school. I recorded a voice post, but then people started talking to me, so I couldn't finish that. eta: but it posted anyway! Here it is. lol Now on to less boring stuff.

1. bloodrayveness has posted an RPS Fandom poll, which I really want you all to go vote in, because I'm very interested in everyone's answers.

2. Reading semaphore27's This Is The Way the World Ends (lotrips/the stand crossover) is probably not the best idea late at night. But it's so good. Oh, Dom.

3. I'm having trouble thinking of a good situation for my writing assignment this week, Last Lap: "Last Lap places the character, right in the opening lines, close to the climax of a series of events. So the story begins partway up the face of the cliff and not when your character, Arnold, first got interested in mountain climbing." It's quite an interesting prompt, but all I can think of now is mountain climbing. Any suggestions for a situation? Anyone? Anything?

title: Wednesday Night
pairing: unnamed, but it's implied Billy/Dom
rating: let's say... R
warning: AU, told in first person, Billy's POV
summary: Billy's thoughts on an encounter at a strip club
a/n: I'm currently writing the 'what happened at the strip club' fic, and this was meant to be the sequel, but the more I read it, the more I think it'll work fine with the other one as a kind of flashback-sequel. Also, this is something I turned in for my writing class (without this bit of explanation, though), for the Facade prompt.