Wednesdays are teh suck
This day in History:
- 1897 - The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground metro in North America.
- 1914 - The last Passenger Pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
- 1979 - The American Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 km.
Despite the large amount of sleep I got last night I missed the bus this morning, and dad wouldn't give me a ride. My bike was in pieces on the garage floor, so I ended up walking to school. Three and a half miles is way too far for the morning. I missed almost all of first period, which luckily was band. I just sat outside the band room in the hallway until class was almost over and went to second period. My day started to look up from there because I got a 112% on my American history test if you factor in the ass-load of points that the teacher gives you for doing corrections. Then I got to Latin and as soon as the bell rang Mr. Bailey was talking to us about the relative pronouns and asked me to do a demonstration on the board. I forgot to bring my book to the board with me, and I couldn't go back to my desk to get it, because everyone was starting at me. So I came up with the most ludicrous, stupid sentence I've ever had to write (in Latin). It went something like:
Cornelius, qui est vir, currit per viam. The translation is: Cornelius, who is a man, runs down the road. Usually I take more pride in my work in that class. Mr. Bailey is the one teacher whose respect I desire. All my other teachers can suck it, as long as Bailey thinks well of me. Oh well, what's done is done. I have a physics test tomorrow, which I'm not too worried about, so I'll probably not study for it. I received a 91% on my math test, which is on the lower end of acceptable, considering how easy of a teacher Mr. Walz is. Then I failed my English essay. I didn't "post-it rape" my book, as Lauren puts it, and in the end that's what killed me. I spent half of the essay writing time looking for quotes in a classroom copy of the book. I think my essay was decent, but it was probably too short because my last three paragraphs were written in about ten minutes. Got home and hung around for a few minutes. Then I went to training. The air conditioner at the dojo was broken, so I'm actually glad that I skipped Monday, but Kelly and Jeff got up on the roof and installed a new one. Kelly was a plumber before he was a Java programmer, quite the career change. Way to go guys, you're awesome. Sensei had a laser pointer in training tonight. I think he just liked his new little gadget, he kept pointing to the wall with it for no real reason. I swear he's getting senile (which makes it even more awesome to be in class). Maybe it's just the heat.
Holy Shit:There are some weird articles in the paper today. Like this strange one:
Three Killed at Stampede at IKEA store, and this other gem:
Mom who gave birth in toilet guilty of murder. Really, the headlines pretty much say it all. But they're worth looking at if for no other reason that to realize that September 1 is a wasteland of real news and people resort to writing about really stupid
crap.
Today's LotD is to
ThisToThat.com. If you've ever wondered what bonding agent to use when connecting one material to another, this to that has the answer (might come in handy for the physics project).
