Holy crap.
I think this is the longest I've gone without a Journal update. xD
Oh god. Let's see. So much has happened between now and my last entry. So much and yet...nothing at all.
AP World History turned out to be not NEARLY as bad as I anticipated. In fact, it's definitely one of my favourite classes. Sure, it's the cause of my having more homework than I've ever had in all of my years of being in school (with the average amount of homework this year being about an hour on most week nights), but it's absolutely amazing. Our teacher kicks all ass--the way he teaches, I just immediately understand what he's talking about and I'm able to remember a lot of what he says. He's in no way boring, which is GREAT. I'm passing that class with something around a 95, actually, and it escapes me how some of the other people in that class can get such low grades. They put off all their homework until the night BEFORE the test, which is when all of our homework is due...really, if you just do the assignments along with the chapters, you don't even have to READ the chapters to pass the quizzes we take just about every class. Albeit it is a lot of writing, it definitely helps my grades just by doing them. The bottom line? AP World History is, quite simply, awesome.
NJROTC is also pretty great. I came back to find out that I had been made second squad leader of my platoon, which was...a shock, needless to say. I didn't think I could do it, but it's actually pretty easy. PT was very difficult, starting out. Captain and First Sergeant have made several changes this year--it seems they're trying to physically work us harder, which overwhelmed me at first to the point that I thought about quitting half-way through the year. Since then, though, I've just been pushing myself, and I'ma ctually starting to get into shape. Outside of class, I've been exercising about an hour a day and I'm now able to jog a bit over a mile without stopping-- a huge accomplishment for me, as I've always been terrible at running. I've also joined Colourguard this year (not band colourgard--NJROTC colourguard) which actually pretty fun--I've been designated left rifle, which was a bitch to learn at first when we started out learning right rifle movements. xD That aside, NJROTC would also have to be another class that I enjoy.
Geometry not so much. It's exactly like my driver's ed class I took last year--maybe it doesn't help that it's RIGHT after lunch, but it's almost impossible to not start nodding off in that class. As loud as he is (you can hear him several classrooms down) you'd think you'd stay awake without a problem. Haha, no. I think I'm going to shoot myself if I hear "eeeeeeeleven!" one more freaking time. .-.
German class is alright. I hate the people in my class--none of them want to learn shit, so in twelve weeks, we've only gone through two chapters. My teacher is alright...she's a cool person outside of class, but I swear...her teaching style is flawed. She makes NO sense with her analogies, she does ENTIRELY too many group projects, and the extra credit work she has the other students do is ENTIRELY unrelated to German. (Making a poster of a bunch of puppies?) I want to stay in German all four years to really try to learn the language, but I just don't feel like I'm really learning much.
Art class is alright. I wish we moved at a faster pace, though. I like the people who sit around me, so that's all well and good. Currently we've been doing watercolours, and we just finished with that--nothing that's worthy of posting, though. Yesterday, since it was our last day of school before Thanksgiving break, our teacher let us watch The Dark Crystal, which I've been DYING to see for some time now. It's an inspiring movie, I must say, but the bell rang before I got to see the last five minutes of it. :[ Biology sucks. It IS suckitysucksucksuck. At first it was alright because I was sitting by *Ct-Kitteh in the back by EMILY! (the snake < 3), and all we really did was draw and giggle about things quietly. But that was all before the teacher made a seating chart just last week. Yeah. At first the teacher was alright, if not way boring, but now...haha. She's become the epitome of evil. I hardly think it's going to help us learn any more, as for whatever reason, her teaching style causes me to go ADD. (It's a Pre AP class and it's ten times harder than my AP World History class.) Oh well. Yesterday we went into the connecting biology room of another teacher and watched part of that JFK movie...the part with the forty-minute trial scene. xD Freaky shit, I'm telling you--especially when you've never been taught hardly anything about JFK's assassination. Hell, I always thought he was making a speech like MLK and got shot in the chest--I never knew he had the back of his head blown off.
English...I liked English last year. English last year was fun, because the teacher made it fun. Even if the worksheets we did were boring as hell, I couldn't hate that class. This year? It'd have to be one of my least favourite classes. Period. I swear our teacher must be on drugs or something--it's just the way she acts. She's so scatterbrained that if you got the whole class together and the entire class INSISTED that she never assigned us a certain project, she would never know that she did. That aside, she also does too many poster projects and group work and a whole bunch of what can generally be classified as "ew".
That leaves me with Photojournalism, which WOULD be an awesome class if it wasn't for the fact that I don't know anyone in my class and they're all pretty much complete and total idiots who don't even care about the class. Our teacher is awesome--whenever I'm through with everything and we have nothing else to do, she lets me go down to the art room to see *Ct-Kitteh, ~FetusInACup, and ~Nah-chan and hang out there until the end of the day. But photojournalism is really jsut a case where I LOVE the class, but I just hate everyone in it. (except for the people at my table, who are all pretty cool as they aren't complete jerks...but I don't really know them and I'm too shy to really start much of a conversation with them. Haha.)
Other than school, I don't really have too much news. We're not going anywhere for Thanksgiving--we're just staying at home and having filet mignon with twice-baked potatoes and a salad, or something like that--which is always good. < 3 Then on Christmas break, I'm going with *Ct-Kitteh and ~FetusInACup to the Trans-Siberian Orchestra Concert, which I've gone to for what will be three years now. The very next day, as I understand, my mom, dad and I are setting out for the long drive to Charlotte, North Carolina for the Christmas holidays and will hopefully make it there by late Christmas day (that's only what -I'm- hoping though. c: ) It'll be the first time in three or four years that we've gotten to go up to Charlotte for Christmas, as for the past few years, we've instead gone during the Summer. Apparently--though it is only a rumor--I might have the opportunity to go to Los Angeles with mom to see some of her good friends. It's not anywhere near set in stone, but I heard her mention it, so I'm crossing my fingers while attempting to not get my hopes up... xD;
This year has been a very slow year for art. I'm feeling more and more uncreative, and it's probably been the worst art block I've ever experienced, as it's lasted for several months now with only a few breaks that last maybe a day or less. I promised myself that I'd focus more on my art, but so far, that hasn't happened...dammit, I really need to get back on track... ;;
Well, anyway, I think that about covers it. For everyone in the states--have a happy Turkey Day! c: (And happy INCREDIBLYBELATED 5th of November. xDDD)

As an early Christmas present, I got an iPod Classic a little over a week ago! < 3 It's very spiffy, especially since I purchased a GORGEOUS skin from [link] . I'm totally in love with it...but now, I just need money to fill it up with music that I've found over the past several months that I haven't been able to find in stores. (Like a bunch of electronica and J-Pop and the like. 8D; ) But anyway--I managed to take a picture with my crappy webcam. xD