I'm rather excited for winter break, because it will involve a lot of free time, no homework, lots of sleeping, and a LOT of writing. Huzzah!
But I have to wait until Thursday is over before winter break starts. It's rather annoying (and by 'rather annoying,' I mean 'a major source of irritation').
What's the point of this week, anyway? I mean, really. Barely anyone assigns any homework (except for the English teachers who assign books over break, like my teacher has), and since so many people are leaving for the holidays early, the numbers are so diminished that barely anyone is around to do those corny pre-winter-break games that teachers sometimes come up with. Even if teachers actually teach, there are often so few people around that it's kind of lost. For example, there were five people in calculus today (well, there are normally 10 or 12, so that's kind of irrelevant... but the fact remains). Also, there's a good chance that many of us will forget about a lot of the stuff they're saying over the course of winter break anyway. This week is rather boring, and a bit useless, except for feeling bored and getting some writing done in the school library and things of that nature. And for musical rehearsal.
The annoying thing is, though, that I can't skive off school for this week, because I'm applying to William and Mary over break (I sent in my VCU audition request last night! WOOHOO!), and I have to make sure that my semester grades are really good so I can bump my not-exactly-William-And-Mary-Worthy GPA (but I want to finish my novel by January First so I can add that to the resume; hopefully my creds there will cancel out... not likely, but still).
Yeah. This week is annoying. Really annoying. Grades, Break, or Novel? Hmmm....
As the week goes on, though, I believe we will get an increasing number of free blocks as more and more students leave to spend the holiday in Hawai'i or somewhere equally awesome; thus, the boredom factor of the other students will drastically increase. One of my friends left for India on Friday, for example. My brother is going to the Dominican Republic in January. A friend leaves for Hawai'i tomorrow. I'll just be around, doing pretty much nothing except writing and applying to college. GRR!
I wish we had a snow day. Or something. I like snow. A lot. Especially during Christmas.
You know, it kind of bugs me that it snowed close to Halloween, but it's currently December and there's no snow in sight. Even the temperatures do not want to forebode snow (at least not last week. The temperatures are descending again, but there's some doubt in my mind that there will be enough moisture in the air to supply snow as well).
But more on that when it actually happens.
Anyway, in other news, my group of friends had a mini-secret-Santa thing today. My person gave me a Lord of the Rings piano/ voice book for Fellowship of the Ring, and a little button that says "I <3 To Sing." It's really exciting, and I adore them, especially the song book, mostly because it has songs that I have to actually practice on (as opposed to those really annoying big-note books designed for the 12-and-under pianists who are still learning to sightread, but have songs that the 13-and-ups can get in two tries), and some of the vocals are in ELVISH! WOOHOO!!
Today I have proclaimed to be a good day.
If I could get some more writing in, it would be an AWESOME day.
That remains to be seen.
Nevertheless, I am going to make a prediction, and I'm fairly certain that this prediction may come true: the rest of the week has a high likelihood of being horribly boring and rife with free blocks. I'll keep you updated; for now, I must go to class.
