Zhanga: March 2003
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Monday, March 31, 2003
Apparently there's some rumor going around about me and CiCi, and she knows, but won't tell me. GRRRRRRRRRRRR it's gonna bother me forever. Until someone tells me of course. I'll have to figure out who's heard it and doesn't know me, and "hey, have you heard that thing about David?" lol CiCi says "It's nothing bad." Okay, well that narrows it down so much. Maybe someone's plotting to shoot me on Sunday. Or that I've eaten some kind of poison that will make me drop over dead in the middle of 3rd period a few days from now. lol
For some strange reason it seems that the less I try on a Spanish oral, the better I get. Except for the time when I got 22/40, of course. I got a 39 today and I said a bunch of things wrong... and the days I do it right she says "you didn't say as much in the minute as you were supposed to." Whatever.
Unreal Tournament 2003 owns. It gets kinda laggy after a while though... but overall it owns. Especially the flak cannon, that thing is deadly.
Today's math tournament really blew. I got used to the AIME, 3 hours/15 problems, and so on this 45 min/25 problem thing I decided to take my time... "5 minutes left!!" I look down, and I'm on #14. Also today was the worst guessing for me in all of high school. Of 8 or so guessed, I got one right. Normally I would get 3 or 4 of those right.
I really need to go read the Things Fall Apart book now. And also get out of here cuz my mom wants me to be gone.
10:32PM
Saturday, March 29, 2003
It's not really that much into Saturday yet... only 12:24AM. I figure that if I've already stayed up this long already trying to get my stupid computer to work, there's no point in getting to bed 10 minutes earlier. Grrr that stupid computer won't put my homework online, which means that when I was making some corrections to my lit essay I thought that I could just download the 4-page paper and change a few punctuation marks... but nooooooo... it wouldn't work and I had to retype the whole gay thing. I think I got it to work now, but I probably won't know until the next time I need it and it fails.
If I screw up writing something in here, it's because I'm sleepy and need sleep. I'm also so angry at this piece of crap computer (although at least it isn't frying my parts like the old one did... except when the CPU dies from cheating some more MHz's out of it) that the heat generated by me is causing the cardboard box half a room away to be a bigger fire hazard than it should be.
I got a video card for free from Charles (senior). I realized a while later it has a few capacitors and other various components broken off of it... lol he also gave me a stick of memory, which will speed up maintenance on that cardboard box significantly (I'll be waiting for about 15 seconds for it to respond after clicking somewhere instead of the minute it used to be...).
These stupid idiots (all freshmen, I think) who ride my bus in the morning complained to me about the foul odor on the bus. Wanna know what it smelled like? Petroleum... and why did they blame it on me? I was eating bao1 zi3 (uhhh... meat/vegetable stuff inside a dough thing; yes, I excel at describing). They decided since I was eating something, it must be my food that smells like petroleum. "How do you eat that shit?" or "Why do you eat something that smells like shit?" Geez, petroleum makes you barf, and the smell of it makes me want to barf. The only reason I didn't smell the petroleum was because the (can't think of an English word for it... xiang1 in Chinese) smell of the bao1 zi3 was right under my nose (I smelled the oil-smell a few minutes after I finished eating and it was FOUL!).
I'm too lazy to update the stupid stuff page today (or yesterday). I'll do it later after I take my nightly nap and [start] read[ing] some of that Things Fall Apart book. Test Tuesday? Deadly. I didn't even think about that book till a week ago.
Once again I have a weekend without some sort of tournament. It's probably the first time during the school year that this has happened twice in a row (winter break doesn't count as school year). But I have nothing to do this weekend... except read that Achebe book... and of course have Eva get mad at me again for saying stuff behind her back.
I've fallen asleep at my computer more than once before. It will not happen this late in the morning (umm... juxtaposition? whatever lol) cuz if my mom finds me sprawled on the floor in the morning in this room and being eaten alive by cockroaches (there's not quite enough of them to finish me off... so when I wake up they will become as burnt as Hell itself) then she will be really mad at me (maybe eat whatever's left of me). So it's time to sleep. I think I just alerted myself to the need to go on a search & destroy mission against those whores.
12:44PM
Wednesday, March 26, 2003
*Sigh.* Pat's mad at me and as far as I can tell, it's for being nice to CiCi. Why is it that I can only be friends with either CiCi or Pat, and not both?? This world sucks. lol
My research paper so sucks. The last paragraph doesn't even relate to the thesis... maybe she won't notice? Hopefully?
Oh yeah, I put up that picture of the computer-in-a-cardboard-box, in case you haven't already seen it. I really need to put a large metal plate under it though, so that it won't be such a fire hazard... Believe it or not, Dingting had one of these things last year and brought it to school for a Powerpoint presentation! Told you we're alike (except I wouldn't bring mine to school)! Dingting's mom made him buy a real case though cuz she said it was a fire hazard (it's more risky than mine because it was like 3 times as fast and 3 times hotter).
I procrastinate way too much. Even in washing the dishes! I'm supposed to wash them after dinner (before 6) and I still haven't done them...
10:31PM
Monday, March 24, 2003
Today was math tournament day. It was pretty sucky, partly because we had to clean up. I got a first and a second place thing and no perfects. Funny thing is, I got 3/5 right on the one I got first place on, and 3/5 is really bad (especially when there's that crazy Lassiter guy there too). Playing cards is good, though.
My guy who was my boss in China... he ICQ'd me today and asked me about the Iraq situation. He told me something about his girlfriend wants to kill Bush... then he said something about someday when I become president... yeah, and get shot by his girlfriend? lol what a great idea!
Tomorrow (GAH I can never spell tommorrow!! I always think theres 2 m's!! Good ol' spellcheck) is the AIME. I was told by the math coach person at AIME practice that over half of the contestants get ZERO (0) score out of 15, in 3 hours. Not encouraging. Even better, THREE (3) people in the history of Georgia have gotten 10 or more right, and I'm expected to get 5 right. Uuuuhhhh huh... and Dingting got 3 right, out of 7 attempted when he took it (it's the same for all grades). I'm toast.
Huh? What happened to my CD burner's CD-at-once button? Great, I'm burning this thing for Charles and I bet his computer's too old to read the CD I'm burning for him (some old computers only work with CD-at-once).
10:42PM
Saturday, March 22, 2003
Apparently my machine won't work for more than a day or two at more than about 1180MHz. Oh well, it's still good to get like a 140% improvement! And that cardboard box is working better as a server than anything I've used before... lol and this piece of crap made me reformat it like 4 times today! (reformat = 3 hours)
Today I went to MUST Ministries to do some clothes sorting. It sucked. There were about 15 people and 12,000 articles of clothing in a trailer a bit smaller than Mr. Edelstein's. And it smelled really bad. Two hours!!
Huh? My ear is shedding or something like it got sunburned. Rigged...
Ok I'm tired. Night.
10:51PM
Friday, March 21, 2003
It's been a few days since I've written here because I sold my computer ($180!! WHEEEEEE!!) and I've had to set up a new one. In case anyone has any idea what I'm talking about, I have a Celeron 850MHz and it's jacked up to 1214MHz (SDRAM and FSB rated for 100MHz is running at 144MHz). I wonder how long it will last before it permanently fries?
You guys have got to see my new server setup. It's not exactly what you would think of when you hear the word "server." It's actually a board, power supply, hard drive, and motherboard in a cardboard box (only problem is that I'm concerned if static electricity will fry it; a normal metal case serves as a grounding point for a computer), with 2 wires (power, network) coming out and about a half dozen bundles of wires inside. I'll put up some pictures later to show the Chinese-ness (cheap, normal box = $30; cardboard box = saved from landfill) of this setup.
Last night was great. There was a cockroach and I hit it so that it fell onto its back and couldn't get back up. The first thing I saw was a Post-It note, so I took it and tried to light it on fire... those yellow stickers don't burn very well. So I used the hot embers from it and touched the cockroach, which became frantic and its legs moved faster (upside-down, of course). Next up was a metal wire. I took that and made it hot using my stove, and poked at the cockroach and listened to it sizzle. It was nowhere near dead yet... so the finishing touch (or so I thought) was a used napkin which had quite a bit of oil from it. I touched that to my stove and it erupted into a ball of flames. The cockroach was cooked. Today at 4PM, about 18 hours after I thought I had killed it, it was not dead. Those damn cockroaches. Yes, I know I'm evil and I know many of you will think I'm a sadistic, immoral, evil, and cruel bastard who enjoys watching suffering. But cockroaches have no right to live. They have absolutely no benefit to humans or any other known species of organisms on this planet (except maybe some parasite who lives on it which I've never heard of... but parasites deserve to die too). So that's my rationale. And these cockroaches are slowly torturing me and causing me to die (my lit teacher, Ms. Tischner, told us that the top cause of asthma according to one study was cockroach something, I think it was saliva), so why shouldn't I torture them?
Wow that movie today sucked. How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days? Horrible. Except the part about "... he farts like a howitzer." That was the good part... and the only good 3 seconds of the entire 2+ hour movie, which I paid $7.50 for. That's like 40 Cokes (grrr.)!!!
11:09PM
Tuesday, March 18, 2003
I got assigned Feathered Frenzy for Science Olympiad (!!). That's bad, because it's state competition and I can't fail. It also happens to be something I'm not interested in (birds...).
Nothing much to write about today, because nothing much happened.
Today was boring... *yawn*
9:50PM
Monday, March 17, 2003
Wow I just wrote a lot. I just typed up the Blonde Theory page, added a bunch of stuff to the funny page, and did some other stuff too (forgot what... lol).
Yesterday was completely gay. I was awakened at 12:30 by my mom, who said Nannan had called. I was thinking... "Huh? Oh, shit!" I agreed to go to Paideia for AIME practice. So I got up, with my wacked hair and all, didn't take a shower, and went to her house so she could take me there. And I hadn't eaten lunch... and I wasn't going to get any that day. You know how I am... ever seen me go 6 hours without food? Probably not. Anyways, when I got there I see like 15 people, most of which are younger than me and would own me in math. One kid is in 7th grade (yes, the one who destroyed us at JV State last year). So I got home at around 5, and I had boat loads of homework to do because there is no way to get any done on an academic bowl trip. First things first of course... eating (which I am happily doing right now as I type)!! The homework lasted me until 12:30AM...
I broke my laser printer (it sucks and leaves a streak down the middle, but is over 5 times faster than my inkjet for B&W graphics)... my mom is gonna toast me...
Today I will get a good night's sleep. I will.
7:52PM
Saturday, March 15, 2003
I just got back from the academic bowl tournament at Dorman. I pissed on their wall, like I said I would. We only came in the top 4, because we did really bad on the worksheet against Brookwood (4/15... they got 11) and got owned. When we got there at night, I went into the motel room and Gene and Pat decided to see who could put his hand on the (metal) freezer ice tray the longest. Instead of joining this retarded stunt, I decided to clog the toilet (which, unfortunately, I succeeded in doing) and also read the first few chapters of the book of Job. The language got too complicated for me after the first 2 or 3 chapters, and I quit reading it. Back to that toilet. After repeated attempts at unclogging the toilet by flushing and reflushing, I decided that a plunger was in order. So I went downstairs and got a plunger... and when I came back up the toilet had unclogged itself. So I had to take the plunger back and waste 10 minutes of my worthless time.
Dorman is huge. That school is about 3000 students, which isn't too much more than Walton, and the school's floor space is probably three times as much as ours. Also, they have a much much much more logical layout (that goes without saying, for any school at all compared to Walton). Ms. Martin said that they get a $10,000 budget annually for academic bowl.
Dinner today was good. We went to Fuddruckers (whoa... that's in my spellchecker) and I got a burger with a pound of meat and some onion rings. Mr. E said that place must be my Mecca (cuz of all the meat).
I only got two hours of sleep last night, so I'm gonna go enjoy my favorite hobby now (you don't deserve to be on my site if you don't know that the two things tied for being my favorite hobby are sleeping and eating). Oh, speaking of sleeping... one night I was in bed staring at my ceiling and thinking about something (forgot what) and I was really sleepy. I actually fell asleep with my eyes open, which I've never done before. How did I know I did that? When I woke up 5 minutes later, my eyes were still open and staring at the ceiling.
11:16PM
Thursday, March 13, 2003
Oh... I'd rather not have on my front page stuff about how hot various random guys are, ok? lol Especially if they're sports people, let's leave that for Mary...
10:36PM
Why does it feel like Friday today? Maybe just because I want it to be...
I'm going to get a good night's sleep tonight so that I can be a good student tomorrow and not fall asleep in any of my classes (yeah, right). Actually, today I didn't fall asleep during an entire day of chemistry notes. I picked a good day, because if I had fallen asleep today I would have missed Ms. Pepple making fun of Ms. Whitlock, and of course that's something I simply can't miss. Of course, staying awake in chemistry has its drawbacks: Spanish. Normally when I fall asleep, I sorta still hear the teacher blabber on, and if the teacher says my name I instantly pop up. But I was so dead in Spanish today (this is what 4 or 5 people around me told me after the fact) that the teacher had told me to get up several times. Wow... that was bad. At least she didn't care that I missed 15 minutes of her class. So to make it all worse, this guy says, "You slobbered on your watch!" Actually... it was the glass that bulges out above the date. lol
I tried to superglue my pen together in chemistry today (it kept falling apart). You know how the first time you open a superglue bottle you have to break the top open? Well, a pretty big drop came out and onto my paper when I did that. After 5 minutes, I figured the glue was dry and wasn't going to hurt me. Of course I didn't realize that it only "dries in seconds" if you don't want it to (when its on your skin, eyes, or as shown in American Pie 2). I tried to write... and then I tried to pick up my sleeve. If you heard a ripping sound, CiCi, that was the paper stuck to my sleeve ripping out of my binder. Of course the glue doesn't dry in 5 minutes on the paper, sitting in open air, but it dries in 15 seconds with my sleeve on it. My sleeve still has a bit of paper on it.
Dangit, forgot the dishes again... my mom is gonna own me!
10:34PM
Wednesday, March 12, 2003
Stupid Billy Joh. He told me he had $200 on hand and would pay me $180 for my POS computer... of course whenever something good like that turns up, something bad complicates it. He said later that his friend owes him $200 and he had exactly no money. So, there goes that idea... I'll have to find some other poor soul to jip.
Huh? That picture of Charles randomly disappeared off my Stupid page... someone who (I guess) likes looking at pictures of Charles as a girl brought that to my attention. How strange...
My lit teacher pisses me off:
This is not what goes on the bib cards. It goes on the Works Cited page.
-Aren't they the same?
Yes.
Ummm.... ok...
I've almost memorized the periodic table. Feel the wrath when we get those element questions =) (This element, with atomic mass 56 and atomic number 26 *BUZZ*) hehe
10:25PM
Tuesday, March 11, 2003
A while back (like 2 weeks after buying hard drives), my new hard drives toasted. So I blamed it on them being bought in China (which they were). So a few weeks later, the replacements (they were still under warranty, so I sent them in to get a replacement) started to exhibit the same symptoms (funny noises) the toasted ones did. I blamed this on a new video card I had installed, because after disabling some stuff on it the funny noises went away. Then a month later, my DVD drive breaks. Every time I try to use it, the hard drives start to fry. So I take that out and buy a new one. Last night I tried to burn a CD... and the hard drives made funny noises again. So what do I do now? Great... time to get a whole new computer. So, I have to come up with like $300 somehow... and since no one will buy my old parts (which, of course, I don't want anymore) I'm screwed. Either continue using this piece of crap and continue frying my stuff slowly, one by one, or shell out some good money for a new computer. Grrrrr.
Oh crap!! I'm supposed to wash the dishes and be upstairs before 10:30...
10:28PM
Monday, March 10, 2003
Ok, my face got bitten by a mosquito. I HATE those things! They always bite me in the best of places (lower eyelid, upper eyelid, tip of nose, upper lip... etc.).
Nothing much happened today. It was like any other school day.
I walked into Spanish (7th) today, and I had totally forgotten about the oral until right after 6th period. As usual, that lady took off random points ("you didn't say what you were supposed to") and gave me a 37/40... I've gotten better grades on the ones I BS'd during class than on the ones I prepared for... maybe that's telling me something (don't do the homework).
I found a page with some stats for Wolfenstein on it... Gene is tied for 13th (3553 total players) for death streak (deaths with no kills in between) with twenty (20)! How skilled...
Ed and Dingting both told me to take emag (electromagnetic theory or something like that) next year. 3 AP sciences? Ownage. Of course, Brit Lit will really own me.
10:28PM
Sunday, March 9, 2003
My eye itches.
I had to miss the Walton garage sale to go to the academic bowl tournament at Irmo. Yesterday, the academic bowl varsity team placed 1st out of 22 or so teams and we got 2nd (GRRRRRRR) out of 12. But I achieved my goal of owning a lit question (Romeo & Juliet/Verona)! I found out something interesting there, Yujing thinks a whoooole lot like me. Like, he would say something, then like half a minute later I'm thinking about something, and he starts talking about what I'm thinking about. It would happen like once every 15 minutes when we were awake (yeah, as opposed to being asleep). Of course my memory is so great that I can't remember any examples of that. I had an ownage dinner on Friday. Most of it was a chunk of meat about 3"x12". Yum yum!
I've got loads of people calling me for chemistry help. I find it annoying when people I've never heard of IM me and ask for homework help. Worse yet, people whose last name is a mystery to me have called me to ask for help. No CiCi, I don't find you annoying.
I hate this lit project. I mean, why do we have to do research paper on an author when some other class gets to do one on social issues? I would own that in like 2 days instead of the 2 weeks it's gonna take me to do this one.
It's been months since I've had a weekend without some kind of academic event... is it gonna be whorey like this next year too?
My eye is still being gay. Maybe I should sleep...
10:25PM
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