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This week has been dragging on and on. The weather sucks, I have nonstop homework, and I feel like I’m being cramped up with too many deadlines. Sure, spring break starts next Friday, but I just took an APUSH test last Friday and a Biology test yesterday. I don’t need to squeeze in another 2 chapters by next week.

It’s been raining all week. Actually, that’s a lie. It looks like it’s gonna rain but it doesn’t really. It’s just cloudy, humid and windy. I don’t even know if that’s possible. I heard it’s gonna snow in the NYC area, and that it’s going to create a Nor Easter for the area which will end next Friday. I swear, if there’s a black out this weekend or spring break, I’m going to scream. Last year, there was a major Nor Easter in the area, which caused floods, black outs, broken fences, huge trees in sidewalks (I had to walk in the middle of a busy road to get to my bus stop :/), contaminated water and one angry teenager: Me. Oh, and to make things worse, things didn’t get fixed for two days because it happened on a weekend and the electric company people didn’t want to pay their workers their weekend fee. So… yeah. If I’m not online for a few days, it might be weather related.

I don’t know if I’ll have free time this weekend because of homework and real life commitments.

And I have a pep rally tomorrow. Fun. It’s just for all the jocks to be annoying and obnoxious and cut class and crap. I always end up sitting near the obnoxious kids who troll in real life to annoy others. I’ll blog about their antics tomorrow. And my grade never wins any of the events because we don’t care.

I’d blog more, but I have a 23 paged outline to do for APUSH.

But to quote Degrassi, Whatever it takes, I know I can make it through.

Oh My Gosh

You know a week is going to be stressful when you barely finished your homework on a Sunday. :/ So yeah, I’m not gonna be on until… Spring Break?

But to make this post less depressing, here’s a funny video about the Sims online. It’s kind of long and I’d give it a PG 13 (The ‘riskiest’ thing they mention is WooHoo).

Degrassi- Hide & Seek Review

Here’s the review for the Degrassi episode Hide & Seek. I know, what a descriptive introduction.

A plot: Holly J is becoming sicker and sicker. Like, falling during class presentations, sore throats, and wetting herself. So she starts self medicating herself (Read: getting Tylenol, Advil and other medicine and hoping the problem would go away like most people would). I thought it was like since Holly J went through financial issues last season or something, she couldn’t afford going to the doctor, but I’m pretty sure Canada uses socialism, which means that everyone could go to the doctor. Holly J later woke up in a hospital bed with an IV thing in her arm, but later took it out and acted like nothing was wrong. By the end of the episode, she has to undergo kidney dialysis. Apparently, Holly J’s strep throat turned into kidney problems. o.O So remember kids, always go to the doctor!

B plot: Alli tries to go to Vancouver, but gets mugged and goes back to Johnny’s dorm. Johnny called Sav! So Alli goes back to the Bhandari household and they have an intervention for the problem and decide to go to family counseling together. I’m happy that the Alli plot is (hopefully) tied up for the season, she’s been in the last 4 episodes, and with the season ending in like 4 episodes, I’d rather see other characters focused on. Oh, and I’m happy that Alli got her life back together again.

C plot: Wesley tries to get a world record after reading his time capsule letter from 7th grade. He fails, but in the process, he gets a new girlfriend, Hannah. I wish they’d give Wesley, Connor, and Dave better plots that aren’t ripped off from Disney or Nick. But they’re almost juniors, so maybe the powers that be will decide ‘hey, some girls find nerds attractive. Let’s give them makeovers and make them hook up with people!’. But hopefully Hannah will stick around. Now, only Connor needs a girlfriend.

 

The new characters for next season seem interesting. There’s…

• Mo MacDonnel, an (unconfirmed) overweight senior. Maybe he’ll be a male version of Terri?
• Imogen Moreno, a junior who pretends to cut herself for attention. But she’s hiding a big secret: She’s boring.
• Jake Martin, a heartthrob who knows Clare from childhood? Great, this love triangle just turned into a love… T? With Clare being the perpendicular part, Eli, Fitz and Jake being the corners.
• Katie Matlin, a tomboy.

And it’s interesting to know what will happen once all the seniors graduate.

• The show could follow them to college, because we’ve only known them since they were sophomores and juniors, so it won’t be like what happened with Paige’s and Emma’s classes, because they still have potential storylines.
• New kids? Self explanatory.
• Someone gets held back: Fiona, because of rehab and the trial stuff (And it would be interesting to see Fiona survive without an emotional crutch) or Holly J (Because of her kidney dialysis and it would be interesting to see how she’d deal with being a super senior).
• The cast will become (gasp) small again.
• Another school gets burned down and needs to share with Degrassi, like Lakehurst in season 7 (Which reminds me, are they even trying to rebuild it?).

The first half of season 11 is gonna be the nightly telenovela format like the first half of this season (As in, nightly blog post reviews, maybe?) and it’s starting out with spring break of this school year.

Zynga

FarmVille has gotten a bit more interesting. They have events with achievements that can be completed quickly, and they have interesting themed stuff. Like they had Valentine’s Day mission during February, Spring missions during March and so on. They had a special Donate to Japan event thing which if you spent 25 Farm Cash (Their premium currency), they’d donate it all to Japanese Relief Groups, and you got a special crop. Don’t worry, they give you 1 free Farm Cash every time you level up, so I didn’t have to actually spend any of my own money to donate. But yeah, Zynga, their parent company, got yelled at last year for not donating the amount they promised to donate to Haiti, so I was kind of suspicious of donating, but since I wasn’t really spending the money, I thought ‘hey, why not’.

They have a new English Farm feature which gives you a second farm in ‘England’. But you need at least 4 friends to activate it and I have like 2 friends that actually play FarmVille, so yeah. I’m not gonna make fake accounts because that’s just sad, and I have a feeling FarmVille will change it in a few months so anyone above a certain level can play.

And YoVille has gotten increasingly worse. The items are more and more expensive and it’s never been popular. The graphics kind of suck. It’s like if the Sims was online. I remember how there used to be a social aspect to YoVille but now it’s just ‘go to the factory, get paycheck, log off’.

Zynga in general has a new reward feature which if you play a lot, you can get specific rewards via reward points. So far, the YoVille section of the website looks lacking, but the FarmVille one is promising. It’s still in BETA mode, though, so it’s probably gonna get revamped over time.

I Can Explain!

I’ve been away from the blog for a while because of a top secret government mission. Lol, just kidding. School as always. This weekend doesn’t look that good, though. I have bio homework (did it yesterday), an APUSH outline (for Tuesday), and an English research paper (I already have most of it done, I just have to make it MLA style and fix my conclusion. And do the citation stuff. And add more paragraphs if I still don’t reach the page requirement). Then I also have Spanish stuff for Tuesday but I don’t feel like doing it yet.

So… yeah. It’s the usual pre spring break schoolwork attack.

But more schoolwork means I’ll procrastinate more, so who knows? Maybe I’ll blog a lot today.

Yay

I found out that I miscounted the weeks we have until spring break, so now it's only 3 instead of 4. :D And there's an EA promotion thing going on with T Mobile, and it's moderately good free sports stuff from EA, so that brightened up my mood, too. I like how it's not just jerseys and uniforms, but it's actually usable sports content. No offense, but the Sims 3 CC makers aren't exactly in the 'sports playing crowd', so they make better casual or dressy stuff. Like, most CC I see is like hipster clothes, not FootLocker. And if you're wondering, the Hipster style is like, stripes, plaid, thick glasses, converse, skinny jeans, scarves, and 'those' kinds of stuff. But yeah, I wonder if the hoop content thing is playable.

The Future

In October, I took the PLAN, a practice standardized test for the ACT. There was an option for if you’d like to get email and mail from colleges, and I checked that box, because the test costed 10 dollars and I figured it could only help me.

Right now, I’m going through a bag of mail from colleges and I’m feeling overwhelmed. The colleges that I really like so far are either really far away, really expensive, or both. I know there’s financial aid, but financial aid could change in 2 or 3 years. And I’ve also been on the CollegeBoard website and I used their academic tracker thing and I’ve realized some stuff:

• 4 years isn’t enough for every elective I want to take.

Last year I took an elective for graphic arts. I thought it would be like Photoshop, but it’s actually for making stickers, T shirts, paper pads and more. I regret taking the class because it didn’t fulfill my visual arts requirement and it was one year long. Now I’m wishing I took other classes (Like business or journalism classes) so I could know more about what I want to do in the future. And the business class I planned on taking is only available for freshmen through juniors now, because apparently it was too easy and seniors took it to pad their schedules, so I can’t take it because I already am taking other classes next year.

• I should’ve take the SATs last weekend.

I didn’t really have a lot of homework, and I heard there was an essay prompt for reality shows. I took SAT prep in the first semester, and frankly, I know I’m gonna forget everything by next year. I’m taking math SAT prep next year, though. I had a 1570 and 1620 when I took practice ones. And if I didn’t do as well as I wanted to last weekend, I’d have more time to retake it. And then there are subject SAT tests…

• The entire education process is a monopoly.

Kids go to school to do good on state tests to get into better middle school classes for better high schools for better high school classes for a better college for a better job. Those ‘better classes’ I mentioned cost money, if you’re taking the AP tests with them. And then the SATs cost money, and the ACT, PLAN, Pre-SAT…. yeah. And only one company runs the SAT and AP tests, so they can set the prices to whatever they want.

 

On the plus side, I’ve realized what I kind of want to do in the future: Web Design or something Social Science or History related. Web Design, because I enjoy it and the Internet isn’t going away anytime soon, and Social Science/History because I’ve loved it as a child and it sounds genuinely entertaining.

I don’t want to mention any specific colleges that I’m interested in, just in case if they find my blog and whatnot. And like I said, it’s too early to decide.

I guess I’m worried about the future for a lot of things. Being away from home, driving, relationships, jobs, paying bills, raising kids… aaahh. Everything’s going so fast.