Got glasses

I have got a pair of glasses now. I really only need to wear them for concentrating on things in the distance (i.e. when looking at the board) and that they will also help while driving.

But they are making me dizzy right now. It might be because I need to adjust to them.

Inside School #3 SRE

Teachers care about their students?
Over Christmas break, Mr. Wyant sent us a letter.  The first day back (On a Friday, that’s ridiculous), in Mr. Graczyk’s class, [DAF] was talking about it.  He said, “He’s like the only teacher that cares about us.
”Are you saying I don’t care",” Mr. Graczyk said.

I’d rather get punched than kiss someone…
During a spelling test, Mr. Graczyk used the sentence “[SYM] said to [DAF]:  ‘Either kiss me or I’ll punch you.’”  I told [DAF], “I’d take the punch.”  This turned into a big laughing manner, and Mr. Graczyk used the same sentence in the rest of his classes and told the story.  He told us at the Senior’s last day that it was the funniest thing.

Cafeteria madness
On the senior’s last day, about 10 chairs fell, and 2 tables fell.  One table fell at the bell, and apparently they put the legs up, and placed the edges of the table on top of 2 other tables, and pulled them at the bell.  I wonder how many people had to push in chairs after that.

Graduation
Some people threw hats up in the are to celebrate.
2 teachers were mothers of graduating students.  They hugged them after they got their diploma cover.
Almost no one knew the words to the Alma Mater.  Mr. Wyant was singing though.

School Countdown Methods
In Trig, someone had a big chain for counting down.  For some reason, they put a 0 chain.
In the hallway, there was a bulletin board for counting down, and someone kept ripping the numbers off.  Someone decided to put 5 4 3 2 1 and just pull it off as days go by.  Someone, probably a teacher, also wrote “over 9,000!!!!!!” on the bulletin board.

Inside School SRE #?????? (2nd post of year)

Laptop Mishap: Some people have been pulling the CD drives out of the laptops, as well as doing other crazy things to the laptops. Now, laptops require sign-out.

A tease: Someone asked, “If I hit you, will you hit my back?”
The teacher replied, “Hit you back? I’ll put you in the freaking hospital. That is not a threat, that’s a promise.”

Don’t talk under any circumstances: Mr. Swiergol said to a group who was talking, “I don’t care if you coming up with a cure for cancer. This is a study hall, you have to be quiet.” (I know I posted this last time, but it didn’t get old. And I forgot to mention he said something like that quite a few times, and Mr. Koharchik said something like that a couple months later.

Z-Drive Overload: Some people were storing media files on their Z drive (their folder on a network drive). It was causing the Z drive to disconnect on some computers.

Filing Mishap: Mrs. Zboran told us to put our last name first. Everyone put their first name first. She said, “Who files that way?” talking about filing by first name. Using example as John Doe, She files under D, not under J.

It will make my day: A sub for Multimedia told is during a test: “If you talk during the test, I will rip up your paper, and it will make my day.”

Let’s go to room 40, where the sun is always shining: That never gets old.

Slidy Chairs: Some people were sliding chairs in Chorus.

Bell problems: The bells on the speakers were working, but the actual bells were not.

Bought school lunch for the first time: I promised every year that I would buy lunch the next year. Now, it’s my senior year. I can’t promise the next year, so I bought lunch for the first time. My first meal was Turkey and Biscuits, a school favorite. I got to admit, it was good.

Falling asleep: [STS] kept falling asleep in Government. Mr. Wyant said, “At least he made it here.”

The Lion King: Mr. Graczyk said, “We’re watching two movies: Animal Farm and The Lion King.”
Some of the students kept asked, “Which one?”
Mr. Graczyk kept saying “The Lion King.”

10:05: Mrs. Master doesn’t want any noise until 10:05, 13 minutes until the end of the period. On Tuesdays, the study hall is mass chaos.

Turning everything upside down: In the Boston hotel room on the day we left, [EDM], [NIP], [KYZ], and [RYD] flipped all of the furniture over, and turned the microwave around. Mrs. Friend did 2 room checks on them.

Argument: Mr. Koharchik was in an argument to get 10 people over the limit on the USS Constitution as long as they listened to the speech. He lost the argument.

Chandelier: I don’t know if I spelled that right. Anyway, [DAH] and [JER] were making a chandelier out of trash, and some of the parts actually “glowed through the night.”

Lady [PA(A)]: [PA(A)], a tour guide in Boston, was not liked by many people, because they found her annoying. I had to say, though, she did sound like an actual tour guide.

Inside School SRE (Senior Edition) - #1 (Late Entry)

Schedule
Period 1 - Government
Period 2 - English
Period 3 - Phys Ed (M/Th), Study Hall (T/W/F)
Period 4 - Study Hall
Period 5A - Lunch A
Period 5B - Trigomonetry
Period 6 - Chorus
Period 7 - Environmental Science
Period 8 - Study Hall (1st sem), Multimedia (2nd sem)

Chairs Down
Chairs were tipped over for the first 13 days in a row...

Talking in the Library - Or not...
You are not to talk in the library. Bith Mr. Beneigh and Mr. Siegel was handing out assigned seats because they were sick of "every day" talking.
In Period 4, I don't know how many times Mr. Beneigh had to separate a table because of people talking so loud. One time people were "cuddling" up around 2 computers to talk. Mr. Beneigh got a few laptops and told them to stop talking and stop "cuddling" up on the 2 computers. The person at one of the computers was looking at another, and Mr. Beneigh said to look at his own computer.
Another problem was that 7 people were sitting at one table, and the tables can only really fit 4.

Are they X's or Ys?
In Trig, [JOP] couldn't read Mrs. Skradski's writing too well and thought that the X's were Y's. (Her Y's have tails on them). She fixed them for [JOP], and the next time she shown an equation, she said, "They're both X's, [JOP].

There's 12 years in a month!
Mr. Mikolay said a couple of things about what he thought when he was a kid.
One thing was that he did know what when you were in an airplane, things appeared smaller because you were high up. He wondered, "Who built all those Legos down there?
Another thing was that he thought that a "year" was shorter than a month, because year has less letters then "month."

The sun is always shining.
Mr. Davies says "Let's go down to room 40 where the sun is always shining."

Badminton is Badminton, not anything else.
Mr. Beale said the racket is "not a banjo. It's not a paddle to hit another person."

Birdie got stuck
A birdie got stuck on the basketball hoop.

It's a study hall!
Mr. Swiergol's study hal is to be quiet. One time he said, "I don't care if you are planning a cure for cancer. This is a study hall, time for studying."

Whoa, Humongous Downtime!

Sorry for the humongous downtime. But Da Blog is back! Maybe I should call this The Hgieneb Blog.

I will post an “Inside School: Senior Year 3/4 of the way through” soon.

We now have a shorter URL: http://sturly.com/decimic and http://sturly.com/dalblog

I plan on editing all the below posts to add in tags for easier navigation around the blog. I may also edit possible mispellings if I see them.

I have 2 blogs, this one for my real offline life, and the other for my online life, me on the computer, and my playing video games.

Help with Bracketed Letters

To help with privacy, I don’t give out full names. The posts I made in 9th grade only give out the first name. In 10th-12th grade school entries, I use the following.

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Known First And Last Name

One Person
I take the first letters of their first name and the first letter of the last name.
Example: Andrew Anderson → [ANA]
More than one person that would make up the same three letters
Examples: John Doe and Joe Donald → [JOD] and [JOD]
Both make up the same three letters, so this is what I do:
I put the names in alphabetical order by last name. Then I put subscripts in the order they appear.
John Doe → [JOD₁]
Joe Donald → [JOD₂]
Two Exceptions
[PNT] - Short for Peanut, Nickname for [ANV].
[AU] - Short for "acting up" and used for the person who always acts up, [DAF]. [AU] was only used in 10th grade.

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Known First Name, Unknown Last Name

One person
In this case, I put the first two letters of the first name, and then put the last letter of the first name.
Example: Matthew → [MA (W)]
More than one person that would make up the same three letters
Examples: Darrel and Daniel → [DA (L)] and [DA (L)]
Both make up the same three letters, so this is what I do:
I put the names in alphabetical order by first name. Then I put subscripts in the order they appear.
Daniel → [DA (L)₁]
Darrel → [DA (L)₂]
Note: If the first letter of the last name is known, then I would refer to the "Known First and Last Name" guidelines.

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Known Last Name, Unknown First Name

One person
In this case, I put two question marks (?), and then put the last letter of the first name.
Example: Smith → [??S]
More than one person that has the same first letter of the last name
Examples: Perry and Pane → [??P] and [??P]
Both have the same letter of the last name, so this is what I do:
I put the names in alphabetical order by last name. Then I put subscripts in the order they appear.
Pane → [??P₁]
Perry → [??P₂]
Note: If the first letter of the first name is known, then I would put something like [F?D].

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Unknown First and Last Name

One or two people
In this case, I would just put "[Someone]" and "[someone else]"
Three or more people
Then I would put "[Person 1]", "[Person 2]", "[Person 3]", and so on, depending on how many people there are.

Fun Schedule Facts

In all my years of Junior and Senior High, I just wanted to point these fun facts out:

English
Earliest - Period 1 in 8th grade
Latest - Period 5 in 7th and 9th grade
Others
Period 2 in 10th grade and 12th grade
Period 3 in 11th grade

Math
Earliest - Period 1 in 7th grade (General Math)
Latest - Period 8 in 8th grade (Transition Math)
Others
Period 4 in 9th grade (Algebra I)
Period 3 in 10th grade (Geometry)
Period 7 in 11th grade (Honors Algebra II)
Period 5 in 12th grade (Trigonometry)

Social Studies
Earliest - Period 1 in 12th grade (Government/Economics)
Latest - Period 7 in 10th grade (American Cultures I)
Others
Period 2 in 7th grade (World Geography)
Period 3 in 8th grade (American History) and 9th grade (World Cultures)
Period 4 in 11th grade (American Cultures II)

Science
Earliest - Period 1 in 11th grade (Physics)
Latest - Period 7 in 7th grade, 8th grade, 9th grade (Biology), and 12th grade (Environmental Science)

Phys Ed
Earliest - Period 2 in 11th grade
Latest - Period 8 in 7th grade
Others
Period 3 in 12th grade
Period 4 in 8th grade and 10th grade
Period 6 in 9th grade

Study Hall
Earliest - Period 2 in 8th grade and 11th grade
Latest - Period 8 in 12th grade
Others
Period 4 in 7th grade and 10th grade
Period 5 in 10th grade and 11th grade
Period 6 in 9th grade

Computer-related
Earliest - Period 1 in 9th grade (Computer Applications)
Latest - Period 8 in 11th grade (Advanced Applications) and 12th grade (Multimedia Design)
Others
Period 3 in 7th grade (Keyboarding)
Period 5 in 8th grade (Computer Concepts)

Chorus
Earliest - Period 4 in 7th grade and 8th grade
Latest - Period 8 in 9th grade
Others
Period 6 in 10th grade, 11th grade, and 12th grade

Other Classes
Period 3 in 7th grade (General Music)
Period 5 in 11th grade (Sociology)
Period 8 in 11th grade (Psychology)

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Ate Lunch A - 3 full years (7th grade, 8th grade, and 9th grade), 2 half years (10th grade and 11th grade)
Ate Lunch B - 1 full year (12th grade) and 2 half years (10th grade and 11th grade)

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I've gotten the same teacher...
Mrs. Trudgen - 7th grade and 8th grade (English)
Mr. Schell - 7th grade (Study Hall) and 8th grade (Communications)
Mr. Gesin - 7th grade, 8th grade, and 9th grade (Chorus)
Ms. Meeder - 9th grade (Spanish I) and 10th grade (Spanish II)
Mrs. Namey - 10th grade and 11th grade (Study Hall)
Mr. Unks - 10th grade (Geometry) and 11th grade (Algebra II)
Mr. Zylinski - 10th grade (Health), 11th grade and 12th grade (Phys Ed)
Mr. Koharchik - 10th grade, 11th grade, and 12th grade (Chorus)

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Note on Misspellings
Most of the misspellings should have been fixed by now. However, if I misspell something, I will catch it and fix it eventually. I misspelled the word "misspell" while typing this, but I caught and fixed it.

Inside Temp School #6

Daily Mood Charts
These were the questions asked to us every day:

1. How was your night last night? Did you do anything fun? Did you try something new? Did you go somewhere?
2. How did you sleep last night. Did you wake up in the middle of the night? Any nightmares?
3. How are you feeling this morning and why?
4. Did you take your medications last night and this morning? How did you feel after taking them?
5. (reverse side)A feeling thermometer and the word "Feeling:" at the bottom. The feeling thermometer was not specific enough - some people put how much they put of how they are feeling (like 50% happy), and some people used it as a thermometer as the higher they put, the more angry they are (Like 0% is normal, 20% is sad, and 100% is really angry, etc.).

Date of Point Sheet
People haven't been putting the date on their point sheets. This may cause them to lose points!

Pymatuning Park
You feed those fish, they eat like crazy. At one point we had a "push off" where we put food on a top of a wall, and we all push it off at the same time. It rained that day, but that didn't stop us!

Inside Temp School #3-5

The Date
People keep not putting the date on top of our Clipps point track sheet.
"You have to put the date at the top every day. There is a line that says 'date' for a reason. There is going to be a point loss from now on if you don't put the date," said Ms. Gail. "I'll check your folders when you are not here."
"I'll take my Clipps folder with me," someone said.
"You will lose points then," replied another staff member.

The Cord
I accidentally tripped over a phone cord near the door and caused the phone to fall off of Ms. Gail's desk. I apologized.
"I've done that a couple times," said Ms. Cathy. "That is a bad place for that cord.
"Where's that brush you said you were going to bring? You need to keep your hair out of your eyes to see where you are going. Or your hair will need to be held back with a rubber band," Ms. Gail said jokingly, because I have long hair and sometimes you can't see my eyes.

The 7 Ball
7 is supposed to be a lucky number. Not this 7 ball. I was playing pool alone because no one else wanted to play. (I was playing Me vs. Me—I was both players.) ME as the stripes won, so I was trying to put the last ball in for the solids—the 7 ball. It was the only ball left along with the cue ball. It took me an awful long time, but I never got it in. Even when I had good chances, the 7 ball will not go in. [RY(N)] wanted to try, so I let him. It took him a while to finally get it in. Here is the conversation:

[BR(N)¹]: We have been watching him try to get that one ball in for 20 minutes.
[RY(N)]: I never was able to get it in either.
A few people: The 7 ball is cursed. No one can get it in.
Ms. Shannon: I find it hard to believe that no one can get the 7 ball in.

Cookout Madness - 4 stories
We had a hot dog cookout at Moraine State Park. Every time Ms. Shannon tried to cook her hot dog (and marshmallow), hers wouldn't cook. But every time she handed it off to someone else, it cooked.

Ms. Cricket and Ms. Shannon dropped 5 hot dogs and a couple marshmallows into the fore. Accidentally, of course.

A ball that was thrown made it into the lake, and someone chased after it?

We were roasting marshmallows, and a couple burned? Some people like it that way.

Clean Up! - 9 stories
To celebrate a belated Earth Day, we were cleaning up on the trails at a local college.

Some people did not want to earn the chance to clean. Some people would rather have class than to clean. But me, however, wanted to do it for a good purpose, which was why we did it. We even got awarded Ice Cream.

Mr. Lake said that no one touches the quad other than him. It's my quad, but the trailer I borrowed from the college.

It looked like someone opened a new item, because there was a whole lot of foam all over the place!

We came across a fox den. We were warned not to touch the pups, or the mother will chase after us. Man they were cute!

While a large group went to the bathroom, we busted up a couch and threw it away. In that area, there was also a broken TV and an XBox Controller. It looks like someone threw a whole living room out! [TO(Y)] wondered if the controller still worked.
"It's been here for a couple years. I'm sure it doesn't work anymore," said Mr. Lake.
Some people wondered why they would walk that far just to throw all that stuff away.

The worst of it was at the beginning of the trail, where there was a lot of crap everywhere. Everything from Cans to Wrappers, and things you would not expect to find at a college trail.

Mr. Lake left the quad at the top of a hill because there was a point where he could not be able get it passed. We walked a little ways, and people wanted to get back to the quad so we cam get back to eating lunch.
"Your lunches are closer than the quad is right now," said Mr. Lake. At one point he left us to get the quad, and he told us to go straight through to get to the van to eat lunch. But then it seemed like it took forever for Mr. Lake to come back, people were worried if he ran out of gas. But Mr. Lake did say that the quad was further than our lunches.

After that, we had spare time. Some people played Frisbee, and throwing balls. I was playing Frisbee, I don't catch real well, but sometimes the Frisbee goes in a direction you don't want it to go!

Pooping and Farting
[JU(A)] talked non-stop about that kind of stuff. In group, we were talking about something else, and the subject was either changed to pooping, farting, or both. People found themselves laughing really hard. [JU(A)] even listed pooping as a coping skill?

Sleeping in school is a big no-no
In fact, sleeping in school gets Clipps points taken away. Some people were trying to sleep on the sofas during Break/Earned Time, and some even tried sleeping during class. Some people kept waking other people up.

Pool Sticks
Some of the pool sticks we have were breaking. Two did not have the tips at the end. The tip of another one was taped on.

Bumper Pool...By the rules or not?
Ms. Gail told us that we should hit the last ball off the bumper before making it in, because that's why it's called bumper pool. Most of the people did not follow that rule. At the beginning of each game, people decide if they want to play by that rule or not.

Walking - 3 stories
In Temp School, Phys Ed class is just walking. Two times we put a pedometer on us, and set it to miles. These ones were solar powered, we tried to revive two pedometers, but it didn't quite work.

During the walk, people took their pedometers and kept shaking it.

Ms. Cathy accidentally got a pedometer that measures in kilometers? She was trying to play with it after she found out why hers was going higher than the rest of ours. I was trying to find a conversion from KM's to Miles, and I did, and I tried to figure it out.

The Gym - 6 stories
We went to the gym as a Friday Activity.

We went to the pool at a certain time. Some people played a couple of games, like Marco Polo, Pool Tag, and Ring Around the Rosie. I just hung out in the pool, because I can't swim!

In the "meeting room," there were computers. People were doing a variety of stuff on there. [TI(M)] went to a proxy site such as those found at the ones at Privax. People were even clearing their history.
They appeared to have the same program that is used in the regular school I go to, the one where someone watches over you on the computer.

Also in the meeting room, on their pool table, there were two 6 balls and no 8 ball. Someone took the darker of the 6 balls, crossed off 6, and put 8.

Also in the meeting room, there was the climbing wall. Even Ms. Shannon and Ms. Wendy were trying to climb up it. Some people were afraid to go to the very top.

There was also a dancing game (where you had to keep pressing an arrow with your foot). [TO(Y)] was so good at that; Ms. Cricket was not.

Fishing Update

I forgot to post about the first day!

I did catch one, and the first time I caught one on the first day. At first I thought it was a snag, but it wasn't (I did get snagged too many times, and did lose a few hooks) My cousin caught two, and my grandfather caught two, but one swallowed the hook.

A weird thing is that I never had to buy any fishing supplied for quite a while. There are unopened packages in there from like 5 years ago. There are a couple cases of stuff there, and I don't know how many sinkers there are.