School

Hello,

I definitely didn't post anything yesterday. I got my diploma marks back and, to be honest, theyre atrocious. I'll be retaking two of them, one because I need to pull the grade up and the other because I'm dead set that I can do better. And I'm currently .75% under the minimum acceptance for University now. Epic. So, I either haul my Alberta grades up for get at least a score of 24 in IB and I'll be good to go.

The reason my Alberta grades are so low is because I've been focusing so much on the IB aspect of my schooling that I kind of just let the Alberta stuff slip... I thought I could handle shirking those duties, and I apparently I couldn't. So, the socks need to be pulled up, I need to get registered to take two more exams and I need to get IB done with, because now it really is priority one.

If I can manage to get my ass out of the gutter I'll be going to the University of Calgary to a Bachelor of Arts with a major in English. I plan on doing a focus in creative writing starting second year, assuming I can get accepted into that programme. I haven't decided whether or not I want to a minor yet, but if I do it will be in Ancient Greek and Roman studies.

Other than that, I've been working on homework all evening (after my two hour stint on Black Ops, she says after complaining about her grades...). I had to set up my Bio 35 IB Internal Assessment lab, in which I'm observing pea seeds undergoing germination. I'm testing the affect of sugar in the water on germination rates. I've discovered that its affects are negative, slowing or ceasing the germination process.

Aside from that, I read 40ish pages of Oryx and Crake (Margaret Atwood) for my English class and attempted my Calculus homework. However, we're doing something right now (I haven't the foggiest what it's called) and we seem to need to know formulas for area of a circle, area of a triangle, volume of a sphere and so forth, and I was purely too lazy to go look for them all so I gave up on that for this evening.

Tomorrow I'm off to the U of C with the two IB English classes to see King Lear at one of the theatres. It should be pretty good, they've got some good talent at the university.

I'm hoping my mom's company disperses soon, so I can go to sleep. They talk very loudly, they always have, and I can't sleep with the random outbursts of overzealous laughter.

No creativity happened over the last two days. I apologize.

À demain,
~Alexandra