Hello..........

It's been a while. Like a very long time. Like five months long time. *hides in corner*

Now, I'm not going to lie and use the "I've been really busy" excuse. I feel like everyone and their mother has used that excuse. Most of the time, they're lying. Truth is, I kinda forgot................

At first, I was busy, and then I got lazy, and then I just forgot. But I'm back! So that's what really matters. I plan on posting once a week? Maybe twice? Yeah right. 

I'm going to try to fix all of the images that won't show up. I'm really sorry about that but I will fix it. Eventually. :)

Gah, it's really raining right now. Good thing I have a delayed opening tomorrow for teacher in-service! I am so happy I can sleep for an extra two hours.

This is how I feel right now. Super tired. I want to go to bed.

Random thought: So I am in keyboarding this semester because my mom wanted me to take the class. Now, I took a keyboarding class in middle school so I can type really well. Long story short I'm using the exact same program in this class that I did in middle school, so the class is boring. REALLY boring. But, because I can already type, the class is basically a study hall that I get credit for. So, if you can type and need a study hall, think about possibly taking keyboarding. And if you can't type, take keyboarding. It's a really important skill to have.

You want to be this guy. Except don't spray on shoes unless you know how to get them off. 

Also, this is the best computer I've ever seen. 

Alright, that's it for this post cause I want to got to bed. So goodnight moon and house and desk and computer. And, of course, you. Even if you're not going to bed right now. 

From my corner of the world to yours, 

Jennifer Whyskers

It's Back to School Time!

I'M SORRY IT'S BEEN LIKE FOREVER AND EVER SINCE MY LAST POST BUT I'VE JUST BEEN SO BUSY! And lazy. And busy. But mostly lazy.

You know what angers me about going back to school? I've known the classes I'm in since mid-July and I've known which teachers I have since the beginning of August. Yet, my teachers decided not to give me their supply list till the first the day of school. >:(

Speaking of school, I start this week. And I'm actually really nervous for freshman year. High school here I come!

No but seriously. I'm usually always ready to go back to school. My schedule is normally memorized 15 minutes after I get it, and I've normally mapped out all my classes by the beginning of August. By the middle of August, my locker is organized and decorated.

This year? I can't tell you what my locker is, yet alone where it is.

It's true that since I'm a freshman I have no idea where anything is and it's not fair to expect me to know where my locker is. Except I went to this thingy where a senior showed me around to all my classes and had me open my locker. I could open it, thank god, but two seconds after I left it, I forgot where it was. Good job me!

I asked some of my high school friends where my locker is. They told me I'm in one of the senior hallways. Greaaaaaaaaat. (Total sarcasm there for those who didn't realize that.) It's also nowhere near any of my classes. Which I also don't know where they are either. This year is going to be great! suck.

My first day of school is a half day because it's freshman orientation. Hopefully after that I'll have a better understanding of what the heck I'm doing. Probably not though.

Ugh. My ankle hurts from soccer practice. Soccer has been a blessing and death. It's nice cause it gets me out of bed early so I'm semi-used to getting up at 5:30 (haha no I'm not) and I know some high school kids now that I can ask where the heck I'm supposed to be. But it hurts!

I just realized I only posted once in August. Wow I really suck.

I honestly can't promise how frequently I'll be able to post throughout the school year. It will probably be when I'm procrastinating cause I don't want to do my homework. Like I'm doing now..........

Just kidding. All the homework that is due the first day of school is done. I've accomplished something in the past three months.

I've also been kind of obsessed with gifs lately, and instead of just posting them in a list, I decided to be slightly humorous. So, here is how kids handle summer work, as told through gifs.


When your teacher tells you at the end of the school year you have summer work.

But it's summer! You're not supposed to have homework over the summer!

Then they hand out the summer work, and you realize it's so much work.

How am I expected to finish all of this in two and a half months? I have to get started now.

You get home, ready to start your homework to get it done as quickly as possible.

Yes! I'm going to be done by July!

Then this happens.

You get kidnapped by the internet.

By the end of July, you still haven't touched your homework.

The internet hasn't let you out of its grasp.

Your mom asks if you've started your homework.

Um........ no?

At the start of August, part of your brain panics cause you only have a month left.

The rest of your brain tells you to chill. You have plenty of time!

All your friends want to know if you've started that math assignment because they want to compare answers.

Yeah, haven't started yet.

The week before school starts, you really begin to panic.

Crap! I forgot about my summer homework! I haven't even started!

You quickly jump on your computer to frantically write that essay required.

There are so many spelling errors, you make sure to attach a red pen on the paper for the teacher.

You wish you could this:

How else am I supposed to read a 500 page book in a week?

You then realize why your friends asked for help.

We didn't learn this! How am I expected to know how to do this? Oh God, I'm not going to finish.

Your computer begins to lag from all of your frantic typing and searches.

No, this can't be happening!

When you finish an assignment, you feel like a weight was lifted off your shoulders.

One down, 5 more to go!

You're done! You can finally take a sigh of relief.

Thank God I finished! I am never doing this again.

After staying up all night to finish your homework, you crash.

Zzzzzzzz......

You tell yourself you are never waiting to do your homework last minute again. Yeah, that never happens. 

FYI: I did exaggerate a ton with this. I did not do this. However, I do know people who waited till the week before school (AKA, now) to do their summer homework. I was smarter than that. Go me!

Happy back to school! Said no student ever.

From my corner to yours,

Jennifer Whyskers

Why do I Have to Read a Book on Ebola? WHY????

I am so done with my summer homework.

As part of my biology summer assignment, I have to read "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston, which is about Ebola. Let me tell you, I'm barely twenty pages into this thing and it's already scaring me. The book describes in detail someone with the Marburg virus, which is like Ebola's less severe younger sibling. It is one of the grossest things I have ever read in my entire life, and I haven't even gotten to someone with Ebola yet.

If you're squeemish, stop reading NOW! Trust me. I'll let you know when you can come back.

This book describes a person on a plane with bruises all over his face. He then began to throw up "black vomit", which is basically blood with black flecks in it. It says he looked like he ate coffee grounds. The author describes the man's red, bulging eyes. It even describes the bag which the man threw up in! 

Then, when the man gets to the hospital, the author describes how a doctor performs surgery on the man. It says the man's organs are liquefied, like the man was a living corpse. The really gross part is that the man throws up in the doctor's mouth. EWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!

You can come back now. I'm done.

Thank you, biology teacher, for forcing me to read such a fascinating book. I thoroughly enjoyed my late-night sessions of almost throwing up in the bathroom while trying to read this book. However, now I am paranoid of everything and everyone, which explains the hazmat suit I'm wearing and the 30 page essay I wrote to the principal on why hazmat suits should be our school's uniform. Thanks to you, no one can touch me without me running away screaming "EBOLA! WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!". I really appreciated this "enlightening" summer assignment. Now if you excuse me, I'm going to go live the rest of my life in isolation. 

Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating a tiny bit. But only a tiny bit.

Random funny story: Last year, my history teacher made us create a political cartoon. So I drew a picture of President Obama, declaring Ebola is nothing to fear. In front of a Ebola quarantine area. While wearing a hazmat suit. YUP NOTHING TO FEAR!

From my corner to yours, 

Jennifer Whyskers

P.S. I already started writing my letter to the principal on our uniforms. Hazmat suits should be mandatory.

So...... I'm Valedictorian... (And don't you dare delete my pictures)

Hello!

I found out about this a while ago but I've just been too "busy" (AKA, lazy) to actually type this out. But today I decided to because I don't want to clean my room either.

Anyway, on Monday, I will be graduating from middle school. I also, as the title says, am valedictorian. Was I shocked? Not necessarily. I've always had straight A's, so I always felt I had a shot at being valedictorian. There was one other boy who I thought might win it because he also was on the high honor roll for most of the year. What was really surprising was that boy didn't win salutatorian. My friend did. Not that my friend isn't smart, she is. I just expected it to be the other boy. (Girl power right here: All four years that I've been in middle school, both the valedictorian and salutatorian of the graduating classes were girls.)

The sucky part? I have to write a speech. And say that speech at graduation. Basically my friend and I FaceTimed each other and complained how we didn't want to write the speech to procrastinate actually writing the speech. Ugh.

But, because I'm a nerd, I included Harry Potter quotes in my speech. I also tried to add tiny bits of humor so it's not boring. I really don't think I succeeded, but whatever.

While trying to write my speech, I contacted one of my friends who was valedictorian last year. She told me to remember that my speech should pretty much say, "Whelp, it was fun while it lasted, but I hate you all and good luck with the rest of your lives." I didn't say that, by the way.

The best part of being valedictorian? I hold the power. Since the valedictorian speech is at the end, I am the reason that people can't leave and go home to their nice houses. Basically, you better be nice to me, or I'll just keep rambling on for hours. Hehehehehehehehehehe!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On an unrelated note, I'm annoyed at my high school. They expect us to get our summer homework offline, but don't give us our schedules to know what classes we need to get the homework from. Logic.

Also unrelated: I got really annoyed at someone the other day. He was looking at a picture off my phone. When he gave it back to me, I realized he deleted most of my pictures. He told me he just deleted some useless selfies and pictures. Um, I'm sorry, but my pictures of Taylor Swift are not useless! Then, he had the audacity to say she sucks. >:( Oh my god did I want to kill him. Thank god I have iOS 8 so I can recover deleted pictures. Oh, and I'm sorry, it's my phone, don't you dare delete my pictures. It's one thing if it's a picture of just you, but pictures of me in DC with my friends? Seriously? He's lucky I had to leave, because I would have strangled him. KABJLEFRHKJABKKLHRBJLERGFKHFJEH!

That's my rage right there. I write jibberish when I'm really excited, or really, really, REALLY angry. Guess which one I am right now.

Wow, I ended way off topic. Guess that's what happens sometimes.

From my corner of the world to yours,

I'm Back!

I am a terrible, horrible person, because I've been home for almost a week now, and I still haven't posted anything. I'm so sorry! *crawls into corner and sobs*

Hello everyone!

I'm happy to say I made it back safely from my trip to D.C., and it was AMAZING! I thoroughly enjoyed myself. It was so much fun! I got to see several different monuments, museums, and government buildings (My favorite was probably the Franklin Delano Roosevelt memorial. Even though it rained while I was there.)

I honestly don't know how to describe my trip, so I'm just going to list all the places I went. Maybe with pictures. If I'm not too lazy. Hehe. And they may not be in the right order. I'm just going to list the ones I remember.

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial. This was by far my favorite. It had four "rooms" that represented his four terms as president of the United States. It was so beautiful and serene.

• Arlington National Cemetery. I'm pretty sure there was a funeral going on somewhere in the cemetery because I kept hearing gun shots.
• The White House. Duh. (We only saw the outside. We couldn't go in it.)
• The Capital Building. I actually took a tour inside and got a glimpse of the speaker of the house, John Boehner. Just a teeny tiny glimpse. But still cool. Also, the dome was under construction, so we couldn't see the entire thing. Bummer.

Can you find George Washington in the picture? Look hard! If you find it, put in the comments where he is.

• The Vietnam Memorial. My uncle who Taylor Swift reminds me of was in the Vietnam war. He didn't die in the war though.

The idea for the memorial was the result of a contest. The winner designed the wall. Originally, the Vietnam veterans hated the memorial design because it was black while the other monuments were white. The veterans thought it would be perceived that the Vietnam war was a negative thing. However, when it was built, they realized that you can see your reflection in the wall, representing those people's families who sacrificed for the war too.

• The Korean War Memorial

There are 19 statues, which are reflected in the black wall to make 38 soldiers in total. This represents the 38th parallel, or the line that divides North and South Korea.

• WWII Memorial. This was probably my second-favorite memorial, mostly because of what happened during WWII. My tour guide kept going on about how this was one of the greatest times in American history, whereas I can't consider WWII to be a good time in anyone's history because of what happened in Germany and the Holocaust. 

• Martin Luther King Memorial.
• Smithsonian Natural History Museum. The Hope Diamond is both gorgeous and cursed.

• Smithsonian American History Museum. I got to see Dorothy's ruby slippers! I actually had a pair when I was younger, but they got glitter everywhere so I donated them.

• Lincoln Memorial. Good old Abraham Lincoln. What a great president. Also in that memorial is a marker of where Martin Luther King gave his "I Had a Dream" speech.

• Jefferson Memorial

There is probably more, but I'm too lazy to actually put my brain to use. It continues to sit on my dresser as I refuse to bring it to school with me. 

The other thing I learned while in our nation's capital is that I'm a pizza snob. But I already knew that. And there are no good memes for pizza snobs. Get on that internet.

From my corner of the world to yours,

Jennifer Whyskers

Can't Contain Excitement

Guess what?

I'M GOING TO D.C.!!!!! It's my school trip this year. I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO excited to spend three days with three of my best friends touring our nation's capital, stuffing our faces with candy, and jamming out to R5's new songs. :)

I also can't wait for school to end. Like now. My school year ends on the 22 of June. THE 22 OF FLIPPING JUNE! I am so done with school now. Like I used to have bad days and normal days. Now they're practically all bad.

Something amusing did happen today in school. My geometry class had to take a high school math placement test last week even though we took it last year. My math teacher from the high school, however, didn't want us to take it. Plus she has to grade them. So not only does she have to grade the algebra kids' tests, she has to grade ours. Also, normally the multiple choice are scored on a special form that can be run through the computer, which grades them. However, my class had to fill out a photocopy, which has to be hand scored. 100 questions times 25 kids equals a ton of unnecessary work.

Basically my teacher told me she's shredding them. Fine by me.

Apparently, however, it's not fine with my principal, who wants the scores to improve the seventh grade algebra class. Kinda hard to do when they're shredded.

I have no idea if my principal called my math teacher in time, or if our tests are sitting in a pile at the bottom of the shredder. I guess I'll find out tomorrow. I just thought that was funny. I honestly hope they got shredded. That's what my school gets for lack of communication.

Ugh. I still have to pack for my trip. We leave early Wednesday morning and get back Friday afternoon. So I still have some time to pack, but knowing me I'll wait till the last minute like always.

And Pretty Little Liars comes back tomorrow. I NEED TO KNOW WHO CHARLES IS NOOOOW!

Who is this? I NEED TO KNOW MARLENE KING!

From my corner to yours,
Jennifer Whyskers

A Puzzling Question

First of all, I just want to wish you all a Happy Easter! I hope the Easter bunny was good to you and got you lots of chocolate eggs and jellybeans.

In science class the other day, we were learning about motion. The scientific way of how to determine if someone or something is in motion is by comparing the object to a reference point. If the distance between the object and the reference point changes, then you know that the object is in motion. My teacher also said that a good reference point is a stationary object, like a building or a tree. Which makes sense if you think about it. To determine if something is in motion, you would want to compare the object to something that isn't moving.

That got me thinking. We are all on Earth, right? (To those of my readers on Mars or any other planet, bear with me for a second) We all know that the Earth rotates on its axis. We also know that the Earth revolves around the sun. We don't feel this motion because we compare ourselves to objects that are moving with us. Think about it. If you are sitting next to someone while riding in a car, you aren't moving compared to that person. You only realize you are moving when you look out the window and see stationary reference points. So, since we compare ourselves to objects that are moving at the same velocity (speed and direction, for those of you who aren't in a physics class), our brains don't think we are moving.

That also got me thinking. If the Earth is moving, and everything on Earth is moving with it, is anything on Earth actually stationary?

I haven't had the opportunity to ask my science teacher about this, but I did ask my dad. He pretty much shrugged his shoulders and told me to ask my science teacher.

In my opinion, nothing is stationary according to its definition because technically, everything is in motion. However, I think that the definition of stationary needs to be changed to not include the Earth's movement.

I want to know what you think. Is anything on Earth actually stationary? Or should we just ignore the Earth's movement in whether or not we determine if an object is stationary? I am open for all ideas since this really does not have one correct answer. Leave your opinion in the comments and I will reply.

From my puzzled corner to yours,
Jennifer Whyskers

The Best Bus Ride I Have Ever Experienced in my Entire Life

If you happen to live on the eastern side of the United States, then you may be experiencing some abnormally cold temperatures for the springtime. I for one, am sick of it.

I want spring weather SOOOOOOOO BADLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Like seriously winter. GO AWAY!

Anyway, anyone who has ever ridden a school bus during the winter knows that most of the time, the bus drivers are eskimos. CAUSE THEY DON'T TURN ON THE HEAT! It's not even in the positive digits outside, yet the bus driver does not feel the need to heat up a bus that has been sitting in a parking lot all night in -60 degree weather. 

Thanks. I love to have icicles coming down from under my chin when I get to school. 

Now I get that some buses probably don't have heat. Then it's okay if the bus is freezing. Or that the heating mechanism is frozen so it doesn't work, because that is highly likely to happen. But if you have the option of putting on even a miniscule amount of heat, that would be greatly appreciated.

(It's the same with my school. Oh, it's -10 degrees outside? Let's put on the air conditioning! *slaps forehead in frustration*)

However, there is one bus driver that deserves a gigantic raise. Like he should make a million bucks for what he did.

One day, when it was in the negatives outside, I got on my bus expecting to step into the antarctic. What I got was heaven. My bus driver had the heat on! It was the best bus ride in my life! I sat toasty warm by myself listening to Taylor Swift for fifteen minutes while I got a free ride to school. I swear it was like 70 degrees on the bus. 

Heaven. Pure heaven.

Of course, the school just had to be cold. The administration should learn something from my bus driver, the greatest man on Earth. 

From my freezing corner to yours,

Jennifer Whyskers

My Opinion of Humanity Was Just Destroyed by My Language Arts Teacher

Normally when I write on my blog, it's happy, uplifting, or funny (I like to think). However, I would like to take a moment to discuss something that really made me upset. This is a serious topic so I just ask you to bear with me for a moment as I tell you one of the saddest things I have ever heard.

So I recently in Language Arts my teacher made us read an article called "The Dying Girl That No One Helped" that pretty much destroyed my opinion of humanity. Now I recommend you take a moment to read this article, but if you are lazy, I will sum it up for you. You may decide to come back and read it after I summarize it for you.

Basically this girl named Catherine "Kitty" Genovese was walking to her home in New York early in the morning when she was attacked and stabbed by a man who had followed her home. She was stabbed again and again as the killer took at least half an hour to kill the poor girl. During this time, Kitty kept screaming and crying for help. The murderer left shortly after she started screaming, and came back a few minutes later to deliver the fatal blow.

Now, this seems like your typical, really depressing sad story. Except there was no reason Kitty Genovese should have died. At least 38 people witnessed the attack, to the point where one witness could even say that he/she saw the murderer sucking his thumb because he cut himself as he walked away. And yet, no one did anything until after the girl was dead. Kitty even recognized a witness and screamed to him by his name. He did nothing.

Now, I'm not saying that these people should have broke up the fight. I mean, the murderer had a weapon. But one call from the safety of someone's apartment would have probably saved Kitty. All someone needed to do was call the police the instant Kitty was first stabbed. And yet, because the witnesses didn't want to testify in court, no one did anything until the killer had left and Kitty was dead.

To be fair, one person did call out to the killer, telling him to leave the girl alone, but other than that nothing was done to save Kitty.

The point I'm trying to make here is because no one wanted to stand up for Kitty, she is now dead, and there is no way to bring her back. She was only 28 years old. She had her entire life ahead of her, and yet it was taken away from her because no one wanted to pick up their phones and call the police. I get that the murderer had a weapon and all, but the witnesses could have called the police from the safety of their own homes without anyone knowing it was them. And yes, if someone did call the police, there is no guarantee that Kitty would have survived, but she would have had a chance. No one was expecting someone to pull a Batman and run outside and beat up the murderer. All the police wanted was a phone call. ONE DARN PHONE CALL! Gosh world! Is it that hard to push 3 darn numbers on your phone! People heard this poor girl getting murdered and went back to bed!

What has humanity come to?

This article has seriously impacted my view on humanity. And by impacted I mean COMPLETELY DESTROYED! It's going to take a month's worth of happy stories to bring my opinion of humanity back to what it was. In fact, I don't think I will ever view the human race the same way again. We need to stand up for our fellow humans. Don't just sit there and watch things like this happen right in front of you and expect someone else to do something. Imagine if everyone thought the same thing as you did. No one would do anything. Yes it is good to prevent things from happening, but we also have to stop them when we see them. Things like bullying wouldn't happen if people stood up for their peers.

Moral of the story: If you see someone in need, please help them! Then, good karma will come your way and help you the next time you need help.

From my corner to yours,
Jennifer Whyskers

Snow Day!

Hello everyone!

I know it's been forever since I posted. Sorry about that. I've been very busy. And lazy. And busy. But mostly lazy.

So today we were hit with a major snowstorm, so right now I don't have school. Thank goodness. I really don't want to have school right now. All I want to do is sleep.

Funny thing is, this morning I woke up at 5:30 to see that I got a text from my school saying school was canceled. So, I tried to go back to sleep because I could. Except that didn't happen. The snow/ice/sleet storm kept making weird noises outside my window that honestly sounded like there was a murderer in my closet. Then, I heard this really creepy noise that sounded like someone was sleeping next to me. What really freaked me out was that I once had this dream where I was sleeping and I looked over and there was a skeleton laying next to me. So, I thought for a second my nightmare was actually.

Needless to say I didn't go back to sleep.

My Very Lovely Day: Fri, Jan 23, 2013

My day today was just great. AKA, my day sucked. First of all, my sister has the stomach bug. I don't want the stomach bug! I love my sister to pieces, but please don't share your germs with me. No one wants to be up all night throwing up. And if you do, you are crazy. Absolutely crazy.

Besides that, math class was boring and confusing. Right at the moment we are learning about triangles and different lines and points in triangles and I can't keep them straight. What the heck is the difference between the orthocenter, centroid, circumcenter, and incenter? And, why the heck do we need to be able to find this stuff anyway? Oh, and actually doing the work and getting really ugly fractions? Forget it. It's not happening.

As usual, my teacher gave me homework. Fun. That right there brings down the rest of my day. 20 questions with parts A, B, and C. Oh, and don't forget part D!

Oh, but wait! It gets worse!