Long Day

Man, talk about a long day, first off there was a major test in Mr. Roderique's English class. Nothing like a a multiple choice, short answer, and essay section test...that's 6 pages long! Good thing I have been paying attention, and could recall from the top of my head where Shakespeare was born, who he married and knew 10 of his most famous works. Plus it helps that I watched "Much Ado About Nothing" last weekend, and knew which characters said which famous lines. All in all, I think I did okay.

After English was Communications. We have to give speeches with a modern twist. We have to take a famous speech from sometime in history, and modernize it with today's language. It doesn't have to be memorized (but if you are really outgoing, you can get extra credit for it....not gonna happen with me!), so you can just read it aloud to the class. You have to include the original copy with your version to be turned in and graded. I'm working on updating Patrick Henry's "Give me Liberty or Give Me Death" speech. It's pretty slow going, but maybe I'll post some of my favorite parts later on. I spent most of the period just trying to Google and find the original speech, and then struggled with the stupid printer in class to actually get it printed out to work with.

Advanced Biology was next. We are working on skeletal systems of various vertebrates. Last week we covered fish, and this week we have worked up to small mammals (a cat to be precise). I can't wait until we get to humans. Rumor has it we get to take a field trip to the University and see a cadaver. That could either be totally cool, or toally gross. We'll have to wait and see.

The rest of the day wasn't any thing special, just seemed to go on forever! Then of course was track practice, and it seems like Thursdays are always the hardest. Lots of sprints and timed runs today. I'm pretty beat.

Nothing out of the ordinary to report about the diabetes today. Poked my fingers a million times, took a couple dozens shots, had high blood sugar a couple times, but no lows today. (knock on wood) With my luck I'll wake up in the middle of the night and be low. Such is life.

Well, gotta hit the sack. Later.