Midyear week

Gah, so midyear week is always on the edge of crazy and this year was no exception. But I think I may have studied more this year. And so far it seems to be helping...
So anyways, Day 1 was psych and senior project. I knew it was my easy day, so I read through notes and made a presentation the night before and felt set. Honestly, I don't know how I did. I'm sure it wasn't bad (it's psych and sr project after all) and they're two classes I'm not terribly worried about. They should have been good. In any case, we finished our senior project presentations by 12 and it was inauguration day, so we quickly turned on the smartboard tv, saw Biden get inaugurated, saw Yo-Yo Ma play (zomg, I played with him), and finally Obama get inaugurated and speechify. It was... incredible. The idea that we're done with Bush is so bizarre. He's been president for most of my conscious life. I remember in fourth grade when I wanted Gore to be elected because Joe Lieberman knew my grandfather. Man, my values were weird back then. But my politics were solid... :D. In any case, food+easy midyear+Inauguration=awesome day. So then I had to stay after to make up for my incident last monday (see: missing school, falling down stairs) for the art part of humanities. Which meant an hour with Mr. Sheinfeld looking at slides. Great fun... naht. Though I learned a lot. So I walked home, stopping at Starbucks on the way. It was good. Very good. And started in on WEDNESDAY:
I had an essay due at my hums midterm that I hadn't started yet (ummm, procrastination much?) so I came home on Tuesday and started right in on that. Except I didn't. By 5 PM, I had my name, the date, and the assignment on the page. And a vague outline. Bad start. That coupled with the need to study for chem kept me up past 2 AM. Oh well, everything got done. Quality... ehh.
So I got up and headed off for school on Wednesday, essay in hand, ready (I hoped) for AP Chem. I went over electrochem (because I got it at the time but not at all anymore) and then took the midyear. I didn't think it was awful but not amazing. Turns out I did quite well. I'm very pleased. I just need a 73 next term and a 84 last term and I will sail by without a final. Yes, that is currently the goal. And then... humanities. I have been raving all year about how easy this class is. And it is. Except the midyear. It was absolutely awful. I stayed an extra hour or more. Just bad. I'm hoping for a scale because everyone thought it was bad. Ah, well, I walked home again and stopped at Starbucks... again. Bad habit. Unfortunately, it's in the perfect location. It's right between the school and my house. Like the walk is 2 miles and Starbucks is at mile marker 1. And just when you've been walking for 15 minutes, a hot capaccino sounds overwhelmingly good. But anyways. I made it home at the same time as the middle schoolers, which was really bizarre. I sat down and studied for APES. And then studied somemore. And then crashed and fell asleep early.
THURSDAY:
So I had no midyears Thursday. I slept in until 10:30. It was fabulous. I had to tutor at 3 and a concert at 7, but other than that, I was absolutely free. I made my word bank for APES and went over words. Very chill day. Very awesome day. And I got my AP Chem grade back: 87 for the term, 92 on the midyear. I beat Kurzman...
FRIDAY:
APESSSSSS. I admit I was scared going in. But it really wasn't bad at all. There were patterns that were pretty easy to follow and quite a few "gimme" questions. I took about an extra half hour, but that was just going over ones I had missed on the first go round. Not bad at all. And then I went and made dumplings. Well, I stuffed dumplings. Christie's mommy had already made the dough and filling so we just rolled it out and stuffed them. They were so good. I was very happy. I walked home again. Got Starbucks again. And I am going to get fat soon. I got home and crashed. I didn't fall asleep, but I curled up in a chair. Around 8:30ish, I decided to practice, realized my reed sounded awful. It was an awful feeling. So I altered a new one and prayed that it would harder and set well. It did. I woke up this morning, played with it and it sounded much better than the other. Thank goodness because today brought all-state auditions. I have some of the most bizarre stories from all-state auditions last year (like standing in the hallway for 2 hours and then getting first chair). But whatever. I had an okay audition. The sight reading was rumored to be awful, but it wasn't that awful. Well, we'll see how it went on Monday. There's no telling whether I got in or not or what seat I got. What will we will be.
And then my mom and I stopped at Price Chopper and got all sorts of goodies. And then I had YPO. We won't talk about YPO. I was told to fart. End of discussion.
So I'm a second semester senior. This is so very exciting. Slack starts... in one day!