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aamcnamara ([personal profile] aamcnamara) wrote2009-05-05 04:39 pm

we interrupt your regularly scheduled programming

This has been a good news, bad news day.

Good news: I feel like I did at least all right on the first half of the IB English test yesterday, and the first 2/3 of the IB History test today.
Bad news: I had to finish my IB History essays early and then run back to school from where we were taking the test (and ask the bus driver to wait for me while I ran inside and grabbed my stuff to study for the last 1/3 of the History test which is tomorrow morning) to actually be able to ride the school bus home. Otherwise I may have had to hang around school for another two hours, and I am not yet so nostalgic as to enjoy that.

And, when I got home,
Bad news: I am not a Presidential Scholar; they picked a different girl from Minnesota. (Tell me, what does she have that I don't? Tell me.)
However, Good news: This means that I will be in town for Fourth Street Fantasy Convention, which I have wanted to go to lo these many years since last year when it was revived and I went to Odyssey instead.

And, you know, I am sitting in the breeze and in the sunlight, full of blueberry muffin and chocolate, and there are a lot of worse ways to be on the afternoon before the last part of a large test on the History of the Americas. (Even if this chocolate apparently isn't okay for me any more. Boo.)

[identity profile] comingin2day.livejournal.com 2009-05-06 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
very cool to make the bus and they waited for you. Sounds like you got it all tucked into place. The studying.

My girl is taking honors/IB classes next year, but did not sign up for the IB program, but the AVID program because of the group support they have for the classes.

So, very cool. Good luck on the history test tomorrow morning.

[identity profile] aamcnamara.livejournal.com 2009-05-15 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Depending on what you want to get out of it, not signing up for the IB program but taking IB classes anyway can be the most rewarding path. Sometimes I wish I had done that, but I can't go back now. Good luck to her!

[identity profile] comingin2day.livejournal.com 2009-05-15 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks, Good Luck to you.. It is a difficult but rewarding goad you have set.