Anyway, you know the saying... "No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers dirty looks." Well, it's not quite the same. With me there's still pencils, but for drawing or writing stories, not writing compare/contrast essays and filling out Scantrons. There's still books, but the books I want to read, and I won't have to analyze each chapter individually like a butterfly under a microscope. (Really, there's nothing worse than ruining a good book by having to write journal entries, and take post its. Really, is it going to help you remember and understand the book better if your flow is interrupted every two minutes so you can put in a post it?) There will even still be teachers dirty looks, but they will be on TV, directed at actors.
Anyway, now that school is over, I'm looking forward to summer. Changing your average bedtime from 9:00-10:00 to 1:00-2:00. I like nothing better than it being really, really late at night and everything is quiet and you feel like the only person in the world. I watch movies on TV or read or write or draw, or this summer I have the option of blogging too. As a matter of fact, currently it's about 11:30.
I'm wearing this awesome, super lightweight nightgown that would have been popular in the 1930's. Here's a sort of glorified picture. I don't actually look like this in real life. I just want to.
Anyway, What do you think about grades. I have two things about grades, but that makes sense, considering that its two types of grades I'm talking about. First of all, I'm kind of dreading getting my report card. My math grade kind of dropped in the last marking period... I'm most definitely not going to be in honors math next year. As a matter of fact, I'd be happy to get above a D+ currently. Now, don't get me wrong. You've read this blog. You know I'm smart. But I was never good at algebra, and I truly suck at linear functions, which is basically what our entire fourth marking period was about.
I'm not going to get my report card until I go to the school and return my overdue library books anyway. Yeah... gotta do that some time.....
Let's not worry about these things now. No, as I'm certain I've said, it's SUMMER! You aren't allowed to worry or think about school. It's the same thing, anyway.
My other thing about grades is the one you're in. If you leave seventh grade, are you a seventh grader, an eighth grader, or in some gradeless limbo between the two? I go with the latter. You aren't still in seventh grade, but you aren't in eighth grade yet either. I mean, you aren't a kindergartener the summer before you go to kindergarten. Sooo... yeah. Don't ask me what grade I'm in during the summer. I'll just end up confusing everyone involved.
Just on a separate note, I feel so bad for those people who have to get tutors during the summer so the can "keep up their learning styles" and "get ahead for the next year". What parent could possibly hate their kid enough to send them for the summer?
So I will try to find room for blogging in my busy schedule... you know, reading, sleeping, hanging, relaxing, loitering, musing, watching TV. But seriously, I am going to be in two plays (the summer play for the high school and the summer play for the junior school; more on those later), I'm on swim team that meets every day, not including meets, I babysit, I bike, I'm taking guitar lessons, I'm teaching myself to play Just the Way You Are by Bruno Mars on the piano, and I have to find time for all that other stuff too. And I tend to be less responsible during the summer.
Anyway, to quote the words of (the song by) Alice Cooper, who is actually a dude,
"Schoooooooooollllll'sss out for summeer!" *neer neer on guitar*
Have a GREAT summer, everyone!
