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By Kris, November 28, 2009 7:58 pm

So in the past week, lots has happened, obviously.

I’ll start out on the whole ordeal with Exams. I have received the grades for all of the except for Conceptual Physics, which was the only class I had to study hard for. I’m pretty nervous about what I’ll get on it. Here’s my final grades on everything (remember, Conceptual Physics is not the final grade). This is for the first trimester of school.

Those are my final grades including the exams (excluding Physics). I thought I did pretty well this trimester. Next tri (starts Monday) I have Web Design (with my older sister, lol), Advanced PE (again), General Art (required, also so I can take Graphic Design my Junior/Senior year),  Algebra 2 (again), and finally, Honors English 10. The schedule is really simple except for English. I’ve been dreading it since I signed up for it last year. I was assigned homework over the summer, and I have to finish it this weekend (It’s not bad, but still…homework during the summer!?). So hopefully I’ll start that later tonight, or work on it for most of Sunday. That conclude the school-related section of this post.

Next up is Thanksgiving. My parents let me bring Lindsay down to Indiana and Ohio to meet the grandparents, aunts, and uncles.  Everything went pretty well, they all liked her a lot I went driving for a bit on the freeway, and I “almost hit a car” even though I knew exactly what I was doing, I was just a bit flabbergasted. We were going down the freeway at around 65-70mph, and the car in front of me starts braking, and that’s what throws me off. Then the car comes to almost a dead stop and begins turning. I’m still thrown off so I start stopping, too, then I turn to the side and I begin accelerating once I turned enough. All the while my dad is yelling at me for almost hitting them. Then the people behind me start passing me while I’m basically in the passing lane, myself. I dunno, it was all fine until my dad started yelling. Oh well, we learn from experience. This ends the Thanksgiving portion of the post.

Next up is today. Today I went and saw Fantastic Mr. Fox with my dad while my mom and little sister went and saw Twilight: New Moon. We had some time to kill before Mr. Fox started, so my dad and I went to the Nextel/Sprint store across the parking lot. I’ve been asking to go for awhile to check out the Palm Pre (because that’s the main item on my Christmas list). I want it because my current phone is really old, junky, and it’s falling apart very quickly. Anyway, the phone wasn’t activated, so all my dad and I could really do was touch the screen while it tried to automatically activate itself and slide the phone open. I always heard complaints about how the keyboard was too tiny, but I didn’t find a problem with it. It’s actually quite nice, to be honest. I’m hoping to soon go to a different Sprint store (there’s one about 5 minutes from home) that hopefully has an activated Palm Pre so I can experience the phone’s Web OS.

E: Updated Grades:

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By Kris, November 28, 2009 5:45 pm

Before I add another post about what’s been going on the past few days, I’ll just start today’s posts by reviewing a movie I just got back from seeing. If the title hasn’t already told you enough, I went and saw Fantastic Mr. Fox.

I’ll start off by saying that I haven’t ever seen a Wes Anderson film, so this was sort of setting a standard for what to expect for his other films, and if I’ll even be interested in seeing them. I saw the trailer once before seeing it, and I understood it had something to do with a fox voice-acted by George Clooney (who apparently is new to Wes Anderson films).

After seeing it in theaters I can honestly say that I was not disappointed by this movie. It had a lot of funny aspects and reoccurring themes, such as their replacing of swear words with “cuss”. Had they used the actual words, I’m sure that this movie would not have been PG.

The style of animation is one of my favorites: stop motion. The crazy detail they went in to to make this movie how it was astonishes me. This is stop motion, and there are scenes when the characters are outside or there is a breeze of some sort during a close up, and you can see individual hairs flowing with the wind. It was really neat.

The story was also pretty nice, I didn’t know much about the movie so most of the story was new to me and I didn’t know where it was going at any point. Overall I’d highly recommend this movie to go see in theaters, unless you’d rather go see something like Twilight or A Christmas Carol, then you should at least give this movie a rental when it releases.

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By Kris, November 21, 2009 3:24 pm

Today seemed like it would be like any other average Saturday. That is, until I got onto the computer at around 2PM and checked my Gmail. I didn’t notice it at first, but I soon browsed over my labels to see if I had anything new, and this is what I saw.

A tad concerned, I get onto the blog and see this under “Comments”:

It was at that point that I realized that I had been raided by spammers. I don’t know why, but they all seemed to be from the same source, because they all linked to the same place. Thankfully they were all just guests, so I had to approve of the comments (even thought I didn’t).

I took some screenshots of my Gmail inbox and merged them together to sort of show you what it looked like for me, but because the image is so huge, here’s a link: WEBSITE LABEL INBOX.

So yeah, I just felt like posting that.
 

This is the weekend before exams at my school. Monday and Tuesday is all about testing, and I’ve got this weekend to practice for it. I’m only a little nervous, seeing as how I’ve managed to keep a 95% or higher in all of my classes thus far, and I don’t want to lose that.
 

I lost a $5 bet to a friend (yesterday) because I thought I had a soccer game today, because that’s what the coach told me, but then my mom told me it was on Sunday, oh well. I’m not paying him back, simply because he still owes me $5 from a past bet he made and lost.
 

I also had to wake up at 9AM this morning to go try out for a soccer team this upcoming spring (I don’t know why they’re holding it 2 seasons early, but whatever). I made the team, everybody that showed up made the team, except for one kid, only because he was 18 and he was trying out for a U16 and U17 team.