Resolutions?

Well, a new school year's rolling around, which means another year of high school for me. I'm not at the super-hard years yet; I hope this year'll be better than last year. It's pretty obvious what grade I'd be in, but I'd still rather not say it openly. Suffice it to say that I'm being my paranoid self and worrying my brains out about college even though I still have time. It's mostly because I have absolutely NO idea what I want to be when I grow up. People will be like 'lawyer' or 'doctor', but in all honestly, I've met ONE person who knew what she was talking about when she said 'I'm going to be a neurosurgeon'. She has her life planned out pretty much, and she even knows that by the time she's done with her residency, she'll be around 37.

Me on the other hand, I have no idea about anything. I only know that I have an 'engineer-y' state of mind, which I like. I like math a lot and I have an aptitude for physics (I don't really know how much I'd like the course, I haven't taken it yet) and my career aptitude testing results were actually pretty satisfactory. My first career options was engineer and my second? Fiction writer. I can live with that. I love reading, and I love writing too, especially fiction. I detest prompted writing- for standardized testing, and AP tests, and pretty much all school stuff sucks- the prompts are so freaking stupid. Poetic license? Please. Everyone pretty much makes up 'personal situations' and stuff like that. It works for the SAT too- for the example, making up a 'personal experience' is really easy-not that I'm advocating it, but it is pretty simple. And I already have a pretty big vocabulary from reading- the SAT prep course I'm taking (again, pretty early) is mainly for strategizing. Hey, it bumped my score up a hundred points in just over a month- it might actually be helpful. And that's just the first year.



Any resolutions for the new school year? I asked myself that- I'd already come up with a few. Finish all work using time usefully was one, and Actually read the freaking textbook pages was another big one... In AP classes, a surprising amount of the stuff you learn is what you get from reading the textbook. Certainly in the two I was in this past year were like that, even if I didn't get credit for one of them. My school has a two-year course that gives you English credit the first year and then WHAP (World History AP, what a joy) the second year, even though technically you're taking an AP course both years. You only take the WHAP test the end of the second year, though. One AP test last year was quite enough for me; so nerve-wracking that I've pledged to pay attention the entire time I'm in those classes this year so there aren't any more freak-out cram sessions with two best friends the night before, although I'm convinced that that helped us a ton.



So I just realized that I pretty much relaxed and whiled away my entire summer, and although it was a relaxing change of pace, I'm kicking myself now because I have a ton of stuff to do in two and a half weeks. By stuff I mean primarily two online courses I signed up for over the freaking summer to get some credits for my diploma requirements...and I've kind of (really, really freaking badly) shirked them, and I need to finish at least one tomorrow. Half the course...actually, only about four or five units, but still! At least I don't have school to deal with yet...and the beginning of school is actually pretty fun, simply because it's so freaking easy! It's the annoying spiel of teachers trying to get to know you, the whole slightly awkward 'hey, haven't seen you in almost three months...how've you been?', and the whole 'God, we're already _*insert grade*_!'



On another note, I've picked up two more animes- Vampire Knight and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. Before the questions, it's FMA Brotherhood because a couple of nice YouTubers replied to my comment on a video and told me to watch Brotherhood instead of FMA because it actually follows the manga. I'm only on episode four of FMA B and ten of VK, and I already developed plot bunnies for them! True, there's no way I'd actually post them, because I haven't even gotten through the series, but still- the capacity for angst and introspection shocked me. After one volume of VK and two volumes of FMA (I was so surprised and happy that my public library had them! It's upgrading and apparently trying to get with the times- they're shipping in tons of manga and anime releases by Viz Media!), I set out to watch the animes. Apparently VK anime stops after two seasons, but the manga's still ongoing, which means I'll be watching and reading- speaking of, I got volumes two through five of VK earlier today from the library! Sadly, my library doesn't seem to be getting recent releases from Viz, just the ones from a little while ago, so I might have trouble reading it. On the worse side, tons of online manga/manga scanlation sites just shut down! OneManga, I'm glaring at you. Yeah, yeah, I know the publishers don't like it- neither do I!

*smirk* On the bright side, I still found one that hasn't stopped posting XD



I must go, the plot bunnies in my head are calling to me! Er...I'd say they're squeaking, but they're actually playing little snippets of writing to me that I have to get down somewhere. Why bunnies, anyway? Rephrasing- snippets of potential stories are floating around my head.



Last thing- I'm trying to pick up Japanese. Although I know that it's implausible for me to learn it completely, with verbs and conjugations (like we learn languages in school for the foreign language credit), I'd at least like to learn some basic phrases, and I'm kind of on my way! I found an online thing that'll teach me for free! Well, it's linked to my public library and you need a card to join it, but I have my card, so it's basically free and really, really good!



Actual last thing- random fact about me, once I had to type in my barcode for my library card; I was doing that whole 'look at a number, punch it in' thing, and when I looked up, I realized I hadn't clicked in the box. I was understandably annoyed, and then and there vowed to memorize it. I did, that day. I also memorized my mom's and my dad's cards.