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The blog of a Russian man.
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The blog of a Russian man.

Doing a blog because I'm bored.


Today I got my ACT scores. composite was 23.

English was 28 (88 percentile nationwide, 92 schoolwide)
Math was 18 (41 percentile nationwide, 52 schoolwide)
Reading was 21 (54 percentile nationwide, 64 schoolwide)
Science was 23 (71 percentile nationwide, 75 schoolwide)

For those who don't know, percentile is the percentage of people I am above. 92 percentile in English means I did better than 92 percent of the people at my school who took the ACT. 88 means I did better than 88 percent of the people in the ENTIRE COUNTRY who took the ACT.

That's kinda sad since English isn't my first language.

I guess I did pretty decent. My last practice test was 19 composite and it brightened up my day a bit, so whatever.
I guessed on a lot of the math problems because I suck at math.


Other than that, I spoke Russian all day at school. Lots of people got mad because they didn't know what I was saying. This one annoying fat kid kept trying to repeat what I said, but gave up and started speaking broken German.

Now I'm gonna stay up late, eat coffee grounds, and play Skyrim.
03-29-2012 11:59 AM
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Wheres the part where you drink lots of vodka and shoot the AK.

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That's later tonight.
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What's your race in Skyrim?

If you're reading this, I killed myself.
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(03-29-2012 01:16 PM)Mælstrom Wrote:  What's your race in Skyrim?

I have one orc character I just recently started and an Imperial I've been playing since release.
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At school now. In newspaper class my teacher spent the hour talking about media and the news, he brought up some really good points and it got me thinking.
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Successfully sneaked out of AP during lunch today, went to wal Mart, and bought blueberries and doughnuts. Worth it.
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(03-30-2012 05:39 AM)Sharpie Wrote:  Successfully sneaked out of AP during lunch today, went to wal Mart, and bought blueberries and doughnuts. Worth it.

Hey, dude, what's the whole thinking with getting out of school? Are they checking you?

Here you go in and go out freely. If I want, I just get my bag and go home.
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^ I can't leave during lunch or I get suspended. I don't care about the suspension but my parents surely do, they'd be so pissed.


After school I went to a friends house. Played battlefield 3, then I played minecraft for the first time for two hours while my friend slept. Minecraft was strangely fun as hell, I'm gonna buy the full game soon. We also ate more donuts. God damn, I love donuts.
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congrats on the act bro, shits so annoying
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(03-30-2012 12:06 PM)SaintVicious Wrote:  congrats on the act bro, shits so annoying

Thanks. I tried pretty hard and improved my score from 19 (on the practice)

I was hoping for AT LEAST a 20, so I was pleasantly surprised.


Today was the most boring half day ever. I got in trouble for taking a notebook out of someone's backpack without asking, some other dumbshit tore this kids folder in half and threw his papers all over & I got blamed for it. Apparantly on Monday me, my friend, the "victim", the teacher, councilor, and the dumbass are all meeting to talk about it. Nobody witnessed a thing besides me and my friend and mr. Dipshit, so it's everyone's word against everyone else's. It'll end badly. Anyone have any tips to avoid suspension?

It's also raining. NBD. But the people In school always cry and complain about it and get scared at the thunder. It's just water, I don't get why they're so afraid to walk in the rain.
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I'm going to start posting here again, it's midnight and I'm bored.

Today I went to school. Hooray. We had a sub in chemistry, I went to the computer lab and didn't do shit. We also had an hour and a half long presentation on opiates and K2, it was somewhat interesting. I got a bit pissed off though, because my counselor was a bit condescending about it & acted like nobody in the room knew what opiates are and that we've never heard of it. Bitch, please. I can point out at least 10 people in the room who I know smoke K2 or have tried it. We know what opiates are and we know what K2 is.

The presentations were also shit, I've been through issues with opiates before so I already knew everything they were talking about. It was the dumbest presentation ever. They said the common anti-drug shit like "DRUGS ARE BAD" and "WEED IS HORRIBLE FOR YOU, SO HOW GOOD DO YOU THINK SYNTHETIC WEED IS FOR YOU!?"

They also asked the question "why do people do drugs?" then gave bullshit answers.

"because people can't handle life and drugs are a way for them to cope with it"
"because they think it's cool"
"because they want to fit in"

NO. Most people I know do drugs because IT'S FUN TO GET HIGH. Every anti-drug speech fails to state the simple fact that most people smoke weed or do other drugs is simply because IT IS A FUN THING TO DO. That's why people get into it, because it's fun. Sure, there ARE indeed people who use drugs to cope with their problems, but the majority of people I know do it because it's fun.

There was also a police officer who said that "weed does not provide any health or medical benefits, studies show this"
I almost stood up and called him out on that one.

Anyways, enough about the shitty presentations.
When I got home I slept for like 6 hours. Now I'll be up all night, but whatever. Currently I'm downloading mods for GTA 4 and trying to record and upload some decent gameplay. I may most links to the youtube videos when they upload if anyone is interested.
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UR NOT MAN YOU ARE CHILD YOU LIVE WITH PARENTS AND FORCED TO GO TO SCHOOL YOU ARE MINOR NOT A MAN
^Sarcasm... it's sad but true that that's what society/the man says most of us (those under 18) are, though.

Anyway, I guess you could join IRC #ss if you're really bored... or we could play minecraft... and maybe prank motoko, maybe by making her house look communist. Dunno.
http://lunacy.strangled.net:9090/

Also you _might_ be interested in this. I chatted with some people and they said they felt like they were getting high. I didn't try it yet because I'm too lazy but I downloaded a shitton of them.
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http://www.idosing.org/

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Today was shitty. I don't even remember waking up this morning because I was so tired from playing minecraft all night.

Now it's midnight and I'm doing homework. Fuck, is this homework mind numbingly stupid. I have this two and a half page religious passage from the Salem witch hunts that I need to analyze or some shit. One part of the assignment consists of finding vocab words I don't understand and writing a definition of it in my own words. Easy enough, but the thing is there literally are NO words in this passage that I don't know. We need "6+" according to the worksheet. I have two in the entire passage that I didn't know. I threw in some that I already knew just to finish the assignment, but does my English teacher honestly think my class's vocabulary is THAT bad? All the words in this passage are in common usage throughout daily life, it's like she's mocking my class or something.

The other part of the assignment consists of paraphrasing the ENTIRE passage. It isn't THAT bad, we only need 2-4 sentences for each paragraph and there's 9 paragraphs. But here I am, drawing out this post so I can put off doing it for another few minutes. Plus I'm honestly too tired to give any fuck at all, I'm going to half-ass the shit out of this part.

It's weird, but whenever I'm really tired, no fucks are given about ANYTHING. I usually hate being really late to school, and today I was 15 minutes late. No single fuck was given. This is sorta dangerous, because if I have any issues with a teacher, I won't hold back on saying what I think. That usually gets me into trouble, but whatever.

In other news, my guidance councelor is DESPERATE to get ANYBODY at school to go to our school prom. Our school has like two hundred people in it, it WILL be a shitty prom, and I hate prom anyways. I'm not going to spend a night in a place I already hate and pay like $50 for it when I could just go somewhere else with my date that would be infinitely more enjoyable. She is SO desperate to get people to go to prom, it's funny. First she said that 10th graders could go when it was previously only for juniors and seniors. Now she's actually telling people that they will get three unexcused absences for free if they go. Oh, wait, those absences are for class periods, not entire days. Fuck that, not worth $45.
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