  Alright folks, no school this Friday. (Good bless teaching improvement day. ) But I have decided on something; I gots to get myself together, yo!
In my family is it considered somewhat-ok for students to fail miserably in the grading department for one semester of their lives. And that semester is gone, it’s past, it’s over. Seeing as I have missed entirely too much school lately (glorified tooth cleanings and last week’s filling fiasco, along with my cold that will not die) my new quarter does not look much sunnier.
I have, sadly, accepted the fact that Columbia will never accept me, even if I take a leaf from Elle Wood’s book via video-essay (those who understand this are awesome, bonus points if you get ‘ You mean like a road trip? Let’s all go! VACAY!’ ) But with a succession of Cs and only one solitary A to my name, I need to do some damage control if any college will accept me. That said: I now reserve the rest of this entry to be entirely grade conscious, like the good ol’ freshman days.
1. English with Campbell- Easily the easiest class ever. Lauren and I just draw on butcher paper and giggle about Mr. Campbell’s jewelry analogies (I’m not kidding, he teaches Jewelry 101) I don’t really think it’s possible to get anything below an A in this class. 2. AP History- Yes, I stuck it out for the rest of the school year. My new study group is horrendous, but the girls are semi-nice.
Plus, Jordan is in that class and he always makes me feel smart (minus the pilgrimage references; long story. Just never mix Jerusalem with Mecca. ) I will manage an A if I work my ass off. 3. Creative Writing- I will earn an A if I can get over my fear of reading poetry in public. Liz and I are toughing this out together. Otherwise, this class is a really good way for me to hang out with Leigh and scrounge what little literacy I have in the form of non fiction, semi-biographical essays.
4. Math- I suck. I will always suck. It’s never going to end. If I work my ass off I may manage a C. 5. Reading Intern (my tutoring class)- A. 'Nuff said. 6. Science- This class really snuck up on me. I think it was the final that brought my grade down so much. The rest of the year is Cosmology and Biology, so I don’t have any fear.
I love both subjects, and I’m excited about non-mathematically related future tests. I’ll be sweet sixteen in fifteen days. I am hoping that this birthday will be better than last year. I had just returned from my Senate Page in Olympia, and I was tired and cranky. Mary was in Florida with her family (her little sister, Grace, is in a wheelchair, so they get free trips every year from Make a Wish Foundation) Ellen, Melissa and I went to a play and ate Vegan cake.
They were very sweet when they made ‘ Happy 15, Anna ’ posters and put them all over the school, but it was still a pretty shitty birthday. Oh, God, Valentines Day is this weekend. No matter how disgustingly sterotypically-teenage it is to say, it's my second year in a row without someone to share it with. It's true. Affectionately… Anna 
