And now my chemistry lab report story. The lab was due today, Thursday, March 30, 2006. Ken and I did our calculations Tuesday night. Then we had to tackle regular chemistry homework (which was annoyingly like 10 explain/describe questions rather than calculation problems) + a substantial amount of AP U.S. I homework. So that was pretty much all we accomplished Tuesday. On Wednesday, I cut tennis practice in order to get a head start on homework in the afternoon, particularly on the massive 11-page AP U.S. assignment (<groan> Looking ahead on the syllabus, there's another 11-page assignment for Monday :-(.). Mr. Seipp said he wasn't going to be there for practice on Wednesday, so I figured it wouldn't be too bad to skip. At jazz band later on that night, I would find out Seipp had changed his plans and was at practice. Not to mention I was supposed to be playing a challenge match that day. Crap. Anyways, skipping tennis practice allowed me to snag about an hour or so of sleep, which would come in handy later on in the night. Ken and I both had jazz band Wednesday night from 6 PM - 8 PM, and since Ken had stayed after school for spring track, he hadn't started any of his homework yet, including the AP U.S. beast. So we arranged to meet on AIM and start our chemistry lab at 10 PM. I had finished the reading, but had yet to take the notes, so I went and did that. That night, we sort of split up the lab work first and then began working on it. After we agreed upon which parts I was doing, I kind of slacked off and chatted on AIM for hours while Ken was efficiently working away and finished his part of the lab. By 1 AM, Ken was done with his share of the work, and the rest was up to me. I was pretty tired by that point from managing simultaneous multiple conversations, so I decided to take a nap in my chair. I told Andrés Tienes to wake me up in half an hour and 1:30 AM by IMing me rapidly. I set my alarm clock for 5 AM and turned up the radio (which is my alarm sound) volume to max as a back-up in case I fell into too deep a sleep. I left the lights on so that my eyes would not relax too much. I propped my feet up on my bed and covered myself with a blanket. I woke up around 3:30 AM and I founded that Andy had left me several IMs between 2:30 and 3:00 AM, at which time he signed off. The next time I fetched sleep was this afternoon, when I was able to skip tennis practice (since Coach Seipp wasn't there (for real this time)). So yeah, my sleep schedule's all messed up and my biological clock is going haywire.

   To begin, I did hand in a first draft :-). Though I woke up at like 5 AM the day it was due to start working on it. I hadn't finished it before I left for school, so I did a bit more work on it before homeroom. Then I put some final touches on it during lunch. Yeah, so I hadn't it in. Then I signed up for a conference. I went to my conference on some Friday morning at like 7:30 AM. Well, I was late like 5 minutes for it, so that's never a good impression. So the first thing Mr. Schwartz said to me about my essay was like, "Anthony, your paper looks like a pretty quick piece of work thrown together." The rest of the conference was pretty much all downhill. He basically said all my truths were rubbish, and that the entire essay lacked substance (Man, why do I keep wanting to say "substinence," which sounds really cool but is not a real word? Subsistence is real word, but it sounds unnatural and kind of edgy with an accent on the second syllable. Anyways, that was just a little sidetracking. I get distracted very easily. Can't you tell already ;-p? In any case, back to my story. You might want to reread the sentence before this huge parenthetical passage to help you refocus =] (I think I will always associate that smile with Rebecca Chow)). Oh rats, it's time for dinner now. Be back later 8-). End post: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 7:13 PM. P.S.: That was 19 minutes spent on this short passage GAH! I think I need to spend my time for productively ;-p. Now it's 7:14... I type fast but I think and process too slowly...