The Slow Down

Well finally was that day where everything happened. Where you knock off those tests lingering over your head. Then hand in that essay. Nothing like the feeling; knowing that once you put that paper in the teachers possession you have no control what happens anymore. It's relaxing....until you get it back.

The tests today went fine, felt pretty good on both of them. And well tonight I decided i deserved a night to relax, so I watched two espisodes of Scrubs and then proceeded to watch the two hour Bones special.

Now the only knife over my head is the Spanish project which I must do tomorrow, but thats tomorrow.

Todays today, so I'm gunna walk a ways with my head towards my feet, and take things when they come. Forget the preplanning.

For a short time though. Not too long. Thats not good. I'd trip on a stump.

Ok gunna get some sleep.

Bubblicious....The true gum of a Bubblierite (thats you, the reader)



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Lagging Behind!

This isn't the make up post your looking for. So if that actually is what you were looking for, I'm sorry. But this isn't one.

No, I write to say I'm sorry for not writing for so long! It's been busy and I've enjoyed sleep over this. I know, I'm selfish.

I swear sometime I will find time to write about everything, but well... not now. I'm tired from working on my essay, so you must wait. hopefully you don't mind waiting!

So until then!

Enjoy this comic!
Found by Will!



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Hell Week

Don't Worry I'm still around! I've been really busy recently and its not letting up! First off, the basement in nearing completion which is exciting! It looks amazing! Once it's done I can post pictures. But now this week we got the play so rehearsal goes from like 4 to 11! So i don;t have much time. So I ask that you excuse my absence. I am deeply sorry!

Just got done with a Spanish project and am enjoying the fruits of my labor, or the ice cream that I get for doing labor...about the same.

SO I'll be off, then another day of play! And it's 2:30 now! I'm going to be a zombie by the end of the week! This should be interesting.

Well night all!



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Writing from the Floor

Well tonight I write to you from the floor. Yes that's right, from the ground.

This morning we cleaned out half of the basement, which meant moving everything from the computer side to the other side in order that the computer side could be shampooed. Now I originally thought, o well I will be without a computer for a day or so.

Seeing that I couldn't do that, I decided to hook up the mac. Luckily it's quite portable and I've set it up on the toy chest. So at the moment I am kneeling while typing and my feet are falling asleep. So once again I'm going to have to make this brief. Plus I'm tired again, so I think I'll head up to bed!

Night All!!!



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Start of a Weekend

Ok well it's getting late and tomorrow I have to wake up to clean the basement some more, so I got to be brief. So that means no video for you all tonight, even though I usually like to do one on weekends.

You'll survive though.

But I'm going to go to bed.

Sorry for the abruptness again.

Night!



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Stupid Essay

Sorry folks, had an essay to write and it took me a ridiculously longer time than it should have. I was very distracted today and could not concentrate.

But it is pretty late and I should go to bed, so I'm going to call it quits for tonight. Sorry for being so abrupt.

So night all!




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Election Day

Well today was the big day! woke up in the morning and dressed myself accordingly to the theme of the day (red and Blue!). Went into school and had a nice little study, but then we voted! So i voted Deval. Let's see we shall skip to the end of the day to save any boredom.

So they announced who won, and it turns out Deval won! Every grade voted Deval, except Seniors, which intrigues me. I wonder why they would be different. But none the less that was the school results.

And surprisingly, that was the actual decision! So there we go! Deval is our man.

Today I went around with a voice recorder, so I'll put that up tomorrow, sadly I have no time tonight, for it is late and I need bed!

So goodnight!



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Election Week

Big week this week. Yes it is election week in Massachusetts and everyones a steaming with anticipation. Now I've set out to make it a goal to figure out what this elections all about. With all the work I have and do, I never get a chance to watch the news and simple know what's going on around me. Apparently Saddam's going to be hanged. Who knew? Just found that out this morning.

Anyway so I thought to myself, its probably important that I pay attention to this stuff because once I am able to vote, I'll need to know the way to go about deciding who to vote for. so with a little help from Ms. Breen and some Googling of my own, I think I've finally got it.

Now I went to the WBUR website where they have a clever test where you say whether you disagree with a point, or agree, then at the end it tell you who you agreed with the most, and who I disagreed with the most. So I did that.

Now here was the tough part. I went in thinking I was either a Deval Patrick or a Grace Ross kind of person. Well low and behold my outcome was I agreed with Deval 10 times (thats every point) and Grace Ross 9 times (thats every point, except for one, that being MCAS). She says

The test is a big part of the dropout problem. Eliminate it as a graduation requirement.

Now I don't totally agree with that. I mean having taken the MCAS, and as frustrating and pointless as I've thought them, I think it's a pretty basic requirement to pass that test. The test isn't extremely hard and just makes sure you know the basics of the subject. So this is where Deval comes and says exactly what I think.

The test, including the addition of a science component, should remain a graduation requirement, but it should not be the sole assessment of academic progress.

I think the test is good because, to agree partly with Healey, the MCAS provides a benchmark for schools and checks to make sure schools are teaching what they are supposed to. This way every school can be monitored and made sure one isn't teaching poorly. But like Deval says, It shouldn't be the main assessment of academic progress. I mean one test shouldn't decide whether you pass or not. So a combination of both the grades of a student and the score on he MCAS should be the ultimate deciding factor to graduation.

So I'm going to have to say that I pretty much completely disagree with Ross on that one. So in my final decision I believe Deval Patrick is my man. He seems like he's got some good ideas and well he seems to support my position so it only makes sense that I vote for him.

So everyone when going to the ballots, (now to make a cheap, and sly ad) make sure you vote Deval because together we can!

Wow...I feel weird doing that. I could never be a politician. We shall see what tomorrow brings!

Night!



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Vocab!

Well today was good! Saw Around the World in 80 Days! Absolutely hilarious play! One of the best I've seen! Also my Grandparents are here which means that I now completely live out of the basement!

But I had to study for Vocab today, so to do so, I made a video blog to make all of you study with me!!

HAHAHA!

So watch.
Or don't.





Night!


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Tie-Ard

I'm quite tired now. I think I have a headache now. It's an annoying one too where when you move ur head you can feel it trying to push out of our skull. Weird thing is, I seriously didn't mean to write our, just looking back and reading it I noticed it. That kind of scares me. Stupid aliens giving me headaches while they infest my mind!

No but seriously I'm not sure what kind of headache it is. I don't think it's a migraine, because my vision feels ok. though then again my eyes were hurting while making the video I have for you. Maybe I do have a migraine. Whatever the case, I have a headache if you didn't know.

So I think I'll head up to bed soon. Just made a video for you all. Nothing special since I'm tired and have a headache, but i figure its something that you can look at and say.."Wow, Jake's an idiot."

I mean we all need that. It's always fun. So there it is for you all.






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Finally Friday!

Well I need to go to bed early, so I made a nice short video clip.... Here it is!





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Connecting the Subjects

Well another exciting day! Filled with a Spanish test and a DBQ! How fun!

Tomorrow's going to be more exciting when I have to take 3 tests! That's even more thrilling. So much information crammed in my brain that I think Gibb's free energy equation is a power function with a power of 1. Math and Chem combine! And then it's like well was Gibb a part of the industrialization of America and a part of the reconstruction? And actually after a quick look on Wikipedia, He was! Actually that's quite funny. Connecting my subjects. So we see that Gibbs was part of the rising advances in science during the end of the reconstruction! Interesting.

Anywho, so yea three tests tomorrow. So I should get some sleep. Just wanted to include a doodle I did in Chem yesterday (below). I liked it for some reason. It's all happy on one side and sad on the other! Kinda Emo I guess, not sure why, I just made a random shape and I expanded on it and that what came out. Maybe it had to do with my feelings toward the up coming run. Who knows.

But Jake Tired. Jake go to bed.



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CALs

Well today started off tiring. Actually...the whole day was.

But I made it through classes, then we left school for the CALs meet. I was happy about missing English, though I was not looking forward to running. But now that I've looked on Coolrunning.com I've found my score! Looks like I came in 59th and got 20:33! Thats actually a pretty good time for me on that course. I usually get 21 I think. Clarke did well too with 19:31 coming in at 26 out of 181 people.

But anyway, I promised myself an early night tonight since I was overly tired today, and it's going to start hurting me one of these days. Just have to study for this stupid Spanish test which will be hard as hammers. (I was going to say hell but I couldn't see why hell would be hard).

So I'll leave now. Good night All!



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