deep breaths in and out and

well well well. just when i thought that they couldn't mess up our senior year any more. and then, this.

first off: good job! you guys actually got the schedules out before we started school. that must make you feel that you really accomplished something this week huh? but no teacher names on it, hmm, that's pretty smart. now kids can't even come into the office saying they want to transfer out because they have problems with the teacher they got, 'cause you didn't put what teacher they got! good for you!

but then again, if you know what room number teachers are, you know what teacher you have. like this:

1st: gov/econ. room 53 (mr. garcia)
2nd: calc honors. room 53 (mr. christensen)
3rd: religion 12. music room (ficke)
4th: english 12. room 60 (br. andre's, formerly vigil's)
6th: sociology. room 55 (ms. sunseri, it's the only class she teaches)
7th: physics. room 41 (brooks)

now, unless someone's playing a really mean karmic joke on me, i have br. andre for english. that's the only one i was really freaked about. it doesn't help that i don't remember what electives i signed up to have, but i'm thinkin of using sociology with sunseri to my advantage. i didn't get gov/econ with ms. roos, that bites, but what can i do? not a damn thing. i also got physics seventh, which means i will definitely not be joining speech this year.

second semester:
1st: gov/econ
2nd: calc h
3rd: art 2
4th: english
6th: physics (why did this change? could there possibly be two physics classes??)
7th: creative writing. with big t. amazingly, the only class that i'm looking forward to this year.

so there it is. schedule-wise, we're all fucked, but what's new with that. i still hold to the thought that physics should be an honors class. bastards.

on to more stupidity, straight from the letter:

they moved the sevies' lockers into the science hall. am i the only one who sees this as an amazingly horrible idea? i'm sure brooks will love this new situation.

the motto for this year: Dare To Be Great. "The officers liked this motto because they want to motivate the students, especially the seniors, to achieve as much as they possibly can this year." oh, i'm thinkin of achieving a hell of a lot this year, mainly being the biggest pain in the ass to those people as i can without getting disciplinary punishment.

it gets better:

no homeroom. granted, we knew this already, but i like to emphasize how idiotic getting rid of homeroom is, because "it was not an effective utilization of time." but hey, we get to add two minutes onto every class period! isn't that great! who needs a longer lunch anyway? too bad i don't have something like english first period though, 'cause then we could waste a whole 5 minutes doing pledge and praying and taking roll. ah, fun.

and, if none of that pissed you off, if you're not overly pissed off by most of the things that happen at st. mike's like me, i'm sure you'll really like this next one:

graduation cannot be saturday, may 22. why? because mikey couldn't make it. so, instead of having graduation without mikey (god forbid), we're having it... on the 18th. a tuesday. 'cause that turned out so well this last year. graduation: tuesday, may 18, at 7pm, at the cathedral.

and you know, i had started to cool off about the whole having two more weeks of school than usual, because they were giving us a senior week. now, no senior week. senior night on the 17th, and then graduation the 18th. at 7pm. a tuesday.

didn't that just make your day? i know it did mine.

i'm actually being quite calm about this whole thing. deep breaths.

there was one thing that i wanted changed this year: the parking lot. my idea was to actually count the spaces available (the smart thing to do) and only sell that many parking stickers. also, let all the seniors buy their stickers first, then all the juniors. sophomores can't get them. they're the ones that cause all the problems in the parking lot, since when they turn 16 and their parents buy them a nice new expensive car, they drive it to school. no matter that they didn't buy a parking tag, or that they're taking up someone else's space, or causing a complete hazard since they can't drive in the first place. nooo. so i say get rid of em.

that was the only thing i was going to bring up. but now, now they've screwed the seniors over one too many times.

how many people care if graduation is in the cathedral? how many people care if archbishop mikey is the one that does mass for graduation?

wouldn't it be better if we could have graduation somewhere where you could actually sit more than 6 members of your family, and where they could actually see you when you get your diploma, instead of having to send one person out to take pictures of it, because you can't see from where you sit?

it's a catholic school. it's a la sallian christian brothers' school. it's 144 years old, the oldest school in santa fe (cripes isn't it the oldest school in the state?). they're pretty damn set in their ways. graduation has always been at the cathedral. and they'd be fine with it being there forever. but it's getting to be just rediculous. seriously.

so, jessica west is our "student government president". she claims to want to help us, that's why she was elected (yeah, that's why she was elected). so, i'm gonna bring up a few things to her this year. and i'm gonna be calm about it. but you know, we've taken this shit long enough, and it's time for things to change.

our class, while having the least school spirit and probably the most non-catholics currently, will definitely be open to signing petitions, speaking their minds at student council, walk-offs, and other such things. or at least, that's what i've come to know our class as. i plan to use that to our full advantage this year.

feedback on this is greatly appreciated. jess, you're going to that leadership thing? i'd like to talk to you before you go.

anyone have any ideas, throw them at me. i'm ready to organize.