Okay. I've had enough of trying to make my layout work with multiple resolutions. My computer is set at 800x600, and it looks fine to me. I have difficulty reading the text on 1024x768 screens, so I always leave mine lower. My site is designed for 800x600, so if you can't see it right, please change your resolution. I'm tired of trying every CSS trick I know to make things line up properly. This is how it's gonna be for a while.
Mrs. Anderson gave back the multiple-choice part of the AP practice exam this morning. I was
so disappointed: my weighted score was 37.5. I got 33 right and 12 wrong. I
knew I answered too many questions! Something told me to just go with it. I always omit a bunch, because I'd rather have a slightly lower score than to have so many wrong that I drag myself down.
To add to the blow to my self-confidence, Greg got around 48, and Alanna got a 57. I'm not jealous, though. Alanna deserves her score; I fully expect her to be a National Achievement Award finalist. I think my selection index is just a little too low for me to make it, though (around 190; usually you need close to 200). I don't know how Greg did it. He was finished at least twenty minutes before time was up, and he finished about forty minutes early on the essay section. I used to think of myself as a good writer. And I totallly thought I could handle standardized tests. Apparently not. The moment of truth will be on Monday: my SAT scores should arrive and/or be available on the website. I'm almost afraid to find out. What if I lost it and, like, didn't break 1000? That'd be traumatizing, 'cause my PSAT score was 1230. And I'll have to take it again in June, which sucks.
Everything is stressing me out again. The SAT. The AP exam. AP Physics. The stupid new BCR requirement. What is that about? We've taken all the High School Assessments we're going to take. We should never have to write another BCR. So why, then, are they requiring them in all classes? It's ignorant. And they're not even "brief constructed responses" -- they're short answer questions. No need for a fancy acronym. Then, I'm not going anywhere with piano. There's another mini-recital next Tuesday that I want to try to attend. I still get horrific nervous shakes when I play in front of stangers, and the only way I can cure my chronic musical xenophobia is to perform. But it's really hard to play piano -- at all, let alone well -- when your hands are shaking. I hate that.
The rest of school went okay. My house for Lifsey is coming along much better now. I worked quite dilligently today. After school AP review was pretty good. Except that I was in a bad mood, and I was still getting multiple-choice questions wrong. I showed those partial essays to Mrs. Anderson, but I had to leave before she got to look at them. I don't expect her to do it tonight; she still has to grade almost 90 essays from the practice exam yesterday. She really cares about us. I like that. I think those partial essays turned out
way better than my practice exam essays, though. I got into that groove and just went with it. I wonder if I can get back into that groove a week from Tuesday, at the actual exam. I shall try.
Sims is back from India now, which means I should really get back to beta-ing her fic. The Quidditch scene was good, considering that I would
never attempt it myself. I was talking with Mark about that this morning, sort of. I was telling him how slow
Billy Budd is, and he told me that
The Three Musketeers is the same way, and then we discussed how writing action-packed scenes is really difficult.
Oops. Missing
ER. Gotta run.
