Update on school life and a Movie Quote Meme

Friday, February 29, 2008

Sooo, I talked to my teachers today. Well, some of them. Mrs. Tobin, my English teacher, said she'll still accept the flash fiction assignment from me. She didn't even seem angry or disappointed with me. Gosh, I love Mrs. Tobin. She's is seriously like the coolest teacher I've ever had--even cooler than Mrs. Jackson (who is expecting a girl and is due sometime in March, by the way!)

History-- My teacher, Mr. Gorfida, wasn't there today, but I assume he'll still let me turn in my notebook (he's let me turn my notebook in late before), and that's my biggest concern with that class.

Spanish-- I talked to my teacher, Mrs. Lorenzo, and there are 4 assignments she's still going to let me turn in. Those assignments are:
1. A Spanish current event from the Entertainment section of telemundo.com
2. A Spanish current event from the Politics section of telemundo.com
3. Writing 3 paragraphs in spanish as a response to a story we read in our textbook.
4. Some assignment having to do with making a movie... Actually, this one was so long ago I can't even remember exactly what it was (Don't worry mom, I have a sheet of paper with the information on it, I just don't feel like looking it up right now u.u)
And on top of all that, our assignment for the weekend is to write 2 pages in our spanish journals about what we did this weekend. I hate writing those. In fact, I've skipped the last two or three assignments involving our journals. It's just so tedious! I don't know enough spanish to write with good style, and while I KNOW I have better writing style in Spanish than my peers do, I still feel like the writing is so robotic. It's like "I woke up this morning at 10 am and ate breakfast. Then I showered and got dressed." etc. etc. Except in Spanish.
Besides, being the perfectionist that I am, it takes me hours to do those stupid journals. But anyway, besides that, I also have a current event due Tuesday for a Sports article in spanish.
My teacher just laughed and was like, "It doesn't seem like we do much in here, but you know, if you don't do the assignments then they really just pile up, don't they?"
And I was just thinking, "You have no idea..." u.u Cuz she DOESN'T. I don't think she has a clue that I have about just as much work in History, English, and Chemistry each.

I don't think that even if I worked all weekend that I could accomplish it all...

But on to Chemistry-- I have done nothing in there this week. I am COMPLETELY clueless. Science is NOT my thing at all. In fact, it is SO not my thing, that I'm the most clueless person in my class. I'm not even exaggerating. Everyone in my class (a CP-level class, no less) understands chemistry better than I do. And I just look at these kids, and they're so average. I know that most of them are not 'smart kids'. In fact, there are really only like 5 kids in there I would say are anything remarkable. Allow me to describe them:

Kaitlyn Wiltshire - Band nerd, flute player, bad social skills. She's bad at English, and yet she somehow has a good reputation in there. She's pretty much a suck-up and she caves in to peer pressure easily. Probably comes from insecurity and lack of friends. I consider her a friend-of-sorts. She's nice, and even though she's pretty lame, bizarre, and boring to talk to, I can talk to her about band, Mrs. Battista, English, and History, so that's something.
Ariel Davati - This girl is pretty smart. I'm definitely having my doubts about my own smarts presently, but if I were to compare Ariel and Kaitlyn to myself normally, I would say they're about right on my level of intelligence, but in different subjects. They both kick butt in math and science, and I don't. Sure, I may be about at the top of my Algebra II class, but it IS considered to be a pretty average-level math class for a junior, so it's not much to brag about. And, as I've already said, my science skills are positively atrocious. Ariel, on the other hand, is great at those, AND she's decent at both English and Spanish. Sure, I'm beat her in those two areas, but she's pretty well-rounded, where I have science crippling me.
More about her besides academics: She plays saxophone in band, and she's pretty mean and obnoxious, but actually really funny. I've always had kind of had mixed feelings about her. I like her on the one hand and consider her a friend, but at the same time, she's just a really tough, mean person, and I'm really sensitive and I can't always tell when not to take her insulting remarks personally. Mostly, however, I've come to accept that she is who she is though, and, oddly enough,I like her, and I think she likes me and considers me a friend as well.
Hayden Johnson -- This boy is sickeningly perfect. He's tall, cute, and has pretty blue eyes. He's got like perfect grades (he has a 4.7 GPA!), but he still somehow finds time to be on the Basketball team. A guy this good has got to at least have a sucky personality (i.e. he's probably an arrogant toerag), right? Noo, not Hayden Johnson. He's painfully shy, modest, and sweet. I know a girl that went out with him for about a week. She's Mormon, actually, and she had to break it off because he was just TOO perfect. Poor Hayden. There really is no such thing as flawless, because being flawless becomes your flaw xD
Marcus Cono - Another quiet kid. He's in my math class too, and he does all his work in his head, pretty much, and gets points taken off because of it. It's really funny, actually, because I get better grades than him all the time even though HE has a more mathematical brain. I can tell it pisses him off, and I feel bad for him, but I'm still more amused than anything else at the irony.
Conner Adams - He's pretty smart, and athletic, but I still don't really like him much. At least he got his hair cut last year...


Anyway, moving on. I doubt you really cared to know about them, but I may make reference to them later on, so this way you'll have a little more information. And I probably won't talk about any of them much except for Ariel and Kaitlyn, because they're the only ones in the group I'm actually friends with (and even Kaitlyn's only a sort-of friend). Some other time I'll describe Angela Bryant for you. She's another friend of mine (though she doesn't fit into the smart-people category, much as she would like to...), and she, Ariel, and I share 4 of the same classes so we kinda group ourselves together when we can.



OKAY enough about that!

I need to hurry and post this Meme (I dunno why they're called that, but Memes are things that kind of circulate through blogs. They're pretty fun, and good for filler posts)

So look, here are the rules:

1. Pick 20 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search or other search functions.


(And actually, the original rules said to pick only 15 movies, but I wanted to do 20 =P So I'm sorry but this will probably get quite lengthy. However, if you choose to continue this meme, you can do whatever number of movies you want ^^)
Also, no cheating-- don't go looking for my favourite movies.
And I think I should probably make another rule for immediate family members (since they have a better idea about what my favourite movies are)-- I'll start with each person in our family only being allowed to get one movie right per hour. That means if you're one of my parents or siblings then you're only allowed to guess until you get one right and then you have to wait an hour before guessing again. Hopefully this will give you California folks a chance to participate as well (not that you have to though... =P)

(Oh, and the movies are in no particular order, by the way)

So, without further ado, allow me to present Movie #1!


Quote from Movie #1: (Dead Poets Society - Russell)
Character 1: Boys, you must strive to find your own voice. Because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all. Thoreau said, "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation." Don't be resigned to that. Break out!


Quote from Movie #2: (Enchanted - Christopher)
Character 1
: Now if only I can find a place to rest my head for the night.
Character 2: What kind of place?
Character 1:
I don't know. Maybe a nearby meadow or a hollow tree.
Character 2: A hollow tree?
Character 1: Or a house full of dwarves. I hear they're very hospitable.



Quote from Movie #3: (Finding Nemo - Charli)
Character 1:
I suffer from short term memory loss. It runs in my family... At least I think it does... Where are they?



Quote from Movie #4: (The Mask of Zorro - Mom)
Character 1:
I would have killed him.
Character 2:
No, not today. He is trained to kill. You seem trained to drink. Oh, yes, my friend, you would have fought very bravely, and died very quickly. Who then would avenge your brother?



Quote from Movie #5: (Nightmare Before Christmas - Mom)
Character 1: That's twice this month you've slipped deadly nightshade into my tea and run off.
Character 2:
Three times!
Character 1:
You're mine, you know! I made you, with my own two hands...
Character 2:
You can make other creations! I'm restless, I can't help it!
Character 1:
It's a phase, my dear, it'll pass. We just need to be patient, that's all.
Character 2:
But I don't want to be patient!


Quote from Movie #6: (The Patriot - Dad)
Character 1:
He cannot be held as a spy.
Character 2: We're not going to hold him. We're going to hang him.


Quote from Movie #7: (Series of Unfortunate Events - Christopher)
Character 1:
You know, there's a big world out there filled with desperate orphans who would gladly swim across an ocean of thumbtacks just to be eclipsed by the long shadow that is cast by my accomplishments. But I don't care about them. I chose to open my heart to you two lovely children and your hideous primate.




Quote from Movie #8: (Moulin Rouge - Theresa)
Character 1: The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.


Quote from Movie #9: (Alice in Wonderland - Mom)
Character 1: I simply must get through!
Character 2:
Sorry, you're much too big. Simply impassible.
Character 1:
You mean impossible?
Character 2:
No, impassible. Nothing's impossible.




Quote from Movie #10: (Back to the Future - Dad)
Character 1:
Whoa, this is heavy.
Character 2:
There's that word again; "heavy". Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the earth's gravitational pull?


Quote from Movie #11: (The Day After Tomorrow - Russell)
Character 1: I'm not angry. I'm disappointed.
Character 2: Do you wanna hear my side of it?
Character 1: Sam, how can there be two sides?
Character 2: Hey, look, I got every question right on the final and the only reason Mr. Spengler failed me was because I didn't write out the solutions.
Character 1: Why not?
Character 2: I do them in my head.
Character 1: Did you tell him that?
Character 2: I did. He said he didn't believe me. He said that if he couldn't do them in my head then I must be cheating.
Character 1: Well, that's ridiculous! How can he fail you for being smarter than he is?
Character 2: That's what I said.
Character 1: [smirks] You did? How'd he take it?
Character 2: He flunked me, remember?


Quote from Movie #12: (Tarzan - Gwen)
Character 1: Mom! Are you sure this water's sanitary? It looks questionable to me!


Quote from Movie #13: (Step Up - Charli)
Character 1:
What? I'm not late.
Character 2:
You're not dressed either... You can change at the back.
Character 1:
I can change here...
Character 2: I told you to bring tights.
Character 1:
Do I look like I own tights?




Quote from Movie #14: (Phantom of the Opera - Dad)
Character 1:
Raoul, I've seen him! Can I ever forget that sight? Can I ever escape from that face? So distorted, deformed, it was hardly a face in that darkness... darkness... But his voice filled my spirit with a strange, sweet sound. In that night there was music in my mind... And through music my soul began to soar! And I heard as I'd never heard before.



Quote from Movie #15: (Elf - Theresa)
Character 1: Why are you smiling like that?
Character 2: I just like to smile, smiling's my favorite.



Quote from Movie #16: (Take the Lead - Mom)
Character 1:
I want to teach your kids to dance.
Character 2:
If theres' one thing they can do, it's dance.
Character 1:
Ballroom dance? Waltz, the foxtrot?
Character 2:
Ok, where's the camera? Because if you're saying that you want to teach my kids the foxtrot I have to be on TV.


Quote from Movie #17: (Peter Pan (2003) - Gwen)
Character 1:
My unfulfilled ambition is to write a great novel in three parts about my adventures.
Character 2:
What adventures?
Character 1:
I've yet to have them, but they will be perfectly thrilling.




Quotes from Movie #18: (Pirates of the Caribbean - At World's End - Gwen)
Character 1: Up is down. That's just maddeningly unhelpful. Why are these things never clear?


Quotes from Movie #19: (Stranger Than Fiction - Mom)
Character 1:
So, are you a frequenter of the Metropolitan Transit Authority too?
Character 2:
No, I'm just late.
Character 1:
Big flag burning to get to?
Character 2:
Actually, it's my weekly evil-conspiracy and needlepoint group. You wanna come?
Character 1:
I left my thimbles and socialist reading material at home.


Quotes from Movie #20: (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Mom)
Character 1:
You're all quite short, aren't you?
Character 2:
Well yeah, we're children.
Character 1:
Well that's no excuse. I was never as short as you.
Character 3:
You were once.
Character 1:
Was not. Know why? Because I distinctly remember putting a hat on top of my head. Look at your short little arms. You could never reach.




K, that's all of 'em guys! Bonus points if you can name the characters too!

21 comments:

Aleks said...

Movie 4: The Mask of Zorro

Christopher said...

I haven't read them all, but I read 6. It's Enchanted, right?

I'm going to read the rest now :)

Christopher said...

Oops, I mean #2, not #6. :P

Theresa said...

WOWZA! That's tough. I think I might know two of them:
#8 Moulin Rouge
#15 Elf

Theresa said...

Are you going to post the answers?

Happy The Man said...

#10 Back to the Future

Tory said...

Yeah, you guys are all right so far =)

And I'm not going to post the answers for a while, so everybody has a chance to guess at them. Christopher knows most of them, so you'll find them out as he guesses more. Russell probably knows a few too, so he'll uncover some more for you ^^

We'll just have to see how long it takes.

I'm working on editing the blog right now to show what's already been done.

Cathleen said...

#19 Stranger Than Fiction

RDCS said...

1: Dead poet society?

8: Some musical that i recognize but can't remember the name. Le miz? PotO? Gah, i remember it. but not its name.


11: War of the worlds?

20: I recognize, but i dunno.

Cathleen said...

#20 Willie Wonka w/ Jonny Depp

Christopher said...

7# A Series of Unfortunate Events

There are easy ones and hard ones. No middleground? Darnit!

Gwen said...

12# Tarzan!

Cathleen said...

#16 Take the Lead

Cathleen said...

#9 Alice in Wonderland

Happy The Man said...

#6 The Patriot
#14 Phantom of the Opera

charlithebold said...

#3 is Finding Nemo, and it is Dory that is saying it
and
#13 is Step Up and Channing Tatum--Tyler Gauge is saying it

RDCS said...

AHA! #11 is 2 days from now (The day after tomorrow)

Cathleen said...

#5 is The Nightmare before Christmas

Gwen said...

#17 Human peter Pan movie!

Gwen said...

# 18 pirates 3

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