THIS IS COOL.
I get a journal skin.
I've been wanting one of those.
Too bad it has to have the annoying
banner at the top,
but oh well.
Actually, I could afford a year's subscription, but
first I need that money to buy Photoshop.
Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.
It's within my price range, and it
still does all the stuff I want.
I'm excited.

Anyway, I finally got not-lazy enough
to get all my old files
off the hard-drive, so
now I have some of
those pictures I wanted
from two years ago.
When I look at them, I'm
surprised at how much
my photography has improved,
especially in the framing of the subject.
Of course, there are still some
good pictures out of them.

And, as promised, I'll post a picture of
my halloween costume,
when I get around to it.

I wish my school had a photography class.
I would take it in a heartbeat.
Probably the quickest choice I could ever make
in my life.
(I'm so indecisive.)
But, alas.
Maybe I can start a photography club?
I'm just kind of photography-obsessed
at the moment.
And poetry obsessed,
as you can probably see in
my erratic line breaks.

My school had a writing contest, but
it was only for short stories, and I
didn't really want to write a short story.
I asked the librarian
if we could have a poetry contest, too,
so maybe.
I hope.

I'm happy because
I got good grades on my progress report.
Except for PE, but I'm
working on that.
They're not letter grades like in
American schools; we're given
two scores from 1-7:
one for Achievement and one
for Effort
I got two 4's in Art.
I thought I would get a higher grade
there, but my teacher commented
that I didn't do so well in the
written assignments.
(Those are hard. I just want to make
the art, not write about it.)

Anyway, I got two sixes in each
Math and English.
My English teacher commented that
I'm an excellent reader and writer and I
actively participate
in class discussions, but I
haven't been recording
my Independent Reading.
The thing is, I just read.
I don't think about what pages
I'm reading; I just
think about what's on them.
But I'll try harder
because I want to get two 7's
on the semester report card
(the one that
actually goes on our
record; this one is
just a progress report.)

Anyway
I'm going to try
to post
more
art
from now on.
Writing, too.
So far I've only posted one
poem in my gallery.

And I want some pastels...
Ah, well.

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