Now that school has started

I got my schedule for the year the night before school started last Wednesday. I was disappointed to find I had a study hall fourth bell. Other than gym and B&W/digital photography (which I have because it was one of only three choices for that bell when I was making choices last spring), all my classes seemed pretty good.
-I woke up at o550 on accident (meaning for 0600, but my clocks wer ten minutes ahead somehow) and found that I didn't need half that time to get ready, so I sat around; I might have even gone back to sleep. Then I biked on up to the school.
-Band came first, and it was just like I remembered X-periods being: tired. Next came physics. Mr Barney, to impress us, did some tricks with an electromagnet and also an interesting one where he put rosin on his fingers and swiped them down a six-foot aluminum pole to make a noise sort of like the world's loudest dog whistle, except low enough that instead of being inaudible it only made you bleed through the ears.
-Gym was stupid; Creutz (Mr Creutzinger) gave us a bunch of forms to sign and told us what the rules were this year. Then came AP American History with Mr Volz. He has long hair and told us he had a sense of humor. When people tell you they have a sense of humor they usually don't have a spectacular one.
-In study hall I read the book I had, A Sand County Almanac (and Sketches Here and There). I like that book. Then I had Advanced Math Concepts with Mrs Otten, who said we were free to talk without raising our hands. Lunch was halfway through that bell; I had pizza. I finished math and then went to English. Mrs Kopke gave us a story to read on the very first night. I've heard that's more or less typical of how English 11 Accelerated goes. And finally I had Spanish IV with Mrs Rudolph, who almost looks like a student. She's short and about 21. After Spanish school let out.

-This year I have three classes with Aaron, compared to just English last year. I'm also with Rosie, Matt, and Kristen more than last year. I've tried to get my study hall fourth bell changed to Community Service, which would look good on a college application, but Mr Volz (who's in charge of that too) told me he already has 36 students in fourth bell and may have to eject some of them into study hall. He never explicitly told me no, so I'll keep a little bit of hope, but it's pretty dim.

-This year there's a new policy in our school: everyone has to tuck their shirts in. They say it's to promote common decency and keep people from concealing weapons. That's a bunch of hooey. Common decency? Tucking shirts in isn't common. And who are they to say just what Common Decency is anyhow? Not many people are tucking their shirts in, but at the class meeting today we found out that if everyone starts doing it they might consider repealing the rule. Also at the class meeting Aaron asked if we could start using mesh bookbags, as opposed to no bookbags, to carry stuff around to classes. As it is I have to carry a toppling twenty-pound stack of binders and textbooks and folders to each class until sixth bell. It doesn't take much to figure that's not quite right.

-This morning I was wearing a "Think Ahead" shirt that my mom ordered a few days ago and Mr Canter noticed it. When he did the daily announcements he said, "First of all, I want you all to look at Neo's shirt." (I'm called Neo in band, for obscure reasons.) "I think we all need to get a shirt like that."
-"I sell 'em," I said peppily.
-"Oh do you?" he said. He didn't ask me for the website name, possibly because I didn't have a chance to tell him I sold them on a website, but in Physics, Oh Who Was It asked me about it and I gave her the address. I'll post it here again too, because by now that one post is far buried. I also think I'll make another shirt today.

Cheers,
Myself