In which Pearl kicks herself for making stupid mistakes

I did forget it at home.
By "it", I mean the code for the Modified Repetition Assignment Number 8.
...*depression*

And what's worse...is that I embarrassed myself in front of Mr. Arkin today. (But Zarin-dono was there with me, so that's okay! *shot*) Yeah... Trust me to display my terrifying math skills in front of a math teacher. Grah...

Today we continued working on our Repetition Assignments. Zarin-dono and I worked together on Question 9, which we ultimately finished with about ten minutes to spare. Why, you ask? That horrible math problem...
Zarin-dono's so good at it - she figured out the problem so quickly; whereas it would've taken me...hours(?) to solve it. Zarin-dono, I bow to your amazing arithmetic skills! *bows down*

Question 10 was started, but I barely got anything done on that part. I finished it at home, though. I also finished Question 11, and am in the process of writing out the code.
[Edit]: Nope, I'm done now. *cheers* And I put it in a folder that I always bring to school, so I won't "forget" this time! Ha!

On another note, I finished the Printer Comparison Assignment right before 10 P.M. last night, because I was afraid Mr. Arkin would change the FileZilla password. But he didn't, and I felt incredibly stupid. *cry*

I want to start on Question 12, but I need to leave soon. Plus I have Science, French and English homework as well.  Derr.

Ano, oyasumi, minna-san!
Soshite...mata ashita!

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Trans. So, um, good night, everyone! And...until tomorrow!

In which Pearl finally gets to print out her assignments

Today was a tiring day. I felt so lethargic...
I must've yawned at least ten times in French class, too. I hope Mr. Vretranos wasn't mad. *wince*

Well, today we had Computer Science first thing in the morning, so I got to print out my assignments before class officially started. I just have to say, the format Turing prints out code in is awesome!
I'm really weird like that...I just... To me, it's fascinating, okay? *cry*

On another note, today was yet another catch-up day. First, we had a Q&A section (as usual) about HTML. Then, we were sent back to our computers to work on the Selection Assignments in partners. Zarin and I reviewed Question 6, and she showed me the correct format to put it in. And just in time, too! I was about to print it! And that would've been a waste of toner...

We wanted to review Question 9 as well, but just before we were about to do so, Mr. Arkin told us we were going to take a note. As a class, we went over Questions 12 and 13. Personally, I had absolutely no problem with either of them, though, apparently most of the class did. It was slightly annoying to have to sit through that. I wish we could've done Question 9 instead...

That's about it. Hmm... My blog posts are getting shorter and shorter... Ah, whatever.

Ja ne~!

Time flies when you're having fun...?

It doesn't feel like a Monday today. More like a Wednesday, or sometime in the middle of the week. Hn.

Well, today we continued working on the Basic Computer Glossary. Mr. Arkin gave us more terms to add into our glossary, so practically the whole period was spent copying down notes. I didn't even get to log in! But...this made the period seem so short. I guess time flies when you're having fun. Though I'm not sure taking notes could be classified as "fun".

Maybe it was because I was still on a high from Anime Club.

Haha, anyways! Updating the BCG will be pretty easy, so I'm happy to say that I'll probably be done before 6 P.M. That's a change! Thank goodness I'm a touch typist.

Finding pictures for the glossary terms should be relatively easy, so I'm not worried about that. Plus, Google Images has a special feature that will filter out any images you don't want.

Over the weekend, there was a security breach (again!). To tell you the truth...I wasn't really aware there was a first security breach. Not until I read the email Mr. Arkin sent to us.
If I were him, I'd be reluctant to trust us with the password again, too. But hey, the third time's the charm, right? Besides, I do my best to remember the information, and I have the contact info of some of my classmates in case I do forget.

On another note, Randi's finally back from London! Welcome back!

I'm off to work now. After this I have...science...french...and english homework as well. *cries*
When will I ever get the time to finish watching Durarara!!?

Missing Class...for a X-Country meet

Well, today I missed class because I had a X-Country meet.

Somehow, I'm regretting it.

I got some information from my friend, but I'm still not completely sure exactly what we're supposed to do. I typed out a Basic Computer Glossary with all the terms she gave me, but apparently we were supposed to get a handout as well - which I never got.

I checked the Daily Log, but the information there was pretty vague. Hopefully I did the right thing!

Tomorrow, I'll have to ask Mr. Arkin to briefly explain to me what happened yesterday and clear things up. I also need to get the handout. I hope he doesn't get mad...

On another note, I managed to get into FileZilla again today! Heh...that website really helped...

Ah, well, I'm off to finish writing my story for the Panther Press. My deadline's tomorrow, and I want to finish it today. Looks like I'm not going to get a lot of sleep...

Am I a bringer of bad luck?

Okay, so Mr. Arkin figured out the problem I had with my superpower assignment. And, it turns out that someone else had put their assignment in my folder. When I found out, I was filled with a mixture of relief and anger. Don't get me wrong, I'm not particularily angry at the person who did that, whoever it was; but it would've been nice to have known that a few days ago. I actually lost sleep over it...

And now, I tried connecting to FileZilla, but apparently the username and password were incorrect? How could that be? I tried all the different combinations possible, in case I got it wrong...but it still doesn't work. I guess I'll have to talk to Mr. Arkin...oh wait, I'm not here tomorrow. ARGH!!! I guess I'll have to email him about it.

Why am I so unlucky?

Anyways, today we continued working on the Class Glossary. Thankfully, one of my classmates put up a list of glossary terms - about 34 in all. Apparently, it's due at 10pm, but...yeah, I'll have to email Mr. Arkin. Well, I plan on finishing it before nine, because a new episode of Criminal Minds is airing at 9pm on CTV. And I'm not missing that.

Oh, another thing worth mentioning: Lab 218 got a sign! It has everyone's name on it, no matter what class they're in! I found myself staring in awe at it for a full ten seconds...or so.

As for Studio 218, I don't know what we're going to do! I guess I can borrow a CD from the library tomorrow, but I'm not sure...

Anyways, I'm off to work now!

Ja ne!

Could it really be? I have nothing to do! Read on!

Q: What do you do for an hour and ten minutes when you already finished everything the day before?
A: Write your blog entry so you don't have to do it on the weekend!

Yes...It's Friday, and the Superpower Assignment is officially due. All around me, my classmates are scrambling to put the finishing touches on their work and upload it. Me? I'm calmly typing this out while pandaemonium is happening around me. See, this is the benefit of finishing everything before the deadline. (Haha, actually, I was pretty much finished by last week! These past few days were spent putting the finishing touches on my web page, as well as marking my partner's work and making sure mine was marked.)

Hm, you know what would make this even funnier? If I suddenly whipped out a cup of tea and daintly started to sip from it! (Haha...the influence manga and anime have over me...)

Ah...well, I'm trying to pass the time with this, so bear with me and my horrible sense of humour.

Mr. Arkin said that we had to have everything up by 10pm tonight. Well, this doesn't really affect me, but my partner has to uploaded a revised version of the Peer Marking Scheme. I'm not worried, though - I fully believe that she won't disappoint me.

Update! She's almost there! Come on, come on...

Sometimes I feel like connecting to FileZilla is like a day at the New York Tax Exchange (is it that one? I can't remember...hopefully I'm right.) Everyone's trying to be heard, and it's almost like a full-out war.

Update...er, number two! She did it! Hooray! *jumps up and cheers*

What else is there to say? (For those of you actually spending your precious time reading this, I love you! Haha...maybe you could also devote some of that time to reading...my fanfic? *nudge nudge wink wink* Make sure you leave a review!)

Oh yes! It's Friday today, so that means we're in Studio 218, not Lab 218! Hooray! Our class put together an amazing playlist, which can be found here. Right now, Bad Romance is on. Haha...such good memories come back...I miss my friends from middle school...

Maybe next week I can bring in a japanese CD! I know the library has Ayumi Hamasaki...but I wish that they had anime OSTs. Anime songs are epic. *grins*

Anyways, I should shut up now. I probably wasted, what - ten minutes? - of your time already. Since my mind is already on  manga and anime, I'm going to pull a language switch and say:

Ja ne!

P.S. Google it if you don't understand. Google's awesome like that. (You probably won't find it on any japanese-english dictionary websites, it's slang...sort of)

"The first shall be the last"

"The first shall be the last"

That was the quote that Mr. Arkin put up on the board today. Why? Well, I was confused at first, too, but then he explained it to the class. Since today was Grade 9 Day, we were the only class he had the whole day! In other words, we were his first class as well as his last one! (Oh, oh, and did you know that it came from the Bible? I sure didn't!) Ha, well, enough of my rambling. Let's get to what I did today.

Mr. Arkin finally assigned a due date for our Superpower Assignment: Friday.

Ah, it doesn't affect me that much, since I pretty much finished everything a week ago. Now, I'm just putting the finishing touches on it. One thing that Mr. Arkin cleared up today that was incredibly useful for me was how to link to directories "above" the one the file I'm editing is in. (I'm referring to the hierarchical file structure) Nngh...I had forgotten that ".." means "one directory above" (or something along those lines). I feel so stupid...especially because I've used FileZilla pretty much every day, and have seen ".." every time I used it.

I spent most of my time today making sure I used special character entities consistently and appropriately. Then I made sure my spelling and grammar were correct. When I was absolutely positive that it was fine, I checked the marking scheme to see if I missed anything. Unfortunately...I did. Although I am, er, slightly confident that I will get a good mark, I'm missing something. My images aren't visually integrated.

This was a problem before, since when I first tried to do so, the HTML Validator claimed that there was an error in my coding. However, even Mr. Arkin couldn't figure out why, and suggested that I put each image in a paragraph of its own. And...it worked! Now...I'm not sure what to think, or do for that matter.

Other than that...I think I'll be okay. I'm drawing my illustrations at this very moment (literally!) and I'll be replacing the ones I currently have with my own pictures. Ha! Take that, stupid websites who don't indicate whether their image is copyrighted or not! (Oh...I feel sort of pathetic) Heh...anyways, back to work I go!

And I Go Live!!!

I'm finally live on the web!
Today we downloaded FileZilla at school, so we could upload our web site.It was very exciting,since all our work will finally be posted on the web for everyone to see!

Actually, our class was cut a little short today because of the assembly first period. The announcements also took up quite a bit of time.

I also learned that our "index.html" file is the one especially for our MAIN web page. I'm glad Mr. Arkin told us that (again) since I named the HTML file for my super-power assignment "index.html".
It's changed now, though. Ha, that's a relief!

I desperately tried to write the HTML for my main page in twenty minutes; but between trying to validate my super-power assignment HTML, figuring out what to download (for FileZilla), and making sure everything looks presentable, I had...some problems doing that.
I ended up with a very simple web page that had almost all the information needed (I think). The one thing I can't figure out is how to link to my super-power assignment. I mean, don't you need an URL for that? I...don't know. I must remember to ask Mr. Arkin that tomorrow!

Hmm...this has been my shortest blog post. But, I have to be somewhere in ten minutes, so I want to finish as much CS work as I can before I leave. Not that it's a bad thing! I'm not dragging on and on today, right? ;]