Wow... so, the last time you heard from me i was pretty much going crazy haha. I'm much better now!

My finals are done! I've officially started summer break! Hurray! Couple of notes about my tests if anyone was wondering. My first one was chemistry. I ended up getting out of there thinking to myself that it was easier than i had expected, but ppl kept coming up to me saying how some of the questions were so hard and how they weren't sure how well they did. well, i kinda of started doubting myself thinking that maybe it was harder than i thought... The grades were posted the next day, so i checked them... to my great surprise, i made a 52/70!!! Haha, i know you're probably thinking... "That's awful... why would she be happy about that?" well, the final was actually a national test that chem students across the country have to take and pass. The average correct was 50 questions right, so to help us, what they did was took whatever score we made and double it. So if someone mad a 48/70 they'd actually have a 96, and a 50 is a 100. Well, since there was the slight possibility of someone making a 140% on the test by getting every question right, they said we could make up to 4% extra credit and anyone who makes a 52 or higher gets their grade in the class automatically boosted a letter. So, needless to say when i saw that i made the cut off of 52 questions, i was ecstatic! I'm pretty sure i made the fourth highest in the class too! The other high scores tied at 54 questions. It pretty much made my day

My other tests seemed to go pretty well too. I don't know what i made on them yet and may not. Next wendesday they will post final grades, so i'll get to see whether i did well on them or not. *crossesfingers*

I've got to say though, God really gave me a peace about everything. As you all could tell, I was freaking out about everything. I was getting sick (eventually ended up losing my voice, still recovering from that), and i didn't really have time to study as much as i should have. the morning of my first final i woke up and just had this peace come over me. I knew it was God. Thank you to anyone who prayed for me. Prayer definitely works

Now I get to explain the fiasco w/ chapt 11 in Manassas.... haha yeah... about that >.>.... well, that evening i check this site my teachers post messages and stuff on. some teachers use it to post grades and others don't. curious, i clicked on my english class. surprisingly there were a few grades posted... one of them had a green exclamation mark that worried me. it gave me no points at all... so i shot my english prof an email, but since it was late, i knew he wouldn't reply until the next day. i started getting really antsy about the whole thing. I hadn't liked this prof since the first day he came into class and said, "So, i hear you guys don't like picking topics... i know! let's do all our speeches and papers on the economy!" the economy is next to calculus on the things-i-most list. anyway, i started to get a little ticked at him and the situation too for some reason... But I had the urge to work on Manassas even though i didn't have any inspiration. I knew it wasn't a good idea, but a friend of mine told me to write anyway... so i did... i ended up hating the chapter and hating melody. ok, be honest.... the original chpt 11 was crap. i know it was. today i decided to go through and tweak some things, but ended up completely rewriting it instead. As I was going through the original version, i realized how much my angst for my prof had driven my writing... kinda was funny in a way. but i like the version i just uploaded a lot better than the other one. sounds more like my writing and is a lot less.... harsh and crappy... haha i also don't hate mel as much as i did. still don't like her though for some reason >.> in short, i checked my email and everything is okay. i got credit for the thing, it just wasn't posted up there.

blah... so many words!!!! sorry! hope you don't get lost in it all I'd do features, but i'm tired... I wanna go to bed. I promise my next journal will have features ^^

I'm definitely plannning on working more on manassas this summer... finishing it, in fact. The good stuff is coming I'll also be doing some more poetry. summer's going to be great

okay, now that i'm breathing (for the most part at least... my nose is still slightly stopped up...), i'm going to chill for a while. hope everyone else is going good!!!!



love you all!
God bless!!!!
~Shelly~