Merry Longest Week Ever!

It's the last week before winter break. Since my school doesn't have classes on Fridays, that would mean that I have three more days to go. But unfortunately, due to Hurricane Wilma, we have to go to school this Friday to make up a lost day. It will be the first Friday I've been to school since May 23, 2003. And that makes this the longest school week I've had to suffer through since then. Luckily, today has gone by pretty fast, so hopefully the rest of the week will fly by too.

Mr. Miller, my new European History teacher, has threatened to quit because he doesn't like the World History classes he has to teach (or, the students don't like him). The students in those classes want Mrs. Vazquez back, even though that's not going to happen. But it seems that Mr. Miller could quit if he wanted to. In order to prevent this from happening, Luke has proposed a two-phase plan.

Phase I: Give Mr. Miller cookies. He loves cookies, especially chocolate chip. I'm sure many people are making cookies for the holidays, so this is a perfect chance.
Phase II: There have been several suggestions about what Phase II should be. It appears to be down to either blasting Mr. Miller with positive Michelle-energy, or getting everyone in the class not to talk, because Mr. Miller hates when students talk out of turn. Maybe we could implement both.

The Luke Plan should be implemented as soon as possible. However, after January 13, Mr. Miller will have new World History classes who won't resent him taking the place of Mrs. Vazquez. So, if we can keep him for at least that long, getting him to stay for the rest of the year should not be as difficult.

Anyway, I just thought my fellow classmates would like to know. And remember: let Mr. Miller stay -- keep the dream a reality! Or... keep the reality a dream! Or... keep the reality keeping to be a reality? Whatever.

I've decided to put the Christmas layout up for the site. At first I figured I wouldn't bother, but it shouldn't be that hard, and it makes things look less boring.

Wikipedia's credibility was seriously dented recently when an article about one John Seigenthaler suggested that he was involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Even though the guy who wrote the article apologized, Seigenthaler has launched a vendetta against the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and look! Now there's a class-action lawsuit! How many clowns will anonymously write fake articles about themselves to make quick cash?

In protest of Tribune Co. firing editorial cartoonists from some of its major newspapers, the few such cartoonists left in America decided to voice their opinions using their own medium. Have a look at editorial cartoons from today, Black Ink Monday. (Tribune Co. owns the local newspaper; I'm not sure whether they gave our cartoonist the boot, though.)

Two years ago: "No one got a refund, but the cookies tasted pretty good to me."