Episode 00: B Day

 8-12-26

My school only has 4 periods per day, but the days alternate. A day then B day, today’s a B day for me. That means I have some pretty boring classes, but I kinda got the jackpot this year. Last year my teachers were either okay or straight up terrible, this year I’ve got all decent to good teachers. And I don’t have to worry about the language headaches.

Language headaches are probably a foreign concept to you, no pun intended, so I’ll explain it. At my school classes that teach different languages aren’t taken seriously and people just goof off. They goof off so much, people get headaches in language classes. I call them Spanish headaches because I’ve only had Spanish, but any language class can be plagued by the monster that is a language headache! 

Anyway, today I don’t have Spanish. I have math, finances, forensic science, and AP literature. I know I’m such a smarty pants. Yesterday I had music appreciation, finance, AP drawing, and web development. As you’ll notice most of my classes are setting me up for the gaming industry, and I’ll probably follow suit. After all, why put a kid in art and coding classes if you don’t want him to be a game developer? I’ve always wanted to be involved in the industry in anyway so if I’m a story writer, storyboarder, music composer, or coder I’ll do whatever. Aren’t I an interesting protag~? 

In all seriousness this entry is mainly for you to get to know my school and me, which is why it’s kinda your pilot episode. So let’s get into the boring parts, yawn, the actual school day. I’m trans masc and it’s that time of the month for me. Barf! So I had to take a morning shower, meaning I didn’t get to have the best cereal known to mankind. Cinnamon Toast Crunch. So I have to eat school breakfast. Today’s breakfast, spicy chicken biscuit with apple slices. I thought it was gonna taste like trash but I’ve kinda grown a taste for it. I know somebody is probably gonna be seething about how much worse their lunch was, but to be fair to me, I dunno betta. I forgor.

I hope you’re okay with little timeskip updates cause I’ll do that a lot. Anyway, I totally forgot about school supplies shopping this year so I’m surviving off of two pens, two old mechanical pencils, two regular pencils, and eight old notebooks. I have old highlighters at home, but I’ve been too lazy to rummage through my stuff, I am a total couch potato. Especially because I watch Yu Yu Hakusho at home with my best friend. My school has been really obsessed with attendance this year though, and we don’t even have bad attendance scores like ever. They just randomly went “Everybody must show up”. They even replaced our grade trackers with attendance trackers. So of course I have to track my attendance for these two weeks.  

I’m not all too proud to say I haven’t missed anything because the school year just started. What is there to really miss? It’s only been two weeks since I’ve started. Well about two weeks, this is only Wednesday of the second week. But you get the idea.

*College Readiness Math Class*

I love my math class this year. Last year my teacher didn’t have any sense of a lesson plan and his lessons were all over the place so his lessons were too confusing and boring. This year I have a competent teacher. He also has the perfect morning voice quality. Loud enough to get your attention but not so hyperactive you say “dude it’s only eight AM I’m not in the mood for this”, just kinda nice. And the assignments are very bearable even for me. Somebody who had a track record of failing math since the second grade. 

But even if you really love a teacher you can’t help but have a little hope they’re ascent. I mean, come on. So I’m glad my teacher is absent today. When a teacher is absent sometimes there’s not even a sub for half the period so we just do nothing. And that’s exactly what I did. Nothing but eating snacks and going on my phone for a whole period, sweet sweet paradise.

*Finance Class*

I have to do actual work now =_=. Well I finished the paper at least, and everything I got back was above an eighty percent so that’s good at least, but then there’s the self important rant. I hate those. Honestly I wish teachers understood that it’s just an uphill battle trying to get a teen’s respect. I respect them plenty, but you can’t please everybody. If you could do that I’d be at home eating a cupcake right now.  But I don’t mind a class like this. I could be doing something pointless like watching paint dry, and this isn’t that. I guess.

I know it’s a dumb thing to complain about, but the way I see it society has always existed in some form of a caste system. There’s always somebody above somebody else, and sometimes people who are above others still try to act above their caste and then somebody reminds them that their place is above others but still beneath them. Teachers largely go unchecked by people other than students so they naturally get a little bit of an ego. Expected, I would too if only kids could check me, but still. It wasn’t that bad, there is worse and it could always be worse.

*Forensic Science*

Forensic Science is the longest period I have and it’s the longest I have to wait before lunch. On A days I have A lunch, the earliest lunch, on B day I have D lunch. You can probably guess when D lunch is. Other than that it wasn’t so bad. We basically just watched a true crime movie and wrote down notes on it. 

After that I ended up eating most of my lunch before it was actually time for lunch, but it was entirely worth it. Mostly.

*AP Literature*

AP Lit is like the highlight of my day because I actually have a good teacher this time and the room is chill to be in. Harry potter decorations, edgar allen poe decorations, pianos, and musical theatre posters on a bulletin board. And it’s where I get to slack off the most since English is my expertise. Art, I need a lot of work on, but AP Lit is just reading and writing.

Something I’m really good at. We’re already starting off class with a quiz on wayground, which is a pretty good sign. I just hope they didn’t reschedule that evacuation drill for today. I feel like I’m gonna jinx myself by writing this. Please tell me I don’t. The only other issue I have is the water bottle. My grandma always packs me two apple juice boxes and an ice cold bottle of water with my food. I forgot to work on drinking it today so I have barely any time to chug my water before the bell rings.

Anyway, we ended up reading as story that I already read in middle school so I’m basically just getting a refresh of a story I already remember. Since the AP classroom wasn’t working my english teacher offered to just put on FNAF theories, apparently she’s also tuned into fnaf theories and loves Matpat. But we didn’t end up doing that so the day was normal and I just went to the bus after doing nothing pretty much all day.