The Christmas List(s)

-Once again, time for the Christmas season. Loot, Jr. High teachers' good sides, and a dabble of politics are on my main list, but there's other stuff, too. Right now, I feel like I'm pushing a large steel block in a Shopko cart with no wheels, although we all remain ever-hopeful. Jr. High has ground to a complete halt halt, except for Mr. E.(english), who will soon be boxed up and shipped off to Japan with a teacher's degree and five bucks, as he told us in class on Friday.

-Today in P.E. we started basketball, which, of course, is the high point of everyone's day. Temperatures are expected to skyrocket on Monday, with highs of over six degrees, and, needless to say, we'll all be out in force with naught but two of our bulletproof winter coats and naught but one pair of Sno-Rangers. Scandalous, as Mr. E. would say.

-The winter months are here, which (along with uncle Tom) reminded me of times long past when I used to blog every week on Saturday. Maybe I don't have quite that amount of time anymore, but I think I'll try to be at least semi-monthly.

-There's a Fox Trot strip where it shows school getting progressively harder and harder until Paige ends up with all D's and F's. When I look back on my Lena Whitmore Elementary days, I can definitely see where the artist is coming from. From a very unmerciful standpoint, this would mean that I would have an overall GPA of 0.0 in college, but Things are Looking Up right now, and they say that middle school is the Worst Part of grade school. My grades don't come close to as bad as in the strip, either, but it does seem like I'm the only one sometimes.

-In English, we got an assignment on philosophy. Right now, I'm trying to think of how to explain to my teacher that Mormons think that man is half bad, half good. Any ideas?