APUSH

APUSH: a seemingly harmless acronym for something quite terrible and frightening.

As many of you know (everytime I write "many" or address an audience...I die a little inside because I'm obviously the only one that sees my blog ever. haha. oh well) I've been suffering through a history class all year. AP US History if you will. I hate it. It's not because I have a monotone-y, crap teacher (because the teacher is actually quite engaging and enthusiastic) and it's not because I'm failing. I just can't get myself excited about history. It doesn't interest me, so I never remember things or find them inspiring and historically "breath-taking." So I hate history. On Friday, May 8th, I took the APUSH test at school. 55 minutes of multiple choice questions followed by 2 hours and 10 minutes to write 1 dbq (document based question) and to answer 2 free response questions. I found the multiple choice to be more difficult than the practice tests that I'd done, and the prompt too strange and paradoxical to be able to construct a really coherent essay (Af-Am's gained freedom AND slavery expanded? wtf...). Half way through the free response questions, my aching blister popped. I hated everything to say the least. And now all I have to show for it is this blog, my never-ending hatred of history, and the completion of the AP test (a "be nice to me, i took the APUSH test today" sticker if you will).

I was going to end this entry, but I just couldn't let myself not write about my violin recital.
ON THE SAME DAY!

After the test, I crashed/slept on the couch until it was time to leave for my recital at 7:30. I got there at 7:29...it was great. I played the 2nd and 3rd movements of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor at Hudson Hall. It actually went quite well. I then went home to watch the Lakers beat the Rockets. Atleast the day ended on a good note.

toodles.