December 13th, 2001 4:52 PM Hehe, shhhh I stole this BG from Nik,    Hey all! I'm back again. It is the 13th of December which means only 12, yes, count 'em, TWELVE days til Christmas! Now we can start singin the song..."On the first day of christmas my true love gave to me," la de da de da. And for everyone who celebrates Hannaka and Kwanzaa, rock on.    With Christmas coming up we have 'non-denominational holiday break' at school starting next Saturday. Well, we were supposed to have it start next Friday but since we had our 'rain/slush day' a couple of weeks ago, we have to make it up on Friday so, grr! Anywho, before Christmas - oh, excuse me, 'non-denominational holiday break' can come, we have to take the evil evil FINALS! Finals in every single s e v e n classes stretched over three days. It wasn't bad enough that we have had to spend the last month on alternate assessments, a never ending slew of essays and posters, but now we have to cram for the next week for finals that count for 10% of our final grade. Oh how much f u n!    Today was basically the official start of final review. Next Wednesday we have our 7th hour final, Thursday our 1st, 2nd, and 3rd hour finals, and Friday we have 4th, 5th, and 6th hour finals. First hour I have Drama 1. My teacher, Mrs. Carron wasn't there today, but her sister ironically subbed for her, Miss Gruen. After copying the terms off the board, we were free for the rest of the hour. This guy Kenny had brought a guitar to class so we all sat around on the couches and listened to Kenny and my other friend Jim play songs off the guitar. It was really cool. Not much else happened today, it was all in all pretty boring.    This weekend my parents are having this holidy party get together thinga ma doober where a bunch of friends and a few family members are coming over. I'm kinda excited cos my brother Tyson is coming up and I haven't seen him in a coupleof months so I'm looking forward to seeing him and Heather and some of my family I haven't seen in a while Some of it will be a drag but all in all I think it will be a good time.    Well, I have to go address envelopes. Whee fun. Anyone wanna join me? See ya lata. Always Whitney