life update with high's and low's and quite a lot of stuff

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amc10b: was better than amc10a if you look at my score (i got in the 80's 5 days study = 76.5 ;; 1 week study = 81 so that's pretty good actually!) if my score goes up by 4.5 every 2 days i would be getting perfects at the end of the month
however amc10b was very ego crushing to say in the least
i took amc10a at my school so it was with high schoolers since i am very much a high schooler
since my school didn't offer 10b, i had to go to a separate math class place to take it (kind of like aops but another place)

so there were people of all ages, and everyone except me was chinese. and i'm pretty sure i was the oldest one there.
anyways my heart dropped as i saw the first girl there. i was like "there is no way she is taking the amc10."
i actually had a small convo with her where i asked her how old she was. she was twelve.
that wasn't the worst, though.
this one, i kid you not, 4'1" kid who looked like he was no older than eight years old walked in wearing spiderman pajamas. three minutes later his friend walked in, even shorter than him, and looked maybe seven years old. i am not kidding nor exaggerating.

so i started the test already wanting to cry
and then the dude behind me seemingly had a cold or something but still came and coughed really really really loudly every six seconds for the next hour and fifteen minutes.
the first time he did it i whirled around and i feel like my proctor thought i was looking at his answers so i was rly nervous but it doesn't matter anyways since i definitely didn't qual for aime.
so the test was over, i luckily left some blank because i was self doubting and the answers turned out to be wrong anyways so yayay i didn't lose points.
i managed to solve #18 which is the farthest i've ever gone on an amc so yay me again
as soon as that stupid test was over i left and never looked back and told my mom "i'm never coming to this place to take amc ever again i hate my life now"
and she said "you need to grow a backbone."

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piano+singing update: i kind of started playing piano again because i listened to this super pretty piece and was motivated again for the first time in like eight months.
the piece i'm playing is the lark by glinka/balakirev. you should listen to it sometime ;; it's really pretty and is one of my all time fav piano pieces! next in line after i finish this is probably tempest sonata 3rd movement which is also a favourite piece of mine but it depends on whether i finish this one.
it seems easy at first and then there's this whole scale part. i have the asian trauma of practicing scales for 3 hours every day so i'm good at scales but i can't do scales with both hands at the same time even though i'm ambidextrous because i have a skill issue.
besides i haven't played piano/got taught by a teacher in almost 8 years so (i'm mostly self-taught now)

for singing i've been not doing anything serious because i also have a skill issue with singing but maybe i will post a cover sometime. idk what song to do though ill be indecisive for sure.

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heely's review: for those who don't know what a heely is because they were nonexistent in the 2010's, heely's are shoes with wheels on the back.
my mom got them for me because 10-year-old me begged for them and because she was proud of me for studying my butt off for amc's she surprised me w them.
me: former figure skater, almost took roller-derby classes, rode a bike at 5, good with anything with wheels on them
me: falls 500 times w heely's
it took almost a full hour for me to ride them without holding onto a wall for dear life.
they are much harder than you think

anyways i'm kind of hooked lol they're bringing out the 10-year-old me again
i will prob not wear them to school unless it's like crazy shoe day again because 1) i dont want to fall in front of my school 2) the trend is kind of gone now 3) everyones gonna bully me and if i run over their feet in revenge i'm going to get in trouble so
i've just been riding them inside my house now. there are some times in school where i really wish i could just put heely's on though esp when i was late to my bus yesterday and had to sprint around the whole school in 3 minutes

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hope everyone had a good week.
the radio channel i listen to has already started playing christmas carols and to get in the mood, i put on these cute silver reindeer-pulling-a-sled earrings.
i have one piercing on one ear and two on the other asymmetrical like my entire life
for those wondering if piercings hurt, they do (they feel like a shot but the pain goes away much quicker). but it's not that bad and it's definitely worth it. i can't say anything about cartilage piercings though because i've never gotten one even though i really want to. but for the first and second piercings on the earlobe it's not that bad even though i'm anxious about needles too.

procrastination so bad this week
i wrote like 300 words for this entry
and wrote a single sentence for my english final in like 3 hours

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watching dance moms instead of doing hw >>>