The first half of 2005 was more Grade 11, so school was pretty uneventful. No stress, no mad panic while tracking marks, no mad rush for assignments and tests. There was the extremely retarded March Break placement that pissed me off to no end.

There were a few exciting things that Hosanna and church brought. There was the huge Easter production that took plenty of manpower and long days to put together. There was Project T-DOT that took a lot of time hanging around downtown and at church to also put together. I think I blew about $50 for food while we were scouting downtown. And as always, every March Break brought TC and serving on the Stage Crew was another wonderful time. Then there was the double dose of summer camp at the end of summer. Yes, nothing like sleeping in a flooded tent.

Starting in 2005, I got into the whole web standards thing and got pretty proficient with building structured sites. Being involved with web standards, I guess it was inevitable that I would get introduced to the wonderful world of blogging and begin to kick my own blogging up a notch.

Once May rolled around, it brought two things. The first was Star Wars Episode III, the least sucky of the Prequels. On the other hand, it did forever taint Darth Vader’s name in the last five minutes of the movie with the NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

The other thing that May brought was paid hosting and my migration to WordPress. Ever since I got my site up and running, I have been continually tweaking and improving it, even today. In fact, I upgraded to WP 2.0 this morning.

With my growing interest in web standards, I happened upon the archaic art of typesetting and learned the joys setting documents semantically and structurally with LaTeX. It has improved the quality of my lab reports 230%. With typesetting, I also delved into the even more archaic art of typography and scoured through many books on typography and grabbing as many high quality fonts as I could.

And of course, we had the first half (approximately) of Grade 12. Yes, the past three years were completely useless. Grade 12 is the determinant and it makes me wish that the universities did care about the first three years, since the current setup makes it seem like a bloody waste.

But yes, Grade 12 brought all sorts of stress and rushing of assignments that were unheard of in the entireity of the last three years. You’d think they’d ease you into it like they should, but no, it drops like a frigging hammer.

And ever since I submitted my unversity application, there has been a constant stream of university talk emanating from me. Heck, we even went to Waterloo for the open day and I am now quite acquainted with the campus there.

And now there is only six months of crap school between me and university. That is quite discouraging. Of course, at the beginning of the year, there was ten, so I do believe progress is being made. Hopefully, something exciting will happen again and distract us from the gloomy reality that is crap school.