School Supplies!

If you don't already know, I have a minor major obsession with school supplies. Back to school shopping makes getting ready to start another stressful, sleepless year a little more bearable. Starting in July when back-to-school sales are advertised, my mom, sister, and I go from store store getting whatever freebies and penny items each store is offering that week. Our main game? To see how many paper folders we can rack up for a penny or less. This year's total so far: 30. No, I'm not particularly interested in counting how many from years past are sitting in our basement at the moment... LOL. We probably have even more filler paper.
Yesterday we did our more expensive shopping trip, for binders and notebooks and such. Because I love school supplies so much, I'm posting pictures.

Here are my binders- Purple for Spanish, blue for AP BC Calc, red for English, teal for AP Economics, and green for AP Chemistry.

 My notebooks follow the same color code, but because my math class is three semesters, I didn't have to buy new math notebooks for this year... they're somewhere, hopefully where I can find them.

I'm kind of infamous for having an overstuffed pencil case. I have my thin markers, 2 black pens, a thin and a thick sharpie, 2 highlighters, a wite-out pen, and some mechanical pencils. My sister found the most amazing colored pens at Five Below yesterday, so I also have those. They write perfectly, and they were $5 for two packs of seven.

Hope you enjoyed my obsession as much as I do! xD

My First Teaser Tuesday

Hosted by Should Be Reading

~Grab your current read

~Open to a random page

~Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on the page

~BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! ( make sure that what you share doesn't give away to much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)

~Share the title & author too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR lists if they like your teasers!

- Then go on over to Should be Reading and share your teaser in her comments section!

Sometimes a meal is just a meal, and eating with others is simply eating with others. More often than not, though, it's not.

-Page 7, How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster

At the moment, I'm not in the middle of any books besides this one for school. Luckily, I'm not finding it too terribly boring so far. I think it will prove to be a must-read for high school students because it explains how teachers come to the far-fetched conclusions about symbolism in literature.

Reading ♥

I'm enjoying my free summer a lot more than I thought I would, namely because I have a ton of time to read. With the amount of work I have during the year, I don't think I've read a book that wasn't for school since 8th grade. That was two years ago- wow!

Right now I am working through the Dream trilogy by Nora Roberts. I am on the second book, and they're really great! Nora Roberts has written over 200 novels, so I think I've found much of my reading material for the rest of the summer.

Here are the rest of the books in my library stack at the moment:
The Pursuit of Lucy Banning by Olivia Newport
The Pretty One by Lucinda Rosenfeld
The Covenant by Beverly Lewis
The Druggist of Auschwitz by Dieter Schlesak

Just a note for anyone taking book recommendations from this list: I take books out of the adult section of the library. It doesn't mean that everything I read is inappropriate, but the content isn't necessarily censored, so err on the side of caution if you are only allowed to read "clean" books.

Summer Homework Update

I know, I know, homework is just everyone's favorite thing ever. Lucky for me, none of my teachers wanted me to be the least bit bored over the summer. *eyeroll*
At the beginning of this month, I had a little panic, with school being less than two months away, and that paired with my lack of creativity caused to me to stop my Camp NaNoWriMo novel a few days in... I may still come back to it, but no intention of winning anymore.
Here are all of the things I have to do:

• Read City of Thieves by David Benioff and How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Foster- So far City of Thieves is a really good book. I wasn't able to put it down this morning until I made myself stop for breakfast. I will probably finish it today, and then start the other book.
• Watch two economics-related documentaries and prepare notes to turn in- hopefully this won't be too bad.
• Keep a journal of five economic decisions I make over the summer- I'm really dreading this, as the teacher doesn't want them all to be about purchases, and I have no idea what else to write. Also, she didn't specify length or anything.
• Write three journal entries in Spanish- I've done one, and it wasn't two bad. 10-15 sentences isn't very long, and I didn't have too hard of a time. The other two should be just as easy.
• Read three things in Spanish and summarize them- Hopefully this will be fine. The only requirement is that whatever we read has to be over 300 words. Children's books count, so this may actually be kind of fun.
• Listen to three things in Spanish and summarize them- This wouldn't be a problem if I could find things. I was hoping to just turn on the Spanish channel on the TV, but it seems to have disappeared. I have 7 Spanish radio stations in my car, so I'm hoping to pick up enough while driving to write good summaries.

Fun summer, huh? I also wanted to start my National History Day project and study for SATs/ACTs, but those aren't as urgent.

How are your summers going? Busy?