Last night I was supposed to go to a party. The party was canceled at the last minute so a friend and I just hung out and watched Texas Chainsaw Massacre and some other horror movies. When I got home around 2 for some reason I was feeling ambitious and did a few things I had been putting off. This happens to me. When there's something I should be doing (like sleeping) I suddenly have the desire to do everything else I need to do (like homework or cleaning my room). So I addressed a few envelopes, did a little bit of homework and did a tiny bit of organizing in my room. Then it was 3am and I decided I should probably go to bed especially because I needed to get up early this morning.
So I made a to-do list. This is big. I have NEVER made a to-do list because I'm a procrastinator and seeing the things I need to do makes it easier to procrastinate. Trust me, it makes sense. There were 11 items on my to-do list. It looked like this:
-Letter to santa
-Statistics HW
-Mr. Blank HW
-Address envelopes
-English Practice test
-Deposit $$
-Write to Shawnee
-Science?
-Hebrew PP
-Mail envelopes (address them first)
-Mail check
I have NO idea why I wrote "letter to santa". I am not planning on writing a letter to santa nor do I plan on helping anyone write a letter to santa so I have absolutely no idea why that's on there. As for the rest, well they were pretty accurate. I do enjoy that my 3am self had to specify that I had to address the envelopes before I mail them. I have so far done 4 things on this list and determined that science was unnecessary. I put the question mark because I wasn't sure if I had homework and I checked... I don't.
The strange thing is that because I made this when I was feeling productive, it seems to be helping. This has been the most productive day I've had in a while and I'm rather enjoying it...
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010
Sorry about the lack of blogging. It's been mad busy in my life. I'm in the school play which had opening night yesterday so this past week was tech week. Crazy shit. It went well I think. Then, since I missed a week of school I have a shit ton of work to make up which I've barely made a dent in. Mostly because of the play. On the plus side, Tina (I've given up on numbers, it's too confusing) is coming to the play on Sunday! She's been on the road so I'm excited to see her :)
Well, I should really go do some work so... till next time
Well, I should really go do some work so... till next time
Monday, October 18, 2010
SO.
Today I went back to school after a week out. A week is like a fucking eternity at my school and I'm super far behind now. I would say that doesn't matter because I'm a senior and all senior classes in my school are pretty much jokes but... I was behind when the school year started because I had unfinished left over credits from last year.
It was exhausting because I'm not 100% not sick yet and I haven't woken up before 10 for a while. My body get's into habits quickly.
I'm also in the play. We are doing a dinner theater this year and there are four short comedy plays that are being shown. I am in one of them and today we had our first rehearsal with all four plays together. So it was long and annoying. It was funny, but still.
1.5 made an awesome beef stew for dinner and I ate so much I swear I was going to explode. Then 1.5 and I sat down at the table and did statistics. Now I am really enjoying this class and for the most part really understand what's happening but in general I am no good with homework. I have dutifully done the last two problem sets and assumed this one would be easy, too.
Let me set the stage.
Problem number one. Parts "a" through "g". Granted "a" through "e" took less than a minute each, but still. We got to a point in problem one where the method/formula was in dispute between 1.5 and myself. Time was spent while she tried to figure out what it was and I sat on the floor whining about how I didn't want to do it anymore... and something about how my legs were going to explode. She did some calculations, then a few minutes later we deciphered my notes and did the problem two different ways, getting two answers that were not the same. At which point I just wrote an answer down and whined that we should move on. Question two. Like a bajillion numbers and they were big numbers and I had to put them in order. That took a full 3 minutes or maybe 5 and at that point my brain was fried. There are just some times when you can't focus anymore. It was the combination of the whole say and I just couldn't do anymore. Really. I don't want to fail this class and I don't think I will.
It's just tonight. I was done. It was only 10:15 but I was exhausted and yes, I know I'm not going to bed but I'm also not doing homework. This takes no effort. I will get my homework done tomorrow in between school and play practice. I'm sorry for causing you whatever I caused you 1.5 but... There are just times when you can't focus anymore.
Today I went back to school after a week out. A week is like a fucking eternity at my school and I'm super far behind now. I would say that doesn't matter because I'm a senior and all senior classes in my school are pretty much jokes but... I was behind when the school year started because I had unfinished left over credits from last year.
It was exhausting because I'm not 100% not sick yet and I haven't woken up before 10 for a while. My body get's into habits quickly.
I'm also in the play. We are doing a dinner theater this year and there are four short comedy plays that are being shown. I am in one of them and today we had our first rehearsal with all four plays together. So it was long and annoying. It was funny, but still.
1.5 made an awesome beef stew for dinner and I ate so much I swear I was going to explode. Then 1.5 and I sat down at the table and did statistics. Now I am really enjoying this class and for the most part really understand what's happening but in general I am no good with homework. I have dutifully done the last two problem sets and assumed this one would be easy, too.
Let me set the stage.
Problem number one. Parts "a" through "g". Granted "a" through "e" took less than a minute each, but still. We got to a point in problem one where the method/formula was in dispute between 1.5 and myself. Time was spent while she tried to figure out what it was and I sat on the floor whining about how I didn't want to do it anymore... and something about how my legs were going to explode. She did some calculations, then a few minutes later we deciphered my notes and did the problem two different ways, getting two answers that were not the same. At which point I just wrote an answer down and whined that we should move on. Question two. Like a bajillion numbers and they were big numbers and I had to put them in order. That took a full 3 minutes or maybe 5 and at that point my brain was fried. There are just some times when you can't focus anymore. It was the combination of the whole say and I just couldn't do anymore. Really. I don't want to fail this class and I don't think I will.
It's just tonight. I was done. It was only 10:15 but I was exhausted and yes, I know I'm not going to bed but I'm also not doing homework. This takes no effort. I will get my homework done tomorrow in between school and play practice. I'm sorry for causing you whatever I caused you 1.5 but... There are just times when you can't focus anymore.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Haunted Forest
I went with #1 and #6 to Markoff's Haunted Forest last night and it was awesome! There's not only a terrifying trail through the pitch black woods but bonfires, food, zip lines, and other activities to do. It's a whole Halloween event every weekend in October. It was so much fun and very thrilling. It's not the type of scary that gives you nightmares or has you looking over your shoulder on the way home. You are scared while walking the trail and then it's over and you're left with a thrill and an accelerated heart rate for a few moments afterward.
One of the things to do while waiting to go down the trail is the haunted bus, which is actually what the original event was. When this even first started about 18 years ago, it was just this haunted bus. Over the years it has grown bigger until it is the full event it is today. This haunted bus is a long bus full of tight, pitch black hallways with the occasional strobe light and black light. As you navigate through people jump out at your or maybe just groan from the darkness. Hands reach through walls and grab at you as you stumble through the mist. The end is the killer, though. You get to the door and someone jumps out of the driver's seat and grabs at you. If you are like little mister #6, you run screaming from the bus and fall on the ground outside, only to have the "bus driver" come out of the bus and tower over you.
After the bus, it was our turn to go on the trail. There are two trails, number two being the new one. It didn't matter to us because we had never been there before. We went down trail number one and... whew. They have candles placed along the trail at a height that makes it impossible to see the woods around you so you don't see the man with knives until he's chasing you up a hill while #6 screams "those sound real! go go!" or the guys with chainsaws that corner #6 while me and #1 move on. I looked behind me listening to the sounds of screams and chainsaws and don't see #6. "we lost him!" I yelled but #1 said we had to go without him. When he caught up with us, he said that the chainsaw man had him cowering on the ground and he "almost killed me!"
Overall it was a great experience and I definitely want to go back next year and I highly recommend it to everyone.
One of the things to do while waiting to go down the trail is the haunted bus, which is actually what the original event was. When this even first started about 18 years ago, it was just this haunted bus. Over the years it has grown bigger until it is the full event it is today. This haunted bus is a long bus full of tight, pitch black hallways with the occasional strobe light and black light. As you navigate through people jump out at your or maybe just groan from the darkness. Hands reach through walls and grab at you as you stumble through the mist. The end is the killer, though. You get to the door and someone jumps out of the driver's seat and grabs at you. If you are like little mister #6, you run screaming from the bus and fall on the ground outside, only to have the "bus driver" come out of the bus and tower over you.
After the bus, it was our turn to go on the trail. There are two trails, number two being the new one. It didn't matter to us because we had never been there before. We went down trail number one and... whew. They have candles placed along the trail at a height that makes it impossible to see the woods around you so you don't see the man with knives until he's chasing you up a hill while #6 screams "those sound real! go go!" or the guys with chainsaws that corner #6 while me and #1 move on. I looked behind me listening to the sounds of screams and chainsaws and don't see #6. "we lost him!" I yelled but #1 said we had to go without him. When he caught up with us, he said that the chainsaw man had him cowering on the ground and he "almost killed me!"
Overall it was a great experience and I definitely want to go back next year and I highly recommend it to everyone.
Friday, October 15, 2010
Way way back in the 1980s...
I watched Clone High yesterday. It only ran for one season and I am not too pleased with the way it ended. I really thought it would have a happy, complete ending... but alas it did not.
That's been happening to me a lot recently...
For example, after I read the Tenth Circle I went on to read Handle With Care, also by Jodi Picoult. The way it was written led me to believe that the girl was going to die at the end but then I was literally two pages away form the end and nothing happened. So I assumed everything turned out fine. nope. On the last page the little girl falls into a frozen pond and drowns. the last page! My Sister's Keeper was like that. For those of you who saw the movie, it has a different ending than the book. At least that's what I've been told; I've never seen the movie. At the end of the book, the healthy sister get's in a horrific accident and is going to die, so they end up giving the kidney to the sick sister because they might as well, if she's going to die anyways. It was a crazy, sudden, tragic turn of events. Jodi Picoult does that I suppose but it's still hard to handle.
That's been happening to me a lot recently...
SPOILERS BELOW (if you plan on reading My Sister's Keeper or Handle With Care, don't read)
For example, after I read the Tenth Circle I went on to read Handle With Care, also by Jodi Picoult. The way it was written led me to believe that the girl was going to die at the end but then I was literally two pages away form the end and nothing happened. So I assumed everything turned out fine. nope. On the last page the little girl falls into a frozen pond and drowns. the last page! My Sister's Keeper was like that. For those of you who saw the movie, it has a different ending than the book. At least that's what I've been told; I've never seen the movie. At the end of the book, the healthy sister get's in a horrific accident and is going to die, so they end up giving the kidney to the sick sister because they might as well, if she's going to die anyways. It was a crazy, sudden, tragic turn of events. Jodi Picoult does that I suppose but it's still hard to handle.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Turns out I actually have strep. woot woot again!
Unfortunately this means I have to stay out of school for an extended period of time. AND IM GOING NUTS
Honestly, there's only so much you can find to do when you are used to over 7 hours of your day being used up by school. There is only so much internet surfing I can do before my head starts to hurt. So while school is a drag because of the expectations they force on young adults... what would we do otherwise?
I can hang out with friends because a. I'm sick and b. they are all in school!
I can't go out because I don't have a car, and I'm sick.
Everything I do must be found in the house and again there are only so many movies I can watch before my brain explodes. I have caught up on my homework even!
Any suggestions on how to pass the time?
Unfortunately this means I have to stay out of school for an extended period of time. AND IM GOING NUTS
Honestly, there's only so much you can find to do when you are used to over 7 hours of your day being used up by school. There is only so much internet surfing I can do before my head starts to hurt. So while school is a drag because of the expectations they force on young adults... what would we do otherwise?
I can hang out with friends because a. I'm sick and b. they are all in school!
I can't go out because I don't have a car, and I'm sick.
Everything I do must be found in the house and again there are only so many movies I can watch before my brain explodes. I have caught up on my homework even!
Any suggestions on how to pass the time?
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
I went to the Doctor today and was told I have a sinus infection. woot woot!
This means antibiotics and no school for 72 hours. I would be thrilled about this but at my school missing three days is like missing a fucking semester. I am a senior so it doesn't matter as much as it would have last year but it's still irritating. It's ridiculous that school can literally do This to teenagers.
After every test is given back you can be sure you will find girls in the bathroom crying their eyes out because they got an 85 on it. Kids commit suicide and cut themselves over the stress that high school causes.
I don't care about school. To a fault. You should care enough to do it but not so much that it rules your goddam life.
This means antibiotics and no school for 72 hours. I would be thrilled about this but at my school missing three days is like missing a fucking semester. I am a senior so it doesn't matter as much as it would have last year but it's still irritating. It's ridiculous that school can literally do This to teenagers.
After every test is given back you can be sure you will find girls in the bathroom crying their eyes out because they got an 85 on it. Kids commit suicide and cut themselves over the stress that high school causes.
I don't care about school. To a fault. You should care enough to do it but not so much that it rules your goddam life.
Monday, October 11, 2010
NyQuil
I love NyQuil. That shit is powerful. Let me tell you. It really is the best sleep you ever got with a cold medicine. Be warned, however, that you should be able to get at least 8 hours of sleep after you take it because YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO GET YOURSELF OUT OF BED only 6 hours later. I literally could not make my body get out of bed. It wasn't the normal morning "ughs" either. This was intense lack of movement. It quite literally makes you like this.
Unless of course you dont go to bed... and then it does this. But actually. That shit messes you up. I can't believe stuff this powerful is sold at CVS.
Unless of course you dont go to bed... and then it does this. But actually. That shit messes you up. I can't believe stuff this powerful is sold at CVS.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
The Tenth Circle
I've been reading this book by Jodi Picoult (Author of My Sister's Keeper) titled The Tenth Circle. That's in reference to the circles of hell. It's a great book but I have a few issues with it.
One thing I've always enjoyed about Jodi Picoult's books are that her characters act real. There's drama but the characters react like a real person would. There's no ridiculous over emotion like there is in other books and in movies. But this book is different. The main character's daughter has been through a shit ton of stuff so it's to be expected that she be distraught. The main character has a hidden past and so it's expected that he be a bit strange. Yet, both of them (especially together) seem ridiculously over "acting" and so drama queen ish.
It's just bothering me because that was one of my favorite parts of books like "Keeping Faith" and "My Sister's Keeper", both of which I highly recommend.
Any books you enjoy enough to recommend to me?
One thing I've always enjoyed about Jodi Picoult's books are that her characters act real. There's drama but the characters react like a real person would. There's no ridiculous over emotion like there is in other books and in movies. But this book is different. The main character's daughter has been through a shit ton of stuff so it's to be expected that she be distraught. The main character has a hidden past and so it's expected that he be a bit strange. Yet, both of them (especially together) seem ridiculously over "acting" and so drama queen ish.
It's just bothering me because that was one of my favorite parts of books like "Keeping Faith" and "My Sister's Keeper", both of which I highly recommend.
Any books you enjoy enough to recommend to me?
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Welcome, Young Sashquan
I shall teach you well in the ways of the mastering of the very difficult art of taking control of yourself in order to complete the training for... Uhm... Well, you get the picture.
OR DO YOU!?
Well, now you do.
Anyhoozle, Welcome to the Modern Banana! It's the lastest in blog technology in which I put poetry, pictures, ceramics, and anything else that special brain of yours can think up.
Till Next time,
Robyn
PS: Click on that ad right down there. It's awesome I swear.
OR DO YOU!?
Well, now you do.
Anyhoozle, Welcome to the Modern Banana! It's the lastest in blog technology in which I put poetry, pictures, ceramics, and anything else that special brain of yours can think up.
Till Next time,
Robyn
PS: Click on that ad right down there. It's awesome I swear.
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