Stay On Your Toes

I'm not sure what happened today, but something was just off. Maybe because I have already felt all off on my days, but I have just been all over the place. I got to school this morning at about the usual time, at 6:30. As per usual, the rest of my classmates are not insane, so I was one of the few actually at school. I immediately made a dash for the computers, as I had to print out my history paper that was due first period (after Chinese of course.) I also wanted to print out my numerous college essays, which I had to give to the college counselor around lunch time. Of course, due to all of these things, it would be just about right that the printer would go on the fritz, which it did. I got through about half of the things I had to print, and then it just stopped working. There was one other girl, Karina, also in the computer lab, who also spazed out. (It was a matter of national safety that we print our history papers. You don't know our teacher.) Just when we were on the verge of calling every person we ever met, Sterling walked in, our knight in shining armor. Printers love him. As soon as he started printing his paper, our papers started printing, and the world started spinning again.

I had TaiChi this morning as well, which is actually a really nice way to start the morning. I am normally so stressed and out of control that it is nice to just stop and relax. A lot of people didn't come because they had to do homework, and I walked back upstairs after class and yelled at them for it.

Chinese was just like exceedingly normal today, even though I was half asleep on my desk. I don't think that my teachers noticed, but I still felt bad. Break went by extremely quickly with me sitting in my classroom, talking to friends and trying to study Calculus, which didn't go so well. History was just a normal discussion (although we are going to the Llama temple tomorrow, which we talked about) and then it was off to Calculus. I feel that I should share some information about that class with you. I didn't finish my homework last night, because I had too much of other stuff to do. However, as soon as we got to class, our teacher said go to the boards, and started giving us problems to write out. I struggled a little bit, but it was fine. Our teacher is such and egotistical ass though, so he just conintued to make fun of everyone that hadn't done their homework.

Lunch was quick, and I ran back up 6 flights of stairs to finish my homework. As far as I recall (what can I say, it was a while ago) I did some math homework with help from my friend Chris (who my friend and I teased because I beat him on most of the standardized tests) before I had to go to a college counselor meeting. It was actually really funny, because both Warren (another guy who is in SYA) had the meeting together, but whereas I had all my stuff done, and knew where I wanted to go, Warren hadn't even started. I turned in my papers, and went back to study calculus, which was funny, because I didn't know what the bloody hell I was doing, and Chris was only semi awake and making fun of me while trying to help me. Warren walked back in about 15 minutes later with a huge book of colleges proclaiming "I have to pick a really hard college that I can't get into to appease Mrs. Allen. Help me." So he started randomly opening pages and picking out colleges by saying "Minnesota looks nice, I think I'll apply there." It was hysterical.

I had study after that, where I actually studied, and then English. I always have a problem when I get to English. I always start laughing. Today, after I said something particularly smart (I can't remember what) my teacher told me I should read the next Shakespeare sonnet we were going to talk about. But I looked at Reilly, and started laughing. I couldn't breathe, and someone else had to read it for me. Apart from that embarassing little fiasco, we got out early in English, and everything was fine.

I had calligraphy today, which was much more mellow and work oriented because the jokesters didn't come. So instead we just doodled our names and pretended like we knew what the teacher was saying. When you have a lot of friends in your class, it is easy not to get bored, so it was still a good class.

After school was extremely mellow. I went across the road to a teahouse with my friend Hannah, who I roomed with on the first night. I don't know what it is (I guess something about sleeping in the same room as someone) but we are really good friends. We basically just gossiped for half an hour, catching up on each other. It was really fun.

I went home at about 5:30. For some reason today felt like the ice had broken with my family. My mom had gone shopping with her best friend today, and she had a lot of new jeans that she bought for really cheap. She gave me a pair to try on, but since my thighs are huge, they didn't fit. We also talked for a while, and played indoor ping pong, and basically bonded. It was nice. And now I sound like a prat, so I am moving on.

Homework tonight was not as bad as usual, so I was able to move slower. It was a nice change in pace. Tomorrow I am supposed to be going with a friend to get an Italian sandwich. Yes, I am giving in, but a hot sandwich sounds so good. Now, I am tired, and I have to wake up early, so I am out. Later gator.