In These Crazy Times

This is my sister. I associate this picture with craziness (the good kind)

My life is CRAZINESS! Thanks to Junior year, this is what happened on Thursday night:

• Got home and started doing homework
• Fell asleep at 6pm, woke up at 7 to eat dinner
• Resumed doing homework
• Literally passed out while outlining at around 10:30 or 11ish, I think?
• Randomly woke up at 3am and realized I hadn't finished my homework...
• Stayed awake from 3am till 9:30pm, when I finally managed to get in a solid 12 hours of sleep. Oh the beauty of weekends :)

And that is the highlight of my life right now. Actually it's really not, but it's the first thing that came to mind when I sat down to write a post. It's hard only being able to post once a week! I'd love to post other times, but as you can see above, it's kind of impossible what with the insane amounts of work we're assigned these days...

NEW TOPIC!!! Wednesday was the first day of autumn. It was also the hottest day we've had this month. O the irony....

And that is all for now! I'll probably post once or twice more this weekend, to make up for my lack of dedication....but in the meantime, I'll probably be outlining and practicing my Irish accent. Fun stuff!

Flawed Brilliance

So...remember about two weeks ago, when I said I had multiple posts pre-made and all set to post in times I couldn't blog? Well, my method has quite clearly failed. When I tried posting one of those pre-set posts, it ended up under the post I had created it before, rather than right at the top as a shiny new post. Such a fail.

Clearly, blogging is not something at the top of my priority list, even though it should be! I've been so much more focussed on other goals these past two weeks though...I blame my AP Psych teacher for having us design a schedule which allowed for time to work towards achieving our goals. One of my goals was to get all school work done in a timely manner to avoid late night panic...I was immensly confused as to why I had to block out extra time in addition to homework to achieve this. It seemed rather silly. But, so far I HAVE managed to achieve that goal! Another main goal of mine was to land a speaking role in the fall musical, which I am also very pleased to have accomplished! But then I haven't had time to blog...

Maintaining a blog is hard work! There are so many things I could talk about, and just not enough time! That's the issue with this world: too much to do, too little time. Sometimes I wish I had a time turner, like in Harry Potter, so I could go back in time and get everything done that I needed. I wonder if you'd become extra tired by adding hours to your day....and could you get more sleep by going back in time? Would that work? Oh the possibilities!

So far, this year looks like it's going to be pretty great. French 4 with Madame Binczewski is so much fun, especially with some of the crazy people in my class. Pre-calc regular is a joke with our Romanian teacher, Mrs. Smith. I was so excited when I discovered how incredibly easy the class is going to be. Physics with Mrs. Babcock is great, because we get to play with hotwheels. Nuff said. Drama is amazing, as always...o how I love Mrs. Hobson and our enitre class of insanity (yes, we as people are insanity personified)! AP Psych I'm iffy about, because although the class is very interesting, I'm not entirely sure Mrs. Card and I are the best personality match, but we'll see. AP Lang with Mrs. Eaton is absolutely wonderful, and I can't even begin to describe how phenomenal that woman is! APUSH with Mr. Evans (my only male teacher!) is going to be fun, even though we'll probably learn more about his life history than U.S. history in the class. The theatre productions are of course going to be the best part, because, well....they're drama productions! Plus I have a speaking role! Auditions involved learning two dance combinations, performing cold readings (which is when you read from the script with no previous preparation), and a vocal session. As there were an insane number of ridiculously talented seniors auditioning (not to mention the total group of auditioners was around 70 or 80 people), I feel very lucky to have gotten a speaking role!

On a completely different train of thought, my log in on my computer spazzed on me at the beginning of last week and now won't load any of my data. Fortunatley, I seem to be able to retrieve my files through an administrator account, but it's still rather frustrating to have to go through so many extra steps to get all my data on my new profile. It's quite a pain, because my account is clearly beyond repair...

Anyways, I must now go and transfer all my photos from my old account to my new one! I'll try to update more often, because a two-week time gap is rather ridiculous, and I apologize for my inconsistency. But I'm awesome!

Normalcy?

Today was a very normal day. I woke up late, stayed in my pajamas all day...o the joys of vacation!

So I was meandering around the house, considering going to do some of my summer reading, when I was attacked by my madre to do some college research. And that's how the rest of my day was spent: doing college research. Fun, right?

I can't believe I have to be doing this now. Only two years left and then I'll be off on my own! I'm not excited. I'd much rather stay home and be pampered constantly, my every needs attended to by the lovely household staff that is my parents. I'll live with them for a while, and then eventually they'll kick me out into the streets, where I shall share a cardboard box with some other person who was too lazy to work hard in school. Then one day, some representative from one of those online colleges will come and find us, and all our problems will be miraculously solved! Then, after receiving our online degrees in skillful googling, my cardboard box mate and I shall either win the lottery, or uncover some hidden buried treasure deep in the heart of Africa. We will become rich and buy a fancy condo in Hawaii, where we will spend the rest of our days soaking up the sun and sea air and maybe writing a best selling novel or two.

If only it was that easy.

You see, I have had a rather frustrating afternoon. None of the college databases seem to be working for me, as most of them are coming up with mediocre colleges that don't offer the courses I want...all because of my PSAT scores, which I though were actually pretty stellar for a sophomore! Additionally, I'm having trouble finding schools that offer both Chinese and Theatre as minors, because I know that I want to minor in one of those two courses. I have no idea about my major.

Basically, my ideal school doesnt exist. I want a beautiful campus by the sea in a small suburban town. Ideally, the college would be located no more than 30-60 minutes from a major city. The weather will be mostly sunshiney and warm, so I can walk all over the place without any worries about the weather. Except I want seasons too. And the school also must offer both Chinese and Theatre. And the classes have to be fairly large, I'd say with 30+ students per class...meaning the school should also be fairly large, with maybe around 10,000-15,000 students at most? Ideally, this college would have a fantastic reputation. And it has to be affordable. And I have to be able to get in.

So you see, a place like this probably doesn't exist. I guess I'll just have to do even MORE research to find a more perfect match, since the databases don't seem to help much. FRUSTRATION!!!!

I decided to edit a photograph (which is the one featured at the top of this post). Photo editing is something I enjoy doing and helps me temporarily relieve my mind off of all my stress. And lack of sleep, since I'm pretty sure it took me over 2 hours to actually fall asleep last night! This is probably because I was stressing over a misfortunate conflict involving an AMAZING opportunity to go to the National Youth Leadership Coference in DC this fall and a school production which happens to have 3 show dates during this conference. UGH!!!

P.S. I actually created the photo at the top of this post a long time ago, but I felt the piece I just created was unfit to be displayed today.

P.P.S. My next post will involve pie, since you all seem to like pie so much...

Between the Lines

"There's a far away land, so the stories all tell

Somewhere beyond the horizon

If we can find it, then all will be well!

Troubles there are few

Someday we'll go to

Solla Sollew"

-Horton the Elephant, Solla Sollew (Seussical)

At this point, I still haven't really decided what this blog is going to be about. I could blog about my life. Or something that randomly strikes my fancy (like I was going to do this great post being all upset that we're still in Iraq, but now the war's over apparently! Like, legit over this time instead of fake over. Except we all know that's not true, because until the very last soldier is home, nothing's over. So maybe I will make that post...)

I don't think this blog isn't going to be about being funny. Most other people's blogs I read, I read because they're hillarious. So therefore I can't be funny, just to be different. You can't force the funny, especially from people with a very dry, sarcastic sense of humor.

I wrote a paper for school the other day reviewing a book I had to read. I was being serious about reading the book out loud in a high pitched British accent to prevent myself falling asleep. Somehow, people found that funny. I was only telling the truth!

So I don't know where I'm going with this blog post...I was originally going to talk about the naming of my blog but I kinda got sidetracked. So let's go to my original idea!

If you are a drama geek, like me, then you should completely understand the reference in my blog title without explanation. If you aren't a drama geek though, you might be somewhat confused. Or simply have come up with a random explanation of your own.

My reasoning is really rather simple. Last year, our drama department performed Seussical as our annual fall musical. And honestly, we did an INCREDIBLE job with that show! Not even gonna lie, we were so pro. But anyways, the opening number is called "O The Thinks You Can Think!" and since I had no idea what I would come up with for this blog, I felt the title was appropriate. Plus I love the show and Dr. Seuss to pieces!

And that is why my blog is named as it is :)

Maui

I took this picture. I wish I lived there.

Enter the Chatbox!

I have added a chatbox to my sidebar! I feel special. Now you can either leave comments on my actual posts OR in the cbox! I'm giving you a freedom of choice...how awesome is that?! =P

Guilty Confession

I've read Listening is an Act of Love, and read and written my paper on The Lucifer Effect. I still have to read and annotate 1/2 of The Scarlet Letter, and actually read Adams vs Jefferson. School starts in a week. I'm screwed. And if you think all this is bad, wait till the school year actually starts!

Last night, as I was creating this blog, I came to the sudden realization that I will have no free time come September 7th. So when am I honestly going to have time to blog? Well, I've got a confession to make. The night I first made this blog, I made like a bajillion different posts, so I can just click "post" if I don't have time to blog. Ingenius, right?