Spring Break Plans

I really really really really really wish I was going to a beach somewhere in Florida, or some Carribean beach in the Bahamas, or some historic site in Europe. But no. I'll be here, in Owensboro. Honestly, it could be worse. But I can't help but wish! I'm hoping to see some of my friends who I haven't really spent time with in a while! I just don't want any drama! We're going to Vanderbilt on Friday for a campus tour, which I'm pretty excited about. I think it'll be a beautiful college, I just hope its a nice day! Then, there's the seemingly neverending search for the perfect prom dress for this year... and I REFUSE to get hot pink! It's just too cookie cutter for me! I'll definitely have an update once I do get one, hopefully Nashville will be the place!

Homework Overload

I'm practically banging my head against a wall EVERY night. I hate homework, I think more than anything else in the world right now. I don't understand why we spend 8 hours a day at school learning... why do we need to spend 3 or more hours when we get home doing the same thing? Granted, homework is designed to help you have extra practice... but wouldn't it make more sense to further your own knowledge on your own, not to be required. I also think that homework should be based on effort, not actual understanding of the subject... is it our fault that we weren't taught properly to our learning needs? Why does the school put so much stress on the way individual children learn, and not try to cater to each kind of person? There are some teachers that actually do extremely well at trying to help all children, but others have taught in one way for so long that they don't care to try a different approach. I'm just sayin!

LOL

Texting. It's a weird concept, actually. Like emailing, without the internet. It's a good concept, because you can just say what you need to say, and be done. Or, you can talk to several people at one time without any issue (except getting so many texts that you can't keep up), which honestly isn't that big of a deal, if you think about it. The only bad thing about texting is that emotions can get lost in translation, and just the smallest punctuation mark can totally change the supposed tone of how you say something, and things can get ugly from there. Texting can be depleting our generation's ability to communicate over the phone, but since it doesn't really hinder our communications person to person... I don't feel it's that bad of an influence. It's another one of those things that are good in certain situations.

Daily Routine

Once you get used a daily routine, its hard to change! For example, most people get ready in a certain order every morning, and only if necessary do they have to change their order, but it might throw off the rest of their day.

For me, I get used to traffic patterns. There are just some lights that I will ALWAYS hit on red. And that's okay with me. But the other morning, as I was coming home from a lunch date with a friend, I stopped at a light that was completely green, and it took a few more seconds before it even turned yellow. Luckily, no one was behind me. So then, when it finally turned green again, I was so disoriented that I sat there for another twenty seconds or so, zoned out, and didn't realize until the car behind me began to honk. I gave a respectful wave and continued on my way. But after that, I was thrown off for the rest of the day! Just by a stop light!

Chain of Events

It's amazing, how things happen. How one small minute action can set off a chain or reactions. I guess that's common physics, but still. For example, doing gymnastics for several years, my best friend Sarah was looking forward to getting a college scholarship on her sport. However, it took two seconds for her vault to land wrong, and to tear her ACL in her left leg.

My uncle, while working out in the barn, moved a bag of Ortho bug chemicals while trying to help my dad. He then went inside, and forgetting to wash his hands, started to eat burgoo with his fingers... and as you can imagine, he got VERY sick. (He's okay now, we just make fun of him for poisoning himself).

Last night, I poked a guy that I had known before he graduated, and now I have a date to the dance tonight, and am trying to find his friend a date... Oh how interesting my life is.

Senior Year

I can't believe it! I'll be a senior, next year. I'll start really looking at colleges, start trying to choose what to major in.. and deal with this stupid trimester schedule.

I don't know. It's just kinda a shock. Just like I'll be seventeen two weeks from today, the Ides of March. So much has changed in the last year, and so much will change in the next year. I'm not so sure if I'm ready for all that, but I guess I don't have much choice. I'm sure everything happens for a reason, it's just kind of a shock. Of course, college will be the biggest change. I hate being away from my family for long periods of time. I'm scared of being alone, of not being accepted, of hating college life. I guess there's not much I'll be able to do about it anyway... so I guess I'll just... smile because it happened...