I have no business being this content. I have two applications due the 15th, and with an 88 in Chemistry and some missing work waiting to punch a hole in my English grade, I don't have time to sit here and do them because the semester is about to end and I need to get my stuff in.

And yet here I am. Not ecstatic, but a bit more relaxed than I've been in the past few weeks.

Being 18 is hardly a big deal.

I kind of wish that a certain few friends were online so I could have a thoughtful conversation, but I'll be fine until then.

HA! Speak of the devil.

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But you know what? He got elected anyway. And I'm standing by my president. Congratulations, Mr. President.

Though the fact that we just spent 150 mil kind of seems like a slap in the face. YES, it's a totally historic day. I appreciate that. Jus' saying.

My English teacher gave back our World Lit rough drafts a few weeks ago. She made revisions and gave us until tomorrow to make them. I figured it would be a good idea to take it out of my folder and leave it in the computer room to stem procrastination. Not only did it really not work, but now I've lost the thing, and I cannot remember much about the changes I was supposed to make.

One hand, it's not such a big deal because the rough draft made a 25 (translates into a 96). So it's already pretty good. I'm just that awesome, I guess.

But on the other hand, this is serious business. I want to do the best I possibly can. I'm ranked 35 or so in my class. I want to make top 10% by my senior year. That's going to be hard. ESPECIALLY WITH CREATIVE WRITING.

"David
what did you make on the rough draft?

8:40pmSteve
25

...hahaha

8:40pmDavid
ah, that is righ

t

dont worry about it

8:41pmSteve
I want to, though.

I want to do the best I can, David.

I want to exceed myself.

I want to be the best there ever was.

8:42pmDavid
psh

stop trying to be like me

just re-read your paper

8:42pmSteve
To catch them is my real test.

8:42pmDavid
make a few tweaks

dum, dum DUM

8:42pmSteve
To train them is my cause.

I WILL TRAVEL ACROSS THE LAND.

8:42pmDavid
PO-Ke_MON

8:42pmSteve
gotta catch 'em all!

I love the grammatically correct apostrophe.

8:43pmDavid
haha

I concur"

If I make a B in creative writing, I will scream. I lost points on the exam because the story I put in, which was supposed to be fiction, had too many fact-looking-things in it. She wasn't grading the story (admittedly, this relieves me), just giving points for having it. But it's not Fiction-y enough or something. HAVE YOU NEVER HEARD OF SCI-FI? This is the story about the planet having a speed limit and the years getting shorter and stuff. WTF.

Anyway. I'm just running through my paper and trying to fix the mistakes I find. Wish me luck! My grade can't go down, can it?

...can it?

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This weekend was kind of disappointing.

It occurred to me that I don't need people for me to dump my wild stories and epiphanies on. That's why I adopted my red notebook all those months ago...but it fell into disuse when I found that I had somebody to talk to.

That, of course, has largely changed. Sometimes I have thoughts that I want to share that are too menial to blog about but will fade away if I don't tell someone. And these days, there's rarely somebody to tell.

It's OK, though. My red notebook was a bit lonely.

It's sad how events can cause things as menial as my profile pictures to become just a LITTLE bit awkward. I mean, come on. I should be able to use one of my old pictures without thinking, "Ehhhhhh...."

Saturday was completely without action. I was waiting for Kyle to get off work at 9:30 so we could hang out for a while, but at the last minute his mom vetoed. So then the day felt like a double waste.

With all the setbacks my group has faced in Video Productions, I don't know how the teacher expects us to finish our video tomorrow. But she apparently does. Tomorrow will be stressful.


AAAGGGHHHH This is so frustrating it's not even funny.

Oh, I heard a miracle this week. That was special. It was both miraculous and good news, which is usually a good combination. :P

Let's see...what else...

Emotionally torn, check, stress, check, random awesomeness, check. That's it. I really just wanted to update this thing.

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Today I was walking the dog, and I decided I knew what I would post about today.

Nope! Forgot it. Seems like it was rather a self loathing kind of thing...maybe I'm just not in the mood right now. It'll come.

But now I sleep because I value my rest more than usual.

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