Hooplah.Org A Story of Graceful Stumbles

25Jan/01Off

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I didn't fee like posting yesterday, and I still don't. I'm at a point where there are a lot of things expected of me, lots of things due over the next couple of days. When that happens, I end up doing none of it. I'd much rather play the Sims than work on a web page for Mr Dahl, or do some SAT practice stuff, or post in here. The fact that I'm wasting my time will make me even more discouraged, so much so that I'll just start to lay around, and not even give the effort it would involve to play a stupid game. Either that, or I'll completely blow off the SAT stuff. I'll just show up for the text and do poorly. No amount of extra studying in the next two days will help me learn the things I just don't know. I'll just have to wing it.

Mr Dahl's going to hate my style of design for the web pages. But oh well.

And if someone is in my parking spot today, I'm going to park in such a way that I block them in. Either that or park on top of them.

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23Jan/01Off

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I worked tonight. Second day in a row. I am so glad it's over, because I don't have to work for the next of the week, and I don't have to work again until Monday, at the earliest. Life has been rather boring; the more eventful things have been happening at work, which is kind of pathetic. I'm the best cashier this week, as I usually am, but for some reason this week they are making a big fuss out of it. I asked Stella to put a good word in for me about a raise, and she said she would. I love Stella. I did reshop today, only because the woman that usually does it called in sick. Today was the first time I actually finished the reshop cart; probably because this time I didn't have to start out with a full cart load. Ahh, well. It's amazing how many boxes people actually eat the contents out of and just leave in the store. So, for my break, I took extra individually packaged foods (like a capree sun and a fruit roll up) from boxes that had already been ripped apart, and had them free of charge. They were going to throw them away, anyway.

I saw Adam in Sheets during lunch. He spoke to me about Bush, and we talked about it some. Very jokingly. Since then, all day long I've been thinking about political things, and I've begun to annoy myself.

I wrote a skirt today. A long green one, with pockets. Everyone loved it. Or they said they did.

Blah. I'm just not in the mood. Too tired, and too awake all at once.

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23Jan/01Off

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I posted something last night, but blogger didn't want to post it, so it just threw error pages at me, and I did not discover them until just now. Here's what I posted yesterday:

"I am tired. It's the good kind of tired, too, when you've been moving and working and active all day, and it's finally time just to curl up in bed. All you want to do is lay down and close your eyes. I would be in bed right now, but I'm making myself some fish sticks for dinner; they'll help me sleep even better. I don't have to be awake until 7:45 tomorrow; I have been wanting to do that for so long. Actually, I'm pretty sure Mr Dahl will be expecting me tomorrow morning, but I didn't do anything today except sit there. Honestly, everything I need to do what he asked me to do I have at home. Even some of the programs that he's fussing about getting me (like Dreamweaver), I will probably never use. He may use Dreamweaver, but I swear by editpad.

What Mr Dahl basically asked me to do was create a web page for the Tech Ed department of the school. It's a nice, easy little project, but the point of pages like that sometimes escape me. OCHS is such a small school, in such a small area, with students who couldn't care less if any school department has a web site. And because of the insignificance of the school, I don't understand what real point a web site about the OCHS tech department could be anything less than, well, a waste of time. Especially the kind of web page I'm going to design for Mr Dahl. But, then, there is always the possibility that it has some slight chance of importance that I'm not aware of. Maybe it's just having it, and the fact that the small school of OCHS will have a better tech ed web page than the schools located up in northern Virginia. I don't know. I'll get an A for it, and I'll be able to use some of the designs that I was not able to use for myself. He wants a couple layout demos by Friday, which I think I will be able to do.

Oh my god... I'm watching the 10 o'clock news, and I just heard an anchor woman say "... and a change in the abortion policy that will give pro-lifers a reason to cheer." I'm going to fucking kill Bush myself if he is trying to make abortions illegal. Ugh. Why did something so idiotic have to ruin my evening."

There. So in reality, no, I did not miss a day.

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21Jan/01Off

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This morning was the first time I have ever seen there to be an 80% chance of snow, and then have it not. There was an 80-90-100% chance (depending on the surrounding areas) for 2-4 inches, and when I woke up, there was barley a dusting. About the exact same amount of snow that was on the ground when I went to sleep last night. It was highly disappointing.

The rest of my day was spent down loading new files for the Sims, as well as playing the game. I spent some time trying to create a new layout, and just got frustrated and stopped. I watched a couple movies today (I think?) and cleaned the guinea pig cages with my mom. I also gave the guinea pigs a "bath", which is the cutest damn thing. I've been so bored today, and no one seems to walk to talk to me online. Not that I blame them; I can never think of anything good to talk about, and I automatically withdrawal when I notice I'm only talking about myself.

I wanted to spent today doing a lot of SAT prep stuff, since the test is coming up in less than 6 days. At least all the ones I don't answer don't count against me. Thank mother fucking god.

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20Jan/01Off

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It's snowing right now, hehehehehe. I am seriously aching from work, and all I want to do is curl up in my bed, with my croissant and honey, and then to go sleep while watching one of the many movie channels we get. That would be an ideal evening.

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