Another night has flown by and I haven't really done anything with my massive workload!




Go me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ugggggggggh

1. I still haven't really done any of my homework, so goooooo Emily!
2. I now have to worry about an extensive math placement test for DePaul, so I'm SUPER PUMPED!!!!!!!!!!
3. Oh god, so much work... so, so much work...

3/11/15: AKA Carmongeddon 2: Electric Boogaloo

Other than newspaper, today was fairly uneventful but altogether pretty pleasant! 

For those of you who have been reading this blog for quite some time, you are familiar with the never-ending drama surrounding my school newspaper staff, of which I am the co-head. My fellow Editor-in-Chief is an incredibly Type A, controlling, harsh, dictatorial leader, and frankly nobody likes her as a leader. Most people don't like her as a person either, for that matter. I try to see the best in her and to be considerate of the circumstances she is often in, but no matter how much I try to see the good in her, she acts selfishly, self-centered, and hurts anyone who appears to be standing in her way through bullying via yelling and berating, passive-aggressive exchanges, and other things along that ilk. She sees herself, because of her position as co-EIC (although she always forgets the "co" part), as being above everybody else on the staff and as the end-all be-all of our newspaper. Despite this, she never actually steps up to the plate herself and blames everyone and anyone around her for her own shortcomings. 

With almost every other issue, there is drama concerning her as she typically starts it. Frequently, she freaks out, cries angrily and storms around, and proclaims that she "is DONE!" with us. Anything can lead to it. Whether it's infighting with members of the staff who work on the page design whose talent she feels "threatened" by, feeling as though she is powerless/no longer in control of the paper, and other things along that vein. Today's meltdown was among the latter reasons for lashing out.

Since she had (without heeding my advice whatsoever or listening to my protests) assigned work and stories that went outside of others' strengths and the like, people were not pleased at all with her. So, some of the juniors proposed that we publish a longer issue in order to make things work out so that people could work on what would do best for them and what could easily make the issue much better. The staff adviser approved of it, and so did I. Since everyone is so intimidated by her, they were all too nervous to ask her what she thought and just laid out an experimental 16-page issue. This INFURIATED her as she had "lost control" over things, and she started doing whatever she could whilst still sulking in the corner on her laptop like asking passive-aggressive questions to our adviser about their abilities and tried to make things awkward for them, but they persevered in their quest. I was quite proud of them for their teamwork and impressive initiative! She, however, only got angrier and angrier, until she finally rose from where she was and started flipping out on the juniors. Things kept escalating, culminating in her yelling "I AM THE EDITOR!!!!!!" (notice how she forgot that I'm the editor too?) and stated to cry angry tears. Our adviser, trying to diffuse the situation, asked everybody to circle up so we could talk our way through the situation. THE editor, however, refused, grabbing her things, stormed off, yelling "YOU NEVER SUPPORT MY WISHES!!!! I AM THE EDITOR!!!!!!" And needless to say she's in a deep pit of trouble.

I don't want her on the staff anymore. 

GOODNIGHT

I WATCHED THE ENTIRE SERIES IN ONE NIGHT OH MY GOODNESS THIS IS THE BEST MISTAKE I'VE MADE IN AGES.

WATCH THE UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT RIGHT NOW AS IF YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT OH MY GOD I'M HOOKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3/10/15

Today wasn't too shabby! School was a bunch of the same old, same old. The lacrosse scrimmage I was supposed to work at as a trainer today was postponed, but they had a practice instead that I went to. Other than that, not a lot happened today. In Newspaper, however, I was getting very annoyed with my co-editor. We were working on planning out the next issue, and she didn't really let me have any input whatsoever. She kept giving people assignments that others had come up with and wanted to do, had people doing things that they are not strong at, and took the paper's best designer off of design duty. It's just really annoying when she gets controlling like that, because she sees herself as the end-all, be-all authority and refuses to listen to anybody's concerns or input.

Goodnight!

Yay!!!!

Hey guys I actually managed to *basically* finish one of my math assignments in a matter of minutes so yay for that! I'm saving the rest of it for study hall tomorrow. I need to make sure I catch myself up! I have to start training for Boys Lacrosse this week, and there's a scrimmage tomorrow so my time is going to be spread pretty thin. On the bright side, I survived the night. Now, I need to make sure I survive the week!!!!! 

I'm also going to try to do a small amount of exercise before I get to bed, I need this pretty badly. I'll be in Aruba in less than a month.....

Oops....

That awkward moment where you go on tumblr for an hour and a half instead of reading Dracula like you told yourself you would do......





Yup, I'm awful.

I'm (sort of) in the home stretch now! I now only have to do the reading for English and my Stats homework, woooooooooooooooooooooooooo I'm still dying guys!!!!!!

Hi my name is Emily and I'm dying slowly.

Uggggh (SOS)

I somehow finished the stupid scholarship essay before 8:00, but I still have a ridiculous amount of homework left to do. I still have to tear apart a poem, watch a video, start a paper, and read at least 20 pages of Dracula for English, I have three AP Stats problems as well as a multiple choice worksheet, an AP Bio lab report to work on, religion homework, and I have to somehow get my shit together for this video in Video Production. I'm screwed on so so so so so many different levels this week, and I just want to drop out of school forever. I only go at this point to see the people who matter to me. Everything else is completely pointless and I hate it.

I honestly want to cry.

3/9/15

Uggggggh today was pretty rough. It wasn't that terrible overall, like I looked really good today and I had some fun moments with friends, but I was brutally murdered by my AP Bio test and I'm being injured further by excessive work this week on top of a stupid scholarship application due tomorrow that my mom is making me do and I want to hurl myself off of a cliff because I AM DYING!!!!!!!!!!! I feel like I'm developing an ulcer and I don't want to eat or do any school work. 

Goodnight!!!!!!!!!!

Happy International Women's Day!!!!!!!

Keep in mind all them women who have influenced your life and have shaped the world around you in some way- whether they be your idols, your mother, sister(s), aunt(s), girl friends, or significant other(s), women have shaped your life in more ways than you can imagine, regardless of your gender.

My brain has been turned to MUSH

I have quite the brain-ache from attempting to understand cellular respiration, fermentation, and cellular communication so needless to say I want to hurl myself off a cliff and also online window-shop/pin things to Pinterest until I fall asleep. I'm going to try to do some small exercise things before I go to sleep since MY ENTIRE DAY WAS CONSUMED BY SCHOOLWORK and I couldn't work out at all.

I am dead.

Ugggggggggggggggggggggggggh school why do you do this to me almost every single Sunday? I've been so good, why do I always get stuck spending my entire Sunday on stupid work and still never end up being anywhere close to finished?! It's annoying as can be...

Okay, I've done some AP Stats homework (but not even close to half of it, I guess it is what it is for now!), and now I'm going to take some time to work on an AP Bio practice test so I can get a better idea of what's coming my way. I'm probably still going to die, but that's just the risk you take when taking AP/IB/Honors/Accelerated courses!

On the bright side, I had veal parmesan and spaghetti for dinner, so I'm ready for battle! 

Ugggggggh

My head is killing me and I think I'm pretty close to death. I'm slowly being murdered by my AP Bio test studying, and I haven't even gotten to my AP Stats homework yet or found some of the things I need for my other classes... 

Way to go, Emily!!!!!

Good Morning!!!!

Oh my goodness I have a whole lot of work to do today! I need to catch up on all my homework, find a binder for an assignment, study, exercise, and more... I have my work cut out for me today, essentially.

I'M HOOOOOOOME!!!!

I had a pretty good time in Chicago! We took a lot of side roads on the way out of Ohio which was pretty interesting. My favorite piece of small-town Americana that I witnessed was a pawn shop sign that said "SELLING OLD JEW" because the "ELRY" portion of the sign fell off. Thursday night we got into Chicago pretty close to midnight, so I was incredibly tired. I managed to survive my dad's snoring throughout the whole trip by packing headphones and sleeping with music on!

Friday morning we got up fairly early and took the El to the Michigan Avenue area to get breakfast at a restaurant called Wildberry. It was FANTASTIC!!!! They specialize in fancy shmancy pancakes and have pancakes like Oreo pancakes, Tirimasu pancakes, and more available! I had a cinnamon roll pancake and it was possibly the best breakfast that I had ever eaten! After Wildberry, we split up and left my sister to shop around while my mom, dad, and I took another train to DePaul's Loop campus for the College of Computing and Digital Media event. The event itself was ehhh, but I did get to meet my roommate for next year, Tori, and she was pretty nice! She had a really good sense of humor, and I think we'll have fun together. I also met one of the people from the Facebook group who is actually someone that I would love to be friends with, Mykala, and she was also incredibly nice and a lot of fun based off the time I got to spend with her. After the first academic information session, my mom left my dad and I to meet up with my sister so they could tour Loyola. After about an hour, my dad and I decided to head back to the hotel and then napped the afternoon away. It was pretty nice, honestly! 

This morning, we went to our favorite little breakfast place by DePaul, Jam n' Honey, and I had eggs Benedict which was as lovely as ever! Then, we took a (not really impactful but not that bad of an experience) tour of the Lincoln Park campus since my dad hasn't seen it yet. After that, we trucked our way home and I've unpacked and started relaxing ever since I returned!

Woo!!!

I'm going to be in Chicago visiting DePaul and won't be home until sometime late Saturday night, so I won't be posting for the next few days! I'll have some stories and perhaps pictures from the trip when I get back, though! Ahhhhh I'm excited!!!!!

I had a really long treadmill session so I'm totally beat now! I'm going to try to work out some more after dinner tonight.

There's nothing quite like having the day off! I'm definitely going to be working out today, as well as getting ahead on homework and working on my mom's list of chores for me. I'm going to get my hair trimmed later, as well! I'm not sure what else I'm going to do today as of yet

Good Morning!!!!!