PROGRESS!!!!

I finished my lab report, and my goal before lunch is to get an outline of my paper on Romanticism done! I think I can handle that easily enough. After I finish the paper, I'm going to catch up my math homework, take an exercise break, then do my remaining math homework. The quarter ends this week and my grades are the worst that they've ever been EVER. I need to do well on this essay, and I need all the points I can get in all of my classes, especially with my sinking grades in Video Production and AP Bio.

Happy Sunday!(?)

I'm about to be doing schoolwork for the majority of the day! I'm not exactly happy about that, but I mean I did dig myself into this hole so it's my own damn fault. 

Goodnight!

I'm almost done with my lab report, thank goodness! I still have to write a paper tomorrow and then finish all my math that I STILL haven't done since last Monday as well as reading more of Dracula. I think I'll make it just fine, though. My mom really wants me to work on another scholarship tomorrow as well, so I'll just have to see how far I get. I'm pretty nervous about my .grades since the quarter ends at the end of the week

I got some work done on my Advocacy project, so yay for that!

3/14/15

Today was fairly uneventful! I mean I was woken up after noon, so it's not like I could've done all that much. I did get some work done on my AP Bio lab report and in reading Dracula. I went to mass with my sister tonight, then afterwards we went to Panera for dinner. She then went to Kent State University to meet her friend at the Spanish Film Festival. I started going home, but I wound up taking a detour at a park to scout out a location for a video production video. It was a pretty lovely spot, but my shoes got soaked through thanks to all the melted snow/rain from yesterday. There are tons of flooded fields in the area around me thanks to all the snow, and I always enjoy seeing that and knowing that Spring is coming! After that, I went towards home, bought gas and got a Chai latte at Starbucks. I finally deposited all the checks from my birthday, so now I'm not nearly as poor as I was earlier today! Now, I'm just relaxing/working on homework.

Yesterday

Yesterday was the perfect way to end this awful week! Despite having to wake up at 5:15 in the morning and having to stand in the cold rain for two hours, it was practically perfect in every way!

The summit on human trafficking was incredibly interesting. I did have to sit through a mass and through stations of the cross, but everything else was really educational, informative, and powerful. There were about 20 different presentations that we were all able to go to, but each of us was assigned a random one to attend. My first presentation was put on by a group that works to find missing, homeless, or at-risk teens and get them off the streets, as they are incredibly susceptible to being trafficked. My second session was about Fair Trade, and it was also pretty informative. Two girls in the group that came with me got to listen to Michelle Knight, one of the three women kidnapped and held captive by Ariel Castro for ten years, tell her story and speak of her experiences. After the keynote address, we went back to school (but not without stopping to get a snack!).

After getting back, I went down to the field as there was to be a lacrosse scrimmage. The weather was awful, but the team won and I'm really getting along well with my other trainer!

After that, I went to hang out with Andy. We ate mac and cheese, cuddled, and I got him hooked on The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. So overall, it was a perfect day!

Happy Pi Day y'all!

Goodnight, and thank goodness for field trips!

It's kinda funny how there's an increase of readership whenever something dramatic starts to go down in my life, especially in terms of Carmongeddon!

CARMONGEDDON: The Saga Continues

Things did not improve today! She spent a major portion of the day talking to the dean of students today, and even though he advised her not to come to class today and to cool down and relax, she disregarded his suggestion (typical of her) and came to class anyways. She delivered an incredibly insincere apology that was more of an attempt to make everyone else feel bad than a genuine apology. When other people gave their sides of the story, she reacted horribly, stormed out in tears again, and accused me of "attacking" her since I gave her some constructive criticism (and not in a demeaning way). 

I emailed the dean of students, and I'm going to talk to him about how this situation can be remedied on Monday since I'm on a field trip tomorrow.

3/12/15

Today was pretty rough. I definitely bombed my AP Biology test from earlier this week. I got the worst grade in the class so far, it's casual! There was even more Newspaper drama, which I will detail in a lovely, lengthy post. I've basically had a headache ever since. The only bright spots in the day were being cheered up by my friend Jack and going to Panera to eat a warm cookie and mac and cheese which I really regret because uggggghhhhh Spring Break is so close and I'm nowhere close to being bikini ready and uggggggggggh my body is bleh but it's too late at this point!

Goodnight!!!

Needless to say, I'm pretty excited to see what tomorrow will bring!

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.