WOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm heading to Lacrosse now and the sun came back, so needless to say, I'm a  VERY happy camper!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love days like today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The rest of today was pretty solid as well! I managed to get all my stuff turned in and I don't have too much work to do tonight, so I'm thankful for that! My ass was also saved in Video Production thanks to a deadline extension and footage from a project made two years ago! Plus, the weather was FANTASTIC so when I go to Lacrosse practice later, it'll be pretty pleasant!

3/16/15, or Carmongeddon 2: Electric Boogaloo- the Happy Ending

SHE IS GETTING FIRED THIS IS A GREAT GREAT DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not for her, but for everybody else. When I found out, I was so happy I could have cried! She won't find out until she returns to school sometime next week, so there'll be some awful final explosion from her, and she'll probably attack me, but honestly that is worth it in order for her to stop terrorizing the class this year. Everything that I've experienced from her hands will be worth it once she is gone. 

Goodnight!!!!

I'M *basically* FINISHED

THERE WERE LIKE FOUR MATH PROBLEMS THAT I HAD ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA HOW TO DO BUT OTHER THAN THAT I AM ALL DONE WITH MY HOMEWORK LIKE GO ME I AM SO SO PROUD OF MYSELF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'M ABOUT TO EXERCISE AND PACK A GOOD LUNCH AND WORK AHEAD ON SOME STUFF LIKE YAAASSSSS EMILY YASSSSSS GO ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MY ESSAY IS FINISHED BEFORE 9:00 I CAN DO THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's Go Time...

I've done my reading, I've contributed even more to my essay, and I did my small list of outside chores for the night. All I need to do is finish this essay and haul ass on my AP Stats, then I'm officially caught up on all of my schoolwork. I CAN DO THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm miraculously surviving, guys! I'm halfway through my AP Stats homework, I'm on my second body paragraph in my AP English Romanticism essay, I finished my second AP Bio lab assignment, and I'm about to do the Dracula reading that I need to have finished so I'd say I've made it to about the halfway point with my homework! Once I finish everything due tomorrow, I need to make sure that I exercise before working ahead on my extra credit for Religion and my next major assignment for AP English.

I don't have a clue as to what I'm doing. I'm dying, oh my goodness if I don't make it out of this alive tell my pets that I love them and that my sister can have my room and my money.

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.