Consistency

Life has been a bit frazzling. Break is coming so you know what that means. Teachers shoving all the homework & projects they can on you and make all of it due Friday. I had a Chem 3D model, poster, bookwork, and AP world packet all due tomorrow. Oh yeah, can't forget that AP world test too.

At least swimming is stable. Practice everyday, whether you like it or not, rain or shine (or in yesterday's case, thunder... we could have died!) Something I can depend on. Our varsity team is getting a whole lot smaller but in some ways, we are getting closer. We need to depend on each other more than ever now.


Growing tensions with my mom. She blames my teenage hormones but I blame her for stressing out at work (and maybe a little bit on my hormones). I think it is a two-way street, both are the cause. But she doesn't realize that! I HATE when people cut me off in the middle of an explanation. I want to be heard sometimes but she doesn't let me talk. What has solely been one voice just plain old yelling at me is starting to become a two-way conversation (with raised voices, I admit). Things are changing and people are growing. I am beginning to stand my ground a little more, just a little bit. But I am not venturing far from home, a friend helped me realize I need my mother more than I need anything else right now.

Couch potatoes

Generally, human beings are lazy. Mr. Harrison said that last week but now that I think about it, I realize it's completely true. We don't do anything without the incentive to do so. We go to work, but only if we get paid. We donate to charity, but we make sure we get a tax break. We do homework because our grade suffers, not so much because we actually care about what we are learning. I am no exception; I am lazy and sometimes, I feel totally useless. I don't do anything unless I have to or unless it is the last minute of the day. There is a word for this... procrastination, maybe? Ugh. But one of my biggest pet peeves is being unproductive. And because I must be productive, I want to overcome bit by bit this laziness. Morning practice is totally optional for Varsity but I have made it a personal goal to show up every morning except Mondays (Come on, I have my limits haha). Hopefully, I will teach myself a much-needed lesson. I have been thinking about this a lot lately, it is totally unacceptable to realize what you are doing wrong but doing nothing to change it.

So I bought this chocolate milk flavored nutrition drink cause my stomach cannot take anything else at 5am right before practice. Surprisingly, this chocolate milk flavored nutrition drink is so much more better tasting than regular chocolate milk. And it has vitamins and all that good stuff! Double yay!

My friend is going to Europe and he said he is gonna bring me back a tall, dark-haired Italian that can swim as a souvenir. Just what I wanted! :D

Rihanna, you deserve better. Chris Brown, you are a dick. By assaulting Rihanna, you just assaulted your very own career.

The entertainment industry

My Chinese classroom on Sundays at Washington High School is also the classroom of the AP Psychology class. So when my mind wanders like it always does when my teacher lectures, I read some very interesting posters around the room. One phrase caught my eye, “Make a decision based on the product and not the salesperson.” Doesn't that sound so... philosophical?

The research I have done for my persuasive essay on piracy and copyright infringement is kind of a wake-up call. Apparently, file sharing (Limewire) leaves your computer open to people who can access personal information such as personal pictures, bank accounts, and passwords. Not to mention viruses of course. Someone wanna get me an iTunes giftcards so I can download songs? Haha jk.

I watched this one really disturbing (but hella sick!) episode of Law & Order: SVU last night where this 14-year-old girl kills another girl because they are both highly competitive students and the smartest in their class at the best private school in the nation. It's like nerd world gone completely ballistic. Drugs, mental insanity, rape, murder, all that stuff. The girl that played Jennifer (Sarah Hyland) is an extremely talented actress; she scared the hell out of me with her acting, is totally cute, and kinda reminds me of Vanessa Hudgens.

Desperate Housewives tonight!