Presentations, Red Velvet Cupcakes, and Interviews

I think this is the fastest a week has gone by for me in a really long time.  The irony is that I spent most of it sick.  I'm usually complaining about how long days are if I'm feeling really bad, but this time it flew by quicker than normal.

I gave a presentation on synesthesia in AP English today.  I was so nervous.  I actually think I did worse than I did on the presentation I gave in current events last Friday.  Two of us presented today, and mine was a lot shorter.  I feel as if I didn't have enough information, and I definitely stumbled over my words while talking.  I'm glad I'm done with presentations for the foreseeable future.

For some reason Ji got cupcakes today.  She cadets in the guidance office and the secretary just gave her two of them.  For some unexplainable reason Ji didn't want them, and she gave both of them today.  I can tell you that having a red velvet cupcake for a mid-morning snack is pretty awesome.  (Red velvet is one of the very few types of cake I like, and I absolutely love it.)

Tomorrow my mom and I are driving up to Indianapolis for an interview with a college.  At least we're supposed to.  It was sleeting a little earlier, and it's supposed to keep up with that all night.  My mom doesn't want to drive up there if the weather's still bad.  There are only two interview days, and we got assigned the date and time, so I don't know what will happen if we can't go up there.  This isn't my top choice school (and this is for a scholar program, not to get into the school), but it's still a really nice school.  It's definitely still an option, and getting into the program would be nice.  Plus, I hate saying I'll go and then not showing up.  I guess we'll just have to see what the weather does...

Almost Better (Again)

I'm starting to get over being sick (for the third time this winter...), but I still don't feel all that great. I'm amazed the week is going by as quickly as it is.  Usually days drag on when I'm sick.  I'm hoping I'll wake up tomorrow feeling perfectly fine, but I'm not so sure that'll be the case.

Our AP English class is being taped tomorrow.  I'm not really sure why.  The teacher said it had something to do with teacher evaluations, and it's going to be shown to people around the school district.  She's apparently been here longer than any (or at least most) of the other teachers in the schoo district, and they're using her as an example or something.  Anyway, it should be interesting to see how that goes.  She chose us because we're AP and less likey to embarass her I think.  I know no one's going to do something on purpose, but I hope nothing happens that makes her look bad.

We began playing our current events quiz show games/thing in current events again, and we got to keep the same teams.  I'm really glad.  Our grades rely on how well we do on that game, and I don't want to be switched to a team that never wins.  I do feel bad for the ones on the team that always seems to come in last though...

Sick Yet Again

Today has not been a good day.  I woke up sick enough to be miserable but not sick enough to stay home from school.  I had a done to get done today, and very little of it got done because it was so difficult for me to focus.  I've gradually started feeling better as the day has gone on.  I can only hope I wake up feeling perfectly fine tomorrow.  Based on how I feel now I doubt it though.  I have work tomorrow, and when I get home, there's several things I need to do that I didn't get done today.

I just deleted about half of what I wrote.  It's all stuff that I know I wouldn't write if I didn't feel so horrible right now, so I made myself delete it.  I'm having trouble thinking of anything right now, so I'm just going to end this here.  Hopefully tomorrow's a much better day.

Another Cold

It's only been a three day weekend, but for some reason it feels like it's been a bit longer since I've been to school.  When I woke up this morning, I felt better than yesterday, but I'm still a bit sick.  I'm hoping I continue to get better.  I already had one bad cold this winter, and I don't want another one.

I haven't really done much today other than the usual stuff I do when at home all day.  I did homework, read some, and just other random stuff.  The day actually went by pretty fast.  I'm hoping the whole week will go by fast, especially if I'm sick all this week.

Church Dinner, Dan Radcliffe on SNL, Etc.

It has been a long day.  I had trouble sleeping last night, and then I woke up today feeling a little sick.  I don't know if I really am sick or it's just allergies.  Whatever it is, my head feels congested, I can barely breath through my nose, and my throat feels kind of scratchy.  It's not too bad though, and I hope it doesn't get worse.

I'm really happy tomorrow's a holiday, and there's no school.  After getting no sleep last night, I really need another night to sleep in before going to school.

We had a dinner after church this morning/afternoon.  It was kind of a welcome to our priest (who came a few months back) and new parishioners.  I was probably there for about an hour, but I came home a bit earlier than most of the others because Ji was coming over to drop off some Friends DVDs and The Hunger Games that she had borrowed.  (She didn't actually ever read The Hunger Games, which dissappoints me a bit.)  We watched Daniel Radcliffe on Saturday Night Live (He was amazing, and I love the Harry Potter sketch!) and some Youtube videos before she left.

Other than that I didn't do much today.  I, of course, did some homework, but that's about it.  I actually got less homework done than I had been planning on because I didn't know that Ji was going to come over, and I didn't know about the dinner at church until this morning.  (Well, I knew it was happening, but not that it was today.)  Since I didn't get much done today, I'm also going to have to do more tomorrow than I planned on.  It's not much though, so hopefuly it won't take long.  I want to be able to enjoy the day off from school.

A Sick Rant

Remember how I posted about getting sick yesterday?  Well, about an hour after posting that, I got a fever.  I still didn't feel that bad, and I took some Tylenol and it immediately went down.  Last night was miserable.  I hardly slept at all.  I couldn't breath when laying down, and my throat was on fire.  By the time I woke up in the morning, I'd almost completely lost my voice, and it's stayed that way all day.  Everytime I say something the pain in my throat multiplies by ten.

I ended up going to school after consulting both my mom and friend Ji over whether I should go or not.  I would have stayed at home if it weren't for several reasons: my fever had been down all night (I checked several times.), I didn't feel that bad this morning, I had a test in economics and an outline due in AP English, and I've had perfect attendance for three years and I'd hate to screw that up now.  Most of the school day was fine.  I felt a little weak, my nose was a little runny, and my throat was killing me, but I honestly didn't feel that sick.

Things started going down hill during my last class of the day: economics.  By the time I had finished my test, I was shivering pretty badly, and I knew I was starting to get a fever.  I would have gone home except school was almost over anyway.  By the time I got home, I was shaking, and my fever was over a hundred.  Things have only gotten worse since then.  I'm currently huddled under the covers of my bed because I start violently shivering if I get out from under them.  I've tried everything I can thing of to soothe my throat, but it's all stopped working.  And none of the medicine I've taken since getting home seems to have worked.  I'm about five time more miserable than yesterday or during school today.

I still haven't decided if I'm going to attempt to sleep tonight.  I know sleep is good and should help be get better faster, but tonight was so miserable.  I don't even want to think what tonight will be like.  I'm hoping I'll fall asleep easily, stay asleep all night, and wake up magically feeling better.  The odds of that are basically zero however, so I'm not sure if going through a miserable night is worth it.  And this is coming from someone who loves sleep.

I'm gonna go watch How I Met Your Mother and try to get my mind off of how horrible I feel.  I hope everyone's feeling better than I am!  If you're feeling sick to thanks to this wonderful time of year, then I hope we both get better soon.

(I feel like I'm going to sound crazy if I go back and read this once I get better. Oh well.)

It's the Time of Year for... Colds

I am officially sick.  I've got a horrible cold, which means I'm going to be miserable for about a week.  The only positive I can think of is that it should be gone by Christmas.  I always get at least one cold during the winter, so I'm not that surprised.  Tons of people at school have been getting colds the past week or so.  I'm pretty sure we're all going to be sick soon.

I had a much longer post written out, but I ended up losing all of it.  Instead of rewriting the whole thing.  I'll just let you know that my day was pretty average.  It actually kind of sucked, but that was just the cold.  If I didn't feel miserable today would have been fine.

Since getting home from school I've done nothing but lay on my bed feeling sick.  The Sudafed I took early has done nothing.  I really hope this cold doesn't last long...

My Pencil Got Stolen in the Bathroom

I got the pleasure of beginning my day by standing out in the rain waiting for the bus.  I was also alone because my sister stayed home sick.  I'm so glad that the bus actually came early today.  Normally, I would mind the rain, but being stuck at school with wet clothes and hair isn't fun.

All of the seniors with a certain GPA or above had a meeting this morning about a scholarship.  One person in our county gets it, and the winner recieves full tuition for four years at any college in Indiana.  It's a great scholarship, and I'm going to apply for it.  It's just that I don't want to go to college in Indiana.  There is one college (that I really like) that I applied to that's in Indiana, so I'm still applying for the scholarship.  We'll see what happens if I get it.

This meeting ran into our first class, which meant I had less time than normal to complete my AP U.S. history test.  Thankfully, I got done on time.  I think it's because I knew I had less time, and I made myself focus more than usual.  (I'll admit that I sometimes zone out in the middle of tests.)

We got to peer edit papers in AP English.  Basically every problem that was pointed out in my paper is stuff I already know.  The problem is I'm not sure how to fix those problems.  This paper is proving to be very difficult.  When I'm finished writing this, I'm going to go through it and do some editing myself.

Here's an interesting story:  Whenever I go to the bathroom at school, I always leave my books and things sitting on this ledge thing over the sinks.  I've been doing this since freshmen year, and I've never had a problem.  Today I did the same thing I always do, and when I went to get my books, my pencil was gone.  My eraser, book, and notebook were all still there, but the pencil was gone.  I looked around, thinking maybe I dropped it, but it was nowhere to be found.  I think someone stole it.  I wasn't too bothered by it.  I just went to my locker and got a new one.

I really funny part of the story was during econ.  Some people started complaining about how they'd had bad days, so our teacher started going through every person in the class and asking them how their day went.  When he got to me, I was just going to say that my day had been fine when Jordan mentioning that I did actually have a bad day.  I don't know if she was referring to the pencil thing or what happened while peer tutoring (I'll get to that in a minute.) as I had just told her and Haley both.  I kind of stammered for a bit before just saying, "My day was fine, but my pencil did get stolen in the bathroom."  Everyone in the class, including me, burst into laughter, and I turned bright red, which Haley pointed out to me.  After a few minutes, the teacher said he wasn't even going to ask for that story, and we moved on.  It was interesting though.

As for what happened during peer tutoring over at the middle school, I was put in charge of helping three sixth graders with a math worksheet today.  They were doing really well.  They were each dividing up the problems and doing them on the board.  Then, the boy got frustrated over something and decided he wanted to do them himself, so he went and sit at a desk and worked on them alone.  Then, the two girls got into an argument because one girl didn't think the other was being fair, so they insisted on working the problems alone.  It was kind of dissapointing.  I remember at the beginning of class being really impressed by how well they were working together, and by the end of class that had fallen apart.  At least all three of them had a pretty good idea of what they were doing.  That was the point of the worksheet.

On a bright side, the pouring rain had stopped by the time I went over to the middle school, so I didn't have a problem with that.  I also got a ride home with Ji instead of riding the bus.  That was especially nice since I was lugging home books for my sister Regina, so she could get homework done.  Overall though, it wasn't a bad day.