So many thoughts, so little time

Recently, I've had a lot of thoughts in class that I wanted to blog about, but somehow I always seem to forget them, or they aren't lengthy enough to use the time it usually takes me to post something. So here goes...

1. My dad keeps saying I am taking my senior year off because I'm only taking one AP class. One. That's more than a lot of people are taking. Plus an online class, which is more difficult I'd say than many other classes. Oh, and I'm probably going to do PSEO (I haven't told him cause he doesn't like that idea [which I find ironic]) which is harder than most of the other kids are doing. So I don't know what he's thinking.

2. Today I had my last volleyball tournament of my high school career (YES!).  I am excite about it for many reasons. First, I don't like tournaments. I get tired. Its a lot of playing when you don't get subbed out and have to play for eight hours. Second, this means I have my weekends back, which means I'll get to sleep in, hang out with my boyfriend, and other miscellaneous things that I wasn't able to do because I didn't have a Saturday. Finally, it means that volleyball season is half over. Now don't get me wrong, I love the sport, but...well see number three.

3. I love volleyball. I've been playing it now for eight years. And that's a lot when your only seventeen years old. But one thing I'm finding I don't like about it is that I have to deal with girls. Which I don't enjoy. Cause girls are catty, mean, and over analytical.  They take things the wrong way and are way too emotional. Now I understand that you can have a bad day and all, I have them occasionally, but I don't try and drag my teammates into them or bring them down. Also, are team this year isn't that good. There is a lot of inexperience, which is difficult for me to deal with. I'm not going to say that I play perfectly all the time, cause that is definitely far from the truth, but there are some girls that just erk me cause they just don't know what they are supposed to do. Hopefully if I play in college it wont be that way.

4. There is a SNL marathon on VH1 right now, and I am loving it.

5. I'm taking three art classes in school right now; 3-D art, Ceramics, and Graphic Design. It's a wonderful start to my day. I'm making a purple penta-pus (it's an octopus that only has five legs, go with it.) pinata in 3-D right now, and am working on photoshop for my graphic design class (which I am pro at by the way). But the accomplishment I am most proud of is my coil pot in ceramics. For those of you who are artistically challenged, it's where you roll strips of white clay out and put them together in this sort of fashion:

This is what most of my fellow classmates' pots looked like. Yes coiled dog turd. But mine? Oh, it's sweet. In fact, my teacher said that my coil pot was the most original he has seen since he's started teaching. I will be sure to post a picture of it sometime. Or you could just come over and see it in real life when I get it home :)

I have much more I could say, but I'll say it some other time. 

The Busy Bee I Have Become...

Senior year is supposed to be about fun. Going and cheering on the football team, getting away with things normal students wouldn't, leaving class early to do important senior business; all of which I have been doing. But I'm finding there is an evil side to all this.
For many years I have been involved in everything from sports to science fair...and everything in between. I wouldn't even want to list them all right now cause it would take FOREVER...but anyways, this year I've decided I don't really want to do all of those things. I want to have time for friends outside of high school (because I have many now). But so far, my plan hath failed me. Right now I'm playing volleyball, and taking classes. And that's pretty much it. Occasionally I have to do a shift at the convenience store, but not very often, and still I feel like I'm swamped. If someone were to try and follow me around, they'd probably give up from sheer exhaustion. And I don't understand it. Other years I've been able to do volleyball, science fair, yearbook, knowledge bowl, and drama (not to forget school) all at the same time and this year I wouldn't even consider doing anything else. Maybe it's because I'm a captain, maybe it's because I'm varsity, maybe it's because I've decided to have a lazy mentality about things and I just decide I don't want to put forth and energy to anything else. Whatever it is, it needs to stop. Soon. Cause I'm starting to freak myself out. That is all.

Anger, Frustration, Denial, Sadness

Yup. I'm feeling all of these at the moment. I know it's been almost a month since the last time I posted, so I'm sure you want to read about how glorious my senior year started, or the latest gossip on who knows what, but no. I'm posting about my anger toward this stupid online class.
Somewhere deep in my brain last year, i thought "hey, I'm smart. Let me take this online class about web design, cause I know nothing about the web and I really don't care that much about it." Stupid junior brain. It got me to believe this was what I really wanted. Well I started the class and right away hated it. There are so many stupid acronyms about stupid stuff that only stupid people would care about probably. And then the designing came.
Now I didn't have a problem with the designing part of it. It's time consuming, but actually kinda brainless once you get the hang of things. But then my stupid textbook told me to go onto the stupid internet and try out my stupid little website I made. And the stupid thing didn't work. I wasn't worried at first about it. I e-mailed my instructor and she told me what to do. Unfortunately THAT didn't work either, so I had to turn in my first assignment, blind to what it really looks like cause I'm not smart enough to figure it out on my own. Needless to say, this is my least favorite class at the moment cause it's causing me stress and I'm losing sleep because of it (and I like sleep...a lot.) So here I am, at 12:03 writing in my blog because my boyfriend already went to bed....and so did everyone else whose not struggling with this stupid class and I'm sitting here going, well I got it done, now she's going to give me an F on the stupid thing cause it's stupid. (Sorry about the amount of stupid in this post. I'm really lacking any kind of creativeness tonight, cause I just don't care right now.)
But anyway, I'm ready for this crap to be over. And that was only the first assignment. Lesson learned. No more online classes if that can be helped.