School sucks. Okay, let me preface that with a disclaimer: there are many worse places I could be, even in district, and I've actually been pretty fortunate so far with teachers and what have you. That said, school sucks. I'm mad at them because they have blocked all blog websites on their Websense account, so nothing can be accessed from school. Not a big deal if you can just go home and blog. Grumble, grumble. Anyway, that's the reason I haven't posted in a million years. It just got harder.

On the plus side, I decided that if I get a job soon, I'll get my license. I'm very tired of mooching rides off people, and it would just be sad to be 18 without a license, still bumming rides from family and friends. Hollywood Video seems to be a strong prospect--I'll know more in a few days. After having a job for 8 months, being unemployed isn't sitting well with me. It will be worse when school gets out. It will be very good if I can get a new job before I get my final paycheck from my old job. :) I'm an optimist, what can I say.

I leave for Yellowstone on July 2. If I get the job, I think I'll have to tell them I'm going on a college trip for a week. I don't think they'd give me time off to go sit in a van with 10 girls for a week--as much as a party as that sounds like. Actually it should be fun, assuming I don't kill any of them before we get back. We'll see.

I'm actually at the Youth Legislature session right now. I'm in the Governor's Office with nothing to do. The schedule is set, the bills are covered, the press is happy, the constituents have their meetings, and I'm left with little to do. Once debate gets going I'll go down to the House and Senate to get some firsthand info on bills the Governor supports for the afternoon press release. Joe really liked my morning press release, which makes me happy, but I still don't have much to fill the gaps. Crap! I just remembered a gap, actually. I have to go chat with the Secretary of State about a bill from a first year in my delegation. It got into the House and I need to check on it.

Sorry you couldn't make it, Nathan.

And Brian, the situation wasn't akward at all, odd as that might sound.

Okay, I hope you have all seen the movies Saved and Saw. Oh good Lord, they were amazing. Most people's big problem with Saw is that it wasn't that scary, which is true, but it's really unsettling and clever. Saved is clever and hilarious, very witty. Highly recommended.

Life is going good right now. Sometimes you need to step back and look at your life just to appreciate what you really have. I'm so lucky to be able to do the things that make me happy, and I am so blessed with some really awesome people in my life. So what if I'm insanely busy. I thrive on that anyway.

Aside from massive Youth Legislature preparations and trying to pull an entire Literary Magazine publication together pretty much by myself, that's been my month. It was interesting and very confusing at times. How was yours?

I'm actually at my Grandma's house right now. My uncle just finished his tour in Afghanistan and he brought his family out for a visit for the first time since my cousin was born, and he's nearly 4 now. So adorable. I should get back to visiting, but I'm still tired from Leadership Training last weekend (my week was so busy I couldn't really catch up on the sleep I missed) so I wasn't that into the conversations, so I decided I'd brief you nice people.

Back from the dead

This last month or so has been beyond insane. Even for me. So I'm back with a new format (got way too sick of looking at those stupid dots, time for a change) with some updates.

By the by, I did bomb my Chemistry final. I wound up with a C for my final grade, which sucks, but it could have been a lot worse. I'll do better this semester.

I'm hosting for Homework Helpline on Thursdays now, still tutoring on Tuesdays. It's fun, and all of it has really piqued my interest in broadcasting. I just wish I could work more. We only have shows three days a week, so there's really no opportunity for expansion, so I guess I'll just have to deal.

Nathan, good to see you at Knowledge Bowl. Sorry I was so spastic, I didn't even think to ask how your sister's team did. It was the end of a very long week and a stressful morning. I hope she did better than we did--we missed the wild card spot by like a point.

I'm pretty pumped right now because I just got an email from Guvna Joe and I got the position I was hoping for in the Governor's Cabinet--Criminal Justice & Sentencing committee supervisor and Press Relations Secretary. Very excited. :) This is going to be fun.

Don't want to have an insanely long post, so until next time.

Crazy happiness! On Homework Helpline, tutors are supposed to work one night a week. I work two nights a week already, and my boss is trying to get me on the third night (there are only three shows per week). Also, first year tutors aren't supposed to be hosts, and I've already auditioned, and my boss is toying with the idea of doing a two-host thing so I get to be a host this year. That makes me feel very special. I really love working there. It's nice to be good at something and not resented for it.

Finals sucked. I'm 99.9% sure I bombed the chemistry test (the 0.01% being an allowance for an act of God, not any legitimate hope). I've been trying not to think about how that affects my GPA, ergo my future. It's too depressing.

Mock Legislature this Saturday. My delegation is going to be making a truly pathetic showing due to shedule conflicts (a band workshop, district swim meet, and several people couldn't get their work schedules changed). Also depressing. I'm sort of stressing over my speeches for Secretary of State and Committee Chair, and I have to get my resume finished for the Governor's Cabinet. And to top it off, I lost my voice with the cold I've had for the last week, and it still hasn't come back fully.

On the plus side, Mom made cookies for the first time in who knows how long, so that's nice. Very tasty.

Open to ideas: creative ways to make my cousin suffer for her skipping ways. If I can't think of anything especially entertaining, I can always just tell her parents, but I feel I can be more effective myself. I just hope I don't get carried away...*evil laughter*

Three day weekend. That was 72 hours of me-time. I was going to go to the library to work on my Youth Legislature bill (which needs to be done by Thursday) on Saturday, but everything was frozen over and the library was closed. The best part: of the 72 hours, I slept for 36 of them. I am sooo unbelievably happy. That's like two weeks worth of sleep right there. I slept for 14 hours on Friday alone. Basically all I did was eat, sleep, read, and workout (which I of course overdid it on because I feel like I accomplished something when I'm sore the next day).

I finally have a working printer. It's one of those 3 in one deals with a printer, scanner and fax. Not that I can use the fax (still no internet, and I don't know if I can hook up a fax without it or a seperate phone line), but I'm pretty happy about it. I used the scanner to scan some of my pictures, which I'll try to post in a minute. Actually, I'll go do that now. I only have 5 minutes til I have to go to history class (I finished my assignment in Digital Filmmaking way early, so I've been dinking around on the computer for most of the period).

I'm at work. Well, I guess you can call it work-- they pay me, but I don't do that much. All my presentations are done (I work at Homework Helpline) and now I'm just trying to catch up on my web activities.

Okay, how crazy am I: I may become Mrs. Gammage's after-school TA. Yet another activity. Like I need that. But she really needs help, and I'm pretty sure I can fit it in okay. She knows my schedule, so I'd only have to come in once or twice a week and I'd get a regular credit. That's too much to resist.

I'm watching my cousin like a hawk. I discovered she's failing freshman year, so I've threatened to essentially collapse her social world if she doesn't undergo an almost religious conversion with her work.