Recap

My week so far in a recap solely for my benefit:

Monday- Wake up, get dressed, decide to skip class. Instead, I hang out all day on the computer until my mom and I go to the 99 Cent Store, Target, my grandma's, and the library. Then we try to figure out her dad's super cool old camera, but it needs a battery. I get dinner and try to go to bed early with no success.

Tuesday- I wake up at four-thirty after five hours of sleep. I get ready and leave for my polling place assignment. At first I am unsure about having volunteered, but quickly I get excited to be a part of everything. The day goes by quickly as we stay pretty busy, which I am glad for. A lot of people come out to vote. I arrive home a little after nine and watch the rest of House after talking to my mom . Despite wanting to stay awake, I conk out pretty fast.

Wednesday- I wake up for school at 6:30 and my brain and body both say no way. I sleep in until nine-thirty and just go to archery. I score a 26 baseline and then a 34. Afterwards I work with my friend in bio on our lab assignment. On the way home I stop at the mini mart and buy some Monsters and Diet Coke for my mom. Then I come home, write up my lab assignment, and go to my ed class, where I am overwhelmed by information. I also decide to take the CBEST in April. I come home, eat a frozen pizza, and go to bed around one.

Thursday- I wake up at eight and get ready for my appointment with the Gateways to Teaching fieldwork coordinator. After finally finding a parking spot, I rush up the campus, only to get there before she does as she is at a meeting. I don't wait long and am placed with a teacher at Rancho High. I drop of my pops assignment, finally buy the book, and come home. After recharging with a Monster, I head out the library to get a CBEST book, only to find them all checked out. I go to Barnes & Noble and buy one instead. I also get my bowling shirt, some new socks, and some gas. Fianlly I come home and start planning for important dates. Then I go to work early to work as 09, then lobby until 8, take a half hour meal, and come back to finish with 09.

Now I am home listening to some new tunes and looking back at how busy I have been lately. It feels good, and for the first time, I feel like I have direction and a goal. Life is good.

You do what you love and screw the rest

Quote from Dwayne in Little Miss Sunshine:

"You know what? Fuck beauty contests. Life is one fucking beauty contest after another. School, then college, then work... Fuck that. And fuck the Air Force Academy. If I want to fly, I'll find a way to fly. You do what you love, and fuck the rest."

I rewatched that movie the other night, and when he said this to his uncle, it really hit me. That is so true, every part of it (except the air force, at least for me). Screw everyone else and everything else. If you like it, if it makes you happy, do it. Don't let anything get in the way. They don't matter. Being happy matters. Doing what you love to do, feeling good, it means more than some stupid beauty contest.

That is all I have to say. I love to write about my characters, and I don't care if anyone reads it or it ever gets published. I like it. It makes me happy, just like the thought of being a teacher makes me want to say screw it all and just go for it. Maybe I really am motivated this time around.

5 Random Things

1. I have liked politics since I was nine at least. I watched the 1996 presidential election with my dad and rooted for Clinton though that was partly because of what my parents believed. That school year we had a crash course in government because of the election, and it intrigued me right away. My political science teacher even said I should come over to their side when I told him I was studying biology.

2. I was born three weeks early thus making me a Gemini instead of a Cancer. My grandma was visiting my cousin Dan who was born three months earlier in Massachusetts, and she told my mom to wait for her to come home or have me on her birthday, which was June 8. I was born 6/8/86 around two in the afternoon so at least she got one thing she asked for. My other grandma was born June 10. Geminis are fun people, too (as if being a girl wasn't a good enough excuse to have mood swings).

3. I've hit my head very forcefully at least five times, one of those giving me a concussion. So far there's no recognizable damage, even the one time where my friend hit me hard with a wooden stick directly to the right side of my head. I looked up from reading and simply asked, "Did you just hit me?" I've never broken a bone, but I have a tendency to get scars, including a burn from boiling hot coffee pot water, stitches when I was a year, and a deep cut from my "safety" cutter at work. But I'm not that much of a klutz, I promise.

4. I took a SCUBA class in my tenth grade year, but the pool gave me an ear infection. The doctor wouldn't let me get back in the pool, and because I missed a day without a note, I got a C. This pool also turned my hair green and gave me a bruise just because I didn't dive right. (Stupid water. Apparently everyone said, "Oooh!" when I hit the surface. It hurt.) I haven't been swimming since 2002.

5. When I was six I played with this program called Storybook Weaver on our old PC. I learned how to run DOS to load it and everything. Since then I have been writing in some form. I may not have put words down, but I was always thinking about why I laid each scene out the way I did on the game. I even had one of my short stories submitted by my seventh grade teacher to a contest. That same year is also when I originally fell in love with science, more so biology.

You Know You've Had Too Much Chemistry When...

-They mention a compound on TV and you picture its Lewis structure.

-The infinite sign on your doctor's business card reminds you of a p orbital.

-They mention diamagnetism dealing with UFOs and you think of a molecular orbital model.

-You Google for fun chemical formulas and read up on them on Wikipedia.

I could go on. This is just off the top of my head spur of right now.

And hence the need for a semester away from chem. I should be seeing bio stuff everywhere.

Makings of a Good Day

First of all, today was my last final, and all I have to get is 109 points to get a B in chem. I know I got that at least. Also, it has been cloudy and raining all day. I was leaving school, and for a moment the clouds parted and the sun shone through. It was so predictably symbolic it was ridiculous. Even I can't make an image that cliche. I came home, checked up on the internet, and posted a blog. Then I decided I wanted tacos, so I went to Ralphs and bought meat, shredded lettuce, and some meat. We have meat, but I said I wouldn't use it so my mom froze it. Like I thought I would actually cook, but I did, and it was pretty good. I'd seen her enough times to know how to do everything. So then it was time for a walk with the dog while it was still sprinkling. We went down the new walking path to halfway between Daycreek and Rochester, then up a dirt path to Victoria. I decided to follow the storm drain up to Highland, and it got windy and the rain got harder. I had to take my glasses off because I could no longer see through them. Finally we walked back down Rochester, and Mom called so we talked until some dogs on the path made Ruby go nuts. She loves other dogs and just wants to play, but she barks and acts like she is aggressive. People get scared, man. I try explaining, but I would tend to believe the snarling dog over the one holding the leash.

Wow, is it ever raining. At least, it's raining well for this area.

So I browsed the web again and listened to a great podcast/radio show behind the lyrics of vocal EDM. I wish it was more than once a month, and the hostess has such a nice voice for singing and for, well, hosting. I never heard of her before, but I was missing out. I opened the waste of money that is the Xbox 360 and found out I have to have the original to play Fable. Backwards compatible but only if you buy everything else. The Wii will play Gamecube games no prob. I played Viva Pinata instead, which is fun so far, but I was looking forward to Fable. I think my grandma still has the Xbox she bought for her house. Maybe I can borrow it or something.

I need to make coconut balls still. Maybe tomorrow night when I get home from work I can do the mix and let it sit over night. Since I'm off Saturday, I can dip them then. This weekend will be so much fun with everyone shopping last minute. The gift card system went down completely for two hours yesterday. Yay. Nothing can beat my first one there, though. I had two different infections and had to drive home late smelling like booze because I had to clean up beer and red wine. Then I had to open the day after Christmas. Not a pleasant memory.

That's all. My hand is cold, and typing with two gloves is too hard.