clothes!

just a quick post before i go to bed - got to go shopping today! it was fun. and i actually restrained myself to just a few things, which is pretty impressive for me. i'm thinking my next post is going to analyze just why shopping is so much fun - or maybe why it only seems to be fun for girls. right now i'm going to go jog and then sleep - i've got to be up early tomorrow. oh, the horror. 

thirty six hours sans sleep, and conclusions reached thereon

so, in the grand tradition of all put-upon high school students, i decided to pull an All Nighter sunday night. the poorly punctuated results of this you already know (see below). now, all of twenty four hours later, i've decided to share my conclusions.

1. following intense bouts of not sleepage, the marathon sleep that follows is a Very Bad Idea

2. only pull all nighters on a day where you're guaranteed not to receive homework (think thursday) that's due the next day

3. if you are going to have homework due the day after you decided not to sleep at all, do said homework while you are still awake and semi-functioning

you might be wondering how i reached these conclusions. you might be thinking "well, these are oddly specific, clearly something happened to cause the creation of these axioms, and, my, isn't this a lovely run-on sentence?" well, you would be right.

let's just run over the past two days, shall we?

first, after not sleeping at all, i went to school, still pleasantly charged on a mixture of coffee, coke, and chocolate fondue.

so far, all is good. then, comes class, wherein i realized that teachers who talk and talk and talk make it near impossible, even when really trying, to stay awake. seriously. like, i was even pinching myself (and i have nails, this hurts) and i was still nodding off. then, by the end of the day, when i'm counting off the hours, i come to the realization that, not only do i have an entire chapter (forty two pages!) of my psychology textbook to outline, but i have a fifty question, fill-in-the blank, no-word-bank-provided quiz in history the next day. having remembered this (or been forced to remember this by the rantings of a friend henceforth referred to as K), i, like all dutiful students, resolved to stay up another few hours to complete all this classwork.

then i hopped on the bus, went to cheeseball's house (he's the dog i walk, he's cute, here have a picture:

and then went home, where i promptly, you guessed it, fell asleep. for thirteen and one-half hours.

i woke up, at around 7:30 a.m., took a look at the clock, and, in my infinite wisdom, went "oh, yay, i have hours to do my homework". having reached this conclusion, i then turned on the tv and started flipping through the channels...and noticed a disproportionate amount of infomercials and news shows. also, the 700 club was on and somehow i don't think that's normal primetime viewing. suspicions thus awakened, i wasn't exactly surprised when a quick flip to nbc revealed the oh so dreadful truth...and then i hopped out of bed for the quickest shower of my life, pulled on the first clothes i could find, and was almost late for school.

however, through all that, i managed to reach conclusion 4: those planning not to sleep during the normally prescribed hours of When It's Dark should make sure that they are on the yearbook staff. since our pages are already at the printer, it's a glorified study hall - so, psych accomplished and a 47/50 on the quiz. yay, non? also, i'm a national merit scholar semi-finalist, so all is good in the world of academics (for now)

early morning thoughts

so it is just shy of 6:30 right now. no, i didn't actually go to sleep last night, but that's fairly common this year. it's so common, in fact, that i thought i'd just share a few of the things that i usually think after a night like this. 

right now, the sky is just starting to turn light; i can hear (annoying, smug-sounding) birds cheep-cheep-cheeping in the trees behind my house. it rained last night, so the windows are still blurry with water and i can still hear the faint pattering of the early morning drizzle hitting the roof. in other words, the world is grey and cold and slightly too noisy to be comfortable (those darn birds). 

what did i do last night, you might be wondering. well, to start off with, i finished my english homework, then my math. i made a little dent in my (obscenely long) psych worksheet. i considered doing my chemistry homework (due around 2:45 today), but decided to do my laundry instead. the dryer's still going, in case you were wondering. in between that, i started watching season two of the tudors on itunes (1.99 an episode, in case you're considering it), bought the (strangely addictive) instrumental soundtrack, and used that as my background music while i ran for an hour or so. all in all, a pretty productive night, although i'm beginning to suspect that i'm either nocturnal or an insomniac. 

whichever's the case, i'm off to the shower now. au revoir mes amis. 

an interlude from fruit loop & facebook & english homework land

Look what I made today! Just thought I'd share. Back to all those other things.

the name game

so i've been wracking my brain for a good way to kick off this blog given that:

1. i've been up since 6:30 and consequently have no brain cells left to devote to writing of the bloggerly persuasion

2. i'm attempting to carry on a conversation with meggo while writing this

3. there's a box of fruit loops in my pantry that are currently calling my name

as you can see, these are not conditions conducive to good blogging (although, given my current audience of one, i figure i can get away with a fruit loop post or two). which is why i'm going to take the easy (read: lazy) way out and start this off with an abbreviated list of some of the things this blog almost ended up being called.

1. The Water Bead (from this poem)

2. Silence and Noise (hello clothes, you're pretty)

3. Hidden and Far Away (Snow Patrol)

4. All That's Gold (if you don't get this one, go to Best Buy)

there's more, but those fruit loops -- how can i resist the call? however, i will leave you with an explanation of this title. or, at least, a link.