Journey

Have you ever had anybody tell you how cool Journey is and how cool it is?

When told this, I ask the person to tell me one of there songs. Immediately they start singing "just a small town girl living in a". They never get to tell me what the girl lives in, because I cut them off with a, "No, I mean a different song," to which I am replied with a "Uhhhh.....".

-_-

If you don't know any other songs by Journey other than Don't Stop or Anyway You Want it, you don't LOVE Journey. You like one or two of their songs.

When I explain this to my mother, she laughs and responds, "You are your father's daughter." And I take pride in that (naturally). I mean, come on, I don't think I could have been blessed with anything better than my sense of judgement.

Okay, just kidding. I have better blessing than that. But seriously - having an opinion, knowing my opinion, and being able to share is important, and I am tremendously that all of those things come naturally to me. I mean, I would hate to sit by quietly while inside I was blowing up with anger because someone was saying something stupid. No. I open my mouth and tell the person, "Hey, you're dumb." Okay, just kidding, I don't say it like that. But what I mean is that I let them know that they are making a stupid choice or saying something that is causing their IQ to decrease rapidly.

So, I think that's a good skill to have - being able to make your opinion known. Now, I don't mean you have to say "Ew, you look ugly today" or "you're stupid" to every person you feel that way about. That's just mean. But if you have something to say that you seriously want people to know, it helps to have practice.

Anyway, I'm going to fall asleep at the keyboard. Konbon Gozaimasu!

(that's good evening in japanese, I believe.... now I need to check my papers to make sure. PARANOIA)

Death by Homework

We have all been there. We have all been so swamped in homework that we feel like we are sinking in a big pit of quick sand. We have all been so busy that at the end of the day when we finally have time to relax, we remember that we have homework, therefore, dissolving any time we actually had in the first place.

This is where I give you tremendous advice about finishing your homework.

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Not gonna happen. Sorry.

Lately, I have felt 'swamped'. I don't actually get that much work to do. But I get so busy during the day that I loose track of time and end up rushing to finish my homework an hour before I'm supposed to sleep, which prevents me from doing my absolute best. This is what my day often looks like:

• 5:00 School Day Preparation
• 6:00 Seminary
• 7:00 Finish Homework that I didn't have time to finish the day before
• 8:00 School
• 4:00 Play Practice
• 6:00 Probably watch my baby brother or whatever my mom needs me to do
• 7:00 Rush to finish homework, or continue doing what my mom neeeds
• 8:00 Get ready for bed
• 9:00 SLEEP (or somewhere after that)

Give or take a few play practices or babysitting times, I am usually always doing something. And half the time, the times that I do have time to do my own thing, I end up having to go to a youth group or hanging out with my mom or dad (I group that in with 'things to do' rather than a privilege).

So how do I get my work done?

I do not know.

What I do know is that I do get it done.

I think that the biggest reason that I find time, is because I use the times that I have bored to do homework. Although I'll admit to watching a movie sometimes instead of working because I might be feeling particularly lazy.

So I guess what I'm saying is to use those 'in between' times that nobody thinks about. You know what I'm talking about. Work on your math homework on the car ride home, or study for your science quiz while you're doing the laundry. Yeah, you might only get one problem done on the way home, but that's one less you have to do before bed. Besides, how many times are you in the car in a day?

Let's say you have fifteen problems to finish and you ride in the car 6 times a day. If you work on the problems in the car and you finish, let's say, two problems each car ride, then that's already 13/15 problems solved. You have three left. So at seven thirty when you think you have to rush to finish your math, you can take your time in those last three problems.

Small moments count for a lot. One or two problems done in a car ride doesn't seem like that much, but after a while, it adds up. Also think about the times you feel like you are doing something, but you really aren't. For example, play practice. Other people might be practicing a scene you aren't in. That means you have time in between scenes to do homework. It's simple when you think about it.

Okay, now I need to use my advice and get off the internet. I have homework to do! And I didn't follow this advice today!

High School Survival

It's hard for me to use this thing for a journal. There are too many things that happen that I definitely won't write where everyone can see them. That's like a vote collector blogging about who won the presidential election before it was announced to the public.

Okay, so maybe that's over dramatic. Whatever. But I have decided to begin writing in this again. Except this time through, it's going to be a High School Survival Guide. Ever heard of Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide? That's sort of what I got the idea from.

Plus, this way if nothing super exciting happens that day, I don't feel like I have to write anyway.

So there.