That Week

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So it's that time of year again! For some of us, it's the end of the quarter, others have midterms, and I'm not even gonna mention school's with trimesters, y'all are weird. Anyway, for those of us with quarters and midterms, this is the week in which we die. Not literally of course, but if you're not up at midnight studying like I am right now, you gon' fail. Hahaha, I wanna go to sleep so bad. That's right, we got the finals and midterms! One of the absolute worst parts of the school year, almost as bad as semester endings and those massive standardized tests that we have to take at the end of the year (two blogs for a darker day).

I've dreaded these weeks for as long as I've been able to, which is like... a long time. If you've read my about page (which you SHOULD have), you'll know that I tend to procrastinate. I am so lazy that my about page (READ IT) just ends with a procrastination joke because I was too lazy to think of anything else. I could not sit for more than ten minutes thinking about what to write, so I used my procrastination as an excuse to procrastinate. Procrastination to the max! Back on topic (apologies), this week I've had four tests, two in different languages, a project due, and last week I had four tests. Almost all of them were finals or chapter/unit tests. 

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My ability to waste a large amount of time in an extremely efficient way does not help my performance. This post itself is me procrastinating, I have a vocab final tomorrow and I'm all like, "Well I got to get to work," then I look at the vocab sheet, "Mmmhhm, mmmhm, yeah that's not gonna happen." Then, after feeling guilty of not doing anything, I get started on a post so that I feel like I'm actually contributing to my own wellbein. Eventually, the guilt eats at me until I end up using something like Quizlet to study. This might be because I never really studied until this year. Not to brag (what people say just as they're about to brag), but before I became a Freshmen, I was the one student who didn't study, yet still recieved an A. The work would get done, but I never studied. My teachers and fellow classmates hated it because it's "unfair," and to my fellow classmates who hated me because of that, welcome to the real world. Although, this hasn't given me the greatest study habits for the tests I'm taking now.

So, if you haven't noticed, I love to sleep and not sleeping is awful. This week has kept me away from the sweet embrace of my bed and myself is not happy about it. Whoever decided it was a good idea to: give students all of their tests at the exact same time, make the tests worth around fifty percent their grade, and expect the students to wake up extremely early after binge studying for seven hours, I hate you. Well, at least all my tests are over now, well, that is until semester endings.

Netflix: The Gift and the Curse

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Okay, let's talk entertainment. There are few things in the world that I love more than Netflix, food, sleep, and food. It has come to my attention that when provided all possible episodes of the new show that I have become hooked on, I will watch all possible episodes of my new favorite show back-to-back. Should I never finish this post due to my urge to continue watching, I pay may respects to the few of you out there who are reading, it's been an honor. In all seriousness though, Netflix is amazing, I could leave my chair right now, watch a season of a show of my choosing, and most likely never finish this post because I have decided to live in a tree house pillow fort, and if anybody needs me that's where I will be, watching Netflix and coloring. This majestic stallion delivered to us humans by God himself is great enough that I can devote a portion of my life to wasting myself away on the beautiful wings of entertainment that we call TV shows and movies. Yes, I may have over exaggerated a little bit, but I can not overemphasis how great this device is.

Yet, there is a twist, if you have the ability, which I hope you do, to remember three of the things that I love in this life, you'll remember that sleep is on that list. Netflix has driven me to the point in which I must choose between the things I love, sleep, or Netflix. I know, tragic that such a young child must make such a hard decision, #firstworldproblems. That's right, I just used a hashtag, I'm twenty-first century like that. Anyway, I've reached a point that when the sun goes down I must choose, to sleep or to continue watching. We all have our own Netflix records (or at least I hope we all have our own records), the most time we've spent binge watching a show or series, and I'd rather not share my own because I fear that any or all respect that those of you reading this have for me will be lost. I, myself, find it awfully sad that one person has the ability to waste so much time, yet I enjoy doing so.

In the end Netflix is fantastic, but, as it is said in Spiderman, also on Netflix, "With great power there must also come great responsibility."

The Glass Is Always Full

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So, I recently figured out that being injured... sucks. Ever since I got hurt all I can do is hobble along on my massive black boot throughout the school day and then I have to come home, elevate my leg, and ice my foot. Most of my day is spent either sitting in class, laying at home letting my brain rot, or laying at home doing homework. Not doing anything is making me feel sick and tired when I'm not doing anything to make me feel that way. Now I'm not writing just to complain, and I know it must sound awfully annoying, but during times like this we all have to stay optimistic.

Optimism can be a great thing, and I try to stay as optimistic as I can whenever I am able to, but it's hard. We all hit rock bottom, or somewhere near rock bottom, every now and then. We reach a point where it seems useless to keep on going, or even keep on living. It's hard to leave that point, to keep going until it all gets better, especially in this hateful world that we live in. It's at these points that we have to stay optimistic. I'm not sure where this was from, but I came across a small piece about optimism and it said to stay optimistic and used falling down the stairs as an example. When you "fall down the stairs" (metaphorically and literally) don't complain about getting hurt, instead say, "Did you see how fast I got down those stairs!?" Another example would be the picture that I used for this post, the whole "half full" thing is just not good enough, stay optimistic and realize that the glass is always full, even when there's no water, it filled with air.

We live in a world that will happily beat you down when you are at your highest, and the world will beat you again when you're trying to get back up. Sometimes, you have to focus on the good things, the lives that we live have hateful things within them, but there are great things in our lives too. Food and sleep, for example, are two of my favorite things in this world. So, if I'm feeling down, I'll sleep or chow down. What can I say? Sleep is frickin' amazing and food is frickin' delicious, don't judge, but that's a couple of blogs for other days. So, what I want you to take from this is you have to remember that it's not the end of the world, I know it may seem like it, but it's not. We are all afraid of endings, ending of the world, ending of lives, ending of our own purpose, but endings don't have to be something that we're all afraid of. The end of the world may just be the end of an era, and with the end of every era, there is a new beginning.