Rachel: how was your dentist appointment today? i missed you this morning!
Kaitlyn: i will TOTALLY cosplay with you to go see the college. when should we get together and make our costumes? *GASP!* what manga/anime/game should we cosplay from? *BIGGER GASP!* WHO SHOULD WE COSPLAY AS?!?!
Anyway, back to my and my life (wow. way to sound selfish, self.)
THE ASIANS CAME TODAY!!!!!!! yaaayyy!!!!! }--- explanation: the japanese exchange students that both Manga-dealer-chan and Chibi-chan (as well as a whole bunch of other people) are hosting arrived yesterday! so Chibi-chan and her host-sister sat at the lunch table today! it was awesome!!! though i think we may have scared her a bit...
BUT! we had cake today! someone (i shall call him... Loud. yes. Loud. not Cloud! he's not that cool. just...Loud.) was bored yesterday, so he made BROWNIE CAKE and covered it in GREEN ICING for St. Patricks day!! so yes, i actually ATE today!
Chemistry-boy and I have yet to resume our Go-fish tourney, so chemistry was boring. and I was elected Co-Author of the of the movie script in English along with goofy-creepy-monotone-boy. it should be... interesting. oh, and we have a RESEARCH PAPER in english too! JOY. and guess what? we get to write about an american author! MORE JOY. oh well... at least I get to write about Anne Rice. forget Stephanie Meyers and Twilight, Rice wrote REAL vampire fiction.
so... on to the stress. if you don't want to read a long vent, please skip this.
So guess what? in addition to having a current event that i haven't even started due in Global tomorrow and co-authoring the script for a class project, i also need to teach the Tech school's Director how to do something Biotech-related, as well as practically DO an North Penn student's science fair project for him! see, he wanted to experiment to see how silver affected bacterial growth, so he spun nanofibers of polyvinl and coated them in silver. one catch. he's not licensed to work with bacteria. if he so much as TOUCHES a petri dish, his experiment is ruined, as well as a possibility for his future (i think the first prize in the science fair's a scholarship or something...). so i not only have to make 32 plates for this boy, i also have to tell/show him STEP-BY-STEP what i'm doing. plus... he's... frankly... rather hot. and obviously smart. so i have to stop myself from stammering/blushing like an idiot while doing FRIKIN MICROBIOLOGY!! it's not fair... not fair i say. oh, and guess what? on top of all of this, i need to select my courses for next year BY THE 19TH. and my mom is making me take at least one AP course. plus that, i need 11th grade health, and a gym class for the one i'm missing this year. in addition to that, my mom signed me up to take the SAT's on May 1st, and she's already looking for places so that i can take the ACT's as well. oh, and according to both my parents, i need to start seriously looking at colleges and 'really focusing on my schoolwork' because i need to get into a prestigious university, graduate early, get and establish a career by the age of 25, and support them in their old age and early retirement. plus i got my period yesterday, so there's all that there too (they only call it PMS because 'Mad Cow Disease' was taken). oh, and as the cherry on top, my mom tells me that i need to get another job over the summer, as well as increase my hours at the library. yes, you read right. IN ADDITION to going to England for 2-and-a-half weeks with Chibi-chan, looking after the house when my mom, dad, and brother go on a 'family' vacation to Maine, and house-sitting for at least three 'family friends', i will be working during the week.
hey, anyone? how do you cope with stress? how do you make it go away? i'll try anything...
Okee-doke!
night peeps!
Woah, long post...
ReplyDeleteCOSPLAYING!!!! XD
The problem: my parents would probably not let me leave the house with anything cosplay related...unless it looked like a normal outfit, but what's the fun in that?! DX
The exchange students are so cool! Manga-dealer's is obsessed with Hello Kitty and did you notice that many of them have fuzzy backpacks?! FUZZY!!!!
Not-cloud made cake X3
The cake is a lie!!!
Hehe. sorry, that's all i could think of to say to that.
Ewwww...research paper...don't remind me...my outline is due Tuesday DX. I haven't even read all my sources or finished my book yet...(I got John Steinbeck as my author and for some reason chose East of Eden to read, not realizing it was freaking 778 pages long...)
Hot, smart, science guy X3
(Oh no, now I got Bill Nye the Science Guy stuck in my head. Now, just think of that song whenever you see him and you probably won't be nervous...or maybe you'll start laughing maniacally and scare him...X3)
Right...course selection...fun...hooray...
I'm not totally sure what I'm doing. Hopefully, I'm getting into the Biotech program. If not, I have no idea what I'm going to do with my senior year...T.T (and that sucks--having to take gym and health in senior year. I'm so looking forward to not having to that!)
SATs aren't that bad. They're long and tiring, but you can't really study for them. So just get enough sleep the night before and hope for the best X3 (I know how hard the sleep part is...I spent the whole two weeks before the test trying to go to bed earlier each night so that by the time the test came around, I was going to bed at 10pm instead of 2am) I have no advice for the ACTs. Haven't taken that one, though I imagine its similar.
About college: I'm not totally sure what I'm doing. I have every day in the library this year, so sometimes I take free time to look on collegeboard.com and use their college finder thing to narrow down the choices. My top choice is the one that we may end up visiting together because they have a good science program (as recommended by my orthodontist, of all people X3) Bryn Mawr has been practically stalking me though. I've gotten a bunch of emails and letters from them, a stack significantly larger than any of the other colleges. I think their trying to tell me something ("That's what they want you to think!" Watch, I would apply there and get rejected X3. That would be sad and hilarious).
I NEED a job this summer, too. Sadly, my reasons are to buy a PS3. Though right now, with the money I have, I could buy an Org. XIII coat on ebay. Its taking all my will-power to keep saving up for the ~$300 that I need for a used PS3 and FF:XIII (which came out on Tuesday!!) DX
TMI post: PMS is the most ridiculous thing ever...my whole family knows to stay away from me when that time comes around (unfortunately, my mom's and my times come around the same time and the whole house is like a bomb waiting to explode at the slightest thing). I think its funny (keeping in mind that I'm not going through that right at this moment). My dad always tells me that he is already praying for my future husband X3
(I'm having to post the second half separate because it only let me use 4096 characters in one comment DX)
ReplyDeleteHow to cope with stress (Kaitlyn's way):
1. Blare heavy metal music in my ears through my ipod. It helps empty my mind (esp. when the doofuses on my bus start cursing their lungs out for no particular reason)
2. Play a video game. Beating up fantasy creatures with a giant key always makes me happy X3
3. Read a book. A happy one, a sad one, a ridiculous one. Whatever. Just to get your mind off the stress. (Manga works well, too. But keeping in mind that it is addicting and can occupy your mind for extended periods of time)
4. Take a break from what you're doing. Relax. Watch TV. Sit outside and stare at the clouds. Take a walk. Go on the computer (Youtube, fanfiction, deviantart, blogspot, etc.)
5. Pray. I don't have to get on my knees and hold my hands together or anything. I just talk to God in my head saying, "God, I'm really really stressed right now. I've got this, that, and the other thing to get done and I don't know when the heck I'm going to have time to do them. Please, just help me out with this. I'm not asking you to make the stressful stuff poof away, or anything--that's just wishful thinking...I just want this stress to go away. I know this school stuff is kind of irrelevant in the big picture of things. But please, help me concentrate and focus and get through with my petty little human problems X3. Thanks!" (obviously, I'm not typing the X3, its more of a feeling in my mind. But the rest is basically how I pray. So yes, I do use sarcasm when talking to God. He wouldn't have given us a sense of humor if he didn't want us to use it X3)
If its a time-constrained homework assignment: I'm still working out how to do that.
1. I usually push myself to the point of mental exhaustion and I have to take a break because words are starting to blur together and I really can't concentrate anymore. Sometimes, I just cry and after that I feel a little better. I think to myself, "Its really not as big a deal as I'm making it. It doesn't matter that much. Meet the requirements and hope for a good grade XP"
2. Really goofy thing I do: Consult the characters in my head. (Fai, Kurogane, Allen, Kanda, Fay, Riku, Axel, etc.) Have fun conversations with them to shake off stress.
3. Even goofier thing I do: Change clothes. Sometimes, my jeans and sweater aren't helping my brain function. I'll change into a T-shirt and PJs, or a tank-top and then put a blanket over my shoulders (my room is cold), or a skirt or dress (Why I have to dress up to do homework, I don't know...). My favorite is to put on my cat ears or my Aerith outfit and kind of pretend like I'm really Aerith and she's the one doing the homework, not me. I'm off in Kaitlyn Land.
4. Kinda going along with the clothes: put my hair up or braid it to get it out of my way so it stops distracting me.
5. Like I did with the short story I had to write last year about World War II, relate it somehow to manga/video-games/books you read. I had my characters in my story named Alfons and Eduard (more German sounding versions of Alphonse and Edward, as in the Elrics). That was my motivation to get that homework assignment done.
So, the blaring music one is the one that works best for me as an all around problem-solver (whether my stress is anger or sadness or just everyday stress) and it doesn't take very long. The rest I just employ depending on the situation. And when making the list, I noticed that my way to deal with stress is to avoid/deny it. Wait until I need to stress, then I stress with a passion, then its over and I didn't worry for very long X3. That way works well enough for me. I don' know if it helps, but I hope it inspires you in some way to find a cure for your own stress.
Sorry for the really long comment. I don't feel like writing a post X3.
~Otaku