Wow. Hello there, New Post screen. It's been awhile...
I guess you can say that I've been a little preoccupied with life. Senior year is turning out to be even more stressful than junior year, despite many assurances that after junior year it was pretty much smooth sailing to graduation. Except for us poor IB kids. For us, senior year is the worst-- it's when we have all our exams.
Anyway, you haven't missed too much other than my intense school stuff like the 3,500-4,000 word essay I had to write over the summer. (For those interested my final word count was 3,647.) And I am not in my school's production of Beauty and the Beast. "WHAT?" you ask, "I thought you really wanted to be in that musical? Belle's your idol!" Yeah. I know. I still do want to be in the show, but I was sent home and callbacks and the director made it clear to me that I would not be recieving either of the rolls I desired (Belle and Mrs. Potts), which basically meant that I would have been in chorus had I chosen to do the show. I told her that I was only interested in those two roles (as I had previously indicated on my audition sheet)and so I was not cast. Despite her assurance that seniors would always be given precedence over underclassmen as long as the underclassmen were not vastly more talented.
Long story short: the director was a dirty hypocrite. Whatever. I'm mostly over it. It just would have been nice to be in my senior musical since I won't have as many opportunities to act in college since I am pursuing a music career, not musical theatre.
Anyway, enough ranting. Good things have happened to me as well since we last spoke. (Because clearly this is a conversation. It's just very... one-sided...) For one, I love being captain of Madrigals. It's super stressful at times, but it's also rewarding at others like when the choir director compliments me on my leadership skills. It's always nice to be appreciated.
Well, now everyone is up-to-date and I can start being sassy and opinionated in my next post, which will hopefully be in the near future. Possibly even tomorrow! Until then-- DFTBA [Don't forget to be awesome]
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Showing posts with label stress. Show all posts
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08 October, 2011
17 May, 2011
Too Much Weight on My Shoulders
Today I finished the second, and final, part of my very first IB examination-- Economics. I feel as though a weight has been lifted off my shoulders... The only problem is that there are still twenty-thousand more pounds of junk still there.
I am so stressed. School is stressful. But the good news is that I only have a mere thirteen days left until exam week when I will, hopefully, be allowed to skip class due to exemptions!
Until now and May 27th, though, I still have quite a few things to accomplish:
1. I have captain auditions for my choir, Madrigals, next Wednesday and there's a bunch of requirements that I must attend to between now and then. (For one, I have to teach a song to eight people and then conduct said song in front of the rest of the choir/directors. FUN.)
2. My English IOC is scheduled to take place Friday, May 25 at like 9am. In case I haven't already complained about the IOC is before, it's this thing where we are given a short 30-40 line passage from something we've read in class second semester and we have 20 minutes to create an outline and then we give a 15 minute speech during which we analyze the passage we were given. I'm terrified.
3. My mind is so filled with post-exam mush that I can't think of all the other things I still have to do, but I know there are more.
I'm sure, what with most school years coming to a close, that there are many other people who know what I'm currently going through. Sadly, that doesn't make it any easier on me.
Anyhow... I went to the library today to get the next book in the series I am currently reading (the Mortal Instrument series for those curious) and all three copies were checked out. Needless to say, I was very distraught. But thankfully a dear friend from my Economics class has agreed to loan me her copy tomorrow, so I won't have to wait until June 6th (the first day that a copy was due back at the library) to read it!
That's basically all of the exciting (ha.) news about things going on in my life. I hope you enjoyed this litte update!
I am so stressed. School is stressful. But the good news is that I only have a mere thirteen days left until exam week when I will, hopefully, be allowed to skip class due to exemptions!
Until now and May 27th, though, I still have quite a few things to accomplish:
1. I have captain auditions for my choir, Madrigals, next Wednesday and there's a bunch of requirements that I must attend to between now and then. (For one, I have to teach a song to eight people and then conduct said song in front of the rest of the choir/directors. FUN.)
2. My English IOC is scheduled to take place Friday, May 25 at like 9am. In case I haven't already complained about the IOC is before, it's this thing where we are given a short 30-40 line passage from something we've read in class second semester and we have 20 minutes to create an outline and then we give a 15 minute speech during which we analyze the passage we were given. I'm terrified.
3. My mind is so filled with post-exam mush that I can't think of all the other things I still have to do, but I know there are more.
I'm sure, what with most school years coming to a close, that there are many other people who know what I'm currently going through. Sadly, that doesn't make it any easier on me.
Anyhow... I went to the library today to get the next book in the series I am currently reading (the Mortal Instrument series for those curious) and all three copies were checked out. Needless to say, I was very distraught. But thankfully a dear friend from my Economics class has agreed to loan me her copy tomorrow, so I won't have to wait until June 6th (the first day that a copy was due back at the library) to read it!
That's basically all of the exciting (ha.) news about things going on in my life. I hope you enjoyed this litte update!
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