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Whoever invented daylight savings time should diediedie. I just started actually getting into some kind of a rhythm where I actually went to sleep at night (though I was still waking up 20 times a night, at least I was going to sleep at a quite early but reasonable hour) and wasn't grotesquely tired in the morning. Well, that's gone.

Not only did I have to get up an hour earlier today (same on Sunday, but it wasn't as bad as I only was up at 7:45ish, meaning it felt like 6:45, which is a bit after when I normally wake up for school), but I had gone to bed only about an hour before that. Miserable. Plus, I didn't have my glasses because I couldn't find them in the morning, so it was impossible to pay attention (I notice that because I can't focus on the teacher or the board or whatever, my ears stop working also), meaning I was even more about to fall asleep. Had to take a bio test this afternoon, probably bombed that as we ended the unit almost a week ago and I hadn't looked at anything since. Definitely did bomb the first half of the chem test, which I know as we graded it in class. I was making stupid mistakes on things I knew the answers to, which was sad for me and indicative of the effect that the bad sleep has on my body.

So. Theatre class hell week is this one and the next. Paper was due Monday, oral presentations (20 minutes, gah!) for how to directorially bring this Beckett play to life on stage are next Monday, portfolio things are due sometime this week or the beginning of next, plus she gave us a new play and wants that read by the beginning of next week. Still not talking to the teacher, anyway, after the whole losing my paper and lying about it and then giving me no credit when I tried to give her another copy thing.

Mock trial. Still have to talk about that at some point, because I want to, and I've got two trials to complain about. Had a meeting Monday, but I couldn't go due to said bio test. Evidently, both my witness for my prosecution direct examination and my lawyer (from regionals, not my original lawyer) when I'm a witness can't go to state.

Did I mention that? We're going to the state competition. Which is cool. But I'm sort of tired of the case by now. It would be much more enjoyable if I didn't hate the case, but by now, I pretty much just want it to be over. Anyway.

State starts the Friday of spring break, right before we come back. People are out of town. And as such can't go. So if I have to train a new witness and a new lawyer (as I had to do once already for the latter), these weeks and the actual trials (we're going to get killed, we know it, as we've practiced maybe eleven times, counting practice trials, total and the kinds of teams we're up against meet every day all year working on these things) are going to be not enjoyable at all. I know we're going to get kicked out right away, I'm totally realistic about that, but I don't want to lose simply because we're doing the third recasting this season.

Yes. So. I have chemistry to learn for this test, math to learn because I totally was caught off guard by both the fact that we had a quiz Monday and everything on said quiz, and a whole lot of english to do--it's a quadruple assignment for this novel: read all 150 pages of the bitch (okay, it's shortish, but annoying), annotate the play (not an unreasonable directive, but I have the feeling that she's the type that wants something written for every sentence, which is), do a journal entry for it analyzing the style and themes and stuff (which she undoubtedly expects to be an exhaustive analysis of the thing), and fill out a worksheet that's essentially just another journal entry. And she expects the two hours of class to be sufficient for all of this work. Moron. I'm not even going to finish reading it, there's no chance. I'm barely forcing my way through the sparknotes right now. Going to finish that (meaning the sparknotes, I'm not messing with anything else) and then go to bed, as yet again, it somehow ended up being almost 4 in the morning without me realizing it.

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[tweekrheartsjmo.livejournal.com]

Yeah the new daylight savings is retarded. I feel like the walking dead getting up this early and yesteray I just plain didn't sleep at all *complains*

I'm going to see college advisor today - oh yay *sarcastic*

[crashcart9.livejournal.com]

Well, at least you get a chance to visit your college advisor. Ours is so busy that you can never get an appointment. I've been turned away four times already this school year.

[chaosity.livejournal.com]

I have a sore neck too! Well, had a sore neck. I took some painkillers earlier and - surprise surprise - they're working. It was bad, though. I couldn't move my head without it throbbing, and there was no way to get comfortable. *grumbles also*

*stabstabstab at daylight savings* We've had DS for the first time in many years this year, and it sucks. There is no plus side for me. At first I thought having an extra hour of sunlight to walk the dog was an advantage, but now if I don't go early enough I just go at night. I have to keep to streets near my house, but still.

And I'm a night owl. Very much so. I love the night. I don't know why this deserved a line of its own.

No, you did not mention going to State! Well done! And even if you do get kicked out or laughed at or whatever, at least you know you were good enough to get there in the first place. *nods*

Blah. I have my english speech to write. I don't know why the hell it isn't done already. I usually don't have trouble writing thse things, and the beauty about it is we're not being marked on the exact content, so I don't have to research much. I've been at it since 6:30 and it's now 10:38, so that's annoying.

Oh shit! I just remembered! I have to read To Kill A Mockingbird! The teacher wanted us to have finished by now, and I haven't started! *facepalm*

[crashcart9.livejournal.com]

I couldn't move my head without it throbbing, and there was no way to get comfortable.

Ouch. I hate when it's neck/back pain, because you're always going to be using those. When my hip's giving me trouble, usually it gets a lot better if I just sit/lie down, but you can't really do that with n/b pain. Especially because I can't fall asleep on my back (usually), so when it hurts too much to curl up on my side, things are not fun.

We've had DS for the first time in many years this year

Yes? This is odd. Why did you decide to do it all of a sudden?

I'm actually looking forward to it this year (well, the fall portion, not the spring, LOL), because it's so dark in the morning that it's hard to wake up. I've more than once had to try extra hard to stop from falling asleep on the bus because of it.

Hmm. "Beginning in 2007, daylight saving time (DST) will be extended in the United States. DST will start on March 11, 2007, which is three weeks earlier than usual, and it will end on November 4, 2007, which is one week later than usual." Odd. I thought that it would usually be coming up right around now. Evidently this is why not.

I love the night.

Oh, ditto. But going to sleep when it's dark and waking up when it's still dark throws me off.

at least you know you were good enough to get there in the first place.

Yeah. That was kinda great. I'm pretty nervous about this year, though, because we lost about half of our team. Most of whom were a lot better than the ones who remain. And I'm sort of afraid I'm going to have to take over the closing argument, which is scary. I'm too much of a mock trial control freak to let anybody else do it (or at least without major oversight on my part--I trusted the guy that did it last year, he was amazing at it, and still found myself internally correcting his closing/silently doing it myself while he was up there), but it'll terrify me because I'm so much more of an editor, I guess, than a creator, if you know what I mean. I can go through and say "No, that word choice is wrong," etc., I can overhaul the entire thing and turn it from crap into something actually decent, but when it comes to starting from scratch, I'm horrid. One of the reasons I put off english papers for so long. I have the worst time getting started.

we're not being marked on the exact content

For serious? So it's just really a presentation score, then? That's fun. You should have done a dramatic reading of "Mary Had a Little Lamb."

The teacher wanted us to have finished by now, and I haven't started!

Oh how I know this situation. You did read it, though, I assume. Liked? I don't really remember what I thought (it's a 9th grade book over here), but I'd be interested in hearing your opinion. I don't know much about your country's history regarding race relations; how does it compare?

[rainbowjumpsuit.livejournal.com]

Just letting you know I friended you cause I was tweekrheartsjmo but had to change my screen name and all kinda of crap so I'm back under this name and weeee, I've friended you!

[crashcart9.livejournal.com]

I wondered what that was about. It was all "She's no longer a user because we've booted her off unless she undeletes the account within 30 days", and I was confused. Do you know why your account got deleted?

Anyway. Yay, you're back.