What free time?

This weekend, I made $150 dollars!!!! I played piano for a church service, babysat, and worked my normal hours at a clothing store, and I'm not going to lie, I feel very accomplished. I like making money.

However, sometimes I feel that my grades are slightly lower than they could be because I do work for 4-5 hours every Sunday while most of my friends are either relaxing or doing homework. Consequently, I feel jealous of my friends free time. I am literally doing something 24/7. My Saturdays and Sundays are planned out by the hour. Fridays are really my only break from schoolwork, work, clubs, and organized activities.

Then I think about it. I have been living a chaotic life for 18 years now. Sometimes I talk to my friends and realize that my definition of busy is not their definition of busy. Definitely not. But I work the best under pressure--I have to have a ton of stuff to do to manage my time. But it is a double edged sword--I do not get very much sleep and am always worried. As I am participating in my various activities, I wish that I had free time.

I don't get it!!!! It is like my life is a big oxymoron!
Hopefully I will figure some stuff out in college.

Tables and My Webpage!

**TAKE MY POLL ON THE LEFT OF THE PAGE!**

I am actually making my own website...wahoo!
It is called "Fashion and Makeup." Very shallow, yes, but something that I enjoy =)

I believe in making yourself feel good and look good through hair, makeup, and clothing. HOWEVER, I do not believe in going overboard. For example, I don't think people should get their make-up done and nails all of the time or buy $400-500 dollar dresses and clothes. It is something YOU should know how to do and not spend a ton of money. Therefore, a how-to/discussion website of my philosophies is definitely something I am passionate about! With that said, I am talking about myself on my web page and things I do, so of course I like it. People like to talk about themselves...and I am a person, hahaha.

Back to tables, I think it is so awesome that you can turn a simple table into a website. I had no idea that HTML websites were tables before this! I hope mine turns out well!

SENIORITIS.

OMG IT IS SO BAD RIGHT NOW. I HAVEN'T STARTED MY HOMEWORK. I HAVE AN AP ECON QUIZ TOMORROW AND I DON'T UNDERSTAND ECON!

In other news, this weekend is going to be super busy...

Saturday:

10:00am-11:00 - Playing piano for the alumni chapel

11:00am-1:00 - Itinerary

2:00pm-4:00 - Sorority meeting

5:30pm-10:30 - babysitting

Sunday:

8:20am-9:15 - Choir practice

2:00pm-7:00 - Work

HELP MEH!

Nice Things

So, I (rather my parents) bought me some sunglasses. They are very cute...and very expensive. In my defense, they were my only birthday present from my parents. The sunglasses are really cool, but the price scares me.

Money. money. money.

I take very good care of all of my nice things, but I am worried that I will break/scratch/bend these sunglasses. Sunglasses are not known to be durable. I also do not want someone else to break them. The only expensive thing that has ever been broken under my care was my first digital camera that I had for three years, and I didn't even break it. Someone was looking at pictures and dropped it on the ground.

*knocks on wood of desk*

In other words, any time I buy something nice, I become very OCD about protecting it (ex. I double-bag my laptop, examine shirts/pants after I eat, constantly check my phone to make sure the screen is ok, keep a tight camera case on my camera etc.). On a positive note, I am super excited to wear them, especially on vacation!

Aggravation

I am angry. Very angry.

Today, we had a test in Physics, and all of the students were supposed to bring formula sheets. I was the only one who actually reviewed the material and brought a formula sheet. One of eight people. Wow. I first need to say that my class is composed of slackers and procrastinators and I am definitely the odd man out.

Anyways, I left the room to go to the bathroom, and I come back to see someone sifting through my spiral, through my notes, to find my formula. Sheet.

"Can I borrow your formula sheet."

Ummm, excuse me? Why should I lend my work, something that took me time and effort, to you who never does your work? I did to be nice. Pretty soon though, the rest of the class comes in and starts copying it, with the teacher right there! What could I say? I could've stopped it right there, but what stopped me is the fact that they had no idea what they were writing, while I had looked at the material and knew what all of the symbols stood for. Then I told them how appalled I was that they were doing this--TO THEIR FACE--and one said, "Meredith, you are cutthroat." Yes, yes I am, if cutthroat means safeguarding my work and being rewarded for the effort that I put into school.

After a few minutes, I asked the teacher to begin the test (people had not finished copying) and they cleared out of my space. I SERIOUSLY CAN'T BELIEVE THAT HAPPENED! I was just so speechless that people could show up that unprepared.

I am pretty sure that I did well on the test. To my satisfaction, one of the problems consisted of a formula that was on the back of my formula sheet--a formula that no one saw ;)

-the cutthroat senior

Pre-Spring Break Drama

So, it's senior year. Many of the seniors are going to Mexico. A few of the seniors planned their own trips. Regardless, spring break anticipation has started to bounce around the hallways and infiltrate the minds of the otherwise studious students. Yes, even me.

Obviously, as a female, I find gossip highly entertaining. Therefore, discussions of how so-and-so is going to be drunk or so-and-so is going to hook up with you-know who are highly entertaining. But what I find most fascinating is the reasoning behind these rendezvous.

Why would I want to be so drunk that I don't remember anything? Why would I want to randomly hook up with some guy and not even like him? Why would I want to party so hard that I am living on the cusp of alcohol poisoning all of the time? The answer is that I have no reason to. I love my life, my friends, my family, my school, and my potential. I don't want to forget anything or regret anything. Ok, one drink is fine, but when one turns to four or five consecutively in a short amount of time, there is a problem. A problem that consists of an unhappy life and low self-esteem that needs bolstering by outside influences and peer pressure.

I am very thankful for every aspect of my life, especially my friends. They are supportive and generally believe in themselves and their abilities. They do not plan on getting "completely wasted" and parading around like the rowdy teenagers seen in movies. We carry on intelligent, or gossipy, or heart-to-heart conversations, we plan to go on physically demanding excursions, and we plan to just hang out and relax. relax. relax.

HTML, again.

What do I find most difficult about HTML code?

I have trouble remembering everything, especially certain little tags that will change the color or the text type. The class is very cumulative because we keep building on our knowledge to learn about different parts of a website, so it is easy to forget specific information. Luckily, we can look at our old codes to remember how to align text or turn a picture in to a link. If I had to choose one topic that was difficult, I would say ima

ges as links because you have to remember where you saved them, what you titled them, and whether or not to label it proj1 or something e

lse depending on where the folder is located.

Chow!

This is not an optical illusion. This is reality.

Optical Illusions!

I basically posted everything that I new about color in my last post, sooooooo....I get to talk about OPTICAL ILLUSIONS! Illusions, not Allusions. It bothers me when people mess up that word.

Link: http://www.geckoandfly.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/dot-illusion.gif

Link: http://unrealitymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/optical_illusions_2.png

I find this INCREDIBLE! I cannot believe that art can actually fool the human eye. In the first picture, I definitely think that the lines look slanted, but I know that they are straight. In the 2nd image, I am not sure what is going on--I cannot tell if animation is what makes the pink dot disappear. What I do know is that there are no green dots (follow the disappearing dot with your eye, and you won't see green!)

COLOURS! With an ou because I am British.

pink

red

orange

yellow

green

blue

purple

brown

black

This last week we learned about colours, which, I actually now find fascinating. Who knew that there were additive and subractive colours?

Subractive = the colours we normally see. For example, an apple appears red because the only colour it reflects is red.

Additive = Colours that are literally projected from a computer screen. The colour projected from a program is the colour that we see.

Also in that realm, the RBG colour model is used for computers/technology, and the RYB colour model is what is used for artists and normal people. In other words, the RYB is what we have been learning since pre-school, when in actuality, there exists more than one correct colour model...AND SANTA ISN'T REAL!