cravingoxygen — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:37:52 +0000

It’s weird how you can know someone and yet know nothing about them. For instance, friends online… I know them really well. They’re probably my best friends. We talk like every day. It’s feels like I know everything about them. Then I realize I don’t know anything. Well, nothing that is usually considered important. I don’t know where they live or who their friends and family are. I don’t know what university/college/school they go to. I don’t even know their surnames. And yet they’re my best friends.

On the other hand, I know all about, let’s say, the president. I know where he lives, who his family are, where he works, where he studied and I obviously know his surname. And yet I don’t know him at all. It’s weird how one can be tricked that way. The difference between knowing about a person through and through and knowing a person through and through.

That was my random thought for the day.

cravingoxygen — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:41:00 +0000

Hey all you people who I know aren’t reading this
I don’t know what I’d do if someone did actually read this. I’d like totally freak out. Since the hit counter is still an exclusive hangout for zeros only.

I did about half of my bio homework today. The rest can wait for now. I’m trying to go to bed early tonight since I have to get my sleeping pattern right for school again. Since, right now, I’m going to bed at 1 or 2 and getting up at 10. I should be getting up at half past six (in the morning) on school days so I better start sleeping more.
I heard the coolest phrase today, Craving oxygen. That would make such a brilliant poem. If only I could remember where I heard it… ah! I remember. One of Hilary Duff’s songs, I think. Don’t know its name. But anyway.School on Monday! I’m actually looking forward to it. Not the whole getting up early, homework or exams part, but I do miss my friends. My Mondays are pretty cool, since I start the day with two free periods, lol. And then double Afrikaans, which is a breeze. But no Maths. And there is English :yuck: But anyway. I wonder what the others have been doing. I hope the guy I like is coming back, with him you never know. I have to get the Age of Empires cd and Pride and Prejudice from Nomsa. I better make a mental note of that somewhere or something.
List of things to do:
1. Check school uniform
2. Practice piano
3. Check stationery
4. Finish all homework except bio and IT
5. Finish IT and bio by Friday
6. Check when bio is actually due for (since I forgot or didn’t write it down)
7. Call IT teacher for help with project

That’s it, I think.

Oh yeah and 8. Go through music theory
and
9. Try to convince parents not to send you to music portfolio at Kempton High during free periods NBNBNBNBNBNBNBNBNB

That’s the final list.
/me sighs in relief

I’m not suffering from that rare strain of boredom anymore. *Whew!* I wouldn’t have survived it much longer. I am now in a more active, I-better-start-doing-my-homework-now mood, which is infinitely preferable. Call me a nerd if you like. Rather do it now than at 12 on Sunday night.

Right now, I feel like a panda bear. A panda has to eat all day long because otherwise he starves since the food that he eats is so ‘unnourishing’ and he’s so big. Normally, eating is pretty enjoyable, but not to a panda. He has to because he has to. I’m feeling like that now. There are all these things which might have been enjoyable once upon a time, but right now, I have to do them because I have to.

I’m trying to do some maths by mail, so that I can start with college or university maths while still in matric. That would be really cool. Then I could
make the guy that I really like from my Maths class jealous, lol. And infuriate the maths teacher. This has serious possibilities…
This bears no relation to the last paragraph. I’m doing this beause I want to.It will be cool to see all my friends again. I really miss them and all their craziness. They’re the crazy ones and I’m the down to earth one. Together, we make a pretty good team, I think. I hope Agnes passed Mathematics. If she didn’t and gets put down to Maths Literacy, I will personally kill her. She is really bright enough to do well, she just doesn’t work. I hope Garreth passed.

And even though she’s like my rival, I hope Robynne passed and starts getting her act together again. Robynne is a really smart girl who dances at international competitions. Right now, she’s like in the top half of the top ten in the world for like two or three types of dancing. She’s really organized and nice and smart, but she’s putting too much pressure on herself. She’s stressing herself out because she isn’t getting the marks she used to, while mine stay reasonably the same.

(My friends say I should stop working so hard and give them a chance, lol. Apparently, I set the standard too high. And I’m not bragging, I’m writing this down because no-one is going to read this anyway).

She’s putting way too much pressure on herself. She doesn’t ever relax. Sh’es always working during free periods, she’s taking all the hard subjects at school as well as an extra one outside of school. She never gets together with her friends, she doesn’t read, she doesn’t watch tv or browse the net. I don’t think she does anything for fun or even has a hobby. Apart from dancing. But that doesn’t count since she keeps pressurizing herself to do well there too. She needs to learn to chill.

The more she stresses, the more she makes herself suffer and the worse she does and the cycle continues. She’s a goody-two-shoes, but she’s nice enough and I hope that she figures out how to get it together again soon. She was crying before her biology test because she couldn’t finish studying.

But for the love of crying out loud! The girl goes straight to dancing after school and only gets home at like 8 or 9. Then she still has to do homework, eat and sleep. And study. She often gets up at, like 3 in the morning to study. Which is really stupid if you’re writing maths. If you have a choice between studying and getting enough sleep before a maths test (and if you’re doing well in class and get the work) you should go for the sleep option. The bright spark got up at like 2 in the morning to study for maths and then wonders why she almost flunked. She keeps saying ‘But I know the work, I got up at half past two to study it.’ Which just totally proves my point. She should rather have slept since she knows what she’s doing. But she won’t listen to me. Anyway… good luck to her.

Well, good night now. I’ll keep ya’ll empty space posted about the big guild meeting tomorrow.

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