YAY

I am victorious.  Cases done.  Now for AP.
~Anna

Procrastination

Since eveyone I know who has a lick of sense is asleep right now I'm going to conplain/rant about how awful this situation is, no matter how much my fault it is.  As you know, I'm in debate.  I joined debate.  I love debate.  Debate does not love me.  I procrastinate, and it kills me.  As shown per 2:30 AM posts.  I waited until the class period before I had to debate to complete my Aff case, and have just completed the bare-bone outline of my neg case approximately 10 minutes ago.  May I inform you that the debate is tomorrow? Not great planning Anna.  Not great planning.  As you do not know, I joined AP World Civilizations this year, which has been great becuase I love history, but dear lord there is so much reading.  I have half a chapter of reading left to do, and a Neg case.  I should go.  Thank you for reading my rant.
~Anna

The Last Post

It's that time.  The last post.  The final hoorah for this sad but resilient blog I have slowly cultivated into a wordy representation of my life and daily thoughts.  It has been a wonderful journey.  This blog has been my outlet, my inspiration, and also occasionally the bane of my Friday nights.  I would like to think that in this current stage of my blogging endeavor all my anonymous readers and I have a telepathic bond.  Okay, maybe that's stretching it.  I actually don't want a telepathic bond with anyone.  I take that back.  That sounds like hell. I would like to think you guys have a clue who I am. Never the less, here is a countdown of my greatest achievements this year (according to me, so this post will not include anything related to grades or religion)

A. I did not end up in a psychiatric ward.  There were a couple instances where I got close, but I managed to avoid the whole complete insanity thing.

B. I found some really awesome people, especially this amazing chick, this brilliant chick, and this cool chick.  These people aren't the only people who have changed my life this year, there are millions more people that have loved me and been by my side my freshman year. They've gotten me through so much and I really wouldn't be where I am today without them.

C. I joined the Debate Team.  I competed in debate and actually did okay :) I didn't mean to like it, but I fell in love with something I had previously hated.  I look forward to competing in Duo with this amazing person next year.

D. I survived my classes this year.  Yay! School is almost over and I managed to not have too many school related mental breakdowns.  Considering the whole honors and AP thing, I put this accomplishment pretty high on my list.

F.  My year was good.  I got so much better and I hope to continue to work to make myself happier. I found that weird little thing called hope this year, and I plan to keep that little guy under my wing for as long as possible.

I love you all so much and I will, after some consideration, post during the summer.  Yay, I think.  I hope you guys quite literally have the best summer ever, even if it's just spent reading in your room and watching anime (this is what my summer will mostly consist of).

Loves to you all,
Anna

Credit to this website.

Well I'm Back!

If you are a regular reader of this blog, I would like to apologize for the last couple of posts.  I have been under a lot of stress lately and have not had the mental capacity to write an actual blog post.

 A song to make you laugh (and possibly forgive me?)

So I happened to find the band Songs To Wear Pants To today... okay, fine.  I didn't find them.  This chick did.

Image credit to this website

They're now officially my band for when I'm sad.  Or happy.  Or... just in a weird mood.



Anyways! I miss you guys :( I haven't posted in forever mostly because I went on break, so I just shut my head off and hid in my room for 7 days.  It was brilliant.  I did a lot of TV watching, spent a lot of time on Tumblr, and found some new (for me) bands.  I also rediscovered some bands I used to like a while ago, like Young London.

 They're... I don't know how to describe music.  They're kinda pop-ish or dubstep.  I guess...?  I saw these guys open at a concert last year, and they're kinda really fun live.  I also got to hug the drummer :) Listen to them and tell me what you think please!

This is their cover of Jimmy Eat World's song. I re-discovered Never Shout Never over the break, mostly because of this awesome chick.  Very extremely happy band, but enjoyable if you're in the mood for it.  I saw this band at the same concert I saw Young London, and he's hilarious live.
Another song by Never Shout Never.

Let's see... I went to the Regional Debate Tournament on Tuesday.  I had a lot of fun, and it was definitely a learning experience.  The people in my grade that are going to State are as follows: Resident Oratory Genius; PF Munchins One, Two, Three, and Four; and finally our Little Impromtu Ninja!  I'm kinda sad I didn't do as well as I had hoped, but most of my rounds were close so I'm still happy :)  I'm sending my good luck (as much as I have) to these brilliant Novice Debaters who competed against Open Debaters and won!

So that's my quirky music and update for the week! Enjoy the weekend and see you next time,
Anna

PS- If you didn't notice I put a lot of links in this post, and I would just like to say all of the people that write these blogs are just really brilliant so you should totally check them out.

Not breaking down at 11pm at night... and My Chemical Romance

I'll save the mental breakdown for about 2am, after I finally realize that I need to work on my actual homework.  No,  I'm not going to break down at all... right? I'm totally mentally stable guys.  Yup.  I'll give you a list of the things that may or may not result in my eventual doom.

Welcome. 

1. This blog post.
I have currently six different posts half-way written because I'm way too critical of my own writing. The only way I get any of these written is because I'm half asleep and slightly on a coffee high.  I am way too good at procrastinating... so I'm doing this now.


2. Sleep
What? Me? Sleeping? No.  I haven't slept at all this week guys... so I'm kinda high on lack of sleep and really tired.  This is not helping me deal with stress.  At all.  I'm having issues doing cognitive stuff.  So after I submit this I'm going to lie in bed and stare at my ceiling and think of all the things I have to do until morning.


3. Debate
I have an LD case that is kinda falling apart at the seems that I have to debate tomorrow.  I need to fix this, find evidence, and structure counter points.  While on less than 3 hours of sleep.  I don't really have a plan on how that's going to work out.  Debate's also another reason I'm writing this now, because I won't be able to submit it at the tournament.


4. School
Guys... really?  Honestly I think you're trying to kill me.  I cannot take another pop quiz or retake of stressful test.  I love learning... but not at the cost of my (always relative) sanity.  I would love a break from school please... without a dramatic drop in that all-important GPA.

I realize that everyone has heard this song, but I still love it.

5. Shtuf
I feel like this list needed a fifth bullet point so I'll just comment on the fact that the (98% pure awesome) Kimball Art Center  volunteering is not really helping with the stress level here.  I would also like to add that TaeKwonDo, however enjoyable and amazing, is a substantial amount of time spent not working, Kimball-ing (a real verb), or LD-ing (also a very real word).

In closing:

I hope you guys have a great week.  :) Loves to you all,
Anna

Source from this awesome Tumblr Blog

Debate Shit (sorry Mr. Parker)

I promised you all a post about why I was packing, so here it is.  About twenty of us were able to skip second, third, and fourth period on last Friday.  Honestly, I expected that skipping school was going to to be the best part of the trip.  However, we, or maybe just me because I'm not physic, had a lot of fun.  This has brought me to a little random tangent that I kinda need to go off on.  I hate the fact that I have no ability to read other's emotions.  I will think that someone hates me and then find out later that they think I'm a cool person.  This usually results in me just kinda hiding in a corner and hoping that people don't notice me so that they can't judge me.  Oops.  Okay, now I need to relate the rant to Debate... one second... oh! Okay so at the Debate tournament something very very weird happened.  I became an extrovert.  A bonafide, actual, social person.  I actually went up to strangers and had conversations!  It was crazy.  I had actual conversations that went beyond hello.  Really, I'm still not sure it actually happened.  I don't know if you all know how much I'm not normally talkative.  I spent the entirety of last year almost completely silent unless someone talked to me.
Anyways, we spent like six-ish hours on the bus, which was better than usual because we rented one of those super-fancy ones, which turned out to be a wee-bit small... but no matter! The seats were comfy.  We ended up playing a few games and generally just trying not to be super crazy bored.  I actually was able to sleep so yay! (Seriously this was a weekend of miracles!)
We got to the hotel sort-of on time.  We were running a little late so we just changed and then ran to the high school.  Keep in mind that it's Friday the 13th at this point.  I'm crazy superstitious, and then we arrive at the "devil's den" to this:

Image goes to me!

I'm not too sure weather the bird is a Raven or a Crow, but never-the-less it was really really creepy.  Anyways, the tournament was really fun, and although I didn't sleep at all that night I enjoyed the trip over all.  It was cool and I'm tired so this post is dying.  Loves to you all,

Anna