Math Woes, Frustration Shows

On most days, I don’t hate Pre-Calculus. However, today I must make an exception. Lately, I’ve been losing my grasp of understanding on the material we’re covering. The same is happening in Physics, and I can’t say I know exactly what’s going on here. I guess my only option is to study and work harder, but studying math is much harder than say, studying history.

I honestly had nothing to say today, but I felt like making a post here. I guess I’m just procrastinating. Eventually, I plan on finishing my work, but for now I guess I’ll just continue listening to the mix CD my friend made for me and half-paying attention to an old episode of Family Guy.

Hmm, on a strange side note, I’d like to catch up on all the manga series I was reading, but I simply don’t have the time. Very annoying, if I do say so myself.

 

Essays.

I love writing. I really do.

But something about essays makes me want to curl up into a ball and die.

Rarely am I told to write about something I want to write about, but rather I’m given a limited spectrum of choice and have to write something that I don’t really feel passionate about.

I feel like I want to paint a portrait of a person, yet the assignment is to paint fruit, y’know?

As usual, I finished my rough draft at the last minute, finally settling on a topic that I could write a couple of pages on without constantly scrambling for more filler. I’m not particularly happy with my work, but rough drafts are made to be revised.

What I really want is a freewrite assignment. Ten pages on whatever you want to write about. A story, a memoir, a long poem, whatever it is that tickles ze fancy. I’d really like the inspiration that a deadline provides – so many of my writing has gone unfinished simply because I had no reason to finish it. Que tragedy, yes?

Though I doubt I will ever receive that assignment, one can only hope and dream. For now I’ll write the introduction to a thousand and one stories and hope I’ll somehow be able to see them through to the end. 😛

Press Week -__-“

If by any chance you happen to be part of a Newpaper or other printed publication, you probably understand this. Well, it’s probably limited to monthly and quarterlies, like my school paper, but still, it’s a known concept.

Essentially, during pressweek all the pages get done. Until that point, stories are still being written, photos taken, and ads sold. However, during the last week before the pages get sent to press (the printer) all the page editors are scrambling to put everything together in a cohesive and enticing design.

Press week for me, as the sports page editor of my school paper, means that I have to stay after school until around 9 o’clock p.m. every day that week, until my page goes through initial edits, secondary opinions, staff critiques, body-text editing, photo checks, infographic redesigns, and finally: Final Edits.

These steps are crucial for any page editor to go through, as any good editor knows that the first design is never good enough, and never stays the same. From the Friday before press week to the time the pages are exported as PDFs, they have undergone almost total overhaul.

It’s during these weeks that I always wish to go back to being a reporter, so I can spend the hectic days of press week as the majority of them do, chatting at the tables and doing relatively nothing. Instead, I’m painstakingly editing photos to press quality and arranging and rearranging stories so they fit on my page with all the other aspects I’m supposed to cover.

Thankfully, the week is over and I can get back to not pulling my hair out. Hallelujah.

Procrastination

Hmmm…I want to write this, but maybe I’ll just do it later…

See what I did there? That, mis amigos, is procrastination. It is one of my worst habits, and I know for a fact that its a disease that plagues many.

Currently, I’m procrastinating the completion of my US History Homework. You see, we had the entirety of Thanksgiving break to read three chapters and do a couple of assignments on them, due Tuesday and Wednesday.

I, however, decided not to think about any schoolwork until today. Luckily, there was no other assignments that I had to complete, but still. Thinking back, this really shouldn’t have been put off for so long. Instead of spending several hours reading Death Note and One Piece, I should have been reading An American Pageant, like I was assigned to.

Even now, as it nears midnight (my official bedtime on school nights), I’m having doubts about whether or not it’s actually worth it to start reading. I could probably wait another hour, knock out a chapter or two, and worry about the rest tomorrow. Really, if I chill for another hour, I’ll still have four to devote to my work.

Now that I think about it, I think that’s the best decision. I’d like to at least get to chapter 100 in One Piece. Maybe 110. Once I do that, I’ll start my work.

Or not.

Eh, it’ll get done I’m sure. No need to freak out….that’s best saved until the few minutes I have before class starts.