Paper Problems

With today being my last day of classes for the quarter, I had a major essay due for my Writing 102 class. The topic, why/how the Seattle Sonics should stay in Washington, but that is not relevant to this "story". What is relevant, the essay was due today. This means last night/early this morning I had to put on the "finishing" touches.

Now, while maybe I procrastinated a little bit on the time I started finishing my essay yesterday, I had been diligently working on it for the past couple of weeks. I was finally done with the essay, it was all polished up. I thought it was almost time to go to sleep, much needed sleep. But I was only deceiving myself.

I had problems formatting the Works Cited page, I finally allowed the machine to win. Now, time to print. Oh wait, no paper. Well, there was legal paper, a bunch of it. I really have no clue why we only had legal paper in such large quantities. So, I had to hand cut my own paper to size. Okay printing. Wait, one little error in the formatting I have to fix, time to cut more paper. Now time to staple, where is the stapler? After all that, I needed a paper clip, one measly paper clip. After searching high and low, I was finally able to find one paper clip. I could finally go to bed. Not only had I finished my essay, I had learned a valuable lesson in patience and paper procrastination.

"Free" Meal

Today, I got a free meal. Literally, I mean a free meal at a fancyish restaurant. To be more precise, an all you can eat Chinese Buffet. Why was the meal free? Well, if I went to a "presentation" of fire safety, I would be able to stuff myself at the all you can eat buffet while the speech is going on.

Basically, they want to sell you something. In this case, a "high-tech, submersible in water, cleanable, super sleek" drum role... fire alarm system. So, in a way the meal wasn't free, I had to sit there and listen to his speech for an hour and a half. Now, I will admit, the man was good. Although, his scare tactics, movie clips, and lighting of things on fire didn't impress me too much. It was actually slightly humorous to be sitting through a meal watching a slide show of houses burning down, while loud, I assume fire related, noises were going on in the background.

Unlike my father, I don't think the annoying answerer-blurter-outer lady was planted in the audience. I just think she was annoying. Speaking of which, not the annoying part - but the audience part, I would say the average age was 65. I am serious. Overall, I think it was worth it for the food. I have to wait though to see if I am able to finish my homework for tonight to decided how "free" this meal really was. It was also disappointing I didn't win any door prizes. I was all ready to yell out the answer 55.8%, the supposed failure rate of "average" fire alarms, but I was sad I didn't win.

Break not Brake

Today, I came to the realization that it is almost winter break. Okay, I didn't just now realize that, but it kind of struck me how close it is. I have one more major event for each class. A writing essay, a history test, and a spanish final. That is it. Yet, now is not the time to coast into the break. No, now is the most important couple of days, more of a last sprint to the "finish line". But oh how nice that finish line will be.

4 Squared Stop

Today everything practically returned to its normal state. Thankfully, my English teacher allowed me to give my speech I missed yesterday today, and reschedule my meeting. My Spanish teacher also let me retake my test. Yes, it was a very good day. What wasn't normal though, was a 20-way stop. Yes, I am not exaggerating. In Olympia, one of the major intersections didn't have power, it was a basically a huge "4-way stop". It was really backed up. Other than that, everything returned to normalcy today.

Un-Perfect Storm

Today, I couldn't make it to school. Was I sick, was school cancelled, no and no. A huge storm struck where I live. Of course, the school I go to was one of the only ones still running on schedule. It just wasn't safe for me to try to go to school. Normally, I would be glad to miss a day of school, even a bit overjoyed, but not when I had a speech to give, a important test, and a meeting with one of my professors. Not a good day to miss.

Turns out, I probably couldn't have made it to school if I tried. A mudslide covered the highway on the way to school, and there was a ginormous backup, as in a several hour backup. Basically, all the snow from the weekend melted, high winds (50+ MPH gusts) and unheard of rainfall (over 6 inches in 24 hours) all struck at once. Roads were flooded, mudslides abundant, trees falling down, not your average storm. Then, our power went out. Not only was I missing school, stuck at home, now the power was out. After 7 hours, the power came back on, but not before my entire day was wasted.

Homework Hopelessness

It continued to snow at my house today. It was very pleasant. What wasn't though, was having to do homework all day. Literally, I have been doing homework since I woke up, and will continue to do so until I go to bed. The sad and ironic part, I probably won't get everything done I need/want to. I guess that is what happens when you have one week of school left until winter break. Oh yeah, and finals week after that, but that is the last thing I want to think about at this moment.

Confined Condesation Convergence Conundrum

Today, it snowed. It was amazing, it even stuck to the ground and started to accumulate. Where I live was a convergence zone of sorts, places just a couple miles away didn't have any accumulation.

I actually was able to use the snow shovel I got for Christmas a few years back for the second time ever, although I am not sure it was necessary to shovel off the driveway. I also made a small, rather pathetic snowman of sorts. It may snow some more tonight, at least that is what the "man" is saying. I was just happy to be able to watch the snow, getting to play in it was an added bonus.