My first quarter of 10th grade is finally over! We even get a three day weekend with Friday off for teachers to do grading or something. Anyways, I am extremely glad that this quarter is over. I haven't been doing that well in school, but I still have a chance to fix my grades in the second quarter.
I've always been waiting for a chance to redeem myself. Every weekend I tell myself that I will make up all of the work that I've missed and start managing my time effectively and start to bring my grades back up again.
Unfortunately, every single week I do nothing on Friday and Saturday except for play and prepare for my piano lesson on Friday and then my writing lesson on Saturday. I end up always procrastinating my homework on Sunday afternoon.
Even with Friday off this week, nothing has changed. I went to my friend Jared's house and Jared, Nikita, and I played Warhammer 40k (for the first time) for most of the morning and into the afternoon. Then afterwards, I got so excited about Warhammer 40k that I spent most of the rest of Friday and most of Saturday researching and creating the perfect Imperial Guard army. I only did this because my dad turned off on Thursday until just an hour or so ago.
Now, its a little past noon on Sunday and I still have barely started on my homework. Even though we had end-of-the-quarter tests in most of my classes, I still have a ton of homework in all of my classes. Most likely this weekend is going to be exactly like my previous weekends and I'm not going to change at all.
On top of all of my other problems, I'm really frustrated that I haven't been keeping up with blogging. Now when I look back at this blog in the future, a huge chunk of the first quarter of 10th grade is going to be missing. Of course, I'm still going to try make up for all of the events that I didn't blog about, but that never has the same effect.
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Extreme Argument Part 2
My rough schedule basically is that right after I get home from cross country practice at about 6:00 pm, I would shower (30 minutes), then immediately eat dinner (30 minutes), and then immediately practice piano (60 minutes). This would allow me to start homework at around 8:00 pm.
Unfortunately, Starcraft II and researching for Warhammer 40k has always been messing up my schedules, so I'm still not practicing piano enough and I'm still losing sleep.
On top of all of my own problems, my parents are really starting to get impatient. Yesterday, my mom finally released her frustration. She caught me in the middle of my third Starcraft II game (I was on a losing streak, so I wasn't feeling good already). Fortunately, my mom allowed me to finish that game, but afterwards, we started arguing.
She said that my grades and GPA are unacceptable, so I'm not allowed to play games anymore. But being the rebellious and independent teenager that I am, I obviously rejected all of her requests. We argued back and forth until eventually my mom realized that she really couldn't control me (which was what I wanted to tell her). She ended up telling me to leave the house (forever) and then she hid in her room and cried.
I do feel bad for making my mom cry, but I didn't really care. I got my point across that I was going to do whatever I want with my life and my parents can't do anything about what I do. Of course, I'm not going to waste my life or anything, I simply want to be able to make my own decisions.
Sorry for posting this so late, but for some reason I'm really not into blogging lately (ever since school started). I actually had already typed up most of this post on the same night I typed up the first part of it, but for some reason I didn't feel like uploading it. I might have wanted to add more to this post, but I'll never know because so much time has passed.
By now, my relationship with my mom is much better, even though my grades are worse, but I'll be talking about that in future posts.
Unfortunately, Starcraft II and researching for Warhammer 40k has always been messing up my schedules, so I'm still not practicing piano enough and I'm still losing sleep.
On top of all of my own problems, my parents are really starting to get impatient. Yesterday, my mom finally released her frustration. She caught me in the middle of my third Starcraft II game (I was on a losing streak, so I wasn't feeling good already). Fortunately, my mom allowed me to finish that game, but afterwards, we started arguing.
She said that my grades and GPA are unacceptable, so I'm not allowed to play games anymore. But being the rebellious and independent teenager that I am, I obviously rejected all of her requests. We argued back and forth until eventually my mom realized that she really couldn't control me (which was what I wanted to tell her). She ended up telling me to leave the house (forever) and then she hid in her room and cried.
I do feel bad for making my mom cry, but I didn't really care. I got my point across that I was going to do whatever I want with my life and my parents can't do anything about what I do. Of course, I'm not going to waste my life or anything, I simply want to be able to make my own decisions.
Sorry for posting this so late, but for some reason I'm really not into blogging lately (ever since school started). I actually had already typed up most of this post on the same night I typed up the first part of it, but for some reason I didn't feel like uploading it. I might have wanted to add more to this post, but I'll never know because so much time has passed.
By now, my relationship with my mom is much better, even though my grades are worse, but I'll be talking about that in future posts.
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Extreme Argument Part 1
Before I start my "Beginning of 10th Grade" series of posts, I want to talk about a more recent event. Like I mentioned in my previous "Resolution Reboot" post, my posts starting now will be much shorter than before so that I have an easier time motivating myself to type up one most per day.
Just yesterday, I got into a huge argument with my mom. As I've mentioned in my previous post, my grades aren't going so well. Along with the fact that I'm still continuing to play Starcraft II, as well as recently starting Warhammer 40k (I'll talk about this in a future post), my parent's have been getting pretty frustrated.
I don't blame them. All that they've seen me doing every single day is playing games and then getting bad grades in school. However, what they don't know is that I'm actually trying really hard to set my life back on track. Unfortunately, I haven't been very successful.
Over the past few weeks, I've been doing a lot of thinking about my life, about what was most important to me, my goals and dreams, and so forth. In fact, I did so much thinking that I eventually realized that I was doing way too much thinking. I was thinking about philosophical questions that I would never be able to answer such as "What is the meaning of life?"
Then I decided to try to focus my thinking on what was most important to me right now, and I decided that college is most important. But even with college, I did too much thinking about every aspect of getting into college. Over last weekend, I finally narrowed my thoughts down to time management as being the key to unlocking a good college, a good future, and everything else.
Now that I think about it, I did way too much work and wasted way to much time just to arrive on the answer of time management that my parents have been drilling me about since middle school. My plan for this week was to try to maximize my time usage by following a rough schedule.
With that, I'm going to end this post. I know I haven't even talked about my argument, but this post is already getting really long. Plus it's past 12:00 am right now, and I really need to get to sleep.
Just yesterday, I got into a huge argument with my mom. As I've mentioned in my previous post, my grades aren't going so well. Along with the fact that I'm still continuing to play Starcraft II, as well as recently starting Warhammer 40k (I'll talk about this in a future post), my parent's have been getting pretty frustrated.
I don't blame them. All that they've seen me doing every single day is playing games and then getting bad grades in school. However, what they don't know is that I'm actually trying really hard to set my life back on track. Unfortunately, I haven't been very successful.
Over the past few weeks, I've been doing a lot of thinking about my life, about what was most important to me, my goals and dreams, and so forth. In fact, I did so much thinking that I eventually realized that I was doing way too much thinking. I was thinking about philosophical questions that I would never be able to answer such as "What is the meaning of life?"
Then I decided to try to focus my thinking on what was most important to me right now, and I decided that college is most important. But even with college, I did too much thinking about every aspect of getting into college. Over last weekend, I finally narrowed my thoughts down to time management as being the key to unlocking a good college, a good future, and everything else.
Now that I think about it, I did way too much work and wasted way to much time just to arrive on the answer of time management that my parents have been drilling me about since middle school. My plan for this week was to try to maximize my time usage by following a rough schedule.
With that, I'm going to end this post. I know I haven't even talked about my argument, but this post is already getting really long. Plus it's past 12:00 am right now, and I really need to get to sleep.
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