ABOVE ME, ME, BLOW ME

^ Rasputin by Boney M. Interesting song?

< I forgot how stressful my school makes mock trial. It's basically treated like a sport (which our coach admitted) with practice every day for 3-4 hours and constant, well, everything. It doesn't help that my classes all now are assigning stuff- had a test and 3 quizzes on Wednesday and an essay assigned Tuesday/Friday (wasn't really paying attention in class on Friday so it might have been assigned then?) due last Thursday. 

V Most stressful school activity you've done?

^ CORNELL NOTES 

< I hate cheese.

V What's your least favorite food?

^ There are several different foods I really dislike, but one of the worst would probably be pickles. 

< Had a customer get absolutely livid with me today. She thought an item was priced wrong, so I told her I'd go back there and check and the sale sign clearly stated it was for a different item, and it was not even close to the item she thought was on sale. She got hysterical with me and acted as if I just took away the next 10 years of her life. Not only that, but she went and told all the other workers at checkout of how terrible of a worker I am, then called to complain to the manager about me, even though I followed our policy to a T. I love people. 

V How many hours of sleep do you get on an average night?

^ On an average night, I sleep 8-9 hours. But recently, that hasn’t been the case from a 2 week trip to Philippines. There’s a 16 hour time zone difference, and while it was super easy to get used to the time zone difference when I got there, when I got back, sleeping became the hardest thing in the world.

< I accidentally slept for (maybe) 13 hours yesterday. I couldn’t exactly remember what time i fell asleep, but my mom came home at around 5 and said I was already asleep. I woke up at 6AM. It’s the most I’ve slept in a couple months.

\/ Do you like a firm/hard or soft mattress?

^ Soft mattress. Much easier to fall asleep on for me. But it comes with the downside that when I have to get up it makes it a whole lot harder for me.

< I'm no longer sure what's going on with my mock trial team. They've decided to play this one witness (who the defense is pinning everything on) as uber gay. And it's stereotypical too. I'm no longer sure why I let this team decide anything anymore. What's even worse/better is that the supervisor allowed it, meaning it's going all the way. This is going to be interesting...


V Favorite stereotype to act out? Or, in reverse, the stereotype you hate the most?

^ I hate stereotypes in general. My passion is comedy; stereotypes are just low hanging fruit. If you have to rely on jokes that have already been written to be funny, you arent that funny.

< Im in so much pain. I went to my mothers for a couple days and the mattress I was sleeping on was the worst. I had springs jabbing at my tender torso bits the whole time and now, days later, it still hurts to move my arms. Doesnt help that I have a gut wrenching cough too. Everything is pain.

V What is the sickest you’ve ever been?

^ Couple summers ago me and a group of friends went to Nicaragua for a couple weeks. The day we were supposed to come back, we got really sick with food poisoning and had to stay another couple days because they wouldn't let us fly in that condition. I spent like 8 or 10 hours actively "sick" and then slept 24 of the next 30 hours. 

< Last Man Standing is hilarious. 

V Do you watch Last Man Standing?

^ I’m not sure if I’ve heard of this show, however it does sound very intriguing

< I think the weirdest thing to happen recently was double homesickness. So, basically, I got homesick on a trip back in my hometown, initially, I adjusted extremely well, eating local food all the time, and speaking both Tagalog/English. Then two weeks in, I started oddly craving things I ate all the time in US like burgers and pizza. Then I wanted to be back in US. Then I go to US and one day later I want to be back in Philippines. It was like calling two places home and wanting to be in both homes simultaneously. 

\/ What’s your favorite game?

^ I'm going to assume you mean video game and say Undertale (not accounting for like childhood memories and such). I just love the humor in it and it just brightens my day on bad days.

< Don't you love it when you think you got a 100 on a test but then you get a 75% and you realize that it was dumb points taken off with a small amount of overall points?

V Ever have that one subject that you're good at but you made some dumb mistakes which messed up your entire grade?

^ Math, but mistakes never messed up my grade very much. But almost all of the points I get wrong were silly mistakes, not because I didn't know it. 

< Listening to some of my old Spotify playlists from a couple years ago. I forgot about a lot of good music! The Script is on point.

V Do you play any instruments?

^ I play the piano a bit, but I'm mostly self taught and can barely use both hands while playing.

< Recently discovered how fun mandela art is to make.

V Despite whether you do or don't make art, what's your favorite kind of art to look at?

^ I'm not sure if it classifies as art but Abstract pictures on google always has my interest if not that grandparents and their grand kids always inspires me too it doesn't seem like much but is powerful to me as now a days it less and less happenes

< Got a job start Monday on a dairy farm excited can't wait to be surrounded by cows every day!

v Does your job have some enjoyment by someone being there or something there that makes the day go by a bit quicker or just a job you want to get away from?

^ I get a lot of enjoyment out of my job. I work in the checkout area of a grocery store, so we almost always have a few other workers up there with me and many of them are super chill. Also, I've been there long enough that I know most of our regular customers by name and we carry people's groceries out to their car for them so I get to talk to people all the time there. 

< That same reason can be grounds for hating the job at times. If I really don't feel like being around people, I really can't escape it and I've built a really good reputation there that I don't want to lose. Also, I have several super annoying coworkers that there is really no escaping from, as well as some classic angry customers who know everything better than every person who works there. 

V What's your go-to when it comes to passing time when you are bored.

^ My go to thing when I'm bored is coding. Always fun, and I am currently on a coding team with my friends and we are making what seems to be a really cool open world empire building game.

< Coding is really fun for me. Like one of the things that makes me, me.

V What is something that you can't lose, like it's part of your identity?

^ The accent I don't have. (time for explanation). So, my mother's side of the family is really Irish, in fact she immigrated from Ireland. I spend some time with her, so apparently I've taken on some kind of accent. Most everyone in school thinks I have this brilliant British accent, whereas everyone in Ireland thinks I'm the most American thing to come to their country. It bothers me at times, but I have learned to roll with it.

< Ever get the feeling that sometimes teachers assign stuff without realizing how much work it is to grade it? Because I'm starting to think that that's every teacher I have this year.

V Hardest assignment you've been assigned this school year?

^ Well, last semester in my anthropology class we had to do a group research project on Margaret Mead and that turned into writing a paper about it, doing a presentation, and making a poster board and presenting it several times to anyone and everyone in the school who wanted to listen to it. If I had known we were going to have to do that, I probably would not have taken the class. 

< My braces are coming off soon. I have grown used to them so it'll be weird not having them on my teeth but I'll be happy to be done with it. 

V Do you drink pop (or soda as some of you uneducated people call it)? If so, what kind is your favorite?

^ Not really, I might drink cheerwine every once 2 years, I usually drink water.

< I have 2 Senior advisors from Apple care helping me, and I only like the female named Gail, she's so much better, she actually understood me, unlike all MEN.

V What's the Best/Worst of customer service you've experienced?

^ Well, it's more like what I notice at the hospital I volunteer at. There's this one nurse who will only work front desk at the ER (even though I'm sure they've tried to promote him 10 times at this point) and he always makes a point of making sure that every visitor feels like someone at least notices that they're there. I may not agree with his methods, but it works for sure.

< I don't think I've ever had more fun than today. A group of friends and I hung out for about 6 hours straight and did some fun (and weird) games, but I'm glad I did it. Beats sitting at home, wondering why you've watched 10 episodes of some show on Netflix and realizing you're probably gonna watch another 15.

V Favorite show to have ended/cancelled?

^ Teen Titans, the old one. I loved that show more than I could really even describe here. It's just a beautiful fusion of nostalgia and awesome action for me.

< Been writing more of this story I've had in mind for a while now, it's interesting to go back and read old drafts of it. A lot of my old ideas were really cheesy and cringy lol.

V Have you ever written a story? Or ever would want/plan to?

^ Yes I have. Both were small fantasy fiction when I was younger for a competition in the local newspaper. I was top 10 with one of them. 

< I've gotten really into Kygo's music lately. I'm not a huge edm fan, but there is something about Kygo's music that draws me in and won't let me go. Even though it's heavily influenced by electronic music, it is really chill and you can still feel the emotion in it. 

V Favorite kind of music?

^ I listen to Rock Classics(My dad played it so much when I was little that I started to like it)/Piano for the most part.

< I hate feeling like I'm gonna puke, it's just like if you want to come out, come out don't just tempt me.

V Worst sickness you've ever gotten?

^ The flu probably... I was out for 3 weeks and had lots of bad cramps. It sucked but it happens.

>As I typed this my large cat jumped on my bed and scared me badly.

\/ Do you have a cat? If so what is its name? If you don't have a cat what is your favourite animal?

^ Yeah, my family has two cats. The really, really old one is Moonlight, and the other is Lulu. Lulu spends all her time either on somebody's lap or following one of us around the house. 

< I hate cats though. I'm a dog person.

V Do you have a favorite actor or actress?

^ Adelaide Kane, she's beautiful, an amazing actress and so inspiring.

< I drank like a million cups of milk today, abnormal for me I barely drink it at all, I hope it's healthy for the size of servings I had.

V Have you ever had a weird craving that you usually never want, but eat/drink a bunch just in the moment?

^ I don't eat smores unless I'm camping, but one time we did a cool chemistry lab where we made smores. Then I wanted to eat more so I walked to the nearest grocery store and purchased lots of marshmallows, XL Hershey's chocolate bars, and graham crackers, but then I got tired of it pretty fast. Still worth the $20 or so I spent.

< Today I have no homework due, but I kind of feel odd having no homework for once. I even woke up early to do it but then I didn't have homework anyway.

\/ What's the longest amount of time you have ever spent on a single homework assignment?