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Monday, October 31- - Prisoner of Your Life

October 29, 2011
By alwayssunshine PLATINUM, Charlotte, North Carolina
alwayssunshine PLATINUM, Charlotte, North Carolina
24 articles 5 photos 147 comments

Monday, October 31

6:00 am alarm goes off

6:30 am wake up and realize you overslept

7:00 am leave the house--it's 56 degrees and raining

7:05 am remember you forgot your lunch

7:30 am get to school, run to locker--it's pouring

7:35 am rush to 5th grade classroom to tutor Julia in math, apologize for being late--she can't get 7 X 8

8:00 am AP World History--test next week

8:45 am Study Hall--cram for math quiz, guy in red shirt keeps asking for your help, but you don't get it either

10:15 am Math Quiz, girl next to you coughs all over you--tell her to feel better and hand her a tissue, then cover your mouth and turn away

11:00 am Chemistry class--video about something impossible to understand

11:50 am English class--scream and are called a prostitute in The Crucible--everyone laughing, so uncharacteristic of you

12:40 pm Lunch--sit and talk about life with best friend, eat soggy lettuce, share a brownie

1:35 pm Theater--discussion, seniors disagree with everything you say

2:20 pm Spanish--Quiz on 42 vocabulary terms--got them 2 days ago

3:10 pm school ends

3:15 pm go to locker, guy next to you spills all his food on the ground--help him clean it up

3:20-3:59 pm Math help session, knock over special picture frame, almost breaks

4:00-5:15 pm Work on costumes for school musical--laughing about corsets

5:15-5:45 pm Drive home--dance to music you don't know with sister--still raining

6:00-6:15 pm Eat leftovers for dinner--rain stops

6:15-6:45 pm Problems 10, 12, 14, 16-20 on page 154

6:45-7:00 pm catch 15 minutes of Friends rerun

7:00-7:02 pm lecture from mother--should be studying

7:05-7:15 pm cross arms and trudge downstairs to get more work--take your time

7:15-8:00 pm Read pages 225-235 in AP World Textbook

8:05-8:15 pm Write 8 sentences in Spanish about your weekend--really boring (sentences and weekend)

8:16-9:00 pm Read Act III in The Crucible

9:00-9:30 pm Study for SATs--what does lucrative mean?

9:30-10:00 pm work on Newspaper Article--technology taking over

10:00-10:15 pm Check email and facebook--4 emails to answer, 1 notification

10:15-10:20 pm fall asleep on the couch next to open laptop

10:20 pm mother wakes you up

10:20-10:40 pm shower, brush teeth, get in green polkadot pjs

10:40-11:15 pm Read book of choice

11:20 pm totally out

Tuesday, November 1

6:00 am Alarm goes off


The author's comments:
Just writing the typical day...but I tried to play around with 2nd person and to not convey any emotion. How did I do?

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on Nov. 7 2011 at 10:38 am
alwayssunshine PLATINUM, Charlotte, North Carolina
24 articles 5 photos 147 comments
I procastinate more, too! Thanks for the comment!

on Nov. 6 2011 at 1:32 pm
SecretNonConformist SILVER, Marblehead, Massachusetts
6 articles 0 photos 195 comments

Favorite Quote:
The only thing necessary for the triumph of
evil is for good men to do nothing."
-Edmund Burke

"Bless the children, give them triumph, now!"
Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers

Sounds a lot like my life, except I procrastinate more than you do. Great work! Totally reflective of how boring and meaningless our high school lives are!