WEEKEND YAY! Upcoming hectic week? OH NO.

It's Friday again. Yay, yay and more yay. I'm so happy that this dreadful week is over. 

Now there's just one week left till the commence of our Fallbreak, and I'm hoping it will go by mighty fast. All the classes for Tuesday have been cancelled, which is awesomazing because I definitely need that day to work on some of the shit that needs to be done before the break. Here's what I need to do before Friday:

• Do a 3-5 page project on the development of one's social identity in Britain.
• Write a long-ass feature article on Ethiopia and something that has happened recently. This was actually supposed to be a group project, but I think I'm gonna have to do it myself if I want it to be done anytime soon (it's pretty long overdue already), so I'm taking matters into my own hands, baby. 
• Write a biology rapport about genes and DNA. 

This week is going to be pretty full, as you can hear. I'm going to be strategic and focus most of my energy on the article and the biology rapport, as those will actually have a significant influence on my final grades, which will be a large part of my final grade point average. I don't get a grade for my project on social identities, and while it's really interesting, it can't be my top priority. 

ALSO, I got my journalistic piece back today that I wrote for my Danish class. I had so much trouble writing the damn thing and was so scared to look at the grade at the bottom of the paper, because I just knew I had misunderstood the assignment. So I waited about thirty minutes until it occurred to me that I could see the pen through the paper and... I got an A+. And a comment that said "Beautiful!". 

That made this shittastic week a lot better.

Happiness is...

... getting out of school at 10.00am, because the 10.00am-12.00pm periods were cancelled. Apparently, our teacher didn't feel well and needed to go home. If she is still sick tomorrow (which I hope for her she is not), we'll be getting out at 11am. Is it horrible of me that I really, really, really hope that happens? I just need the weekend to happen NOW.

Woe Is Wednesday

Okay, today has been better than Monday, but I have to say, I am not going through a great week.

Like, not to sound like Rebecca Black, but yesterday was Tuesday, and by then I was pretty much done with this week. I don't know what it is about it, it just blows.

All of our classes were cancelled today, because we had what's called a "writing day", where you spend however many hours the teacher decides on a certain paper or assignment. Today it was a Social Studies writing day, where we had five hours to write a paper including discussions on immigrants from Turkey and Pakistan's view on women, Samuel Huntington (and theories disproving his theory), The War in Iraq, Denmark's ability to compete on a global level... as you can hear, this all had so much to do with each other EXCEPT NOT.

I think I wrote about 1100 words, and I know that wasn't nearly enough, but there were so many different questions she wanted us to cover that you really only touched the surface of all of these issues. It's a shame, really, because they are all really interesting.

Right now I should be doing homework, but I'm not. I'm highly considering going to bed now, and then bringing the stuff I have to read with me. And then we'll see whether I get it done. I know it sounds like I have horrible work ethics, but it's just this week, guys. This week is killing me.

Today's hallelujah: Drinking hot chocolate and eating chocolate croisants with my friend, A, while discussing all of our hardships and troubles and how shitty this week is.

EDIT: I just published this and saw that the "woe is me" tag is the most frequently used tag on here. What a great impression that must make.

Shitty days and mondays always get me down

Ugh. I'm having a real shit day today.

I've been feeling a headache coming on all day, and when I got home from school a couple of hours ago, it hit me like a shit storm. BOOM BOOM BOOM. My head is pounding. I feel it in the back of my head, behind my eyes (I know that sounds freaky) and in my forehead. On top of that, my neck still hurts from stretching a muscle the other day. I was cleaning and then wham, I couldn't move my head for the whole rest of the evening. That's supposed to motivate me to clean more how?

Woe is me.

But there's also something else that has made my day shitty. This post is going to be full of the word 'shitty, just to warn you -- you've probably caught on to that already, though.

I'm going through a phase right now where I'm super motivated about my school and doing my absolute best. I am by nature ambitious, though I'm trying to tone it down a notch, as the pressure almost killed me last year. Figuratively speaking. However, I'm feeling really frustrated with some of my classes. My English class, for example. I really to the core of my soul hate how the teaching works. I know that's just how it is, but it's so uninspiring. Of course my English is not perfect and one can always learn more, but I am BORED.TO.DEATH; both with the literature we are reading, and the subsequent conversations about it.

Maybe it has to do with me paying attention to everything the teacher is not paying attention to, and vice versa. Usually we have to read about ten pages of a book, say, "Hard Times" by Charles Dickens for example. Fine, good, dandy, that's not the issue. The issue is that we are then handed a sheet of questions, and everything that I have highlighted (or written sarcastic comments to) which I felt to be important when I read it is not what he wants us to notice; which causes me to loose interest, because I feel like it's so unimportant to the story.

And also, I hate that we are supposed to analyze an entire book and gallery of characters based on ten pages. I hate it out of principle. There is a reason why a book is 300 pages long. There's so much character development in those 280 pages you don't read that you are then missing, and you can't base shit off ten pages. For example, we read ONE chapter of "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë, and, like... I have no idea what happens after they find Mr. Rochester's wife in the addic. So, no, if anyone asks me if I have read Jane Eyre, I'm gonna have to say no, because one chapter of Jane Eyre does not equal having read Jane Eyre.

I wish there could be more free discussions. English is a second-language to us, and I don't think there is a better way to learn it than to carry conversations or debate. Talking about ten pages constantly is bullshit, especially since all you have to do to make your teacher cream is point out where the answer is found in the text. That's it. Big whoop. UGH, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it.

Tomorrow is going to be such a long day. 8.00-4.15. I've got 4 different classes, each with double periods, so my schedule looks like this: 2x Math, 2x Biology, 2x Social Studies (B-level) and 2x English (Oh yay, NOT). Mmm, more literature to slaughter and abuse. Can't wait.

Okay, well, on that happy note, I'm gonna go do my homework. Here's student life for you:

I'm... not really normal

I'm feeling some surplus in the energy department, and for that reason I've decided to be practical. Right now I'm baking buns for next week's lunch, which I think I'll turn into a Saturday-tradition (watch this last two weeks), because I've been spending too much money in the cantina lately. It's not that the food there is expensive, really, it just becomes expensive if you do it every day. This bun recipe should turn out about twenty buns, which means that I can keep ten and freeze the other ten.

Practicality is my middle name. Sofie Practicality F. Hell, today I'll go by Practicality. That means that my name is Sofie 'Practicality' F.

Other things Ms. Sofie 'Practicality' F. hopes to get accomplished today:
- Vacuuming the entire apartment
- Do my homework for next week (reading, reading, more reading)
- Skype with my boy (I haven't seen his face for three days)
- Go for a walk (another beautiful sunny day here in Copenhagen -- the Weather Gods must have had a stroke. However, they will undoubtedly, and with our luck, have recovered by December and give us another Winter that's going to kick everybody's ass - THANKS IN ADVANCE)

But before all of this can be done, I have to wait for the buns to rise. I am aware that waiting time doesn't equal sit down and do nothing while you wait time, but, like, well...

On a sad note, another pair of pantyhose bit the dust today. I just noticed now; there is a rather large tear on my thigh. RIP pantyhose. I've enjoyed the feel and look of you tremendously since I bought you ONE WEEK AGO. Okay, who am I kidding, I'll continue to wear you until my leg is one big tear. Why? Because I'm a pantyhose-necrophiliac. And cheap.

This is Practicality. Over and out.

It's Friday, Friday

Things that are making me happy today:

• It's the last day of September, and yet it's 75 degrees (f) outside and sunny. I had to take my jacket off when I was walking home from school, and sweat was dripping from my forehead. I LOVED IT.
• It's Friday (Friday, gotta get down on Friday). Am I the only one who thinks that it's really sad that one can never speak that line now without hearing that dreadful song in their head? Or maybe I'm the only one who has that problem.
• Friday means NOT having to get up at 5.45am tomorrow. I could get used to that kind of life.
• Fallbreak is exactly two weeks away. HELLO, life is just great. 
• I found my The Sims 3 disc!!! Underneath my bed. Scratched as fuck. This is why we can't have nice things. 
• The Sims 3. Being able to play it.
• I bought a new tooth brush. 
• All the family-oriented shows aimed at seniors are being shown tonight. Another reason to love Fridays, not to mention having no life! 
• This video:

Also, what do you do when you want to loose weight in certain areas thighs, backside, but keep your breasts? Sorry to be so frank.