Doin' the Flipside

Song: Fake It by Seether,  Somewhere I Belong by Linkin Park, & Headstrong by Trapt
Time: 9:55
Mood: Goin' Strong

I didn't want the only blog I posted today to be negative, so I decided to post another. This could be a borderline obsessive blogger thing to do, but whatever. I like to write. I might even be a compulsive sharer. Oh well, more for you to ogle at, hm? Haha.

Anyway, I do love my life when my mom isn't being so rude to me. She can be nice sometimes, you know. Everyone has their good and bad sides. Except Mother Teressa. She was the epitome of sainthood. Anyway, I do love my mom and my dad, though I do do a lot for them and sometimes they don't seem to notice.

One of the things to get my mind off of the bad things that happen is writing, or music. Obviously, since I put the music I'm listening to as I WRITE this.


Speaking of writing, I had the most epically freaky dream ever the other night. I won't go into gruesome detail (unless someone was to comment and ask), but it was pretty gross. Lots of blood and guts and gore. It was so weird, that I just might in fact try to make a novel out of it.

Anyway, here are some of my blessings I should be counting every day, ones I thought of when I made this blog will be in the same font as this. Every day after this, the fonts will change as I think of them. Here they are, not in any particular order except for maybe the first 10:

1. I'm alive
2. My family
3. Friends
4. Will
5. The fact I have an education, and am continuing to further myself
6. I have food every day, not every other day or once a week like some people in the world
7. I have clean water
8. There is clean air where I live (for the most part)
9. I live in the country
10. I do not live in poverty, though we do sometimes struggle to get by
11. I respect money
12. I have opportunities
13. I have freedoms not given in any other country in the world
14. I have people who love me
15. I am NOT a psychopathic killer (Hey, it might sound silly, but I wouldn't want to be one)

Do Better

Right now, I'm listening to Do Better by Say Anything, courtesy of Pandora. It kind of made me feel better after the reviews I just read.  I just got my UIL results, and needless to say, I am not happy with them. For those of you who do not know what UIL is, well, it's United Interschoolastic League (I'm pretty sure that's what it is), and it's a huge deal in Texas, if it's not in your states too, and I love doing it. I participate in a lot of events every year, and sometimes get placed in others just because!
Well, my favorite thing to do is write, and those are the main events that I do - News, Feature, and Editorial Writing is what I participate in. I also compete in Computer Applications (which is using Word, Access, and Excel; if you have a BCIS class, you know what I'm referring to). Anyhow, I usually place in more than one event, and, this year, I placed in only one - one that I got in just this year! You would think that I would have placed in any of the writing ones, or the Computer, but no. I placed in Literary Criticism. I'm not complaining that I did, I'm just upset that I didn't in my writing events.
After finding out my results a few months ago, I was disappointed enough. Then, to rub it in, I got the actual writings I did, and the teachers' supposed constructive criticism. One featured a statement saying "You need to work on the editorial format and take a stronger stance." This is fine. This kind of criticism is perfect for me. Then, reading further, she (I'm assuming it is a she, as the writing is curly and feminine), said my stance was very passive, and my solution to the problem in the prompt was too passive as well. It's an Editorial Writing! You cannot go out and say "Hey, screw your statement, I do what I want!" My writing was "elegant" and well thought-out. It wasn't brash or harsh. I try to keep it neat.
Then, reading from the same paper, she said "Where did this come from?" This really doesn't make sense to you, the reader, because you haven't seen the prompt. The most I can tell you, without being even more long-winded than I already have been is that (clearly) in the prompt I was given to write from there was something about the marching band wanting new uniforms, and I used that in my writing. However, the grader, must have not read the prompt thoroughly. All in all, this was disappointing enough, and to read my other competitive entry (also graded by the same person), said the same thing about another statement I said in my paper. How can you grade something when you haven't even read the prompt?
People like this annoy me so much! And, I'm sorry to who ever may read this as it could be seen as tl;dr, but I had to get this off my chest. Anyway, more to be written later.

Hope you all are having an amazing day. :)