Saturday, September 9, 2006

yesterday

Yesterday, my phones were out from 10:30 AM until sometime this morning... So no post yesterday. I'm going to rant a little bit now. I had an hour and a half of creative writing yesterday, and early in the period I asked the teacher if we were allowed to have CD players and stuff, and she said that the office said that we were allowed only if she could prove that music would help our creativity, and if she could monitor what we were listening to. And we would all have to sign a waiver so that the office and my teacher wouldn't have to take any responsibility for our stuff if it got lost. How stupid is that?! I mean, the waiver I can understand, but how the hell are we supposed to prove that music stimulates our creativity? (I suggested I just sit there for an hour and a half and write nothing... My teacher didn't like that idea, but I ended up doing it anyways without intending to). It's so stupid. And how is the teacher supposed to monitor what we listen to? As one kid said, he has an ipod, and she would have to listen to every song on it to make sure none of it's bad, but then the next day he could come in with 80 different songs. What does it matter what we listen to, anyways? I mean, even if people listen to rap what with every other word needing bleeped, stopping them from listening to it at school wouldn't stop them from listening to it at home. It's just ridiculous. And I listen to music that's not even in English. How is she gonna monitor that that isn't "dangerous" or foul or whatever? I mean, she could look up the lyrics online or something... But you've got to be kidding me. So what she's gonna do, she's gonna look up some case studies and stuff on the internet and find proof of cases where creativity is stimulated by music... All I can find is stuff about Mozart. I am NOT going to listen to Mozart. I mean, classical music is fine, but I need rock. I need Kirito. He makes my brain happy, and a happy brain is far more cooperative than a tired grumpy one. But really. That's so dumb. Yeah, so partially due to that, the extent of an hour and a half of class was this: "Male, 20's, brown hair, green eyes, tan skin, tall, muscular." That was all I wrote in an hour and a half, and I'm not even kidding. So now, I'm gonna go work up some more characters. This novel I'm writing for that class needs a lot of work. At the rate it's going, it's gonna be extremely boring and/or short... So I need more characters, I need more plot, and I need... more sleep and less stress. I got six hours of sleep last night because I went to sleep at 3, but then something my mother did woke me up at like 9... She yelled or something because the power blinked out and deleted whatever she was doing on the computer. So I woke up. That's less sleep than I get on school days. On school days I sleep from 12 until 7. 7 hours. Last night I slept from 3 'til 9. Six hours. You're supposed to get MORE SLEEP ON WEEKENDS, NOT LESS!!! Grr. ~sj

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