Last night, I talked to my mom about how I used to be an academic weapon, and now I’m an academic victim. This is due to procrastination. I can make up the best excuses for not doing my homework. I used to just go on my phone, clean my room, or maybe make food. But recently, I have been getting advanced in my procrastination strategies. Now, instead of that, I will do an assignment from a different class instead of the one I need to do. I tell myself it’s not procrastinating because I’m getting work done. I actually need to stop doing this, especially with world notes, because it has caused me to do poorly on SAQs, and I also still haven’t done notes from like 2 weeks ago. Overall I’m pretty behind in all my classes, but at the end of the day, I usually get things in on time, but it’s extremely stressful. Last week we had a notebook check, and I was up till 3 a.m. doing notes. Anyway, it’s Thursday and this isn’t due until Friday so technically, I didn’t procrastinate this one.
I wish I had a soul tie. I wish I had a person who was just there for me, and I could be there for. I wish there was someone who understood how I felt when I was alone. I want to know someone better than they know themselves. I know everyone has one, but when do I find mine? I think I’m looking for this feeling of connection that doesn’t actually exist. I really don’t know what it feels like to have that, or maybe I do. Maybe I am romanticizing the idea but it doesn’t actually exist. I keep trying to look at these things on a deeper level, but what if it just isn’t that deep? I don’t ever want to convince myself of something that isn’t real, even though I want so bad for it to be real. Or maybe I should just keep being delulu.
The butterfly effect is affecting my life. One small change and my whole life is different. New doors opened. New relationships are forming. And new butterflies flutter around in my life. The feeling as if butterflies are flying around inside of me. I feel like running through an open field of happiness. Sadness fled through the field at one point but now the field has drained. New things are coming into the field of happiness. There will always be flood and downpour but sunny days come of it. My mind and me urge to find the good in everything and everyone. I found the good. The good people come to those that wait. The good memories come to those who wait. Even if this is not the peak moment in life…Live as if it was. Feel the butterflies swarming inside of you when you try new things. Let the bad occurrences in life become the butterfly effect. Let the butterfly effect lead you to the happiness. From the butterfly effect comes with loss but a gain in the end. Recently the butterflies inside of me have been overwhelmed of nerves, excitement, and stress. The nerves come from new beginnings. The excitement comes from the recurring dates with the person who makes me so happy right now. And the stress comes from the problems all around. Personally the feeling of excitement or happiness is the best butterfly feeling. The butterfly effect causes the feeling of butterflies from within.
Shin splints are a prevalent issue among athletes, caused by repetitive pressure and stress on the tibialis and the tibialis anterior tendons. This often happens when increasing the intensity of your training or if you have just begun training. Medically referred to as “medial tibial stress syndrome,” shin splints can cause symptoms like soreness, tenderness, and pain. These symptoms can mostly be treated with ice and lowering your training intensity, and trying to build up to where you want to be. However, if these symptoms are left unchecked, it can cause a stress reaction, which is a defense mechanism the body does under intense stress either physical or mental, and stress fracture in the foot, tibia, or even hip. The reason it can occur in the hip is the same reason a building will collapse if part of the support is taken out. With a weak base (the tibula in this case), then the whole structure will be weak. The hip will start compensating and having to much strain on it, causing micro fractures. These micro-fractures will often cause significantly more pain and rarely get treated due to the pain being not intense enough to go see a medical professional.
With your body undergoing your new style of training, it causes issues in your tendons and muscles but how does one fix this? Oftentimes times, the simplest treatment is the most effective for treating shin splints with ice and decreased intensity however, if your symptoms get check in with your doctor to try and fix the issue. However, it will most likely cause you to stop engaging in intense physical activities for a while.
My favorite color is and always has been yellow, but pink is the prettiest and navy blue is my favorite to wear as of now. My favorite show for all of middle school, into high school and even to this day is Dance Moms. My other two favorite shows are Keeping Up with the Kardashians and Gossip Girl. Currently I’m watching the Real Housewives of NYC. When I was little I loved Dora and my favorite Disney princess was The Little Mermaid/Ariel. My favorite sport is volleyball but I don’t really like playing anymore because it’s just upsetting. Up through my freshman year I played competitively my whole life and high school softball that one year. I used to play catcher when I was younger but my knees couldn’t handle it anymore so I became a third baseman. I was diagnosed with diabetes at the end of 6th grade. I repeated Kindergarten because I had a hard time reading and it was “highly suggested that I repeat”. In first grade I was in an afternoon reading program called “Reading with the Dogs” to help me try to catch up and get some extra practice in. I’ve never broken a bone. I’m a middle child. I have a sister who is 17 months older and a brother who is 17 months younger than me. I’m closer with my brother than with my sister. My family puts scratcher lottery tickets in easter eggs for easter egg hunts. I got bit by a dog in Ohio the summer going into Junior Year and had to get stitches through my lip. If I could meet one person alive or dead I would want to meet my mom when she was my age. I love heights and have always wanted to go skydiving. I bought an inflatable cow costume for an AP European History class presentation about pasteurization in my Sophomore Year. I like having late night conversations. My favorite ice cream flavor is coffee. I love pickles.
Every week for journalism class, we have to write a blog. It is actually getting a bit annoying, and we are only on Blog #5. I know some other people actually really like the blogs, but I feel like I always have a hard time coming up with the topic of the week. My ideas are either way too broad and boring or way too personal. Also, I always forget about the blogs until around ten or eleven on Friday night. This is really scary because I have to quickly go through the process of writing an entire blog and go through the struggles of choosing a topic in the span of about twenty minutes before it turns twelve. In conclusion, I hate blogs, and I’m going to make this exactly 150 words to spite the word minimum. Thank you for listening to my speech, and have a wonderful night.
Since school began this fall, I have been so sleep-deprived and I don’t know how to give myself enough time to sleep and get everything else done. I find myself taking short naps in the middle of the day because of my exhaustion. My issue with my lack of sleep is that I stay up late doing homework but because of how late I stay up and how tired I am, I don’t process anything as I’m doing it. When I’m in class the next day, I’m always too tired to focus. It feels like a never-ending cycle that I’m hoping will end soon. I try drinking energy drinks at night and during the day, but it just makes me feel even worse and grosser. I need to find a way to stop procrastinating and get work done as soon as possible because I won’t be able to live like this much longer.
I have a very wonderful friend. She is always on my side. What I like about her is that I feel comfortable with her. When I first came to study abroad and saw her for the first time, my impression of her was that she was cute and kind. I didn’t understand English at all, so when I went to breakfast, I always wanted to be her friend so I tried to ask her, “Can I sit next to you?”, which I had checked with a translator beforehand. She had a lot of friends and was a high-class person to me. It was at the end of 9th grade that I became closer to her. In 10th grade, we became roommates, and I got to know her better. She usually works very hard in her studies, but when I put on music, she sings and shares the good times. I have known her for three years now, and we are so close that I consider her a childhood friend. I feel safe to talk to her about anything, and she accepts everything about me. I have many memories with her, but I really enjoyed her visit to my country this summer. She is so important to me that I cannot imagine my school life without her. I am very thankful to her for being my best friend. I want to make many memories with her in the future. And I wish her a wonderful life from now on.
In my 16 years of life, I have lived in four different states. Florida, California, Louisiana, and Arizona. Living in these places has taught me many things, especially how different environments can affect you. I was born in Boca Raton, Florida, and I had only lived there until I was two and a half. The main things that I remember from living here were the extreme humidity and the really loud toads outside of our house. I know that is not much that I can remember, but I was very young when I lived here. I last visited Florida many years ago, but let’s just say I do not have much of a desire to return.
After living in Florida, I moved to Los Angeles, California. I have lived in California for most of my life, and I definitely know and love it most. Los Angeles is not always as glamorous as it looks in movies, (especially central Hollywood), but I still really have a love for it. There are so many spots in Los Angeles that just spark memories for me. It really is a special place that will always be in my heart no matter where I move to in my future.
I lived in Louisiana for 5 months every year for three years, and I moved there because my brother was cast in a TV show. Although I did make some great memories, I would not want to live there again. There is a lot of fried food there as well. I remember that I had refused to try crawfish the entire time that I lived in Louisiana, but unfortunately, on my last month living there, I realized how good crawfish tasted. I’m still sad about it.
Living in Arizona did not feel real to me at all. I lived in Scottsdale starting in 2017, and oh my gosh was it hot. I can just remember stepping outside and feeling like I was drying up from the heat and sun. There was also a dust storm when I lived there, which I found really cool as a ten-year-old. I do remember living in fear of jumping cacti, though. Whenever I went on a hike, I would try and get as far away from any cactus that I saw, which is really difficult in Arizona because they are everywhere. Arizona is a really beautiful place with great locations to visit, and I am very grateful that I got to live there for nine months.
I don’t think I could live without my phone. It’s genuinely so motivating. The first thing I do in the morning is check my phone, and the last thing I do is check my phone. There is nothing I spend more time on throughout the day than my phone. My mom is making me turn in my phone at 10:30 now because she says I’m a “screenager,” what she doesn’t understand is why I use it so much. I honestly don’t like people at my school very much there are a few good ones, but overall, most of my friends are out of school, and a lot live in Ventura. The people at OVS are just not similar to me, and I’ve never had a large group of school friends. I go to school and do my work and then go home, and that’s it. This is besides the point, my screen time, my most used application is Snapchat. I use Snapchat seven hours a day on average. The majority of my time on snap, I am communicating with my friends, and this is something that is extremely important to me. As a person who lives in Ojai and has no weekday free time, texting is what keeps my outside-of-school friendships alive. My weekly screen time average is 13 hours, and that’s probably an issue, but I love my phone. I can not live without music, and my Spotify screen time is one hour. My phone keeps me going, and I don’t know what I would do without it. I hope my mom forgets to take my phone.
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