I don't really like the Americanized version of Chinese food but for whatever reason, my family does. They always bring me a fortune cookie, though, because I love those. I once got one that said something along the lines of, "You're the cookie now. Open yourself up." It was weird at the time, but I think that's the one I've listened to the best. I wish I didn't, though. I thought, 'maybe it wants me to try new things'. Call it over dramatic, claiming that a cookie is at fault for this claustrophobia, but it's true. Every time someone would tell me, 'I wanna take this class but no one wants to take it with me. I don't wanna be the only one there!,' I would automatically take it as a sign from the cookie.
"I'll take that class with you!," I would say. I'm in some deep trouble now, let me tell you. Jake thinks I should do chorus. Yeah, okay, sounds like fun. Natalie wants to take 'Heroine's Journey.' That looks cool. I'll join you. 'Let's join book club,' says Ana. 'UNICEF club. We gotta help the children!' Thanks, Club Member X, who was running the UNICEF stand. Sign me up. Look's like Jake's back with a 'You'd love Drama Club' which was, of course, followed up with a 'you should audition, you'd make a great Stephane.'
Now because of the cookie, I'm stressed out to the max. We have to learn so many songs for chorus, which I guess isn't so bad. We have until December. But our teacher doesn't know what he wants with one song and taught us another one completely wrong. Heroine's Journey (No offense, Ms. Gillis) is the first honors class I've taken since I don't even know when. Vocab, four page essays, a blog, and weekend homework (again, no hard feelings). The books (which are very good books, I'm sure) also overlap with the one I picked for leisure, and the one I'm reading for book club. Book club is run by a bunch of teenagers, which doesn't go over all that well. UNICEF is great and we have matching tee shirts, but meetings are all over the school and sometimes we have them and sometimes we don't. Don't even get me started on the bake sale! Even though I've never acted before, I'm an understudy and part of the ensemble, so I have those meetings to go to for almost no reason.
That doesn't even include the things I'm not doing. I used to come home and do things with my hands or listen to music or watch a movie with my sister. Now I don't write or draw like I used to. I don't watch full length movies. Just some TV shows here and there. There are so many books on my shelf I've been trying to get to. I haven't worked out or shadowboxed or anything like that for so long. My arms are squishy again. And on top of all that, I just spent all this time complaining when I could have been doing something more productive like sleeping or procrastinating. I've been doing that a lot lately too. I can't believe my senior year got this crazy because of a cookie. Speaking of senior year, I also need to get my future planned out eventually. Yikes.
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