Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Procrastination

Hi friends,
Well multiple people told me that my blog is a super bad idea because there is no theme. If someone reads this they don't improve their intelligence or improve their lifestyle or anything like that. So I guess this blog is just doomed to fail.
Whatevs.
I have a huge science paper due tomorrow. I was planning on getting home and just sitting at my desk and plowing through the thing; like I'm a tractor or something. But no. That didn't happen.
I realized I had a two hour clarinet lesson before I could do anything. TWO HOURS. Of course I had barely practiced this week, like most weeks. Assassins Creed occupies a lot of my time at this moment. I was doing chamber music with another of my teachers students for the second hour of my lesson. I had been nervous because I thought she was going to upstage me, but we were pretty even. Phew.
I think my mind has already decided that it's winter break, so since monday I've been watching hours of Gossip Girl and playing hours of Assassins Creed III (Where you get to be a native american and it's awesome).
So anyway I still have a third of the paper to write. When I got home from clarinet lessons I realized that I had a commitment. A HUGE commitment, one even more important than the science paper. Yes. You knew it. I had to bake cookies for my spanish class party tomorrow. I just finished doing that. I'm a god at cookie making. I can finish in under thirty minutes, and they taste professional. Because my cookies are the real deal.
I think from now on my posts will be funny. Because I don't want the few visitors of this blog to be bored or anything.....
Anyway.
That is all.

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Ballrooming

I think I've found a major theme for this blog. Complaining. Which I really like doing.
At this point I'm not really expecting anyone I don't know to read this blog, so I'm not going to try hard to make myself seem cool.
Right now I am on my third week of ballroom dancing in gym class. I have to complete a total of 6 weeks of dance. And I'm being 100% truthful when I say that dancing is not my forte, to be more truthful I suck. Maybe it has to do with the fact that I have no coordination, and as one of my dance partners said "it's really hard to dance when Julia is screaming in my face." But I'm just going to say that I'm enthusiastic.
Today I wore mint green tights under my maroon and gray gym clothing because I was too lazy to take them off. Paired with my five year old gray and blue sketchers (from the kids section of sports authority) these tights made me look incredibly unfashionable.
What added to the miserableness of dance class was our starting exercise. Sit ups combined with the macarena is bad enough, but push ups combined with that gym class classic was just too much. My push up skills are bad enough, but push ups combined with my terrible dancing was cringe worthy.
More about dance class coming up in the near future!

More Camels

Me and my brother riding camels
Camel riding obviously suits me better than it suits my brother

Monday, December 17, 2012

Angry Camel

That is one badass camel.

North Side Bus

I just want to make one thing clear. This is a blog about myself. Me. Julia Hedges. So I'm going to be incredibly self centered and just talk about myself. All the time.
So today I took the bus home from school, which is around a 30 minute ride. If someone filmed the inside of the bus they could use that footage to represent a bunch of kids being driven to an insane asylum. For one there are the middle schoolers, a bunch of obnoxious kids who yell inappropriate things and take up the seats in the back just to piss the high schoolers off. Some of the stuff those kids say makes me want to hit them (obviously I don't because that would be mean). There are the freshman class, comprised of me and my friends, who despise the middle schoolers and harass them just as much as they harass us. Then there are the upperclassmen who sit unhappily and silently with their laptops open.
Today my friend Julius forcibly picked up an 8th grader who had been taking up a whole two seats, curled up in a fetal position, and dropped him unceremoniously two seats away.  I am ashamed to say this, but I felt like we needed some kind of activity. So we played classic girly campy bus games: would you rather, never have I ever, MFK. As Julius put it, the games meant nothing seeing that we were "the saddest group of people ever".
I agree. It was pretty sad.

Sunday, December 16, 2012

Camels

This is a doodle I created during my own time after school. Winter break is one week away and the math homework load is winding down, so I have some extra time.

Day 1

Hey internet!
I never had imagined that I would start a blog, but here I am.
And what is the reason for this blog? Well I'm a high school freshman, living in Chicago (the city, not the suburbs), and I think I'm pretty cool. I've edited this post like 5 times because I can't decide what this blog is going to be about. So I guess I'll just make it up as I go along.
Thanks to everyone who visits this blog!
-Julia