Food and Sleep Deprivation

Going through life is tough. Believe me, I'm the stereotypical teenager who knows that everyone's lives revolve around me and that if anything is out of whack it's a dramatic tragedy. I've got one for you though - try going through life without food or sleep. My thoughts on the matter are that you would most likely perish rather quickly, and you wouldn't have much to whine about.

I'm not much on whining myself, but I sometimes deprive myself of both of these necessities for days. I don't blame anyone but myself, but during school or work when I can only think of sleeping (usually I don't think much about food), I get upset with myself for having stayed up to late and gotten up too early the night before. Reasons for my sleep deprivation include, but are not limited to excessive fun, talking to friends, homework, homework, talking to friends, homework, chatting it up with my friends, and homework. Reasons for not eating include falling asleep when I get home from lack of sleep and not eating dinner...it's a vicious cycle, as evident.

I know I have a problem, and I should probably try to curb it...but as I sit here thinking about why I wait so long to post my blog drafts, I realize that these are contributing to this bad cycle. If I would simply post my drafts when I finish them instead of waiting until the end of the month, I wouldn't have to remember to post them all the time nor would I waste the time posting them all at the same time while I could be doing other things (SLEEPING!).

Dakota

Prom

Prom is coming up this Saturday. Am I excited you ask? My response: might as well be, I just spent $200 dollars for one night, haha. Honestly, dances aren’t really my thing and up until last week, I didn’t think I was going. Then I decided to give in to peer pressure and go anyway. Because I waited so long, however, everything I had to do was rushed. Between work and school and other engagements, I had to find time to order a tux and shoes and flowers. But I got it done and I’m just ready to go to the Riverpark and enjoy myself now (hoping the 200 bucks will be worth it).

As far as having a fun time goes, I don't think I'll have any problems...my friends are pretty much the greatest at keeping me happy and upbeat, even in situations less than desirable. And it's gotta be exciting, right? I mean the prom committee has been planning this since January...hopefully they did a good job. And through writing this I have realized that this has become one of my major ramble posts...I didn't think it would happen!

For everyone, pray there is no bad weather! The wretched weatherman is forecasting it, but it's a night of elegance! We can't have rain and storms then!

Dakota

KOM Training

KOM training was today. To say the least, I am glad I decided to become a freshman mentor. I had so much fun with all the activities we did today. First, hats off to Mr. Lee, he was pretty great at getting us motivated and ready to stuff. Second, I say thank you to Mrs. Conkwright for making this all happen.

Now on to the details!

First, Mr. Lee had all of the KOM's fill out bingo cards with other people's names who fit the criteria in each box. The objective was to get to know more people (and get 3 bingos) I ended up 88th out of a little over a hundred....I was quite ashamed of myself, but oh well haha. Then we played the game Mr. Lee called the "High School" game, where people must bunch up in groups of how ever many people Mr. Lee called out, and if you were left out of a group when he blew the whistle, you lost and had to stand away from the rest of the action. I did pretty well in that I suppose.

Then we had story time!

After story time, we began learning a really cool dance. This and the "High School" game were my favorite activities. The order of events blur in my memory from here, but there was a hand slapping game that involved the calling out and remembering of other people's names, and some paper work that wasn't as fun, but didn't really detract from the day in general. Overall, I had a great time, and I hope my freshman benefit because of my effort today at training. FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION FOR MY FRESHMEN!

Dakota

Spring Break Numero Dos

So this post is pretty much a summary of my spring break, which I blogged about earlier.

First I went to my dad's house, where I soon realized that I was going to be doing a little manual labor to start off my week of relaxation. Yes, dad finally bought the house in Indy and we started moving our furniture in the garage up there. I got to ride up in the big moving truck which was pretty cool.

I got to my new house and was astonished...it was huge! Outside of my uncle's house (a doctor), this was the biggest house I had ever been in. It was really pretty too and I couldn't have asked for a better exterior. The foliage was perfect and it was right on a lake.

Anyway, once we finished moving all of the furniture from the truck to the house, I finally got to start relaxing. I pretty much had to veg out as we didn't have any food except for the snacks we packed for the ride up. Me and dad immediately hooked up the 55" downstairs and tapped into the analog channels (actually, we watched the NCAA men's basketball championship off of them).

I visited colleges, as I said earlier, and I was thoroughly convinced that Purdue sucked and that IU was my dream school!

Tornado warnings were out that Wednesday in our area. Fun night.

On Thursday, my dad and I headed for Lexington and stayed in a hotel there for my campus visit to UK the next day.

Then Friday, I came back to my real home and life was good....except that spring break was over. Oh well, satisfactory is the grade I would give it. Much was accomplished.

Dakota

Youtube

What more is there to say, honestly? Youtube is about the greatest website known to man. It’s one of my most visited websites (after Facebook) because, let’s face it, you can find virtually anything you’re “looking” for there. If you want funny videos, clips from real-life movies, maybe even a lesson on that song you just can’t quite get on the guitar, Youtube is your man/website. I honestly think I have probably watched about every kind of video on Youtube, and fail to be bored by the sheer number of videos available or the fact that the service is absolutely free! Seriously, where else does one find this kind of opportunity?

And it's not just other people's videos! You yourself can set up an account in about five minutes and instantly begin taping vids for all the world to see! I still have yet to do so but I definitely will soon. I don't know, I just felt like blogging about one of the greatest innovations in Internet technology ever!

To the makers of Youtube, thank “You!”

Dakota