Electronic High School

Despite how awesome it sounds, taking online classes is a living hell. I mean, sounds nice to be able to take English at home in your Pj's eating ice cream, right? No! NOT nice! It is so easy to get behind in these classes. I mean, you'll be coasting along doing only enough assignments to keep you from getting kicked off the roll. Everything is fine and you're not really worried about it. Until one day you wake up, and Hey, You're 2 bloody quarters behind! Suddenly, you're in a panic with you're parents sitting on your lap daily screaming at you to get caught up! No more lazy Sundays reading Calvin & Hobbes for you! Work, work, work!
It's so ridiculously easy to forget about online classes. It's impossible to forget to attend you're AP World History class at school, but when it's online, you just coast around on a strict computer diet of Facebook and Sims2. The internet holds wonder and glory for you. Until, of course it suddenly hits you that "Oh, I'm not going to graduate. I didn't take that World History class, did I?"
It's like some sort of poor joke, or maybe more like a nightmare. You're wearing no shoes being chased by giant spiders through Hogwarts Forbidden Forest. Until you're sucked into a Windows Computer. Then you're wandering about the internet, updating Facebook and stumbling about on Google Images. Then everything goes dark, and you're on SIS, checking you're grades. Suddenly, you're principal walks up to you. "No graduation for you! Mwahaha!" Everything starts spinning, and you finally remember: EHS! Nooooo. . . And wake up in a cold sweat. (Nooo, of course I haven't had that dream. *Loud eye-roll* )
Then once you factor in the fact that you're taking 3 online classes that you may or may not have completely forgotten about, you're pretty much screwed. Like me. :/
Since I remembered EHS, I've been working practically non-stop on the stupid thing. Then a couple of weeks ago, my Algebra 2 teacher got cancer and went on sick leave. The School principal, Dr Donaldson (Or as us students so "fondly" call him Voldemort) stupidly decided "Lets put these students in an Online Class!
It's called Aleks, and is apparently very effective. Or at least Voldemort thinks so. Now, we all spend most of our class time on the computer pretending to work. I'm pretty sure one of these days, technology will take over, and we'll end up in some sort of Matrix situation. Or the computer monitors will suck us up, and we'll spend the rest of our days inside the internet while our young 16 year old bodies deteriorate in the real world. They'll be sorry then. Or not.
Real Class Total: 1. Online Class Total: 4. This is ridiculous.

A Little Story. . .

A few months ago, my friend wrote to me over Facebook, telling me how much she loved me, and how grateful she was to know me. She then disappeared for a couple minutes. When she came back, I asked her what was up. She told me how sad she was, and how much she just wanted to die. She said she just took a bunch of sleeping pills, and was ready to die. I started crying, and told her that I wished I could be there for her and if she survived this, I promised to be a better friend for her. For only a couple minutes we talked, and I told her how sorry I was she felt that way, and that I understood. She wrote: "I'm going to go to the hospital. Thank you, for everything."
I will never, ever forget how glad I am that I was online when I was. I can't imagine my life without her in it, and I just hope I can be there for people when they feel alone and really need someone, like I was that night.

Well, would you look at that? I'm Mrs Lovett!

So as I'm moseying about my posts, I noticed I hadn't written anything about a play I'm playing the lead part in, and I thought, this is ridiculous! My entire life has been centered around this part, and yet I haven't even written a post on my blog for it! So here we go.
A couple of months ago, I auditioned for my High School's production of Sweeney Todd. I hoped to have the lead, but I didn't expect much. This is only my 2nd play I've ever even been in, and I kind of figured I would just give it a try, and maybe work backstage. And, what do you know? I got the lead!
For those unfamiliar of Sweeney Todd, here's a little overview for y'all. A talented barber named Benjamin Barker lived in London with his young wife and brand new baby girl. His wife, Lucy, was a beauty and Benjamin wasn't the only one who thought so. A "pious vulture of the law", Judge Turpin lusted after her like you wouldn't believe. He asked her again and again to give him favor, but she was committed to her family. So the Judge Turpin sent Benjamin Barker out of London for life on a trumped up charge. He then tricked Lucy into seeing him one night, when he raped her. She ended up poisoning herself with arsenic. The Judge took Johanna, their daughter and kept her as his own.
15 years later, Benjamin Barker returned to London with the alias of Sweeney Todd. He came back to find his family and be with them, but he meets a widow, Mrs Lovett (Who allegedly had always had a 'thing' for him". She informed him of his family, and he swears to kill the judge in revenge. Obviously they're both barking mad. While he waits for the perfect opportunity to the judge, he starts a nasty little business with Mrs Lovett, wherein he take clients to barber, and then slits they're throat with his razor. Mrs Lovett, who owns a pie shop below his barber shop, bakes Sweeney's victims into pies and serves them to happily paying customers.
The musical is very dark (obviously), but it offers so much more than that. There's love, lies, and surprises behind every corner. I would tell you one, but then it wouldn't be a surprise anymore. Anyways, I love playing the part and I have to admit my entire life is pretty much centered on this play. It's hard work, and I absolutely LOVE it.