Afterthoughts On Turning 17...
Yea...nothing.
When you turn 16, it's like this enormously huge deal and you feel so different.
When you turn 17, you don't.
But it's okay, because I know that I can legally do some stuff now. Such as...
Well, yea, the obvious one. I can legally go and watch an R-rated movie. But everyone gets like wicked hyped about that one. I was for about 45 seconds, and then realized that I NEVER go to the movies anyway, and when I do it's always to see a non-rated R movie.
And, as of the 28th, I can legally drive people around. Not like it's really that much of a freedom, since I've been doing it since mid-December anyway, but I suppose it's a bit of a comfort to understand that what I am doing isn't illegal anymore.
And now the countdown begins to my 18th birthday. Just 362 more days. Ha ha ha.
So, at school we had the awards ceremony on Friday. I was pumped. I won an "Excellence In Three Subjects" award for French III-H, Calc AP, and Physics. I probably would have gotten Ethics/Social Justice too, but Mr. Hayes lazily forgot to turn his in. I also won a collegiate book award from Fairfield University. Don't exactly know what it is, but the top 20 GPAs in the junior class get them, so I suppose it's a good thing.
This weekend has REALLY sucked. My birthday party was great, but it's been downhill since then. Friday, I worked from 4:30 to 9:45 ON THE FRONT END. Grr. I hate the front end. At night's end it was down to me, Linda Connors, Kathy Swanton, Heather Staples, and Mark. Lovely times.
Saturday wasn't too bad. Since it's Memorial Day Weekend, we can wear basically whatever we want to work as long as it's red, white, or blue. So I wore my red button-down shirt. It felt nice to not be drowned in hunter green. Jenn Ricci called the desk at like 8:10 to see if I could cover her break when I finished at the desk. So I did. I was scheduled 4:30-8:30, but I really was there until just after 9:00.
Today, working 2-7.
Monday, going to go to SSH to get my fun ID badge. I start community service there a week from Tuesday!
Tuesday, Steve's coming over after his exam and we're gonna study for the Physics exam.
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: EXAMS!
And Eric...you wanna know what's bothering me? Why don't you just find out from Megan. I'm not in the mood to get in a big argument with you about it right now.
When you turn 16, it's like this enormously huge deal and you feel so different.
When you turn 17, you don't.
But it's okay, because I know that I can legally do some stuff now. Such as...
Well, yea, the obvious one. I can legally go and watch an R-rated movie. But everyone gets like wicked hyped about that one. I was for about 45 seconds, and then realized that I NEVER go to the movies anyway, and when I do it's always to see a non-rated R movie.
And, as of the 28th, I can legally drive people around. Not like it's really that much of a freedom, since I've been doing it since mid-December anyway, but I suppose it's a bit of a comfort to understand that what I am doing isn't illegal anymore.
And now the countdown begins to my 18th birthday. Just 362 more days. Ha ha ha.
So, at school we had the awards ceremony on Friday. I was pumped. I won an "Excellence In Three Subjects" award for French III-H, Calc AP, and Physics. I probably would have gotten Ethics/Social Justice too, but Mr. Hayes lazily forgot to turn his in. I also won a collegiate book award from Fairfield University. Don't exactly know what it is, but the top 20 GPAs in the junior class get them, so I suppose it's a good thing.
This weekend has REALLY sucked. My birthday party was great, but it's been downhill since then. Friday, I worked from 4:30 to 9:45 ON THE FRONT END. Grr. I hate the front end. At night's end it was down to me, Linda Connors, Kathy Swanton, Heather Staples, and Mark. Lovely times.
Saturday wasn't too bad. Since it's Memorial Day Weekend, we can wear basically whatever we want to work as long as it's red, white, or blue. So I wore my red button-down shirt. It felt nice to not be drowned in hunter green. Jenn Ricci called the desk at like 8:10 to see if I could cover her break when I finished at the desk. So I did. I was scheduled 4:30-8:30, but I really was there until just after 9:00.
Today, working 2-7.
Monday, going to go to SSH to get my fun ID badge. I start community service there a week from Tuesday!
Tuesday, Steve's coming over after his exam and we're gonna study for the Physics exam.
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: EXAMS!
And Eric...you wanna know what's bothering me? Why don't you just find out from Megan. I'm not in the mood to get in a big argument with you about it right now.