Not-so-great day

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I'm not feeling so great right now -- I took an advil, so hopefully that will help. Today I was in a pretty bad mood, too. I had a presentation in World Religions. I was in charge of the powerpoint, which was kind of weird because I was the only one who didn't have powerpoint at home. (Macs don't come with powerpoint!) But anyway, I downloaded a free trial version (which worked, thank goodness) and finished it. It was pretty simple, especially because I couldn't add animation or fancy fonts (b/c the fonts are different on my computer and the school's computers). The problem was, I couldn't "back it up" on a CD 'cause I don't have a burner, so one member said she'd burn it. I'd been emailing this powerpoint to everyone else and to myself so I could access it at school. This member doesn't burn it and today everyone's freaking out 'cause we don't have it and "we're going to get screwed if we just rely on hotmail." So they spend all of the lunch period in the library trying to save it to floppy discs (which never worked) and again, all freaking out, and I'm left there doing nothing and feel extremely frusterated because they're doing everything and... and it's like I didn't do my part and they have to jump in or something. Honestly, I was calm, 'cause I just knew it would work and wasn't worried. But also, after I've finished this thing, another girl from the group adds pictures and changes the background, like what I did wasn't sufficient! And, no offense, but to me, the colours looked kind of tacky (which is how I find a lot of powerpoints tend to look). Of course, that's probably b/c a) I think I really like visual appeal (graphic design and all) and b) I can be too much of a perfectionist. I don't know, the whole situation got me really mad, even though it wasn't much of a big deal. It's just, the powerpoint was MY thing (since they all worked on the model and covered all the important research) and it made me mad when they had to go "fix" it all. Oh, and even though we didn't have it on a CD or anything, we didn't get "screwed" -- it worked out just fine, I got into my inbox and downloaded the powerpoint, and it worked. So all that ranting and freaking out was for nothing. Argh! (Note: they never ranted AT me, I probably just took it too personally or whatever and for some reason this whole thing just really rubbed me the wrong way. Especially how this girl went and added these backgrounds...)

There. I think I'm done now. I just needed to get that out before the end of the day. It would have really helped to be able to rant when it was actually happening, but I couldn't really tell anyone else b/c I blew it out of proportion, I think. Plus, the one girl is so sweet and a good friend, and she works very hard at her work -- I didn't want to hurt her feelings by rejecting what she'd done (and she needed the extra pictures...) Not that that made any sense, lol...

At least school is almost over. Four more days, plus exams. Then -- drumroll -- no more school for two glorious months. :D

I hope I blog in here more. There are lots of little things I'd like to write about -- I should write in small chunks more regularly. I shall try to do that.

P.S. Like my new Alexis icon? Yeah, I know, everyone's been making icons of the new Seventeen photoshoot, but she's so pretty! :) And I really like how Alexis is so down-to-earth, not like some of these young Hollywood girls... (I read the article in Loblaws). Aw, and she and Milo Ventimiglia are going out :D