Sunday, August 12, 2007

The Results Are In...

...And my first summer of being a complete slacker was an ill-chosen one. to be sure it rarely pays to slack, but when your summer to-do list includes:
  • painting a 3'x4' acrylic landscape for my mom in a style and color scheme I rarely use
  • finishing a watercolor of part of my house which includes trying to remedy the mistakes I made when I wanted to finish it in two days and was unsuccessful
  • reading a 50-page French comic book and doing a 10-page packet on it (I can understand the comic just fine, but I can't understand what half the questions the teacher is asking even mean)
  • reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Grapes of Wrath, which would be fantastic if I didn't have to do so much writing for both of them
  • completely redesigning a 30'x90' elementary school courtyard and planning how/when to tear it all down, carry-out the new plans, get the needed materials, and find enough workers
  • helping get a girls' accountability group off the ground
  • getting my DnD character ready for Red Hand of Doom
  • coming up with a design for a class t-shirt when I really have no idea what to do considering how much my interests deviate from those of most of my classmates
  • outlining as many chapters of my AP Biology book as possible because we have to have all 50-some outlined by the test in May
  • and getting my drivers license which involves taking drivers' ed, in-car class hours, and finishing my 50 hours with my temps.
Add things such as CIY (even though it was fantastic), two family vacations, and various other commitments, and I chose the worst summer to try out being a slacker. Out of that entire list, I've finished all the reading a writing for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and I've done 9 chapters of my biology book. I've at least started all of them except for finishing the watercolor painting, but I've still got a boatload of stuff to finish in 10 days. Let's hope I've learned my lesson.

5 comments:

Christina said...

Congratulations on attempting to be a slacker. You are well on your way to joining the slackers club of which I am proud president of. Sometimes being a slacker sucks cause I always get yelled at because of it. Oh well. Two more years and I can live my life the way I want it instead of how my parents want it. We should hang sometime soon. I hope we have at least one class together.

maria said...

We'd best. Can't we get our schedules starting Wednesday?

Christina said...

We et our schedules this week. But im not gonna be home til like Saturday. So I wont get mine til next week sadly. Maybe someone could get mine for me and I can get it from then when im home so I know what my schedule is before next week.

maria said...

I can see if they'll let me get yours too. Text me around 9 am Ohio time tomorrow to remind me if you can.

Chad said...

Being a slacker isn't all that bad. I am a success story (Not because I have successfully overcome slacking, but because I think I have figured out a way to be successful while slacking). To prove it, I'm supposed to be at work in 5 minutes.