'S been pretty nice. I woke up this morning and wasn't exhausted as hell for once. Not like I went to bed any earlier than I ever do, but it was nice. Speech was a pain, but it turned out okay. I was got a 100% on the big test today, and I had my outline all ready to turn in and my demonstration speech ready to go in case the teach gave me a pop-speech. Which he did.

So I informed him I would need to hook up my computer to the projector. (An honor he did one of my classmates about three weeks prior.)

He frowned and said I should have taken care of that before class started. I informed him right back that I was unable to know when I should prepare ahead of class or not since HE is the one who decided to not tell us when we individually will be presenting. It shut him up real quick.

But since I had foiled THAT excuse, he goes "I don't wanna unhook their stuff." I told him I knew how to do it myself and he said no. No explanation of course, as usual. Just "no". So, being the resourceful girl I am, I put my file on a flash drive while he monologues and try it on the Windows computer. It doesn't work. Being ever STILL resourceful and refusing to give up (a feat NORMAL teachers would praise), I pick up the computer and inform him I will simply walk around as I demonstrate.

Nope. Can't do that. Why? Who knows. He's the king of no explanations.

So I sat down, embarrassed as hell, informing him I simply couldn't give my speech then. He tried to inform me that was horrible preparation, and I cam right back, not able to take it anymore, and said "It wasn't at all. I prepared a speech. I knew exactly what I needed and had what I needed to do it. You informed me I couldn't do that way, so I had a backup plan, that didn't work, and I had another back-up plan STILL. And you didn't want me to present it. I was COMPLETELY prepared for this speech."

He looked at me for a second and finally said "Well, anyway..." and went on. So I PWNED him, but I'm expecting a 0 in return. Oh well. I worked hard. Heaven forbid I end the semester with a 'B' for that.

So I was still embarrassed, but when he sent us up to the library on our own, my classmates came up to talk to me.

"Come on, it couldn'ta been THAT hard to let you hook it up!"

"What an asshole! He doesn't need to treat you like that!"

"I could tell you worked hard anyway, Chi. Well done."

So that not only wavered my embarrassment, but it felt really good too. Nearly all my speech classmates are adults, so they weren't just emo teenagers who agree that teachers are out to get you no matter what. I worked on my speech and thus spared myself homework over the weekend.

Clements Center finally opened again, so I was able to go swim for the first time in about four weeks. It was nice, I forgot how stress-relieving it is.

So now I'm sitting down with no homework to do, my favorite YouTube parody videos on my laptop screen, a giant slice of cheese pizza and soda from the lounge. (Glad I grabbed my wallet today.)

Looking forward to going home and playing Haunted Mansion on my gamecube, and then seeing Candy's play tomorrow night. Daddy and me are going to the movies on Saturday morning, and then Amanda's part is that night. I'm way excited!!

I'm glad things are good again. School isn't kicking my ass anymore and things are very mellow. Plus, I only have 8 more classes before this semester, and more importantly SPEECH CLASS, are all DONE!!!

-Chi <3