Nerdy time

Itseems that I always have some Nerd Convention coming around the corner, ha but not anymore because yesterday wasmy very last one (of this year)! It was our state “competition” and took placeat an undisclosed location (which is my favorite university); unfortunately toget there on time I had to get up at about 5 in the morning. As with most ofthese nerd convention there was a part that I really loved and enjoyed, theportion that I’m undecided about and don’t forget the always prevalentdownside.
I“competed” in the Anatomy, Crime Busters (forensics) and Food Science events,which I loved. *Morbid Alert* In our Anatomy event there was parts of acadaver! I was kind of excited and disappointed because it wasn’t a wholecadaver, like last year, but a girl’s got to work with what she’s got! It wasreally funny though, when I finished my section of the test I just lookedaround and a lot of girls looked green, some were covering their noses and a fewrefused to look! Just so you don’t think I’m a complete weirdo the first time Isaw a cadaver I didn’t like the smell (of course, no one likes the smell ofdead people) and nor did I like the idea of having to poke around in someone’sbody. Of course that wasn’t my favorite event or part of the day, but it was prettyhigh up there on my list of highlights. 

Afterspending most of my day running around the locationI got to just chill, and get free stuff! We were given nine dollar vouchers tospend on food, and at first the line seemed way to long so Moogle Kid and Iwent around and got random stuff from colleges and universities that were “recruiting”kids that were interested in them. That meant grabbing pens, candy, and otherrandom trinkets from some schools we didn’t care about and then spending about10 minutes at the ones we were interested in. Finally when we had decided thatthe line was probably shorter we realized that it had actually gotten LONGERand WIDER! Kids kept cutting in line and some were caught by a mom that was onthe lookout for cutter, but most went by unnoticed. Finally after 53 minutes 59seconds and 4 milliseconds we received our food. Which I might add was 36dollars, not 38. Then we were urged to sit down with our then for medaling,which was where my day/night went downhill.

Aswould be expected I don’t like cocky, mean, ignorant kids, so that means I don’tlike our whole team. I sat there through the whole ceremony and applauded foreveryone and made some shout outs for teachers and kids I knew from otherschools while the kids next to me booed, groaned and yelled at me for “ (somemean words) with the enemy”. Really, really they wanted to play it that waywith me! I know that our school really didn’t have any competition for thestate title, after having won for the past few years, but that doesn’t give usthe right to be jerks. Those kids tried just as hard as we did, they probablywent to practice when asked, studied at home, worked their butts off into thenight to get there notes done, and made a real effort to make their coachesproud, and all those kids could do was be mean? I wouldn’t, no couldn’t standfor it not even after we got our trophy.

Therewas a junior varsity boy asking if he could just hold the trophy, and somevarsity boy was telling him that he couldn’t, simply because he hadn’t “earnedit”. People like this honestly make it too easy for me to dislike them; I ofcourse had to say something. It went along the lines of “Shut up and give it tohim”, and some more stuff about how ironic it was that he was the head coach’sson and that our coach was always talking about how we’re supposed to be ateam. So that got him to shut his trap, and hand over the trophy, but pleasedon’t think of me as a mean person.  Ijust don’t think that people that are supposedly in a higher state of power areentitled to treat those “below” them as less. We’re all human, we’re not all asgood as we would like to be, and “ranking” shouldn’t determine how you treatsomeone; it’s simple ethics. We’re all here on earth to learn and sometimesthat means that we’re not as good as we want to be, but we shouldn’t blame ourshort coming on others and we should most defiantly not tear one another down.

Sorryabout my ramble on life, but to leave on a lighter note the team did win, they hadtheir celebratory ice cream and will be going to another undisclosed location at an undisclosedtime.

See you,
Dropof Water

Spring Break, how a werido like me spends it

A week (plus a weekend) to do whatever the heck I felt like doing, and I end up spending it like a socially awkward teenager, with some strange obsessions! AHHH, I have no life… You’re probably wondering what this strange obsession of mine is, so in an effort to not keep you in the dark I will now list a few of my obsessions.
*Weirdo alert commencing now*

DROP OF WATER’S OBSESSION LIST:

1. The smell of cleaning supplies: I can’t really explain that one, it’s just always been.
2. Spanish Soap Operas: Always very dramatic, someone’s death is always being plotted, people’s lives are getting screwed up (making me feel better about my life), and the people who screw up other’s lives always get caught (contrary to real life).
3. Doing the dishes: I like the smell of the soap my mom buys and I love the feel of water, but I pretend I don’t like doing them so I don’t get stuck with that job all the time, I like doing other chores too. (shoot, my sister will probably read this)
4. Watching The X-files: THE BEST SHOW EVER MADE.
5. Buying school supplies: Not sure why, but I just do.
6. Science Olympiad: I know I sound like I hate it, but it makes me feel smart and makes other people think that I'm smart.
7. Stalking people on Social Networks: Let’s be honest, even if we all claim that we don’t do this, we still do.
8. Looking up random stuff on YouTube: Not really a strange one, but still I always do it.
9. Baking and Decorating Cakes: I took a class on the decorating thing (baked goods), and it was me and a bunch of women over 40, but I still loved ever second of it
10. Coloring coloring book pages: I know it’s supposed to be for little kids, but still at 14 I can’t kick my love/obsession for it.
11. Watching *Announcer Voice* Dancing with the Stars and judging the people, who have no sense of rhythm, can’t shake their hips, or shimmy: I think I explained it all.
12.Reminiscing over my childhood: Thinking about when life was easier than now, and looking back at what I once thought was cool. Examples: I watch episodes of That’s so Raven, Drake and Josh, Spy Kids, Lizzie McGuire, Even Stevens and I watch the Cheetah Girls movies just so I can sing the songs to myself.
13. Learning self-defense: I have an extreme phobia that one day I’ll be jumped, someone will break into my home, or some other messed up crap and I won’t know what to do. Thus I go running and do some kick boxes because I’m a scardy cat, who doesn’t trust the human race.

I think that’s more than enough for today, and I will soon live to regret this. I pretty much did all of the above over my break, and a few other miscellaneous things, but in the end I didn’t really do much more. I still ended up putting off my homework till the last minute, even with all the time I had and now I’m kind of messed up in the head. I just have a feeling that this coming week will for sure be an adventure.

Oops, and to further state my point there goes the timer on my cupcakes for tomorrow (Easter), so until some other time.

Drop of Water