Mirth and Melancholy

... the person in question is your web design teacher, who is being an A and doesn't accept any proof that you did your freakin' homework PROPERLY, and her chosen uploading platform is stupid and uncommon of use for her students. I'm not bad with computers. I know how they work. I know my html is working. I just can't explain why it doesn't show up on that link. But I can promise every single web page I made and meticulously wrote the html for works PROPERLY on my end. Fudge your stupid FileZilla upload station, Ms. B. Hey, let's play a fun game and count how many times I yell the word "properly" in this post. Current count: 2 Now, let me explain to you guys as best I can what is happening so you can be mad at her with me. *stretches out interlaced fingers and cracks knuckles* I am registered in a web design course this fall. We cover html and css. (For now, we haven't gotten into CSS. Still in html.) The goal of the course is to learn ho...

Today, 7 October marks one week since my surprise birthday party. My sister and two good friends had planned a surprise for me for September 30. My birthday actually fell on the day after, but since that day would be a Monday and not everyone would be able to meet up at the same time, they decided to meet up the day before on Sunday. I absolutely loved the surprise and was genuinely surprised. But let me start from the beginning. I know I had asked my friends to have my party the Sunday before my birthday so that when the day came, I could post a nice photo to Instagram. So that's the expectation I had up until September 29. I was in my room with my sister, where we were sitting on our beds using our phones. She suddenly asked me, was it okay if I just went out with her tomorrow, since our two friends A and H suddenly had plans and couldn't make it. I was like, okay, sure. She said we could have my real party next week, and that was fine with me. So when Sunday came, I lo...

I think it's about time I return to reassure you that I am in fact still here, planning to keep up this blog, and I am not virtually dead. Abandoning this blog (by accident, mind you) has not been beneficial for me, especially as a writer. In all art classes, or classes where the goal of the course is to create things, teachers always tell you to practice what you do every day. If you're a photographer, shoot photos every day. If you draw, draw everyday. If you write, write every day. And et cetera. Keep up the practice and hone that skill. It doesn't matter how much of the thing you do every day, as long as you do it. In doing so, you're training your mind and body to familiarize with your actions, and turn them into habits and hobbies. You are training yourself to be thirsty for such activities. In the long break I took from actively writing, be it blog posts or novels, my thirst for creativity weakened. The mere thought of sitting down to write a story, for lack of...