It’s been well over a month since my last blog post, and what do I have to show for it?
Not much. But yet, a lot.
I logged the 65th hour of my Girl Scout Gold Award on July 31. Twice a week in the month of July, I led creative writing workshops for kids at the local library. It was an amazing experience and I met some cool people, though I don’t know if we’ll keep in touch (different schools, etc…I’ve exchanged a couple of emails with one, but she hasn’t responded to the last one). The Tuesdays and Fridays at the library took up my whole day, as I had to do a couple of hours of prep, creating worksheets, and setting up before the actual classes themselves. For the month, though, I logged about 40 hours. Now all I have to do is the final paperwork.
The day after I finished my Gold Award, I drove up to the mountains for cross country running camp. To be blunt: I rocked those hills. Altitude and hills are my strengths. After a week of running up and down hills, we had a race. And I came in fourth for the girls. I made varsity. Let’s put this in perspective: when I was a little baby freshman, fourteen years old, I wasn’t anything. I came in around the 20-23rd spots on the team. Bottom JV, w00t. Sophomore year, middle of the team until I got sick and went back to the bottom. Junior year, I made the top bracket and the highest position I held was 8th until I succumbed to the swine flu the night before a race. Now I’m a big strong senior, it’s my fourth season, and I can chug up those hills like there’s no tomorrow. I’ve worked my butt off and made it up to the big kids’ domain. Now, all I have to do is NOT GET SICK this year (which will be difficult as my school is forcing me into a zero period, making me lose an hour of sleep a night, and with 180 days in the school year is a solid week of sleep that I won’t have, and with less sleep comes a lowered immune system).
So I’ve done my Gold Award and made varsity cross country. Besides that, though, I’ve been playing a lot of The Sims 2. And I bought an expansion pack a month ago. My justification for so much play time is that I’m going to hide the game disc from myself once school starts. But it’s sacrificed a writing project I started last year and wanted to revive. And all I want to do when I come home from cross country practice is sit and play the Sims 2.
…you know, writing that out made me realize how much it’s controlling my life. Forget the legacy challenge, forget the expansion pack…I need to quit cold turkey again. Maybe let myself play once a month.
Excuse me. I’m going to go hide my game now.
Edit: It’s now under my bed.While there’s not much underneath my bed and I know where it is, it will require more effort than it’s worth to crawl on my hands and knees, eventually dropping down to my belly and wriggling between the bed frame and the floor, to retrieve the disks.
