Haven't Posted in a while, so this'll be long

I'm sorry guys.  I've been extremely busy with everything.  I've been working like a dog at the Grosse Pointe News, and wouldn't ya know it, my first article was scrapped. Oh well.  Anyway, I wanted to tell you all that I'm pretty excited to hopefully get back to writing on this darn thing pretty soon.  I'm loving most of my classes, although the grades that I'm getting aren't what I hoped they would be.  I'm a little nervous about the end of first quarter.  It's tomorrow.  I will try to write this weekend, because I don't think that I have a lot going on.  My parents had a party last weekend, so I was totally unable to write then.  Thuis week has just flown by, and I apologize for now writing.  I'm perticularly worried about my co-op grade.  It was a 100%, but it just dropped.  I honestly have no idea why.  I turned in all of my time sheets on time, and I turned in the written evaluation.  OK it was one day late, but that still doesn't explain my HUGE grade drop.  I'm nervous about applying to colleges.  I heard some people talking about getting their acceptence letters back from colleges.  I'm not proud to say that I haven't even applied anywhere yet.  AAAAH.  I hope to start this weekend.  So halloween is tomorrow, and that'll be interesting.  I'll have to watch the house tonight.  I have a feeling that someone will try to egg it or something.  It's Devil's Night tonight.  On another note, have you been following the crazy financial crisis.  This is definately going to go down into the history books right next to the Great Depression.  It's a little odd that this would happen right next to election time, but what are you going to do, right?  God, I hope Barack doesn't win.  I don't like McCain, but I absolutely hate Barack.  I wish that he'd just go back to Kenya, and leave us Americans alone.So for people who have written college essays, I want to ask you all something: How long did each essay take you?  I'm not sure if the colleges that I plan to apply to require essays for admission, but I'm curious about how much time people are spending.  Feel free to leave a comment about how much time you have spent.  I'd be interested to know.  This so far has just been one long ramble.  I don't really think that I'm going to even bother putting this into paragraphs, because it works better as a free thought sort of thing.  I'm really liking these long posts.  I'd better get back to work though.  I have calendar stuff that I have to do, and then I have to go to bed.  I'll talk more tomorrow.

My First Article

I know that it's been a super long time since I last wrote, but I just have to talk about this.  Next week I should have an article published in the Grosse Pointe News.  I've been working there for three weeks now, and I'm loving every minute of it.  I'll put a link to the article on the website when it officially comes out.

My New Job

Hi guys.  I'm sorry it's been 2 weeks, but these past 2 weeks have been totally insane!  I'm working at the Grosse Pointe News, so that's my co-op.  On an average day, I get home at like 5:30 pm now.  I used to get home at like 3:30.  I love my new job, but I won't get into detail about it here, because some deets are confidential.

2nd Week of School

So I just got a co-op job at the Grosse Pointe News.  I'm so excited!  I start Thursday.  It's the second week of school so i had to have a job by Friday of this week.  This was a total god-send!  Did I ever mention that in co-op, I get to leave an our early?  I do! ;)

haven't posted in a while

Hey guys.  I haven't posted in a while, so I wanted to say that school started three days ago.  It's going well.  More to come.

The Visitor Count on the Blog

The visitor count on the blog is pretty high.  I don't know if anyone besides me actually checks it, but at this point, it's hovering above 4225!  I can barely believe it.  I guess that I can when you consider that number is over the course of years.  Oh well.  It would be pretty cool if I could get that many hits in a period of days.

The '08-'09 Signup Packet

The '08-'09 sign-up packet just came into the mailbox. It marks the end to a care-free summer and the beginning of the end of freedom. I'm going to go and fill it out as soon as I write this post.

The End of Summer School

Frankly, these are the words that I've been dying to write since summer school started, but here it is: Today was my last day in summer school.  There.  :)  That was pretty fun to write actually.  I just have a few more weeks until school begins. I'm not too excited.

Only a few more weeks.

Today was the second to last day of summer school.  I have to say that the second semester of summer school has been super tough.  I am a little worried that I have not improved my grade enough to make it worth my while.  I guess that we'll just have to wait and see how it all pans out.  I wanted this post to focus on my thoughts about senior year, so I'll start talking about that now.  I would like to have a very productive senior year.  I would like to improve my GPA as much as possible.  I would like to find a few good looking colleges and apply there.  I will have a list of colleges that I am interested in on the blog in a few weeks to stay tuned right here for more.

The Start of the last week

Today will mark the start of the last week of summer school.  I'm pretty excited to get this over with, however when I do we'll only have a few more weeks left before the regular school year starts again.  :(  In a way, I can't wait to be a senior, but I'm also somewhat apprehensive about my senior year.  Will I keep up with the goals that I have set for myself?  Will I keep up with the goals that others have set for me?  I guess that I'll just have to wait and find out.  I'll keep you updated!