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Saying goodbye

Thu, 10 May 2012 22:54:39 -0400

So the end of school is near, and it’s time to say goodbye. Say goodbye to the teachers, your peers, the school you’ve been coming to day after day for the past and last four years of “being a kid,” to the homework, your coaches, and the questionable cafeteria food. It’s time to leave the safe, and venture to the unknown. Time to meet new people, get a job, fall in love, and discover yourself. Some will move, some will stay, some you won’t see til your 10 year reunion, and some you’ll never see again. For some, it’s time to say goodbye to the best times of their lives, they peaked in high school, and some will be saying “see ya later, I’m moving on.” For a little while, it’ll be sad, not seeing everyone, not being able to slack off, but eventually we’ll move on, graduate college, get married, start a family, become famous, and we’ll slowly start to forget all we did back when. So wether it’s only for a little while, or forever, goodbye to ghetto Hillcrest, teachers, staff, and peers, hope you make your dreams come true, and good luck in life!

I know it’s been awhile, but oh we’ll. Man it has been a busy couple of weeks. Ever...

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:44:01 -0400

I know it’s been awhile, but oh we’ll.

Man it has been a busy couple of weeks. Ever since we got back from Hawaii it’s been crazy! That first week
I had three soccer games out of town so we weren’t getting back until late. Then I had scholarships due that week too that I hadn’t even started to fill out. Thirdly, it seems like our teachers thought we missed them, so they gave us a bunch of homework. Also this week I had three games.
On the up side though, I saw 21 Jump Street last weekend and it was hilarious! I’ve never seen the original, but this one was awesome. This weekend I’m going to see the Hunger Games, I know weird I haven’t seen it already right? and going prom dress shopping. Then I should probably get started on my final essay for English, but I just don’t feel like it. My senioritis is bad, but can you really blame me? I mean I’ve been in school for 13 years, and 3/4 of this stuff I’m never going to use! Like what am I going to use graphing and quadratic equations for? Balancing my checkbook? Or learning what a beaker is and memorizing the element table? Sorting my laundry? Let’s be honest here for a moment. Most of the stuff we learn in life is going to be completely useless, ad in reality we just wasted most of our lives on things we will never get time back for.

Also what is up with our senior class getting ripped off?! We only get out two days before everyone else, we don’t get a senior BBQ (not that I was planning to go anyway), and our whole end of the year got messed up. Instead of getting out the 17th and practicing graduation and having the BBQ the 18th, we now have finals that Friday. Then the BBQ got cancelled, and we have to come up here the day before everyone else gets out, the day of graduation, but the point of having a graduation is we don’t have to come back to this school, not be up here that morning. And if they make our practice at 8 A.M., I am going to be royally ticked. I’m done with school, and that means done with getting up at 8 A.M., to come here! I’ve done my four years in this prison, why would want I want to add another day on?! Last time I checked too, it was just Hillcrest that was doing this, unless they recently changed that, but considering everything else about here, it wouldn’t surprise me.

On the upside again, I made a goal in the Camdenton game the other night! For the first time we didn’t mercy out, we lost 10-1 :) which is at least better.

Back Again

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:30:30 -0500

Christmas is over, a new year has come, and now we’re back to waking up early, doing homework, and listening to teachers nag about finals. It’s so depressing, and I would go on about how I have senioritis and I don’t want to do anything, but let’s face it, I’ve had that since 7th grade. It’s just worse because I’m so close to being done, but it’s just out of reach.

Anyway there’s so much to do now. College and scholarship application deadlines are coming up, basketball is just getting into conference games, and then there’s working to try to raise money for Hawaii in March. Also, there’s the Buzz-A-Thon in a month, and I’m actually pretty excited. I’m hosting with Jodie though I’m not that funny, and I’m in charge of the financial stuff, so that be a little stressful.

Time seems to be a precious thing now. Everything’s always going on at the same time, and it’s hard to find time to just sit down and relax, or do the things that you really need to do. I feel like I’m going to blow up one of these days, just combust suddenly. New Year’s resolutions were never really for me, but this year, I hope to just enjoy it. It’s my first year of being of legal age, I’m graduating, and starting college. It’s like a new beginning, and I intend to make the best of it. However, for now, we’re back in school, and I’ve just got to make it through the next 5 months.

So Christmas break is supposed to be a time to relax, catch up on hanging out with friends...

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 23:41:20 -0500

So Christmas break is supposed to be a time to relax, catch up on hanging out with friends you’re always to busy to see, sleep in, and just have fun away from school. All I’ve done so far, is basketball, basketball, cleaned, and worked. Don’t get me wrong, I love my job, and my room did need to be cleaned, but seriously, can’t a girl catch a break? Every spare chance I get, I’ve been working on my homework that we just had to get over break, or doing laundry because I need my uniforms clean. The only two days I’ve gotten off was Christmas Eve and Christmas. Otherwise I’ve had practice or games. Ugh! Life. Seriously sucks. Lol but on the upside, next year I won’t have to worry about basketball or anything and I’ll get a whole month off for Christmas, so I guess that brightens my life a little bit for now. :)

Giving Thanks

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 02:49:12 -0500

Yes I know, another Thanksgiving blog, so cliche, but get over it. Anyway on with the blog…
I love Thanksgiving! Seriously I don’t know if anyone else agrees, but I love eating. Yeah you give thanks, and tell your family how much you love them ad are thankful to have them in your lives, blah blah blah, whatever! The best part of Thanksgiving is all the delicious eating you get to do. We have ham, turkey, stuffing (ok that’s gross but whatever), deciles eggs ( those are nasty too), baked beans ( my moms are to die for), rolls, mashed potatoes ( though I eat the potatoes before they’re mashed), crackers, chesse, green beans, salad ( which I always pass on too, seriously who likes to chew just a bunch green crunchy leaves?), corn, cookies, apple pie, pumpkin pie, chocolate pie, cheesecake, and sooooooooooooo much more. I love it! You get to eat til you get sick. It’s the best time of year, except birthdays and Christmas of course where you get to eat even more, but also get presents. Plus thats the day that Christ was born, so I mean really, nothing can top Christmas even if it tried. Oh and you can’t forget Black Friday shopping, oh the joys of pushy people, no parking spaces, getting trampled, and then after all that, you find out the stores selection sucks and don’t even end up spending anything.
Yes I believe Thanksgiving went great this year! :)

Team Feem!!!!

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:06:55 -0400

Team Feem!!!!

Repetition

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:08:25 -0400

It’s unbelievable how repetitive school is. You come in day after day, or in a way, every other day after every other day, and go through the same schedule, same classes, same people, etc, etc, etc. And it’s not just this year, or because of senioritis, no this has been going on for the last 12 years of my life. I mean what’s the point of learning about prepositions in 5th grade, or how to multiply in 2nd, if we’re just going to learn it now, in our senior year? Every year teachers complain that they don’t get through all the lessons in the textbooks. Well hello, if it didn’t have the same stuff in it as it did when I started Kindergarten, maybe we could get somewhere. But unfortunately, no, we’ll just keep learning about and keep learning and keep learning about it. So for those of us that wish to soar above and beyond the redundant, mundane lives of those around us, I’m sorry to say, there’s no hope. Unless you have the time to scurrage through the library at night after doing the same homework sheets you probably did three years ago, and search Google til you’ve gone through all 3,000 pages, than you’re probably not going to amount to anything. Oh wait, there’s just one minor detail I forgot to mention before you start panicking incessantly…. NODODY CARES!!!!! Unless you plan to be one of those creepy, reenactment guys that hang out at the shady parks on the weekend playing Knights and Dragon, or whatever it’s called, it’s not going to matter if you knew the job of the white knight or miller. Unless you’re going to be a marine biologist or a germiphobe, it doesn’t matter if you know how many atoms are in a cell. It’s not like you walk around going, “oh there’s two million atoms of silver in that table over there.” And I doubt in anything you do in life, unless you plan on majoring in Know-It-All 101, NOBODY is ever going to ask you to graph a parabola, or find log of 2 then add 1/8+6/7 then times it by the 62% of that number then find the inequality and finally graph it as a function. Or tell me why we spend hours and hours, weeks and weeks, years and years learning how to do a sonnet or a elegy or even a epithalamium form, (yes these are all real). I don’t plan on becoming a poet or really ever reading poetry again, so why am I wasting my life away learning about useless knowledge?

Just a little side note as well. If I didn’t like coming to school from 8-2:45, why in the world would the school board think I would want to add 14 more minutes onto my day? Because you know, that’s doing soooo much to my education.

!!!! Random!!!! Trip!!!! (blog I forgot to post for some reason)

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:24:35 -0400

Omg Louisville is AMAZING! Right now we’re listening to Paulina rap to Nicki Minaj. It’s hilarious!!! I’m so excited right now and hyped up, and have no intention of going to bed soon. This trip has been so awesome and a great experience. I am so glad I got this opportunity! Tomorrow I am going shopping for some last minute gifts and also because I haven’t really gotten myself anything. I’m really sad this trip is coming to an end. I’ve been having so much, and I just don’t want to go back to Missouri. Lame. I think we should do a west coast bus tour next! Right coach?! School starts in less than a month :(, but it’s senior year :), and it’s going to be weird having a month to do a story instead a day to shoot, and a Dayton edit. It should make it easier, but I know I’ll probably just get lazy! I’m a slacker, I know. Lol. I’ve been to so many places I never knew existed. Like Urban Outfitters (store), Sticky Fingers (restaurant, which made me sick), and a lot of other places. The rule for the trip was we had to eat at places we can’t just go to at home, and to save money to only go to shops we don’t have. I even figured out I like Gumbo, never would have guessed that. New Orleans had the best. And I got to see my first famous person ever in real life, instead of just on my tv screen. I got really excited about that! I hope everyone keeps up with our blogs after this trip, and continues to watch our videos, but even if I never do anything do anything in journalism or broadcast, the people and experiences I had, was with it. I’ve learned so much, not just about broadcast, but life in general.

Back Home

Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:57:27 -0400

The trip is over, and now I’m back at home. No more living on a bus, hotel rooms, or out of a suitcase. I have my own bed, my own shower, a washing machine, and clean pj’s. No more eating out all the time, though we don’t do home-cooked meals around here often, I don’t have to share a room with people or the bathroom, I can lay in bed all day if I want, instead of having to shoot stories or do a quick- clip. But, even though, I’m glad I don’t have to watch how much cash I have left, or use the hotel’s bland, scenting shampoo, I miss it.
This trip has shown me and taught me that wherever you are, somebody has a story, whether big or small, everyone has something that’s interesting about them. Sometimes you have to search, and keep searching, not everything will be handed to you, but eventually you find what you’re looking for, and make an feature. Sometimes you think you’ve found something, but it turns out to be the opposite, and you have to figure out how to twist into a story people will want to watch. I learned that with the ghost tour story we did in New Orleans. It was super boring and lame, so we turned it into a humorous feature. I’ve also learned that just because you get along with people, or you are best friends with someone, being together in close confinements for 10 days, will definitely test your patience. Thus, I learned more people skills. And though it’s hard sometimes to hold your tongue, like in Louisville, because it seems most of the population there is rude, you can still find those sweet, slightly creepy cab- drivers to haul you around, or those over- energetic coffee shop workers to give you directions.
As for what I saw, big cities may be polluted with thousands of chemicals and toxins, but you can’t deny they’re beautiful! I never knew the boonies in Tennessee could be so enchanting. The countryside was lined with fields and rich, green trees. The skies were clear, and the sun shown proudly. In Jacksonville, I wish we could have stayed there, the scenes there were incredible. The bridge over the glistening water, fountains could be seen spurting water from the other side, restaurants and hotels lining the riverside. It sounds so little, but the view it gives is breathtaking. And being so close together for so long, I believe that everyone got closer, some more than others, but it was a great bonding experience and I think it will definitely have an impact for this next year, or even beyond that.
I’m thankful for the opportunity to go on this trip and be apart of it with everyone. I’m excited for Hawaii, and to see what this year brings. I got to go to places I’ve never been, see things I’ve never seen, and meet people I probably never would have met. I may seem like I’m excited about a lot of things, or act like things in life are awesome!, but I’ve learned and took from this more than people realize, and this experience is something I won’t easily forget.

Sha_awtee

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 01:18:55 -0400

To say, to say, what to say. What to say about my day. Well……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

It was interesting, amazing, boring, annoying, sporadic, intense, mind-blowing, scary, thrilling, okay, tiring, calming, hot, and cold.

Once again, Jess, Paulina, and I were the first ones down, ready to go this morning, well technically Brenda Putman was, but for all intense purposes, she doesn’t count right now. Sorry Brenda. We were supposed to be down at 6:30 to load, and leave at 7, but all these other fellow HTVer’s decide they aren’t included in that little tid-bit. We ate breakfast and I put my straightener and pillow on top of Paulina’s suitcase, and she was all like “will you take that off when we go to the bus, it’s going to burn a hole on the top!” Yeah yeah blah blah whatever whatever. Moving on. Then Jess was all like “Guys I hate how I’m always so prepared.” And then I was like, yeah it sucks, and then she was like yeah. So then we loaded the bus and was off!

While we were on the bus, I slept. Then I woke up, but then I laid down and slept again. But the next time I woke up, I got my Nerds and Pringles down. I asked Jodie if she wanted some, she said yes, but then she started complaining because they weren’t opened. But I was like “Dude, just open the package,” and she was all like, “Okay, but I’m taking one of each.” And then Dylan was like “me too.”

We rolled into Gatlinburg, and everyone was amazed. The scenery was beautiful.It looks so awesome. It’s like a smaller Branson, but cooler. Dylan and I saw these Sky Lifts and said we wanted to do a story on that, at the same time Mehleena came back and asked us if we wanted to do it, and we were like, “we call dibs.” So that’s how we came by that story, but it ended up falling through. But me and Dylan still ended up getting discounted prices. It was cool.

We went to dinner with Davis, and Ali, and Mehleena, and Ali and Mehleena did this weird producers video with the menus, pretty much they just embarrassed themselves and us. But our waitress made us late to the meeting Davis set up. 6 o’clock news starts at 6 lady! The food was good though. I had the sloppy joe, cottage cheese, and mac n’ cheese. Then me and Ali shared the chocolate cake, it was delicious.

Jess, Brennan, me, and sometimes Paige got hit on by every wanna-be ladies man in town, while we made a late-night McDonald stop to watch Brennan eat. It was entertaining.

Now we’re laying in our hotel room, it’s the best night ever. I love you Jess, sometimes Paulina, and Dylan.

So far this trip has been amazing! A big thank you to our sponsors!

Photo

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 01:16:02 -0400

From Observation Deck

Sky Lift

Rest Stop

Me on the Observation Deck

I don't remember taking this picture

From the Observation Deck

Gatlinburg by our hotel

Bye Bye Charleston

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:43:25 -0400

Sitting here eating popcorn and cookies, drinking cherry coke, enjoying Morgans last night and watching Paulina attack the tv to turn on The Kardashians is the life. It’s moments like these that make you remember the good things in life, and remember why you put up with all these people in the first place. :) Today was AMAZING! Charleston is Beautiful! It was nice hanging out with Jodie and her mom because I never get time with her, and I’ve just never been around Brenda for long lol. And then Mariah came and forgot her purse! Ugh! Of course! :) love you Mariah. Downtown they have so Maui shops, and the market is awesome. It was nice, and a great change, considering we don’t have this stuff at home. I only got two things for myself, and everything else was for other people. Amazing huh? It seems like we just arrived here though, and now we have to leave. But Charleston is definitely somewhere I can see myself visiting again someday. This bus trip has been so fun, and such a great experience. Sure we have the usual drama, cat fights, we bash each other, we joke around and hurt peoples feelings, but really, what kind of trip would it be if we didn’t have all that? Life is made up of drama, it just makes it life. And in the end, we’re all friends, we’re all classmates, and we’re all in this together. I’m sad the trip is coming to an end, buy I’ve had a fantastic time with what we’ve done! Tomorrow we’ll be leaving charleston behind, and heading to Gantlinburg. Another city visited, another city gone.

Jess attacking the poor, innocent snack machine.

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 10:43:04 -0400

Jess attacking the poor, innocent snack machine.

I am so sad to be leaving panama! I’ve missed the beach and being able to feel the sand...

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 02:14:03 -0400

I am so sad to be leaving panama! I’ve missed the beach and being able to feel the sand between my toes. I’m going to miss it so much! And let me just tell ya, the people here are a lot nicer than in New Orleans! People actually stop in the middle of the road so you can jay-walk across the street! Ironic isn’t it? I do have to say I am glad to be leaving this hotel though. Our room is so nasty! We have sand, seaweed, water, dirt, food crumbs, etc all over our floors and beds, it’s disgusting! And don’t even get me started on the bathtub, they might as well paint it green with the amount of seaweed staining it.

Our next destination is Charleston, and I’m really looking forward to going there. I’ve never been, but from the pictures I’ve seen, it’s beautiful. Although I’m not looking forward to the 10 hour drive that accompanies it, but I actually kind if like riding on the bus. What I don’t like, is having to edit.

So good-bye Panama, I’ll miss you! And hello to charleston!

My In-Atlanta Bus Tour Rant

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:41:26 -0400

So it’s Day 3, and so far I am NOT impressed. Alright onto the first part of my rant…

Problem 1. What is up with this no H&M situation?! I mean we’re going to like 5 different cities, and we can’t get a decent shopping center? What the heck! There’s one in Atlanta, you know the place we were “supposed” to go, but no, we’re not good enough to go there apparently! How rude! I mean what does Davis think we came on this trip for?, filming stories, working, meeting weird people? Psshh, what a joke, who pays over $600 for educational purposes? Please. Well I take that back, Paulina does, but that’s a whole different story in itself. Okay moving on…

Problem 2. Ghost tours? Really? One word. LAME. I am so glad I did not waste my money on that. Who do they expect to believe those stories? Well I mean all the guide could talk about was drunks, everybody is drunk, this is the only state that doesn’t give pedestrians the right-of-way because everyone’s drunk! I mean why don’t we all go get wasted since those were the only resting places we stopped at, like seriously place our tour ended at was a bar, where a bunch of DRUNKS kept looking at us, DRUNK, word of the day apparently.

Problem 3. The restaurant we’re currently dining at. Firstly, the menu states that if you eat the oyster, you’re pretty much setting yourself up for “serious illness” or “sudden death”. Reassuring isn’t it. Then I order a coke and it’s like 90% carbonation, 9% water, and 1% soda. The guy refilled one of the guys drink at our table, but everyone’s at the other, then left and doesn’t come back for another 20 minutes. Then when he does he spills it all overt silverware, and the second time all over the table. And as for our food, they served the other table, but didn’t serve us ours until the other one was almost finished. It reminded me of our 8th grade field trip where we had to wait for the other bus to finish before we could even get off. And to top it off, the guy forgot my pasta! Worst service ever. Okay maybe not, but close enough.

But on the other hand, two good things did come out of this, Paulina became best friends and we’re making a two-part segment called The Hood Room, and I LOVE GUMBO!!

Day 1

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 18:34:27 -0400

Today was the first day of our trip, and so far there hasn’t been anything terribly exciting, though we haven’t been here long. Tonight we’re going to Beale street for BBQ.

I’ve never been one to really get car sick, but going fast on all those hills and curves, and almost everyone on that bus was ready to hurl their guts out. So I just went to sleep, lol.

I’m super excited for panama beach and charleston though! The beach, the shopping, the interesting people, I can’t wait!

Quote

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:05:20 -0400

This is a quote I had in my dressing room when I took my senior pictures.

I do not measure my education by the Grades I have achieved, The diploma I have received, Or the the job I have been awarded; But rather by the lives I have touched, The experiences I have, and The person I have become.

It's About Time

Fri, 13 May 2011 18:26:54 -0400

Dang.

Everyone thinks that HTV is an easy class, and we don’t do anything in here. Well that’s not true… not all the time anyway. =) When we do stories, we, well most of us, work our butts off. I mean Paulina stays after almost everyday until like 5, and that’s even when we don’t have stories. Seriously though, those things can kick your butt. Paulina and I have been working on our story for the last month, and we still didn’t make deadline, and that’s after Davis already extended it. We stayed after the last two days until late to work on them and we just finished at 5:15, and now here I sit, writing a blog, because I haven’t done so in awhile, and we have to have two more in before June 3rd. I must say, I don’t ever want to see this story, or anything that has to do with it, ever again! I’m done! Hear that? DONE!!! FINE-Al-LY!!! (yes I know I spelled that wrong). Thank goodness!

Well I’m off now, have a great night!

P.S. Thanks Paulina for all your hard work, I appreciate it!

Sleeping In

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 03:14:29 -0500

So looks like another snow day headed our way. Of course I’m not really sure you would call it snow, more of a blizzard I think it’s supposed to be. And although as you probably got in my last blog about snow days, yes I am really mad about having another one, but I’m kind of glad because I could really use the extra rest. So have fun tomorrow everyone, but remember to be careful. And enjoy your day off!

(happy now Alissa? I updated! Lol)

Snow

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 15:28:44 -0500

I HATE snow! I can’t stand it. It’s wet, and cold, and makes a trip that would originally take 5 minutes, 15 minutes to get there. Everyone in school is hoping that it’ll snow enough to give us a snow day so we can put off finals for another day. If you put them off another day, 1)you still have to take them, 2)you’re just going to worry and fret that many more days. But while everyone else is praying we’ll have that extra day, I’m praying we won’t. Um hello people, for everyday we miss the superintendent adds like a week, which means we get out like a month after every other school. It cuts into our summer, so instead of getting almost 3 months, we get about 2 1/2. And let me tell you, I don’t like coming here for the 180 days we have to, I definitely don’t like coming here more or sooner than I should. Besides what do most people do on snow days anyway? Sleep in, play a computer game, watch tv? I mean how much can you do? You can sled or make snowmen, if your lucky enough to have that much snow, but it’s not like you can stay out there all day unless your wanting to get hypothermia and die. On the other hand, in the summer, you can swim, bike ride, play outside, tan, skateboard, etc. The most you would get for that, a possible red face for a few days. So tell me, really, which one of those days sounds better to you? Definitely the latter for me. At lease in the summer I can hang with my friends. But if the roads were bad enough to call off school, chances are their too bad to be traveling to a friends house. I would rather choose to see someone than to be forced to see everyone in class. Think about it people, is the snow day really worth it? NO!