Quarintine Tings

Content

Online "School"
Activities
Family and Friends

Online "School"

At the beginning of quarintine, most students, including myself, assumed that we would be continuing our schooling over the "temporary" break. Oh boy were we wrong! LPSS made ECA only put out optional school work, so, as a whole, we are making no progress in our education. What in the world is going to happen to the credits we're losing? Physics, stat, and American history are pretty important in the grand scheme of things. I find it unlikely that they'll just give us the credit, but what else are they going to do? So I went into the quarintine thinking that me and every other student would just attend the meetings just in case we would resume classes after the break, and it would be all fine and dandy. Then I attend the first meeting and there are six people there. I decided to continue attending the meetings because I'm a nasty little perfectionist, but I'm starting to lose all motivation. What is even the point of putting effort into classes I don't enjoy if I'm not getting anything from it? Now I'm just deciding to sleep through my alarms at night and feeling guilty in the morning. And for what? Uhhh. Luckily, college classes are still going on and I think I only have one exam left. The one I'm avoiding studying for by creating this stupid thing.

Activities

So if I'm very intentionally avoiding school, what is taking up my time during this quarintine. Let me tell you, friend.

Video Games

I sunk about 90 hours into Stardew Valley at the beginning of quarintine. I can honestly barely remember the what happened in all of March. Oops. Then, I moved on to L.A. Noire. I think I'm like a third of the way through, but I've stopped playing it regularly. My dad and I have been playing some multiplayer games, as well. We just started another game of Borderlands 2 after feeling like our Star Wars game was starting to feel a little repetative.

LEGO

I have finally decided to organize my giant bin of LEGOs into their little packages at the ripe old age of 16. I have to be honest, I'm extremely excited to build those little houses and act out some traumatic stories. Brings back memories, ya know?

Coding

Ahh, something that makes me feel productive! I literally just started it today but doing something "educational" fills the void that avoiding school has left.

Family and Friends

Being with my family constantly and not touching my friends in months is super duper funzie. I'm doing great! So, enjoy this rating of the people I love the most.

Mom
Hattie
Dad
Marlie
Caleigh
Lilly
Joe

Let's talk about that!

	Pros	Cons
Mom	I feel like I'm actually starting to enjoy spending time with my mom. We have great banter and she doesn't talk about her AA stuff as much. I don't mind AA talk but I'd much prefer having fun watching Criminal Minds with her! Also she gossips about Lilly and Joe to me.	She definitely overthinks things sometimes, but she treats me like a genius when I tell her something like, "It's okay to not like some people," so thats barely even a con. She still doesn't eat fats though and I'm worried for her health.
Hattie	Hattie and I can have the deepest or the stupidest conversations effortlessly. I can really speak my mind and be completely honest. I also have a big whopping crush on her, oops.	Sometimes I feel scared that if I would persue a relationship with her I'd get annoyed, but do I feel like that for everyone? Is that inevitable?
Dad	We've been playing some super sweet video games together. When I look at his face, I want to squish it, if that makes sense. Plus he makes all the money in this house.	I honestly can't think of any.
Marlie	I feel such an intense love for this girl that probably hasn't thought about me in weeks. I want to hug her more than anyone else I haven't seen in a while. She's also texted me more than surface level stuff over the quarintine, but I still can't shake the feeling that I care about her more than she does about me.	The more I look back on our relationship the more I think she's been a bad friend. But maybe I'm just overexagerating. Also, I feel like she's changed since 8th grade. I get that everyone does, but she seems so reckless now and I'm worried about her.
Caleigh	Caleigh and I have been friends for ages, and I love her so much.	I feel like we're in a perpetual state of growing apart. I'm becoming more comfortable with myself and more social, but I feel like I can't act like that around her because she doesn't know me as that. And it's the same as with Marlie. They've both done some questionable things, friendship-wise.
Lilly
Joe

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