Being Tired

If you ask a teenager how they are today, 9 out of 10 will probably say "Tired." I think it's pretty ironic that adults tell us that this is the best time of our lives; that this is when we'll feel our best and have the most energy. Being a teenager, I have no idea what they're talking about. I wake up every morning feeling as tired as I did the night before. I don't wake up refreshed and ready to start the day, instead I wake up groggy and irritated. No matter what time I go to bed, if I wake up I want to go back to sleep. It's not that I'd rather sleep than anything else, it's just that I feel that I don't get nearly as much as I should. Part of it is my fault--I procrastinate on homework ALL the time. But I think part of it is my daily schedule. I have a LOT of things going on.

Dreams

In my Psychology class, we had to keep a dream journal for a week and write down all the dreams we had in a week. I had only two that I remember. 
In the first one, my dad was the new principal at Apollo. As a welcome present, he got a giant blue swordfish that was really a boat. We went out the the river (except not the Ohio or the Green, some random river. But it was like tropical--all blue and clear and pretty.) And then he let me drive/ride it. It was fun.

And then, in the other dream, I was a secret agent in Russia or something and I was trying to escape from the good guys (I was a bad guy) and I got caught. But then I was living at my house with a family of talking elephants. I don't think I liked the mother elephant that much. They decided to go to try and live at the Africa-themed Busch Gardens, so they could live a more "natural" life. They were also scared because there had been terrible storms and flooding around our area so they wanted to get out before it got worse. When they left, though, they left their newborn baby. It was so sad, just standing there looking at its mom and dad, and so I got really mad at the mother elephant for leaving her baby. (Side note: I often have super-long, epic dreams where the different parts totally don't relate to each other.) And THEN, I was a student at a spy academy, where you would go to learn how to be a spy, and I was about to graduate, when the school was taken over by some bad guys or something. And the part I was most upset about was that when students graduated from this academy, they got these huge blocks of candy that were like giant, square lollipops without a stick. But the school was destroyed before I got mine, which made me mad.

I don't know if I think that dreams mean something or not. I mean, I could see how some people would get meaning out of the dreams. Like, I drove the Suburban the other day with my dad so that could relate to the giant swordfish. But other than that, it just seems like random stuff.

I have weird dreams.

Blogging

I don't have much to write about. Well, that's not true. As a high school junior, there's certainly plenty of writing fodder that goes around, but I can't express it. And there are so many things to write about, I don't know what to pick. Not being able to identify people is weird, too. I mean, are we supposed to use false names or say "my friend" and "my other friend" five hundred times? That would get tedious after a very short while.
This year I'm a junior. It's...interesting, to say the least. The year has barely started and already there is drama flying around like hummingbirds on caffeine. I really hate that term, though. Drama? It's so broad. It could mean theater, like acting, or it could mean "Ohmygosh, did you hear that Cindy's boyfriend cheated on her with Nancy? Oh, and Ellen is SUPER mad at you for not saying hello back in the hallway. And Brenda is OBVIOUSLY trying to steal Valerie's boyfriend."  Just stupid things that are escalated until everybody forgets what they were about in the first place. Most of the time it's just a misunderstanding that could have been easily resolved if both parties had acted somewhat mature about the incident.

Not that I have any experience with that or anything.

First Post

So, this is my first post. I need to work on my APUSH homework, but I can't figure it out. We're supoposed to "create" this man from the contents of an imaginary wallet. I have a scenario all set up, but I don't know if it's right or not. I'm tired, though, so I'll probably finish it in a few minutes and work on it tomorrow morning in study hall. Junior year has barely started and already I'm being absolutely SWAMPED with homework. Hopefully this year will be a good year, although, judging by the amount of work I'm getting, it's going to be rather tedious.