May 20, 2010

-I don't even know where to start.
-Today i woke up late in a rush like usual and drove off to school, everything went normally. Then at school I got rewarded as "student of the day", that was really cool. I was having a very good day, then we got out of school and I talked to the guidance counselor about colleges.
-He said I had a good chance of getting into Bentley, Babson was alright, Boston University was pushing it, and I don't remember what he said about North Eastern. Well he also said I had decent SAT scores, but that wasn't enough for my family's, which I will get to later.
-So then we arrived at the school at 3:00 p.m. to cart people over to the ultimate frisbee game, but there was one person without a ride. I offered to give him a ride, I wasn't just going to let him be left behind. So we drove off, 7 people in my compact car, it holds 6 legally. Then while we were driving I had to cut a guy off in order to get in the correct lane, which I felt very bad about, but he felt much worse. He was behind us and followed us. I remember at one point the music was loud, and I turned it down and said "I don't want to draw attention to us, because were doing something illegal." Then the angry as hell guy behind me leans out his window and caught my attention, so i leaned out and asked him what he was saying and he said "if you're doing something illegal you shouldn't draw attention to yourself", it was hilarious. Well then we had to pass through a police blockade, and they didn't notice my overloaded car because they were to preoccupied with the guy in front of me. That was a very close call though. We were all really nervous!
-So after the police barrier, we kept driving until we got lost haha. Which we did very effectively. So we were driving at what was a sort of a T intersection when we were all confused if we should turn or not. So I put on my blinker, and then I turned it off like a second or so later and continued straight. Well the lady pulling out of the adjacent street looked at me in that quick moment I had my blinker on and didn't look gain, so she ended up crashing into us. it was pretty cool though, very little damage, my car is a tank apparently, and only had scrapes all over the passenger side haha. Her front of the car was pretty crushed however. Well then the cops came of course, and then I got busted for having to many passengers, but at least they were all buckled in, so I don't think he gave me a ticket for it, unless hes going to mail it to me or something. Well, he didn't give me one in person. I think he was to busy dealing with the crash (everyone was okay by the way). Then once all the information was exchanged I went to drive off and my car and it wouldn't turn anyway but right. It turns out (from what I know of now) the tie rod and drive shaft are all busted. My passenger side front tire won't turn, and the passenger side front door won't even open. I also have a transmission fluid leak, I guess my car is only a tank on the outside.
-AAA arrived to tow my car, this was probably the second best part of my day. Only beat by that exciting split second moment of being able to steer an out of control car, I wish I could feel that fast paced action more often.... I didn't realized how much fun it was until it was all over. Well the tow guy was an extremely chill guy, having a conversation with him was fun.
-Then, after dropping it off at the auto-shop, I got a ride home. The whole way home my mom told me that I should cheer up. When i didn't she informed me that my life had not been ruined, she followed this up by telling me the story of when she found out that my brother was autistic. She said the day he was diagnosed with autism, her life was crushed. She cried every day for at least year after that. Although she said that it hadn't ruined her life, I feel bad to say this, but in some peoples eyes, it did. She is now stuck taking care of him for the rest of her life, he will never graduate and leave. She will always be stuck trying to find coverage so he can work, and we don't want to send him to a group home because they abuse mentally disabled kids there way to often. THen I realized what it meant to have your life ruined. Not just the type of realize where you hear and understand, the type where you actually get to experience it, although I wasn't their first hand, I've dealt with it my whole life and will continue to. I understood. Then came lessons. My lessons were alright, of course, by now I didn't want to be teaching them, but oh well. On a cool note though, some girl lost her tooth at the bottom of the pool, I tried to find it, but couldn't.
-After lessons I checked the new work schedule for the next month. I found out the two shifts I have are at times I couldn't do, so I had to give them away. There goes my income for the month....
-Finally I got myself cheered up, I don't really know how though. Well as soon as I walked in the door home kind of cheered up, my mom informed "I've got bad news for you". She said my family was flipping out about my SAT scores and are forcing me into taking a prep class, which would either be directly conflicting with the new swim team I joined or marching band. So I have to give up doing one of them... I'm still deciding which one to pick. Although I'm going to look around fo more options, I'm not giving up that easily. It's just annoying because Im extremely devoted to both of them.
-As selfish as it seems, after listening to my mom list all fo her tragedies and how they don't compare to my brothers diagnosis of autism, I realized my mom has really bad luck. Then she informed me that I am inheriting it, and although biology can't rove it, from how my life has gone (no sob story, sorry if it is) I think she is right). And yes, I know there are kids in third world countries and so on. But as a comparison as to people with our standard of living and such, our family is definitely nearing the bottom with the luck and happiness chart. I have many more things to I don't feel comfortable discussing that are aiding that.
-Now I'm going to do homework, I don't really know where to go in all aspects of my life, I don't really feel very much up for anything. Except I'm going to a BBQ tomorrow, i've been planning it forever and I don't want anything to get int he way of it, we'el see.... Goodnight I guess.