Dear Readers,
Do you ever have such a bad day that the simplest things someone does makes you feel really happy? Like someone smiles at you and you just feel so grateful? Cause that was me yesterday. Since it's almost Thanksgiving, teachers try to give students an impossible amount of work to complete. Now there are two choices a student can choose when this time comes around: not give a shiznit and wing all the assessments OR struggle to complete everything and deprive themselves of sleep. And of course I choose the latter. So now I have two essays, a presentation, and two tests on Monday. BUT I only have half of my weekend to get all this done cause of a swim team trip that goes on from Friday to Saturday. Wish me luck.

I know people who are in college or juniors and seniors in high school will say that what I have to do is no where near as stressful as what they have to do or have done. But the fact that they have done more doesn't mean what I'm doing is somehow less stressful. So please, allow me to complain, because I'm sure you did too

Before I start my story, y'all need some background about my morning commute. Its pretty boring so you can just skip to the next paragraph. I live in Brooklyn and my school is in the Upper East Side. School starts and 8:00. So, I gotta wake up by 5:30 the latest and leave the house by 6:10 to ride the bus for a 15-20 minutes. Then I gotta take the train and walk 9 blocks uphill to get to school for 7:30. I could wake up a few minutes later, but there have been times when MTA was being a bush and I got to school at 7:50. It's not a chance I would take.

So yesterday I woke up at 5:00 cause I wanted to get some work done and ended up sleeping through my alarm. So it's now 5:49 (I know very specific) when my mom finally says "Hey Epoh, don't you need to get to school?". So I'm out the house by 6:20 and pray I didn't leave any of my homework at home. I takes a whole 20 minutes for the bus to come and and then another 10 for the train to come. When I finally get off the train it's 7:30 but I still have to walk. I was so sleep deprived that I thought a car would hit me when I was crossing the street. Y'all may be saying "TF Epoh, there are signs that tell you when to walk and when to wait." But I honestly couldn't remember which was which and there weren't always people crossing the street with me. Before y'all start thinking I'm a wuss, this was after 8 days of five or less hours of sleep every day.

I got to school at 7:55 (thank God) and I stared at the wall until class started trying to figure out if I did all my homework. I didn't. I forgot to do my history homework and I had this class first period. So I sped read 5 pages about Buddhism and hoped that the teacher didn't call on me to share homework answers with the class. She didn't but this was still super stressful.

I had a bunch of other classes but I forget. Now it's time for Biology. I ended up getting an 82 on a homework assignment for dumb stuff like not spelling my name right. Under normal circumstances I would have cried, but I was too tired.

Yay lunchtime! I didn't eat much cause I had a Forensics practice. If y'all do know what Forensics is, it public speaking. My category is Declamation. You memorize a speech that's at most 10 minutes long and present it like it were your own. But anyway, I asked a friend to get me food and leave it in my locker. Shocker shocker, she forgot. Now I'm sure y'all know sleep deprived and hungry don't make a good combination. So now I'm a full fledged hangry bush. Fun.

So now it's the end of the day and I have about two and a half hours of homework. And an hour and a hoof swim practice. And a Theology test the next day (well today and I don't think I studied enough). Woof. But then my amazing friend Arjuna appears. And offers to buy me bubble tea. I friggin love Arjuna so much. So now in a slightly less hangry bush.

Whoop whoop! It's time for swim! Looks like we are swim the 1000m. So. Much. Fun. I have one of the slowest times, but who cares, at least I was able to finish at all. I had put my phone to charge before and guess what? It didn't charge. So now I'm at 39% and I have an hour and a half long ride home. So I'm on the train and lucky, I get a seat. I try to be productive by reading the chapter of the Odyssey assigned for homework, only I'm too tired and give up after five minutes.

There was this old lady sitting across from me, and I could see that she was judging me for dosing off on the train, like I would fall asleep and miss my stop and get stolen or something. Of course I didn't give a shiznit. But i should have cared, cause I swear I only closed my eyes for a minute, but the next thing I knew I was four stops away from where I should have gotten off. This was one of the train platforms that are above ground so it was really cold. And dark (its like 7:30 rn) and I think I'm gonna get stolen for real. I was a lil' bit out of it at that point cause I had just woken up but I was able to make my way to the other side of the platform without falling onto the tracks so mission accomplished.

My train came and I got on but the electronic sign that shows the stops the train isn't working and said that it would be skipping my stop. So I did the only thing that would make sense and I got off the train. The train was still in the station and I started walking to the front of the platform. Then I looked into the train again and I saw the electric sign thingy showing that it WAS going to my stop. I tried to get back onto the train but the doors closed and it started to pull out of the station. By this point I was crying big, ugly, fat tears. I was cold and tired and I just wanted to go home and my day was going horribly. Then there was this drunk guy not far from were I was standing shouting profanities at a garbage can and he wasn't making anything better so I started crying even more.

Eventually my train came and I got home safe. It was like 8:30 and I still had a lot to do so meh. Whatever.

How was your day?
Litty:☺️
The most fun I've ever had:🤩
Meh:😶
Don't ask:😑
I wanna die:😥
I wanna sleep:😴