<update>: I went out and bought three new micron pens (never again shall I be out of ink) and a new pack of those sticky note flag things (never can have enough of those, you would understand if you saw the way I use them to annotate books)

I figure there is nothing I can do right now about the crashed hard drive other than take the time (and $$) to buy an external hard drive and back up my stuff more often.... I hope I learn now that it has happened the hard way.

I think the Latin stuff is gonna work out because the teacher really believes I will be able to just keep up with the higher class so I am in the higher level which means I have a freind in the class and he thinks I will quickly catch-up/surpass.... I don't think it will be that easy, but I know I can always get help from him at conference. So that will be okay.

As for the boy and the golf... those should just peter out to be nothing... they probably aren't as big a deal as I am making them [thank you so much for repeating this often enough wifey dear]

oh! and as for volleyball tryouts: they are still leaving the teams/numbers a bit fluid since they want all freshman to have a chance if they didn't know about tryouts so there is two more weeks until that is solid but either way I am practicing with the JV team!!!!! I didn't think I was that good, but now I know I can get much better if I just keep working on it as hard as before. I see there is a lot for me to learn but I think I will enjoy developing all these new skills.

Just thanks to everyone for sticking by me. Particularly those I know in real life.... you are all wonderful. </update>

<rant><whine>

My computer crashed and the last time I backed it up was december of last year! That means I lost ALL of my art I EVER made with my tablet (and only a teensy tiny percentage of that was actually posted on dA... like 1%)

I thankfully have most of my pictures since I tend to put them on both mine and my dad's computers but I am so devastated.... it also means I have no typed copies of all my portfolio work from english class. Portfolios are the gigantic project we do at the end of the year instead of a final... it consists of writing more than we ever thought possible (while totally contradicting the meaning of a portfolio, but that is for another time)

so now I am starting from what feels like scratch, while just starting the new school year (still feel like I didn't get any of that lazy summer days time)

so I figured "hey, I will just stick to traditional art for a while then" but just now when I went to go ink a sketch I did ages ago I find that my one and only nice inking pen (a sakura micron) is DEAD because the cap wasn't on all the way!

BLEARGH!!

so now I can't finish that piece until I get a chance to go to the craft store..... and knowing that I have to do school shopping and balance volleyball tryouts and teach myself Latin (to skip up a level) and figurre out boy problems......

ITS JUST TOO MUCH.!!

and then of course I have the golf team pressuring me to come back this year. To be honest I was playing last year because I agreed with my dad that I would give it a year and an honest chance for me to like it. OK. I did and I didn't enjoy it much. So now what do I tell the coach and players? "oh I just played because my dad forced me and I really don't think there is much of a team there."?!?!?

</rant></whine>

okay, pardon the whining, ranting, all caps, etc. I am just ick right now. No need for you to solve my problems, they will either work out soon or I will crash and burn within the first few weeks of school.... then I will have a fresh start, right? *tries to convince self*