Awkward? Hello Turtle

School has started back up again from the Winter Break. I enjoy seeing all of my friends everyday again, but I'm rather against the work load. The night before the return day of school UNC lost their conference opener to Boston College in a huge upset. Even though people say, "It's just a basketball game," it was much, much more to me. I began to fill with an awkward mix of rage, pity, disbelief, and sadness. This new found emotion was further agitated by the fact that everybody who doesn't even care was texting and calling me just to make fun of my team. I was seriously about to snap my phone into two pieces and burn them in their own two respects. The part that made me the most mad is that many of these people don't even follow college basketball. They talk about the score, sure, but they never know anything more in depth than that. What is even worse than those people are the band-wagon UNC fans that come to school and cheer for UNC when they win like they care, but when they lose they say things like, "I don't really care about basketball," or something along those lines. People like that are people I can not stand. I don't see how someone can falsely stand for something like that. I guess it's just a pet peeve of mine.
In other news: my water heater was broken when I woke up this morning, so I had to take an ice cold shower. The water was so cold that it was making the air around it cold; almost in an air-conditioning effect, but less efficient. Due to that unfortunate event I took a less than three minute shower. I am normally the one who takes super hot showers. Showers so hot that it is almost skin melting.
I'm not sure what is up with teachers this first week back from Christmas Holiday, but somehow they have decided to actually attempt to give work out. I say, "No way Jose!" to that shenanigans. We got new seats in Coach Wilson's class and Ms. Amweg's class as well today. My seat in Wilson's class isn't as good as it was, but I sit next to Mary W now and Allie L is right next to her, so that gives me two awesome people to chat with during that class. Nobody sits behind me and I can't even remember who sits in front of me to be honest. In Amweg's class, however, my seat makes me want to bang my head against the wall repeatedly. My old seat was the best, because I sat with three of my friends, but not I sit with none. I barely know the people I sit around. I can solely blame Ms. Amweg as well because she put us in alphabetical order. Are we six? Assigned seats is terrible enough, but you can't even spice it up a little? The first day of getting new seats is actually very exciting for me because of the anticipation. It's like playing the lottery: you could win big, but you will most likely lose. Sitting alphabetically just ruins all of the surprise. Another thing about school before I leave this topic for the night. . .What is up with getting Interim Reports signed counting for a grade? That's the biggest piece of bullshit I've ever heard. I was under the extremely false impression that school was supposed to be about intelligence. Foolish of me really, because school has never been about raw intellect, but merely work ethic. I have not turned in any Interims to Amweg and have missed two vocabulary assignments and that takes ten points off of my grade. Dropping me from a 92 to an 82. All I have to say is, "Please come swiftly college," where there will be a meaning to all assignments, no busy work, and no dumb interims.
So I talked to my father about going on a ski trip with the gang over Martin Luther King Jr. weekend and he seems like he could possibly go for it. I hope so because it would be so much fun! I need some snow in my winter. I have never been skiing before, but I have been snowboarding and that was incredibly fun and enjoyable. I am sure skiing will be the same. I will also get to see the legendary Lakehouse that everyone seems to only come away with good memories from. Just thinking about it makes me even more excited.
Tomorrow (Wednesday) I'm going to Kevin P's youth group for his church with him. It is publically known that I am an Atheist, but he has invited me to go anyway which is nice of him I thought. I'm excited to go and meet new people. Even though I do not agree with religion I am very tolerable normally so I don't forsee any problems. I don't think I'll tell them I'm an Atheist, however, due to the simple fact that, for some reason, it is nearly impossible for people to stomach that I have made such a socially unexceptable decision so early in my life. Many people also think that it is impossible for someone, like myself, to have a good moral foundation and do what's right just because it's the good thing to do without a religious background. My outlook on life is simple: I do what I want and trust myself to make the right decisions, without holding myself to a set rule book. It's been working good so far.
Well that's all for this critic tonight.