The least you need to know about my day:

I stayed home from school ^^

I didn't want to. I hate staying home from school, but I figured it was in my best interest to miss school today because I don't know that I could make it through the whole week of school without a mental breakdown. I would have to take one day off to try and catch up, and I couldn't miss any other day this week (Tuesday and Wednesday I have to take the Writing SOLs AND I have after school band practices, and Friday I have Band Festival).

Okay, so NOW I realize that Thursday is open to miss school as well (and Thursdays ARE the best days to miss), but I figure that it's silly to try and catch up once you're already three days into the school week.

Besides, today has been quite productive, or it's seemed that way anyway.

I got a good amount of sleep (like 10 hours instead of the 4 hours that I would have gotten if I had gone to school today) and then I showered and went outside and read my Huck Finn book. I got about 20 pages read, too, before I got a headache and went inside.

I started working more on the story I had to write for English that was due last Thursday, and it was not going very well, even after I had taken some Adderall to help me with my ADD.

Adderall is like the best. It makes you focus so well, it's just incredible. My mind feels so much faster, clearer, and more organized. It makes me wonder if that's what people without ADD feel like all the time.

If so, I feel like I have a serious disadvantage, lolz. I'm like a million times more productive on Adderall, and I just think "Well, no wonder everybody else gets their work done without a problem--they don't have ADD."

But I can't really complain too much. I know there are things people have that are much worse than an inability to concentrate on tasks.

Anyway, I took the Adderall, and it became clear to me that I was going nowhere fast. Adderall helps you concentrate--it doesn't promote creativity, and I had absolutely no idea where my story was going.

It was time to get some outside help.

Yesterday I had asked Russell for help, and even though he writes really good stories, he's just not the best source for Harry Potter-related things. Nothing against Russell, but he's not a Harry Potter fanatic. I am, and it's very hard to talk Harry Potter with anyone whose interest is less than fanatical. =D

I don't know WHY I didn't even think to IM Karen until today. Karen and I don't talk nearly as much as we used to (I blame the end of the HP series).

But it's all okay, because in the end, we're still HP nuts, and I know that if I IM her asking for help writing a Harry-Potter-related story, she's gonna do her darndest to help me out =)

And I'm very, very glad to have her. I don't suppose you can understand the importance of having someone there for you that's equally obsessed with something you're obsessed with, because probably few of you are as into something as I am into Harry Potter, but it wouldn't be cool to go it alone.

Gregory, Christopher, Aleks, Russell, Ben, Danielle, and Ariel have all read the books, so I could talk to them about Harry Potter if I wanted to, but as I said, they just don't understand the obsession. They just see the books as good books. They don't care to discuss the subtle nuances of the plot and characters like I do.

It's not something that can be explained, so I'm not going to attempt to any further, but I would just like to say how grateful I am for Karen. Even though Russell's now the friend I talk to the most, it just goes to show that no one can ever really be replaced.

Okay, so I lied when I said "The least your need to know." Most of the above has very little to do with my day, but I have an awful tendency to go off on tangents. It probably happens because I write what I'm thinking and I can never think on one topic. (I lied again. I can when I'm on Adderall, but you can probably tell it's worn off by now. What a pity... I haven't finished my Spanish yet. Good thing I'm not at all tired.)

Moving on with my day-- I spent the next several hours plotting my story with Karen and it's coming along marvelously! I really do think it will be good! I never feel confident about the stories I write because I get so excited about the idea that I have that I start writing and realize I have no idea where I'm headed. So basically all my ideas are half-baked and I never finish what I started because I just didn't plan for an end. And if it's an assignment and I HAVE to finish it, then I make something up, and then later realize that it doesn't work well at all with the beginning. It's so disheartening that I always feel like perhaps I'm just not cut out for the whole writing business after all.

Essays, on the other hand, are much easier to write because you're pretty much just writing your opinions in an organized manner. I really enjoy writing essays.

I wish I wrote more... I mean besides journals, blogs, and IM chats. I think I'm getting so much practice in the rambling-about-nothing-important way of writing that the writing types that count are probably suffering.

But I'm off topic again.

I spent several hours planning my story (that will be very good) and now I'm going to work more on Spanish, and it is my intention to simply avoid my English teacher tomorrow. If she doesn't see me then she won't know I didn't finish my story ^^ I don't think I'll be very successful, but I also don't think anything will go horribly wrong if I must talk to her either.

I'm getting a headache again.

My family flew kites and went to Carl's today. I was immersed in my work, so I didn't participate, but it could have been worse. I could have gone to school today, and then come home and gone to sleep for the night like I had been planning, and then I wouldn't have seen my family at all!

This blog entry was going to be very short.
I don't suppose it's possible for me ever write as little as I intend to. Oh well ^^