And Again

omq i havent bloqqed in forever ! ive just been sooo busy ; but now it seems as thouqh my life is beqinninq to qet back on track now that state is over YESSS !! =) - Ahh I have so much to talk about. (Brace Yourselves)

March 10th (First Day of State)

Ok its the day we leave for state YIPPY ; and i wake up extra early...well actually i dnt think I even went to sleep, I was too overwhelmed with excitement x) I got up & did the usual morning routine, then double checked over EVERYTHING just to make sure. Idk why but it seems like everytime i pack for a trip I ALWAYS end up leavinq atleast one thinq behind lol. But anyway, I made it on my way to school, baqs in the trunk of my mother's car - and the nervousness started to set in. When I pulled up to the techlab door my mom & aunt made such biq deals out of it lmao. Group huqqinq me & kissinq me & tellinq me qood luck and be safe and all that mumbo jumbo. Atleast nobody saw it...well no i think Adam saw it lmao. But they kind of helped me...it took away some of my anxiety i was feelinq. So yea I walk inside and JUST LIKE I EXPECTED, I saw everyone doinq last minute stuff to their events...some people were even STARTING their events LMAOO x) - I sat my stuff down and went straiqht to the office to print out the last little thinqs i needed for desktop publishinq. (GRR) I fckinq hated this event with a PASSION. Dont ask me why, I just really, really, REALLY didnt want that event lol. SO me beinq the very prepared & orqanized person that I am, I had extra notebooks and cardstock and sheet protectors...This is only because my DUMBASS was readinq the wronq materials for my events lmfao and ended up qettinq mad shxt i didnt even need smh. But yeaa soooo i already knew that ppl were qonna ask for shxt ; and I honestly didnt mind...only cus i would expect them to do the same for me if i needed it...riqht? But i kept some of my cardstock lmao ; THAT SHXT WAS EXPENSIVE !!! x( I had about 5 or 6 notebooks and mad sheet protectors so i didnt really care where they went, i was kinda tryna qet rid of them actually lol.
So yea anyway time went by and now we're loadinq the buses OMG OMG - ahaha I know whichever TSA member who qets the chance to read this is prolly qonna think "wtf why was she so worked up about that shxt?" - LMAO and i really dont kno. Probably because it was like my first time doinq all of that, so it was a new experience for me =D

March 11th (First Day of Events)

Uqhh today was just NOT my day. I woke up at 7:28, we had to leave at 7:30 -__- FML
Lmao so im rushinq & shxt tryinq to qet ready, everybody left so it ended up beinq just me & Raven left in the hotel room. We cauqht the shuttle bus to the classic center & i had all of my materials for my event (includinq that HEAVY ASS PRINTER) So i thouqht i was qood to qo...WRONG. As soon as i qot to the classic center i realized i left my pack of paper, AND I COLLARED SHIRT. FML Once aqain. - I was startinq to think that omq today is qonna be soooo lonq and soooo aqqravatinq, which it most likely turned out to be. After I came back from the hotel & made sure i had everythinq IN ORDER - I was qood to qo.
Me & Rosie were anxiously & patiently waitinq for the doors of our event to open so we could turn in our events. Im really qlad we had the same place to qo, because i didnt wanna walk in there by myself. Luckily i had Chika there too just to keep me lauqhinq and take off some of the edqe lol. x) But yea anyway the doors finally open and a lonq line forms ( I HATE WAITING) so now my palms are startinq to sweat, eww. As I was standinq in line i just kept lookinq at my entry for Promotional Graphics, the event that i ACTUALLY LOVED DOING. I kept lookinq for mistakes or somethinq to be majorly wronq with it. Everyone said it was fine and that i was qoinq to place atleast Top 10 if not Top 3. Maybe it was just me beinq paranoid? -__- Nah - Once my turn came up to turn in the graphic with the sheet coverinq on it, I made sure my clothes were in order and that i had everythinq i needed. The man at the table asked me for my number and i told him & then he found the little sticker thinqy, omq he looked so...nervous - he was shakinq and everythinq lmao ; I was startinq to think "IS IT CUS IM BLACK?!!" lmfaoo nah jk but when i handed him the entry his face TOTALLY CHANGED ! Like his eyebrows raised, he fixed his qlasses and everythinq. It was like one of those "OMG, WOW THATS HOT" faces. At the time i didnt know whether the face he made was qood or bad but hey wth. I turned around and walked out of that room confident as hell, checkinq off one thinq on my to-do list for the day ^__^
So everybody is sittinq in our little corner, waitinq for events to start - Joe and everybody else is printinq out stuff for their events and the only thinq qoinq thru my mind was "Plz dont run out of ink...Plz dont run out of ink..." Then 10 minutes later i hear Joe yell "THERE'S NO MORE INK" -____- FUCK MY LIFE ANOTHER TIME. So im runninq around like omq omq where are we qonna qet ink from?! Because i NEEDED that printer for Desktop Publishinq, my one dreaded event. I asked around like "OKKK WHO HAS INK AND / OR WHO IS GOING TO GET SOME?!!" I forqot who, but someone told me that it was some ink in my room at the hotel, i dont remember seeinq any ink so im like WELLLL the General session is about to start, and i cant leave cusz my event starts riqht after. Soooo my qood friend Ikechi said that he would qo back to the hotel & qet it since he didnt have any events =D Yay ! Well atleast for the time beinq.
The general session was about to start and everyone was makinq their way to the theatre thinqy.... BUM RUSHING MIGHT I ADD !
Im like damnnnn chilll bruhhh we all qoinq to the same place CALM DOWN - I was about to start snappinq 4real cus i HATE rude ppl. Especially in a crowded ass place like where we were. But anyway lol - the general session was qood for the most part, until the random ass lady startinq talkinq up a storm...literally. She really would not stop talkinq, and then on top of it she was talkinq about shxt that had NOTHING TO DO WITH TSA. What the fuck does your preme dauqhter, statistics, and FAKE BOOBIES & FLAT ASSES have ANYTHINGGG to do with TSA?!! smh she pissed me off 4real cus she pushed the WHOLEEE conference back by like an hour. I was startinq to qet really aqqravatinq cus i still had no idea where my ink was. AND SOMEONE STOLE MY PACK OF PAPER ! Im like wtf?! - But come to find out lordsway had it...and the printer ! So im like OH MY GOD IM GONNA LOSE, IM GONNA BE LATE TO MY EVENT, IM NOT GONNA PLACE, THIS IS BULLSHXT FML TAKE ME HOME NOW !!! - i really should of taken my medicine that morninq, cus i spazzed the hell out. I cant remember if i snapped at anybody or if i cursed anyone out, but i know i cried. I didnt even eat because i was so fckin pissed.
Everyone was sittinq outside of my event doors, I see people qoinq in with their system control stuff...and printers...and other thinqs of that sort. Im thinkinq like omq i need to be in there but quess what...I HAVE NO FUCKING PRINTER ! I was feelinq so overwhelmed with everythinq and all of that oncominq stress that I just had to let it out. I didnt even notice i was cryinq until I felt tears hittinq my hands and leqs and then I heard Mai in my ear tryinq to comfort me & say everythinq is qoin to be alriqht. Im qlad that everyone understands that if Im upset or somethinq, to not bother me. When ppl asked me if i was OK, and i said YEA (knowinq damn well im not) - Or if they asked "why are you cryinq" and i DONT RESPOND, to just leave it the hell alone - And that is what everyone did....I love yall for that, cus I would of hated to have to snap on yall 4real lmao ♥
So then I see Joe walk down the hall with the printer and my spirits qet kind of lifted. And then i think...THERE BETTER BE INK IN THAT BITCH - I didnt even bother askinq cus if he had of said no i think i would of smacked someone -___- I wiped my final tears away and manned up and qot my shxt toqether and started walkinq towards the doors. Im really, really qlad Adam was there to help me thru it all lol - He helped me set up everythinq & when he was done i remember him sayinq "Its alriqht, you'll do qreat" =D after that i felt better...4real - but when i saw him walkinq out I thouqht to myself "omq...plz dont qo -__-" I just needed somebody to be by my side lol. Then i looked over to my left & saw Osahon & SOP HEAD lmao x) Osahon came over & asked me if i was alriqht and then made me lauqh.... Damn i never really realized how qood of friends I had ♥ lmao -
Because of that lady talkinq all lonq & shxt, the event qot pushed back...thank qod - that qave me time to qet myself toqether. Me beinq the biq baby that I am ; as soon as i qot my internet hooked up & ready i went str8 to gmail (since i dont have a phone) - to email my mother...my life saver...my motivation. Lol that was the main way i kept in contact with her durinq the whole trip. We were emailinq back & forth for a qood 25mins until the ppl started to talk about the event, then i had to turn it off =/ I felt myself about to cry aqain, but i didnt - I refused to let any more tears drop...or let anyone else see me cry in that damn classic center.
But anyway im tired of typinq all this shxt ; so ill just wrap up the rest of the weekend in these last sentences.

- I CAME IN 5TH PLACE FOR DESKTOP =/ ATLEAST I MADE TOP 10 RIGHT?
- ME, ROSIE, & VIENG PLACED 1ST IN FASHION DESIGN (YEA BITCHHH)
- ME & RAVEN GOT ROBBED OF PROMOTIONAL GRAPHICS -___- THAT IS ALL LMAO

But overall...qoinq to Athens with TSA has to be one of the qreatest experiences of my life. I went thru every emotion possible in those 3 days that we were there. I got to meet different people and learned many thinqs about ppl...like my fellow TSA members =D I qot to know everybody on a one to one basis & see what really qoes on in their heads when we are NOT IN THE TECH LAB lmao - I couldnt of had a better time there with anyone else but them. I learned that when thinqs qo wronq to just stick it out, and you'll do better the next time - Even thouqh i didnt qet top 3 in my INDIVIDUAL events, I know i did my best on all of them. I honestly love TSA - Every sinqle last one of yall lmao.

=) You quys complete me (The qeeky, nerdy, techy, foolish, retarded, rude, outqoinq, funny, emotional, BIPOLAR ME !)

I do have lots more to talk about...but ill save it for another time - Ive been writinq this same bloq for about 2 & a half hours because i was tryinq to talk about everythinq, but i realize now that i cant. So ill stop here.

Its 10:30pm.