This blog is dead.

I just recently got my score because I decided to just find out at my academic conference, but then we were registering our classes and the counselor told me to get mine. And my English teacher gave me this disappointed look.

So, I got the score, and damn it! I wasn’t close…but I wasn’t far.

Saturday evening I have a concert and I’m missing the morning rehearsal to take the ACT. In March, the Solo and Ensemble festival is the same day as the SAT, so that day will be busy as well.

I really wish March 1 would just come and go…by the looks of my schedule, most things are downhill after that.

Anyway, for the past couple weeks I’ve gotten really interested in re-organizing my life. Sounds pretentious, I know, but I dare say it’s been a change for the better.

A lot of the resources I’m looking at to help me reach my goal (that being a state of satisfaction and not-overwhelmed) are on the internet. The whole self-help meme where you tell yourself every morning how amazing you are is not really my style, but there really are some great articles and lists on “life-hacking” websites (a good place to start: Lifehack.org).

Something that makes me cringe a little is the use of acronyms. It’s stupid, I know, but it’s so damn geeky and I’m so damn shallow. On the internet, in general, it’s evident. I suppose it’s the entire “Age of Information” concept - we are learning to exchange information at high speeds, and what better way to make this faster than to cut down on the number of syllables we use? Or appending numbers to things to give it a new-and-improved feel…

For example, “Web 2.0″ sounds awfully smug if you ask me. But that alone is the epitome of all these internet goodies. Another one: “GTD” - getting things done. It goes beyond the scope of the internet, but it’s a very heavily growing fad.

But goddamnit I love it! Just look at my del.icio.us bookmarks.

I’m such a geek, but in the end that is okay, because the geeks are the powerful ones. Outside the political arena, anyway.