No Time for Snow?

Hello there, small population of readers.  I've been sitting around all week wondering what to blog about while people have been hounding me, telling me I have more and more work to do.  I looked outside at the snow that gave us a second winter break, then back at the various study guides and scholarship applications strewn about my desk, and my next blog-topic dawned on me: Why am I too busy to enjoy snow days?  We seniors joke about never doing our homework (and, ask any of my teachers, I'm pretty good at living up to that stereotype), but when it comes down to doing things that are important to our plans for the future, we do put in a lot of effort.  Unfortunately, over these past few snow days, I've found that I can't focus on really important things with all the guilt of skipping over or half-assing random busywork hanging over my head.  On top of that, being stuck inside while my family's "senior year syndrome" (you know, when they all cling to you every second as you beg for more independence because "you're growing up so fast!") intensifies is only bearable for a few hours at a time.  I love them, really, but I'm developing a terrible case of cabin fever.  I just remember how great snow days used to be back when I wasn't going to be about $10,000 short per school year, and when I didn't need to worry so much about getting 100% on every test I took, whether I actually planned on doing something with the skills I learned from that class or not.  Instead of building snowmen, I've spend my past few days building my resume so I can get a summer job.  Not that I haven't gotten out of my house or spent time with friends over the break, because I have, but each time I did was squeezed into a tight schedule full of "more important tasks".  I understand that all of this stuff has to be done, but I really wish that the work I'm supposed to do for high school classes that have nothing to do with the path I've chosen for myself would stop affecting the things I need to do to get ready to leave, and that both would give me a little more time to do things like relax, be a teenager for a little longer, and sleep.

Anyway, I believe today marks 159 days left until graduation.

-Chels