Say you see through the folly but you do it for the fame

Don't you hate how foggy you feel when you first wake up in the mornings? It's like you haven't gained full control of all your muscles and everything you do is sloppy and exaggerated. The first thing I do on school mornings is shower, so usually this involves banging my head on both sides of the shower because I'm so tired. Yes, I do fall asleep in the shower. And my thoughts are extremely messy, so if I have a good idea in the first five minutes of my awake-ness it's likely to just go away.

Why am I talking about foggy things? Well, it's because of my cold. Fun indeed. I haven't been "sick" sick in over a year, meaning a fever and needing to stay home from school. However, every year around this time I just have a stuffy nose and head like nobody's business. This morning it took 4 cough drops and a glass of tea just to get my voice working. And worst of all, my head feels about seven times heavier on one side than the other. So I've got that foggy wake-up feeling all day long. I sort of feel like on some type of drugs, but ones that just sort of weigh you down. Maybe like the women in African countries who carry baskets on their heads? Except this is IN my head, and every time I yawn or blow my nose my ears pop like I'm on an airplane or something. Overall, it's just frustrating.

Do I have anything non-complaining to talk about? Well, in Maddi's Media News I've tried two totally unrelated applications on my computer, skype and sibelius. I think I'm going to like skype. It's certainly not as popular as facebook, but the chat doesn't randomly delete on you and video chats are always fun. However, I feel the need to point out the awkwardness of video chatting that doesn't happen with phone calls. There are certain pauses in a conversation that are totally normal on the phone but when you're looking at the image of someone just seem, well, uncomfortable. If you were hanging out with them, the conversation would be more physical, and if you were on the phone, more verbal. To me, video chat is this awkward in-between stage. Sibelius is something totally different. For those people who aren't familiar with music notation software, it's this thing that lets you place notes on a staff and create your own music. I'm trying to arrange things, but since I've never arranged OR used sibelius, it's proving pretty difficult. I'm like "rest." and it's like, "RESTRESTREST QUARTER NOTE." Um, no sibelius. That's clearly not what I just entered. At least I'm getting better with my piano-playing. I'm practicing some things regularly, and I can feel my hands getting stronger, and my knowledge of the bass clef improving. God, I hate the bass clef. Still, the piano is a skill it's useful to have, and maybe I'll really launch into arranging soon. If I have time...right.