![]() I’m exhausted,” I said as I toddled up the stairs. We have a rule in our house that if I write a major essay like this, I have to run it by Mom before I hand it in. She looked at it, made some suggestions, and then I got started. I put together an outline to organize my ideas that I planned to show my mom before I started writing. It would be unwise to let it pile up until the last minute and get it done in a mad dash of flop sweat and caffeine. This was the kind of essay you were supposed to spend half the school year on. I gave myself some deadlines so that I didn’t leave until the last minute. Instead, there’s just one deadline, like there is for papers when you go to college. Usually, when high school teachers give you big essays like that, the deadline has sub deadlines that you need to meet so that it forces you to pace. Our economics teacher gave us an essay about conditional probability and how we experience it in our daily lives. ![]() Either that or she’d thump around as loud as possible at 6 in the morning looking for something and losing her temper because she couldn’t find it.Īnd it doesn’t stop at not getting enough sleep. She said she had to have the lights on because she was doing work. I would get up to turn them off, and she’d get mad. I would start to fall asleep again and she would turn on all the lights. It almost always took me two and a half hours to get down, and when I finally did, Mom would barge into my room in the middle of the night and stand in my doorway and ramble on the phone for hours. Homework, practice? Too bad, 8:00 PM is bedtime, so off to bed you go. So the last little while, 8:00 PM was always bedtime, regardless of whether or not you actually felt tired. I wish it stopped at just feeling lonely. Mom never told me why she was so busy only that she was busy. “I can’t be there, I’m too busy.” I have no idea what the big emergency is. “It’s also cold because you’re not there for me.”Īnd the answer has always been the same. Our end of the Earth faces away from the Sun, and it’s colder at the poles because the light is spread over a large area rather than concentrated at the equator.
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