How Much Does Your Life in School Intersect With Your Life Outside School?

            Most of my life there was little to no overlap between my home life and school life. The most that I would conceder to be overlap is homework. I never went over to my friends’ houses or them to mine; I always stayed home and played by myself. It did not bother me that I did not hangout with friends outside of school because I saw them seven hours a day in the same class. It wasn’t until middle school that I wanted to see my friends more because that’s when we started being separated and I did not have all day to see them.

            I did not start actually hanging out with my friends outside of school until I got into the high school. I started inviting friends over and to stay the night at my house on the weekends and I would go to their houses and sometimes pass out on their couches at five o’clock in the morning. It was not until the den opened up in town that my friends and I would hangout after school on a weekday. We still go to the den and hangout at least once a week and sometimes go to the tracks and watch the trains pass by after the den closes.

What Do You Eat During the School Day?

A lot of students eat snacks through out the day. Most of these snacks either come from the snack machines or the Scotty Store at the Scott Regional Technology Center or the a la carte line at lunch. I do not usually eat snacks during school mainly because I cannot afford them. If I eat snacks at school I bring them from home instead of buying them at school. Sometimes I will buy snacks at school if I get too hungry and can't hold over until lunch.

The cafeteria has three lines: two of the lines are the main entrée lines and the third line has the secondary entrée and the salad bar. I eat out of the second main entrée line everyday and although there is an a la carte selection to choose from in every line I don’t eat it because it costs extra to eat those items.

The menu changes periodically but, one day every week the main entrée is always the same. Every Wednesday the main entrée is a chicken patty and for some reason it is the most popular thing in the menu. I mean its alright but its not the best thing I have ever tasted.

Do you watch the Superbowl?

Seriously, is this even a real question? Of course I watch the Superbowl along with ninety-nine percent of all other Americans who enjoy watching the third greatest sport known to rednecks (the first and second being NASCAR and WWE). People who watch the Superbowl watch for one or both of these reasons, either they watch the game because their team was lucky enough to make it through the play offs or they watch the commercials. My team, the Kansas City Chiefs, never make it through the playoffs to get to the Superbowl so I am stuck watching the commercials. Usually the commercials are great you get to see the upcoming summer blockbusters, the comedic Dorito commercials, and the Coca-Cola bears.

This year we were lucky enough to see a rare power outage and see Beyoncé perform on the stage at the half time show. There were many great commercials but the best ones included the Budweiser Clydesdale commercial and the Doritos goat commercial. Dodge had a good one titled “I’m a Farmer” and Samsung’s “Next Big Thing” advertisement with Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd was also pretty good. I do not mind watching Superbowl commercials instead of the game because sometimes the commercials are just more entertaining.

Do you like being alone?

Generally my mood determines if I enjoy being alone or being with other people. For instance if the day was bad for me and I feel like people were annoying me or mistreating me then I would like nothing more in the world than some solitary confinement in my room. Being alone allows me to think when I am just too frustrated to think clearly. All I have to do is put on some country music and lay down on my bed and either stare at the ceiling or the backs of my eyelids and I almost instantly feel better.

To me being alone is not always fun or nice. I adore the presence of others and I am a very sociable person. Hanging out with my friends is an activity I enjoy doing very often. If I could not socialize with my peers I would probably go crazy and destroy the universe. Luckily I have very good friends and that understand my many faults so the universe is safe for now. Hanging out with my friends allows me to satisfy my need to socialize and be accepted by others. When I am with people I feel like I can truly be myself.