day: thirteen

It's Friday as well! Apart from wishing death upon people I dislike, it was a day of stationery and more procrastination.

I used to love stationery shopping. The inner geek in me always enjoyed being around the presence of masses of paper and pencils. That roughly translates to frolicking around at Officeworks. But today was different: I didn't have a stationery list. Either my school was so lazy not to supply me with any sort of list of the amount of books I was supposed to buy or I was too dumb not to collect one. I call shenanigans on it.

So there I was walking around with other people doing the same shopping (they looked like they were in university or VCE so I felt so premature and stupid by their presence; I'm only a fifteen year old) and so it hit me: I want pretty books this time round.

I absolutely hated those stupid 64 page binder exercise books. They were awkward and stupid and so thin and fragile. I wanted one that all the cool grade A students get: a ColourHide Marbig notebook or one of those Spirax notebooks. Let me tell you: it took almost an hour to decide between the two. I got the ColourHide one just because it's more colourful than the yellow checkered Spirax ones that induce permanent eye damage if you look at it for too long. You know that feeling when you're tired of shopping and you start feeling dizzy? I felt that. Never have I had an unpleasant experience with stationery shopping. I have failed my duties as a geek.

I went to the pens and pencils section too. Nothing new, just a few pens here and there and a refill for my pacers. (Asians love pacers*) I felt that so much was missing without a list to guide me. Usually it'd be some binder and display folders that you'd end up never using in your life ever again, but that's what makes it fulfilling about stationery shopping. So many 2B and 2H pencils have been laying idle in my house, gathering up like a whole country of virgin pencils that hadn't touched a paper before. I actually feel sorry for unused stationery...

So I come home at 9pm with the utter horror realization that I have tutor early tomorrow. (Asians have multiple tutors, yes)^ So that led me to secretly do my wad of unfinished work without mum trying to find out. Luckily she didn't, but somehow she had a sudden influx of chores to do. It always happens at the worst times. Normally I would be complacent with things like these but the thought of no homework done just made me do it willingly and quickly (I never said with quality though!).

But I still didn't manage to complete it. Which means I need to wake up early to get it done. 1st world problems are so hilarious sometimes.

So the morals of today are:
• Life is hard when you don't like stationery shopping anymore.
• Life is also hard when you need to wake up early.

* A funny comment that was a tad racist, but it's true though. Asians DO love pacers.
^ A funny comment that was a tad false. Not all Asians have multiple tutors.