We Break the Dawn

Hey Everyone!

Busy, busy day compared to yesterday. Had to head over to King's for my interview for Website Commissioner for the KUCSC, then had to head to main for music ensemble practice, and then back to King's for class. The ensemble practice went find in my opinion, I'm getting better and better at harmony as time goes by, and I think I should be ready for the performance in class tomorrow. I just hope it works out find.

As for Speech class, it was basically just more of the class doing their manuscripts. This consisted of course of speeches ranging from Humanitarian Intervention, to Feminism, to Star Trek. It definitely was an interesting group of speeches and we're going to have so many to do in our final class next week since there are at least 12 more speeches to go, mine being one of them which I plan to do on love. Sex and the City has definitely given me an interesting look into love so I figure why not give it a shot?

Lauren, John and I headed to Christina's after, where we just chatted about King's Players some more and HOPEFULLY I'll be getting a position on the VP Council for KP because I'd love to be "on the front lines" :P. During this, once again I felt like I had to interrupt in certain parts of the conversation or got very frustrated when I couldn't finish my sentence. I think this is part of my autism, because something in my brain basically tells me to get quite frustrated when I can't finish what I'm in the middle of saying.

That's all for tonight!
Sean

Hair Extensions: What an Interesting Subject...

Hello All!

Today was an interesting day. From being woken up around 9AM because they were putting insulation in downstairs, and as a result, I had to get up and sleep upstairs so that the smell wouldn't give me dead brain cells or at most a headache :P. I had to deal with a couple phone calls though from the Student Services at King's because I thought I had booked my music test with them for tomorrow, but it wasn't appearing on my log in page. I did get it all sorted out though thankfully, and luckily I get to write next Wednesday, so an extra week for studying.

I headed back to London around 2:30PM and just watched some television until around 6 since I had to head out to Speech. Now here's where my autism came in because I thought my best friend, Lauren, had possibly been a little put off with me, but once again I was completely wrong. It was just me thinking I had said something to offend her when in reality, she had just had such a busy weekend and as a result it made it difficult for her to get in touch with me by text message is all. Which was a relief.

Speech class was short because most people didn't have their manuscripts all finished or started except one person, so that person did her speech, her name is Summer so as to not sound rude by not saying who she is. We then just listened to the final Speech to Persuade and three impromptu speeches.

Then I just had a KUCSC meeting to hand in my application for Website Commissioner for next year (the position I'm in currently) and then headed home to write my Research Proposal which is what I'm currently doing.

That's all for tonight!
Sean

When I Get Older, I Will Be Stronger

Hey Everyone!

So not a busy day today, not really much happened. I woke up, got ready for the day, played God of War 3 and then headed to work. Work was just a visit to Wendy's, and then finishing WALL-E, and watching Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2. I then just finished off God of War 3 when I got home, and now am just watching regular tv. I guess the only autistic thing that happened today was...actually I don't think anything related to my autism happened today. It was just such a dull day (minus beating God of War 3 of course) that I really can't say anything could have arisen to do anything autistic. :P

Sorry for such a short post everyone!
Sean

Stroll Down the Runway, Another Payday, Cover of Magazines

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Well I'm going to tell you all now it was really not a busy day. Sadly nothing really big happened aside from a fitting and class but I'll still go into it.

With the Pro Shop fitting I basically had to go to the King's Pro Shop (which is in my school) and find out what they'd like me to wear. It wound up that I'd just be wearing a blue sweatshirt with the logo for King's on it, and my own grey sweatpants. Nothing's wrong with that really, because it also lets me wear my own pants and own t-shirt underneath which is always nice. I was also able to grab some scrambled eggs at the caf which wound up just perfect because the guy who works there who makes them perfectly was thankfully working.

Aside from that the only other thing that happened today really was my Speech class which was...interesting to say the least. We basically had to do impromptu speeches which consisted of pulling a random topic out of a bag, and then presenting a speech based on that topic after ten minutes of preparation. Mine was about Women in the Military and I basically talked about both sides of the debate that has lasted 4000 years. I talked about how on one side (consisting mainly of men), feels women can't perform in the military because of strength, emotions, and psychological capabilities. Then I talked about the other side, which I feel a part of, that says how strong they can be. I also made up the fact that women can take hold of their emotions and put them towards giving themselves strength. I also listed different female warriors including Annie Oakley, mythological goddess Athena, and even a Star Wars queen, Queen Talia (see Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords for XBOX or PC for reference :P).

That was basically my day frankly. I suppose the only autism-related thing that "sprung up" was that just because Lauren wasn't responding to my texts, I thought she was perhaps annoyed with me, which even though I know wasn't the case, I suppose I have a bit of paranoia in me because I always feel like I text her too much because I want to make sure I haven't made her mad. I don't know if this is autism or paranoia, but I'm sticking to autism :P

Anyway, that's all :)
Sean

Empire State of Mind

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So I got woken up at about 7AM and my parents and I headed to London since I had school today and we needed to get me to London for it. I went to bed when I got to my friend's place, and then woke up around 12PM.

I worked on my speech for class on Universities and Colleges. I then headed over to Lauren's to walk to class and we chatted on our way just about how our Reading Weeks' went, and then had class.

My speech went fine, it was a dull topic but it still communicated the message.

After speech, Lauren, myself and our friend John headed to Christina's for a late dinner. It was fine and we just chatted about random things like relationships and other topics.

Autism-wise, I think the only thing that got me was I couldn't let go of some topics while talking with Lauren and John, so I did get internally frustrated (by this I mean I was screaming inside 'let me talk' but outside I more just ruffled my hair and sighed). But again it's just a case where I wanted to finish my point but I wasn't able to as they were talking because it would've been rude.

That's all for tonight!
Sean

Gimme a Break

Hey Everyone!

So I woke up today around 1PM and did my usual prepping for the day. At 4:10PM I headed up to main campus for a music lesson, and while I was early, I got the chance to practice with my accompanist.

Following this I headed back to Kings for my Speech class, starting with my classic rhetoric test. It was quite a short lasting test and I finished in twenty minutes because it was basically based on the sheet we had been given so it was mainly a memorizing sort of test.

During speech class, we finished the monologues with me finding out I got 90% on my monologue last week! We also then talked about our next speeches which were going to be persuasive speeches. We then told some speeches to get people emotionally invested, but they were so depressing that it just drained my energy from me...

I then went over to Lauren's for a bit and just chatted about some things. And then headed home where I am now.

Autism-wise I think the only thing that happened was I let the influence of television and internet keep my brain over-stimulated. Hence I got to bed at 5AM which is why I'm so tired right now.

But anyway,
Night all!
Sean

You Know You Make Me Want To Shout

Hey Everyone!
So I got up at 1PM and thanks to having slept about ten hours I was able to actually get up. I then basically just did a bit more work on my speech, and worked on my reflection paper for Personality Theory.

At 6:30PM I headed to speech class and got to listen to two wonderful speeches about how to keep a man, and how to keep a woman, spoken by a couple in the class. I did my speech on how to pull an all-nighter, a speech about how to select the proper cake, and a speech by my friend John about how to properly improv.

After speech I headed home, and just watched Heroes, and finished my reflection paper and here we are.

Night all! I'm going to see if I can sleep this time, hopefully didn't get too much stimulation from the tv to keep me up for around another four hours.
Sean

It's My Life, It's Now or Never, I Ain't Gonna Live Forever

Hey Everyone!

So to begin with I got up at 4:40PM that's right, almost 5PM! Why? Well after the all-nighter Saturday night, and 5AM last night, it's obvious my body needed to sleep that long.

Once I finally got up I created a slide show I decided I needed for my speech. I made the slide, sent it to myself and then grabbed a shower. At about 6 I headed to my friend Lauren's to grab a USB drive to put the slide show on. We then headed to class.

During class we listened to several speeches including ones about Dubai, the war in the Congo, and then I spoke about Online Dating. People seemed to like it, and laughed at points where I made subtle jokes.

After words, I headed back to Lauren's to prep for the Meteor Shower tonight. We then went to the place we found that was perfect for viewing however, I only could stay out for a short time and didn't see any meteors because I just started freezing. I just got to remember to wear more next time.

I then came home, found I only got 68.33% on my exam Thursday which I suppose is not bad but I could of swore I had gotten 80% but apparently more than 70% of the class answered 65% of the questions with the incorrect answers. By this I mean that they chose an answer that COULD be correct, but not the most correct. so the fact so many people actually chose the wrong answers so often makes me a bit more...confident that it wasn't just me. And the average was basically same as my own average so it's like barely a lot of people did extremely better than me.

After that I am here now, so off to bed I go!
Sean