What went wrong, you ask? Oh, pretty much everything that was supposed to make the day a good one.
Let’s see. Sat all day waiting for Hope’s computer to come, (I bought a secondhand Dell on eBay) because UPS said it would be here today. Guess what. It’s 1900, and no computer.
Tried to start a thread on the fanfiction forums to discuss *gasp* fanfiction with the writers I’ve met through posting my work, and got stomped for trying to “beg for reviews” (didn’t say a damn thing about reviews in the one post I managed to make) “promote” my fanfic (the link is in my siggy EVERY time I post, like most writers do, and I didn’t put it in the post itself) and not “leaving the moderating to the moderators.” (I pointed new-to-the-forums people at the introduction thread.)
The moderator suggested I go start a Yahoo group to “talk about myself.” So I did. Only we aren’t talking about me, exactly like the thread would not have.<
By far the worst thing, though, is that I got a call from the sensei of one of the karate schools associated with my school, informing me that my school had closed unexpectedly. The other two affiliated schools are respectively 22 and 28 minutes from my house, where the one I attended is 8 minutes. And both alternatives lie through heavy traffic areas that Mapquest didn’t take into account when it gave me those estimates.
Not to mention I was supposed to pre-test tonight. And I don’t know where all my friends will end up, and now I’ll have to get used to a whole new group of people while I try to do things that are incredibly hard for me. I am healthier since I started, by far. But I haven’t lost much weight, and I’m still very self-conscious sometimes.
Within the mob of my school, though, I felt safe.
This sucks. Worse than all those aspects, is the fact that I don’t know what happened to my friends and teachers, that on Monday at our lesson everything was fine, and Wednesday the school closed.