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So I woke up early to a phone call(early for me of course would be 11:30am) about how I need to get up and eat.

And then some hours later, I get told that I'm supposed to do this or that. Yeah, whatever. So I call up who I'm shooting the commercial and she puts it off 'till tomorrow at 2. I ask her if she's absolutely SURE she will be able to do it then, and she says yes. Let's watch her put it off again.

When my dad gets home he busts in and says "We need to make a list that you have to do every day!" So I'm like, ok, and he says get a piece of paper and write it down cause you're hanging it in your room.

This, all mighty peers, is what the list says:

1. Eat
2. Do two things around the house(chores)
3. Work on a scholarship
4. Get a job
5. Drive

Every day, before I do ANYTHING else. Fine. Whatever.

So he makes this big speech about s**t, and in the procees he says "After this we're going to drive and put in applications for a job" then, five minutes later he says something like "After this talk, you need to do something around the house," and of course at the end of the long speel he says "Now go work on that essay."

Choose which way you want to disrupt my carefully planned out nothingness, will you? Jesus.

So I "work" -cough- on the essay after applying to several places for a job, and driving(which I hate, by the way), and he asks to read.
Fine, I let him read it.

He comes downstairs after he reads it and goes "Okay, that was a nice essay but you have THREE SPELLING ERRORS" OMG! It MUST BE THE END OF THE WORLD!!

I'm sure the little red ziggly lines across the occational(THREE) typos WOULD NEVER CAUGHT MY ATTENTION!

It's not like I had printed it out or anything. Jesus.

So then he's like, "Okay, you have to do this and this this evening now" And I retort with "You said ONE scholarship a day. I did one!" But of course I'm wrong, and he knows what HE said. rolleyes

So we're reading the things we need for other essays, and one, clearly biased, says under what the essay is supposed ot be about:

"examples of commitment to a social agenda:
- Your work clearly demonstrates an involvement in social issues [...] OR your work expresses your cultural identity (you create Asian or Latino-inspired images or themes), etc."

So keep that line in mind.

No less than 5 minutes after I go upstairs to rewrite the ******** essay I just wrote to adhere to new guidelines, my dad pops upstairs and says

"You MIGHT want to throw in there, you know, that you're cherokee and want to make stuff about that."
And I say "What does being cherokee have to do with video?"
And he replies "Well, It doesn't, but you just, maybe, I don't know, want to throw it in there."

Feeling disgusted by this time, I reort, "So, you want me to appeal to the scholarships because I'm a minority NOW? Then how come when I asked you when I was like ten about what to put for race on all my standardized tests you said white?"

"Well, that doesn't matter, I mean, you just might want to mention.."

"If you wanted to take advantage of people appealing to minority groups then WHY didn't you say to keep putting cherokee on the stupid standardized tests and employee applications?!"

"Because you're a very little part of.."

"I'm 1/8! You have to be atleast 1/16 to account for anything. I'm more than HALF of that! What makes you think that it's so IMPORTANT now that I'm cherokee than it is for anything else?!"

"You don't have ot make the whole essay about it, just throw it in there."

"I can't believe you."

That ******** b*****d. I'm insulted.
I hate people like him.