Post by rcbcbsn. (ℓ) on Jan 22, 2009 16:51:41 GMT -5
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[/size][/blockquote]There was something about the coffee shop that made Rylee able to sit and focus on something for more than ten minutes at a time. Why, she didn't know. Perhaps it was the fact that she was away from all the distractions in her dorm room. She didn't have her computer or any of her art supplies (since sort of making up with Asher at the dance, Rylee had mostly unblocked herself from her inability to paint anything.) Because of this, she had been spending most of her time with a paintbrush in hand, when she should have been working on her school work. As a result, Rylee had fallen behind in almost all of her classes and her grades had fallen with them. This was unacceptable. You see, Rylee was in a sort of arrangement with the school... she could take the amount of art classes she was taking... as long as she kept her average at a 90%. And right now, that wasn't happening. Which meant that the fifteen year old was in trouble if she didn't bring them up by midterms. So that's why Rylee was at the coffee shop at one o'clock in the afternoon, a mountain of school books and empty coffee cups piled on the table around her.
Currently, she was working on Shakespeare translations. The class was reading Macbeth, and they were supposed to do translations from Shakespearean to modern English for every scene in the first two acts. It was due on Monday. Rylee was only on the fifth scene of the first act. On top of her English homework, she had a history paper due, a handful of math problems to do, a new tense to learn in French for a test... plus she had an art project to finish. There was two things that Rylee had learned over the past week. One, she needed to get more organized. Two, her bad habit of procrastination was going to be the death of her. In reality, Rylee had had more than enough time to get everything she needed to get done done... but the girl kept letting herself get distracted. By anything and everything. She would get bored and go online to check her facebook. Or sign onto MSN. Or pick-up her phone and start mass texting everyone. Anything she could do to make it so she didn't have to do homework.
After a little prodding for her roommate, Lexia, Rylee had come to the coffee shop to do her work. Without her computer. And so far, it was working pretty well. She was keeping herself caffeinated (the employees of the coffee shop had been doing really well in making sure that she always had a full cup of coffee) and without her computer, she wasn't letting herself get distracted. The fifteen year old had been at the coffee shop since ten am and she had motored through the first five scenes of Macbeth. It was something about the atmosphere... it made her feel like she wasn't a high school student, weird as that sounded. There was something about working in a cafe that made her feel kind of... college-y. That was what was propelling her to work so hard on getting this done. She kept thinking about how she needed to keep her grades up to apply to colleges in a couple years. She didn't want to be one of those students who pulled their socks up senior year and expected to get into their dream college. Getting into RISD was far too important to her to let herself slack for the first three years of high school. Rylee was going to keep her average up, load up on APs and get into RISD. She was going to work until she was done.
But a break would be really welcome right about now...tagged , asher!
