My Post That Will Probably Never Make It to Sparknotes :(

Recently, Sparknotes (as most of yall know) has been posting a series called "A Day in the Life of a ______ Student. I was going to send my own post (obviously about being homeschooled), but they said NO MORE POSTS FOR THIS SERIES! So I'm posting it here. Cus I can do that. :P

A Day In the Life of...A Homeschooled Kid

8:45 Wake up, unsucessfully attempt to go back to sleep

8:46 Realize what time it is, jump out of bed. Make bed, vacuum floor, clean mirror, make sure all dresser draweres are pushed in all the way, and finally get dressed.

9:00 Remake bed and revaccum floor until mom is satisfied

9:25 Argue with little sis whose turn it is to use the computer first

9:30 Check email, read new Sparklife posts, whine that I wasn't first, and comment.

9:45 Get in trouble for not doing school, spend the next five minutes explaining that Sparknotes is educational

9:50 Pick up where I left off reading Hamlet, and cry when Hamlet finally dies

10:00 Write an essay on the play

10:30 Begin memorizing Hamlet's monologue. "To be, or not to be..."

10:35 Wonder why Hamlet is saying all this out loud to himself

10:40 Begin math assignment with my online teacher

10:50 Start math worksheet. I start wondering whether its better to die or live through math class. Begin rearranging words in previously memorized monologue to fit my question

11:00 Science "class". Kind of hard to call it a class when I'm the only student

11:05 Wonder when/if I will ever use anything I am learning about the genetics of pea plants

11:30 Speed-read through history assignment so I can have lunch ready by 12:30. Henry VIII was pretty messed up.

12:00 Look at the month's meal menu, find out what's for today's lunch. Mmmm, Ruebens!

1:00 Finish eating, argue with sis about whose turn to clean up. I win.

1:05 Start making bread so it'll be finished rising in time to bake it for dinner.

1:30 Literature! Canturbury tales a la Sparknotes!

1:45 Browse through new Sparknotes articles 'cus school's out. I still have to go to extracurricluar classes though...

2:00 Art class. Suffer through routine questions about homeschooling. Answer robotically

3:30 Sewing class with homeschooled friends. Virtually no sewing gets done. Instead, we talk about "Pants on the Ground" and whine that we haven't seen Avatar yet. Laugh hysterically.

This is a very rough outline of my typical schedule. As you see, today I only had a few subjects. In a typical week, I have 15-17 subjects, and I have 4 classes with other homeschoolers, public schoolers, or both (latin, sewing, art, guitar)