Oi, frustrated!

I went home today with the intent of taking a practice SAT test. Waited patiently for my mom to leave the house like she said she would... yeah, that never happened. My dad came hom and then my parents made completing an entire practice test IMPOSSIBLE. I got half way through.

What is it about Asian parents that makes them so inconsiderate? They stress the importance of school and high SAT scores but they just so conveniently have a huge karaoke party whenever I'm frantically trying to complete my homework.

I'm really awfully tired of this. Everybody says, "OMG enjoy your youth! You're only young for another 10 years and then you face middle age!" But really, living with my parents is so cumbersome. They are so backwards! I know every 16 year old thinks that they know better than their parents, but in my case, I REALLY DO. They do so many things that would result in the house blowing up if I weren't around to fix their problems for them.

SIGH.

I have a lot of attractive silver nitrate burns on my hands from working in the lab today... I don't know why I was so cavalier about not wearing chemical splash gloves when I was the one measuring out and diluting and retrieving the chemicals and cleaning out the test wells, etc. Lots of little black marks on my hands now! Note to self: CHEMICAL SPLASH RESISTANT SUIT UP!

If you watched How I Met Your Mother, you'd be laughing right now.

Okay okay. Did I practice today? Un poco. I haven't had a lot of time to practice lately because I'm too emotionally agitated and I'm not one of those brilliant musicians who can channel their negative feelings into something constructive. Nononnonoono. No! Life is frustrating enough without adding a whole other slew of problems that my Schafer gives me.

I was reading an interesting debate though poised to piano teachers - Can they tell the difference between their students who play on an accoustic v. students who played on a digital? The unanimous answer was yes. I'm really quite surprised... of course, a student playing on dinky two-octave Casio digital really can't compare to a student who has a nice little Estonia sitting in their living room... but I thought an upper quality digital would be a fine substitute.

I was looking on spending $2500-$3000 on a digital for college but now I don't know anymore!

Congratulations on being Editor in Chief sweetheart. I always knew you'd make it this year. You and Alan - Leigh's power couple.

Bzzbzz.

CollegeBoard sent me a reminder today that my SATs are two weeks from now.

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Love,

Me