Life's Little Victories

I saw this series in Keith Knight's comic about little real-life moments that just were personal victories, so I'll try a series of my own and see how it works.

#1 I won a scholarship today and only found out at the award ceremony we were having at school for a different scholarship I won (surprise!). Pretty cool.

#2 I was driving in the car with my parents and I told my mom I wanted some nice, really rich black eyeliner because we've run out. My dad was like, "What do you need that stuff for? You look fine...", and starts gesturing towards eyelashes. My mom understands before I do and promptly starts to laugh. "That's mascara! She's talking about eyeliner, kajol (kohl in english)!" My dad pauses for a second. "Oh. That's ok." I started to laugh...on top of getting eyeliner confused with mascara he thought eyeliner was totally ok because in our culture kajol is very commonly worn by girls and women for beauty (South Asian culture started the eyeliner trend, after all, if I'm not mistaken).

#3 Ok, this was really yesterday, but I went to a group job interview, and I got hired!!! Since I'm going to college locally that means I can still stay in touch with my old school district and it also means I have a job going into college! To top it all, they even try to work around your class schedule with you so the two don't interfere. Pretty sweet deal.

#4 We meditated today in AP Psychology. Ms. Barker-Ball came in and we just all lied on the ground and closed our eyes as she started some meditation/relaxation techniques. I would say it worked--it was really nice; I forgot about all my problems and I was less stressed walking out of the classroom.

#5 For the first like twenty minutes of AP Physics we just sat outside on the ground and watched the thunderstorm that was a few miles away! We "analyzed" the atmospheric physics of it but really it was something you'd only see in California: A class awed by a thunderstorm and sitting outside, watching it, whole rows of teenagers in their flip flops and tank tops going "OOOOOHHHH" every time there was a flash of lightning. Awesome.

#6 I took photos of some friends and close acquaintances with my Pentax black-and-white mechanical camera from the 70s...I finished up my last roll of film.

That's it for now, but it is refreshing to reflect on the positive things in my life rather than complain.