Ups and Downs----Someone please let me off the Rollercoaster!

Isn't it amazing how one event in your life can lift you to a great high, and then all of a sudden you can be let down like someone attached cement bricks to your toes and tossed you into the East River?

I had "One of those weeks" this past week and it blew.

I mean, there are just some things you never want to have happen.....but when they do they can set you off for days.

I'm not going to say on here what that thing was; the guilty parties (and their parents) have a tendency to read my blog and I will not rat them out.

Regardless, it resulted in me not talking to the guilty party for almost a week. I didn't (and still don't) want to, that's how bad she pissed me off. I wanted her to be as uncomfortable to come back to the room as I was on the day she pissed me off. I can't match up to what she did (well I could, but that would require a small miracle), but I could make her miserable.

And then Thursday....my little ray of sunshine spilled into my life.

My mom had suggested I enter a photo contest. Everything sounds legitimate enough.....so I entered one of my pictures.

Thursday I recieved a letter saying they were going to publish it and that they needed my approval and that if I wanted to buy the book, it would cost me $70.

I was ecstatic! Me! A Published photographer!

Then I had a little air let out of my baloon with some rugby drama. Alas, we're two months into the season and we already have our drama......that's the worst thing about rugby...the drama.

And then came saturday where we whooped up on the alumni 62-0. We dominated! I'll probably make a post to Ruggerscrap about the game......maybe later.

I was still on a high, a good win, fun times.....and then I got my second blow of the week.

The International Library of Photography is a great big scam. For one thing, the books they publish never come out on time. People pay $70 or $80 for a book and then they never receive the book.

Almost EVERYONE'S photos are accepted, regardless of photographic quality. I actually thought my picture had something special about it....turns out they just want my money (ha, trick is on them, I'm a college student).

So, my picture may be printed in a book, but it isn't special.

Guess that means I'm not special.

So I guess I'm going to go from a week of being pissed off an angry, to being mopey and sad.

It's much easier to be mopey and sad.....there's not as much energy involved.....like, I can totally sit on my floor and eat popcorn if I wanted.....and that would complete my sad and mopey phase.....angry Nee Nee has to go punch walls or human flesh or kick puppy dogs and that takes entirely too much energy to reign in.

Anyway, I just wanted to blog a little...rant a little and then figure out what's going on in the world that the cosmic forces hate me so damn much.

You know what, the Cosmic Forces can kiss my ass......I hate them too!