Yearbook Ad Selling

......Sucks ass.

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All right.. Just got back from yearbook ad selling, and as usual, it sucked ass. This is my second year on the staff, and I almost wish I would've somehow gotten out of it. We also went ad selling last Thursday. It was incredibly hot outside as we were walking along the busy streets of Stillwater. Today in Chandler, it was raining. It has been raining on and off for days now. Like, it'll be all rainy and cold in the morning, but in the afternoon, it's all sunny and hot. Gotta love Oklahoma weather....
But today wasn't so bad, really. I went selling with Brittni Holsinger, her step-mom, and Ryan Dawson. Which was awesome if you can manage to look past the fact that we we're AD SELLING. I got it good, though. It could have been so much worse.... I could have had to go with Tommy Horlacher, or Rebekah Pruitt....... *shudder* I'm such a bitch.. ^_^

Anyway, when we go ad selling, we pretty much have to hit up every business we have in the past, plus some new ones we've never tried before.

Today, I realized how screwed up our yearbook was last year. On one of the ads, there were two misspellings. (Don't look at me, I didn't put the ad pages together, nor did I edit them.) It was supposed to read "Murcer's Jewelry", but instead, it reads "Mercer's Jewelery". The woman was rather irritated by this. And on one double-page spread, there are three ads that are on there twice each.. Way to go '04-'05 yearbook staff, true winners.

When I got back to school, just in time for third block (A.P. English), I had a golden opportunity to cut the rest of the school day. Did I though?

No. I'm still here.

Chris and Wesley were outside over by the school talking so I went to chat with them. Chris was taking Wesley home, and they were talking about how Aaron Anderson beat the shit out of Mack Richardson.... Because Mack punched a girl in the face sometime over the weekend. So, Aaron's suspended for a few days. It happened right by my locker too, but I didn't get to see it because I was wasting my life selling yearbook ads.... *sigh*
Anyway, Chris was about to leave and he asked me if I wanted a ride home. I said yeah, but I changed my mind. I have newspaper stories to work on. Plus, my mom is really mad at me because of a fight we had last night. I don't want to go home to that again anytime soon. Oh well.

Oh well. I'm back here in the library. I should probably be working on newspaper stories, as I owe Mrs. Giblet four now.. Being senior editor is so damn easy. All I have to do is edit other students' stories and write two of my own each week. Regular staff members have to write three a week....... Crap, I just remembered that I told Wesley I'd write one of his, because he owes six, and I felt sorry for him. Well, I better get to work............... sometime before it's too late.

My feet hurt....

Wearing fancy shoes + Walking = Stupid.............. and achy feet.

Yeah, we have to dress up really nice to go selling ads. The dressing up is fine, I like that, but not when it comes to the shoes. Ask anyone who knows me, flip-flops are what you'll see me wearing 95% of the time.... Unless it's winter. So now, I'm not even wearing any shoes because I forgot to put flip-flops in my purse before I left this morning.... And because I don't want to wear my dressy ones. Last Thursday, I put some flip-flops in my purse and wore them while ad selling while Mrs. Shuckei (yearboook advisor) wasn't looming around. I love being bare footed at school. It's refreshing, you know?

Hmm, I just learned a bit of Oklahoma history that I hadn't learned in my Oklahoma History class which I took my Sophomore year.... This may be due to he fact that I was always playing around with my friends or sleeping in that class.... but whatever.
Anyway, this Irish guy is telling me about Oklahoma and its panhandle thing. Originally, it wasn't a part of this grand state. It was originally part of Texas, but during the Civil War, that piece of land was dictated as "free land", and Texas was a Confederate state. Now, the state had to be either entirely Confederate, or entirely Union. So, Texas sloughed it off. After all that, no one reclaimed it. Texas didn't want it back, Oklahoma didn't care for it, Kansas said no, and New Mexico didn't want it either. So, for a while, it was just a territory, where outlaws would hide out due to the lack of authorities. But eventually, Oklahoma was forced to take it, otherwise, neither Oklahoma nor the panhandle land would be ratified as states.... so yeah. It was at least a little interesting.

If General Mills would make a peanut butter flavored cereal, they could call it Zombie Butter. You know, to go along with Franken Berry, Boo Berry, and Count Chocula. Heh, "Zombie Butter".... That's rich.

Went to Sonic for lunch today. I got a Fire Island burger, the new one they've been advertising. I have a banner that advertises it hanging up in my room across from the Dollar General banner that is advertising milk. Chris stole for me the Dollar General one, then Wesley and I stole the Sonic one together. I like the banners very much.

What I don't like very much though--what I hate--are these things:

- Yearbook ad selling
- Time
- Mrs. Grayson
- Texas
- Computer Technology classes
- Fancy shoes that make feet hurt
- Tomatoes
- Watered down soda as a result of a moron putting too much ice in it
- People who make promises without intentions of keeping them
- Kellogg's Golden Smacks cereal
- Red dirt
- Other things