The Power of Negative Thinking

Wow, don’t worry, I’m really not as bad as that makes me sound…

Anyways, today was one of those days where EVERYTHING (and I mean everything), that can go wrong WILL go wrong. Let me start at the beginning (which in my case would be last night). Following my orthodontist appointment, I came home and figured I’d take a half-hour nap and then work on my homework. So around 5:30, I layed down, and the next thing I knew it was 6:00 AM. I had slept through and forgot to finish my homework. So I rush around to get ready and “attempt” to get the homework done. Rushed to catch the bus, and there were no seats. Great!

I soon arrived at school and just as period 1/2 started, I finished. We went over it, and I had gotten most of it wrong! (I guess that’s what I get for rushing). We then took a quiz on the homework and because I rushed, it did poorly on it.

The next period was gym; inline skating for this unit. I went to the one set of gym doors an it was locked. So I rushed to the otherside, and it was locked as well. When I finally got in, class was just starting. She took attendance and we went outside. Myself, following those in front, went into the wrong set of bleechers, and when we finally made it to the correct set, it was getting cold, and starting to sprinkle. I put my rollerblades on (wrong foot first!), then did some stopping/going drills.

Lunch/Activity followed. I made a new notebook for spanish (<sarcasm>so amazing isn’t it!</sarcasm>). While in there, we found out about the schools new policy of locking the doors and that anyone caught without their ID would get an S.O.S. (School on Saturday). Of course, the one day I forget my card at home, they decide to implement this!

The next period for American Literature, I was in the library, and of course, we were required to sign out books, and since I forgot my ID card, I couldn’t sign out a book. YAY.

Art went ok. I worked on my charcoal drawing, and by the time I was done, I managed to get charcoal on my face. Of course it wouldn’t come off!

Caught the bus and came home, and now off to bed, I mysteriously have a headache. Oh well.

And for those of you wondering about the title, its from a Murphy’s Law article at Wikipedia.

‘Murphy’s Corollary of the Power of Negative Thinking: “An optimist is never pleasantly surprised.”‘

4 thoughts on “The Power of Negative Thinking

  1. I’ve definitely had my share of those days as well. It certainly is a pain when everything goes wrong. But, I guess you just gotta think that tomorrow will be a better day.

  2. I’ve had those days when everything goes wrong but you know, there’s always something good.. just have to look very carefully for what that is and really enjoy the good things =D