Education and Friendships

Back when I was in Geometry and David would tell us all about the things he does, we had a conversation about college classes, high school classes, and education in general. Well, I say we, I really mean he did, with Joe and Connor. I sat there staring at my Geometry homework listening in. Anyway, he mentioned how he found this free site that let him take college courses for free online. They didn't count for any actual credits, but it was college classes! Free higher education.
I sort of forgot about it after that, but I was thinking about it one day after school, and so I looked for it online, I didn't know the name so I kept getting these stupid college sites.
The next day I asked David in Physical Science what it was called, and he said Coursera. I found it, made an account, and at the moment I'm enrolled in a psychology class, it doesn't start for another 5 months though. Which is nice, because by the time it begins, I'm pretty sure I'll be out of school. I got an e-mail from them saying they got about 300 new courses, which is fantastic. I've been looking through them and found one called "Children Acquiring Literacy Naturally". It's about the theory that children can learn to read without any schooling, just from everyday life. I enrolled, but they haven't decided when the class will be starting, so it might begin while I'm in school. That's ok though, the workload is only 4-7 hours a week. I really like being able to do this.
I don't care that these classes don't count for college credits, it's the knowledge that I care about. Being able to take these classes and learn these things for free. I could never afford to take a bunch of extra courses in college, so this is wonderful.
I have all my classes in high school planned out for the next 3 years. I just have to fit them all in, I don't know if I will be able to. On the one hand, I can't find a whole lot of classes that are diverse for me to take, on the other hand I have so many classes I want to take, that I have about 285 credits planned out, when I only need 245 to graduate. Wierd huh? I'm excited that I have so much planned out. So much going on.
I keep trying to improve myself, like today I read a book just randomly off my mothers bookshelf, I didn't know what it was about, I just picked it up and read it. Normally I would never do it, but I tried something new, and I'm glad. It was really interesting, well for the first half, by the second half the character had grown up to be a boring adult, completely ridiculous. Also, right now I'm taking this typing lesson online, even though I type pretty fast, I want to improve. :D I like this, but I know that as soon as my mother gets home I will get lectured for not doing anything.
That's totally wrong, I've taken our 3 bags of trash, I have a load of laundry in the wash, I shoveled the stairs, grr. I did do things! I just want to enjoy my weekend, I'm a kid!
I talked to Jeannette for a long time last night, and she said she would talk to her parents about us hanging out today or this weekend, she said she'd call today, but she hasn't. And I tried calling her, but she didn't pick up. She always says she's really excited about spending time with me, but then she forgets to even ask. Or she gets herself grounded by backtalking her parents. Or she decides to be completely unavailable for me. How are we supposed to spend time together and be better friends? I even ask about her coming to my house, and I offer to come pick her up, but  either her mother says no, or she says no. Being her friend is frustrating.

Ok, I think I'll go now. I'm pretty sure my mother will be coming home soon, and I don't want to have any documents unfinished when she gets here, because I probably won't be able to finish once she starts complaining.