I need New Shoes

Here in Oregon rain had reigned (or rained) constantly for years. Every few months or so the sun comes out and it gets really warm, and my eyes start watering whenever I'm outside. We've just had an unusually long period of sunshine, that just ended today. During that period of time, an unusual amount of horrible things happened to me.
Number One: I got shafted out of going to State in Speech and Debate. After I qualified at districts for my favorite event (Lincoln-Douglass Debate) they went and changed the rules on me. You see, I only barely qualified. There was one girl in the slot above me who had auto-qualified for state, so our district assumed they could send 4 people (including me) to state instead of just three. They told me so. They were wrong. I had just spent about two hours every few days or so perfecting my debate cases (which are now freaking awesome) when my coach finally told me that I wasn't going. I was pretty mad.
Number Two: Musical performances. I have one optimistic thing to say: Opening night was amazing. 600 people. Amazingly reactive crowd. Thespian heaven. Next two shows? Dismally small houses, almost zero reaction, people missed cues, and tons of mess-ups.
Number Three: I recently got my quarterly grade report (and thankfully only my semester grade reports count). I got four A's, three B's, and a C. Another round of parent lectures on the importance of good grades. The explanations I have for these:
Math, the C. I really don't have an excuse. I ace all the tests, but I barely ever do the homework.
Social Studies: My teacher is literally crazy. About three people have an A in her class,and she always marks me down on assignments for ridiculous reasons. Now I can't talk to her about because she recently had her baby, and she's out for the semester, which means I'll probably be stuck with the grade I have, which will pull down my GPA to about a 3.8 all on its own.
Language Arts: Thanks to my being particularly adept in this class, my teacher grades me with a higher standard than everyone else. I've gotten C's on several assignments. One of which was because I got my bibliography in the wrong order.
P.E. 1: I have absolutely no idea why missing two days would bring me down a letter grade.
Number Four: Finally! A chance to relax! One of my friends hosted a get-together at his house yesterday, and we watched Avatar on his Blue-Ray TV. Well, everyone else watched Avatar. About an eighth of the way through the movie, my parents came to pick me up at six, drove me to Kumon, and lectured me about grades. I spent the next two hours doing Kumon assignments.

Things I look forward to: Missing first and second period tomorrow for a musical performance and a math test in fourth period.
Another random note: My shoes, the ones that I have worn since the beginning of seventh grade, are now stained green again. It must be lawn-mowing season. Our old mower finally died on us (its been...what? Five years?) and my dad got a new lawn mower. It runs by itself, so I don't have to hunch over and push it along anymore. It doesn't matter though, it'll soon start dying on us; lawn mowers work well very long.
Anyway, back to my shoes. They're three years old, frayed, dirty no matter how many times I wash them, covered with random words in Spanish (a whole other story: Drama people are weird) and the left shoe has a huge hole in the bottom of the toe and my foot gets wet every morning. I need new shoes. Maybe then my life will change for the better. All a pessimist needs is a good pair of shoes.