Finals are not going well. I repeat, finals are not going well. All I can picture at this point are my profs, as they have probably far away from here so to avoid assasination...sitting there like Mr. Burns saying "excellllllent..." Knowing fairly sure that they've successfully pissed off at least 80% of the class. Thats all I have for now.
:( !!!!
Sunday, April 30, 2006
Saturday, April 29, 2006
The Death of K
For anyone who cares, I'm cracking up right now because that's how lame I am. For anyone not aware, K apparently stands for contracts, more commonly known as the devil. I've spent the last week and a half of life studying for that stupi final, that is unfortunately worth my whole grade. The sheer anticipation drove me to buy a 6 pack the night before...I couldn't contain the excitement. Now that the sneaky bastard's 4 and a half hour exam is done, I can concentrate on more pleasant things...like 11 and a half more hours of exams...:(
I have nothing new to talk about - except for the credit card company tried to cheat me, and lost.
Also, I made a turkey last night. That's how lazy I am during the day when studying - I don't even want to get up to make lunch.
On a lighter note...I'll have a whole 22 days of after finals before I start work - which is going to be glorious. Plans for the time? Not really, I'm just going to sit here and enjoy doing nothing:)
I have nothing new to talk about - except for the credit card company tried to cheat me, and lost.
Also, I made a turkey last night. That's how lazy I am during the day when studying - I don't even want to get up to make lunch.
On a lighter note...I'll have a whole 22 days of after finals before I start work - which is going to be glorious. Plans for the time? Not really, I'm just going to sit here and enjoy doing nothing:)
By the way - my next final is tomorrow morning? Someone else please tell me that a 9 a.m. final on a Sunday is a little ridiculous...
Criminal Procedure sucks...on with the day!
Thursday, April 13, 2006
Mini Update
It was brought to my attention today that I haven't posted in awhile...and since I have a free minute or two while I wait for eggs to boil (so I can color them for easter), I thought I would give the few of you who enjoy this blog, an update.
1) I hate contracts. And I hate it even more I see it abbreviated with a K. If there is a logical explanation to it, I don't want to hear about it. I enjoy hating it.
2) I am done with school next week. That is sweet and all, but then I have finals, which is kind of "not awesome."
3) I love my kitties
4) I finally got a new apartment, that is conveniently located near loved ones, and the tavern, which I will be making an appearance at shortly, for an enjoyable happy hour with my contracts hating cohort.
5) I got a new phone. Call me on it, and i'll tell you about it.
6) I am cooking dinner this sunday for Easter. Guests include a jewish person. Cheers!
7) My hair is getting blonder
8) I got a job for the summer, through the school. Meaning that I will get free credits and money!!
9) I purchased, and successfully finished playing Kingdom Hearts II.
10) It is the weekend for me right now, and that calls for a celebration.
T-minus 20 minutes until happy hour...Makes me like margaritas even more:)
1) I hate contracts. And I hate it even more I see it abbreviated with a K. If there is a logical explanation to it, I don't want to hear about it. I enjoy hating it.
2) I am done with school next week. That is sweet and all, but then I have finals, which is kind of "not awesome."
3) I love my kitties
4) I finally got a new apartment, that is conveniently located near loved ones, and the tavern, which I will be making an appearance at shortly, for an enjoyable happy hour with my contracts hating cohort.
5) I got a new phone. Call me on it, and i'll tell you about it.
6) I am cooking dinner this sunday for Easter. Guests include a jewish person. Cheers!
7) My hair is getting blonder
8) I got a job for the summer, through the school. Meaning that I will get free credits and money!!
9) I purchased, and successfully finished playing Kingdom Hearts II.
10) It is the weekend for me right now, and that calls for a celebration.
T-minus 20 minutes until happy hour...Makes me like margaritas even more:)
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
fun game, fun prize
I got a riddle from mountainman today:
"If yesterday had been Wednesday's tomorrow and tomorrow is Sunday's yesterday, what day would Today be?"
I thought about it for awhile, and in case you want to, the answer will be at the end...but I don't know how to put it upsidedown...
I ventured a guess... and got this compliment of the century in return...that might be sarcastic:
C a b l e 315: you get to post this in your profile:
"Stephanie is basically the best human being on the planet. Her charm and charisma brighten anyone's day, her intellect is as searing as the fire of a thousand suns, and her beauty is like a meadow awash in a million daisies. Stephanie is a mountainman among mere mortals."
C a b l e 315: Congratulations on your prize
The answer was Friday - and if I get motivational prizes like that everytime...i need more riddles...
Cheers!
"If yesterday had been Wednesday's tomorrow and tomorrow is Sunday's yesterday, what day would Today be?"
I thought about it for awhile, and in case you want to, the answer will be at the end...but I don't know how to put it upsidedown...
I ventured a guess... and got this compliment of the century in return...that might be sarcastic:
C a b l e 315: you get to post this in your profile:
"Stephanie is basically the best human being on the planet. Her charm and charisma brighten anyone's day, her intellect is as searing as the fire of a thousand suns, and her beauty is like a meadow awash in a million daisies. Stephanie is a mountainman among mere mortals."
C a b l e 315: Congratulations on your prize
The answer was Friday - and if I get motivational prizes like that everytime...i need more riddles...
Cheers!
Monday, February 06, 2006
Coffee Pizza
Issues to be discussed in this post: Computers that have keys eaten off them, and why they malfunction; kittens with cones on their heads; age at which you can make logical, legitimate decisions; My apartment and the lawsuits it is somehow avoiding; Valentine's Day; and the rat
1) Computers. I don't really know anything about the way they work, but I generally have an okay time fixing problems/installing things. I installed a mac style task bar on my computer and hell broke loose. Now I only have 1/3 of the pictures I once had, and my AIM keeps freezing up whenever its been running for more than 10 minutes. Besides, I think someone has my screen name because it continues to tell me that i'm signed in at more than one location. Someone give me a good reason aside from my limited finances why I shouldn't get one of those new Gateway convertible tablet notebooks. Please.
2) Kittens. Zoey got declawed and spayed last weekend, and again, hell broke loose. We brought her back here to stay, so she could be with her little kitten friend, and somehow, sometime through the night she maneuvered the cone on her head in a way that she was able to rip her feet open where they took the claws out. After a scene somewhat short of something you'd see in The Shining, and another trip to the vet, she's been staying at Joey's for the past week, pretty much living out of the bathroom with an abnormally large cone on her head, in order to prevent her from getting fuzz, or hair, or anything that would further infect her feet, in them. She gets to stay there for another week, at least. Basically, I've been getting sleep now, since I don't have a nuisance kitten sucking on the blankets surrounding my face. Though Tara has a creepy liking for spooning lately...but I think she's just lonely.
3) Age requirements. As you probably guessed, this caused hell to break loose again. Parents found out about the prospective plan of staying with Joe for the summer, and didn't like it very much. Apparently the plan I've chosen for myself isn't the picture perfect portrait of the "family dream" that my mom envisioned for me on the day I was born. Someone get me a witness, and tell me what I'm doing wrong, cause I don't seem to understand the issue here. I'm not looking for approval, just looking for something other than resentment. How is someone who is a country's length away, and spoken to someone for a cumulative 3 hours supposed to pass a judgment on soul mate compatability? I didn't think so either...
4) Potential Lawsuits. This apartment complex blows my mind. The elevator here is the most ghetto, run down piece of machinery within at least a few cities. At least every other week, it is broken for about 3 days at a time. Now consider that this is an 8 story building, I can only imagine how angry the people are on the top floor. For some reason though, they have sufficient funds to powerwash and repaint the entire building, though they are unable to repair the elevator that people continuously complain about. This past weekend the handle actually broke off the door that leads to the stairwell, leaving people to prop it open 24 hours a day. Considering that there are reports of "forceful" robberies within a mile of here, I thought that having the building unlocked all weekend was a safety violation. However, the maitenance people wouldn't come out over the weekend because it wasn't an emergency. When asked what constituted an emergency, the operator replied "I don't know." Help me out with this one...fire departments respond to fires, police to breakins; it just seems logical that maitenance on call would respond to a broken door that left the building completely unlocked for the whole weekend...wishful thinking I guess. By the way, my parents suspect I am exaggerating, or using this "situation" as an excuse to move out of here, and stay with Joe. Not really, just makes me want my lease to end sooner.
5) Valentine's Day. If anyone who actually knows me, or did at one point, is reading this, you will realize that my favorite holiday will be here in a week. That means, excuse to wear obnoxious pink shirt to class, excuse to get dressed up and do nothing all night, excuse to make kittens wear bows in their hair, and ME to wear bows in my hair, and anything else fun, festive and exciting that I haven't yet thought of...like, eat a bunch of chocolate and not feel bad about it:)
6) I really like chop chops from the rat.
I'll leave anyone interested with some quotes from my professors this semester:
"Lawyers aren't geniuses...the fact that the lights turn on? I still don't understand that..."
"Sobriety...I'm not big on that; Contracts? now that, I'm big on..."
"Think creatively...like the people at Enron...thats how you make money..."
"Go ahead nerd...calm down class, this is serious shit...."rescission"
"He found 200 bags of marijuana…and I don't know if you've ever seen 200 bags of marijuana, but it's a lot…"
Makes you wonder doesn't it?
1) Computers. I don't really know anything about the way they work, but I generally have an okay time fixing problems/installing things. I installed a mac style task bar on my computer and hell broke loose. Now I only have 1/3 of the pictures I once had, and my AIM keeps freezing up whenever its been running for more than 10 minutes. Besides, I think someone has my screen name because it continues to tell me that i'm signed in at more than one location. Someone give me a good reason aside from my limited finances why I shouldn't get one of those new Gateway convertible tablet notebooks. Please.
2) Kittens. Zoey got declawed and spayed last weekend, and again, hell broke loose. We brought her back here to stay, so she could be with her little kitten friend, and somehow, sometime through the night she maneuvered the cone on her head in a way that she was able to rip her feet open where they took the claws out. After a scene somewhat short of something you'd see in The Shining, and another trip to the vet, she's been staying at Joey's for the past week, pretty much living out of the bathroom with an abnormally large cone on her head, in order to prevent her from getting fuzz, or hair, or anything that would further infect her feet, in them. She gets to stay there for another week, at least. Basically, I've been getting sleep now, since I don't have a nuisance kitten sucking on the blankets surrounding my face. Though Tara has a creepy liking for spooning lately...but I think she's just lonely.
3) Age requirements. As you probably guessed, this caused hell to break loose again. Parents found out about the prospective plan of staying with Joe for the summer, and didn't like it very much. Apparently the plan I've chosen for myself isn't the picture perfect portrait of the "family dream" that my mom envisioned for me on the day I was born. Someone get me a witness, and tell me what I'm doing wrong, cause I don't seem to understand the issue here. I'm not looking for approval, just looking for something other than resentment. How is someone who is a country's length away, and spoken to someone for a cumulative 3 hours supposed to pass a judgment on soul mate compatability? I didn't think so either...
4) Potential Lawsuits. This apartment complex blows my mind. The elevator here is the most ghetto, run down piece of machinery within at least a few cities. At least every other week, it is broken for about 3 days at a time. Now consider that this is an 8 story building, I can only imagine how angry the people are on the top floor. For some reason though, they have sufficient funds to powerwash and repaint the entire building, though they are unable to repair the elevator that people continuously complain about. This past weekend the handle actually broke off the door that leads to the stairwell, leaving people to prop it open 24 hours a day. Considering that there are reports of "forceful" robberies within a mile of here, I thought that having the building unlocked all weekend was a safety violation. However, the maitenance people wouldn't come out over the weekend because it wasn't an emergency. When asked what constituted an emergency, the operator replied "I don't know." Help me out with this one...fire departments respond to fires, police to breakins; it just seems logical that maitenance on call would respond to a broken door that left the building completely unlocked for the whole weekend...wishful thinking I guess. By the way, my parents suspect I am exaggerating, or using this "situation" as an excuse to move out of here, and stay with Joe. Not really, just makes me want my lease to end sooner.
5) Valentine's Day. If anyone who actually knows me, or did at one point, is reading this, you will realize that my favorite holiday will be here in a week. That means, excuse to wear obnoxious pink shirt to class, excuse to get dressed up and do nothing all night, excuse to make kittens wear bows in their hair, and ME to wear bows in my hair, and anything else fun, festive and exciting that I haven't yet thought of...like, eat a bunch of chocolate and not feel bad about it:)
6) I really like chop chops from the rat.
I'll leave anyone interested with some quotes from my professors this semester:
"Lawyers aren't geniuses...the fact that the lights turn on? I still don't understand that..."
"Sobriety...I'm not big on that; Contracts? now that, I'm big on..."
"Think creatively...like the people at Enron...thats how you make money..."
"Go ahead nerd...calm down class, this is serious shit...."rescission"
"He found 200 bags of marijuana…and I don't know if you've ever seen 200 bags of marijuana, but it's a lot…"
Makes you wonder doesn't it?
Friday, January 13, 2006
Me Right Now
Here is an interesting story, that will serve as somewhat of a background to this post:
If i've already told you the story (which I probably have), then skip this part
My air conditioner was leaking pretty bad a few months ago (obviously it is now too, but it started then), and I told my landlord about the problem. A couple days later, creepy air conditioner fixer comes to fix it, and in doing so, simply changes the filter. Now I'm pretty sure that this was around the time that Katrina came through, so the power was down for some time shortly thereafter. (What do you know, he just came in...so it seems as though all my problems are solved, though I will continue the story since I still can't do anything with him here). After the power came back on, I don't remember being all that aware of the leak, or the door just remained shut, or it was actually fixed for awhile. Either way, there wasn't a problem until I went to get somthing out of that closet, which was for some reason, stuck to the carpet. This is when I knew there was a problem, though since the air had been off for awhile (being in the mid 60's here for almost a month, the carpet wasn't wet). Once I turned the air on again, a couple weeks later (about 3 days ago today), everything in there became moist, musty smelling, and downright disgusting. This includes toilet paper (that was green), extension cords, and a wicker basket, that I happen to like very much (which is pretty much ruined). So, I turn the air off again, to stop the flow of water, and the thing keeps dripping. I tell my landlord, and she sends creepy guy to fix it. His idea, again, was changing the filter. It only took me about an hour to figure out what he had done, and I went back down there. He came back up and proceeded to put sealant onto a wet pipe, thinking that somehow it would miraculously dry, and this is where the problem currently stands. The pipe is leaking something that resembles water, though it most likely has some sealant in it; the board under the air conditioner is wet and rotted, and the whole closet smells like complete hell. I'm curious as to see what the remedy is this time, but I'll assure you that it's nothing short of getting that smell the hell out of there, and stopping the leak.
Well, for the first time in awhile, I'm bored. Not because I have nothing to do though, but there is nothing I want to do right now, or anything that I can do, really.
1) I've tried reading for class, but it makes me fall asleep. Drink coffee? Yes, I am doing that right now, but this one cup isn't going to do it, and since I'm too lazy to make more, that's out of the question.
2) Read something else? Unfortunately, I have the same problem, falling asleep.
3) Take a nap? Not possible. If you saw the guy who is supposed to fix my air conditioner sometime this afternoon, you wouldn't sleep either.
4) Clean something? Well, what do you think I've been doing since I got home from class? This apartment is only so big.
5) I have no need to go to the grocery store, and if I did, I'd end up buying a bunch of chocolate, or candy or something else that I don't need to binge eat, simply out of sheer boredom.
6) Go complain about my broken air conditioner again? Well, my landlord doesn't believe in working after 2 on Fridays. Actually, she usually doesn't believe in working on Friday at all, and after 2 on most days during the week, so that's out of the question (especially since I was there about an hour ago)
7) Fix the air conditioner myself? Now we're getting somewhere. The more I think about it, the more I feel as though I could actually think of a better way to fix it. I think that the glass I put under the drip is the best thing that's been done about the situation since it started.
So where does that leave me? Putting up this post. It actually took me being this bored to even remember that I had a blog.
I've snacked on just about everything in this apartment, and am kinda full. I guess I could always get started on that bottle of pinot grigio in the fridge...though that would probably put me to sleep (see #3 above)...leaving that to be a horrible idea.
I suppose I could always take another shower, though since its so unbelievably hot in here, it'd probably defeat the purpose.
So I guess we'll see how long this takes, though I'm probably going to look wierd just sitting here while he works, since I feel like I've exhausted my only option, which was putting up this post, because I'm pretty sure if I leave right now, he'll just put a bucket under the drip and take off for the weekend.
Grades from last semester are finally starting to come in...and the first couple actually called for a celebration in my mind. So Joe and I are going to get dinner tonight, probably at Cheesecake Factory, or something awesome like that, and do a little shopping before I have to read for contracts all weekend.
I'll leave anyone interested with a question. What does tuition actually pay for? Because on top of the unbelievable amount of money that you pay for "tuition," you also have to pay for books, parking, living, groceries, copies, and the all-new "professor's class supplements." Someone please, justify the reasoning behind me spending $20 bucks on a supplement that is of really poor quality (as in, you can hardly see the words since they are so faded), and is in addition to the nearly $150 bucks I had to spend on hardcover casebooks for the same class. In contemplating the answer to that, take into consideration the fact that I can hook up my own computer to a room in the library, and print off any number of pages I want. I could print off a 300 page google search result and they wouldn't do a thing. I just don't understand this at all. Does the professor get the $20 dollars? Because I think we all know that it does NOT cost $20 dollars to make 200 2-sided copies, especially when I can do it downstairs for free.
Anyways, I'm going to check on the "progress" of the air conditioning situation...and keep my fingers crossed that he isn't simply putting another sealant on it...because that's what it looked like he was going to do when he came in...
If i've already told you the story (which I probably have), then skip this part
My air conditioner was leaking pretty bad a few months ago (obviously it is now too, but it started then), and I told my landlord about the problem. A couple days later, creepy air conditioner fixer comes to fix it, and in doing so, simply changes the filter. Now I'm pretty sure that this was around the time that Katrina came through, so the power was down for some time shortly thereafter. (What do you know, he just came in...so it seems as though all my problems are solved, though I will continue the story since I still can't do anything with him here). After the power came back on, I don't remember being all that aware of the leak, or the door just remained shut, or it was actually fixed for awhile. Either way, there wasn't a problem until I went to get somthing out of that closet, which was for some reason, stuck to the carpet. This is when I knew there was a problem, though since the air had been off for awhile (being in the mid 60's here for almost a month, the carpet wasn't wet). Once I turned the air on again, a couple weeks later (about 3 days ago today), everything in there became moist, musty smelling, and downright disgusting. This includes toilet paper (that was green), extension cords, and a wicker basket, that I happen to like very much (which is pretty much ruined). So, I turn the air off again, to stop the flow of water, and the thing keeps dripping. I tell my landlord, and she sends creepy guy to fix it. His idea, again, was changing the filter. It only took me about an hour to figure out what he had done, and I went back down there. He came back up and proceeded to put sealant onto a wet pipe, thinking that somehow it would miraculously dry, and this is where the problem currently stands. The pipe is leaking something that resembles water, though it most likely has some sealant in it; the board under the air conditioner is wet and rotted, and the whole closet smells like complete hell. I'm curious as to see what the remedy is this time, but I'll assure you that it's nothing short of getting that smell the hell out of there, and stopping the leak.
Well, for the first time in awhile, I'm bored. Not because I have nothing to do though, but there is nothing I want to do right now, or anything that I can do, really.
1) I've tried reading for class, but it makes me fall asleep. Drink coffee? Yes, I am doing that right now, but this one cup isn't going to do it, and since I'm too lazy to make more, that's out of the question.
2) Read something else? Unfortunately, I have the same problem, falling asleep.
3) Take a nap? Not possible. If you saw the guy who is supposed to fix my air conditioner sometime this afternoon, you wouldn't sleep either.
4) Clean something? Well, what do you think I've been doing since I got home from class? This apartment is only so big.
5) I have no need to go to the grocery store, and if I did, I'd end up buying a bunch of chocolate, or candy or something else that I don't need to binge eat, simply out of sheer boredom.
6) Go complain about my broken air conditioner again? Well, my landlord doesn't believe in working after 2 on Fridays. Actually, she usually doesn't believe in working on Friday at all, and after 2 on most days during the week, so that's out of the question (especially since I was there about an hour ago)
7) Fix the air conditioner myself? Now we're getting somewhere. The more I think about it, the more I feel as though I could actually think of a better way to fix it. I think that the glass I put under the drip is the best thing that's been done about the situation since it started.
So where does that leave me? Putting up this post. It actually took me being this bored to even remember that I had a blog.
I've snacked on just about everything in this apartment, and am kinda full. I guess I could always get started on that bottle of pinot grigio in the fridge...though that would probably put me to sleep (see #3 above)...leaving that to be a horrible idea.
I suppose I could always take another shower, though since its so unbelievably hot in here, it'd probably defeat the purpose.
So I guess we'll see how long this takes, though I'm probably going to look wierd just sitting here while he works, since I feel like I've exhausted my only option, which was putting up this post, because I'm pretty sure if I leave right now, he'll just put a bucket under the drip and take off for the weekend.
Grades from last semester are finally starting to come in...and the first couple actually called for a celebration in my mind. So Joe and I are going to get dinner tonight, probably at Cheesecake Factory, or something awesome like that, and do a little shopping before I have to read for contracts all weekend.
I'll leave anyone interested with a question. What does tuition actually pay for? Because on top of the unbelievable amount of money that you pay for "tuition," you also have to pay for books, parking, living, groceries, copies, and the all-new "professor's class supplements." Someone please, justify the reasoning behind me spending $20 bucks on a supplement that is of really poor quality (as in, you can hardly see the words since they are so faded), and is in addition to the nearly $150 bucks I had to spend on hardcover casebooks for the same class. In contemplating the answer to that, take into consideration the fact that I can hook up my own computer to a room in the library, and print off any number of pages I want. I could print off a 300 page google search result and they wouldn't do a thing. I just don't understand this at all. Does the professor get the $20 dollars? Because I think we all know that it does NOT cost $20 dollars to make 200 2-sided copies, especially when I can do it downstairs for free.
Anyways, I'm going to check on the "progress" of the air conditioning situation...and keep my fingers crossed that he isn't simply putting another sealant on it...because that's what it looked like he was going to do when he came in...
Thursday, December 15, 2005
One down...5 to go...
A nice pessimistic way of looking at the completion of my first semester...which I apparently have 90 days before I can even say whether or not I went out with a bang. And by that time, I'll already be back in, so it won't even apply. Anyways, I have no idea how I did, and I won't find out for probably a long time...so I'm going to pretend to not care about it at least until after New Years.
Taking finals here was a lot different that I remember in undergrad...and rightfully so I suppose. You get to sit there for about 4 hours, taking a ridiculous exam to determine close to, if not, 100% of your grade. It's a little scary, and a little frustrating when the exam is only on 1/3 of the semester, and the professor leaves out nearly 2/3 of the material we learned...I figured that as a law professor, it'd be easy to be creative, but apparently not...not that it happened to me or anything...haha. Anyways, enough frustration. Well, actually, another thing that frustrates me is when professors are almost too smart to teach the material. Like they assume that we know everything they do, and they almost know too much to just teach the basics. Then you get to his or her exam, and the first half may as well have been written in a foreign language. Educated guesses come in handy sometimes...Anyways, it's over for another few months. But the preview I've had of one of my professors, who sat at a table with us when a few people were out at the Tavern celebrating? For almost 3 hours? Talking about contracts? That should make for an interesting class...
The kitties are stil precious, though are racking up a few medical bills, and a nice list of infections. I'll spare any reader, and myself, the details. Lets just say that Zoey's had a couple trips to the bathtub in the last week, Tara couldn't see for a couple days, and at one point, Tara had a cone on her head, and Zoey had on homemade sock booties. Needless to say, they hated a few people, and each other, for a couple days. Fortunately, the train wreck seems to be getting back on track.
Also, we got ourselves a little Christmas tree, and it got set up at my place:) It's not a tree "per se," but it's more of a city slicker christmas tree (aka a 4 foot potted pine that we strung lights on), but hey, it serves it's purpose. It's pretty, and it has presents underneath it:) So i'm excited to open some tonight, and I'm actually pretty proud of my Christmas shopping this year. I got everything taken care of before finals finished, (made for a few good study breaks), and now I'm going to resort to nothing. Sit here, and do absolutely nothing. Well, between changing laundry and giving the kitties medicine, and packing for the trip home...I'm doing nothing. And fortunately for me, "nothing" today is going to include playing a couple video games, drinking some tropical fruit wine, and having an early Christmas with Joe:) Sounds like a good day of nothing to me:)
I'll be heading back to Michigan in a couple days...should make for an interesting trip. Kitties are tagging along this time again, but are going to stay with Joe, who is staying with his parents, so I'll be on my own for about 10 days...kinda sad, but everything should be back on track by New Years.
A fun Christmas game for anyone looking for a festive distraction...compliments of Meredith:)
http://www.powerpres.com/xmascard03.html
Taking finals here was a lot different that I remember in undergrad...and rightfully so I suppose. You get to sit there for about 4 hours, taking a ridiculous exam to determine close to, if not, 100% of your grade. It's a little scary, and a little frustrating when the exam is only on 1/3 of the semester, and the professor leaves out nearly 2/3 of the material we learned...I figured that as a law professor, it'd be easy to be creative, but apparently not...not that it happened to me or anything...haha. Anyways, enough frustration. Well, actually, another thing that frustrates me is when professors are almost too smart to teach the material. Like they assume that we know everything they do, and they almost know too much to just teach the basics. Then you get to his or her exam, and the first half may as well have been written in a foreign language. Educated guesses come in handy sometimes...Anyways, it's over for another few months. But the preview I've had of one of my professors, who sat at a table with us when a few people were out at the Tavern celebrating? For almost 3 hours? Talking about contracts? That should make for an interesting class...
The kitties are stil precious, though are racking up a few medical bills, and a nice list of infections. I'll spare any reader, and myself, the details. Lets just say that Zoey's had a couple trips to the bathtub in the last week, Tara couldn't see for a couple days, and at one point, Tara had a cone on her head, and Zoey had on homemade sock booties. Needless to say, they hated a few people, and each other, for a couple days. Fortunately, the train wreck seems to be getting back on track.
Also, we got ourselves a little Christmas tree, and it got set up at my place:) It's not a tree "per se," but it's more of a city slicker christmas tree (aka a 4 foot potted pine that we strung lights on), but hey, it serves it's purpose. It's pretty, and it has presents underneath it:) So i'm excited to open some tonight, and I'm actually pretty proud of my Christmas shopping this year. I got everything taken care of before finals finished, (made for a few good study breaks), and now I'm going to resort to nothing. Sit here, and do absolutely nothing. Well, between changing laundry and giving the kitties medicine, and packing for the trip home...I'm doing nothing. And fortunately for me, "nothing" today is going to include playing a couple video games, drinking some tropical fruit wine, and having an early Christmas with Joe:) Sounds like a good day of nothing to me:)
I'll be heading back to Michigan in a couple days...should make for an interesting trip. Kitties are tagging along this time again, but are going to stay with Joe, who is staying with his parents, so I'll be on my own for about 10 days...kinda sad, but everything should be back on track by New Years.
A fun Christmas game for anyone looking for a festive distraction...compliments of Meredith:)
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Sunday, November 20, 2005
You Are
T-Minus 3 days of school left...wait...I forgot about the make up classes after thanksgiving. At any rate, I'm nearing the end of this semester, which makes me a little nervous because that means that finals are in less than 2 weeks, which scares me a lot.
Speaking of Thanksgiving, I am planning on making a full-hearted attempt at making an awesome thanksgiving dinner this year. We got the turkey, and I have a couple recipies from my family that I'm going to "try my best at." I've been assured that my best will be good enough even if everything goes to hell, but I guess everything is easier said than done, meaning its probably easier to say that it will be okay in the absence of a charred turkey and a few kitchen fires. Wish me luck.
Kitties are precious, but absolute nuisances. Tara has a new hobby of drinking out of the toilet, and Zoey has an ongoing obsession with sucking on Tara's feet. I think they're both mutant cats. They only start to get on my nerves when I wake up to some table getting knocked over into the window, or Zoey walking circles around my head purring like a car motor, every hour on the hour, but even then, I have a hard time staying upset for long...
I'm looking forward to heading home for Christmas. It'll be nice to not have to worry about school for awhile anyway, and also nice to spend time with my family. The only downfall is that word on the street says it gets down to 20 there at night? I'll go ahead and pass on that. It's been at least 75 here since I came, and I've been more than happy with that.
On a lighter note, I did some Christmas shopping recently, and some more today. Makes me smile. And although I had class today, it was one of the best days I've had in awhile. Joe is doing well, and made me smile all day:)
I talked to a couple Michigander friends last night, and learned what it was like to think it is 5 a.m. and have it only be 5 p.m....haha.... I guess tailgating is priceless.
"I am intrigued by your ideas, and wish to subscribe to your newsletter....weeeeeeeeee!"
p.s. I cannot WAIT for a rat rat chop chop tomorrow....it is the best campus food ever, and conveniently only $3.99...ZING!!!
Speaking of Thanksgiving, I am planning on making a full-hearted attempt at making an awesome thanksgiving dinner this year. We got the turkey, and I have a couple recipies from my family that I'm going to "try my best at." I've been assured that my best will be good enough even if everything goes to hell, but I guess everything is easier said than done, meaning its probably easier to say that it will be okay in the absence of a charred turkey and a few kitchen fires. Wish me luck.
Kitties are precious, but absolute nuisances. Tara has a new hobby of drinking out of the toilet, and Zoey has an ongoing obsession with sucking on Tara's feet. I think they're both mutant cats. They only start to get on my nerves when I wake up to some table getting knocked over into the window, or Zoey walking circles around my head purring like a car motor, every hour on the hour, but even then, I have a hard time staying upset for long...
I'm looking forward to heading home for Christmas. It'll be nice to not have to worry about school for awhile anyway, and also nice to spend time with my family. The only downfall is that word on the street says it gets down to 20 there at night? I'll go ahead and pass on that. It's been at least 75 here since I came, and I've been more than happy with that.
On a lighter note, I did some Christmas shopping recently, and some more today. Makes me smile. And although I had class today, it was one of the best days I've had in awhile. Joe is doing well, and made me smile all day:)
I talked to a couple Michigander friends last night, and learned what it was like to think it is 5 a.m. and have it only be 5 p.m....haha.... I guess tailgating is priceless.
"I am intrigued by your ideas, and wish to subscribe to your newsletter....weeeeeeeeee!"
p.s. I cannot WAIT for a rat rat chop chop tomorrow....it is the best campus food ever, and conveniently only $3.99...ZING!!!
Wednesday, November 02, 2005
Blackbelt in Keeping it Real
All that needs to be said about the trip to the mitten, is that it was interesting. Nice, break, good to see people.
It's what I came back to that warrants explanation...
My apartment was fine, no blown out windows, no tree on my car, and no flooded bedroom. I was happy about that, and I even had power when I came back, which was an extra plus. After a week (yes, a whole week) off of school, I knew there would be some sort of catch to the leisure time I was able to have.
Not only do I have extended classes all week, but I have a saturday morning 8 a.m., and classes the week after thanksgiving. Which give me less time in between my exams, and the time that classes end so I can start cramming. Killer huh. 8 a.m. on a Saturday? That's going to be the most exhilerating experience of my life, not to mention that it's with the glorious book tape of a Dean I posted about earlier. School basically just keeps getting better....
On another note, try this mental picture out. Traffic at 5 o'clock in Miami, kids dressed up for Halloween, and closed roads for trick-or-treaters. Add it up, and that equals a 40 minute drive home for me from campus...which is about 2 miles away. Imagine how slow cars moved for that one. Needless to say, I was able to use my horn a lot. Oh, and I forgot the part about some of the traffic lights not working yet. I didn't want to think about leaving my apartment when I finally got back.
Anyway, I thought I would take a short break and let anyone who's interested know that everything is still standing here, except for a lot of trees and some stop signs, and I guess power lines too, but my apartment was just as I left it, which I suppose is all I can really ask of mother nature.
This is what I learned today in my torts class... "most does not mean majority..." -My prof. (no joke)
It's what I came back to that warrants explanation...
My apartment was fine, no blown out windows, no tree on my car, and no flooded bedroom. I was happy about that, and I even had power when I came back, which was an extra plus. After a week (yes, a whole week) off of school, I knew there would be some sort of catch to the leisure time I was able to have.
Not only do I have extended classes all week, but I have a saturday morning 8 a.m., and classes the week after thanksgiving. Which give me less time in between my exams, and the time that classes end so I can start cramming. Killer huh. 8 a.m. on a Saturday? That's going to be the most exhilerating experience of my life, not to mention that it's with the glorious book tape of a Dean I posted about earlier. School basically just keeps getting better....
On another note, try this mental picture out. Traffic at 5 o'clock in Miami, kids dressed up for Halloween, and closed roads for trick-or-treaters. Add it up, and that equals a 40 minute drive home for me from campus...which is about 2 miles away. Imagine how slow cars moved for that one. Needless to say, I was able to use my horn a lot. Oh, and I forgot the part about some of the traffic lights not working yet. I didn't want to think about leaving my apartment when I finally got back.
Anyway, I thought I would take a short break and let anyone who's interested know that everything is still standing here, except for a lot of trees and some stop signs, and I guess power lines too, but my apartment was just as I left it, which I suppose is all I can really ask of mother nature.
This is what I learned today in my torts class... "most does not mean majority..." -My prof. (no joke)
Oh, and I had a good dinner last night...glorious:)
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Sunday, October 23, 2005
Help...Im stuck in a mitten
I hope that this hurricane does at least enough damage to justify my flying back to Michigan...but let me just say that this cold weather makes me wonder if being in a hurricane would actually be better.
p.s. Eric hissed at me in the library and I don't think I've ever laughed harder than I did that day.
p.p.s I miss Florida, and Joe, and my kitties:(
p.s. Eric hissed at me in the library and I don't think I've ever laughed harder than I did that day.
p.p.s I miss Florida, and Joe, and my kitties:(
Thursday, October 20, 2005
Natural Disaster...Still a Season
Well...this week has taken an unexpected turn...and hopefully the hurricane they're forecasting to hit here this weekend will too. As of now, there's a strong category 4 hurricane heading toward my apartment, and my kitties:(
Kitties?? Yes, after a random trip to Petco, Joe and I obviously had a hard time leaving a box of abandoned kittens on the floor...we had to take at least one. We ended up getting a little charcoal kitty, and named it Zoey. Once I figure out how to post pictures on here again, you'll understand why we couldn't leave her precious face. I wanted to take them all, but Joe didn't think that was practical...I agree, but they were still ALL precious:)
We had a fun time watching Tara hiss at it for the first couple days, she was being territorial, and jealous, but as of now, Zoey's basically her new friend...
So Hurricane Wilma, heading toward here, leaves it up in the air as to what we're going to do about leaving/staying/preparing, ect. Hopefully, that crazy 90 degree turn it's forecasted to take won't happen, but I guess it's best to plan for it.
Options include: stay here and have a party with the kitties, and fend off water from my sliders (which flooded the apartment last time), fly to Michigan and spend some quality time with the family (while worrying about kitties, and apartments...), pack up stuff and go to Joe's, or take a road trip to Alabama with my friend Meredith. All options are possible at this point I guess, I just don't want spend money and fly back, then have the storm not hit, or drive to Alabama and have it head north.
Basically, at any rate, I'm hoping that I can look back on this post and be able to justify staying here, and maybe laugh about how freaked out people are about the whole ordeal. Though the slogan down here as of now is "better safe than sorry..."
So if you check this post out before the storm hits, let me know what you think, sort of "duct taping the cats to the floor." I'd be afraid something would fall on them:(
P.S., I posted awhile ago about the Dean that was going to take over my 8 a.m. class....yea, that's starting right now, hence, the reason I'm posting at 9 a.m. We had a reading assignment last night, and he's basically outlining the chapter for us, like it wasn't the most black and white, straightforward, 4th grade reading level material I've had yet at this school. Sounds like a good time to update my blog I guess. My book tape theory is holding nicely, this powerpoint he's using is designed for pre-schoolers....very challenging. Basically, I'm glad I spent the time reading....sarcasm emphasised
Seriously, there are Flinstone and Barney characters on the screen right now, and bundles of asparagus. It's like a picture book.
Well, now he's talking about lottery tickets, so I feel as though I should pay attention. Maybe I'll give a shout out from Michigan this weekend, maybe from Alabama, or maybe from the ruins of South Miami after this hurricane blasts through here.
That's the optimistic update as of now...keep your fingers crossed for a mellow, roof over my head, no power outage sort of weekend. And lets hope my school is still left standing:)
Kitties?? Yes, after a random trip to Petco, Joe and I obviously had a hard time leaving a box of abandoned kittens on the floor...we had to take at least one. We ended up getting a little charcoal kitty, and named it Zoey. Once I figure out how to post pictures on here again, you'll understand why we couldn't leave her precious face. I wanted to take them all, but Joe didn't think that was practical...I agree, but they were still ALL precious:)
We had a fun time watching Tara hiss at it for the first couple days, she was being territorial, and jealous, but as of now, Zoey's basically her new friend...
So Hurricane Wilma, heading toward here, leaves it up in the air as to what we're going to do about leaving/staying/preparing, ect. Hopefully, that crazy 90 degree turn it's forecasted to take won't happen, but I guess it's best to plan for it.
Options include: stay here and have a party with the kitties, and fend off water from my sliders (which flooded the apartment last time), fly to Michigan and spend some quality time with the family (while worrying about kitties, and apartments...), pack up stuff and go to Joe's, or take a road trip to Alabama with my friend Meredith. All options are possible at this point I guess, I just don't want spend money and fly back, then have the storm not hit, or drive to Alabama and have it head north.
Basically, at any rate, I'm hoping that I can look back on this post and be able to justify staying here, and maybe laugh about how freaked out people are about the whole ordeal. Though the slogan down here as of now is "better safe than sorry..."
So if you check this post out before the storm hits, let me know what you think, sort of "duct taping the cats to the floor." I'd be afraid something would fall on them:(
P.S., I posted awhile ago about the Dean that was going to take over my 8 a.m. class....yea, that's starting right now, hence, the reason I'm posting at 9 a.m. We had a reading assignment last night, and he's basically outlining the chapter for us, like it wasn't the most black and white, straightforward, 4th grade reading level material I've had yet at this school. Sounds like a good time to update my blog I guess. My book tape theory is holding nicely, this powerpoint he's using is designed for pre-schoolers....very challenging. Basically, I'm glad I spent the time reading....sarcasm emphasised
Seriously, there are Flinstone and Barney characters on the screen right now, and bundles of asparagus. It's like a picture book.
Well, now he's talking about lottery tickets, so I feel as though I should pay attention. Maybe I'll give a shout out from Michigan this weekend, maybe from Alabama, or maybe from the ruins of South Miami after this hurricane blasts through here.
That's the optimistic update as of now...keep your fingers crossed for a mellow, roof over my head, no power outage sort of weekend. And lets hope my school is still left standing:)
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Last Stop on the Optimism Train
Well I'll go ahead and revisit my last post, regarding the comment about school being in "full swing." I've come to realize that the week I posted that, must've been a unique one, for it seems as though everything has gone downhill since then. In other words, many of my professors seemed to have thrown in the towel already.
If theres one thing that frustrates me, it's this: paying a lot of money to go to law school, and coming home every day angry at the fact that I feel like I wasted my whole day sitting through worthless classes that, most of the time, aren't teaching me anything. I don't know if it's just me, but I feel as though my section's curriculum is becoming more and more unproductive by the day, which scares me, because every day that passes, is one day closer to finals. I guess I thought that my classes were supposed to prepare me for that more than I feel as though they have been.
Anyways, on a lighter note, I wanted to get my hair trimmed today, but couldn't find a place to do it that would charge less than $40...and thats even sending me out with wet hair...who's to say how much it would cost if they actually dried it.
The night was good - though after I felt like the people at the Tavern hated Joe and I for the 3rd time in a row, I had a good salad, a good strawberry banana colada (don't start with the foo-foo drink insults...it was good), and then I took full advantage of the sale ad at the good ol' W.D.
I'm fully stocked up with fruit, orange juice, and pop tarts, to deal with the remainder of the most worthless educational week of my life. I'm surprisingly in a good mood though, don't you worry.
I'm looking forward to having a substitute for my property class...and not just any substitute, the dean of students. Tell me how much better that's going to make my 8 a.m. A group of people around me decided that it would be more entertaining to listen to a book tape.
It's about time for me to go, I need to catch up with my mountainman friend who's dealing with the wrath from another school. Consider this post my shout out. Maybe someone can help me figure out an existing remedy short of dropping, that'd boost my mood right now straight through the ceiling:)
Until then, I'm planning a bonfire this weekend...anyone who has something, like law books, old furniture, or perhaps animals who wake you up at 5 a.m. and eat cords...is welcome to attend.
If theres one thing that frustrates me, it's this: paying a lot of money to go to law school, and coming home every day angry at the fact that I feel like I wasted my whole day sitting through worthless classes that, most of the time, aren't teaching me anything. I don't know if it's just me, but I feel as though my section's curriculum is becoming more and more unproductive by the day, which scares me, because every day that passes, is one day closer to finals. I guess I thought that my classes were supposed to prepare me for that more than I feel as though they have been.
Anyways, on a lighter note, I wanted to get my hair trimmed today, but couldn't find a place to do it that would charge less than $40...and thats even sending me out with wet hair...who's to say how much it would cost if they actually dried it.
The night was good - though after I felt like the people at the Tavern hated Joe and I for the 3rd time in a row, I had a good salad, a good strawberry banana colada (don't start with the foo-foo drink insults...it was good), and then I took full advantage of the sale ad at the good ol' W.D.
I'm fully stocked up with fruit, orange juice, and pop tarts, to deal with the remainder of the most worthless educational week of my life. I'm surprisingly in a good mood though, don't you worry.
I'm looking forward to having a substitute for my property class...and not just any substitute, the dean of students. Tell me how much better that's going to make my 8 a.m. A group of people around me decided that it would be more entertaining to listen to a book tape.
It's about time for me to go, I need to catch up with my mountainman friend who's dealing with the wrath from another school. Consider this post my shout out. Maybe someone can help me figure out an existing remedy short of dropping, that'd boost my mood right now straight through the ceiling:)
Until then, I'm planning a bonfire this weekend...anyone who has something, like law books, old furniture, or perhaps animals who wake you up at 5 a.m. and eat cords...is welcome to attend.
Sunday, September 18, 2005
Crash Course In Social Phenomena
I feel as though it's safe to say that school is officially in full swing. At least I hope so, for I've been making trips to the libray for the last few weekends, and anymore of a swing would probably involve me pitching a tent there. It's okay though, i've managed to keep up so far, though my cat's costing my a pretty penny with her fetish of eating expensive cords, chargers, internet cables, etc. One of these days...
It's been a pretty mellow weekend though, I've gotten a lot done, and even had some extra time to do some laundry and talk to my parents a little.
I even washed my slippers, which put a huge smile on my face when I wore them prancing around my apartment....:)
I do think it's funny, though, that my cat is deathly afraid of vaccuums. I tried to put her close to it today and she went crazy and didn't come out from under the bed for a good hour. Guess there's one way to keep her out of my way right? (I felt bad actually...) But my cat was lured out of underneath the bed when I came back...I guess she likes playing peek-a-boo from the laundry basket...sometimes she can be precious.
I had another run in with a bank, but don't feel as though I have the emotional capacity to go through the explanation. Not this bank, the one from Michigan that I havn't accessed in a few months, and don't even have a card for anymore...anyways, somehow I accumulated a hundred some dollars in overdraft fees....leave it to me I guess. Overdraw an account I don't even have access to.
Anywho - I'm going to get ahead on a little reading for this week. I'd much rather be playing video games or something, but feel as though I should do something productive. Even though I was at the library this morning early enough to get a front parking space, so I guess that should count for something:) Maybe...
Caleb, we should go back to Utah when we graduate from law school...it'd be like a mountainman reunion. Till then, i'll just keep drinking tea.
By the way, pringles are awesome, and so is the sun:)
"The wheels just keep on turning,
the drummer begins to drum,
I don't know which was I'm going...
I dont know what I've become
hold my hand...
inside your hands,
I need someone,
who understands...
I hear your laugh,
I heard you sing...
I wouldnt change a single thing"
It's been a pretty mellow weekend though, I've gotten a lot done, and even had some extra time to do some laundry and talk to my parents a little.
I even washed my slippers, which put a huge smile on my face when I wore them prancing around my apartment....:)
I do think it's funny, though, that my cat is deathly afraid of vaccuums. I tried to put her close to it today and she went crazy and didn't come out from under the bed for a good hour. Guess there's one way to keep her out of my way right? (I felt bad actually...) But my cat was lured out of underneath the bed when I came back...I guess she likes playing peek-a-boo from the laundry basket...sometimes she can be precious.
I had another run in with a bank, but don't feel as though I have the emotional capacity to go through the explanation. Not this bank, the one from Michigan that I havn't accessed in a few months, and don't even have a card for anymore...anyways, somehow I accumulated a hundred some dollars in overdraft fees....leave it to me I guess. Overdraw an account I don't even have access to.
Anywho - I'm going to get ahead on a little reading for this week. I'd much rather be playing video games or something, but feel as though I should do something productive. Even though I was at the library this morning early enough to get a front parking space, so I guess that should count for something:) Maybe...
Caleb, we should go back to Utah when we graduate from law school...it'd be like a mountainman reunion. Till then, i'll just keep drinking tea.
By the way, pringles are awesome, and so is the sun:)
"The wheels just keep on turning,
the drummer begins to drum,
I don't know which was I'm going...
I dont know what I've become
hold my hand...
inside your hands,
I need someone,
who understands...
I hear your laugh,
I heard you sing...
I wouldnt change a single thing"
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Don't Worry...Hell Is On Schedule
Just what you all were waiting for...another optimistic post. I know it's been awhile, but I suppose it takes a special time for me to feel as though I've done enough work to warrant my doing something uneducational. Anywho.
It's only Wednesday, and since Monday was Labor Day (the first time in awhile I've actually not had class that day - thank you very much private Christian College), that means that I've only had two days of class this week, though it feels a lot closer to two hundred. At first I was a little suspicious as to why I had free time sometimes, especially after hearing stories about people not sleeping for weeks, but it only took a couple weeks for me to realize that that most of the syllabus' maintained a steady, yet somewhat deceiving incline. It's almost as if they start off slow until everyone finally gets to the point where they have somewhat of a daily routine to maintain the workload, then they throw in a couple extra cases every night and the schedule that I thought I had mastered is suddenly significantly short of being enough.
I spent this past weekend doing work, as well as Labor Day. Well, except for the time that was allotted to standing outside in the street with my cat for a couple hours because my building was on fire, and the periodic breaks that must be taken to eat, sleep, shower and of course play a couple rounds of Dr. Mario, but most of the time, I was doing work. As a result of this, I felt I had justified myself in leaving my books on campus for the night in order to enjoy a dinner that I'm looking forward to kind of a lot, and maybe a movie. This, having been my daily routine all summer, is a little harder to let go of than I had anticipated at first.
Now that I think about the summer, I think I may still have a paycheck coming to me...not that it's going to be all that great, but any money coming to me at this point is a good thing. Speaking of, I got a check from my health insurance for fifteen dollars, which if you know me at all, you can probably guess that I can't find it.
It all goes back to that missing money from the spring...which I'm still looking for. I think I blame Tara. She's the only one living here that would eat money, and as far as I'm concerned, money doesn't vanish into thin air, and I don't suppose a ghost came in and took it...because I can usually tell when things like that happen. I can't believe I just brought that money up again, I'm laughing out loud right now about that huge stuffed Elmo that I got that night, probably out of sympathy, but one can always use a life-size, 4 foot Elmo right?
By the way I still have it, though Joe is pretty much the only one who's gotten any use out of it lately, and that's only to chase my cat around the apartment to scare her. I actually drove with it in my car for awhile when I first got it cause I was too lazy to take it out. People probably thought I was crazy, though they still should...
Anyways, one more cup of coffee for the road...
It's only Wednesday, and since Monday was Labor Day (the first time in awhile I've actually not had class that day - thank you very much private Christian College), that means that I've only had two days of class this week, though it feels a lot closer to two hundred. At first I was a little suspicious as to why I had free time sometimes, especially after hearing stories about people not sleeping for weeks, but it only took a couple weeks for me to realize that that most of the syllabus' maintained a steady, yet somewhat deceiving incline. It's almost as if they start off slow until everyone finally gets to the point where they have somewhat of a daily routine to maintain the workload, then they throw in a couple extra cases every night and the schedule that I thought I had mastered is suddenly significantly short of being enough.
I spent this past weekend doing work, as well as Labor Day. Well, except for the time that was allotted to standing outside in the street with my cat for a couple hours because my building was on fire, and the periodic breaks that must be taken to eat, sleep, shower and of course play a couple rounds of Dr. Mario, but most of the time, I was doing work. As a result of this, I felt I had justified myself in leaving my books on campus for the night in order to enjoy a dinner that I'm looking forward to kind of a lot, and maybe a movie. This, having been my daily routine all summer, is a little harder to let go of than I had anticipated at first.
Now that I think about the summer, I think I may still have a paycheck coming to me...not that it's going to be all that great, but any money coming to me at this point is a good thing. Speaking of, I got a check from my health insurance for fifteen dollars, which if you know me at all, you can probably guess that I can't find it.
It all goes back to that missing money from the spring...which I'm still looking for. I think I blame Tara. She's the only one living here that would eat money, and as far as I'm concerned, money doesn't vanish into thin air, and I don't suppose a ghost came in and took it...because I can usually tell when things like that happen. I can't believe I just brought that money up again, I'm laughing out loud right now about that huge stuffed Elmo that I got that night, probably out of sympathy, but one can always use a life-size, 4 foot Elmo right?
By the way I still have it, though Joe is pretty much the only one who's gotten any use out of it lately, and that's only to chase my cat around the apartment to scare her. I actually drove with it in my car for awhile when I first got it cause I was too lazy to take it out. People probably thought I was crazy, though they still should...
Anyways, one more cup of coffee for the road...
Thursday, August 25, 2005
Inclement Weather
I've found that the more that the week goes on, the harder it gets to focus in my 8 o'clock, not to mention keep my eyes open. It always seemed to me that it would get easier. Nevertheless, I'm finished with 8 o'clocks for the week, and have been sitting in the student lounge for the past half hour navigating between the school's weather advisory site, weather.com, and IM. I feel drained, I don't have any energy, and all I want to do is sleep.
A tropical storm - soon to be hurricane - just caused my night class to get cancelled. All I'm doing is sitting here waiting for a "statement" reagarding the rest of the day. This is the first storm I've seen since I've been here that's actually going to blast the inland part of Florida, and not just the coast...so basically I think we'll feel it this time. Not to mention the 26 or so inches of rainfall that we're supposed to get over the next couple days - that'll probably flood my car. That'll be kind of awesome, and by kind of I mean not at all.
I also just found out that if class is cancelled, they just entend the next session to make up for it. I guess you really can't cut corners in this program. Anyways, I basically am sitting on campus right now until 2, for a class that will probably be cancelled, and if not, it's only an hour. Either way, I'm going to be driving home in heavy rain, with crazy people on the road, that I'm not in the mood to deal with. Not saying that I'm not one of those crazy people or anything...
I'm hoping that my class tomorrow is cancelled, so I can at least have a long weekend to catch up on everything. I thought I would be looking forward to the weekends as a break from school since I'm on campus most of the day anyway during the week. Not the case so far at least, I have a lot of catching up to do if I want to stay ahead of things.
Anyways, enough ranting about school for now. I'll complain about the rain a little more...just kidding. Ok, I think I may curl up on this couch and try to take a little nap until I wait for a weather statement, since I'm finding it surprisingly hard, again, to concentrate...can you believe it?
If anyone has any suggestions for staying awake other than coffee (pending that they're legal-I don't want to hear about speed, or cocaine or anything like that), please let me know - cause I'm having a small problem staying awake through property law... I'm going to keep looking for hurricane updates, this campus is a huge ruckus right now - people are going crazy...and I'm going to start in a minute...that's the update for now...
A tropical storm - soon to be hurricane - just caused my night class to get cancelled. All I'm doing is sitting here waiting for a "statement" reagarding the rest of the day. This is the first storm I've seen since I've been here that's actually going to blast the inland part of Florida, and not just the coast...so basically I think we'll feel it this time. Not to mention the 26 or so inches of rainfall that we're supposed to get over the next couple days - that'll probably flood my car. That'll be kind of awesome, and by kind of I mean not at all.
I also just found out that if class is cancelled, they just entend the next session to make up for it. I guess you really can't cut corners in this program. Anyways, I basically am sitting on campus right now until 2, for a class that will probably be cancelled, and if not, it's only an hour. Either way, I'm going to be driving home in heavy rain, with crazy people on the road, that I'm not in the mood to deal with. Not saying that I'm not one of those crazy people or anything...
I'm hoping that my class tomorrow is cancelled, so I can at least have a long weekend to catch up on everything. I thought I would be looking forward to the weekends as a break from school since I'm on campus most of the day anyway during the week. Not the case so far at least, I have a lot of catching up to do if I want to stay ahead of things.
Anyways, enough ranting about school for now. I'll complain about the rain a little more...just kidding. Ok, I think I may curl up on this couch and try to take a little nap until I wait for a weather statement, since I'm finding it surprisingly hard, again, to concentrate...can you believe it?
If anyone has any suggestions for staying awake other than coffee (pending that they're legal-I don't want to hear about speed, or cocaine or anything like that), please let me know - cause I'm having a small problem staying awake through property law... I'm going to keep looking for hurricane updates, this campus is a huge ruckus right now - people are going crazy...and I'm going to start in a minute...that's the update for now...
Monday, August 22, 2005
Back In The Swing Of Things...
As my cat pushes her water bowl across the floor with her nose, trying to get attention, I find myself surprisingly distracted from doing work. I've fallen off the face of the Earth, it feels like, in the last couple weeks...or in other words, started law school.
I feel like I may fall off the face of the Earth over the next couple months too, so its pretty easy to assure myself that the summer is going to seem more and more appealing in retrospect - not that it wasn't appealing at the time, and I know its cliche and all, but you really don't know what you have till it's gone. All that spare time, without thinking that I should be doing something productive, would be kind of awesome right now. Even by throwing up this post right now it seems like I'm wasting time. Oh well, I've been doing a good job keeping up, and even ahead sometimes.
I've also found that I'll need to haul 2 backpacks to school, just to be able to take everything, as well as use a stupid locker that's smaller than a microwave. Awesome. Not to mention that UM seems like a school that will nickle and dime me for everything it can - and I wondered how it had money to throw us a million dollar dinner at the Biltmore. What was I thinking.
A funny thing I've noticed about class so far is this: you can do just about anything and fit in. I could wear just about anything under the sun around campus and find at least 5 other people wearing something similar. I guess that's just what you get with a big university, and it's been a lot different than Hope, that's for sure.
Things other than school have been going well too. Joe got the job he's been looking for since he came here, so I'm happy about that. His place is coming around too, we've been doing a good job supporting each other with new things in life, and it makes it a lot more enjoyable to be experiencing it with someone else. It seems as though everything is falling into place - now I just need to get through school alive, and I think that with the situation at hand, it's more than possible.
Anyways, I found out the hard way that if you get to campus after 10 then it's nearly impossible to get a parking spot anywhere on campus. Yes I have a parking pass, but when issued, it's issued as a "hunting license." Classy, I thought, but it's true.
It's kind of a wierd feeling, that everyone I meet from here on at school, is a competition to me. I feel as though it's a bad set-up for making legitimate friends, but seeing as how I can't change it, I'll deal with it. The school mandates that only a certain percentage of people can get A's, and B's, and so forth. So no matter how well I actually do, it's completely based on my comparison to others in my program. Kinda scary, but I guess you just have to watch out for some people, who only want your friendship to use it against you, or so I have been warned...
Anyways, there's a short update of how things have been going. Thank you, zero-balance on my credit card, and thank you 1000 dollar combined charge for books and parking pass...I'll take revenge on that eventually. Maybe have a bonfire with my books one night and make those s'mores I've been craving for awhile now. No, that would be silly - again, what was I thinking?
There's a creepy delay on my computer right now, and this is taking much too long to type...
"Back to school, back to school,
To prove to dad that I'm not a fool,
I got my lunch packed up, my boots tied tight,
I hope I don't get in a fight....."
-Billy Madison....ha-ha-ha:)
I feel like I may fall off the face of the Earth over the next couple months too, so its pretty easy to assure myself that the summer is going to seem more and more appealing in retrospect - not that it wasn't appealing at the time, and I know its cliche and all, but you really don't know what you have till it's gone. All that spare time, without thinking that I should be doing something productive, would be kind of awesome right now. Even by throwing up this post right now it seems like I'm wasting time. Oh well, I've been doing a good job keeping up, and even ahead sometimes.
I've also found that I'll need to haul 2 backpacks to school, just to be able to take everything, as well as use a stupid locker that's smaller than a microwave. Awesome. Not to mention that UM seems like a school that will nickle and dime me for everything it can - and I wondered how it had money to throw us a million dollar dinner at the Biltmore. What was I thinking.
A funny thing I've noticed about class so far is this: you can do just about anything and fit in. I could wear just about anything under the sun around campus and find at least 5 other people wearing something similar. I guess that's just what you get with a big university, and it's been a lot different than Hope, that's for sure.
Things other than school have been going well too. Joe got the job he's been looking for since he came here, so I'm happy about that. His place is coming around too, we've been doing a good job supporting each other with new things in life, and it makes it a lot more enjoyable to be experiencing it with someone else. It seems as though everything is falling into place - now I just need to get through school alive, and I think that with the situation at hand, it's more than possible.
Anyways, I found out the hard way that if you get to campus after 10 then it's nearly impossible to get a parking spot anywhere on campus. Yes I have a parking pass, but when issued, it's issued as a "hunting license." Classy, I thought, but it's true.
It's kind of a wierd feeling, that everyone I meet from here on at school, is a competition to me. I feel as though it's a bad set-up for making legitimate friends, but seeing as how I can't change it, I'll deal with it. The school mandates that only a certain percentage of people can get A's, and B's, and so forth. So no matter how well I actually do, it's completely based on my comparison to others in my program. Kinda scary, but I guess you just have to watch out for some people, who only want your friendship to use it against you, or so I have been warned...
Anyways, there's a short update of how things have been going. Thank you, zero-balance on my credit card, and thank you 1000 dollar combined charge for books and parking pass...I'll take revenge on that eventually. Maybe have a bonfire with my books one night and make those s'mores I've been craving for awhile now. No, that would be silly - again, what was I thinking?
There's a creepy delay on my computer right now, and this is taking much too long to type...
"Back to school, back to school,
To prove to dad that I'm not a fool,
I got my lunch packed up, my boots tied tight,
I hope I don't get in a fight....."
-Billy Madison....ha-ha-ha:)
Friday, August 05, 2005
Check Again Please
It's been a rough couple of days...mainly because I've been sick - and may as well have been on bedrest for the past 2 days. I've basically felt pretty useless. There haven't been many days where I actually didn't think I could work, but yesterday was one of them...I bit the bullet and called in sick. I hate doing that. Mainly because I hate people that do that, and hate the thought of being one of them. It's a different story when people actually are sick, but that's rarely the case. Nonetheless, seeing as how I didn't do much more that fall asleep in various places in my apartment, I feel as though my call was justified.
I think it got to the point yesterday where taking a combination of medicines made me see crazy things, not to mention feeling narcoleptic. One minute it was 3:30, the next, I woke up and it was nearly 8 - and I sometimes had no recollection of trying to fall asleep...anyway, I felt a little better when I woke up today, good enough to work sluggishly until about 3 when I came back here and crashed again for the evening.
It's friday night, nearly 9 o'clock, and I'm sitting here nursing down one of the four components of my recent diet: soup, oatmeal, juice, and fruit cups (it's soup right now), listening to Christmas music with my cat, and wondering if I went to sleep right now, would I be able to make it through the night? I tried to move onto solid food, like crackers and cereal today, but it felt like a knife on my throat...maybe i'll treat myself to some ice cream tonight.
I'm beginning to wonder what Christmas would look and feel like here. Some say it's just different, and some say it's not like Christmas at all. I don't know why I'm all that worried about it, seeing as how it's the beginning of August, and no one said I would even make it through school alive that far so maybe I shouldn't get my hopes up.
I've talked to my mom a couple times this past week, and things seem to be looking up a little. All I can say is at least they're not looking down any further. Thankfully, it didn't get worse than it did, and all I can do at this point is hope that it only gets better from here.
I've got a week left at work, it's been good, and I can see myself going back. I don't think I was there long enough to hate it. The way I see it, is that if I only work there in small incriments, like summers, then I won't ever be there long enough at one time to begin to despise it the way I did Carino's. It would be a shame to be able to complain that much about two different places in the same year.
I've watched about 3/4 of probably 5 movies in the last 2 days, mainly because I can't stay awake long enough to finish them. In addition to that, I started a new game of Kingdom Hearts, though I only made it about a half hour before I dropped the controller on my way to sleep. I think my body may be trying to tell me something.
I was only 100 dollars away from buying a bunny last week. It was the cutest little white bunny, and all it wanted to do was be loved. I though my cat and I could share the job, just kidding. I told my brother that I was thinking about it, he just laughed and said "wow, you're retarted."
I get to have tomorrow off to recooperate a little more, but then guess what, I get to work the patio on Sunday night so I'll get hellbent all over again. In addition to that, I get to open twice next week, which is ridiculous. All that means it I get to roll into work half asleep at 9:30 a.m., sort some spoons, wipe down tables, and set the whole restaurant up for less than 5 dollars while getting dictated to by some girl who has been there about 2 months longer than I have. Today she was trying to take th job of "manager," and started yelling at everyone trying to tell people what to do. Funny how she didn't make it halfway through her instructions to me before I was walking away. I hate it when people talk down to people for no reason, there's no reason why she couldn't have been civilized about it. It probably just made me more mad because I haven't been able to get coffee down in about 3 days now.
"Far off and here,
Whole and broken,
Who in necessity and in bounty wait,
Who's truth is light and dark,
Mute, though spoken,
By thy wide grace,
Show me thy narrow gate..."
I think it got to the point yesterday where taking a combination of medicines made me see crazy things, not to mention feeling narcoleptic. One minute it was 3:30, the next, I woke up and it was nearly 8 - and I sometimes had no recollection of trying to fall asleep...anyway, I felt a little better when I woke up today, good enough to work sluggishly until about 3 when I came back here and crashed again for the evening.
It's friday night, nearly 9 o'clock, and I'm sitting here nursing down one of the four components of my recent diet: soup, oatmeal, juice, and fruit cups (it's soup right now), listening to Christmas music with my cat, and wondering if I went to sleep right now, would I be able to make it through the night? I tried to move onto solid food, like crackers and cereal today, but it felt like a knife on my throat...maybe i'll treat myself to some ice cream tonight.
I'm beginning to wonder what Christmas would look and feel like here. Some say it's just different, and some say it's not like Christmas at all. I don't know why I'm all that worried about it, seeing as how it's the beginning of August, and no one said I would even make it through school alive that far so maybe I shouldn't get my hopes up.
I've talked to my mom a couple times this past week, and things seem to be looking up a little. All I can say is at least they're not looking down any further. Thankfully, it didn't get worse than it did, and all I can do at this point is hope that it only gets better from here.
I've got a week left at work, it's been good, and I can see myself going back. I don't think I was there long enough to hate it. The way I see it, is that if I only work there in small incriments, like summers, then I won't ever be there long enough at one time to begin to despise it the way I did Carino's. It would be a shame to be able to complain that much about two different places in the same year.
I've watched about 3/4 of probably 5 movies in the last 2 days, mainly because I can't stay awake long enough to finish them. In addition to that, I started a new game of Kingdom Hearts, though I only made it about a half hour before I dropped the controller on my way to sleep. I think my body may be trying to tell me something.
I was only 100 dollars away from buying a bunny last week. It was the cutest little white bunny, and all it wanted to do was be loved. I though my cat and I could share the job, just kidding. I told my brother that I was thinking about it, he just laughed and said "wow, you're retarted."
I get to have tomorrow off to recooperate a little more, but then guess what, I get to work the patio on Sunday night so I'll get hellbent all over again. In addition to that, I get to open twice next week, which is ridiculous. All that means it I get to roll into work half asleep at 9:30 a.m., sort some spoons, wipe down tables, and set the whole restaurant up for less than 5 dollars while getting dictated to by some girl who has been there about 2 months longer than I have. Today she was trying to take th job of "manager," and started yelling at everyone trying to tell people what to do. Funny how she didn't make it halfway through her instructions to me before I was walking away. I hate it when people talk down to people for no reason, there's no reason why she couldn't have been civilized about it. It probably just made me more mad because I haven't been able to get coffee down in about 3 days now.
"Far off and here,
Whole and broken,
Who in necessity and in bounty wait,
Who's truth is light and dark,
Mute, though spoken,
By thy wide grace,
Show me thy narrow gate..."
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
You...Shook Me All Night Long
Remember that great song? I was reminiscing about high school days when I was reminded of a commercial for our school's "news broadcast," which included clips of our tennis team, and basically that song. Anyways, people complained about it's provacative nature, and I laughed about it all over again a couple days ago.
I've been in the mood lately, to hear about funny things that happened back in the day, and I actually found myself unusually excited about old choir music again. Guess that kinda thing just happens every once and awhile.
I put my notice in at Marino's yesterday. I was there for a good couple months, made summer rent, and basically killed some time with the job before school....which starts up in a couple weeks here. I can't believe the summer's already almost over with...kinda crazy how fast things go sometimes.
My mom's still not talking to me, which doesn't surprise me. I see a reflection of my stubborn streak in her, and at least I can understand how the bitter attitude works: she won't give in for awhile, and it's basically come down to holding a grudge over not getting a desired outcome.
The weather here has gotten a little hotter, but I'll take it in return for not having to see snow all winter long. I think it's a decent trade-off.
Joe's parents are driving down to move stuff into his new place tomorrow. They're going to make the trecherous drive that I had to make with my parents at one point, and luckily don't think I'll have to make again anytime soon. I'm at least happy that he's got some support in the situation...and that I get along with both of them.
I've managed to stay in touch with my brother for the most part. I found that I almost miss him the most. I find myself with a knot in my stomach sometimes when I think about all the times we would sit through dinner and ramble through entire movie scenes while my parents just gave the both of us blank stares, my mom sometimes laughing a little to be a part of the joke between us. It's funny how much you don't realize how much stuff like that means until you don't get to hear it all the time. Anyway, I know he's happy right now, and getting along with my parents pretty well so I wish him the best.
It's kind of a conundrum when it storms on your day off...it's always nice to be out in the sun, but burling up watching movies and listening to thunder isn't all that bad...
"Take till there's nothing
Nothing to turn to
Nothing when you get through
Won't you break
Scattered pieces of all I've been
Bowing to all I've been
Running to where...
The trouble is...
We don't know who we are instead,
I'll keep runnin' the other way
My heart ain't built to stay...
And the world just ain't that way..."
I've been in the mood lately, to hear about funny things that happened back in the day, and I actually found myself unusually excited about old choir music again. Guess that kinda thing just happens every once and awhile.
I put my notice in at Marino's yesterday. I was there for a good couple months, made summer rent, and basically killed some time with the job before school....which starts up in a couple weeks here. I can't believe the summer's already almost over with...kinda crazy how fast things go sometimes.
My mom's still not talking to me, which doesn't surprise me. I see a reflection of my stubborn streak in her, and at least I can understand how the bitter attitude works: she won't give in for awhile, and it's basically come down to holding a grudge over not getting a desired outcome.
The weather here has gotten a little hotter, but I'll take it in return for not having to see snow all winter long. I think it's a decent trade-off.
Joe's parents are driving down to move stuff into his new place tomorrow. They're going to make the trecherous drive that I had to make with my parents at one point, and luckily don't think I'll have to make again anytime soon. I'm at least happy that he's got some support in the situation...and that I get along with both of them.
I've managed to stay in touch with my brother for the most part. I found that I almost miss him the most. I find myself with a knot in my stomach sometimes when I think about all the times we would sit through dinner and ramble through entire movie scenes while my parents just gave the both of us blank stares, my mom sometimes laughing a little to be a part of the joke between us. It's funny how much you don't realize how much stuff like that means until you don't get to hear it all the time. Anyway, I know he's happy right now, and getting along with my parents pretty well so I wish him the best.
It's kind of a conundrum when it storms on your day off...it's always nice to be out in the sun, but burling up watching movies and listening to thunder isn't all that bad...
"Take till there's nothing
Nothing to turn to
Nothing when you get through
Won't you break
Scattered pieces of all I've been
Bowing to all I've been
Running to where...
The trouble is...
We don't know who we are instead,
I'll keep runnin' the other way
My heart ain't built to stay...
And the world just ain't that way..."
Monday, July 11, 2005
Michigan's Got Nothin on Weather
Well the forth tropical storm of the season is over with...taking a few trees and roofing panels with it, but nonetheless, I'm still here with all my windows and doors.
I'm not getting my hopes up yet, for we've broken records with the storms already, and we're forecasted to have a pretty brutal season...bolt the door.
I think it's funny how the 4 seasons in Michigan are sometimes referred to as: almost winter, winter, summer, and construction. Well, the seasons here can be described as: almost summer, summer, unbearable hell, and natural disaster. Welcome to the state where natural disaster is a season...here is me missing the mitten state a little.
I've been trying to keep in touch with my parents, but regardless of when or how much I call, it always seems to be dumbed down to some small talk, meaningless jargon that unfortunately we could both live without dealing with. Fortunately, I'm not giving up.
I've found that making coffee can sometimes not work out all that well. What I mean is, sometimes the grounds make it to the coffee pot, which makes me feel kinda stupid, like i'm too incompetant to make coffee without screwing it up, anyway, that happened to me this morning and I didn't like it.
I've got a 30-day countdown until orientation...how do I feel about that? Well, I'm not really sure yet actually...I've been debating keeping my job on the weekends, but I think it's going to come down to it not really being worth it. I'm excited to get back into the swing of things though, seeing as how it's been about 8 months since i've actually done any school work...or real work of any kind I guess. I almost miss it. Maybe it's just the idea of being challenged, because upselling fine dining isn't really cutting it for me at this point.
I got new wallpaper in my apartment...it's called random scrapbook bullshit. I got bored one night and decided to tack up just about everything I could find in my apartment that was possible to put/worthy of being on the wall. I've got pictures dating back to high school, and memories I almost forgot I had. It makes it kinda cozy, and I kinda like it. Whoever said being a packrat was a bad thing was seriously disturbed. This decor may save me about halfway through school.
Other than that, everything is going well. Except for the coffee grounds I just drank out of my coffee cup, that wasn't too good. And my parents still aren't going very well. My car's still not done yet...that's just kinda neutral though. I've settled on keeping my hair dark for probably kind of a long time...that's probably differed in opinion. I still get mosquito bites like a little kid, which isn't good.
On a lighter note though, this post must seem a little more optimistic than usual...don't you think?
Is this a feeling of something
About to happen?
Like snapping out of something
I didn't realize i was in...
Was I sleeping?
I'm not getting my hopes up yet, for we've broken records with the storms already, and we're forecasted to have a pretty brutal season...bolt the door.
I think it's funny how the 4 seasons in Michigan are sometimes referred to as: almost winter, winter, summer, and construction. Well, the seasons here can be described as: almost summer, summer, unbearable hell, and natural disaster. Welcome to the state where natural disaster is a season...here is me missing the mitten state a little.
I've been trying to keep in touch with my parents, but regardless of when or how much I call, it always seems to be dumbed down to some small talk, meaningless jargon that unfortunately we could both live without dealing with. Fortunately, I'm not giving up.
I've found that making coffee can sometimes not work out all that well. What I mean is, sometimes the grounds make it to the coffee pot, which makes me feel kinda stupid, like i'm too incompetant to make coffee without screwing it up, anyway, that happened to me this morning and I didn't like it.
I've got a 30-day countdown until orientation...how do I feel about that? Well, I'm not really sure yet actually...I've been debating keeping my job on the weekends, but I think it's going to come down to it not really being worth it. I'm excited to get back into the swing of things though, seeing as how it's been about 8 months since i've actually done any school work...or real work of any kind I guess. I almost miss it. Maybe it's just the idea of being challenged, because upselling fine dining isn't really cutting it for me at this point.
I got new wallpaper in my apartment...it's called random scrapbook bullshit. I got bored one night and decided to tack up just about everything I could find in my apartment that was possible to put/worthy of being on the wall. I've got pictures dating back to high school, and memories I almost forgot I had. It makes it kinda cozy, and I kinda like it. Whoever said being a packrat was a bad thing was seriously disturbed. This decor may save me about halfway through school.
Other than that, everything is going well. Except for the coffee grounds I just drank out of my coffee cup, that wasn't too good. And my parents still aren't going very well. My car's still not done yet...that's just kinda neutral though. I've settled on keeping my hair dark for probably kind of a long time...that's probably differed in opinion. I still get mosquito bites like a little kid, which isn't good.
On a lighter note though, this post must seem a little more optimistic than usual...don't you think?
Is this a feeling of something
About to happen?
Like snapping out of something
I didn't realize i was in...
Was I sleeping?
Saturday, June 25, 2005
'Cause There's Beauty In The Breakdown
Well, I've come to the end of the long stretch...and I only have 2 more days...:)
As the day gets closer though, my family is becoming more and more adamant to convince me of how "wrong" I am. My mom has even resorted now to venting to my grandparents, while I believe she secretly hopes that they'll become furious and step into the picture siding with her "offensive attack mode."
Funny how that actually did happen too...I got a letter from them Thursday basically stating that they were furious...kinda odd how I haven't said a word to them about it, though they feel like they know every detail of the situation as if they were actually involved the whole time. Don't worry, I wrote them back, respectfully, and became even more convinced that I am, in fact, making the right move. My negativity is slowly, but surely vanishing. And although I don't think that the worst is over yet (I feel as though I may be only halfway to the worst...), after 2 more days of this, I think that life will become a hell of a lot easier to deal with.
I never thought that I could miss someone as much as I do...it's almost a good feeling. Not that I want to be in this "missing mood" forever by any means, I think I've served my time in that department, and I'm ready for that part to finally be over:)
I would rant about work a little...but I think that we all probably know by now that Saturday = the day that Stephanie is working on the patio...which is never a good start to an optimistic day. I raged enough today that they actually let me leave and I was able to fit in a little "sun time."
Yes, you read that correctly...."sun time." Today should go down in history as the first day I've seen Florida actually warranted in being called "the sunshine state." I was amazed...it actually took me a minute to realize it wasn't my crazy imagination acting up on me again...
I can hardly keep my eyes open right now...I've been up since 7 for some ridiculous meeting at work, then obviously had to stay and waste my time on the patio for awhile. Then of course I thought it would be a good idea to let the sun drain out the remainder of my energy, simply because I don't work again until 4 tomorrow, and who's to say that I can't have a relaxing night watching the sunset, movies, and this pitcher of pina colada quickly become empty. Surprisingly, this has been a pretty enjoyable day...despite what I had to wake up to.
I had some crazy dreams that bugs were crawling all over in my bed...I woke up continuously, and abruptly throughout the night, and even turned the light on a couple times in order to assure myself that the bugs weren't real. Really though, they were crawling on my face and feet and it was kinda creepy...Maybe I really am going crazy. I was actually partially awake still when my alarm went off at 7, so I wasn't nearly as tired as I had expected to be. Not to mention that the sunshine was shining bright through my window...my first thought was if I have to be at work all day, it better be raining by noon.
I found an old bag of conversation hearts, that fortunately hadn't been opened. I think I probably had the intention of saving them for a day like today...I love it when I do stuff like that:) I fell asleep outside under the sun eating my old-time favorite candy. It felt like valentine's day all over again for a minute, well, besides the fact that it wasn't february, it wasn't snowing, there weren't any roses, and my valentine wasn't here...I guess it didn't feel like valentines day at all, except for the fact that I was eating old candy...wishful thinking I guess.
"Catch me if I fall
I'm losing hold,
I can't just carry on this way
And every time I turn away
Lose another blind game...
The idea of perfection holds me,
Suddenly I see you change
Everything at once,
The same,
But the mountain never moves..."
As the day gets closer though, my family is becoming more and more adamant to convince me of how "wrong" I am. My mom has even resorted now to venting to my grandparents, while I believe she secretly hopes that they'll become furious and step into the picture siding with her "offensive attack mode."
Funny how that actually did happen too...I got a letter from them Thursday basically stating that they were furious...kinda odd how I haven't said a word to them about it, though they feel like they know every detail of the situation as if they were actually involved the whole time. Don't worry, I wrote them back, respectfully, and became even more convinced that I am, in fact, making the right move. My negativity is slowly, but surely vanishing. And although I don't think that the worst is over yet (I feel as though I may be only halfway to the worst...), after 2 more days of this, I think that life will become a hell of a lot easier to deal with.
I never thought that I could miss someone as much as I do...it's almost a good feeling. Not that I want to be in this "missing mood" forever by any means, I think I've served my time in that department, and I'm ready for that part to finally be over:)
I would rant about work a little...but I think that we all probably know by now that Saturday = the day that Stephanie is working on the patio...which is never a good start to an optimistic day. I raged enough today that they actually let me leave and I was able to fit in a little "sun time."
Yes, you read that correctly...."sun time." Today should go down in history as the first day I've seen Florida actually warranted in being called "the sunshine state." I was amazed...it actually took me a minute to realize it wasn't my crazy imagination acting up on me again...
I can hardly keep my eyes open right now...I've been up since 7 for some ridiculous meeting at work, then obviously had to stay and waste my time on the patio for awhile. Then of course I thought it would be a good idea to let the sun drain out the remainder of my energy, simply because I don't work again until 4 tomorrow, and who's to say that I can't have a relaxing night watching the sunset, movies, and this pitcher of pina colada quickly become empty. Surprisingly, this has been a pretty enjoyable day...despite what I had to wake up to.
I had some crazy dreams that bugs were crawling all over in my bed...I woke up continuously, and abruptly throughout the night, and even turned the light on a couple times in order to assure myself that the bugs weren't real. Really though, they were crawling on my face and feet and it was kinda creepy...Maybe I really am going crazy. I was actually partially awake still when my alarm went off at 7, so I wasn't nearly as tired as I had expected to be. Not to mention that the sunshine was shining bright through my window...my first thought was if I have to be at work all day, it better be raining by noon.
I found an old bag of conversation hearts, that fortunately hadn't been opened. I think I probably had the intention of saving them for a day like today...I love it when I do stuff like that:) I fell asleep outside under the sun eating my old-time favorite candy. It felt like valentine's day all over again for a minute, well, besides the fact that it wasn't february, it wasn't snowing, there weren't any roses, and my valentine wasn't here...I guess it didn't feel like valentines day at all, except for the fact that I was eating old candy...wishful thinking I guess.
"Catch me if I fall
I'm losing hold,
I can't just carry on this way
And every time I turn away
Lose another blind game...
The idea of perfection holds me,
Suddenly I see you change
Everything at once,
The same,
But the mountain never moves..."
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