and all i want to do is nap. nap, nap, nap. who needs final projects and papers and tests? i just want a nap.

however, i can’t nap. i’ve still got this bibliography to finish. i worked on it some yesterday, so that’s definitely better than nothing. it’s not that it’s a hard thing to do; i’m just lazy as hell. i procrastinate like nobody’s business.

i think this will all be better come next friday. of course, it will.

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friday was the due date for the last assignment in my management class, so i don’t have to worry about that one anymore. woohoo!

i have an annotated bibliography due this saturday along with a test in the same class, and after that, i’ll be entirely done with my 7000 class. i didn’t do so hot on my last test, so i need to do well on these 2 assignments in order to keep my A. i’m not so worried about the bibliography just because i don’t have to write a paper with it…i just have to read some articles, cite them, and briefly summarize them. it’s definitely a different assignment from what i’m used to, but it shouldn’t be a big deal. i’ve gotten 5 articles so far…i just need to find at least 5 more on the digitization of libraries.

next week is finals week, and the project i’m dreading most is due then. i have to do a reference simulation for my classmates; i can either hold a fake reference transaction or “teach” the class about a database, reference work, etc. i’m kind of nervous about this because i don’t feel comfortable enough with any reference material to TEACH it. i mean, i can move my way around GALILEO, EBSCOhost, Ancestry, ProQuest, etc., but i certainly don’t feel i know enough about these to teach someone else how to thoroughly use them. ahhh!

after next week, though, i’m free from class for a month. it’ll be a good feeling.

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i cleared out some of my memory cards and looked through all the sister hazel pictures i took the other night. some of them are really good, especially once beka and i managed to make our way through to the front of the stage.

the assignments i have due within the next few weeks for my reference class are rather overwhelming. i have 2 groupmates, and one of them is all gung-ho about getting this first portion of the project done ASAP when it’s due monday. i don’t mind somebody taking the leader position in a group, but her fellow groupmates are still quite confused over what the professor wants of us in the assignment. the good thing is that the professor is awesome, so she’s holding a live classroom session tomorrow night to explain the whole project…which my groupie and i both need. so little miss group leader needs to just chill the eff out for the time being. =P

my birthday is saturday. it’s going to be a busy, busy day…from volunteering at the haunted house at work that morning to seeing my parents when they come to town that afternoon to a party that night….ahh! but overall, i’m pretty excited. i just hope i’m not exhausted once it’s time to party.

finally, i took a really big step today towards setting my life right. i’m pretty proud of myself for that.

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“wear it out the way a three-year-old would do. melt it down; you’re gonna have to eventually, anyway.”

i saw sister hazel in concert tonight on the lawn at VSU. they were really, really good. i got a setlist and got it autographed, too. it’s awesome. they played my favorite songs by them– “your winter” and “thank you.” i felt kind of silly not knowing the lyrics to most of the songs, though (i hate it when that happens), but i still enjoyed them. the band that opened for sister hazel was called ocean street. they were really, really good. i got to talk to the drummer and rhythm guitarist…they are both hot…the drummer, especially. alex said he was giving me the eye, but i totally think she was just saying that to make me feel nice. anyway, look them up on myspace. you won’t regret it.

i’ve got to go to macon this weekend. i have lots of homework to do in my off-time and lots to do before i sleep tonight…so why am i blogging? i have to be up in 5 1/2 hours.

i’m really glad carli’s calmed down since she got fixed. she loves me again, and i love her. for the first time since she was a kitten, i love her again. that sounds bad, but there’s a sliver of truth to it. she was driving me fucking bananas.

i will be glad once monday is over…then i have a temporary break from classwork…and that’s a great big “temporary.”

i got my tattoos touched up on thursday. they look really, really good. that’s been one of the best things about this week.

i turn 23 one week from today.

and that’s really about it in the life of me lately.

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this past weekend, my family and i joined some family friends for a vacation in bryson city, north carolina. we rented a HUGE cabin and stayed from friday through monday. saturday, we spent time riding the great smoky mountains train around the mountains. while i enjoyed myself, i was rather disappointed that the train only went back the way it came rather than around the mountain…but i guess the folks who built the railroad in the 1800s did what they had to do. sunday, the younger bunch of us all went to pigeon forge, but i stayed with the “older” people and rode the scenic parkway. i was glad i went riding that instead of shopping! the sights were way too gorgeous. after that, we went to cherokee and i went to a casino for the first time. cherokee is no las vegas nevada by any means, but a casino is a casino. haha. it was…interesting, to say the least. there were lots of little old ladies toting their cash, a drink, cigarettes, and their oxygen tank from slot machine to slot machine…no kidding. i could certainly see how this stuff is addictive, though. i ended up blowing $15. i accumulated $13 or so from slots but spent it again on slot machines! ahh. anyway, it was still fun.

by the time monday morning rolled around, i was ready to head back to civilization. no, seriously…our cabin was gorgeous and huge and amazing and secluded right in the seat of the mountains, but that sort of seclusion from civilization creeps me out to an extent. besides, i was ready to get back to my apartment to see carli (who gets her stitches out tomorrow). i have a LOT of school work to do (i did some mild textbook reading during our vacation, but nothing that amounted to anything of real importance, unfortunately). this weekend is macon weekend…i think i’m going to skip out on visiting atlanta this time around and use my free time to work on school stuff. i’m doing pretty well so far; i just don’t want to fall drastically behind. speaking of, while beka cheers on the phillies, i’m going to spend a good 15 minutes looking over a case study.

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most people look forward to the weekend, but i’m dreading this one. it’s time to head back to macon for another round of my MLIS 7000 class, and i’m not exactly looking forward to it. who really looks forward to class on their weekend, anyway? i’m making the trip up there alone, so it’s going to kind of suck during the downtime between classes. i guess i could just walk around the mall or something since macon state’s down the road from it, anyway. i would think that aimlessly wandering a mall looking at everything from ipods to equestrian clothing would be more entertaining than staying holed up inside a hotel room, right?

sunday is group presentation day, and i’m dreading that most of all. i’m hoping our group gets to present sometime in the middle of the class session so i’ll be able to stay awake. i hate group presentations in college. bo-ring!

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i’m really sick of everybody bitching about their stupid boyfriends. if he really gives you that much to bitch about, go find a better one.

wow, wax just messaged me on msn. you guys remember him, pepijn’s old roommate? haha. i miss him. “rubbish bins.” i used to think he was so hot.

i have begun to think i am becoming a bum. i do my school work and so far, i’m doing pretty well (all A’s), but i don’t feel like i’ve really put a lot of effort into it at all. i have a feeling everything’s going to creep up on me and kick me in the ass all at once. like, today, all i’ve done is sleep. i got up for a little while to work on a project and i went back to sleep. i need to be reading a lot of stuff. part of me wonders if taking 3 grad school courses at one time was even a good idea, but i know i just need to push myself. i want this degree completed in 2 years. i’m so sick of being in school, working TOWARD a career. i’m ready to HAVE the career. unfortunately, it seems i’m too lazy to make it really happen…as of late, at least.

…20 minutes after writing the above, i just read through a classmate’s submitted assignment and i’m feeling a little bit better about myself. =P don’t tell anyone i said that.

i wish it would rain. i don’t want fay-style rain again, but it would be nice to have a thundershower or 5.

in other news, you should listen to duffy. she is really good.

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the one downside to online classes is the inevitable: group project time. how in the world am i supposed to successfully complete a group project when my group members all live near atlanta? well, we’ve been assigned a certain website with library job openings, and we have to analyze a month’s worth of job descriptions and listings and present them to the class [yawn, i know]. i felt like i haven’t contributed much to my group because i’ve been putting more of my energy into my other classes and my job (which, as of this week, will put me around 30 hours). i offered to hunt down a library journal article to support our findings, and i e-mailed a few articles to my group mates yesterday and have heard nothing back. this is nothing new, though…whenever i e-mail an idea or a question out, nobody ever responds to me, but they converse with one another. it’s pretty frustrating, to say the least. >=(

grad school is okay so far, but there is a LOT of reading required along with assignments and therefore a LOT of energy is needed to put into this stuff. it’s only the 4th week and i’m already irritable about class. there’s only one of the 3 that i really enjoy and make me feel i’m learning something new. i guess i was really hoping this would be more enjoyable, but i was wrong. school is school, class is class. it’s the same old routine but a lot more challenging.

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so i’m in macon in my hotel room. i’m up here this weekend for my MLIS 7000 class. most of my classes will be online except for this one and the capstone course i’ll take during my last semester. it’s not so bad. i’ve met some really nice people so far, and this one guy in my class looks like dwight schrute…no kidding. the program fed us pizza today and also hooked us up with some goodie bags. maybe they’re trying to make us feel more comfortable and happy so we can’t get away. lol. i don’t know.

anybody who knows me knows how much i love hurricane season. i am obsessed with it. so when tropical storm fay started heading to south georgia, i was SUPER excited…and then it came. and it was wet and windy and i had to work while it was going on and then i had to drive all the way to macon in this shitty weather. and suddenly, the fabulous fay wasn’t so fun anymore. i almost got in a wreck today driving up here. i was paying careful attention to my surroundings and speed due to the constant rain and heavy winds when a truck drove by, pulling a u-haul behind it. the trailer hit some sort of standing water, which in turn hit my windshield. it was already raining so hard, i could barely see, so that only added to the problem. there was nothing but a wall of water in front of me for only a few seconds, but it felt like a full minute; i could see nothing beyond it. scary stuff.

now for the important stuff. my hours at work increased by 10, so i’m gonna be working nearly 30 hours this semester. i’m pretty glad about that. i was starting to feel real lazy, especially now that my classes are online. this became an even bigger blessing upon learning yesterday that my dad was laid off. this came as a surprise to me, but my dad had been thinking it would happen for awhile since the company hasn’t been getting much work. our family’s going to be financially okay; we’ll just have to cut corners, get rid of some luxuries, and watch spending, of course. i’m going to see about taking out a loan to cover rent for the next 6 months or so along with my tuition. i canceled both my monthly weight watchers and WoW subscriptions…$55 saved. i stuck my credit card back in the freezer, and i’m going to look up information about MLIS scholarships soon since the deadlines for most of those are in march. we’re gonna be okay, it’s just a big change. i worry about my dad sitting around the house all day without something to do…he can’t stand to be bored. i really hope he can find work soon. i feel terrible for him, and i feel guilty for being such a huge financial burden on my family for so long. all i can do now, though, is just be much more mindful about spending and try to help my family out however i can.

man, i look like hell lately. i’m getting really fat again. not as fat as i was, but NOTICEABLY fatter nonetheless. it’s bad. my hair’s a constant frizz, and i’m breaking out like no one’s business. my straightener and pimple cream can’t even help me. i guess i’m just having an ugly week…eh, it happens. as for my weight, well, that’s just some stuff i need to get back to work on. well, less eating out means less bad food for me…so, yeah.

i guess that’s about all that’s going on lately. please keep my dad in your thoughts and prayers…i worry about him and his emotions during this rough time.

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the bug man woke me up at 8 this morning. except it wasn’t 8; it was actually 9.  blah.

i weighed in this morning and it turns out i gained 3 pounds last week. i made some pretty poor food choices while we were in fernandina this past weekend, so i know that’s the reason…but it sure tasted good at the time. well, actually, it didn’t really taste as good as it felt to not worry about making a good choice. i just picked the bad choice and that was that; i was going to eat my greasy food, thank you very much. speaking of food, my kitchen lacks milk, cheese, bread, cereal that’s not stale, and yogurt. have i gone to walmart to take care of this? no. why? because i am lazy and poor. i wish VSU would hurry up with that orlando refund check. we’re all waiting around for our $100 that we spent in orlando over a month ago now.

i got a letter from the grad school yesterday suggesting that i re-take the GRE because my scores were below the minimum. that is sad. i’ve taken 3 standardized tests in less than a year; i’m so over it. i think i’ll tell them to suck it and accept my fucking scores just because my credentials can kick their credentials’ asses.

i gave 6 baby fish away last night to melissa. her mean goldfish instantly took after one of the babies and nipped its hind fin, so melissa put the goldfish in another tank. i think the baby is probably dead by now. oh well. there’s plenty more baby fish to get rid of.

i got the latest issue of EGM today in the mail. i’m always signing up for free subscriptions to magazines i’ll never read. i like magazines, but i usually just flip through them half-assedly or use them as toilet reading material. the only ones i really enjoy are the ones that are more expensive and would never be offered as a free subscription, like TIME or people. i have free subscriptions to bridal guide (i know, right? i just like to look at the pretty dresses), marie claire, GFW, EGM, and spin. i subscribed to lucky for a year when my cousin was selling magazine subscriptions for his school. and honestly, i don’t really enjoy any of those magazines. i did, however, flip through the new EGM and noticed how all its non-gaming advertisements were targeted towards males. male razors, male cologne that will appeal to the ladies, blahblah. it’s kind of amusing how that works out. and oh, they said to expect animal crossing for the wii in japan this year. but i think that was a duh. when it comes out over here (if it even does), it’ll be like mario galaxy day all over again. speaking of, i never finished mario galaxy. maybe i should jump on that sometime soon. i really suck at video games.

this is a long babble. i wonder what i’ll do today? maybe i’ll go back to sleep for another hour or two just because i can. oooh.

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special thanks to ryan for e-mailing this to me. it’ll probably be the funniest thing i’ve read online all day. i want to say i’ve seen some of these pictures before, but the captions make it even better.

in other news, i have a 3:30 midterm and reading journals due for the same class all at the same time. have i studied? no. have i finished the journals? i have 2 left…2 pages each. so i’m going to try to read this crap at work and come home at 1 and type it all up really quick. then i’m going to study my tail off the best i can until 3pm. wish me luck…midterm’s 20%. this class is kicking my butt so far. =(

in other news, we’ve got an 80% chance of storms tomorrow. we’re gonna drown!

i am TOTALLY going to be stressing until everything is done and over with today. arrrrghhhh!!!

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monday - staff development wasn’t so bad. lots of free food. i announced that i was willing to be a full-time genealogy librarian if they’d wait 2 years for me to go to library school and then chuck laughed and told me if i get him the funding, he’ll hire me. so that made me feel kind of stupid in front of everybody. and then the day got real shitty.

tuesday - school was lame. i weighed in and lost 1 pound in the past week…so only 1 more to go till i hit -50 and 3 more to go until i hit my 20% mark (meaning i’ve lost 20% of my body fat). so exciting. =) dinner at david/greg/matt’s was delicious. we had ravioli, bread & oil (that stuff is an absolute hit), and a pineapple dessert. it was wonderful. and then the boys (matt, ryan, howard, and david) all started playing poker, and i went home. i was kind of tired, anyway.

wednesday - worked this morning and read an entire row of shelves…i was pretty proud of myself for that; reading shelves takes a lot of time and a real effort to do, especially when they’re juvenile nonfiction! i made an 80 on my book review for my conspiracy theories class, but i didn’t even read the whole book, so i guess that grade was to be expected, so whatever. went to yoga tonight and at the gym, i saw my maymester friend ashley, and she was shocked to see me because of how much weight i’ve lost (she hasn’t seen me since i was at 260 lbs in may, cramming my face with mcdonald’s every day). it made me feel really good. yoga was a lot of fun. i feel like i’ve had a real workout because my muscles are somewhat sore, but it was incredibly relaxing. there’s a lot of focus on breathing and meditation. for 45 minutes, i really felt like all the stress i’ve been going through had absolutely disappeared. and then i walked out of the quiet room into the loud gym. haha. =P the people at the rec center are such assholes now about having your ID. i mean, you couldn’t get through the entrance without an ID, anyway, so why do they need to double-check to make sure you have it? this one girl was totally rude about it, too. i came back to the apartment and finished watching the dvd tessie had rented for me, something to talk about, and ate some baked grouper and peas. i love grouper. i also saw the lunar eclipse tonight. it was an orange-ish color before i got cold and decided i’d seen all it was gonna do and i went inside. i took pictures, but they kind of suck. oh, and i found out today that doves are roosting in my hanging christmas cactus (it’s not a real cactus). mama says they’ll kill the plant, but i told her i wasn’t about to go kill some baby birds. so i’ve pretty much got a temporary pet bird who’s gonna have babies on my porch. neat, eh?

tomorrow, my group for my POLS 2200 class has to present a powerpoint on education, and i have to dress nicely for it. when have i ever dressed nicely for class? oh, well. i took business writing and american democracy (the 2200 class) just to cram in some extra hours so i could graduate and i end up having the most work in the 2 bullshit classes. i thought my business writing teacher liked me, but apparently, she grades ridiculously hard on assignments and marked all sorts of things on my memo wrong. i didn’t even know wtf i did half the time, and she refused to tell us what our mistakes were as we were revising them. so i just did the best i could at revising the damned thing and turned it in. i’m getting my oil changed in my car tomorrow at 2, as well, and hopefully they can find out what the hell is going on with my battery and all. so i probably won’t get to come home before work, which will suck because by the time 8pm rolls around, i will be simply starving.

friday, i’ll work all day long and then nicole will come over sometime. i keep saying i want to go out (i hate bars), but i think all i really want to do is dress nicely for no reason. i have this urge to wear this really cute navy blue dress i got from the GAP outlet a month ago along with my metallic gold heels. i have nobody to impress but myself, but hell, a little self-confidence never hurt anybody.  i wish we had a place around here where you could dance and not catch emphysema at the same time. blah bars, they all love smokers.

saturday, nicole has to coach a soccer game in moultrie, so i’ll probably stick around the house and work on schoolwork while she does that.

sunday, my grandma’s birthday dinner will finally take place (she got sick last weekend, so no chicken pot pie). so i have to go home for that. when i come back that night, jess and i are going to cram for our conspiracy theory midterm. and i have a feeling that on monday night, tessie and i will be cramming for that awful democracy midterm.

and there you have it, ladies and gents, my entire week, all planned out. wow, this ended up being a lot longer than i’d intended. bedtime.

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i love jade more than grandma’s chicken and broccoli casserole and the office. and that’s a whole fuckin’ lot, people.

ps: the GRE sucked. it was like the SAT with math i haven’t seen since 11th grade. let’s really hope grad school doesn’t mind. =/

pps: i really need new tags for my blog entries, because “life” is pretty damned common.

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i take the GRE tomorrow. i’m pretty damned nervous. there is math on there i haven’t seen since i was in 11th grade. this will be the 3rd standardized test i’ve taken within less than a year. argghhh. i’ve been pretty confident so far that my GRE scores won’t prevent me from getting into grad school, but now i’m really starting to worry. i just don’t want to be a failure at life…is that so much to ask? i think that’s my biggest fear in the world.

so happy singles awareness day, everyone. i spent my day in class and then at work…but thank god for my friends and family. daddy picked out a valentine and wrote a sweet note in it and i got it the other day in the mail. it made me teary-eyed. and then tonight, justin left a single pink rose on my car windshield while i was at work. those 2 actions both mean a lot to me right now.

i would study for the GRE, but i guess it’s pretty much useless by now. it’s a computer-based test. wow, right? that’s definitely going to be a new experience. i should be done by about 1pm or so tomorrow…let’s hope. i think you can go on to the next section as soon as you finish one of them. that’s pretty cool. but that’s my understanding, at least.

i’ll be going to douglas tomorrow afternoon and returning sunday night. although the library is closed on monday, we’re having a staff development day, so i have to go to that. um, woohoo. in other news, i somehow received 7 hours of comp time last month. i don’t know how that happened, but i sure as hell wasn’t going to ask. lol.

did you know that seahorses mate for life? they scorn other potentials once they’ve found their mate. awwl. i just learned that on pbs.

it would be really cool if you could get into grad school just by revealing a lot of useless trivia. i watch so many of these random nature shows, i know a lot of weird, random facts about animals, but i can’t really recall any of them right now. so i guess that defeats that purpose, huh.

i hope the school pays us soon our $105 soon for the mock trial trip. we were all alloted a certain amount of money for food and such while we were down there, but we had to pay out of pocket at the time only to be reimbursed later. i spent maybe $60 while i was in orlando…and i actually did it purposely so i could milk some extra cash out of the school. lol.

i have fallen in love with miss meringue cookies. 4 of them for 2 points…and they taste like great, big, lucky charms marshmallows. mmm.

baby seahorses are so cute. oh, wow. they’re nearly as cute as my baby fish…

maybe i should just go to bed. i go to bed relatively early lately. i guess that’s good. i have a 7:00 rise-and-shine time tomorrow.

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so a couple weeks ago, the bottom fell off my car. and then it wouldn’t start. and the battery tested fine, so we didn’t know wtf was going on. well, i was trying to leave brooke’s tonight and it wouldn’t start again. last time it wouldn’t turn over, it eventually did so after a few minutes, but this time, it wouldn’t give.

so brooke and i pull out the jumper cables and then don’t know wtf to do. when i have car troubles, my first instinct is to call my daddy. well, he’s more than likely asleep because he gets up at 5am. so i know i need to call a male friend. i call ryan h. no answer. i call stu. no answer. i call greg. alas!

so greg coaches me through the cable connection process. i know it’s really not hard to do, i just really wanted to make sure i was doing it right because i’m sorry, i really don’t feel like dying from electrical shock or anything. and my car got started and it was freezing cold and i was just really glad to drive it home.

brooke and i went to several different places tonight. i had to run a couple errands for mama at petsmart and publix, so i did that. we went to old navy and didn’t find jack. we went to tj maxx and didn’t find jack. but then we went to target, and the fun began. i found the greatest pair of silver sparkly converse slip-ons. i was so excited. ohmygod, i look over at them right now and i get giddy inside. lol. it was my valentine’s day present to myself. then we went to kohl’s and guess what i found for $10? a DUNDER MIFFLIN t-shirt! ahhh! i was so excited. so i totally know what i’m wearing tomorrow. =D

then brooke came back here and i cooked some stir-fry and it was delicious. and i should probably wash some more clothes. it seems like laundry never ends.

i got a valentine from my grandma in the mail yesterday, and i got one today in the mail from my parents. my daddy picked out the valentine, i later found out, and he wrote a really sweet message inside. it’s probably the best valentine i’ve ever gotten. it made me tear up.

it’s super cold tonight, so i’m about to bring my plants in. everybody cross your fingers that my car will start tomorrow morning…argh.

how funny that 15 hours ago, i was lamenting how i had nothing to talk about, and now i have so much to say. lol. oh, what a difference a day makes. =)

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…but now i’m really glad i’m here. i’m having the best time with my mock trial team. nobody really has any problems with anyone, so we’re all pretty much friends here. tonight, everyone got drunk at the hotel bar and then carried it over to applebees’ 2-for-1 deals on drinks. i, however, am proud to announce that i stayed 100% alcohol-free.

we have an 8:30 time to be in the lobby tomorrow. tomorrow consists of like, 9 to 6 with only 2 rounds…4 hours of real, actual work. so that’s 5 hours in between of downtime. one of those hours is for lunch. so 4 hours, then, to do whatever. i’ve decided to bring along my laptop so i can work on my book review for my conspiracy theory class during that free time.

jess found out tonight that one of our teammates is gay. good for him.

i’m glad jess is my roommate. <3 our hotel’s really nice, too. this is already turning out to be a great trip. =)

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i’m never as excited for weigh in when i know i’ve gained. blah.

today has been interesting. i paid $28 for a haircut today that doesn’t even look that different. oh, trust me, i was NOT happy about paying that much. moral of the story: don’t take your friend’s word on pricing, no matter how many times she’s visited the salon…ask the people before they cut your damned hair. it really hurt my feelings to pay nearly $30 for a stupid haircut.

around 12:30, i was in the mall, talking to beka at work when she got a text from andrew saying that cops had surrounded the fine arts building on campus and were making everyone lock their doors. they were sending all students who were running late for class to an area downstairs in the building. and we were like…wtf?! so text message swarms continued until jade finally found out that some theatre major was running around the place with a stage prop gun. genius. i think jade said it best:

An idiotic theatre major was running around the building with a prop gun. Someone called the cops. The cops were there looking for him [...] I’m thinking whoever called the cops did a fairly stupid thing here….Now, don’t get me wrong, I know these are crazy times and it’s better safe than sorry, but you’re in the theatre building and no one else is freaking out over this kid, so why doesn’t your common sense kick in a little?

’tis true, my dear.

i want to know why campus alerts took so long to tell us all about it. the incident occurred at 12:30, and around 3:30, they posted notice of it all. i know the situation wasn’t serious, but you’d think they would’ve alerted people as the incident was occurring instead of keeping us all worrying. jeez.

i bet both the dumb theatre major and the caller feel pretty stupid right now, but i hope the theatre major kid feels worse. although we can argue now that the caller overreacted, i guess it’s better to be safe than sorry, especially with the crazy shit that goes on nowadays.

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well, it’s been interesting, to say the least. this morning at work, i found a paper in a book from one of those office notepads from target’s dollar aisle. i ripped dwight out and stuck it to my computer. i want to see how long he’ll stay there before someone throws him away. i’m considering posting little dwights all around the building in random spots just to see who finds it amusing. how sad that i’ll probably be the only one amused.

i was on my way to class this afternoon when from out of nowhere, my car started sounding like it was dragging a large stick or something, so i pulled over and didn’t see anything under it. i drove a little longer and finally pulled over into the rite aid parking lot and found that the plastic thingy under my car that covers its insides (i have NO idea what it’s called) was halfway off. great, just great.

i didn’t hit a bump or anything for it to come off, so i was just mad. i called jess to see if she could pick me up for class; i was just going to worry about my car later. she showed up with matt and greg in tow, who in turn fixed my car with duct tape. yep. =D

we ended up skipping class because we were going to be overly late. jess, david, and i all went to the mall for a bit and then went to mock trial…and guess what? i’m not an attorney for mock trial anymore! yay! i’m an alternate attorney, which means i fill in for someone if they get sick. other than that, i get to help jess out in the next couple weeks in her role as the starring witness, dawn francis. orlando is going to be fun now.

after class, jess and i got back into my car and guess what? the engine wouldn’t turn over. in my panic, i called thomas, who had planned to head on to the school to jump me off. but then after a few tries, my car started, and i took it to the walmart service center to make sure my battery was okay…and it was. weird, huh? it’s good news, but it’s strange how it wouldn’t start. i also got the guys to fix the big duct taped plastic thing…they stuck some plastic ties in there along with the duct tape, so i think i’m good to go. lol.

thomas is over here, playing disgaea. i got it for him for his birthday; he’d been wanting it for awhile and just didn’t buy it. he really seems to like it, so i’m glad to know my present was a success.

tomorrow is weigh in. i was sooo bad on saturday night with all that pizza and alcohol. gah. wish me luck. even a gain of .2 will be somewhat of a success, considering how bad i was.

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and here it is, as briefly as possible.

i’m getting fat again (i gained 4 pounds last week. how is that possible?!) so i’ve sought to stop that this week. i weigh in tonight…wish me luck.

school is school. it’s not unbearable…yet. i’m actually not procrastinating this semester (so far)…wow! proud of me? hell, I’M proud of me. i actually feel smart in 2 of my classes…but they’re the bullshit classes, so go figure. =P mock trial is the internship i’m taking, and we go to competition in orlando in like, 4 weeks. shit, i’m nervous. i don’t want to let anyone down. but the good thing is, after we compete, we’re done. that’s one less class for me…woot.

i only close one night during the week now. it’s awesome. i like my new work schedule.

i bought a thermos last night and attempted to drink directly from it today. i ended up spilling hot coffee all over myself. i had to go home and change…luckily, i wasn’t far from my apartment. i’m just glad it didn’t happen in class. my car smells like coffee now.

i’m still listening to sweeney todd nonstop.

i think my mom misses me. she keeps asking if i’m going to come home for a weekend, and i’ve been home at least one day out of every weekend for the past month or so now. i just think she wants me to stay for more than one day, though. i really love seeing my family, but the drive sure does suck.

oh, and probably the biggest announcement of all…i applied to library school. i’m not going to law school anymore. i just don’t want to deal with all that legal shit for the next 40 years of my life. it’s just not my thing anymore.

other than all that…i have a shitload (meaning 15+) of baby fish to give away. who wants some?!

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1. my conspiracy class is going to be lots of fun, i can already tell. i already love the teacher because he’s so animated and fun.
2. mock trial is going to be stressful for the next month…we only have until feb. 8 until we go to competition…that’s 2 weeks sooner than anticipated! the good thing is that because this is an internship, as soon as feb. 11 rolls around, i’m done with this class completely.
3. the iraq class will be interesting, i think. i’m sure it’ll have its dull moments, but it should be pretty interesting and informative.
4. my business writing class is going to suck. i don’t think it’ll be hard, but it’ll be a pain in the ass, i can already tell.
5. my democracy in america class should be an absolute breeze if i can just remember to do my homework every week (it’s on webct, something i don’t always remember to check).

i bought this poster today at the bookstore. i love it. where to put it? hmm.