New Entry! Get excited.

There was something exciting I was going to write about, but now I can't remember it.... Basically not a whole lot has happened around here. I've just been very very busy with school, work and training for the mini.

School is ok. Next Wednesday I have three midterms. I personally think that is unfair, but whatev. I signed up for the classes. And I have a HUGE project due Thursday.

Work is the same old, same old. Just filing financial aid things and I've scouted out all the candy hot spots in the administration building: jolly ranchers and pretzel nuggets in the student payroll office; tootsie rolls and jelly beans in the bursars office; jelly beans or something at the end of the hall. Fortunately for me, my office doesn't have any candy. They probably wouldn't pay me if there was candy.

Running has been going pretty swell. I found out we might be able to run in Chicago which made me soooo happy. There are at least 5 of us that love to run that are going. Don't worry, we'll be a pretty safe neighborhood- Barack Obama lives around there. On the sad side of things, the two days it was really nice here, I was stuck inside. Today was b-e-a-utiful, but I between work, ecology lab, chemistry lab (that took 3 hours again!!), and leadership class, I probably got a whopping forty-five minutes in the sunshine. boo hoo.

Anyway, I gotta work and I gotta shut the window. Peace out.

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This week has been one big sigh. Not a sigh of contentment or a sigh of apathy. More like a sigh of frustration. Things are just not going well at all. Today especially. I had a meeting with one of the leaders for the Chicago team and I was just to tired to contribute much. He probably thinks that I am a very pessimistic person who can't get along with anyone... oh boy. Then I didn't do my ecology lab because I was too afraid to survey 20 people. So in lab today I didn't participate therefore making me feel like a failure. And chem lab today took 3 hours again and it was so frustrating because I couldn't understand any of the math in it. I have no reasoning skills at all. Then I just made a bunch of stupid mistakes on my chem homework...why meeeeeee??????

In better news, I got a B on my ecology exam I had yesterday. Tomorrow is Friday. Kendra might be coming down?? Laura and I are going to hang out this weekend. And I will find a sledding hill this weekend- even if I go by myself.

And this morning I read 1 Chronicles 20 and it is just an incredible story of not being discouraged and trusting God to fight our battles instead- which obviously I have been struggling with. The end of verse 12 was my favorite. It says, "We do not know what to do, but our eyes are upon you."

something broke, my elastic snapped
i’m splitting from the rigging of my ribs
nice shirt, nice eyes, they match perfectly
but nothing should be perfect today

a warm safe place today wont fix a thing
i huffed and puffed and blew the whole place down
i’m underneath this temporary disease
there is no patron saint of days like these

i’m kicking up the dirt, baby if i burst bury me and write my epitaph if this is it




in other news I've had a falling out with technology. My camera is jammed. and last night i accidentally dropped a book on my keyboard, so my s and e are all screwed up. ugh. So sorry parents.

I don't know about this semester. I'm trying really hard to be positive about it all, but it's going to be tough. Especially when everyone expects me to have a bleak outlook on life anyway.

We're going to Olive Garden tonight. So that should be pretty good. Jorjette said she'd pay for me because she wants to go so bad and I don't have any money. I wasn't going to argue with her about it.

I wish things were more exciting around here...

Blog time! aka: not study time

Let's see what has happened recently:
Last Saturday and Sunday some girls and I went to visit our friend, Suzanne, who is home for j-term (and sadly, spring semester too). But it was sweet to see her. We went and saw Juno- funny, put quite immoral. I got scolded for giving it a B- because apparently I don't have a soul. Well, I may not, but I just can't give a movie that is clearly about premarital sex anything more than that. Anyway, it has some good quotes in it. Then we went to church with Suzanne. Her interim pastor is Jerry Seinfield's Uncle Leo meets Kermit the Frog. Hilarious! We also boot skated on her pond and Kelsey and I had a near death experience. But we made it off the pond safely. It just took us a while to get our stomachs out of our throats. lol.

Sunday night Suzanne went with some other of us down to Indy for the night and MLK jr. day. We went to the Indy zoo- which was cold but still sweet. They have dolphins, and shark petting. Not much else beats that. Then we went to the Indy Children's Museum. I have never seen so many kids in my life. It was sooooooo crowded. Most of the museum was boring, but there was a pretty spectacular dinosaur exhibit. One of the dinosaurs there, the Dracorex Hogwartsia (yes, named after Hogwarts *puke*) was on the cover of one of my National Geographics mag, so that was neat.

The rest of this week has been ok. Just waiting around for this next weekend- Mandal and I are going to DC to visit Meaghan!! yessssss!- and for J-term to be done. Although, I really love the classes I am in. Well, volleyball anyway. Historic Christian Belief would be 100% more interesting if it wasn't at 8 in the morning and for two hours. ugh.

Oh yeah! Monday night another pipe burst! This time in center (last time was west). It's slowly making it's way down to my end. Hopefully it won't get here though. Maybe they'll actually look at all the other pipes this time.

I had an interview today for a job in the financial aids office. I think it went ok, but we'll see. If it doesn't work out, hopefully I can find somewhere else to work on campus. I also went to a basketball game and we lost by an excruciating 39 points!! How depressing. I mean, we had no handle on the ball, it was sick.

I also have tuberculosis right now. just kidding, but I am getting sick. Hurrah. Me thinks I just need sleep. So, since it is 10:13, maybe I will go to bed.... or maybe not.

by attack I meant attic. I'm dumb.