Sick of Staring at Code
This programming stuff is kicking my tail. I lose. The end. I swear what I am telling the computer to do makes perfect sense to me.
Well, it’s official, KT and I are heading south for spring break! We are heading to Florida and will be hitting the Gulf Coast as well as the Atlantic Coast. The trip is 14 hours long and we are driving a stick. And…since KT doesn’t want to drive the whole way, I am supposed to drive this car as well. Hypothetically. Should be interesting. Anyways, we’ll be staying at KT’s grandma’s house and hitting the beaches as often as possible. 
Mmm. I miss the sun.
I don’t like time changes. This daylight savings time crap puts me in a bad mood. I just lost an HOUR of my LIFE. Urg.
Ooo, my roomies and I may have found a house we like. I just don’t want to get an apartment; I hate them so. You can hear everything your neighbors do/say/eat/flush, etc. So I am in favor of a house. We looked at a big duplex (sweet and cheap but really old and slightly scary) and a tiny house (cute and well kept but a tad expensive). We’ve seen several other places, but those two are pretty much the only ones I like. My roomies will be going to see the little house on Wednesday and soon we will make a decision. Aah! It’s so fun…I like the independence having our own place will give us.
I am going to be an aunt cubed!!!
Spring Quarter news
Funny story. I decided to move my lazy butt and go running after doing jack-squat over break. That part is the good decision. I took the Heritage Trail that runs behind Rose; and I came across a mutt who followed me down the trail! He was so cute. My little running buddy.
So, the bad decision came when I reached the Heritage Apartments and decided to take roads back to Rose instead of the trail. First of all, the only road that went the right direction didn’t have a sidewalk, so I chose to run down a gravel road that led to a scary plant in the middle of nowhere. Freaked out, I jogged on by and ran down some railroad tracks (in hindsight, perhaps not the best decision either). Sadly, they ended and I took off through the woods. My inner girl scout here abandoned me and I kind of wandered until I found a railroad bridge that led to a road (scary bridge, the Fox and the Hound kind but smaller). I ran down the road and started knocking on doors to ask for directions back to Rose, but no one NO ONE was home. Finally, tired of all that, I backtracked the whole way I had come. Picked up my dog escort again as well. And saw a coyote.
Anywho, long story short, I ran for 1.5-2 hours instead of 1 and really thought I had missed my classes until I got back and realized I just barely had time to get ready and go anyways. Snap. I thought it would have been fun to try and explain that I missed class because I got lost running around Terre Haute.
Hey I Made It -
I’m the world’s greatest!
Finals are DONE. I have none left. I shall not take any more.
I got an A in Nutrition!!!!!! I left my last test in that class on Friday in a REALLY bad mood, I thought I did terrible…and it turns out I didn’t. That’s a pleasant surprise that doesn’t happen very often here.
Alright, gotta run around and bribe financial aid…my break has OFFICIALLY started.
I tooootally almost forgot; Dani and I were driving back from looking at an apartment and there was a little red car by the side of the road. It caught my attention because I thought it was Skul’s and I didn’t know if he needed help or not. So we were slowing down and we saw a guy get out of the car and lean with his back against the side of the car. At that point I knew it wasn’t Skul’s car, so I started to speed up again. Then, just as we were about to pass him, the guy projectile vomited all over the place. Wow. That was quite a sight. Dani was so disgusted, but I couldn’t stop laughing. It was like the movies when they overexaggerate the whole thing. Amazing. K, there’s my gross story for the day.
Finals Start Tomorrow!
T: Mech Meas presentation at 2:30ish
W: DFM at 8, Horror Lit due by 12
Then I am done, son! No more winter quarter for Err after 12 on Wednesday.
I have a copy of the HL movie I will be bringing home; you all can watch after I leave. Yeah, it’s that good.
My roomies and I are looking for apartments/houses. We have a really good option open for us that we will be looking into tomorrow; today we looked at three places, none of which will probably work for us, and we have another appointment set up for Thursday. It’s really kind of fun. I’ll let you guys know when we find something.
Blood Drive
I did it! No passing out or anything. So proud of myself! I better have saved a life too, dang it. I asked the lady if I could keep the blood for our horror movie we were shooting later that day; she laughed, but I didn’t get the bag. It was still gross; the bag bloated with my own blood…ugh. It reminded me of an obscenely large mosquito. They take a lot. A lot more than I was expecting. But it’s all over, and in a week I can find out my blood type. And cholesterol level.
I’ve been practicing with the basketball girls when Coach Prevo has the boys practice team come in. It’s fun; but I’m leaning towards not playing next year. There is a large time commitment, and I would be doing it my senior year. Not sure if I could take that, starting all over that late into my college career.
Volleyball starts in about a month and a half! We had our first meeting, and soon will have another one to vote on captains.
I am frrrrozen right now. It’s hard to type. I got back from filming about 15 minutes ago, which means we were outside about an hour and 45 minutes; and it’s coooold! But I shot my dying scene and I think we’re all done! Wooohooooo….
See you guys in a week and a half!
Edit:
Look it’s my stunt double!
snowing!!
It almost feels like Christmas now! Good thing we still have our lights up…
So even Michigan would have to admit that Terre Haute has had its first official snow now. It’s so gorgeous! Finally, something to cover up the dead trees! One pipe down by the SRC has a huge frozen waterfall coming out of it. Pretty amazing! Walking to class didn’t feel half as cold with snowflakes falling all around you. I love the muffled feeling I get when it snows. It’s comforting and makes you feel warmer even though it’s only 14 degrees outside. Everything’s quieter and cleaner and brighter. Yay snow!
So, next year we might possibly live off campus; I’m excited! I wouldn’t mind if we didn’t, but it would be so fun if we did! We’ve been crunching numbers and so far it seems like living off campus is the way to go. There’s a shocker, Rose is cheating us out of $$.
Haha, I got a paper (well, several) back from Minster for my Horror Lit class, and his comments made me laugh out loud. I love that man. Here’s one of his comments: “Oddly mixed metaphor. I have the mental image of someone stalking a glass jar of allspice.” Apparently he didn’t like the wording of my sentence. But I guess he liked the rest; that’s the first A I’ve landed in that class. Oh, and he used the word “panache”. He’s my favorite. He’s the only guy I know that likes words enough to call a paragraph “tight”. Hehehe.
I’m going to attempt to get work done before my day decides to get long; that’s what happens when evening hits. All meetings and practices tend to start about then. Later taters!
yay it’s monday
After this week, we’ll be done shooting our movie for Horror Lit; I’ll let y’all know if I will get a copy of said movie or not. Hopefully not. It’s going to be highly amusing to watch, but I’d rather not have the evidence of my humiliation in a form that could be copied and distributed. For those of you that didn’t know, I’m part of a group of 7 making a film for my lit class; it’s a horror film, or it’s supposed to be. So I get to scream, run, cry, etc. Oh boy. Why do I do these things to myself? Actually, the hardest scenes to shoot were the ones where I just have to sit and talk to somebody. I’d rather run around; no surprise there.
In other news…I’m not overloading next quarter. That was decided for me today after getting my spring quarter bill. Mmm, I love this school.
Em, are you going to need that stats book? Let me know.
I GOT IN
The Intro to Aero class added another section, so I get to take it next quarter!!!!!!! Dr. Purdy is a sexy sexy man. He’s the department head, and all of us that couldn’t get into the class at registration time have been talking to him; and I see him all the time down in the gym when we are working out, and he kept saying he was coming up with a solution. And now I’m in!!!!
The down side is now I am theoretically taking 22 credit hours. I have the option of dropping a class, but I’m not sure I want to at this point. If I take the load I have, I’ll finish my lit minor and have 2 out of 5 of my classes required for the aero concentration completed as well. But I might die. So I think I’ll wait until classes start and see if it is going to be absolutely overwhelming or not.
Everything’s going fairly well right now. I got to see a play yesterday at Hatfield (The Importance of Being Earnest), I am still doing choir, volleyball spring season starts soon, I am shooting a movie for a class, and I’m swamped with projects right now. I’m busy but happy, and that’s how I like it. Miss you guys back home…come visit anytime! Warn me in advance though, the apartment’s kinda a mess. I know you’re all shocked. Ok, got to get on some stuff; later!
I Can’t Believe I’m Doing This
Not gonna make anyone else do this, so I’m not really going to explain the rules. Jori tagged me and I love her so…you all get to see 6 weird things about me. No strings attached. Enjoy.
1) I have a thing about hand towels. The ones people hang by the sink. I never use them; not hygienic at all! People wipe their mouths on those things and do heaven knows what else with them…gross! If there isn’t another alternative, I will air dry my hands, just flap them around for a few minutes until they are dry.
2) I hate when I can feel my own heartbeat. It makes me woozy.
3) I do things in even numbers unless it’s a multiple of 5. And I always start walking with my right foot.
4) I have to sleep with something against my stomach.
5) I torture myself by “facing my fears”. Since I’m scared of heights, I climb as high as I can get, especially if the floor is see-through (grates, for example), and scare myself silly. Or, since I have a weird fear of water (namely, things IN water like fishies), I go as deep as I can stand into the lake until I just can’t take it anymore.
6) Caffeine and Claritin-D knock me for a loop. After a frappucino one evening, for example, I pulled an all-nighter because I couldn’t sleep. I got a lot done, though; finished homework, shaved my legs, and cleaned the room. Oh, and the medicine makes my heart pound…see #
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Ok, that’s enough about me. I hope you appreciate me, Jori!!!