Life is good, the grass is green.

I hate studying.
I seriously have spent all day doing just about anything to avoid doing it. It's going to catch up with me tonight when I probably pull another all-nighter for my 2 exams tomorrow. I just can't bring myself to do it. I called my mom three times today. Three times. On the third call, she started to pick up on the fact that I was just calling to do something other than study. I did actually have stuff to tell her, but honestly, it really did just delay the studying.

I love the 'nets.
I love our parties and all of our pictures (oh my god, so many emails from facebook today, holy crap). We are just the cutest section, and I don't know, it makes me happy.

I love everyone so much I'm choosing to take a 20 hour bus ride instead of getting a free flight down to Ft. Lauderdale just so I can spend more time with everyone. I think it's worth it. It's my last trip, I want to make it as long as possible. I know I'm going to cry (win or lose, there will be tears, I'm sure). I've surprised myself with how emotional I've been over everything. Granted I cry during every movie I watch, but at the beginning of the semester I was just ready to get out of here. I mean, I still am to a certain degree, but it's gotten to the point where little things make me choke up a little bit, and I appreciate things more, and I tear-up unexpectedly. I started to tear-up when I was looking at the hotel we'll be staying at in Savannah! (pathetic, I know) But seriously, how lucky are we? We get this free trip, plus our hotels are always pretty nice, we get to spend time with amazing people, good football hopefully, they help us pay for our food... what's there really to complain about? Nothing. I think I'm just on an end-of-the-semester emotional wave or something, but yeah. We're lucky. I know I'm certainly lucky.

I just need a little love.

I am not an alcoholic.

Slow dancing in a burning room.

This week is going to suck. I have some major cleaning to do before my family comes, too, which is really not going to be fun... ugh. It majorly sucks that BPD and MV Alumni Day are the same game. I mean, I can hang out with Rose and Kay and everybody later, but I obviously have to go out to eat with my parents and grandparents Friday and Saturday, and it's just bad timing. Whipple will finally be back together, and I just hope we can go out or do something to enjoy it.

But Liz's birthday is tomorrow. I'm excited! I probably shouldn't go out, but whatever. With the basketball game tonight, that tomorrow night, Thanksgiving Wednesday... I don't have a lot of time to do my work. It's looking like I will be getting very little sleep this week...
But yeah, all the juniors are starting to turn 21 (man, they're old! I'm only 2 months older than Liz, haha), so now I have an excuse to go dt.

So instead of writing anymore of this, I think I'm going to attempt to get something accomplished...

Soon I'll grow up, and I won't even flinch at your name.

You know, I really hate the work that comes with being an electrical engineer. Knowing what I know now, and seeing how much I like my major (or dislike it, really....), I don't think I'd be an electrical engineer. I'm not sure what I'd be. I feel like there's something bigger and better out there that I should be doing. Granted, I really am excited to be working in the nuclear industry, and I know that's going to help out - you know, the whole clean energy thing, but I'm not going to go into that whole spiel now. I don't know... sometimes I feel like I listened to my parents too much. I know I was good at math, and I do like math, but did that really mean I had to go into a math-based major? I don't really know what else I would have done, but still. I just don't know. But seriously, my dad had cateract surgery a year ago, and his one eye got really blood shot and he was having problems seeing. It turns out his retina became detached (a common side effect from the surgery, I guess). So they numbed his eye, stuck a needle in the back of it, and inserted high pressure air bubbles. They'll gradually raise to the surface and push the retina back into place. Well, that's the plan, and if it works he won't have to have surgery. There's about an 80-90% chance that he won't have to have to surgery. But I just think that is the coolest thing! The fact that we can do that amazes me. I love watching surgeries. Sometimes I feel that I should have been a doctor. I love giving blood just to watch the needle go in me and watch the blood come out! All that stuff is just so interesting to me. But yeah... here I am complaining about work and school, and then I say I should've been a doctor...

But the one thing I enjoy about being an EE is telling people I'm an EE. I just enjoy the reactions I get. I don't know if it's the fact that I'm female or what. People will be like, "Nice!,"or "Wow, that must suck!," or the very nice, "Oh really?" I mean, what do people (really just guys, I guess) expect me to say when they ask me what my major is? I should say something like Fashion Design next time.



Side note:
I am refusing to take the trash out in the kitchen to see how long it sits there. I think I've taken it out everytime because I just can't stand the smell. So now everytime I walk by, I just spray it with Lysol. At this point I don't know if you can cram anything else in there, so I feel someone will take it out. I think Kelsey would take it out, but you know... I really don't know about the other two. And it really pisses me off. Not to mention that Liz goes and talks about how Natalie isn't taking their trash out in the bathroom. Well, excuse me, but you don't take the trash out in the kitchen! Whatever. I'm done. I'm sick of doing twice the work.

Halloweeeen!

So it looks as if I'm on the trend of updating about once a month. Since October is almost over, I think I better update!
Halloween is this weekend! I'm super excited! I carved a pumpkin even!

Yeah, I'm probably like 10 years old, but whatever. The only time I haven't carved a pumpkin was freshman year in the dorm. hehe, so yay, Go Packers!

We went to a haunted house this past weekend, and that was just hilarious. You need to look up Lauren Rossi's videos on vimeo. Too funny... =)

For those of you who don't know, I'm being a construction worker for Halloween... I have the hard hat thanks to Brandon and the tool belt from Jaime. My shorts are a little too short (but I hate shorts, so anything shorter than jeans is too short), and my shirt is a little too tight, but I guess that's what Halloween for girls is usually about. Which I hate... but whatever. I was told I should put condoms in my tool belt, so I might follow through with that, haha. I love Halloween. I love walking around all weekend just seeing people randomly dressed up. I think I would like to be a cop this weekend. Come back to the station, "What did you pull over tonight?" "Oh, I got a lobster, a pirate, and a skanky nurse, what about you?" hahaha.

But really, I don't update because my life is the same week to week. I found out today that I can get by with getting a D- in a few of my classes since they're not prerequisites for anything. hahaha. Seriously, why would anyone tell me that? I have no motivation as it is, and it seriously just aaaaall went away.

Honey, why don't we get drunk and screw.

This semester has been categorized into fails and epics.

fails:
- I miss my friends in band.
- I have creepos in my classes... and they stalk... and text me... and just creep.
- Our football team is not that great, and I worry about the band even being able to go to a bowl game.
- I have no motivation to do any work.
- I did not even go to Expo today.
- I have some sort of rash, that I thought was poison ivy (it looks like all the other poison ivy I had, but the guy at Schiffert told me it was not). Either way, my body can never get rid of stuff like that, so I am on steroids yet again, to try to get rid of it. Being in a hot, sweaty, VERY DIRTY band uniform again this weekend will not help.
- I'm stuck on something I probably shouldn't be.

epics:
+ I am 21.
+ I can now go bar-hopping!
+ I have amazing friends.
+ I have amazing friends, who did not let me die on my 21st. I know my mother appreciates this.
+ I found out at Schiffert today that I lost about 10 pounds over the summer! (I should really start weighing myself more often...)
+ I'm on the fence for football games.
+ I've met new people in my classes.
+ We have a bunny and fish in our apartment!
+ I have watched lots of football, which is about the only thing getting me through this semester... that and booze.
+ I got my ear pierced! yay!

I'm sure there's more. All I know is that I need to get some work done tonight, so I can go to karaoke night at TOTS. haha, I need to continue the trend of drinking every night for... I don't know, the past week? People keep telling me it's not alcoholism until you get out of college...

Love taught me to cry.

So my schedule is set. I have two classes MWF: 12:20-1:10, 1:25-2:15. Tuesday I have 3 classes: 9:30-10:45, 11:00-12:15, 12:30-1:45. And Thursdays I have the same 3 classes, but a 3-hour lab starting at 2:00, so pretty much Thursdays are going to SUCK. But I have my nuclear class with Meagan, so I'm excited about that! And my other classes I've met some cool people. haha, I dropped Controls so unfortunately I won't be having class with the nice, exchange student from England. I met a guy from Ghana in my Weather of Space class, though. And a guy in one of my classes asked me how I felt about Favre, so apparently he remembered about me wearing my Favre jersey! I'll be wearing it Monday, since we play the Vikings that night (hopefully that'll go well...).

I kind of don't feel like I fit in anywhere... like no one wants me around, I guess. I'm never invited to do anything, which I guess is fine, because I don't mind being alone... but it sucks being my senior year and all. I ate at West End alone tonight. I was so crabby, too, because there were so many people and no seats. I felt like such an old person. I decided to eat there so I could people watch (hahaha, I love doing that...), but there were NO SEATS! So I had to sit at the computers, and I was facing the walls!! So really it was pointless! I was annoyed. Luckily on the way home I decided to go the Main Street way, and I got to watch the Rugby team run in the rain.


"I just wanna be liked.
I just wanna be funny.
Looks like the joke's on me,
So call me captain backfire."

But I'm going on, and I'm prepared to go it alone.

I can't wait for football. It's not even funny. The MVs played at the scrimmage on Friday, and being able to stand on the fence (since I'm a senior and I can finally do that now!) I wanted to pee myself I was so excited. And it was just a scrimmage. I can't wait for a real game! And then once the real NFL games start... it'll be amazing if I get any work done this year. Not to mention MY BIRTHDAY'S COMING UP. Anyone and everyone's invited to come with me. It's a CELEBRATION! Ah, can't wait! (p.s. if you really want to get me something for my birthday... i want an olympian. Not Michael Phelps, because his ears are too darn big, and his teeth are weird... but a Ryan Lochte/Aaron Piersol/or one of those hunky divers... yep, that's what I want. k, thanks. hehe)

Tomorrow's my last first day of classes. I'm pretty psyched about it. Not about the classes part, but about it being my last first day. I'm so done with classes. I just wish I could skip the whole class thing and just live here and do band. That would so be the life. I have class in that storage building... I'm kind of excited about it. My classes are usually in Randolph, and maybe a random one will be somewhere else... but this will be different and exciting!

We party hard.

So the summer is over. I pretty much sucked at blogging. In the end, my summer wasn't all that exciting. I did go out to the South Side a lot... got into bars, snuck some drinks (25 more days until I finally turn 21!!!), went to a pretty awesome Gnarls Barkley, Spoon, Roots, Raconteurs, and Bob Dylan concert one weekend, went to a couple Pirates games, but other than that, it was kind of all the same week after week.

My big news, though: I GOT A JOB OFFER FROM WESTINGHOUSE! I'm so excited. I haven't officially accepted it or anything, because I want to keep my options open for other things, but I think I'll most likely take it. All I need to do is graduate.

I'm really ready for band to start. It'll be nice to get back to that again, and I'm SUPER excited for football. Although, we've got a low ranking for us this year. Our schedule's not too great, but I think it'll be tough for us. I don't even know who any of our receivers are, and we lost a good number on defense, too. We just need to get our act together fast... we can't wait around like we usually do.

I'm just excited to see the 'nets again. I hope some of them will go out partying with me... haha, I'm going to lose so much money on alcohol this year. I'm going to have to stop eating just so I can go out to the bars. Instead of packing or getting ready for school, I was looking at this shot list that Big Al's has online. I was picking out which ones I want to try. My mom told me tonight that I better not get alcohol poisoning on my birthday, hahaha.

My senior year classes are going to suck, but I'm determined to not let that ruin my fun. I'm single, I'll be 21, it's my last year at tech... I'm ready to party. :)

No, we're never gonna survive, unless we get a little crazy.

I am officially the worst blogger...

I've just been working, which isn't too bad, I guess, because I'm making money. They've been keeping me pretty busy, too, so that makes the days go by much faster. The only real problem is that I am a girl... working in an engineering firm... with engineers. Whitney and I keep coming across guys that are a bit creepy to say the least. I feel like one guy is really stalking me. And he seriously just stares at me. I was walking behind him (and he didn't know I was there), and he was about to turn the corner, and it's like he could sense I was there or something, so he turned and saw me. And then he turned the corner, and then all of a sudden, I see his head pop back out from around the corner... and he's just staring at me! I'm like, "hellooo, I can seeee yoooou!!" And it's like every week we add another guy to the list of people to avoid, because they just kind of creep us out, or look us up and down, or just stare. It's like they've never seen a girl before...

Other than that, some exciting things have happened at work!
5. I made my first conference call... all by myself!
4. I took a blanket into work, so now I don't sit there and freeze!
3. I got a laptop case for my laptop!
2. I finally got a name tag for my cube!
1. And the big one... Whitney and I are going to Charlotte! Woo!
We're going for the Women in Nuclear National Conference. They sent me last year (when it was in Anaheim, CA, which is kind of better than Charlotte... but I'll take what I can get), and yeah, I'm really excited. We leave July 20, and come back July 24. We signed up for these tours on the 23, and we weren't sure what time they were going to be, so our managers said we should stay an extra night (that's not paid for by the scholarship we got, so Westinghouse will have to pay for it), and come back a day later, and the only problem is, the tours filled up and we didn't get in. So now we're in Charlotte for an extra day. hahaha... not that I mind. They're talking about finding alternative sites for tours, so maybe we'll get to do something. Otherwise, we get to just chill in downtown Charlotte for a whole day! If only I were 21... :( 2 1/2 months!

Speaking of 21, we're celebrating Carey's birthday tonight, and I am SO EXCITED. I am really in a drinking mood. I guess probably because I've just been really emotional lately. Justin and I are on a break. And it sucks. I had the same dream over and over last night. I was in a horrible car crash, and I knew I was dying, and I was calling out to the person next to me, telling them how much I loved them, but I couldn't see who it was. And I didn't have that sense of knowing that you sometimes have in dreams, so I have no idea who it was. So yeah, I think a good night of drinking with the girls is in order. :)

"You know that point in your life when you realize that the house that you grew up in isn't really your home anymore?"

Ok, so it's been forever since I've updated, and I apologize. I've just been lazy. But I'm home (or really just my place of residence, since I pretty much love Blacksburg and consider that my home now... ) for the summer. I always find it weird to come back, because my parents change the house so much. We got a super huge (46 inch, LCD, HD) tv in the living room, and since I left Whipple watching tv on a little 12 inch tv, this thing is pretty much HUGE (that's what she said!)
Side note:
We were mulching the other weekend...
(My dad had just dumped a wheelbarrow full of mulch by my mom.)
Mom: Wow, that was a wet load.
Dad: That's what she said!

And then tonight we went to a Mexican restaurant...
Waitress: Would you like a hard or soft shell?
Mom: Soft.
Dad: You're supposed to say hard so you can say that's what she said! It doesn't really work with the other one.

So anyway, I started work on the 19th. I had orientation in Monroeville, which is where I worked last summer. It takes me over an hour to get there... and it's not a fun drive (twisty, turny back roads, because rush-hour through Pittsburgh is no fun). So I go through orientation and all the intern's bosses are supposed to come down and pick them up. I didn't see my boss, so I told the lady leading orientation that I worked there the summer before and knew where I was going. I went up to the floor I worked on last summer, and it's completely empty. There is literally no one up there. There are some garbage cans, but yeah, everyone had moved. So I'm just like shit... where do I go?! I went back downstairs and asked the lady if she knew where Larry Erin (my boss) is. She was like, "Oh yeah, he moved up to Cranberry." (Cranberry is where Westinghouse is moving to, and the division I'm working in went up early, and Larry just never told me... haha) So luckily Whitney (EE at VT with me, who's in a lot of my classes) was there and had to go to Cranberry, otherwise I would have had no idea how to get there. But now I work in Cranberry, and my drive is only 45 minutes now on the interstate even! So it's much better than last summer!

Anyway for the next week or so, I had nothing to do... literally. Everyone told me they had nothing to give me. I was reading my orientation papers I was so bored. I did go to a lot of meetings, which I rather enjoy. Some meetings are exciting, because I always think people are going to break out into a fight. The past few days I've had some work, but still... I just finish everything too quickly, and then I'm left with nothing. The Cranberry building also has new cubes! They're the shorter ones, and they're just designed differently with different shelves and stuff, plus a lot more windows in the office. haha, one guy said, "Ergonimically, this is the best desk I've ever been in. There's plenty of room for my arms!" hahaha, I love working with engineers sometimes! :) I wish I had brought my bobbleheads home from school, though. I could've been like Dwight with all my bobbleheads at my desk!

Besides work I haven't really done anything else. I went to Justin's, and we went to Six Flags, which was fun! I still think Cedar Point is my favorite, though... especially since they have a ton more coasters than anywhere else.

So you'd think after a month of not updating I'd have more to say... but I really don't. All I do is go to work, come home, eat, watch some TV, go to bed. It's not an exciting life.

Also, I miss Whipple and my roommates. :( Kay and I talk just about everyday, and all we do is bitch about Hillary. I love it. :) It's just not the same over IM... although that's probably what we would be doing in the apartment, but it's just better knowing there's a thin wall between us. hahaha. I hope they all get their dream jobs/dream schools soon. They're all wonderful and so talented, these places just don't know what they're missing out on.

So the Penguins lost tonight, which is disappointing. I wish everyone would get off of Malkin's back. I think there's something seriously wrong with him... like he just can't see the puck or something, because he was so good the rest of the season. I don't know what's going on. They're all so young (Crosby is 20, Malkin is 21, Staal is 19, and Fleury's 23, just to name a few), and it's really cool they're going for the Stanley Cup. Detroit's the much better team. It's so obvious, but whatever. The loss will make Crosby, Fleury, Malkin, and all the other younger players better in the end, I think. Who knows, maybe the Penguins will pull an upset. We can only hope...

Oh, the weather outside is weather.

So it's finals week, and I'm putting off going to bed, because bed means reading more bio (which I have really failed at doing so far... and put off for far too long) and another day of studying and tests. I can tell when final week is here, because my headaches come more frequently, and I get cankersores in my mouth. Oh stress, how you mess with my body.

But tonight instead of studying for engineering econ, Brandon suggested we go see Forgetting Sarah Marshall. I highly recommend it, because I thought it was really funny. But beware: you will see penis! haha, it was just too funny. One of those movies you have to see again, because you know you were laughing over some of the other funny parts. Although, that part in the preview with Jonah Hill where he's like, "We've got a loner! Just clear off that part of the table... it's just one guy!"... yeah, doesn't happen in the movie. I hate when previews are like that! Or when they stream it together to make it seem funnier or something, so when you watch it right after you've seen the movie, you're like, "wait, that scene wasn't like that... neither was that one." Ah well, whatcha gonna do.

Here, kitty.

I've decided I want 5 cats named Eeny, Meeny, Miney, And, and Moe.

Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.

This week is the last full week of classes. How crazy is that? Once the weather starts to get nice I always feel like I start to slack with my work. Luckily it didn't really start to get nice until later this year, but still. I have a lot to do before summer starts. Even when I do try to do work, I watch soap operas or something like that. haha, I think I'm actually starting to get addicted. It's so easy to figure out what's going on, and people are dating so and so, but before that girl dated his brother and this other ladie's pissed about it, or there's a hostage situation. hahaha, I just think they're so funny. Now I'm watching a baby show called Deliver Me. Really doesn't make me want to have kids... ever. But one woman's 38 and wants to save her eggs, so she went to a doctor... and the doctor she went to see was her ex. Call me old-fashioned, but I think it'd be extremely awkward to have your ex harvest your eggs, but whatever.

In other news, there was a spider in the apartment last week! And not just in the apartment... in Kay's room! I feel like such a mean person to wish for a bug, just to see my roommate scream. But boy did she scream! She was seriously cowering in her closet, hiding behind the closet door and screaming to kill the spider. And she claims it was a "mini tarantula." Which by the way, it was a teeny-tiny spider (small enough for her to think it was a fly from a distance). Oh man, it was funny.

Kay, if you just read this, go update your journal.
If you're not Kay, go tell Kay she needs to update her journal.

Do you like hearing mice when you sleep?

I went to visit Justin this weekend. His family owns this "farm" about 2 hours away from his house, and I think he said it's 5 acres, and we had to cut the grass. So I got to sit on the tractor and mow. Oh, and there was a dead deer carcus in one part of the grass. It was just bones, and I guess it was being dragged around earlier over the field, because there was fur everywhere. It was kind of gross. And then I almost ran over a leg... and I know I ran over the jaw bone on accident. Yeah...

Oh, and then when we went to make the bed (mind you, it's a very cute little place, but obviously no one lives there, so lots of dust and stuff...), and there was mouse poop on the bed. So my manly man just cleans it off and calls it a day. My hero. Psh... so during the night I hear this rustling in the plastic bags, and I think it's Justin trying to get into the doughnuts or something he bought. But nope, he was asleep. And of course he can't hear a darn thing, because he just can't hear anything. So I bug Justin and tell him there's a mouse messing with the stuff. And his response, "I don't hear it, so just go back to sleep." I swear... I kept hearing loud rustling, so I bothered him again to do something, and he said, "I'm tired..." And he proceeded to pound on the wall. If someone ever robs/tries to kill us in the middle of the night, I'm going to have to do all the work, because he's going to be too tired. haha, it's a good thing I'm not freaked out by mice or anything... otherwise he would've had a shreaking girl next to him. hahaha, I can only imagine Kay in that situation. I really hope there's a spider or some bug in the apartment in the next few weeks, so I can see her reaction. It's just something that I need to experience to make my life complete.

Also, we saw a cross-dresser at an Applebee's.

In other news, I can't believe it's been a year. I don't really know how to feel about it. It all kind of snuck up on me. It's a sad month... Next week then is the anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. The United States doesn't really officially recognize it, which is awful, considering it was the first genocide of the 20th century, and it was one of the reasons Hitler got the idea for the Holocaust. All because of precious relations with Turkey.

"We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.

We are Virginia Tech.

We are the Hokies."

beer pong, Sally's Salon, drug deals, oh my!

So looking back on this weekend, for the amount of sitting around I did, it was pretty eventful.

Friday was the Relay for Life beer pong tournament, and it actually went much better than planned! (Except for Nick getting punched in the face all because of a bunch of assholes trying to steal beer... from a cancer research fundraiser...)
I must say, though, the walk back to the car with Kay was probably the funniest experience, and I highly recommend it to anyone.

But the super exciting part of the night happened in the parking lot of our apartment! At about 2 in the morning, a huge fight broke out in the parking lot, and of course, we had to watch. It was pretty bad... people trying to stop the fight were getting punched, and there was kicking... and yeah. Then we heard sirens... and all of a sudden a cop car is here! The guys book it out of there, and the cop gets out of his car with a flashlight. haha, at this point we're really into it, and are kind of mad he didn't run after them, but whatever. He looked for a bit and went back to the car and left. A few guys came back out, and they went back into the apartment. And then the cop is back, shining the flashlight into the apartment windows... including ours! So yeah, we're thinking they were there for something more than just the fight... dun dun DUN! What excitement! Screw the TV... we can watch good ol' trash right outside of our own windows!

Well, I guess other than that I've been playing Sally's Salon and reading bio. Yeah... I'm real cool.

I'm entering the blog world...

Even though I'm not graduating like everyone else who is currently making blogs, Rose peer pressured me into making one. :) Who knows, maybe I'll be able to keep up with this thing... maybe even starting now!