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."