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I don't have a lot to report today.

Still trying to think of a name for a website.

Trying to complete my paper for CN 406.

Also trying to complete my lyric essay. Yay! :)

Peace.

A day in the life of a senior in college:

-Wake up before 7am, usually closer to 6 or 6:30.
-Rush around the house getting ready, packing a lunch (and sometimes a dinner), and organizing school stuffs.
-Make sure all homework is completed or able to be completed before class.
-Drive 30 minutes into school and park in a semi decent spot because it's so bloody early in the morning.
-Attend class or go to work (depending on the day). On class days: Have fun and be excited, On work days: Be used and abused in the way that all student workers generally are.
-Attend class later in the day again and enjoy it or don't, but always write something.
-Leave with far more homework and stress than when you entered.
-Make the 30 minute drive back home if there are no events that you may need to attend at school or in GR that evening.
-Work on some homework, but not so much that you want to rip your hair out.
-Try to hang out with the family or the boyfriend, but never really get quality time because you're always focusing on your homework, at least subconsciously.
-Get ready for bed around 9 or 10pm.
-Go to bed, but not to sleep because the stress of all of your assignments weighs on your mind like nothing else.

And then you wake up and start again. I can't wait to get these last two weeks overwith!

Peace.

Tomorrow: Thanksgiving :)

I love days like today. Days when boss lady says to get out of here and have a good day elsewhere, days when I get to go out with my friends on the busiest, but most fun, bar night of the year, and when Thanksgiving is tomorrow and I get to think about all that I'm thankful for. :)

Mostly, I'm thankful for a crazy, fun, ridiculously busy, abnormally awesome life with family and friends that cannot be surpassed.

=) Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Sick

Well, I have no voice. Good thing this isn't a pod cast!

I do enjoy a good day home alone, though. Too bad sickness keeps me on the couch and not with enough energy to play the wii to exercise.

Lalalalala, okay going to get out of here now. Have a lovely day.

Peace.

Rain rain go away, can't it just snow today?

Call me crazy, but as a life long Michigander I have grown to like the snow... at least a little bit. See for me snow means walking hand in hand with the love of my life, sipping his famous hot cocoa concoction, and looking at the gorgeous lights. It means strapping on a board and going down a nice, powdery hill (regardless of how bad I am at it). It means an excuse to watch It's a Wonderful Life and The Holiday over and over again. I just love the snow!

On top of these reasons, it's just depressing seeing the rain come down and take out all of those resiliant leaves that have lasted so late into the season. I think it's sad to see the soaking wet ground and people and cars around campus. Seeing the beautiful, white snow flakes is much more fun.

Snow is also less depressing than rain. I mean when it rains you think of saddness and pain (if you give everything symbolism like I do, that is), but the snow is a happy thing. A sign that children will soon be playing outside making snowmen and sledding at the church in Sparta. It's just better overall.

Well, I have to go take on the weather now. Have a lovely day... hopefully the last one with rain for awhile. *fingers crossed*!

Peace.

Wow.

I love that the biggest news around is that Prince William is engaged. I really don't think it's that big of a deal. I mean, yes, she will someday be queen (we assume), but so what? Someone was going to be? And who cares if she's a commoner? I thought Princess Di was too... right? Why is Kate Middleton so important if this has happened before, and semi-recently. Congratulations to the happy couple, but do we have to announce this like Jesus himself is getting married? They are just celebreties like all of the others. I mean for goodness sake, the Queen/ King has very little power nowadays anyway.

Blah, okay so maybe I just hate hearing about the same thing 300 times and 5 different mediums, but still.

Peace.

Happy 2 Years Da&Mike

It's kind of weird that my best friend and her fiance will be getting married in less than a year, own a house together, and have a puppy. But my boyfriend and I have known eachother for years longer, dated for a month longer, and are still two years or so from any kind of serious marriage plans.

The world is a funny place.

Speaking of which, I read on Yahoo! today that Americans are no longer taking marriage seriously. As in, it's viewed as unnecessary. That kind of amazes me, but in a "it was bound to happen, just not so soon" way. I still plan to get married, mainly because the whole "white wedding" scenario really appeals to me on some level, but I suppose I can see not wanting to deal with all of that. It's cheaper not to get married in a lot of cases, and when you can just live together and have civil union or whatever, then why not? I still feel like it's a nice thing and a necessity-- as I probably won't live with my boyfriend or anything like that until we get married, but to each his own.

Peace.

Blah Blah Blah

Funny how the information from classes can actually relate to real life sometimes.

This is why communication trumps math on every level.

=)

Grandma's 65th Birthday!

I'm heading to Arnie's on 28th Street to celebrate the 65th year of life of my maternal grandmother.

Gotta' go!

=)

=)

I watched Valentine's Day last night. It was such a wonderful movie. So sappy, but so wonderful. It's amazing how a movie can put you in a certain mood. The transition was crazy while I sat and watched the movie with my family and Derek. At first we were all just lounging on the couch, but by the end of the movie Derek had his arm around me and we were holding hands. The sappiness from the movie soaked into us. Not that I mind, I love him after all.

Anywho, I just thought it was interesting how much media of any kind can affect people. Plus I like to talk about the boyfriend. :) I'm a girl, it's how we roll.

Peace.

Taylor Swift...

Is my hero.

I love that she writes about her actual life. I do that a lot too. Not in song form, mind you. But I love to write stories about big events in my life and poems about emtional times and journals about the rest. Someday someone is going to have a lot of fun reading my life off the pages of my 5 journals and my various blogs and stories on my computer.

Ahhh the joys of having a passion like writing. I can't imagine life without it.

Ah life.

CN 406 is really really really difficult. Like crazy difficult. Not because the material is hard, just the application of all of the theories and all of their tiny little pieces is hard. It's incredibly odd to be in a stituation where you love something so much but it drives you absolutely insane at the same time. I find myself in that position with only two things in my life. One is throwing clay on the wheel, and the other is communication theory. Don't get me wrong, I don't plan to ever give up either, but they can be very discouraging at times. I just hope that test last night went better than it seemed to have gone.

Peace.

Oh 90's Music, I love you.

I just love it when I turn on iTunes and songs from the 90's play. They really make my mood improve regardless of the style or lyrics. I think it's because the associated memories are from a happier and easier time in my life. I loved the 90's. Back when I was young and alive and ready to try anything and meet anyone. Lately I'm so bogged down with school and work and the needs of other people in my life that I don't get a whole lot of time to just enjoy myself and play games and sports and just be.

I really miss having practice. I miss that part of high school more than anything else. It was always such a rush to play a match or a game and to show up for practice everyday and let out all of my anxiety. That always pumped me up for homework or whatever else was to come that night. I remember when we had to have softball practice on graduation day. I was so much more stoked for graduation after practice than before. Definitely a great experience even though I'm sure I whined about having to go at the time. It was just nice to have that comradary that comes with a team.


Anywho, must be off. Peace.

Journalism?

I feel like I finally understand why I could never be a journalist. I want to write about things that interest me, not whatever I happen to be assigned. This realization has narrowed down my job options significantly, and I LOVE that. I really needed something to show me what I am meant to do, and at this point, knowing what I don't want to do will work just as well. I'm still going to apply at MSU for Communication grad school, but beyond that I think I'm going to look into real work in the real world. I'm not sure what I'll do yet, but I'm excited to find out!

Peace.

About that homework...

I still haven't gotten it done. I can't find my notes for my cnf piece, MacArthur is just kinda' boring and I hate writing about speeches because it's nearly impossible to track what's most important vs. least, and on top of those things I still have no idea how to study for Dave Weinendy's tests!! Granted, I got a good grade on the last one, but I'm still terryfied!

This week is going to give me a panic attack.

Think that would at least help me to not have to turn some of these assignments in?

Peace.

Audrey

I think Audrey keeps me going. It's a good thing I know her and I see her once a week, because without her I wouldn't know what to do. She talks to me about her life. She tells me how much having me around helps her. She gives me a purpose and I give her one too. We share hope and love and stories. I am so thankful for her.

Who would've thought that getting in the pool to help out one day could turn into a lifetime of friendship... I hope anyway. :)

Peace.

College.

So how about this college life? I always used to laugh when I would see those bumper stickers that said things like "Sleep. A social life. Good grades. You can only pick two. Welcome to college." But now I see how incredibly true they really are. I'm exhausted all of the time, but I finally have a balance between school and friends/ family. My freshmen year I decided to give up the grades. Sophomore year I had the social life on the back burner. Junior year I leaned towards grades and sleep, but social life got more prevelant, and now... all about the socializing and studying.

The tough thing is, I feel like without some socializing I would go insane. I am doing homework constantly, even while I hang out with my family or my boyfriend. I barely have time to watch tv or get on Facebook (except at work). Even while I'm supposed to be working, though, I often do my homework when we're not too busy. It's insane! They definitely don't train you for this in high school. I hear friend's younger siblings talking about how hard their high school classes are and I literally laugh out loud and say, "wait to see what college is like, then let me know if you think this is hard." And it's not even as much that the work is harder, it's just more intense. All the work (in most classes) is necessary. And when you get a homework assignment or you have a test and you don't study for it, you're basically shooting yourself in the foot.

In high school I never studied, but I always got A's. It was a wonderful thing. I miss it a lot. Especially during weeks like this. In the next 8 days I'll have had to write a four page article for Journalism, a 1500-5000 word essay for Creative Non-Fiction, and study/ take one of only three tests in my cap stone communication class. It's gonna' be rough. And the worst part is, I'm so so sooooo sick of writing. I was absolutely in love with it before. I mean, hell, it's my minor after all. But now I just don't even want to do it anymore. I'm sick of being told what style to write in or what my topic will be. It's not fun anymore. I have three writing classes this semester and that was such a bad idea! It's nice to have the journalism class and the creative non-fiction class at the same time because then I can compare and contrast, but then on top of that I am doing an independent study writing for the website and all three are piling up and making me hate my life a little bit.

I think this is a life lesson, though. It's showing me that I won't have a main career in writing. I can always do some freelance stuff and some writing for fun, but never will I be a novelist or a journalist or a poet or anything. It's just no fun when you have to do it to survive... or in this case, to get good grades.

Anywho, off to tackel some serious homework, peace.

I hate registration.

So once again the registrar's office makes my life far more difficult than it needs to be. I soooo hate registering. I always have my classes picked out as soon as the schedule is online. I have my advising meeting first (or at least I e-mail my advisor back first) every single time, but I have not had one semester when the registrar has not totally screwed things up for me.

So frustrating!!

I have to stop typing before I get all peeved off again.

Peace, and good luck.

Afterall, you're my wonderwall.

So today I was reading Facebook, as I do most Tuesday mornings, and I was happy to see all of the posts about getting out to vote. Heck, even Facebook itself had a vote button going and a count at the top of the screen to show how many people voted already today. It was awesome! However, as I scrolled down through my news feed, I noticed that one of my friends, a very politically charged one, said he wouldn't be voting today. One of his friends, a fellow environmentalist and Christian had commented saying he agreed and wouldn't be voting either. I was in shock. How could someone so opinionated and so good care so little about voting?

So, being the rather blunt person that I am, I commented too. I said I was surprised at the lack of caring he had and that if he wanted the government to stop wasting resources and start using morals and values, he ought to get out to the polls.

My comment did not go unchallenged, though. And then, of course, although my arguments were incredibly logical, they were challanged by those who don't care about government and apparently don't realize just how much the government affects our lives. I'm sorry, I'm a Christian just like these people, but God doesn't balance the state budget. God doesn't fix roads. God doesn't give tax breaks or food stamps or medicare and medicade. God doesn't run the state or the country, especially not if faithful people don't elect like-minded people for office. I really don't see a way that you could possibly avoid understanding that.

Seriously, it's astonishing the level of ignorance and irresponsibility abounding in the US today. And beyond that, I'm a little bit sad to be a person of faith today. If all that God has done for us and taught us means so little that you can't even try to help those around you by voting in people who are also faithful, then I don't want to be associated with you.

So PLEASE, for the love of God and country, go out and vote today. And if you don't, and I hear you complain or see you at a rally or you even so much as comment on taxes, I swear I will slap you silly!

=)

Elections

Tomorrow is the day, the day when America heads to the polls and proves how awesome democracy can be. I hope that everyone takes the time to go vote. Too many people in this country complain about the situation we're all in and then don't do anything about it on election day. To me, that's total bull shit. If you're not willing to help your situation or the situation the rest of the country is in by taking five minutes to read up on candidates and then another ten minutes to go to the polls and cast a ballot, then do NOT complain about anything the government does. You don't deserve to, you could've made a difference and didn't. Way to go.

That is all.