Now, When You Do This Without Getting Punched, You’ll Have More Fun

So I decided to read some of my old blog posts and I noticed a common theme in the early ones is how tired I am. My thought is “Past Brittany, you have mono, that is why you are tired.”

Classes were cancelled today. It’s nice because when it started snowing last night everyone was up screaming and throwing snowballs at the window until like 4am. I actually got up and put in my earplugs, which helped a little. I was so tired I was going to skip Russian and just go to Speech and China. We got the text and call at 6:20 am and you could hear everyone on campus start to cheer. Especially our loudish neighbors. They’re not as bad as last year’s neighbors, but we still hear them from time to time. One of the guys and the girls all started to talk really loud and sing annoying songs, but then we heard the other guy get really grumpy that he got woken up. Meanwhile I'm thinking, “At least one of you has a normal sense of time and sleep.”

Me and Carlin slept in late then, since we had been kept up by annoying people. The TV was out, so we decided to watch The Lord of the Rings again. Right now we are on part one of The Two Towers.

To make this day better, all three of my tests for this week have now been pushed to next week. There was also good food today. I had pierogies for lunch and chicken for dinner.

To top it all off, my care package came! And there were homemade brownies included!! My favorite!!

I still have classes tomorrow though. I’m trying to figure out if I can wear my yoga pants under my jeans cause it’s too cold to just wear jeans to class, but I’ll get overheated if I wear tights/leggings and have to put the yoga pants over them.

Hopefully everyone will have calmed down about the snow tonight. I really want sleep. I was really angry last night when I kept being woken up.

I Miss Conversations that Don’t Start With “This Killer Truck”

So I’ve finally got a lull in my workload this week, so I decided I’d actually work on my blog instead of playing Mah Jong. Especially since it’s already midterms and I’ve only posted once this semester. I just seem to be busy with papers or tests or both and when I’m not working I kind of feel like vegging.

Other than the ginormous workload, this semester’s been pretty good. None of my professors make me totally crazy. Some of Andrea’s ideas are a little weird, but I like having a class where we get to move around, so it makes up for it. I really like the Suzuki work; it’s sort of like a mix between dance and martial arts and it’s pretty fun. I’m not so fond of the monologue work. Finding verbs and metaphors for our monologues just doesn’t help me that much.

We had Massage Day in Stage Speech today. It is officially the best thing ever. We got into partners and did head, neck, back, leg, and arm massages. The head massages are awesome. I think it comes from Mom rubbing my head when I was a baby to put me to sleep, but we did it in class and I almost fell asleep. On a side note, when I was walking into class today, I could hear the orchestra warming up. I noticed that I was subconsciously moving my fingers in the correct patterns to play the cello to the warm up. It kind of made me miss playing my cello. I’ll have to practice over winter break I guess.

Carlin’s class has been cancelled for Monday and will probably be canceled on Friday too, so she gets a four day weekend. I’m super jealous. With all this work I’m doing I’ll be glad to finally get a vacation.

We did go to see The Lion King in 3D last weekend. It was amazing. It’s like it was made for 3D before people were really doing movies with 3D in mind. I had forgotten how much I enjoy Lion King, especially since I haven’t seen it since like elementary school. Although now I can see all of the morals and lessons and well, plot, that you are supposed to get from watching it. Before it was more like “cool, lions. Mufasa dies, Simba becomes king,” and that was pretty much that. I put my 3D glasses on my Basset Hound bobble head, so now he can be a hipster.

So I’ll probably head home this weekend. Carlin has a group project this weekend and I have to see Big Love next week, so once again we’re going home on different days. At least her parents will be coming to get her, so it’s not my problem. Last time I went home, I brought up a bunch of winter clothes, since it was really cold up here. Now the weather has decided to be warm, so I don’t really need all the sweaters and stuff yet. Of course, Carlin keeps the room pretty cold, so I don’t really wear shorts either.

On a sort of pointless note, I found this adorable gif and it made me really want to see the pets, so it’ll be nice to go home.

Get In Loser, We’re Going Shopping

 

Dobry vecher! So the first week of school is out of the way and my Blog returns from it’s summer hibernation. It’s been a pretty hectic week with me running back and forth between West and Central.  Especially since it’s super hot up here. It’s killer when I’m all sweaty from Movement already and then have a 20 minute walk across campus. I feel bad for people who sit near me in Geography (like Carlin). It also makes me really sore.

My 300 level classes will definitely be a lot of work. They both have a lot of papers and tests that occur on the same weeks. I already have my research paper for China for the one book that hasn’t come in yet. I still have to find at least three primary sources for it too. Luckily, or unluckily depending on your point of view, other than the book it’s open topic. So I’ll probably do it on military history during one of the dynasties. I’ll know more when I actually get the book.

Geography is easy, luckily. It is a 100 level so it makes sense. The only problem is dumb freshmen. But there’s no papers and just a couple of tests. Stage Movement is pretty good so far too. We did this cool thing about concentrating our chakra, which strengthens our movements and stances. There’s a lot of stuff I can’t do with one arm though. At least Andrea is really understanding. Stage Speech is pretty good too, though we haven’t done much in those classes.

The room is totally set up now. We’ve got everything organized and I’ve even hung up my Chinese lanterns in the window. The door’s also all set up and we’ve already gotten a bunch of compliments, especially our Dr. Who picture. The pic has made us start calling the room the TARDUS. And the bathroom is Narnia. Yes, we are major nerds. We also fangirled over our Lord of the Rings plushies for like 30 minutes after we got them.

So tomorrow we have to go shopping. Carlin needs school supplies and I need clothes for Movement. I’ll also have to do a bunch of reading for Russia. Seegel’s teaching us some Russian in there, so I’ll know a few phrases by the time the course is over. So far I can say: Good Morning, Good Day, Good Afternoon, Moscow, and Can I Have More Vodka? I can also say: Good Morning and You Must Be Very Tired in Japanese. And I can pronounce words in Chinese correctly. I’m getting such a fabulous education. And with things that aren’t the point of the classes. College is awesome.

Favorite Vines Other Than Green: Red Vines!

So I’m officially done with actual classes for the year; I still have a paper to finish and three tests to take though. That’s pretty much going to be my whole weekend.

Byron told us hos ghost story in Geology yesterday. He was helping a friend cleaning out his aunt’s house and all this weird stuff happened. Like this wedding dress kept showing up in the closet after they threw it out and they heard people walking around and saw a lady in a white dress going through walls. On the last day Byron was there he found the clothes that the aunt had been buried in inside the washing machine. It was a pretty intense story. And that’s pretty much why most of us showed up to class that day, just to hear the story.

Me and Carlin are so sick of dorm food that we’ve been to Taco Bell and the Coffee Corner a ton lately. I wish that they were open better hours on the weekend though, cause I don’t know what we’ll eat for our last weekend up here.

Dramatic episode of Supernatural tonight. I’m so worked up I don’t know when I’ll go to sleep. I’m really excited/nervous for next week’s episode. Hopefully the play will be done in time for me to catch it. Otherwise I’ll have to hopefully watch it online.

I’m so ready for finals to be over. I’m just worn out. And I’ve been concentrating on my paper’s so much that I forgot I have to actually study for my tests. And I have to be up for a final at eight on Monday. How am I supposed to take a test at that early an hour?

So yeah. It’s a short post tonight cause I’ve pretty much done nothing but study. Sorries. And I’m thinking I’ll probably keep posting during the summer too for the heck of it. And I’ll definitely blog during vacation.

And I Ate Nothing But Protein Shakes, Falcon Eggs, and Rocks

So since my Things I’ve Learned in College Post is so amusing, I figured I’d add ten more things on.

1. For your TV to work, you will need a coaxial cable. The people at Wal-Mart do not know what it is, don’t bother asking them. Also, buy it way before move in day. Otherwise you will go to multiple stores and buy the very last one Best Buy has.
2. Every teacher will tell you to buy a textbook plus at least three chapter books. Just buy the chapter books. The teacher will never use the textbook. They just assign it so you will “be prepared” for the lectures.
3. In high school, they tell you attendance isn’t a big deal in college. LIES! If you miss a class, you will get behind. Also, many teachers have you sign in when you get to the class. There’s a few classes that you can get away with skipping, so use those for your sick days.
4. No matter what medication you buy at the beginning of the year, you will end up needing completely different ones by the middle of the semester. I thought basic pain, allergy, and cold meds would be fine. I had to go out and cortisone cream and Benadryl cream a few weeks into the semester.
5. At the beginning of the year, you will tell yourself that you will eat healthy and not drink soda. That will only last about two weeks. Once stress catches up with you, you will eat fried foods and soda in the dining hall and still need a chip and candy stash in the room.
6. When your computer/internet is broken, it is a major crisis. Nothing else matters until it is fixed.
7. Always room with someone you know. Don’t even be suitemates with total strangers. Otherwise you will most likely be paired with an obnoxious whore who will keep you up with loud talking, throwing up, and other bad stuff.
8. You are never to old to take a nap. Especially after an early class. But you will get this weird taste in your mouth that will not go away for hours.
9. When you start feeling sick, drink only Gatorade and orange juice until you feel better. It helps to mix orange juice and guava juice, since it tastes better than plain orange.
10. When living in a tiny dorm room, pick a spot and stay there. There’s not enough room to move around, so we pretty much just move in order to leave the room. Carlin has her chair and I have the bed, which keeps us out of each other’s way.

Let’s Get Moving Into Action

Well it looks like I’m going back to doing a post every night. Not like anything super interesting is going to happen in the next week, since it’s finals week and I’ll mostly be writing papers and doing major cramming.

I’m almost totally registered for classes for the Fall semester. I’m still waiting to hear back from Joan to see if I can take her WWI class. The only problem with that is I will have 15 minutes to get from Stage Movement to the Great War, so I will be running across campus twice a week. I also will have very little time off so I don’t know when I’ll have time for a job or IP except on Fridays. So next year will be real fun, but at least I’ll be getting my credits in. Me and Carlin are also both taking a Geography class at the same time, so that’ll be nice.

Today was my last day of US History. We pretty much had the very condensed version of the Vietnam War and the typical idiotic questions from my classmates. I know everyone always says, “There’s no such thing as a stupid question,” but they’re wrong. There are lots of stupid questions, especially by people in my two history classes. Mostly when the ask the professor to explain what he or she just explained. Now I know I’m smarter than most of my classmates, (not bragging, it’s true), but with some of these questions I’m like “Really? How did you make it into college? How do you even walk upright?” Luckily, I’m done with my 100 level courses so for the rest of my History classes I’ll be with the majors and more serious students hopefully.

I technically don’t have any more Geology lectures either. Byron said that if we want to review for the final to come in on Thursday. I wouldn’t go, but he said he might finish his ghost story. I need to know how it ends cause it is scary.

I got to have sushi for lunch again. It’s not the greatest, but it beats dining hall food. Which, by the way, has reached a new low. Carlin went to Holmes for lunch and the menu said chicken sandwich. So she gets one and it turns out the chicken sandwich is two chicken fingers on a hamburger bun. They’re not even giving us real food anymore, just the same old chicken tenders they have everyday! We ended up walking to the UC for Taco Bell and Subway, we’re so sick of the dining hall food. I now have one week to spend $90 on food. I figure I’ll stock up on drinks from the vending machine if I have to.

Me and Carlin are mostly excited today because Supernatural has been renewed for another season. Aaron Silco got her started watched it and now I’m hooked on it too. It gives us something to look forward to each week. But that’s pretty much the only high point of our weeks. Especially this week, which is pretty much filled with cramming, papers, and cleaning. I’m not looking forward to cleaning this place. Hopefully people won’t hog the vacuums all week like they did before spring break. It doesn’t help that Carlin’s got a big project for her Young Adult Lit class, so she’s got paper and eraser shavings everywhere.

Tomorrow’s my final for Costuming and none of us really now what’s going to be on the test. Hopefully it’s mostly common sense stuff, cause we didn’t really learn that much. And I have my last IP on Friday for Props, but I doubt they’ll be much to do. By now most of the other Props IP kids will have already cleaned everything. On Monday they were running stuff to the dumpster. For Electrics IP on Monday it was just me, Chris, and Hapcic since all the other people bailed or ditched. At least I sort of knew what I was doing, so I kind of felt useful. We had to steal all the Carpentry boys to help us change soft goods though. It’s hard for me because we have to hold the pole to keep it in weight and I have to stand on my toes to reach it. It was really a pain in the butt when we had to move the scrim because we can’t let it touch the floor. Luckily, Chris is super nice so he had me hold the scrim while he tied it on. I’m definitely going to miss Chris, Justin, and Kristen in Electrics cause they were all really nice and totally understanding about my dislike of heights. I’m actually mostly over my fear of heights in a theatre space. I can go up on the catwalk and use the genie, but I cannot do ladders yet. They’re just too shaky and involve having balance, which I do not posses. Kristen is about as tall as I am, so she taught me all these tricks about being short in Electrics, like how to balance the light with your feet on the catwalk so it’s easier to adjust it without leaning over the edge. And Justin always made a big deal of saying how good I did something even if it was a pointless task like taping up cables. At one point on Monday, I had to vacuum up all these metal shavings from the new rigging poles. I quickly learned that when you vacuum metal shavings, tiny bits of metal will come flying at you and gives you tiny metal splinters. It was not fun.

I’m really nervous for my Western Civ final cause I can hardly write notes, much less three in class essays. My plan is to use my heating pad up until the final, then steal Carlin’s oatmeal heating pad to use during the final. Hopefully that will help since my arm always feels better with heat.

I Can’t Go To Pigfarts, It’s On Mars

So now that it’s getting to be the end of the year, I thought I’d do a post on the things I’ve learned in college. It should be interesting, but probably not useful. So here is the List of Things The Brochure Does Not Tell You Before Moving In.

1. IP: It’s very difficult to choose the perfect IP assignment. Electrics is good because there’s quite a few good looking guys who work there. It’s also pretty laid back on some days. The bad thing is that it involves a lot of ladders and tall people stuff. There’s also a lot of technical knowledge you need. I had my last day of it today and I’m just starting to understand what I’m doing. Props is good because Robert’s really cool. The only problem is that there’s a lot of crummy tasks like cleaning out the moldy kitchen and running lots of heavy stuff to the dumpster. Carpentry has a lot of hot guys, but there’s a lot of sawdust and heavy machinery. Costuming has pretty low key tasks and you actually get to sit, but there’s a lack of guys I can flirt with.
2. The Weather: The tour guides and brochures say that Greeley is just like the rest of Colorado: warm in the summer and cold in the winter. They’re wrong. Greeley is constantly windy. If it looks nice outside, it probably is still cold from the wind. It’s super hot in the summer, windy in the fall, freezing in the winter, and rainy in the spring. There’s very few “nice” days up here. Which is too bad, since the guys will play football shirtless when the weather’s nice.
3. The Food: During tours and Orientation everyone always raves that UNC has the best food anywhere. That is true for the first month of school. It’s like the school saves the best food for the first few weeks so you buy a meal plan. Then for the rest of the year everyone walks past the menu and says, “Oh look, crummy food again.” I wish the Coffee Corner was open at better hours, cause I’d eat there.
4. Early Classes: Never, under any circumstances, sign up for early classes if you can help it. You will be too tired to pay attention. Sadly, I do not get to choose what time my theatre classes are, which means I have to wake up super early to get there in time.
5. Find out where the party dorm is and avoid it. Seriously. I have been woken up by drunken screaming and loud sex more often than I’d like.
6. Make friends with the bus drivers. The bus drivers who know me wait at the stop or pull the bus over when they see me coming. The bad part: the bus driver may talk to you the entire time about how the diesel bus works.
7. Ice is bad. Avoid it at all costs.
8. There are no snow days. The entire state could be shut down, but UNC will still have classes.
9. A coffee maker is the best purchase you will ever make. (Besides a car and a laptop).
10. It is possible to write a ten page research paper in six hours.

It’s A Coup D'état, Which is French for Coup D'état

Happy Easter y’all! Actually, in all honesty it hasn’t really been the greatest of Easters. It’s the first Easter me, Carlin, and Kyle have spent away from our families, so it’s been kind of a bummer of a holiday. It actually hasn’t even felt like Easter. It’s pretty empty up here since most kids went home for the weekend.

I did wake up with a nice surprise though. Carlin secretly bought me an Easter basket. Well, actually it was a plastic beach pail, so more like an Easter bucket. She had bought kites, glow sticks, plastic dinosaurs and fish, and a stuffed sheep at the dollar store. She also got us jellybeans, chocolate bunnies, marshmallow eggs, and Peeps. How she managed to buy so much without me knowing, I do not know.

We went to the store yesterday to buy ink and candy to make us feel better. I bought myself a marshmallow bunny and some caramel eggs. I also got a huge bag of gummy worms to eat during finals. While at the store, some creepy old guy tried to buy me candy. Me and Carlin tried to avoid him for the rest of the time, but he would not leave the candy aisle. It was so awkward.

We spent the day doing homework. I have an essay I’m working on and my sewing project. Carlin had to watch Thelma and Louise for her film class, so I got to see it too. It was actually pretty good. Right now we’re taking a break and watching Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Last night we watched Prince Caspian. It’s funny because the actor playing Caspian loses his Spanish accent in the third movie.

I sort of had a Easter dinner with Kyle since Carlin had to work on her graphic novel for class. They had turkey and potatoes, which were alright I guess. There was also deviled eggs, which were nowhere near as good as the ones we make at home. There was no oregano and they dyed the white parts, which made them taste funny. I’m so ready to have decent food for once.

I’m In A Hurry, You Red Octagonal Demon!

So as usual, I’m lazy and never post on this blog and etc. But anywho, I’m sick of this American History paper, so I decided to take a break and actually pay attention to my poor, neglected blog.

A new good thing that has happened is that I’ve found someplace to spend my dining dollars. The Coffee Corner in Turner has sushi among other things. It’s not half bad. The only problem is that it has stupid hours. It’s only open from 7-11am and 7-11pm. If I manage to hurry after class I can make it there close to 11. It’s a little earlier than I like to eat, but it’s something different.

It’s time to register for classes. There’s two theatre classes I have to take in addition to IP. Only for the new semester, one class is on Monday and Wednesday while the other is on Tuesday and Thursday. So I will spend the entire semester running back and forth between both sides of campus. Also, in order to graduate on schedule, I have to take three history classes. I signed up for Chinese History to 1500, which will satisfy one of my Asian concentration requirements. I’m also trying to get my advisor to let me take her World War I class, which would be totally awesome. I just need to find one other history class to take. The problem is that most of the courses are the 100 levels that I’ve taken or gotten AP credit for, or the Senior classes that I can’t take. Or there’s a couple that just don’t sound interesting. Hopefully more stuff will open up later.

So last night there was this pretty big thunderstorm and the wind was blowing really hard. Me and Carlin were watching an intense TV show and it was raining on the show too. It was kind of weird and scary. Also, according to Terminator lore, yesterday was the day that robots were supposed to declare war on mankind and trigger a nuclear apocalypse. So needless to say, all during that storm me and Carlin were freaking out.

So Easter is this weekend. Me and Carlin are going to spend it writing papers and going to Best Buy to buy ink. I may change things up and work on my O-Tech project too. I’m showing felt together to make a picture, or appliqué. Fun times.

Oh and as a bonus to this post, you guys get Brittany’s List of Junk She May Want For Her Birthday!

• Star Trek Books
• Star Trek Poster
• Big Time Rush Poster
• Earrings—any kind, but definitely a pair of wings for one
• $$$
• More Army Fatigues
• Clothes
• more stuff that will be coming later . . .

Where A Wondrous Thing Can Happen When An April Day is Done

Once again I find myself apologizing for neglecting my blog. But I’ve been going through some stuff and didn’t feel like writing or doing much of anything for that matter. But I’m feeling better now. The weather helps I think.

I love Spring/early Summer. I can wear shorts and a t-shirt to class when I’m not working in the shops, which is nice. It’s not nice, though, when I work and have to where pants and then have to walk home in the gross Greeley heat. I also love the smell of the grass and sidewalk when the sprinklers are running. The other day when I was walking to the bus stop, one of the sprinklers was right over the cement. There was no where else to go, so I cut behind the sprinkler, then outran it. I thought it was way more awesome than it probably actually was. I also like that when I go to lab, it’s not pitch black and freezing.

So I took my Geology Lab final on Monday, which means I know have no more lab! Now I just have two classes on Monday.

Carlin’s sister came up for a visit last weekend, so we went to the park in La Salle. There were seesaws, but my capris were so slick that I kept almost falling off. Carlin also broke the swing by twisting it up and trying to spin. After she fell, we decided to go to the mall. Claire’s was having a sale, so I got a bunch of earrings for really cheap. Today I wore my sushi earrings.

My painting is onstage for the show already and that’s pretty cool. My candlestick is going to be put in the kitchen, so I have two things onstage. Those are both cooler than saying “I varnished that chair” or “I hung up that light.” Or on Monday, I cabled the onstage functional lights. Justin kept telling me I did an awesome job, but it was really just taping down cables. As long as they think I’m useful, I guess.

This post seems like it’s mostly mindless rambling, but I guess it’s better than nothing. I’ll try and post again later on this week, but we’ll see.

You Gotta Cut Loose

Lucky blog readers, you guys get a longer past this time cause I actually have stuff to say. For one, I am loving Windows 7 cause they have this program that lets me update the blog without having to go to Blogger. So that’s awesome. But the past few weeks I’ve been super busy.

Sunday was Footloose day. I saw the show at 2 and it was really good. I love Footloose, both the movie and the stage production. The actors were really good, especially since the guy who played the Reverend had laryngitis for a lot of rehearsals and during one night Harrison had to play his part. Apparently UNC doesn’t have understudies. After I saw the show I had to go to strike. Strike wasn’t too bad the first like 2 hours, but then it went downhill. I got a major headache from all of the pounding and sawing. All of us also missed dinner and nothing at the UC was open. Luckily though I walked past the UC and Taco Bell was magically open. I got like 3 tacos and scarfed them down. During high school strikes they always emphasize saving everything and not damaging the wood. Here, we toss all the screws and break all the set pieces to take them apart. But I was at Frasier for like more than six hours total. And I’m still feeling beat up from all the work. To make matters worse, in Electrics IP on Monday, we had more strike stuff to do by putting everything away. So I spent an additional 2 hours running stairs and going to and from Norton. 

Speaking of IP, I now really love going up on the catwalk. Last time I was still nervous and had to walk slow, but not anymore. It’s really fun to hang your feet off and rest your arms and head against the rail. It totally feels like you’re free falling. And it’s even better if you just rest your head on the rail. Ah, fun times.

On Sunday I also had to drive Carlin to GameStop to get the new Pokémon game. She still has mid-terms to study for, so she locked the up in a chest and gave me the key so she won’t just play Gameboy all week. Of course now I’m hooked on Gameboy Pokémon too. So I’ve been playing an old game on my Gameboy Advance. Yeah, I’m that cool.

So I’m definitely ready for Spring Break. I still have a 60 question Geology mid-term on Thursday that I’m majorly cramming for. Bleh. But my #1 plan for Break? Besides wanting to go to Mexico, that is. McDonalds is getting Young Justice toys! Yes, I know, major nerd. But I am really liking the show on Cartoon Network.

The weather this morning in Greeley was super weird. When I left for my 9:30 am class, it was majorly snowing and sticking to the ground. During lunch there was no snow and it was just kinda cold. For my 2:00 pm class the snow had melted and it was warm. Seriously Colorado, make up your mind. Oh yeah. Happy Fat Tuesday everyone. Although I didn’t get pancakes today and that made me sad. ):

Do You Guys Sell Guitars? Here? At Guitar World? Gee, I Don't Know

Oh, hey blog. Long time no see. This is practically my first post this semester and it's already March, so I feel real bad about that. But when my arm got all busted up from falling on the ice I couldn't type. Then schoolwork decided to be mean and I didn't have time to blog. I'm actually in the middle of mid-terms now, so I'm still really busy. I should probably be studying for my Western Civ essay mid-term tomorrow; I keep getting Charlemagne and Constantine confused. Which is easy to do, since they were really similar.

So today I only had one class--O-Tech. It was our first day of Props section so Robert just took us on a tour of all the prop storage areas, which there are a lot. There's Heaven, Nirvana, Hell, G, H, 203,the tunnel, A, and B. Hell is the most interesting. It's a secret door underneath the stairs outside where they store the coffins and stuff. Nirvana's also cool because it's this secret staircase where we store the doors and windows. After we got done a bunch of us went to Tropical Sno, which is like out favorite place. No matter what you get off the menu, it tastes really good.I got a cookie dough milkshake that was awesome.

Billy . . . You're Driving a Spork Into Your Leg

This title is actually appropriate for once because I've had a very annoyed day today. It started at about 1 in the morning. I was thinking that the 1 suite mate would be better but, no. The two things that will quickly make me hate you is costing me money and being loud. I'm still the only one who changes the toilet paper, which super annoys me. And at 1 am, the girl next door decides to talk super loud with some guy. And slam a door. I mean, it's better than other stuff, but still, I don't like being woken up.

So I had my first US History class today. The professor is nice, which is good. And the course looks like it concentrates on the wars, so I don't know how that will be. As long as it doesn't turn into "America is bad." The only problem is the professor has this idea that all wars are about economics. Name me one war that was started purely for economic reasons. He said that we entered World War II because the Nazis were going to close Europe to the US and the Japanese would close Asia. Umm, ever heard of Pearl Harbor? Or the fact that the Nazis wanted to TAKE OVER THE WORLD? Meh. But I still like him better than Professor Borg.

And then I had Geology. The professor is really cool and funny, so the class is pretty fun. Today he told us that he had to train his dog not to stare at the sun because it was so stupid. My Western Civ professor talks really fast for notes so everyone has a hard time writing notes. Except me. I'm used to just writing down important stuff, so I'm like the only one who gets everything down.

Chicken cordon bleu and a twice baked potato for dinner, yum. But they were out of cake. :( And me and Carlin just fangirled over a Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2 movie trailer. We're so cool.

Oh, and last night someone ran down the hall and banged on our door really hard. Me and Carlin both screamed really loud and I was shaky for like an hour. Not cool.

Bedazzled with Rinestones

This first week is like really boring. I only have one class on Mondays and Fridays until I sign up for IP. And it's a 10 am so I don't get to sleep in that much. Better than last semester when I had an 8 and a 9 am, but still. So I hike in the -3 degree weather to the bus stop and have to wait like 15 minutes for the bus to show up. Now that it's snowing out, everyone seems to be riding the bus. Luckily I've been able to get a seat so far. O-Tech was basically note taking today about basic lighting terms. And it was freezing in that room! Luckily our dorm room's really warm so the cold doesn't bother me in the room, just when I go outside.

So I pretty much spent the day sitting in the nice warm room. I had a bunch of reading for my Western Civ and my Geology classes to do, so I was at least productive. After my American History class on Thursday I have to go to the book store and buy more stuff for my classes. The problem is that I don't want to make a special trip out in the cold just to buy blue books and a rock test kit. Bleh.

I Was A Teenage Pop Star in Canada

I hate this weather. I just went to my Geology Lab and it was canceled. So I walked in the sub-zero temps for no reason, which riled up my asthma and made me achy. Sadness. I only had one other class today, O-Tech. It was just a syllabus day so pretty boring. Then I hung out in the room watching tv all day. Like Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. Good movie. And thanks to snow in Nebraska my 9:30 is canceled tomorrow too! Sp I only have two classes at 3ish. Of course the email canceling the class only gave the professor's name so I had to go on a mad search to figure out what class it was.

So, once again this will be a short post cause I haven't really done anything. I painted my fingernails yesterday and that's about as interesting as it's been. At least my classes are spread out timewise so I have plenty of relax time.

He's Zazzy!

Just . . . just don't ask about the post titles. I really have no more creative ideas so they'll be kinda random from now on. I'm back at the dorm and re-settled. The slut next door is gone, so much happiness there! And I have my cat, Alejandro. His picture is on my Facebook if you're curious. I finally put all my pictures up on my board, but that made me a little homesick. Then I watched Wipeout. I love watching people totally humiliate and fail on tv. Lolz all around. Salad for dinner. Bleh. Dorm food is fail.

............................so........................ Not much to say. Very short post. Fail. 0_0