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.