finals week...ugh.

i could not be happier that finals week is over. it was like a bad dream. i can honestly say i know what hell is like now.
i wrote four papers this past week. two of them weren't even in my first language. i also studied for and took four exams.
i did not sleep, shower, or eat nearly as much as i should have.
and now it's finally over. i get one glorious month off before i go back.
have a great break, y'all :)

just a little note about RED

remember how i preordered taylor's new album and reslife lost it and has been trying to find it for over a month?
i talked to them about it, and they have come to the conclusion that they probably definitely lost it. so they will be reimbursing me soon, hopefully.
anyway, i just wanted to let you know because now it is okay to talk to me about taylor swift. kaitlin burned the album for me, so i have at least been able to listen to it.
happy finals week, y'all.

insanity

hey, sorry it's been so long. i meant to update over thanksgiving weekend, but that didn't happen and i've just been busy and exhausted since then. but i actually have a bit of time today, so here you go.
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as you are probably aware if you've seen my recent facebook updates, i am a bit sick. my throat started hurting last friday and it became really painful to swallow. i went to the urgent care center on sunday and found out that i have tonsillitis, an upper respiratory infection, and acute something else. so the doctor prescribed me a lot of drugs. the positive: my throat doesn't hurt anymore. the negative: i am SO EXHAUSTED. no matter how much sleep i get, i feel just as tired as ever. so i hope i get better soon. good news, though: today is my last day of taking a steroid! those are really chalky and leave THE WORST aftertaste. still on antibiotics, though. and pain killers. and an inhaler. i'll let you know how this turns out.
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this is probably the worst time to be sick. finals are next week. i have three tests to study for and three papers to do (i've already started two of them, but i have a significant amount of adding and editing to do). so my extreme fatigue is not conducive to my workload. i'll plow through. somehow.
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on the bright side, spanish club's last meeting of the semester was last week so i have one less thing to worry about these next few weeks. i will not miss that over break.
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speaking of spanish things, I GOT ACCEPTED TO THE SPAIN PROGRAM!!! i'll be studying abroad in salamanca for eight weeks this summer! WOO! that means i get my minor done WAY faster. I'M SO EXCITED!!!
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and speaking of exciting things, amnesty had elections for next semester's exec board, and i got elected secretary! yay! i'm very excited about this. i love amnesty. we have such a good group.
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it's throwback thursday (apparently this is a thing on twitter), so waaaay back at the beginning of november i went to visit kaitlin, one of my best friends from high school, in columbia over a weekend. it. was. awesome. i loved getting out of boring kirksville. we ate at chipotle and ihop and goodcents and it was beautiful. also, we saw the film adaption of the perks of being a wallflower, which is my favorite book. it was SO GOOD. i recommend it (the book and the movie).
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that's all the excitement i have for now. i might post again once i'm home for break to let you know how everything went at the end of the semester. otherwise, i'll meet you back here in january!

just a head's up

i know there have been some issues with comments on here in the past. i think i fixed it. give it a shot, let me know how it works out :)

oh hey, it's november

greetings. i hope everyone had a lovely october and halloween. did anyone else think october went by really fast? how is it already november? also, halloween didn't really feel like halloween to me. maybe because it was on a wednesday..? but kate and i had a lot going on. this past week has been I'm Not For Sale week for amnesty to raise awareness about human trafficking, leading up to our speaker (Carissa Phelps) on monday. i've been asked to elaborate on what amnesty international is and what it does. this site can tell you all about it :) speaking of amnesty, i just ordered a couple shirts from them. i'm pretty excited about that.
anyway, back to I'm Not For Sale week. it's been pretty great. we had a table in the student union this week giving out bracelets that we made in human trafficking awareness colors (navy and red). we had a petition for people to sign to the legislators of three states in the US that don't have any laws against sex trafficking (wyoming, colorado, and pennsylvania - i know, right?). it's been pretty successful.
so how this relates to halloween: on wednesday, we showed a film called flesh that's all about sex trafficking. if you're ever in the mood for a documentary on such a topic, i recommend it. it was really good. very eye-opening, you know, because when a lot of people think of sex trafficking, they think of it happening overseas, but it happens just as much here in america. one thing i learned was that if, say a thai girl and an american girl were caught in sex trafficking, the thai girl would be given options for getting help because she would be seen as a victim, but the american girl would be arrested on the assumption that she chose that lifestyle (newsflash - no one ever wants that for themselves. these girls are coerced into it). just some food for thought.
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on a less serious note, let's talk about halloween. kate and i wanted to watch the cabin in the woods (a ridiculous film, i must say). i looked it up at the library and it was in, so we went after our amnesty meeting (which followed the showing of the film), but  it was nowhere to be found. we looked all over the movie section and even asked someone for help, but to no avail. so i looked it up on redbox, and it was there. so we went to kum and go (which is apparently going to turn into a casey's one of these days) and got it. started watching it around eleven. we did not go to bed early that night, needless to say. but anyhow. that was my halloween. how was yours?
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i am going to mention this quickly so i don't dwell on it too long, but it is a major issue in my life currently so i can't ignore it completely. i pre-ordered taylor swift's new album (you know how much i love taylor). i ordered a preorder package, so it comes with some other stuff. i also some of her perfume (i had a coupon!). the album was set to release on the twenty-second of october. i got an email ten days before saying they'd shipped it. wrong. they did not ship it till the day it was released. fine. ups confirmed it's delivery to kirksville on the twenty-fourth. ...it's missing. i haven't gotten a notification that it's in. they (reslife) don't know where it is. i emailed the guy in charge of our building's mail, and he said he'd look into it. i emailed him again and he hasn't responded yet. i'm very sad, especially considering that everyone and their brother is talking about the album/it's plastered everywhere on the internet and in real life. ..that wasn't so quick. anyway. until you get a super excited facebook status update from me saying i got it, don't talk to me about taylor. please. it's overwhelming.
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fall events. student activities board brought a musician (B.o.b) and a comedian (Judah Freidlander). they were very good. if you get a chance to see them in person, i recommend it.
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so spanish club. i don't know if i've told you how burnt out i am on it. but i am. but it's alright. the people, though few, are nice. so that makes it bearable. i'm getting through it. it's not so bad. all the time.
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speaking of spanish club, my friend, becca (the historian of said club) and i went to walmart to get some snacks for this week's meeting. on our way there, someone on the road was honking at us but we had no clue why. when we were ready to leave walmart, there was a note on my windshield that said my rear passenger tire was almost flat. thankfully the lady parked next to us had something in her trunk to air it up, and told me that there was a tire service around the corner of walmart. so i took it over there to see what was wrong with it, and they found that there was a big ole nail in it! so they patched it for me. but thank goodness for nice people, because i probably wouldn't have noticed (i'm very observant, don'tcha know).
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anyway, that's all i have. have a happy november! i'll update again sometime after thanksgiving!

a post worth waiting for..?

sorry about the wait. i said i was going to get better at this, and here i am, having postponed my next post by over a week. i even had it written in my planner. *sigh* such is life. better late than never, right? anyhow, i'm sure this will be worth the wait because some exciting things have happened since the last time i filled you in...
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first things first. i turned twenty. good bye, teen years and hello to a new decade. it's a bit intimidating. i have definitely been celebrating my "adultness"; i have been coloring pictures in my disney coloring book with certain frequency, and i keep the fridge stocked with lunchables and juice boxes.
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another exciting thing that happened recently: daniel and i went back home to see florence + the machine. it was INCREDIBLE. when i think about how brilliant she is it makes me want to cry. i highly recommend seeing her live if you ever get the chance.
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and when i got back, i checked the mail and my absentee ballot had come! i was really excited and then i opened it and realized there are a lot of things i need to look into before i fill in those bubbles.. i'll get around to it. probably when i go home for midterm this week (yay!!)
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in terms of clubs, spanish club has been dwindling signigicantly. this comes as no surprise to me though. that's usually how it goes. but it's still disappointing since we're really trying to make it exciting. last week we watched tangled in spanish with english subtitles. and before that we played apples to apples in spanish. which, in my opinion, are some of the most exciting things i've ever done in spanish club (in high school or college). we're going to talk to the spanish faculty about offering extra credit for attendance at meetings so maybe we can get our numbers up.
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in other news, amnesty is doing very well. in the beginning of november, we're bringing Carissa Phelps to speak, and the week before we're going to be co-sponsoring a human trafficking awareness week with Students for Social Change. it's pretty exciting, and we've got lots of ideas flowing. i'll let you know more once we get things more organized.
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the historical society hasn't been too exciting of a thing, but there is going to be a halloween party at the end of this month. i haven't decided if i'm going to go, because i have to have a (at least loosely) historical costume. if anyone has any ideas, please let me know :)
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classes have been pretty good, they're not very hard, but i'm pretty sure i've hit the sophomore slump. i run out of motivation pretty fast. hopefully this will change. hopefully midterm break will recharge me.
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our bathroom is so ridiculous. our suitemates shed like you wouldn't believe. there's hair everywhere. and our shower somehow became clogged. i'm pretty sure i was standing in an inch of water last night. but i called fix-it, and they got it working again, so that was super exciting. and after the fix-it guy left, one of our suitemates vacuumed the bathroom, which made me even happier because it meant that i did not have to swiffer up their hair.
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that's all i have for now. tune in in a few weeks for another enthralling installment!

i apologize.

this week has been a bit crazy.
monday felt like friday and tuesday felt like sunday and wednesday felt like thursday and yesterday felt like friday and today is actually friday. i meant to update last weekend but i was writing a paper.
it's coming. i promise. and it will be exciting.
i am so sorry.

welcome to sophomore year

yay. i'm going to try to be more accountable this year. and i'm going to continue only capitalizing when i feel like it. if you're new here, or if you haven't read all my posts, you are by absolutely no means obligated to do so. you won't be lost if you didn't keep up with my freshman year. (if you did keep up with this blog last year, you know that i didn't even do a very good job of keeping up with my freshman year.) anyhow, here are some general points about me that you should probably know before i start unloading my first couple weeks on you.

• this is my second year at truman state in kirksville, missouri.
• i'm a history and sociology double major, and i'm also minoring in spanish.
• kate, my roommate this year, was my suitemate last year. we get along really well, and i consider her one of my best friends up here. 
•  my other friends include: daniel evans, one of my high school friends; sam and mason, who are fellow history majors (these three all live in the suite directly below kate and i); and daniel young, also known as mommy because he sometimes acted like a mom to kate and i last year.
• i also have friends in spanish club, which i am currently the president of, and amnesty international.
• in addition to these two organizations, i have also recently joined the historical society.
• kate and i's suitemates are international students from asia. one of them is from china and the other is from bhutan. 

i think that's all the basic information you need. if not...oh well. you'll find out eventually. on to the start of another year.
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so first things first. moving in. kate got there before i did, and i left all my stuff in my car so we could get our furniture moved around. we both wanted our beds delofted, and the stupid way our room was designed makes it hard to do that with all the other furniture we have (a wardrobe, fridge, two desks with chairs, and a chest of drawers). so we shoved all of kate's stuff in the bathroom and enlisted the help of daniel and sam. we finally got it all arranged one way, and realized that that was simply not going to work out. so we took a dinner break and got back to work. we finally got everything properly arranged and i started bringing all my stuff in. we were completely done arranging and unpacking by ten something that night.
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classes started two days later. this semester i'm taking basic statistics, spanish grammar and composition, exploring religions, anthropology of gender, and world history & historiography 2. i was concerned about statistics because it's of a mathy nature and spanish because i haven't taken it since last fall, but everything's turned out pretty alright. i really like all of my professors, with the exception of my stats professor because he's nerdy in the know-it-all sort of way. but i've warmed up to him, so he's not all that bad anymore. mostly because that class is super easy (we've done stem-and-leaf plots and mean, median, and mode. it's like fifth grade math). overall, my workload is pretty manageable as well, with the exception of history, of course. i'm always drowning in history readings. but it'll be okay. i would say of all my classes, though, that exploring religions is my favorite. i don't even know why, i just really like religions. we're starting hinduism next week, whee!
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as far as organizations are concerned, there's only been one meeting of everything so far, but i can tell everything's gonna be pretty great this semester. we've got some more members in amnesty and spanish club, which is great since they were both pretty small last semester. i'm excited about them :)
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another new thing this semester: i have a scholarship job. i'm working as an office assistant for the secretary of justice systems, sociology/anthropology, and psychology. all i really do is put mail in mailboxes and fill the copier with paper and that sort of thing. there's a lot of down time, which is good because that means that i can do my homework. or check facebook. the only annoying thing is that my schedule has changed a couple times already, so i'm hoping this new one will stick. currently i'm working fridays from eight to noon, which means that my fridays are gonna be pretty full since i also have three classes starting at twelve thirty and ending by three thirty.
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we haven't really been up to any exciting shenanigans yet. kate is determined to do something exciting every day until her birthday (which is three days before mine) to celebrate the end of her teen years. one night we watched anastasia (exciting, right? except that it actually was because i hadn't seen it in a long time. and i never realized how many famous people are in it. look it up on imdb or something. it's crazy.) the most exciting exciting thing we've done is do some inspirational chalking. for those of you that may not know, a good way to advertise events and stuff on campus is to write it on the sidewalk with chalk. but kate and i decided that we were going to write some nice things to brighten people's days. we wrote stuff like "you are loved" and "you are someone's ray of sunshine" and "you have the power to create an amazing day". it was pretty awesome.
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that's all the excitement i have for you this time (i think). i'll post again in a couple/few weeks. have a fantastic september (even though we're already eight days into it..)!

happy spring!

so here's what's been happening since i got back from Easter weekend.
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for the first entire week that i was back, i was constantly tired. it was ridiculous. no matter how much i slept, no matter if i drank caffiene or not, nothing worked. until that friday. exciting stuff was happening last weekend. this must have woken me up. i don't know. it was weird.
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friday night there was a paint party at one of the frat houses as a fundraiser for something that has to do with the kirskville YMCA. it was pretty legit. although i don't recommend getting paint thrown into your eyeballs. that doesn't feel super great. it burns a little. but my vision survived the party. and i came away with some pretty cool after pictures, which i posted via instagram to facebook, twitter, and tumblr. (social media explosion!) the paint was washable, though, and it came right out of the clothes i washed. i still have the shirt hanging up because i don't want the color to come out. i don't know what i'm going to do. but did get some cool shoes out of it. i bought some ked look-alikes for ten bucks at walmart, and i don't plan on washing them ever. so at least there's that. and if you have any suggestions about what to do with the shirt, do let me know :)
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then on saturday, iron & wine came. it was pretty great. except he's really mellow, so it was like he sang everyone to sleep (but we stayed awake cause it was too good to sleep through). there was supposed to be a tornado watch or something like that that night, but the weather was totally fine by the time the concert was over. i think iron & wine sang the storm to sleep. i recommend listening to him. he's very...relaxing.
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so between getting back and this past weekend, i registered for next semester. i got waitlisted on a couple of my classes, but spots opened up in the last couple of days so i am now fully enrolled in 15 credit hours for next semester. i'm taking: anthropology of gender, us history & historiography part two, spanish grammar and composition, basic statistics (ew), and exploring religions. sounds pretty good to me :) the only thing i'm disappointed about was that i didn't have enough time to cram in elementary russian, which is a five credit hour course because it's every day of the week. it was at the same time as my history class. *sigh* perhaps next year.
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our health teachers sent out an email last week about our final (this class is online). we can take it at any time during finals week, but we only have an hour. there's no backtracking allowed (sometimes on online tests/quizzes, you can go back to previous questions. it's super helpful because you usually remember something later.) and it's 100 questions. sixty minutes for a hundred questions, with no backtracking?!! kate and i have decided that this is absolute crap. because all of our quizzes for this class have had the number of minutes allowed equal the number of questions. plus, for non-online finals, you get like two and a half hours or something like that to take the thing. this is so not even fair. i'm legitimately considering writing them a letter telling them how crappy that is.
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and the last thing i have to say about last week is concering an event that amnesty co-sponsored. we had a speaker come in to talk about the new health care law, so we would know what was going on and what the legislation actually includes. the speaker is a law professor at SLU, and she was really good. i learned some things that i did not know. did you know that prior to this new law, 72% of insurance policies did not cover maternity costs? that's crap. i know this law has been under a lot of fire, but it really is a good thing. like the speaker pointed out, no piece of legislation is perfect, but some are good starting-off points, and this is one of those.
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so...yeah. that's all i have to say about that. finals are coming up week after next! i don't actually have very many finals. most of them are just final projects/papers that are due on the day of the final. i really only have two tests. yay! i'm looking forward to getting out of here!

it's spring and there's a lot of exciting things going on!

let's get to it, then!
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first of all, spring break has already come and gone for us. it was entirely too short. i was not ready to go back. except that no one else was on break then, so none of us really had anything exciting to do. i had to write a ten-page paper while i was home, though. you see, this was my midterm paper for one of my history classes. it was supposed to be done by the midterm exam, but all of us had a bunch of tests coming up, and some people in my class started negotiating with the professor to try to get him to extend it past break. he told us he probably wasn't going to grade them till after break anyway, so he extended it until the first class after break. he sent out an email that sunday night, however, saying that he was sick and class was cancelled for tuesday, so we got two extra days to work on it! it was very exciting. i think i did pretty well. hopefully. we'll see once he finally grades them and gets them back to us.
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speaking of that class, we got our midterms back the other day. my friends were all in the B range, i believe, so i was expecting to be somewhere in there as well. (i'm not implying that we cheat. we just all have about the same level of quality.) but guess what. i got my exam back, opened it up, and a lovely little A was perched a the top of the page. I WAS SO EXCITED. it quite literally made my day. i'm still excited. i want to hang it on the wall for all to see. (but, alas, i'm running out of wall space. i've been stealing posters from old events lately..)
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after having a week off of classes, going back to circuit strength training was difficult. everything hurt the first class back. it was like starting all over again. i do think i'm building up some muscle, though.
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also, it's been ridiculously warm here. we're talking fifties to seventies pretty much every day. it's awesome. i'm totally diggin it. and the pear trees are starting to bloom, and the daffodils are blooming. it's wonderful. and the wind has been pretty tame. due to this incredible weather, it was starting to get pretty hot in our room. so one day, i ripped the plastic off in a flourish. (it was not as dramatic as i had hoped, though, because i didn't have an audience and i didn't really make any sound effects. it did take a tiny spot of paint off the wall, but i don't think anyone will notice...) and now we have one of the windows open a few inches. 24/7. even when it rains. i'm a bit surprised that the rain hasn't been coming in the windows... anyway, it feels fantastic. i recommend open windows.
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so kate and i have been attending amnesty international meetings. and they're pretty good. the president, aaron, is gorgeous. like, he was a model. in france. for designers you've actually heard of. it's crazy. plus he's just an interesting person. but anyway. the faculty advisor is this little old french professor and her british husband always tags along. his name is larry and he's very opinionated and always wants us to do something crazy and radical. whenever he gets the opportunity to talk about anything, he goes on about it for.ever. oh my goodness. it's even worse when his wife isn't with him. at one meeting she was absent for, i'm pretty sure he talked for at least a half an hour. i was keeping time. it's crazy. oh my goodness. ok. enough about that.
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lastly, i would like to ask you to hold my scholarship job application in your thoughts/prayers. i'm applying to the writing center. you can look at what they do here. i've been in touch with the director, asking him about aspects of the application (there is so much stuff you have to have to apply for this job! you have to have two samples of writing between 4 and 12 pages, two faculty letters of recommendation and one from a student, the application itself, and a letter stating why you want the job). i think all my recommendation letters are in the works, i've picked out my samples, and i've submitted the application. i just need to write the letter, which i'm nervous about. i've never had to do this before.
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that's all i have. but i'll keep you updated ;)
happy spring!

a little update about february

hello.
not much has been going on except for lots and lots of schoolwork. but here are some things to note about the lovely month of february.
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valentine's day was nice. danielle, kate, alli, and i gave valentines to all our friends. sam made valentines for me, kate, and danielle, but he was the only boy to do so. oh well. it doesn't matter. i bought those pre-made cookies that you just stick in the oven at walmart. they were disney princess. we cooked them a little too long but they were still good. and i also bought the movie valentine's day. it was a lovely celebration.
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and then on the nineteenth, my parents and sister came to visit! that was exciting. i didn't want them to leave. i showed them the wonders of truman and kirksville and we had lunch and then hung out in my room because my roommate was gone on a retreat that weekend. (whenever she and sam go on their catholic retreats, kate and i always joke with them that the kids are going to church camp. danielle seems to be in denial about the fact that a retreat is just a short version of church camp.)
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we signed up for housing! danielle found herself a roommate, but this girl wants to live in a different building than kate and i do, so she's not even going to be our suitemate next year. kate is incredibly excited about this because danielle has woken her up three or four times this past month by blow drying her hair at strange hours (like six o'clock in the morning when everyone else in our suite is asleep). anyway, kate and i currently have no suitemates, but kate keeps checking on it every day just in case. we're thinking that we might have freshman. which wouldn't be completely awful, depending on what they're like. we're going to be staying in BNB (Blanton-Nason-Brewer Hall). you can check out some pictures of the inside here. it's so much nicer than centennial.
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my workload sucks. it's just awful. i have tons of stuff to read all the time. and now, i have a ten page history paper due at the end of break. i'm three pages in, which is better than my friends in that class have done, so at least there's that. but it's just so much work and i'm getting so burnt out and i can't wait for break. good thing it starts today once i'm done with class. :)

so...umm...

those links don't work. so here are the photos.

sit tight...

i've got a massive update summing up january on its way.
i'm in the process of writing it, but since i have so much to fill you in on, it's taking a while, and i'm not going to do it all in one sitting because i just don't feel like it. but it's coming. not to worry. :)
i suppose i'll give you a few tidbits to look forward to:

• this semester's workload
• fix-it projects
• classes and professors
• how to tell someone something they don't want to hear

also.
to keep you entertained, meet my mascot, sprinkles. he is my motivator. kate gave him to me for christmas (his given name was rainbow, which i found to be highly unfitting, since he is only two colors.) here are some more photos of him hanging out with a friend, wearing my glasses , and helping me with homework.
some people have pictures of their dogs, family, or significant others as the background on their ipods or phones. i have sprinkles.
enjoy. :)

summing up january

sorry i haven't posted in the past month that i've been back. this semester is a lot more....involved than last semester (as you're about to find out). so without further ado, here's january's highlights.
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first of all, i need to rant about this stupid health class that i'm taking. it's online, so you'd think it would be relatively easy, since there's a ton of kids in this class (plus it's health. when is health ever hard?). but it's ridiculous. they're piloting a new health class this semseter, and we're the guinea pigs. so they have this "custom textbook" that we had to buy, so we could only get it from the Truman bookstore. the hard copy of the book cost $90 or you could get the code for the online textbook for $70. i paid seventy dollars for a piece of cardboard. so that pissed me off. and the class itself is so. much. work! we have multiple time consuming activities due three times a week. it SUCKS.
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and speaking of health, i might as well rant about the "lab" portion (or as i like to refer to it, PE). kate and i are taking circuit strength training (which, of all the classes still open and compatible with the online class, was the least painful sounding. compare that to a class dedicated to kettlebells or one called "extreme muscle confusion"). it kicks our asses. it's getting better now, but somedays i swear i'm allergic to exercise. it makes my nose run and i get this giant wad of snot in my mouth, which makes it nearly impossible to get any air when we're running about the gym. (attractive, i know, but i think this could be considered a legitimate medical condition. my health science major and biology major friends do not agree.)
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the weather. is ridiculous. it started off being cold, and then all of a sudden, it decided to be shorts and sandals weather (and, yes, there were lots of people walking about campus in january in shorts or skirts and sandals). it was in the fifties-sixties range. and then the next day, it snowed and proceded to be below freezing for several days. we've been on a cycle like this since we got back. it's either frigid arctic weather, or springtime. it's nuts.
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speaking of it being cold, our window might as well not exist, because that's how much wind blows in it, despite the fact that it is shut and locked. danielle finally acquired some plastic from the hall desk (would you believe that they ran out and didn't know when they would get more?!) and i taped it up (not exactly a walk in the park). our room is significantly warmer now. it's not super warm unless, of course, it's warm outside, but at least when you walk in our room now it doesn't feel like you just crossed the threshold into the siberian tundra. i'm a fix-it woman. :)
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speaking of fixing things! our showerhead has been so ridiculous all year. we've called fix-it a couple times, but they never came. the third time kate called, they came! and now instead of having a shower that sprays in every which direction and is therefore constantly pelting you in the face, we have one that drips more and has less pressure, but it sprays in a straight line. like a regular shower. it's so wonderful. we can actually shave (not to mention see) in there now. :)
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so, as you're aware, i have a little piece of my hair that is purple. or at least, it's supposed to be. i redyed it in january and after two washes, it was back to the faded pinkish color. ugh. i can't win.
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oh. my goodness. one sunday, my roommate was gone having brunch after mass and i do not recall where my suitemates were. but i woke up to the fire alarm going off. and it was raining outside. it was incredibly upsetting, because i was standing outside in my pajamas in the rain. though this wasn't nearly as bad as what one of my SAs, allison, faced. she was in the shower when it went off and had to go outside in a towel and a jacket. i felt so bad for her.
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so my history teacher last semester was pretty much a joke. this semester, i have dr. wandel. he is so great. we don't have to write a paper for this class, and there's no lectures. we just have to read and then in class we discuss what we've read. and occasionally we have a pop quiz. i get so much more out of this class. it's like a dream.
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despite this, however, i have a perpetual mountain of homework on my desk. i call it Mount Homework. it sucks. because all of my homework (usually) is reading. read, read, read, read, read. all the time. and i'm not a fast reader. so i constantly feel swamped by my workload.
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i'll end with the most pressing issue. i had been getting rather frustrated with my roommate, and part of this was stress from not wanting to tell her that i don't want to room with her next year. it's hard to tell someone that, especially when it's someone as nice and delicate as her. it's like breaking up with someone. and it was awkward when i told her. because she seemed like she didn't want to not room with me. she was holding back tears. but after that night, she was totally fine. and it got easier to deal with her.
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....but now she's driving me nuts again. mostly because she doesn't have class till 10:30 on monday, wednesday, and friday, and noon on tuesdays, but she gets up at eight. and it's not just the fact that she's awake that's annoying, it's that she tries to have conversations with me (i am SO not a morning person) and/or she's constantly in my way. oh my goodness. i'll refrain from more complaints, but really. it's so frustrating.
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that's all i have for now. i know that was very comprehensive. i'll try to be more brief next time. :)

hello january...

...and the beginning of a new semester.
bleh.
as it stands, i have currently suffered through my first class of the semester. on mondays and fridays this spring, i have Writing as Critical Thinking (a stupid, required english class that i'm annoyed that i have to even take) and World History II. there is a three hour gap between them. so with today's gap, i couldn't help but post here.
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so far over today's gap, i have made a list of things i need to pick up at walmart, taken a shower, (sorta) checked my email, picked up a package of some of my textbooks, and procrastinated on doing the homework for WACT. what an exciting day, eh?
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since i have been asked myriad times over winter break, i will now inform you (now that i know) what days i have off this semester:

• MLKJ day, obviously.
• "midterm break" (kate and i have decided to refer to this as "spring break", because that's what it is): march 5-9
• "spring break": april 9 (that's right. we get a monday off. one. monday. what is that? that is like cheating on giving us time off.)
• then finals week is the last day of april/first week of may. i'll be home for cinco de mayo!

what a rip off, no? we don't even get president's day off. our school is named after a president, for crying out loud; we should get a national holiday off!!

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now that i have finished ranting about that, i would talk about something else. but i have just realized that i have nothing else to say, as the semester just started. but i'll keep you posted ;)