ReCap!

Haaaaaaaaaw jeeze...

My parents have dial-up, remember, so I haven't really had the motivation to post anything. Christmas was great... although our send-off from Sellersville wasn't. Wes and I wanted to open present with his parents Christmas morning and then head off to my parents house for Christmas lunch/dinner. Someone had a fit about that idea so we got an "OK BYE" when we left and were told we'd open presents on Sunday, upon our return.

We got to my parents house, had a delicious meal, and opened presents!! My mum got Wes some really nice shirts and a nice sweater, my dad got him a Scottish Ale beer kit. I got my camera (iPod touch I got Christmas eve!!) and a lens and case for it. My sister got a Garmin and Sirius radio, my brother his snowboard.

Friday my friend Kristen came over. She brought her baby! I've known her since second grade and now she has a baby... CA-RAZY!! She and her hubby are moving up to Fort Drum New York so will only be five hours from Williamsport instead of twelve!

Saturday was my mum's family Christmas party. It was good to see everyone. It was good times :) We do a name-pick before Christmas so that everyone only has to buy for one person... which is easier on the wallet. My cousin Michael got me a Hot Topic gift card so that I could by some lip rings... since I always loose the balls. We went to my mum's cousin's holiday party in New York after that... I got sick, my mum was sick... so we left early. Wes drove us home and I threw up as soon as we walked in the door. But I felt much better afterwards :) I slept a lot after that so Wes beat Mario Kart Wii. A couple of times.

Sunday we traveled and I worked Sunday night. Booooooooooooo.

We're going to Rhode Island tonight to spend New Years in Newport!!!!!!!! AWESOME! I miss Sam and Matt :(

*Grumpy Face*

I wanna go home. And I want Wes to come with me. But, of course, it's not going to be that easy. I won't give out credit to anyone. You never know who reads these things.

At least I finally got MY computer back so I don't have to 'delete history' everytime I'm on it.

Sleepy Rambling

Awake at 4am even though I'm not working? Uber stinks. I think my really effed-up schedule of sometimes being at work and sometimes sleeping (or... supposed to be sleeping) at this hour really confuses my body. I'm sorry body, I know. I can't wait until I can cease this daily transition from night-life to day-life to night-life either.

So I had a sandwich and am seriously considering hijacking Mamma Mia! from the downstairs and watching it upstairs before someone more responsible than myself decides to take it back to Blockbuster.

Saturday night at work was awful. Some chick (I won't use the other C-word) got really pissed that we wouldn't let her use our Employee Only restroom so went out back, peed and puked, and then proceeded to brag about it (very loudly). Some plastered idiot dropped a bottle of something and it exploded everywhere. He just watched it as it rolled across the floor, pouring liquid (drunk people and wet floors: not good). So I mopped that up amid a crowd of hungry ass-holes. Some other dood drunkenly backhanded his buddy's coffee... so I had to bring the mop out again and clean that up while "I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" is heard in the background. The fella who had assaulted the coffee was an "emo kid" I guess but... not a kid. He was older so knew that he only needed certain elements of the "emo kid style" to look emo (unlike these kids that just positively ooze emo to make sure onlookers know just how individual they are... PFT!). He told me I had beautiful eyes. Thanks drunken-older-emo-guy-who-actually-pulls-off-"emo"-without-looking-pathetic. He was just flattering me so that I wasn't upset with him when he left. He wanted to walk-out on good terms. This is the relationship I have with drunken WaWa customers.

I worked with Shawn both Friday and Saturday. Two days in a row is too much of that kid. He always proposes these 'hypothetical situations' that I know are legitimate scenario's that he's encountering but he thinks that I'll be more sympathetic or offer him better advice if he builds up this scene with me as the main character. Yet, he'll tell anyone that he had a something-something-breakdown and has lost all faith in people (people being girls) and sees a psychiatrist regularly (even though he already knows what the Doc tells him to be true: You can't change people). All he talks about are girls: how he's given up girls, about the cute girls that come into work, why he's attracted to such-and-such a girl even though she's not his 'type,' how he was supposed to hang out with this girl but she keeps blowing him off ("What should I do!?"... really? You don't know?), girls, girls, girls!!! I just stare at him, eyes glazed, mouth slightly open, dumbfounded by the lack of intelligent conversation. I like Shawn. Just not when I'm stuck at WaWa with him for eight hours. More than one day consecutively.

I can't wait to be moved-on from gosh darn WaWa. So many people are boo-hoo about office jobs but honestly, I'm tired of being treated like shit by scum of the earth and business suits alike. I'm tired of people assuming that I have an IQ equivalent to that of my age and have three kids and a dead-beat boyfriend at home and that this is as far as I'm going in life. Being treated like that really irks me (this is part of the reason I'm uber friendly with "customer service associates" when I'm out and about).

Anywho... My ear is doing well... Minus the fact that Wes attacked it with his nose yesterday. I'm excited to travel home this week and to Rhode Island next week. I'm excited for my fatter paychecks since school has been out. I'm excited to give out presents (and recieve! Kyle got me a Black & Decker Blender!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!). I'm happy that Wes is interested in wine (finally!).

I think I will go upstairs and watch Mamma Mia! Who doesn't love a musical this early in the morning?

Petty

I've been having a tough time sleeping lately. I think it's because of my lack of a never-ending list of things to do. I'm too relaxed. I can't sleep when my mind is at ease!!!!

I was driving home from work this morning, past school... and due to the heavy ice we've been getting, a huge branch tore off a tree and right into the brand new fence the school had built earlier this semester. It was kind of a bummer to see because I watched that innocent little fence go up... and it had quite a violent end. It wasn't fair to the fence.

Wes and Jim should be on their way home from the Flyers game (7-1, Flyers). Wes thinks he has a new hobby. Typical Wes!

Work tonight. Hopefully to outlet stores tomorrow (my mum expressed a want for some L.L. Bean slippers). Possibly enjoying a bottle of wine with my Wes Sunday evening? Sounds spectacular!

I finished my book last night. So now I have no book to read.

So I'm sitting in the basement, doing laundry, drinking my WaWa coffee, eating my Entenmann's Original Recipe Chocolate Chip Cookies and watching Flight of the Conchords (season one). I just wanna go back to bed and wait til I have to go to work tonight.

and now wesley hates me.

Mom! Dad! I'm Engaged!

I love the show Engaged and Underage (from MTV... who else?). It makes me feel so competant and mature.

These kids think that their 'relationship problems' will be solved if they marry their 17 year-old beau. The girls think their boys won't go out or oogle other women or make dirty jokes with their friends. The boys think they're gonna get some everynight while maintaining their current dood-hanging status. It's cute.

They think it's instant entrance into adult-hood and that their parents will finally take their relationships seriously and begin treating them like adults. Ye gads!!!

It does EVERYTHING!!!

I'm my anticipation of receiving my lovely new iPod Touch (EEEEEEEEEEEE!) I'm browsing the hundreds of apps that you can get to put on it....

So what application has me in fits of excitement? Barely able to contain myself? Well... THE GRAPHING CALCULATOR APPLICATION!!!! DUUUUH!

Is the nerd in me showing??

I can also refresh my French with my iPod Touch... I think I have a new best friend :)

The final tally

Oh, I almost forgot!

Fall Grades 2008:
Honors: A
Speech: A
Physics: A-
Calculus: B+
Microbiology: B+
Philosophy: B
Semester GPA: 3.55 (uuuuuuuuuuuugh)
Cumulative GPA: 3.745 (DOUBLE UUUUUUUUUUUGH)

I really have to step it up next semester and get that cumulative GPA to round up to 3.8 again. UGH UGH UGH UGH. Terrible semester!

Me. Unproductive.

I am not a person that does well when there's nothing to do... I know I'll be busy with work this weekend... but for right now... I'm just blaaaaaah. No classes and no work and no money to spend on entertainment... ACK!

I can't sit and watch T.V. all day. My eyes have been going oogley because of the hours spent reading.

At least when Wes and I lived in our own place last year, I had a house to clean or paint or putz around aimlessly in. Now I have a bed room. A tiny bedroom.

Wes' dad isn't working for the next couple of weeks and apparently his mother took off this whole week. So they're here... all the time. Ackward much?

I know this all sounds a bit complainy and whiney... but the whole thing really just makes me wanna rip my hair out. At least Gene is bringing me Wanted tonight so I'll have something to entertain myself with for a couple of hours tomorrow.

Last night we went to Nate's to hang out and drink homebrew (der!). Extra Special Bitter, Winter Warmer, and an Espresso Porter were the brews of the evening (all extremely delish). We ended up staying way past Nate's bed time (he's an extremely early riser) so I feel rather guilty for that.

It was good times :)

Work tonight... YAY!!! Something to do!

A Good Weekend!

It feels sooooooooooooooooooooooooo good to be done with school... but now I have that feeling of "Oh crap, what do I do with all this free time?" syndrome.

I asked to be put back on as full-time at WaWa... and they gave me three shifts... two of which are Friday and Saturday nights. This pisses me off for two reasons: 1) that's only a $200 paycheck and 2) too much time to sit around by myself during my week and no going-out-time with Wes on the weekend. I want my big-girl job already!

My peircing is all crusty with dried blood and my ear is all black and blue... but it doesn't hurt or throb or irritate me in anyway, so I guess it's fine!

The Christmas party was a blast last night. I adore some of Wes' coworkers. Good food, tons of drinks, and great company! (Oh, and LOTS of dancing)!! Who could ask for a better time?

Piercings are fun!

So I noticed a bulletin from Fyre Body Arts today that tonight they're doing free piercings! You just have to pay for the jewelry! I think I might get the webbing under my tongue done... technically it's called the "tongue frenulum" but if you google-image-search that phrase, a bunch of penises show up :( Icky pants!!

So... check the my photo blog tonight and maybe you'll see a picture of a new hole poked in my face :)

Work tonight... Wes' company Christmas party tomorrow night!!!! WEEEEEE boozing with Wes' co-workers!

So much frustration!!!

oy! The anticipation of waiting for grades to be posted drives me absolutely mad!!

My honors grade isn't up yet even though we gave presentations Monday night and there were probably 12 of us...

My speech grade isn't up yet even though I gave my final speech last Wednesday.

What the heck are these guys waiting for! My physics final was Tuesday morning and that grade was up by Tuesday night!!! AHHHHHHHHH I CAN'T STAND THE ANXIETY!

Micro was much more difficult than I anticipated but I did study hard and I think I'll get an A- there. Calculus wasn't that difficult... but the one problem that I should've known backwards and forwards I couldn't get to work properly. ARG ARG ARG. Just Philosophy left for today... Keegan (and Jamie, I suspect) are going to meet me in the library at 12:30 to study for it. It would be really great to do really well on this test and feel like I've done really well. Although... if I could choose a B for any class it would probably be Philosophy because it's only a 3 credit class, so it is weighted less than Micro or Calc. It looks like it might be A-'s across the board though.

*sigh* The end is so close... I can't imagine how next semester will feel... when I'll be DONE with undergraduate studies!!!!

Philosophy for Thought

Epicurus: If God is willing to prevent evil and can't, then he is impotent. If he is able to prevent evil but doesn't, then he is malevolent. If he is both willing and able, then whence then is evil?

Albert Camus (Atheist/Existentialist): We must recognize evil in all its forms but we must not accept it. Evil is the negative acts that humans can commit - killing, war, genocide, cruelty to others. Human dignity lies in our struggle against evil, to defy it, to reject it, to carry on in the face of it. Look at the world and your own life as absurd. Seeing, sensing, and, ultimately, owning that absurdity leaves two choices: suicide or revolt. Revolt against absurdity gives life a value, suicide gives in to absurdity. Bearing witness to the absurdity of life by revolting against it is the only proper choice in the end.
~Main premis behind The Plague

A minor victory

Physics: A-
OH YEAH!!!

Blah Blah Blah School

I figure it's time for an update... for whomever reads this thing anyway!

I've been kinda bummed about my too-busy-schedule lately and how it's interfered with my blogging (sad... I know.) but I think it's for a strange reason. As far as I know, nobody reads this. And I'm fine with that. I think, what it is that has finally lured me in about blogging, is that I find it very... therapeutic... to just type. I tend to type like I speak... so it's like that best friend who will just listen and listen and listen and never complain. The best friend that you abuse with minor life-victories and unnecessary drama... and they are happy to hear it all. I think that's why I've been irritated about my schedule not allowing me to blog... Like my blog subtitle says, "I have a lot of nonsense on my mind and this is how I choose to get rid of it." It just feels better to vent... to have everything out there *sigh of contentment*

That being said, tonight was my honors presentation. These things are pretty laid back and consisting of x-number of students that deliver 15-25 minute presentations of the category Explore and Enrich... which is a pretty loose category. Tonight we had someone who has been taking belly dancing lessons, two girls that traveled to Utah and worked for animal sanctuary, a girl talking about teaching inner city 8th graders the importance of ecological systems, a young fella that writes music, another that earned his SCUBA diving certification, a fellow-foodie of mine that taught us self-defense amongst other things. All-in-all the presentation took about 4 hours to get through (I know...) but everyone has something semi-interesting to say. Wes and I's beer was highly accepted and received rave reviews.

Tomorrow morning is stupid Physics... then Thursday is Micro, Calc II, and Philosophy... I figured I can get an 80 on Micro and still get an A... unfortunately Physics, Calc, and Phil are not similar. I'm pretty much on the verge of A-B for all of them... I hate being at that point going in to finals. Sucks dick.

On a semi-good note, I took my speech book (never used), my micro book (never used), and one of my two calculus books (because I'm an idiot and bought two) back to the book store for book-buyback. $195. Not too shabby (until you consider the fact that I spent over $600 on them). Well, no... not technically. I still haven't returned my physics book (DID use) and my philosophy book (never used) and my other calculus book... I'll do that Thursday after finals (and before the Porter House... hehehehehehehe).

I'm just excited to be done-ish... and am really bummed about the next 4 finals... Hey! At least next semester won't be this bad :/

OH! And I think Wesley is getting me an iPod touch for Christmas. That is something to look forward to (since I've been music-less while on-the-go since I lost my last iPod :(... )

Dreaming my Life Away

I haven't updated or written anything really interesting the past week... But I've been beat. Flat-out exhausted.

Today I stayed in bed until 5pm. 5!! I was having such lovely dreams (although I can't recall what they were about now) that I didn't get up. Everytime I woke up, I just stayed there and waited for more dreams. It was so... not-dealing-with-this-place. It was lovely.

So... no studying got done, no beer got bottled, nothing productive was accomplished. It really makes me just want to turn right around, go back upstairs, and not think about it. Just dream some more.

ugh

I'm so tired I can't see straight... and it's only 7:45. I can't wait til my 5pm bed time this evening... that's the only thing keeping me going.

Intergrals, heat of fusion, and family fun

Ooooooh gooooooooooooood it pains me to be back at school. The break did rejuvenate me and I was almost excited to learn today... but the tests and the projects and the speeches and the reviews is enough to make one go mad. At least I have my muddy buddy's to keep my happy.

To Do:
Wednesday -
Physics test review (for test Wed)
Physics project (which I haven't started)
Physics final cheat-sheet (an 8x10 piece of paper!!!!)
Philosophy final review sheet
Calculus final review problems
Calculus take-home part of final
Final speech for speech class

Next week -
15 minute presentation on Beer Making for Honors for Monday
Physics final (cumulative) Tuesday
Calculus in-class final (cumulative) Thursday
Copy and study Microbiology notes for final Friday
Make sure to get at least a 95 on Philosophy final, also Thursday. I think.

Doesn't look like I'll get to work much next week which is a major bummer... but I really need to do well on all my finals... ugh ugh triple ugh. It's almost over. It's almost over. It's almost over.

I got a 51 out of 50 on my micro unknown... even though I got the wrong 'answer.' I deduced that my unknown was B. larvae when in fact it was B. cereus which is a lot more dangerous and can make you very, very sick... I wonder if that's why everyone has been so sick around here.... hrm....

Lynette changed her major from Food Science to Food Technology (half way through her senior year) and hopes she can fit in a minor in psychology. Ye gads. Minor's only require 15 credits from that departments specialized courses so it's not that difficult... it's just courses that she hasn't taken into consideration.

Anywho... it sucks to be back in the swing of things. My family may not be perfect (my dad is really out of touch with... everything) but we get along, we laugh, we have good times. My mum loves to have her girls and their boyfriends around and we like to pick on my little brother (he needs some tough love). I finally got up to my aunts house and saw all the renovations they've done to it. It's actually quite a tiny house and nothing super fancy but they've really improved the look of it. My cousin, who is my age, just got hired full-time at Frito Lay (making nearly $20 an hour) driving a forklift and now his dad, who has never done anything spectacular or worth mentioning, is excited to spend his sons new found fortune. I've never cared for my aunts husband... as my mum put it, "He's nice, he's just... stupid." We went to my other aunts house (my mum's other sister) and I got to see the married cousins and one cousin-in-law (the other one was visiting her family in Poland). We played Mario Kart on Wii and ate pie. Good times. Lazy times. But good times.

I've started looking at jobs... and my 'looking' I mean I have a resume on Monster.com. I've actually had it up there for quite a few weeks now and have been getting emails frequently about job openings and hirings... but haven't really seen anything of interest. We shall see... I don't want to be a graduate without a job :( or a least a twinkle of a job... I don't know.