Hey, I thought this week was supposed to be easy. Last week (or was it the one before?) was the one with all the hard tests and papers and whatnot. I don't know what happened, but suddenly I got buried and anything I tried to do.. I felt like I was wading around in a 4 feet deep ball-pit (you know, the kind they have at McDonalds Playplaces) minus all the fun, plus all the sluggishness. So yeah, I guess it's fair to say that I haven't been efficient with my time this week, but it's hard to be efficient when I've been as tired as I have. And it only gets worse from here. Next week goes as follows.
- Monday: 2 classes, workout, regular homework.
- Tuesday: 3 classes, study for Stats exam, Art homework.
- Wednesday: Stats exam, Art class, take out recycling, yoga class, study for Econ test, Mgmt and Spanish homework.
- Thursday: Management class, Econ test, Spanish class, finish Art paper and Spanish re-write.
- Friday: Stats class, Art class (with paper due), Spanish re-write due.
*Freaks out a little.*
Otherwise, good times. I bought one of those Glade PlugIns Scented Oil Outlets and now my room smells like Apple Cinnamon; sometimes it's a little overbearing, even if I have it on the lowest setting (my room is probably just too small for the amount of particles it releases). It's nice to have, though, when the cleaning ladies come around and pour bleach products on everything in the bathroom so you can't even breathe for a couple hours after. Glade has some pretty cool-sounding scents, I'm interested to try Clean Linen, Berries, Rainshower, Suddenly Spring, and Vanilla Breeze.
Also, my Our Lady Peace and Augustana CDs came -- thanks, parents -- and I am happy with them, though, for some strange reason, it's hard for me to listen to this music. I guess I keep thinking about the night of the concert and how wonderful it was, and I'm so plugged in to that, that I feel it so much, it almost hurts. It's too hard to explain, I know that doesn't make any sense. But I am enjoying the CDs, maybe too much. Maybe that's it. I also found out that Raine Maida (lead singer of OLP) is married to Chantal Kreviazuk, and that they recently had their second little boy together. I'm glad.
Despite all the craziness and frustration I've been having with school, I'm happy, I suppose. I'm tired of this layout, but yall know I'm busy. I spend what leisure time I have with my boyfriend or in front of the TV. I do need to take my camera outside tomorrow afternoon to take pictures of the leaves' changing colors. Here it is, November, and yet the high on Saturday is 80. I love it. I also know that I'll be spending at least an hour in the Brooks Museum staring at a stone torso. How weird is the world sometimes?
There's a girl outside my room talking on the phone in the hallway, really loudly actually, but she sounds like this girl named Elizabeth in my Spanish class (and Yoga class -- she has excellent tree pose), but not Southern enough. I know that it's probably not Elizabeth because she said she was going back home (somewhere in Alabama) to have her DEBUTANTE BALL.. who knew that those were still happening? I like Rhodes because it's the North of the South and the South of the North. There's kids from New York, Miami, and California.. plenty of St Louis kids, too. This kid (also in my Spanish class) was born in Saudi Arabia but goes to Chaminade in St Louis. Crazy. I don't know where I'm going with this.
For all my WHS band kids who read this (probably like two people), I told (in Spanish class, in Spanish) the story of all those Monk Days that we had for being misbehaved. It was interesting. I also got my Spanish paper back -- the one I was scared and feeling bad about, imagining Henager would be sitting in his living room or wherever, grading, thinking "These observations are so basic and obvious.. where's the real analysis?" Because he's a brilliant, brilliant man and expects a lot out of people. And I, in no way, expected an A-. AHHHHHHH!!! *jumps around excitedly*
How I do tend to ramble! Gotta love unstructured, random posts about everything and nothing. I wish I didn't have so much work, or that I could be content with a lower GPA, because there are such cool people on this campus, I am starting to realize. Many of them are in my Spanish class. I don't know. Some people are realllllly annoying though and--I hate to say it but--smell bad. You'd think they'd get the hang of that hygiene thing by now, but apparently you can just let it go when you don't have parents hovering over you, saying, "You have to take a shower tonight. Wash behind your ears. Use soap, PLEASE."
I guess that's really all I have for tonight. I'll leave you with two pictures. One: today I wore a v-neck over my polar bear shirt, and the polar bear's head was poking out. Two: my Bruise Almighty (Junior).
