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[1:27pm] The trees outside my room have those little whirlygig pods and I think some are flying into my room. Ergh.
[11:45am] You can't think badly of me just because I don't update like I used to. Like I should. I'm trying not to flunk out of school (I
got a B on my last Calculus test, which is quite a difference from the D I got last time).. things are hard to fit in. I have friends,
boyfriend, schoolwork, and tons of stupid things like housing signups and Search Study Session (S3).. but whatever! I decided on my desired
schedule for next year.
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[12:04pm] The other day Olivia exposed me to Chopin's Piano Concert #2 and I almost died.
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[12:21am] I just missed telling my brother HAPPY 16TH BIRTHDAY on here.. I did call him, though, twice. The second time, he was like, "Uh,
thanks. Again." I just wanted him to be sure that I was remembering. But I've been thinking. I just want to be good at everything. I want
to be experienced, but naive enough to be able to get away with things. I want to be tactful, but blunt when need be. I want to be able to
peak every language. I want to be good at curling my hair and applying makeup artistically, but not actually have to resort to such
methods. I want to have the results that one arrives at through pampering and maintenance, but without having to pamper or maintain. I want
to smell delicious naturally. I want all my schoolwork done easily and have it been rewarding. I want to be kind but not soft, loving
but not distracted, occupied but not busy. I want to conquer. But I really kinda wanna sleep.
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[2:53pm] OH HOW I LOVE SATURDAYS.. And "HAPPY FIRST DAY OF SPRING"!!! Hmm.. For the story that follows there will be a lot of bolding and
italicizing. It's not as good without. Deal. Last night we all decided to go out for dinner--so we went to like, Arkansas Bread Company
or whatev, and the guy gave me a hard time about buying a can of soda and the girl wouldn't let me buy a kids meal. Rawr!! I wanted
that coloring book! Anyway, so we ate and Matt made fun of my PB&J and Olivia told the baby to shut up and we swayed to the
romantic music and doubted the veracity of the books in the restaurant's library. Then we parted ways, unexpectedly, when Drew asked
us in his car (me, Winny, Deb, Zach), "Wanna go to Baskin Robbins?" And indeed we did, which was where Love Potion #31 brought my
quality of life to a new high, and making fun of the inexperienced skaters too. Someone's car alarm went off and we all danced to the
beat of the honking horn. None of us had a cellphone so we couldn't call Olivia, Matt, and Laura to join us, so we discussed the
possibility of rationalizing our extreme tardiness (since BR is in Germantown) to them as "We got lost--we couldn't find Poplar."
We also discussed the possibility of stopping at a Blockbuster, but thought it better to just watch an MST that Carolyn had. At this
point, after eating so much food, Zach said the quote of the evening: "I feel like I have a pea in my pod." I
unfortunately mistook it for "I feel like I have to pee in the pot." And I laughed and asked him if he couldn't wait. We returned and I
promptly fell into a bad-reception calling war with Laura, but it turned out that they were at Olivia's house, playing with the cats
and watching home movies (which we had talked about earlier, coincidentally--my reputation as a crabby nudist child was
established, and Zach as a Saltine-grubbing baby.) We sat listening to music for a while, Deb went to change and came back with
Independence Day, which we watched, and near the end Matt and Laura showed up and watched a little bit, but Matt left before Neil
Young came on Conan. Sigh. It was a good night, though. A much better night than a day. (Calc test at 8:00.. I have no idea how I
did. But I never do.)
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[11:37am] A few days ago I was doing much Spanish homework, and I was trying to answer one of the questions, where we had to replace the
Spanish Anglicism "flonquear" (to flunk) with something more Spanishy, I guess. So when I was doing the homework, the only word I could
find in my máquina was "catear" (as in, "el profe lo cateó": the teacher flunked him.) And when Prof Tucker called on me
yesterday to answer this very question, I didn't know if it was right, but I said it anyway, and he gave me kind of a weird look and was
like, "I'm interested to know how you know that word" and I said "Tengo un diccionario electrónico" and I got out my little máquina and
showed it to people and someone in the back of the room goes, "COOOOL". Which makes me happy.
[9:39am] So went to Olivia's house last night (because she's been sexiled for an entire week!!) for dinner, which is always nice,
and the pie was heavenly, of course. It was only Schwann's but I couldn't get over it. Later in the evening she told me
that she told her dad about being on my layout and she said he was embarrassed.. but I can't help it. This layout rocks too much not to
exist. Sorry, Olivia's dad.
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[9:32am] Yesterday was a fairly happy and magnificent day. I got back to Rhodes and started unpacking and realized that I REALLY,
REALLY don't have enough room in my chest of drawers (chesterdrors) for all my pants to go in. Most pants I have here don't even
fit me. So here's the solution: put the pants that don't fit into a suitcase under my bed. Ta-da!! Anyway, I got back and Drew came over
and we listened to my suitemate talk loudly to one of her friends, telling a story about some guy on campus named Joe, I think, saying
"I don't even know you. Don't impregnate me." Hmm. So, whatever. Then Matt came and I couldn't stand the hilarity, plus his hair was
gelled and that was beyond my threshold of joy, too. Then we all went to the airport to pick up Dear Laura (not "Dead" Laura) and Arla
(Deb's roommate).. and it was really fun too, except Laura let us all down because she didn't bring us fun stuff from Oklahoma (like
there is any fun stuff in Oklahoma), except for me because it was my birthday!! And I got this KILLA THRILLA PILLA (pillow)
(pill-OWW) in the shape of a B but that comes later. We got Laura and Arla and back to Rhodes we went to drop off Arla and
suitcases, and off to Schnucks, for the birthday cake!! We picked out a chocolate one with pink icing and ribbon and
stars/flowers sprinklies, and it was great. And paper plates too, but we left those in the back of Drew's car. I felt bad for making
Drew drive so much, but I don't know how to get to the airport, and had we tried, we most certainly would've ended up crying on the
side of the road somewhere, bemoaning my bad driving and perhaps the death of my car.. Which, by the way, went over 100,000
miles yesterday.. At mile marker 30 in Arkansas. I'm pretty convinced that everything important for my car happens in Arkansas,
which is unfortunate. So then we scampered on over to Huey's, because it was 7:00 by now and we were STARVING.. Except that my food
didn't taste that good and the Dr. Pepper was contaminated and I was saving room for the cake. So we got back to Rhodes and went to my
room and Carolyn came back and then a million people showed up!! (And by a million, I mean like, TEN, plus me.) THAT'S A LOT OF PEOPLE..
especially for a smallish dorm room. But I was incredibly joyful and I gave Deb and Laura their presents but we had to open them in the
hall since Deb was shy about it in front of people. It was good anyway. So then we came back and celebrated with cake, which turned out
to be contaminated also.. it was moist in a bad way and the chocolate was just weak or something. Olivia still ate two pieces, which I
love her for. Around 11:30, the party dispersed and Carolyn and I went to sleep at 12:30, thankfully, because we were both exhausted.
And I'm still tired. And now I'm just angry at my Calc teacher because I spent 3 days (or maybe 4) of break doing my Calc homework, due
on Monday. And he says today that it's not due at all, that we have a test on Friday, and to have a good day. I feel like weeping, but
it's fine. This just means no homework for the rest of the week. WOOOOOT!! I can handle that. Plus we return to the Bible for Search
this week, which I can always handle, because the Bible is my friend. Umm.. Spanish will be tolerable, I hope.. And Poetry=ease. All
right. Now I have to figure out the extension cord situation because I frantically unplugged everything and hid all the cords so that
I wouldn't get another fire hazard fine (and the first one wasn't my cord, Carolyn) *wink*.. And enjoy my huge chocolate bunny
and Quarashi CD (the TWO packages that I chose to pick up today of the FOUR I received total.) WOOOT, again!!
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[7:37am] Happy birthday me!! *All my bags are packed, I'm ready to go..* (to church).. *and then I'm gonna go on to Rhodes*.. Well, it
won't be on a jetplane, but it'll be soon enough. Good thing I'm going back today, too, or otherwise I wouldn't get to show every
single one of my Rhodies (Rhodesies?) (Rhodesfolk?) my gigantic hideous bruise! And we can't be missing out on that. I might even
take a picture of the hideous thing. Oh yes, you can tell it's early because I'm not typing very well.. Um, what is newsworthy..
yesterday, for my family birthday, we went out to Pizza Hut by my request, for stuffed crust, and we bought an extra one to bring back
to Rhodes. Woot. And my hair looks nice today, for some reason which eludes me but I don't mind. There is a raven or something outside
my window squawking and it's making me angry. Time to go put on clothes and makeup.
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[3:28pm] I'm listening to the Police's "Every Breath You Take" CD and thinking about car rides through Memphis with the windows down,
and even though I like home, I'm missing being there, which is completely insane for me. I was thinking about this while I was showering
last night: it used to be that I missed St Louis when I was in Memphis, but now the other way around--I'm starting to think that I just
need something to miss at all times. But I don't think that's entirely true, either. I guess it suffices to say that I'm split between
St Louis and Memphis, and it's becoming so that I find it's easy to call both home.
[9:42am] So I'm at home on Spring Break. It hasn't been much of a break with trying to find a job and getting various other things done.
We celebrated my mom's birthday yesterday: I bought her Lost in Translation
and Overboard on DVD, and a Yolanda Adams CD. We went out to eat at this place called The Old House in
Kimmswick, which had teepees out front, and my brother had a bison burger. Cornbread, ain't nothing wrong with that! Since the
job-hunting is essentially over (I hope), I'll spend today and Friday doing mountains of homework, and putting all the CDs in the land
onto my computer because my dad gave me a 28 gig drive. Do you KNOW how much music this means??? Woah! So after Homework Thursday and
Friday, we'll celebrate my birthday on Saturday and I'll drive back to Rhodes on my real birthday, Sunday. And we'll have a little party
with cake. Oh, and here are some little pieces of my life lately.
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[11:48am] Well, I was really tired so I decided to skip lunch, come back to the room to have a go at taking a nap since there was some of that interspersed between reading the Aeneid passages. HOWEVER. I come back here and where there was silence earlier, there are now airplanes and chainsaws (they cutting the limbs off a tree outside) and cars honking and it's just realy upsetting. So in a few minutes, I'm gonna go have lunch and then go to Spanish. But I'm mad now. I wanted that nap. Oh well. No classes Thursday so I'm going to sleep from 6:00 tonight to 7:45 am on Friday. YAY! By the way, MILLION FOR MARRIAGE is worth looking at.
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[11:57am] I feel like I'm forgetting to tell you the other important things about my life: people who come to my room and say that we really lucked out with it and how they love being in here.. (the light in here in the afternoon IS spectacular..) How I wrote a poem but I'm debating keeping the first line of it since it's only added for shock value.. and though shocking, is fairly efficient in what its purpose is. How I really should've bought like 5 boxes of Girl Scout Thin Mints because even though Saintly Carolyn has bestowed numerous, numerous quantities of the Blessed Thin Mints upon me, it is never enough. Thank Goodness for my Spring Oreos (with the sky blue filling). And thank Goodness for iTunes. And thank Goodness for friends who come with you to your room for a beverage and a cookie after Search. And thank Goodness for Prof Murray, who cancelled Friday's Search class. And thank goodness for Prof Allen, who cancelled Friday's Polisci class. And thank goodness for Prof Watts, who cancelled Thursday's Poetry class--which makes today my only Poetry class of the week and I think that's all the thank Goodnesses I can give at this point without fainting of joy.
[11:43am] My birthday is in 12 days, people. I urge you to visit the Beautiful Birthday Gifts list. In other news: happiness ensues. It's kind of nice when you can just tell someone what you want and have them be ecstatic about it. Because then you're ecstatic too. ... (bursts into unrelated song.. but we watched Bridget Jones the other day) ... *When I was young I never needed anyone, and makin' love was just for fun, those days are gone..* P.S. I am getting a new phone RAH RAH SIS BOOM BAH!! :):)