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11/29/2001 I fixed the archives so the designs all match. I'm so productive today. ^_^Jennie, Amanda, and I went out to lunch today. We ended up driving out to the Arby's on Vaughn and getting our food to go because Jennie had to be back at school for an appointment at 1. But while we were there, I saw Jackson and Thomas. ^_^ Ahh... Free lunch. How I miss those days. ^_^ Anyway, that was nice. And whenever I'm with Jennie and Amanda, I laugh my ass off, so that was fun, too. We're going to see a movie tomorrow afternoon, and then I'm going to the Chi O party at 10. I have a feeling I won't stay that long since I'm not much of a party person... And I'll probably be the only not-drunk person there. Of course, that could make for an interesting experience. ^_^ But oh well. If I get bored, I can always go home. Maybe I'll get some work done this weekend. Which, technically, I have to, or I'm going to fail my classes, since this is finals time.... But I won't think about that right now. On a completely unrelated note, other than that it's pissing me off, my tv is screwed up. Everyone else's are fine, but on mine, the channels disappear above about 20, and the ones I do get are all screwed up. Like, they aren't the right ones. The preview channel used to be 69, and now it's 18. Basically all I get are the network channels, and the weird stuff like Oxygen and the Food Network. It's screwy. And it's pissing me off! I couldn't even find the WB to watch Charmed tonight. I need to call the help desk..... And in roommate news, Melanie is now officially a cheerleader and not an alternate anymore. Yay. ^_^ She was so excited, I think she called everyone she knows to tell them. Oh! While I was in Boston, Ellie told me that Harry is going to put on a play over the summer that alumni can be/work in. I'm so happy! I'll get to be in another Harry-play. Those are the best kind, ya know. ^_^ And maybe I'll actually act.... Or try to, anyway. Ha. That would be funny. Bah. Time to go. I'm running out of things to say, and that's when I start to babble. Oh! But I gave my speech on Jennie today, and I got another A. Whoo-hoo! Don't ya just love me when I'm hyper? Yeah, I thought so. Listening to: It Doesn't Matter by Alison Krauss. posted 10:20 PM / post I don't think this is going to last long.... It doesn't feel quite right to me. Oh well.posted 9:48 PM / post Hope you like. ^_^posted 9:39 PM / post Aww! This made my day. ^_^posted 10:55 AM / post 11/27/2001 I finished my speech but I didn't get to give it today. Which is okay, since I don't stress about things like that anymore. ^_^ So the worst part of my week is over now. All that's left is my research paper, which I'm actually interested in, and the LAS project Brannon and I are doing, and that shouldn't be too bad. It's on the origins of monsters. ^_^ Fun. Some of the speeches they gave today were kind of amusing. One guy demonstrated the proper way to swing a golf club, using Jennie as a model. Adrienne talked about how great her roommate was, which was kind of sweet. And Amanda and Jennie were able to go, and both of those were funny. ^_^ I also finally got my digital art assignment done; it's not great, but at least I won't fail it now.For my speech, I told Jennie to bring me pictures of her, since they were both using pictures in theirs. And she pulls out this picture  of her and Tom Cruise! Apparently she collects autographs as a hobby, or something. I'm not sure where this was taken. Yeesh. I showed it to Brannon and she about had a heart attack. ^_^ When I got back from lunch, I took a nap. I haven't had one in forever! I miss them.... But it was great. ^_^ Three hours. Yay! And I just got back from dinner with the roomies. Now I just have 45 minutes to kill until Buffy. It better be new tonight! They can't just leave us hanging after last week, that would just be wrong. Poor Katie's still not feeling well. She had her tonsils out just before Thanksgiving, and all the sinus drainage is irritating her throat so that she's coughing all the time and she still can't swallow anything; she's only been eating mashed potatoes and macaroni and cheese. Since last Tuesday, the poor thing's lost ten pounds. It's awful, I feel so bad for her. She's supposed to be getting some new medication to help with the drainage, though, so maybe she'll get a little better. I think I'm actually going to stay in the dorm this weekend. Amanda and Jennie and I are planning to go somewhere Friday night, and there's a Monty Python movie marathon scheduled for Saturday night from 10 pm to 2. Much fun anticipated. ^_^ Listening to: Strong by Velvet Chain. posted 7:21 PM / post 11/26/2001 The art project is finally done! Thank God. Now I just have to write a speech and do my digital art assignment.... Ugh. After tomorrow, things should start looking up. There's still of a lot of end-of-semester assignments to do, but I think they're more evenly spaced out. God, I hope so. Pray for me.Listening to: If I Saw You In A Movie by Heather Nova. posted 3:54 PM / post 11/25/2001 I'm back at the dorm again. Home sweet home. ^_^ Katie seems to be the only one back yet, but I haven't seen her since I got in; she went upstairs to visit some friends. Everything is so clean and quiet...I never did work on my art project yesterday. Big surprise. I have a feeling that I have a long night ahead of me. Too bad I can't drink coffee... I also have my digital art assignment to have ready on Tuesday that I don't know how to do, and a speech to write, also for Tuesday. The next two days can probably be described by #&^$%@%&!! The translation, however, I'll leave to your imagination. I'll be getting to work now. posted 5:16 PM / post 11/24/2001 Oh! And happy birthday to my big brother! He's 21. Whoo-hoo! ^_^Listening to: Wild Horses by the Sundays. posted 7:47 PM / post I'm back from Boston! Ellie and I had lots of fun, and I spent way more money than I should have. Oh well. Surprisingly enough, I didn't have any problems with any of my flights. Totally uneventful trip up and back. In fact, the flight from Boston to Charlotte arrived in NC twenty minutes early. So I had quite a long wait until my flight to Birmingham... But that's okay, it gave me lots of time to read. And when I got to Birmingham (which was a bit of a bumpy ride, since it was stormy in the area), I found both my parents waiting for me. When we got to the parking lot, I was even more surprised to see my car! Hmph. Dad wanted to drive it. :Þ And now I'm home. We drove through a lot of rain on the way back; saw two huge flashes of lightning at exactly the same time, too; kind of freaky. Anyway, I've gone through all my mail (a whole lot of junk! I haven't had that much at one time in ages!), and now I'm catching up on my blogs. I took some pictures while I was up there, so once I finish off the roll, you'll get to see my roommates (finally!) and Boston. ^_^And now I need to finish at the computer and work on my damn art project, which is due Monday. Damn her. I hate that class. Listening to: Criminal by Fiona Apple. posted 7:39 PM / post 11/18/2001 Thank God yesterday got better. Around 1:00 am, Laurel, Brannon, Audrey, and I sat down in the living room and watched Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou? It was pretty good. ^_^ When that was over, we all went out to the green with some other people to watch the meteor showers. There was one really big one that lasted a couple of second, and I was able to snap a picture before it went under the trees; hopefully, it'll turn out. We stayed out there until about 4 or 4:30, and then went to Waffle House. Yum. ^_^ So I got to bed around sunrise, and now I'm back up at 1:30. I have to go home for dinner this afternoon because it's my grandmother's birthday. Which reminds me, I need to make a card....Listening to: Once More, With Feeling, the Buffy musical. posted 2:34 PM / post 11/17/2001 I just spent almost two hours working on my art project, and all I have to show for it is a big damn box painted in large stripes of blue and green. That leaves the whole rest of the page to paint in before I leave for Boston, since it's due as soon as we get back from Thanksgiving. Is it just me, or does using high viscosity acrylic paint on watercolor paper make no sense at all? She won't let us use more than a drop of water in it to smooth it out, and all the freakin' edges are jagged because I can't make a straight line over that damn paper. So two hours of work, and I feel like shit because nobody else seems to have these damn problems. UGH!And if that weren't enough, there's only one other girl left in my cluster this weekend; all the others are gone. If I wanted to be by myself right now, I'd have freakin' stayed at home! But no, I decided I should be social. So here I sit, all alone, while the rest of the students on campus are watching the Alabama / Auburn game. I don't know what the hell is wrong with me, but I feel like crap. Listening to: Walk This World by Heather Nova. posted 7:07 PM / post 11/14/2001 Today is Rebecca's birthday! Yay! ^_^ We made her a card with a little poem inside, got her a few little presents, and we're all going out to dinner at the Macaroni Grill tonight after she gets off work. And because today is also her and Melanie's turn to clean, Brannon and I are taking it over, because that's just the kind of nice, sweet people we are. ^_^ This is the poem we wrote in her card:Make time for us Tonight at six, We're taking you out For an Italian fix! No studying or bedtime 'Cause today is your day, It's your nineteenth year, Hurray, hurray! Whenever Katie and I go to bed at the same time (which doesn't happen that often), we end up talking for at least half an hour before going to sleep. And she likes to look out the window when she's laying in bed, so she can watch the people and cars go by. So anyway, she sees one of the security guards writing a ticket for a car parked just outside, and she starts yelling at him. Fortunately, he didn't hear. ^_^ We laughed so hard, and kept making all these sarcastic remarks about the security people. It doesn't sound that funny, but it sure seemed like it then. ^_^ And after that, she randomly took the blinds cord and started waving it around in front of me (she has the top bunk, and I'm on the bottom, but my bed is perpendicular to hers), and it was driving me crazy 'cause I couldn't catch hold of it, and this sounds really stupid, but it was funny as hell. And anyway, I'm going to shut up now. ^_^ Listening to: Keep Myself Awake by Black Lab posted 1:12 PM / post 11/13/2001 Random comment that you wouldn't think to hear on a college campus:Brannon, you ho! You messed up my play-doh! posted 11:36 AM / post 11/12/2001 For going to bed at 3 am, I'm surprisingly not tired. Melanie's new "interest" was up here till then, and we sat in the living room talking for several hours. Somewhere in there, I did manage to get my LAS paper done, though, so yay. ^_^LAS only lasted about 20 minutes today. Hardly anyone was there. We turned in our essays and talked a little about our final project, and that was it. It was too early to go to the dining hall! So instead of waiting around for half an hour, Brannon and I walked over to the student center and had lunch there. They start serving lunch around 10. Perhaps the cafeteria people could take a memo... I also have art class today, but I'm sure as hell not going. She assigned us another (idiotic) project last Wednesday, and it's not due until the last class before Thanksgiving. So I'm not going to go sit in her class for two hours working on that with her looking over my shoulder every 15 minutes and saying, "That looks good, but this could be....." Grr. She's nuts. I swear. Anyone who says they're not sure how they feel about a line is not to be trusted. But that's just my opinion. Listening to: Strong by Velvet Chain. posted 5:53 PM / post 11/11/2001 I updated the daily reads again; tried to weed out some that haven't been updated for awhile. And I added Time For Your Meds to the list. Very funny. ^_^posted 7:51 PM / post I had a pretty good weekend, it just went by way too fast. My mom drove up to Tuscaloosa on Saturday morning to go to the Alabama game with Charlie, and then they drove to Atlanta to see a Falcons game with Heather and her parents. Fun. She should be back either tonight or tomorrow... I'm not sure. So I was alone with dad this weekend. I slept in Saturday, and then went out to rent movies. Dad and I stayed in that night eating pizza and watching tv. ^_^ We watched Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within together, and I watched Legally Blonde and Swordfish on my own. Today, I slept in again and went to see Monsters, Inc. with dad and my grandmother. After seeing a movie and eating dinner with them, I was about ready to scream, but luckily, that's when they brought me back to the dorm. ^_^ Ahh, silence....My first thought upon entering my room was, "I think somebody slept in my bed...." Seriously. I always make my bed before leaving for the weekend, and the comforter's.... different. And it's turned back at the top, which I never do. Oh well. I don't really care, but I'm wondering who it was. As usual, I have another LAS paper to write, and I need to critique a couple of papers before class on Tuesday. So! Time to go. Listening to: I Love the Way You Love Me by Faith Hill. (It's coming from Katie's computer, I promise.) posted 7:28 PM / post 11/4/2001 I had a great weekend. I went home Friday afternoon, watched my shows, and went to bed around 11 or 12. Slept until about 8:30, then got up to eat the pancakes I talked my dad into making. ^_^ Then I went back to bed at 9 and ended up sleeping until 3:30..... Wow. I didn't know I was that tired. So then I stayed up until about 1 am and went back to sleep. Got up again about 11, lounged around the house some more, did a little laundry, and came back here. That's easily one of the least productive weekends I've ever had. Yay me!I skipped my art class last Wednesday.... I need to find out what we did, in case there's something due tomorrow. There's usually nothing due that quick, but you never know. I also registered for next semester's classes last Thursday, so as soon as my schedule is finalized, I'll post it. I think I'll be busy... Friday afternoon, I was flipping channels, and I ended up watching the old black and white version of Pride and Prejudice. It was really good; now I suppose I'll have to read the book. I also finally watched Chasing Amy and Dogma last week. Chasing Amy was okay, but I absolutely loved Dogma. It was funny as hell, and strangely enough, it kinda made me think. I need to write my weekly essay for LAS. We're going to see Inherit the Wind tomorrow at the Capri as part of our evolution segment. That's definitely better than sitting in class for another hour listening to the devout Christians argue with the not-so-devout-Christians about the fine points of evolution and whether you can accept it and the Bible's creation story together. Ugh. I'm so sick of that. If we have another Bible discussion, I think I may have to run out of the room screaming. posted 4:10 PM / post |