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4/29/2002
On another note, I applied for another job this afternoon, since Express never called me. Hopefully, this one will work out; if it doesn't... I'll have to work for my dad. Again. Argh. There was a murder at my old school sometime last night. One of the custodians who often worked late was found dead by the teachers this morning. I didn't recognize the name, and there wasn't a picture in the article, but I know I must have known him; they say he worked there for about 6 years, which would be exactly the time I was in middle school at that campus. It's so sad. But in this neighborhood, not all that surprising. It would've been much stranger if it had happened at the other campus. Listening to: Law & Order: Criminal Intent (taped) posted 10:46 PM / post My problem has been resolved. And everything appears to be okay. So I'm happy. And a huge weight has been lifted from me. ^_^So now to catch up! I've turned in my art history paper (which I should get back tomorrow, I hope, I hope) and my LAS paper on the death penalty (which I got an A on). Now all that's left is digital art and drawing, and my LAS exam. And that I'm not going to worry about; I don't think it'll matter if I do badly on it. But drawing will not be fun.... I have about four or five drawings I have to catch up on because I've been skipping class. Bad me, I know. But I just couldn't handle that class anymore! I'm going tomorrow, and that's the last one. Thank GOD! My last exam is in exactly one week. Here's my schedule for the week: Monday, I'm through with; I only had LAS this morning. Tuesday, no digital art or art history, which just leaves my last drawing class at 1:15. Wednesday, LAS at 10:00. Thursday is Dead Day. Exams start on Friday. My first one is on Saturday, for art history, but instead of having the exam at 9:00 am, we're writing an essay to be turned in by 12. I can work on that all this week. Saturday at 2:00, I have my LAS exam. Monday, I have drawing at 2:00, meaning I have to turn in my portfolio and participate in the final critique. And finally, my digital art project is due by 9:00 am Tuesday, but I'll try to get it in before so I don't have to come back for it. I'm scheduled to be moved out by 4:50 next Monday. I have exactly one week left here... I'm sad. I'm going to miss everybody so much! And they'll all be gone before my birthday. Phooey. Okay. Time for working! Ha, me working. Yeah. Listening to: The View (for the first time, this isn't a regular thing ^_^) posted 1:30 PM / post 4/25/2002 The Trick Is To Keep BreathingShe's not the kind of girl who likes to tell the world About the way she feels about herself She takes a little time in making up her mind She doesn't want to fight against the tide Lately, I'm not the only one I say never trust anyone Always the one who has to drag her down Maybe you'll get what you want this time around Can't bear to face the truth, so sick you cannot move And when it hurts she takes it out on you Lately, I'm not the only one I say never trust anyone Always the one who has to drag her down Maybe you'll get what you want this time around The trick is to keep breathing The trick is to keep breathing She knows the human heart And how to read the stars Now everything's about to fall apart I won't be the one who's going to let you down Maybe you'll get what you want this time around I won't be the one who's going to let you down Maybe you'll get what you want this time around The trick is to keep breathing The trick is to keep breathing The trick is to keep breathing The trick is to keep breathing The trick is to keep breathing...... Listening to: Take a guess. posted 11:59 PM / post 4/20/2002 I cried last night for the first time in ages. It was actually kinda nice. I don't get to do that much anymore because of my medication. That's the one thing that's bad about it; it kind of levels out my emotions so that even if I'm horribly stressed or sad I can't seem to cry. But I was both last night, so maybe that's why it worked. In any case, I feel a lot better now. It wasn't really one thing that set me off, just a combination, with the problem (see entry below) only being the last straw. But I do feel better. :)Before my night went to hell, it was kind of amusing. I went to the play again (third time, ya know), then we all went to Matt's house for a pre-party kind of thing, but it was a relatively small gathering. But funny. We got to see Phil, his little pet lizard. Very amusing. And then... We all piled into two cars (or rather one car, with me and Trey in mine) and set off for the party. Robin was driving the other car, but she didn't know where the hotel was, so Matt was giving her directions... And I think he was kind of drunk. So what should have been maybe a 20 minute drive at the most ended up being more like 45. The party was supposed to be over at 2, and we ended up at the hotel (finally) at about 1:15. And guess what? Yeah, it was over. It got shut down early for some reason, I don't know why. So. After about 10 minutes there, we got back into the cars.... And took an equally circuitous route back to Matt's house. And then we went home. Interesting night. It's Homecoming weekend, so there's a bunch of stuff going on today. We had lunch out on the Green; it was really nice, just a little hot. And then we watched the presentation of the Homecoming court, then Brannon and Elizabeth and Amanda sang something. And it was about 3 before I got back to the dorm. I'm a little sunburned. Argh. And I still haven't started my research paper. I know it's not going to be any good; I need to check and see how much of our final grade it makes up.... There's another party tonight, but I'm not sure I'm going. I'd really rather not, but if everyone else goes, I probably will too. I don't feel much like being alone this weekend. Too much stress... My first year of college is almost over. I'm really kinda sad about it. But it will be nice sleeping in for more than 2 days at a time. :) So. All will be well, I'm sure. Now I need to at least try to be productive... Wish me luck. :) Listening to: Epilogue, Final Fantasy IV, from the piano collection. posted 7:09 PM / post 4/17/2002 Life can really suck sometimes. Seriously, completely and totally suck. But I don't feel much like going into it, so... Ellie, you'll just have to call if you want to hear about it. ^_^Besides this one thing, I'm doing pretty well... Except that I need to write my LAS paper tomorrow and Thursday. But it's only a 3-page essay, so it can't be that bad. I don't think it will take me very long once I get started, especially when it's on this subject. And next week will be devoted entirely to my 7-page art history research paper. And probably most of the weekend as well. After that, I'm practically done this semester.... All that's left is my drawing portfolio and my digital art project, neither of which will be very difficult. And then summer. Thank God. I hope I find out about my job soon... It's only Tuesday, and I can't wait for this week to be over. If only there were no Thursday... just this week. I could live with that. Skip straight from Wednesday to Friday, and I'd be perfectly happy. But no. Not possible. Not even for me, since I skipped almost all of my classes last week. ^_^ Oh well. I guess I'll make it. I need to go fill out a housing application, too.... And make sure that we get room 206 next year. ^_^ I read the email they sent out about housing, and it looks like freshman are all going to have to live in Searcy. That really sucks for them. But it said 1st floor Blount was for upperclass guys and 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floors were all for upperclass girls. Ha. Suckers. ^_^ Listening to: Blackbird by Sarah McLachlan. posted 12:55 AM / post 4/13/2002 Life is good when you've got friends like mine. ^_^Listening to: You Look So Fine by Garbage. posted 3:18 AM / post 4/12/2002 How depressing. I just got around to watching my tape of We Were the Mulvaneys from last Sunday. It was a good movie, but I ended up crying for the whole second half, it was so sad.I'm home for the weekend. I'm proud of myself; I already finished my laundry. ^_^ I'm hoping I can do something fun tonight, but I have to wait for the show to end, around 10:00, until Brannon and Robin get back to the dorm. Tomorrow, I'm doing something very unusual for me.... Babysitting. For some friends of Melanie's. They're the cutest kids, but I'm a little nervous... I hope it goes all right. After that, I need to spend the rest of the weekend working on my LAS paper, for which I still don't have a topic. Oh well. I'll think of something. Listening to: Tom's Diner by Suzanna Vega. posted 10:32 PM / post Friday Five!
posted 3:51 PM / post 4/11/2002 I had so much fun yesterday. I skipped my only class because it was just watching a short movie, and I didn't feel like getting up for it. I don't even remember what I did the rest of the day... I know I read a little... Went to lunch... Oh! Library, right. I went with Becca because she didn't know where anything was in there. And we talked about the strange guy who's always in there.When you go up to the second floor, and then left into the card catalogue room, there's a door at the back that goes to a long hallway, with stacks on the left. Well, at the front of the hallway there's a small couch facing a ramp that goes up and to the right, into more stacks. And there's this guy that's always there. He sits on that couch from opening till closing, as far as I can tell. I think I saw him with a small paper bag once, and I assume it was for a lunch or something. He sits there and stares at the wall. There's nothing on the wall. He doesn't look at people when they come by except for an occasional glance; he never smiles and he never talks. I seriously think he must be retarded; he just has that look about him. I mean, he's not scary or anything, it's just a little weird. Anyway. So Becca checked out 10 books on parables for a research paper, and I got two on Bernini for my art history paper. It's due in about 2 weeks; in fact, I think it's exactly 2 weeks. That's the big project. I also have a shorter LAS paper I need to write for next Friday. I have a drawing due next Tuesday, and a digital art assignment tomorrow. So I'm gonna be a little busy... The first two assignments are easy (I'm turning in a drawing I've already done ^_^), but I don't have a topic for my LAS paper yet. And I haven't thought too much about the art history one... I'll have to work on it this weekend. But right now, I'm skipping drawing class. I'm taking today and tomorrow to relax, 'cause I'm going to be working over the weekend; I have to, or I won't get things done. I don't want to have to work on this stuff during the week; it's too distracting when I have to go class all the time. So. I'm a girl with a plan. That's a first. ^_^ Anyway, after the library, I think I just lounged on the futon and watched tv until dinner. Then around 7:30, I met up with Trey at the Dungeon to watch the open rehearsal of Hay Fever, which was hilarious. In the first scene, the mother (Judith) was wearing this straw gardening hat over her wig, and it kept falling off. It must have happened at least 15 times, maybe more, and I'm not exaggerating. It was too funny... And when Brannon and Matt's characters were bringing in the luggage from outside, Brannon accidently threw one of the suitcases too hard and it tumbled off the edge of the stage. And Judith knocked over a vase of flowers, and then kicked the vase across the room because she hadn't seen where it landed. And they all had problems with lighting their cigarettes. One lighter just refused to work in the first scene, so they used matches instead after about 5 tries. And Brannon didn't know to suck in when lighting a cigarette since she doesn't smoke, so they pretended the lighter wasn't working and tossed it away (which was funny), and I think when Clint got the matches he whispered to her what to do. The whole thing was amusing; none of the things that went wrong had ever gone wrong in rehearsal... Oh well. It wasn't a paying performance, anyway. ^_^ And after that, Trey and I waited around for about an hour, because Randi and Fiona were bitching them out for messing up so much... Randi felt bad about it and apologized later, though. When they finally came out, we went to a late dinner at IHOP (Me and Trey and Brannon and Robin). We were hungry, 'cause I only had half a pancake and a cookie for dinner, and Trey only had 4 Lifesavers. ^_^ Four other friends from the show said they were going to Waffle House, but they ended up at IHOP, too, because Waffle House was understaffed and really slow. But we had a great time, all in all. Trey and I spent 2 and a half hours making fun of the show, and then the four of us spent another hour at IHOP laughing our asses off. Much fun. ^_^ And I actually got to bed at a pretty normal time for me. 1:30 or so, I think. I think we didn't leave IHOP until 12:30, maybe. So I got enough sleep to make it to my 8:00 this morning. Yay. ^_^ Listening to: Charge by Splendid. posted 2:24 PM / post 4/9/2002 The trip to Marion on Saturday was somewhat amusing but mostly kinda boring. I think lunch was the highlight. ^_^ After that, we ended up watching about 2 hours of raw footage for their next movie, Ends (Trey's brothers are all obsessed with making movies, and the older one is currently in film school). And then another 2 hours or so watching a finished movie that was a sequel to the one Brannon and I saw already. It pretty much sucked. The first one was way better.After I got back from Marion, I went home, and I didn't come back to school until this morning. I spent most of Sunday sleeping, then Sunday night and most of Monday working on my drawing assignment that's due today. After about 11 hours of working, it's done. Thank God. And then I spent 6 hours studying for my art history test (which was this morning, and I did very well ^_^). So I didn't get to sleep until 2 am. When dad woke me up at 6:30, I kinda went back to sleep... I had planned to go to my class at 8:30, but yeah. Didn't get out of bed till then. So I came back around 9 this morning, took my test, and here I am. I'm about to go get some lunch... I'm starving. And I refuse to think about the two research papers I have due in the next couple of weeks. It can wait. Listening to: The Trick Is To Keep Breathing by Garbage. posted 12:01 PM / post 4/6/2002 Okay, so I ended up taking back everything but the denim skirt. Oh well. At least now I have more money. ^_^We stayed up until about 3 am watching movies. Becca and I vegged out on the couch from about 7 pm till the time we went to bed, watching tv until 10, then watching movies with Brannon and Trey. Much fun was had by all. ^_^ But then I had to get up at 10 this morning to get ready to go... I think we're leaving in about 10 minutes. And I don't know when we're getting back; it has to be sometime this afternoon, so that Brannon can go to A Doll's House tonight. She's such a freak.. She's actually planning to practice smoking for the play (Hay Fever, it opens next week), because crazy Fiona wants her to actually smoke on stage. And of course, if she does it for the first time that night, she's going to be coughing like crazy. I don't know what else she can do, though. But the whole thing is totally ridiculous. Okay. Going now. Have a great weekend! ^_^ Listening to: Umm.. A blowdryer. Yeah. posted 11:53 AM / post 4/4/2002 I just spent entirely too much money at Old Navy. They were having a huge sale, so Robin and I went to check it out, and of course everything I ended up buying was not on sale. So goes my life.I bought a denim skirt, a natural colored camisole, a cute grey, button-down camisole, and a pair of black platform flip-flops. Heehee. I'm excited. Saturday, I'm going with Brannon and her lunchroom boy (Trey) to Marion to visit his brothers and friends. She doesn't want to be all by herself with them, so she drafted me to go along. It should be fun. ^_^ Sunday and Monday, I'm really gonna have to do some work... I have an art history test on Tuesday, and I have a drawing due. Not going to be fun. But I'm not going to worry about it over the weekend. I'll get to it when I get to it. Listening to: Friends posted 8:16 PM / post |
