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Saturday, 28 February 2009

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    College

    I thought perhaps I should update. I don't want that last entry to be up forever more. >_<

    Does anyone ever read Xanga anymore? I know that I'm on Facebook more than Xanga, but I don't even do Facebook much. I guess, if nothing else, my sister will read this. :)

    College is fun, no? Papers, projects, quizzes (college quizzes are high school tests; they are also much more frequent in college), finals, competencies, roommates (Stacey and Alicia) whom I love but with whom I totally disagree, especially on matters of going home and academics. Not to mention what good music is. But the most important part is that we're all really nice and we like it clean. Yeah, don't think for one second that your room will be clean in college (unless you are OCD like me. Then it your half of the room will be clean).

    I've been away from home for the past month or so. I've been living on my own! Yeah! I do all my own laundry and I make my bed every day. I eat mostly healthy, I can stick to my school work (except for now) and I have my entire life organized, down to how I hang up my towels. Yeah. Life is good. I miss my family, but frankly, I wouldn't be anywhere right now. :) Please don't be offended, Jewels. I've just gotten a taste of what my life can be when I don't have to rely on my parents for all the little things that have to be done. Like the dishes. I should do those...

    I think I want to do it again next term: come back the first weekend, then week 5 and then at the end of term, or when my boyfriend is home, perhaps. After that, I'll be moving out of my apartment for summer term. :( I didn't have much choice in the matter, but I guess I'm okay with it now. Stacey and Alicia decided they don't want to be here. At all. So they are taking all online classes our last two terms. They're doing this by taking the rest of their PTA classes next term. This will leave them 6 months before they are exposed to PTA material again. Okay, fine. But I know I can't go six months with out studying something and think that I'm just going to be able to remember it for my internships and my boards. I'm just going to have to go my last term with out them.

    I've always disagreed with them about lots of things. They hate it here, like most students. That makes no sense to me. It's a really small college, it's not a party college, I am on friend-terms with almost all of my professors, and I can get one on one attention with them when I need to because the classes are small. And they hate studying, and love hip hop and country and pop like it's the only kind of music out there. All of it is "hit" stuff. Like everyone else here: they all do what they're supposed to. Maybe I'm just a crazy nerd who likes learning, but I think that's better than sports (which can tear your body apart as we are learning in all of my classes) and hip-hop and country music and not studying until two days before (when we have a week to study) the quiz and getting B's and C's and a few A's.

    College has really changed my life. For once in my life, I like who I am, because I've seen how "everyone else" lives. I don't know why I ever just wanted to be like "everyone else." They all do what they are supposed to, like which music they are supposed to, read the books they are supposed to (which is one a year), hate school, hate literary analysis, love all the right faces, hate all the right ideas, wear the clothes they are supposed to from the brands they are supposed to, hold the ideals they are supposed to and look at anyone who doesn't like they are nuts. They are all satisfied with just enough knowledge, just enough Jesus, just enough satisfaction, just enough life, and then they slack off and watch TV or play sports or listen to their "music" (I like to call it "mushc").

    I've really gotten into those older bands like Queen, the Beatles, Kansas, Electric Light Orchestra, The Eagles. I really like some modern music too, even some of the "hit" stuff like "Viva la Vida" by Coldplay. But I only like it because I want to and it sounds good to my ears. I can't stand repetition either and that's all mushc is. The same words, same sounds, same ideas over and over and over and over. I really like Kevin Max's new CD "Crashing Gates." I'd recommend it for anyone who is okay with being a little depressed but likes to think and can catch allusions to writers and "The Wizard of Oz" as well as plays on words.

    NATE'S COMING HOME NEXT WEEK!!
    I haven't been waiting very well. I think I've talked with him on IM every night for at least the past four days. Which is bad because he has finals next week. >_< But I guess it means he hasn't been waiting very well either. I miss him so much...

    Here's to blasting Techno and "Need Her Love" by ELO every night of the weekend!

Thursday, 23 October 2008

  • The idiot speaks

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Thursday, 07 August 2008

Saturday, 02 August 2008

turtlegirl42

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About Me

  • I enjoy reading, drawing, writing (but not as much as my sister), and making things with my hands. What I really want to do someday is go out to the mid-west, find a plain with no cities or towns or lights for miles, and camp. I'd lie awake on the grass all night and just watch the stars. You can't do that here. There are too many lights.