almost here!

christmas break is almost here!

three days away, and i literally can not wait...

white thanksgiving

it snowed!!

friday morning i woke up, in a not very great mood.
i got to bed really late, and had to wake up early for class.
i had forgotten to take my contacts out so my vision was really disgustingly blurt.
i went to get my shower stuff and right before i left the room i turned around and looked out the window for the first time that morning.

AHH!

everything was bright!
everything was white!
and snow was still falling at a very steady pace!

instantly, my mood was flipped!
i felt like a little kid again,
i dropped all my stuff and ran to the window.

so good!

can't hardly wait

i literally can not wait till christmas vacation.


i cant wait to get together with my friends, just hang out and talk and have parties and just what we used to do during the summer.

i miss everyone so freaking much.
everyone who used to come to margarets, and everyone from the neast.

this is going to be the best christmas vacation.

november?!

wow! time has freaking flown by!

i feel like i have been in college for about a million years now, but in reality its only been a short while. crazy.

i registered for next semesters classes last week and i'm honestly really excited. i like having the ability to choose what classes i can take. and yeah, there are the general education requirements, but whatever, you can get them done quick enough. its just exciting.

TODAY IS ELECTION DAY!
HOW EXCITING!

this is the first time that i will have the power to make a huge, life changing decision for my country. its so exciting! amanda had a meeting to go to, but once she gets back we are gonna head into the polling place in town.
i don't get why my dorm is the only dorm that has to travel into town to a parking garage to vote, but whatever. i guess it wouldn't be as creey if it hadn't been for the fact that the same parking garage had a bomb threat like...a month ago.

VOTE!

october

october is my favorite month.

it just feels good. ya know?
like, its cold and windy and the leaves are falling off the trees, but everything looks incredibly beautiful and just makes you smile.

i love waking up for my early morning classes and walking outside and it being cold but bright and sunny. it just makes me feel good.

plus, it just smells good. i never really thought about it, but the smell of the crumpled leaves on the ground just smell good. they smell like fall. i love it.

pupmed x8399402938872

TV on the Radio - Dear Science

The new TV on the Radio record, is so good. I have been listening to it for three days straight and I am loving every second of it.

Friday night I am going to see them at the Electric Factory. Pumped, excited, they are good words to describe how I feel about it, but they don't seem to totally capture the feeling. Its gonna be good.


This weekend is my mid-semester break and I'm looking forward to it a crazy amount. School is good and fun, but I miss my family, my sister, my cat and good food. I'm pretty psyched.

Yep.

sick and tired

I am so sick of being over looked.

I feel like I am a good friend. I have always done things for and with my friends even if it doesn't make me happy, because I know it will make them happy.
Sometimes things end up alright, sometimes I get angry and frustrated.

I have overbooked myself, I have tried so hard to make things work so I can be in multiple places in a day, I have done things for people that I know they would never do for me.

So does that say more about the people whose company I keep or me?

I love all my friends.
And I don't doubt that they love me too.

I just feel out of sync with the life I had before school, which means being out of the loop with the majority of my friends.

I don't know what the point of all this ranting is. I just feel weird, and I don't like it.

just breathe

I have been taking yoga classes for about 3 years now, and this is the first fall that I have not returned to that auditorium at the medical missions with my purple yoga mat to listen to Dennis talk us through the hour and a half class.

I dont know what the heck I should do!

I know there are yoga classes on campus and its a nice way to get a really gentle workout and feel nice and relaxed, but I feel like going to another yoga instructor would be like cheating on Dennis.

OI!


My mom brought me a bamboo plant for the room that she got from work. I have it on my desk.
It really completes the room.

Je vous aime Molly!

The time has come to say Au Revior to Molly.

There are so many things I can say about Molly, and stories I could tell about things that me Molly and Margaret have done over the past four+ years. I'm not going to go into any of these stories because they probably only mean anything to me.

The point is, is that I love these two, and I want Molly to have the freaking time of her life while shes in France.

Break a French boys heart Mol Mol, break it good.

stranger in the mirror

In 6th grade my hair started to loose its natural blondness and started getting darker. I was not happy about this, but dying my hair at this point in my life was out of the question.

Summer after freshman year, I use temporary dye to turn my hair a mahogany red. perfect color, but it washed out.
I then dyed my hair a bright fire engine red.
Good times in Margaret's bathroom on Henry Ave.

I have been dying my hair ever since, but kept it pretty much the same color. It was a red, and then a ash blond with a auburn overtone.

I'm a brunet now, and I don't know how I feel about it.
AHH!

its just hair. whatever.

run forest! run!

I started running.

I decided that while I was here I might as well make the most of the gym and the really nice campus and surrounding area and just do what I need to get in shape.

I have actually never ventured into the gym.
I'm scared if the gym.
I waslked over to the gym the other day and stood outside the glass doors at the jocks who look like they have been going to the gm since birth. I then patted my pockets, trying to make it look like I forgot something, and turned around and walked away.

I dont know why I am being such a baby about it, but I am.

But I am running. After day one I went back to my dorm thinking 'why the hell do people do this!? people actually like this?!'

The second day I went because I knew that if it was going to get any easier then I needed to keep at it.

I am now at the point where I can honestly say that I am in a way enjoying the run, the deep burn in my legs, how happy I am after I get done running all those brick streets.
I love it.

lethargic

There is something in the water here or something. Yesterday and today have been two of the most slow and tiresome days ever, even though i haven't done anything out of the ordinary.
Its weird!

I got a pair of running shoes this weekend. I'm actually really excited about it.

My plan is to start running before my classes on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and sometime in the afternoon on Tuesday and Thursday.
Its something I really want to do, but I know its going to be hard considering what a lazy bones I am.

blah!! Life has been soooo boring.

insonmia and discovering the slurpee

I cant sleep. This is honestly the first time since I got to school that I have wanted so desperately to climb into bed and fall asleep right away.

I hate that its not happening.

There have been a lot of things on my mind lately, and for some reason I was thinking about a whole lot of those occupying thoughts. This has made it impossible to sleep.

How annoying.

So back in Philly, there are 7-11's all over. I was never much of a 7-11 person, but more of a Wawa kind of girl. And lets just be honest here, Wawa is way better in every aspect.

Every aspect except their slurpees.

I had never had a 7-11 slurpee, until a few days ago when I tested some blue, starburst flavor.

It was amazingly delicious.

I have started mixing the same blue starburst flavor with a cherry lemonade flavor and let me tell you, it is to die for.

The past couple days I have had an uncontrollable sweet tooth, and what really seems to satisfy it are these slurpees. Its great. I love them.

blog retard

I just dont know how to do anything on here. How do I add friends? Subscribe to blogs? Anything at all?

i miss you

My first couple days here were really tough in that all I was able to think about what how much i hated it here, and how much I missed my family, friends, and boyfriend.

I still miss my family, friends, and boyfriend a lot, but I think things have become more bearable, because I know that everyone is doing something new, exciting, or just living their life the way they want.

Friday, I went back to Philly to see a show and I ended up at this sushi Tokyo Lunchbox. It used to be a thing with my friends from high school, that we would go there by ourselves and call each other when we were sitting at the window seat eating sushi by ourselves. So, I called Margaret, and told her where I was and what I was doing by myself.

It was kind of sad to realize that I can no longer just call my friends when I am back in Philly and see what they are up to and just meet up somewhere and do what we always used to do.

I guess that as long as they are happy where they are, and I am here, then its alright.

116 channels?!

I never had cable at my house. I was the person who went to their friends house who had cable, and would grab the remote and just be in awe at how many channels there were. It was mind boggling.

Here at school, the dorms are equipped with basic cable, 116 channels.

It is amazing.

I have watched 'Runs House' soo many freaking times, including the re-runs, and I just love it.

Cable has definitely made college better.

involvement fair

So my school has an involvement fair where all the clubs and school organizations gather together on the from lawn of the gym and let students know who they are and what they are about.

It was a fair filled with frats and sororities looking for people to pledge. I don't think I'm cut out for greek life.

so much for a 24 hour quiet hall

My floor is a 24 hour quiet hall.

This means, that we respect one another when it comes to the noise levels in the halls. We keep our doors shut if we are playing music or the TV loudly, and if they are open, then we keep the music and TV at a reasonable noise level.

Today when I got out of the shower, there was music playing at an astounding level, along with girls dancing and running up and down the halls. I was rather taken aback, since this is not something I have seen happen before. I don't care. But I wonder how long it took them to do their three pages of math homework.

I live in an all girls dorm.

Its alright. After four years of being with all girls, it really isn't bothering me. But I keep telling everyone, that if we keep up with these pillow fights in our undies every single night, then they are just going to loose their appeal, and not be as much fun in a couple weeks. But we keep on doing it! And if one more girl asks me to put lotion on her back after they get out of the shower, still dripping wet, then I think I may just scream.



I retract all those statements. Living in an all girl dorm, is nothing like that.

holla!

Last night was the first night that I can truly say I felt like a college student.

When I was in high school, I rarely went out on school nights, and when I did I was always back home and in bed at a reasonable time. Mostly because parents were rides everywhere and they needed sleep cause they needed to get up for work in the morning. But that's beside the point.

So, keeping in tradition with my usual trend of going to bed and a reasonable hour before class the next morning, I have been hopping into my rather comfy but small bed earlier then any upper classmen would ever jump into bed.

But last night was the night of liberation.

I went to Maggie's dorm to watch Knocked Up.

As time went on, I started to realize how late it was getting, but the movie was still going, and even though I knew how it ended, I wanted to stay and keep watching.

Next thing I know, its after 11, and I have a class at 8.

I started thinking that maybe I should go, because its only the second day of class and I don't want to over sleep or anything like that.

You know what I did? I stayed. I watch that movie to the end, and I laughed and enjoyed it.

And you know what else? I up on time, made it to my class, and I'm gonna love it.


And I got me new laptop. Holla!

basic math

Today I had my first math class. The professor said that it was a very basic math class, that you could test out of if you choose to do so. My thinking was, if there is a basic math class that I can be in, get a good grade in, and get credit for, then I'll stick with it.

Then he said that you dont get credits for this class.

And he went over the syllibus.

And we started taking notes.

And I realized, that I was in the same math class I was in when I was in 7th grade. 7th grade math was probably harder actually.

Wednesday, I am going to take a test to try and test out of it so I can go into Basic algebra and actually get credit for it.



I have my first acting class in a half hour. I really really hope that my teacher is a complete nut job. It only seems right, them being an acting teacher and all.

On making new friends

At the age of 19, I am happy to say that I have been blessed with a handful of very good and close friends.

There are people that I went to grade school with and still really close to, and that makes me really happy.
Then, I ventured to high school, all by myself, and had to start the friend making process all over again. But the people I met, and the people I got really close to, I love. Upon reflection, am so glad that I was on my own when I got to high school so that I had the chance to meet them.

So, at the age of 18 or 19, most people can say that they have met people that they see being friends with for the rest of thier lives. I certainly can say that about a small handful of my current friends.

So what do you do when you are thrust into a completely new different enviornment and have to make friends all over again when you know perfectly well that you and they have that group of best friends that they are going to totally call to hang out with over you any day?

Grab the bull by the horns baby, and start talking to everyone so you can at least add a few people to that 'friends forever' handful. I guess...

College?

Today is my second day at college.

What the heck!?

When did this happen?

Last I remember it, I was just making my way into high school feeling freaked and worried about everything that comes with being a high schooler. And all of a sudden, here I am, in my dorm room, where I now live, trying to figure out what buildings my classes are in while attending all sorts of orientation seminars.

I was never quite sure about college. I didnt know if it was for me, or if it was something I would want to stick with and such.

If you asked me last night if I wanted to stay here, I would have said no. This morning I say, I need a little more time.

I hate living in a 24 hour quiet building.