Contest: Blue Bloods Series: Books 1 - 4 by Melissa De La Cruz

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Blue Bloods - paperback
Masquerade - hardback
Revelations - hardback
The Van Alen Legacy - hardback

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UPDATE:
I won the contest! Thank you, Jessica! (:

Stress.

How coincidental is it that I'm learning about stress in Psychology, and right now, I'm REALLY stressed?
(not very, considering I'm always stressed)

It's Pi in the morning (3.14AM).
My grandmother (Amma) is in the hospital.
And my parents are there with her for now.
What a lovely way to start Thanksgiving, huh?

I don't feel like elaborating, but here are some things that are stressing me out:

• I've been sick. Probably from stress.
  
• My grandma is sick. It makes me very sad.
• I have to try to make up hours from Tuesday.
  
• Final exams are coming up the week after next.
• My last day of my current classes is a week from today.
• After finals, I probably won't see any of my friends in my classes.
• I haven't been able to spend time with my Baby Best Friend in like, two weeks.
• Uh, it's Thanksgiving, and I honestly don't even like Thanksgiving.
• Our winter break is like, a month long. I'm going to be bored.
• I have to talk about getting involved around campus.
  
• I'm not excited to start new classes in January.
• I might have failed my business exam.
• i need to finish my powerpoint.

Well, having vented, I just want to say, author of  Racing Thoughts and Wasted Time....ich liebe dich. (:








Now I only waste time d r e a m i n g  of  you.




Off to bed.

xx

Warning: Overload

....that's just about how I'm feeling this very moment.

• The semester is coming to an end. This is not awesome because:

1. Finals. Plain and simple.
   
2. I'm not doing so well in Psychology.
3. New semester means new teachers.
4. There is a possibility I won't see my friends (all three of the friends I have) at all.
5. I don't know if I have enough credits for the semester.

• I was just personally contacted about doing a French-American dialogue. It's:

1. amazing that I was chosen to be a part of this event.
2. crazy that they would want to waste space with me—I'm not very worldly!
3. overwhelming because it's supposed to be for upper classmen.
4. a little scary because I probably won't know anyone else there.
5. Friday, 9:00-11:00AM. Looks like I'll be there.

Yesterday, I watched our theatre put on The Importance of Being Earnest, and I will admit that it was absolutely....amazing. I knew nothing of the play, or Oscar Wilde, and I was very pleasantly surprised at how fantastic it was. It was witty and brilliant, and our actors were amazing, and very well prepared.
Which reminds me:
Self—write a production review. And you should probably start on your research paper. It's 7+ pages, and due Tuesday. (:

And I decided that boys are far more trouble than they're worth.
(....but you still need to realize how desperately you need me, and how much better your life will be with me, and how I complete you, and how your wardrobe could definitely use my touch.)

Ahem.
I have work in the morning.
And then a quiz on a chapter I didn't read.
My alarm is set to go off in seven hours and ten minutes.
Therefore, I shall stop wasting your time and get some sleep!



Goodnightmorning.

xx

Rabble, Rabble

So, that community service project?
Yeah, we were supposed to make a Powerpoint to present to the class, which is really cool, because we can let people know that there are pets, locally, that need homes. Well, it would be really cool, except now we're not presenting. So yeah, I was a little frustrated with that.
Other than that, Business was great! I smiled for a good part of the time, despite the somewhat upsetting news.
And I talked to my professor, and he said I can email him my ppt before it's due so he can give me some pointers.
And I happen to be very excited, because my presentation is looking pretty amazing so far. (=

The rest of my day was pretty fantastic.

At work, we 'took the day off' to observe Veteran's Day. So....we got paid to do homework, listen to music and gossip. Haha. I so love my job!

I don't have to go in until ten tomorrow, so I get to sleep in a little, which is exciting, because I am starting to feel ridiculously tired and I slept for shit last night.

Anything else to mention?

UM.

My writing teacher commended my writing yesterday. We were discussing my research paper (we all have appointments to go over it) and she said that the paper I wrote in class (which had to argue against my research paper) was solid and that it was well-written, and she only had two things that I needed to work on, based on my outline. That was a huge stroke to my ego.
And after that, I went and performed my scene for the first time. Everyone liked it, and I feel that I portrayed the character well. There was a little bit we had to work on, like relying on action cues, rather than just going through the motions. But we've got a little over a week to work on it, and I think it'll be pretty amazing by the time we finish.

I'm trying really hard to like basketball. It's kind of hard because I'm not really into it. But I'll adopt it, just for fun, and if after this season, I still can't get into it, I'll try soccer next year. (:
(Last year was football, which was amazing, because of the tight pants, hah.)

Anyway.
I kind of just wanted to rant.
And I believe I have achieved that goal.

Oh, one more thing!
I made a Twitter for my work.
http://twitter.com/StetsonCCC (:

That is all.

xx

I still don't understand football.

Or basketball for that matter. But I'm trying, which is the important thing. REALLLLY hard.

My mom and I just washed my daddy's truck, her Volvo, and Alejandro, my baby. (:
[Now he just needs to be cleaned out and vacuumed....that'll happen....eventually....?]

Hmm. What's happened since the last time my fingers rambled....?

Well. I had my AA meeting. Which is for Academic Advising, not Alcoholics Anonymous, than thank you. And my adviser is a reallllly nice lady. I like her. And I'll keep her. Which therefore means that I cannot change my major. Because if I do, I'll get another AA. And that simply will not do.
ANYWAY. We just sat and talked a while. I was in her office for a little over half an hour. She said she wouldn't suggest having all of my classes on one day, and I probably wouldn't get into the classes I wanted anyway (and she was right, I only got into one of the ones I originally wanted to take.)
So then, there's a knock on the door. And in walks....
My T.A.
He spends like, five minutes telling her that he used her as a referral for some program, and then how he got a second interview that went thirty minutes over the time he was supposed to have, and that it's for him to be a teacher's assistant or whatever.
So I felt incredibly awkward, because although he knew that it was my meeting time (he gave me directions to her office, twice) I felt it would've been rude to listen in on the conversation.
Blah, blah, blah, he leaves. She tells me about him, I tell her he's my T.A., and we move on.
I talked about how I was considering taking Family Business and she strongly suggested I take it. (I'm not.)

And here I am, not really watching the Chargers vs. Giants game, blogging, and I'm enrolled in classes I'm not really interested in.

Whatever. Life goes on.

Azshea and I did our community service project yesterday. We went to the Border Collie Rescue over in DeLand and helped out by washing dogs and whatnot. We probably washed fifteen of them, and I got some cute pictures of us with the dogs. Overall productive day, and we no longer have that hanging over our heads, which is a great feeling.
However, today I'm a little sore from picking the dogs up and putting them in the tub. But at least I know I was lifting with my legs and not my back because my legs are what hurts, hah.
I still have to make the Powerpoint presentation on it, but that'll take fifteen minutes, maybe. And Fabienne and Azshea are going to handle the paper, and I'll play editor, butcher it up, and finalize it.

Anything else?

Oh. I got a B on my Principles of Acting exam. I neglected to go into enough detail about subtext in my make-up test, which was an essay.
And....I have to perform Tuesday. Our scene is pretty amazeballs. And pretty much, I love it. (:

Well, this blog isn't very informative today.
I haven't really thought about blogging lately.
And, honestly, I'm only doing this because I'm bored.
I guess I'm just not up for it as of late. Oh well. I'll snap out of it.
And if I don't, then there won't be anymore me wasting your time.

Oh. Anyone else having weird dreams lately?
I had one that I was knocked incubating.
And we all know that I don't want kids.
So....that's a pretty crappy dream.

The other ones have been significantly less unfortunate.
IE: I'm dating the cutesy boy that I did.
....But still pretty strange.
Like, pink salon bathrooms (from past dreams) in a church, weird.




Anyway.
Bis Dann.

xx

Guess who has reading to dooooo....

Yeah, me.
And instead, I sit on my bed, with my laptop, watching House.
Anyone care to guess just how much reading I've got to do?

Ahem.
The first fifty pages of The Richest Man In Babylon. Chapter 14 of Business: A Changing World. And pages 6-115 of The Actor In You. Do you care to guess how much of it's has to be done by 230 tomorrow?
ALL OF IT.
Well, at least I've begun all three of them.
And my acting book has a lot of exercises that I don't really have to do.
And Babylon is in my phone, which is awesome, because I can read it in traffic.
And chapter 14 for Business is the accounting chapter, and I took accounting last year.
SO, all FOUR of those glorious things appear to be in my favor. (:

I've got an exam in Principles of Acting around NINE in the morning. I don't think its very awesome to have an exam that early, but I did miss class Tuesday because I was under the weather, so I guess its fair. And my professor was very cool enough to not force me to take the exam on Thursday. So whatever. If I bomb it, I bomb it. It isn't the end of the world.

I have no idea what we're doing in Business tomorrow, except discussing the beginning of Babylon, which is very difficult to get interested in. Thus far, I know that Bansir is the chariot maker for Babylon, and his best friend's name is Kobbe (not sure if it's Cobb-E or Kobe, like the basketball player/cut of steak/restaurant. I like to think it's the latter because it brings back fond memories of my eighteenth birthday....)
And hopefully we do NOT have a quiz on the accounting chapter just yet because although I passed my accounting class with high A's, it would be nice to at least skim through the chapter to refresh my memory.
Ahem. I would like to announce that I got an 88% on my last business exam. Without studying.
That is all. 
 
I've got a pretty huge research paper coming up in Writing and Rhetoric.
I still pretty much hate that class. But there are cute boys and lots of gossip, so the class stays interesting. It's unfortunate that the entire course thus far has been about all the different types of arguments we can write and making us read examples and write our own. But hey, now I can tell you what a definition/casual/evaluation/rebuttal/narrative/proposal argument is, and I've proven that I can write them!
Not that I'll ever need to know what they are or write them. Ever. Unless I become an editorial writer for a newspaper or magazine. Which I'm pretty sure I'll never do. Ever. (:

So, at school, when we register for classes, we have to do it ourselves. Like, choose the classes, and times, and then sign up for them, and hope we get them. Its amazing/terrifying that everyone will be signing up at the same time, because if I don't get the classes I want/need, I will cry. Shamelessly. And possibly in public. Because I'll be very upset. And then I'll cvetch to the teachers and hope they make exceptions and let me into the classes. If it doesn't, I'll try other forms of persuasion. I can be very persuasive. (;

Well.
I can't think of anythin else to go on about.
I've already wasted probably a half hour on here. =X

OH, my bestie's nineteenth birthday was yesterday!
We had ice cream and cake, and cake from Baskin Robbins.
I won't lie, it was probably the most delicious cake OF ALL TIME.
Well, I don't know about OF ALL TIME, but it was pretty damn delicious.



I love Mondays & Wednesdays.
Thank you for making my week bearable. (:


That is all.

xx