My knees get weak, intensive

when you give me kisses.



Let me brag for a second;
Lady Gaga is following me on Twitter!
Well. That's really the only exciting thing I can think of that's worth bragging about.
(She's my newest musical obsession.)


Hmm. Let's see.
I had a 103% in Special Topics in Business....before Monday. On Monday, I took my first exam. And got a 90%. Which would be totally awesome, except that now, my overall grade is a 94%. Yeah. That stupid exam dropped me NINE points. And today's quiz? Failed it. With a 40%. Good thing Mr. T.A. decided that it wasn't going to count as a grade, just as an educational tool. Awesome. Thanks Mr. T.A. Way to make me feel like crap. And then, give me a group with....MYSELF. Yeah. Because I'm not already super self conscious. Why don't you just stick me in a group by myself? Oh, right....because I'm an "intuitive thinker." And then stick someone else in my group just because he missed the stupid test. Whatever. He was a cool dude. 
It's a good thing I don't hate you, Mr. T.A., because if I did, and I was actually offended by that, I probably would've gotten spiteful.


TOMORROWWWWWW (well, technically today on the East Coast, bleh) is Thursday. I hate Thursdays. Just because I hate Writing & Rhetoric. I wrote a damn good paper. And now, i have two group members (yeah, professor, you're lucky I like them, because if I didn't, I would've raised some hell) and we have to transform my wonderful, beautiful paper into two separate "definition arguments." Awesome. Because that's what everybody wants to be doing at 830 in the morning


OH. Also, cool weather, in Florida? YEAH. Today was wonderfully below the scorching nineties we've been in and only made it into the mid-eighties. Tomorrow, when I leave for school, it'll be in the sixties. I'm so excited. (So excited that I just Twitted about it.)


I have to be up in five and a half hours.
Unfortunately, it's a necessary evil.
Guten Nacht.
xx


PS: "today's quiz" is also technically incorrect, and is now "yesterday's quiz." Boo, technicalities.

My heart just started pounding.

Thank you.
It reminded me that I'm human.

Is it sad that sometimes I forget?
Most of the time I smile and I laugh.
But even people who aren't happy can put up a good front.

Knowing that someone can change my heartbeat with the click of a mouse brought me down to earth.



Sometimes my head is in the clouds. I don't really mind it most of the time. I do find it terribly difficult to concentrate on things that might or might not be important. Like, the differences between classical and observational conditioning. Yeah. Things like that, that will be on an exam that I will potentially FAIL. That's when I mind that sometimes I'm easily distracted, and that sometimes I need to shape up and train myself to pay attention. But let's be honest, that's mostly in psychology, which I probably won't pass anyway. Maybe I'd learn more if I stopped writing notes about cutesy boys and how boring psychology is and started being attentive.

Today was my first study group for an exam. I baked a bachillion peanut butter cookies and brownies. And barely anyone ate any of them. But, I made sure to give them all away, because I know that if they're in the house, I will end up eating one, and it will ruin my diet. And I am not about to let that happen.
Anyway. Back to my study group and my exam. My first exam in Special Topics in Business is tomorrow. I'm a little bit nervous for it because there are a lot of really complicated things on the exam, for example: levels of involvement in international business. Yeah, that's an essay question. There are twelve (?) levels, and we're expected to write down a description of as many of them as we can. "He won't expect you to know all of them, but one or two won't cut it," I believe, is what my all-knowing and all-powerful (around campus, anyway) teacher's assistant said.

I started work last week. It was exciting. I can't remember if I blogged about it or not already.... (checking)
I did. Anyway. My first day was Wednesday. I didn't really do much because my supervisor wasn't in the office for the majority of my hours.
I still need to get a replacement copy of my social security card because I lost it (according to my mother, at least. As far as I knew, she still had it). Until then, I can't get paid, which is definitely LESS THAN AWESOME.

I have a paper to write for Principles of Acting. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to write about which is also less than awesome. And even less awesome than that is that I don't know whether or not its due tomorrow! (Please note sarcasm)

And on top of allllll of that crap, my phone charger, you know, the thing that gives life to what I believe may/may not be essential to my existence? Yeah, that thing. Broken! Kapput! Spent! Out of order! NO LONGER FUNCTIONING. So the only way I can charge my phone is in my car, when I'm driving.




Anyway. Enough of my yammering.
Auf Wiedersehen!

Well....

NOW I'm procrastinating.

This weekend is going to be a busy one.
Friday, I'm going to a school event, basketball, I believe.
Then I've got a lot of rehearsal to do on my scene in The Glass Menagerie.
And then, Friday night is the Battle of the Boulevard football game at my high school.
Saturday, I plan on....sleeping. And maybe getting coffee, and hitting the flea market.
Then on Sunday, hopefully I'll get to see my teacher's assistant to study for Monday's exam.
And then Monday, I'll take Ola to school, go to work from 10AM-1PM, maybe study for twenty minutes or so, pick Ola up, go to class, and work out.

By the way, just as an FYI, squats hurt.
And they hurt more when you have a weight.
And it's even worse when that weight is a small child.

Now, back to work!
This is it, until I finish my paper.
Only a page and a half to go and I'm free.

For once, I'm not procrastinating.

Well, technically, I'm not procrastinating because my paper isn't due tomorrow. Plus, I have twenty-five words on the page already (fourteen of which are my header, and seven of which are the title of my paper) so I'm off to a great start. (:
(It's a four page proposal argument, and it's due Thursday, haha.)

So what's new with Jen?
Uh. LOTS.
I put myself on an über-diet.
I started doing squats, which HURT.

Ola and I decided to work out together.
And yesterday, I was hired at my first job.
(Back into technicality, it's a work study, but a job by any other name still makes $$.)
As of right now, I work Mondays from 10AM to 1PM, and Wednesdays from 10AM to noon.
Yeah, I know, it's only five hours a week, but that's just for now, probably for training purposes.

I've been keeping myself busy with everything but what I love the most—sleeping. It's pretty upsetting that I have 'better things to do,' school related things, mind you, like,  read four essays, write a four page paper from scratch (evidently, my thesis wasn't complex enough; way to waste forty-five minutes writing a page!) So instead of getting my summer hours (like, eight hours of sleep) I'm lucky if I get six now. How sad!

So, I decided I was going to try to like football.
Yeah, it's a lot harder than I thought it was going to be.
All I know is you can't hold someone, because you'll get in trouble.

And speaking of football....
My high school's rival football team plays my former school at home this Friday.
Even though I know absolutely nothing about football, I'm planning to go, if for nothing else, to visit friends that are still trapped there.


And um....that's about it.
Other than the wicked tan lines I got Saturday.
My business class required a team-building thing called a 'ropes course.'
I would complain about it a crapload, but actually wasn't that bad, despite being outside for four hours.
And as if that isn't not bad enough, my legs are at least four shades lighter than my face/arms/chest.

Anything else....?
Oh, one more thing.
COLLEGE BOYS ARE CUTE!
And my favorite thing is that they're also nice.
Like, they hold doors, and smile, and they're generally amicable.



I guess that is all.
Now, I say, good day!

I noticed I only blog when I'm procrastinating. Aha.

I should, right now, be studying for my chapter three quiz for Special Topics in Business.
Instead, I'm blogging and watching NCIS.

Hmm. What's going on with me, you ask?
Well, basically, I'm just doing school work and  hanging out with my friends.
My friends are the best, ever, and they're fantastic, even if school is a drag sometimes.
School is going welllll. I like it so far. I don't like all the work I've been doing, especially reading chapters of textbook at a time, bleh.

I want to see Jennifer's Body.
I don't care if Megan Fox(y) has a bad reputation.
MEGAN FOX IS HOT. She is my number one lady-crush.
I have two other lady crushes, and nobody is even close.

My mom told me I should be like Abby from NCIS.
I told her that next time I color my hair, it'll be black.
And that I'd start wearing dark lipstick and hooker boots.
And that I'd even start putting my newly black hair into pigtails.

So....
That's it.
Bis dann.

I should be writing an essay.

Instead I'm blogging and twitting.
That's college student ambition at it's finest.
Oh, I'm also watching Criminal Minds, because it is win.
And I just spent 45 minutes making mashed potatoes only to throw them out.
(Microwaving potatoes, mashing them, and making gravy didn't work out very well for me.)

Let's overview what's going on RIGHTNOW!
So I cried a lot today, because my best friend with XY chromosomes is leaving for the Navy tomorrow, and I didn't get to take him out to lunch/dinner.
And I was supposed to finish correcting a paper for Writing & Rhetoric tonight and print it out for tomorrow, but Mom's printer is kaput and I'm feeling lazy.
If I wasn't paying 30$ per course per day I think that tomorrow would be an awesome day to just take off, but hey, no classes Friday makes for a three day weekend to recuperate.

I guess I've got to set myself an ultimatum now—no refreshing my Twitter until I finish editing my essay.
I should be easier now that Criminal Minds is about to end.

Guten Abend, internet machine.

PS: I love Katy. And I heard tomorrow is free coffee day at Boston. :D

I take it back.

But I don't take it ALL back.
I don't want to go to school.
I want to sleep in.






I am SO stoked for this four day weekend I've got coming up. :D

I feel like destroying something beautiful.

Well, not really. But it's a great quote.

SO. Stetson. Is. AMAZING.
I don't hate waking up.
I don't hate going to classes.
I don't hate hour long lectures.
I don't hate writing short essays.
I don't have having to do homework.
And I think that is absolutely fantastic.

Right now, I'm ignoring the last few questions of my first Psychology assignment. But that's alright. It's been two weeks and I haven't blogged about how wonderful it is to be in college.

I think you get the point, it's pretty sweet, right?

Onward and upward, eh?
So....other than that, not much is going on.
Today was my Baby Ola's first day in college.
I drove her and picked her up, and it was exciting. (:

I feel very mature right now, because I'm getting experience in a lot of things all at one time....College life, time management, etc. And now, I'm broadening my horizons to learn how to install flooring. Not sure I'll ever use that again, but hey, it's interesting to learn anyway. So far, I've helped with laminate, carpet and tile. I know, it's not very exciting, but maybe worth mentioning.

Right now I'm partially paying attention to typing this out, but moreso, I'm paying attention to the TV because, well, Raw is on, and well, not much is more important to me than wrestling. I know, that's stupid, because I'm actually paying for this education, but....I'm still learning to prioritize, eh?

I have some reading to catch up on for Writing and Rhetoric, and a couple pages to read for Psychology.
I totally just blanked for two reasons: 1) Bob Barker is hosting Raw next week. Honestly, I didn't even know for sure if he was alive;; 2) Cody Rhodes is on TV. And....He. Is. Fabulous.

It feels like there's something else I should mention, but it completely escapes me....

Okay....So DX and John Cena just got whipped by Legacy & Dusty Rhodes. Hmm. And now, Randy Orton RKO'ed Cody's dad. And Cody is going to turn face, finally?! PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
So disappointing.

I guess that's it. Now I'm in a terrible mood and I'm really upset that Brett DiBiase wasn't on TV this week.

Good night.

growing up.

Orientation begins on Saturday and I've never felt more grown up. I can't decide whether I'm anxious or nervous. This weekend is completely consumed by orientation, and possibly the first half of the week. My first day of class is Thursday (classes start on a Thursday?!), and thus far, I've no idea what classes I will be taking.

My last two days of freedom before starting college are sure to be busy. I've got a lot of people to see and a lot of things to do. I haven't even been school shopping next! The only thing I've got prepared for school is my lappy top.

Now, I'm watching America's Got Talent. It's addicting, for realz. I'm supposed to be watching Criminal Minds, but I watch this episode last week. Boooooo.

Goodnight. More thoughts coming soon.

I will see you there, or I will see you another time.

Well this is my first post here on Blogger. Hooray, Blogger!

So here is what's currently on my mind.
I start Stetson University in the fall. I'm pretty excited because it's definitely one of the top universities in the state. Right now, my major is undeclared, but I'm thinking that I want to double major in English and Business and minor in Theatre. I've been told that the performing arts department is wonderful there, and there are even a few community theatre withing a few miles of the (my!) school.
There are so many reasons I'm excited for college to begin.
The campus is gorgeous. I'm almost positive that school will be much more enjoyable with a cleaner and more attractive atmosphere.
It's a quality school, and I've already met a few of the professors, who were all very friendly and helpful.
There are s o m a n y interesting classes to choose from. For example, there are at least five different classes for theatre, rather than just Drama I, Drama II, etc.
The most I'll have to go to school four days a week. Hello, days off!
Deland is a very busy and fun place to be. There are a few incredible cafés within walking distance from school, as well as a few cute shops. There's even a discount music store.
I know I'm kind of rambling, but this whole experience is so exciting for me.

Anyway. I'll try to post regularly. (: