Free Food!

I've decided that the only reason to drag your lazy ass out of bed and go to college every day is that there is always the prospect of getting free food, or just free stuff, but mostly it's the free food. For instance, yesterday, they were giving away free Red Bull and pizza, even though I missed it and I was pissed! I could have used a Red Bull yesterday so bad! And today, they had some comedians performing in the courtyard and they were giving away free hotdogs and chips. I got free lunch today... which is nice because I can use that lunch money for another day, which means that I can potentially have more pocket money later on... but, probably not because I'm a poor college student. That's another reason why free food is great... because they will feed you sometimes and you don't have waste your money on cafeteria food, which is ok, but it's not that impressive.
I should be going to class every day so that I can learn all the stuff for the quizes and tests and stuff, but, no. I go to college for the free food. I'm still really mad that I didn't get any Red Bull! Not that I'm bitter or anything, but... I kindof am. ;) Maybe I'll bring my Rip It to school with me tomorrow?... that would possibly help me stay awake in History... that would be especially good since I have a quiz. doy de doy.

A Walk Down Memory Lane... or maybe it was just the Highschool's Hallways?

Well, today Katy and I went to the highschool at 11:30 because Tabby told us that she was having pizza in Madam's room during the lunch mods... she basically bribed us with free food. So, we went and hung out in Madam's room for about an hour, until Tabby left. Then, Katy and I walked down the hall and talked to Mrs. Epperly for a few minutes. Then the bell rang and she had to go and teach her class and all that, so we walked past Mrs. Wills classroom. She wasn't in her room at the time, and she had a class of what looked like freshmen, so we didn't go in and wait for her to come back.
After attempting to see Mrs. Wills, Katy and I went downstairs to see Mr. Schuler, because he runs Mr. Neumier's (don't know how to spell it.. so, I hope it's right) lab because Mr. Neumier retired and all that. She talked to him for a little while about computers and all that stuff. When we left the computer lab, we walked down to see if Mrs. Harmon was in her room or if she had a class. She had a class, so we didn't want to stop in and interrupt, though we should have because Michael was in her class that mod!
Then, when we couldn't go see her, we wandered up to the library; we were going there to wait for the bell to ring so we could stop in Mrs. Harmon's room. We spent about thirty minutes in there between looking through all the fictional books (they actually got some more books this year!) and Katy talking to the librarian. Katy found some more books that she wants me to add to my list...YAY!.. only, not. :)
When we got done talking to Mrs. Harmon, we realized that it was ninth mod, and that Mrs. Spencer had a free mod, so we stopped in to see her. We stayed there for about thirty minutes, too. Hey Britt, I saw your band practicing while we were in there! The flag corps had orange and purple flads, which clashed with each other... I was wondering if maybe they're just their practice flags?... I don't know. But, Mrs. Metz came into Mrs. Spencer's room and she had to talk to her, so Katy and I got kicked out... but we were ready to leave by then, anyways. There were so many teachers that we didn't get to visit with, but it's hard to find time to see them because you don't want to interrupt their classes and all. Maybe next time!

Classes

Well, today was my first day at college. I had to be on campus for about eleven hours; that's because I had to go up to the campus today at 8:30 because my ride had a 9:00 class, and my first class wasn't until 11:30. The reason that I was there all day is because my last class didn't end until 7:40... actually, that's when it's supposed to end, but she let us out around 6:55, which was awesome. I got out of all my classes early today. It was great.. I wish that it would be like that every day, but, denied.
My English teacher's first name is Kelly, but he's a guy. I was expecting a woman to walk up to the front of the room, and then this guy goes up there. I shouldn't have been surprised, because "Kelly" is a unisex sort of name, but, I was! English wasn't too bad. I had homework, though... I had to write about what "torture" was and whether or not it was justifiable. Britt, you'd probably enjoy this class!
History wasn't too bad, either. There were too guys in there from my highschool. Unfortunately, they were guys that I never really talked to then... so I probably won't talk to them now. ;) I have to get my text book for history, yet.... that was the only book I forgot to get, and it's probably the one that I'll need the most for that class. *smacks hand on forehead* So, I'll probably be in the bookstore tomorrow hunting that one down!
Psychology was pretty fun. I actually knew some of the stuff that we talked about. We did a little True/False quiz today that wasn't for any points... I missed 5 questions out of 12... go me! And I will probably do really well in the class because the only grades we'll have will be from our tests, which are multiple choice and cover the information that we go over in class. As long as I read the chapters and pay attention, I'll be fine!
I'm excited... Christa and I have our survey class together tomorrow! I'll actually know someone in one of my classes, well, someone that I actually talk to, anyways. Hopefully the class is easy. I really don't want it to be difficult!
College isn't as bad as I was dreading that it was going to be. Hopefully it's not too hard. I hope that I haven't overloaded myself with my classes. It would suck if I failed one of my classes! I probably won't, because I don't like getting bad grades, but, you never know.
Well, Jess and Britt, I hope you guys' first day was good! And good luck on the band audition, Britt!... you'll do fine!

Am I ready?

Well, as you guys know, college starts tomorrow, for a lot of us. I finally got my books and my backpack (which I'm so proud of because I got if for $7 at Wal-Mart...and it's purple) today. Way to be last minute, huh? I have my classroom numbers and the names of my teachers and all that jazz. But, I can't help but feel like I'm forgetting something. My worst fear is going there and not being prepared. I feel like I should read some of my books before class starts, but I'm really too lazy to do that; plus, classes are tomorrow, and I don't have enough time. I just feel like there is something really big and important that I'm not going to remember to do, and I wish I could figure out why I feel like this! Maybe it's just nerves; but, maybe there is a reason for it? I really hate this feeling! It makes me all nervous and crap, and it's probably all for nothing, too! That's the story of my life!
While I was out getting my school stuff, I also took the opportunity to get other things, too. I got myself a bad of tennis balls, which makes me happy, even though I'll probably never use them! :) And I also got myself a pair of tennis shoes, just for playing tennis. I was surprised that I could actually find a pair of white-bottomed shoes that I liked, that were in my size. That almost never happens when I'm at Wal-Mart! So I got some cheap white shoes so I can play tennis without getting wenched at cuz my shoes don't have white soles (ha ha... my Vans have black soles... that makes me laugh... you know, the whole good vs. evil crap... white vs. black. I'm probably the only one who will laugh, but, I'm used to that!)
There is a small part of me that is excited to start college, because I'm curious to see what it's like... but the majority of me hates it, and I haven't even started! :) I know, I'm talented like that. By the way... Jess, I saw something at Wal-Mart that made me think of you! They had these pens by the check-out that I was at, and they had the Disney Princesses on them, and one had Belle on it, and I remembered you saying that Beauty and the Beast was your favorite movie when you were younger, so, I thought of you when I saw that. You should feel special! I still haven't found a purse with the Beauty and the Beast scene on it... but, maybe you'll get lucky enough to find one?... probably not, but, this is me thinking positive! :)

It's amazing!

I think that I'm actually getting better at tennis. Probably not, but I feel like it. I actually tried today. I put forth some effort and ran my ass off. I still need to work on serving and actually hitting the ball and not having it fly over the fence or into the net. I'm probably going to hurt really badly in the morning, and I get to walk around campus and buy my books and all that tomorrow. YAY!
Speaking of college and books... I'm really not ready to start! I don't want to be in school again. I sometimes wonder if I should have taken a year off after highschool. Maybe I should have gotten a job and worked for a year and saved up some money? I mean, there are a lot of things that I could have done instead, but, if I did take the time off I would probably have a hard time going when the year was over. Wow, I just talked myself out of that. That was fun... I should do that more often! :)

Tennis

I went and played tennis today with Tabby and Katy. Tabby's getting really good.. and I suck really bad. Of course Katy is good because she was on the Varsity Tennis team and she's.. awesome at tennis. She may think she's not that good, but she's a tennis genius compared to me!
I've come to term with the fact that I'll never be any good at tennis. I can't run and get the ball... I can't remember all the rules... I can't serve... I can't hit the ball very well... I can't do a backhand swing... I can't hit using both hands, which is why I suck at hitting the ball most of the time.
I really like to play tennis, because it's fun, but I can't play to save my life! Maybe if I actually put forth some effort I might improve a little... but, probably not, because I gave an effort today, a lot more effort than I thought was in me, and I still sucked really badly! Obviously I wasn't meant to play tennis, but, I can still have fun and try and hit the ball, while failing miserably and smaking myself in the face with the racket. ;)
Maybe if I got some tennis shoes, you know, ones that actually have padding on the bottom and don't make your feet hurt if you just wear them to walk in, then I might actually be able to improve on my game a little? Of course, if that works, then I actually have to work on remembering all the rules, because I will be expected to know them if I can actually play a little. *thinks to self "should I really get some new shoes, then?"* *begins to argue with self about trying to play better and not be so lazy* *smacks self in face because she's talking to herself* That was interesting. :)
I want to be good at tennis, I really do... I just don't see it as being possible for me. It really sucks to have to tell yourself that you suck at something and that there really isn't anything that you can do about it, but, that's what I have to do now.

Renaissance Festival

I just got back a little while ago from RenFest. It was so much fun! There was so much stuff there that I wanted to buy, but, sadly, I couldn't afford! It would have been nice to get Jess that Super Wench shirt, but they didn't have it this year.. it made me sad. And it would have been cool to buy a belt and get a coin purse and other stuff to put on it. Or maybe a cloak, or a dress... or maybe even some elf ears! Maybe the next time I go, I can find something that I can afford? I could have gotten a dagger, but I didn't really want one... except, they had this really shiny silver one that had blue jewels encrusted in it... I could have gotten that one, but I was saving my money for something I really wanted, but, I was denied.
Maybe next time, too, we can dress up.. that would be lots of fun. And we wouldn't feel silly or anything because everyone dresses up. It's like an early Halloween celebration. I have lots of things in my closet that I could use to make a suitable costume with. And, it would make me happy to be able to dress up twice a year, instead of just once.

Makes me happy!

This picture makes me so happy! Not only is it Orlando Bloom, but he looks like he's a vampire! Guys with pointy teeth are hot. The first time I ever thought that Brad Pitt was hot was when he played Louis in Interview With A Vampire, and that was because he was a vampire, therefore, he had pointy teeth.
Orlando Bloom is hot enough as it is, but you make him look like a vamp, and *swoon*. I know that I'm probably weird for liking pointy teeth but, hey, every girl's got her thing... unless, of course, you're Brittany, who has no hormones!
Now, all that's left for me to do is wait for him to be in a movie where he actually plays a vampire. That would make my year!

Exercise

So, this is what it feels like to get off your lazy butt and go for a long-ass bike ride. It's not too bad. I just feel really bad for Britt, because she rode all the way into town and to my house, and then to the highschool and then to Tabby's house, and now she has to ride all the way back to her house again. Poor Britt... I hope she doesn't die! She's supposed to go with me to RenFest when we go with Katy. I don't want to be all alone with Mommy!... She'll kill me!
Brittany.. you CAN'T DIE! Don't leave me all alone with that heartless bitch.. I mean, wonderful mommy of mine. I really shouldn't say bad things about her... after all, she really doesn't hate me as I had previously suspected. But, it's not like I didn't have reason to suspect it. After all, if you really loved the child you had, would you go out and adopt another one just to piss her off? I wouldn't, but that's what she did!
Wow. I really got off the topic there... what was it again? *scrolls to top* Oh, yes, Exercise. I think I've had my exercise for the next week. ;) I won't have any need to do anything else until I start college next week. Of course, I'll have to do something, running back and forth between buildings for my classes and stuff.
And now, I'm going to go regain all those calories/ounces of fat that I worked off today by eating a big bowl of Chicken Noodle Soup and lots and lots of biscuits! :)

I'm losing them.

Well, I had to say good-bye to one of my best friends today, because she's leaving for college tomorrow night, and I probably won't see her before she leaves. It makes me really sad. One of my other best friends is leaving this Sunday, which makes me sad, too. I don't want college to start! I just want to hang out and have fun... pretty much do what we're doing right now. I don't want to have responsibilities, like homework and reading and paying attention in class. I just want to spend time with my friends, having fun.
I'm not a big fan of change and people moving away. That's probably mostly due to the fact that my dad was in the navy and we moved five times. But, I really don't like many things to change, and friends moving away and me starting college is definately a BIG change! Everything will be so different! Hopefully I can still keep in touch with those of my friends who aren't moving away and we can hang out every now and then. Of course I'm going to keep in touch with my friends that are moving away.. even if it kills me, which I hope that it doesn't because then my keeping in touch would be pointless because I would be dead and we would lose touch anyways.

I don't suck?

Apparently, after all my convicing myself that I suck at tennis, I don't really suck. This is news to me. I'm always just happy if I can hit the ball. Who new that I have potential skill? I know that I suck right now, but I was told that I could get better. My friend, Katy, told me that I had improved over the summer, already. Supposedly I played a few "games" with her and Britt, even though I don't remember them, and she told me that I've improved since then.

I don't know if my brain can handle all the rules for tennis. I can barely handle telling it that I need to hit the ball with the racket that's in my hand! Maybe with practice I'll get better, like Katy says. I guess we'll just have to wait and see. I'll never be awesome at it, though... I can tell you that right now.

We did it!

Last night, Britt and I got Katy's yard. We didn't do all the normal stuff, like toilet paper and shaving cream, although we did use shaving cream. We wrote messages out on her car and her lawn with it. We also got her car doorhandles with Vasaline. Lots of things that nobody outside of our group would ever understand. We also hung a green apple from her tree and poked toothpicks in it to add some majesty(again, something people on the "outside" would never understand). We also picked up some fake blood from Wal-Mart and dunked some tampons in it and hung them on her bushes and also hung a few from the floating apple. The tampons are also an inside joke. To top everything off, Britt drew some gnomes and we stuck them in her yard using plastic knives. It was wonderful. I know that it doesn't seem like we like Katy very much, but, we do.

Britt and I had fun, but I don't think that Katy enjoyed having to clean up all the mess. I can understand her being mad at us... though, I don't know yet just how mad she is because she wouldn't really talk to either of us today when we saw her at the tennis courts. Oh well.

Katy, if you read this, you have to understand that what we did to your yard we did out of love! And maybe a little bit because it was funny, but it was mostly because we heartses you!

I don't wanna!

I don't want to kill my dnd character off! I've grow quite attached to her, and it would make me sad! I agree with Brittany... the character should go off and retire and live out their lives happily. I understand that we're probably not going to be able to use them after everyone starts college and stuff, but I don't want to kill them... at least, not my character.
Speaking of dnd.. did you have fun smoting things last night, Jess? You seemed like you were enjoying yourself... at least for a little while there.

Stupid fog!

Because of the stupid fog, school was cancelled today. Normally, I would be happy about a fog cancellation, if I was in school and it meant that I didn't have to go. However, that's not the case this time.
Because of the fog, I have my brothers at the house all day. How am I supposed to have a good day when they and their friends are here all the time, and being loud, and... male? Stupid fog! Now, when I make the homemade pizza, their friends are going to stick their dirty, grubby little paws all over it, and then it won't be fit for anyone else to eat. Boys are so gross!
Well... hopefully Ben will still go over to his friend's house today, and at least I will be one brother down, which means that only half of the little grubby friends will be over. That makes me happy!

Hamsters!

I got the crap scared out of me last night. I was sitting on my bed finishing up the first Harry Potter book when i catch something small and brown surrying across my floor out of the corner of my eye. When I look over, I see ChunkyButt, my hamster. It took me a few seconds to react because I was caught so off guard. I jumped off my bed and rushed over to my closet door, where Chunky was sniffing around. He started to waddle back to my door and I thought he was going to squeeze under my door before I had a chance to catch him. Fortunately for me, he's not the brightest creature on this planet. About a foot from the door, he stops. I take advantage of his pause and I hurry up and grab him. He didn't put up a fight or anything... He must have been ready to go back to his cage. When I got to his cage, I discovered that I had left the door of the cage open. It never occured to me that they could get out because the opening is at the top of the cage... I guess I was wrong on that one!
I have enough hamsters getting out of cages and disappearing, and I don't need to start helping them. I guess I should be more careful... Never underestimate the power of a stupid hamster!

Where do I stick them?

I officially have all of the Harry Potter books, thanks to my friend, Becky. I also have two other really big books, The Chronicles of Narnia and volume 1 of The Belgariad. It makes me happy to see all these books; I only have one problem... where am I supposed to put them all? I don't have a bookshelf and my desk is full of crap. I don't want to just leave them laying around because my brother might pick one up and run off with it.

The new bed that I want to get has a headboard that could act as a bookshelf, but, I don't have that, yet. I guess that I will just have to split up my little library and stick the books wherever I can find a spot for them right now, and hope that I get my new bed soon! Though, I wonder what I will do if I manage to own all the books on my list?... where am I going to put all those books? Maybe I'll actually buy a bookshelf... someday. ;)

False Alarm

My mom called me today while I was out with some friends and told me that another one of my baby hamsters had escaped from the cage. So, I thought I would come home and discover one of the cages to be short a hamster when I went into the animal room to feed them. So, when I was feeding the hamsters, I counted the number in each cage; there were three in one cage (mommy's cage) and six in the other (daddy's cage), which is the number that I had before there was supposedly another one missing.

The only conclusion I could come to was that the corpse my dad found was one of the two hamsters that went missing and we never found a body for. I don't want to think about why it took so long for the body to surface; it probably had something to do with my cats. They were probably hiding it and saving it for later. *shudders*

So, I got all upset for nothing; but, at least we know that the mom didn't eat both the babies... well, we know she didn't eat the one, but we're not sure about the other one. Give it another week, and I'm sure the body with surface.

Book List

I decided that I needed to make a list of all the books that I want to read... mostly because I will forget them if I don't. The list is really long and I know it will take me the rest of my life to finish it; hopefully I will at least enjoy reading the books!

The Wheel of Time series
Harry Potter (books 1-6)
The Dark Tower series
The Belgariad Volumes 1 and 2
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Sword of Truth series
Eldest (plus any other books from the Inheritance series)
The Dune series (old and new)
The Xanth series
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Dark Elf Trilogy: Homeland/Exile/Sojoum
Daughter of the Blood series
The Anita Blake Vampire series
The Vampire Chronicles (except for Interview With a Vampire)
Starship Troopers
Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow
A Song of Ice and Fire series
Angels & Demons
The Da Vinci Code (with pictures)
The Historian
Undead and Unwed