So much for writing every Friday. Oh well...

Anyway, I noticed this morning that many of the entries on LJ lately have been downers. (Your choice, your LJ is your soapbox, if i don't like it I don't have to read it. :-p)

But, on that note, I'm not gonna be a downer. Instead, here's a list of good things that have happened since my last post (holy long time Batman...)

- Living in a new place. No more female roommates. (Not saying that they were a bad thing, just pointing out I'm not living with girls anymore.) Fuzzy's a good guy I know from highschool and we're both Eagle scouts (seems most of my male room mates have been, weird) There has been some carry-over from living with the girls though, I still watch Top-Chef and the food network like crazy. Although I have gotten away from trashy reality TV. :-p

- Job's going really well. And I'm no longer the bottom of the totem pole. Someone new just started and she's training at the moment. I'm actually working more now. a .8 instead of a .6 which means more guaranteed hours, yay!

- Jacki got into the LPN program. Yay jacki!! It's great to see plans working and building towards something.

- My brother has found some direction for his life. He's joining the Marines...yeah, my skinny-ass brother...He actually had to gain weight before they'd let him in. :-p I'm glad he's doing something with his life. Yes, I'm worried, he is my brother after all. He's looking at going into ordinance (guns/artillery) maintenance, or helicopter repair. Neither would put him on the front line which has my family a tad better with all this.

- Things with Jacki are going great. In case by some random chance you haven't heard (I'm pretty sure everyone following this LJ already knows) we got engaged over the summer. :-D I'm extremely happy that I've found the person I'm going to spend the rest of my life with and the wedding plans are going really well so far.

- Kinda hard to follow that with anything else, so I'll leave it there. Have a good weekend everyone!

Oh! weekend! Jacki and I are going to Grand Marais. My parents won a weekend in a three bedroom cabin on the bay in Grand Marais. (If you use google you have to spell out Grand Marais, Michigan. Abbreviating the state gives you the one in Minnesota. Evidently google can't tell the difference between MI and MN....stupid google) So we're going to spend the weekend with them and my mom's brother and his wife. Should be fun.

So, I've realized that this journal is pretty much never used anymore....:-(
Most of the people on my friends list I talk to pretty frequently, so keeping you updated on my life isn't really needed. :-/

On that note, I'm changing what I use this journal for. I'm turning it into a soapbox. The catch is that I need ideas for what to talk about. (I'm bad at coming up with ideas of any kind.) So, I'd like my friends list to toss out random ideas for me to write about each week. I'm gonna shoot for a post every Friday about one or more of the ideas tossed out and where ever they take me, just a basic ramble/rant/monologue that follows the illogic/logic of my brain.

Ready friends list? Topics go!!

Hello all, I know it's been a while, and the last entry i did was a meme also, but who cares. This is my journal and I'll do what I want. :-p
This is actually one of the new notes floating around facebook, but I refuse to write facebook notes. So here goes:

"The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here."

Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
2) Tally your total at the bottom.
3) Post in LJ/Facebook.

Here's the list:

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen ()
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (x) (Of COURSE, and that's like 4-12 books right there...)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte ()
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (X) (Another 7...The bbc's math isn't adding up...)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee ()
6 The Bible (X)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte ()
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (X)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (X)
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (X) (It was the best of times, it was the worst of books...)
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott ()
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy ()
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (X)
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare ()
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier ()
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (X) (Shouldn't this be up by LOTR?)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks ()
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (X) (Holden Caufield!!)
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger ()
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot ()
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell ()
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (X)
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens ()
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy ()
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (X) (All 5 in the Trilogy)
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh ()
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky ()
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck ()
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll ()
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (X)
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy ()
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens ()
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (X) (Again the ENTIRE series :-))
34 Emma - Jane Austen ()
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen ()
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (X) (Wait a second....this is PART of the Chronicles of Narnia...I think the BBC is retarded...and CS Lewis was ENGLISH!)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini ()
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres ()
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden ()
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne ()
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (X) (Because who doesn't love Communistic Pigs?!)
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (X)
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ()
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving ()
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins ()
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery ()
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy ()
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood ()
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding ()
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan ()
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel ()
52 Dune - Frank Herbert ()
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons ()
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen ()
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth ()
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon ()
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens ()
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley ()
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon ()
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ()
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck ()
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov ()
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt ()
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold ()
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (X) (In the ORIGINAL french, cause i could at the time)
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac ()
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy ()
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding ()
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie ()
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville (X) (Arrr matey, the book be boring and huge...kinda like the damn whale that doesn't show up until halfway through the scurvy ting)
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens ()
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker ()
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett ()
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson ()
75 Ulysses - James Joyce ()
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath ()
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome ()
78 Germinal - Emile Zola ()
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray ()
80 Possession - AS Byatt ()
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens ()
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell ()
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker ()
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro (X)
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert ()
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry ()
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White (X)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom (X)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton ()
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - ()
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (X) (Le Petite Prince, again in the ORIGINAL french)
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks ()
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams (X)
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole ()
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute ()
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (X) (You guessed it, in french)
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (x)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (X)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (X) (Why not wrap up with another book I've read in french? :-p)

For a total of: 27!! Suck it BBC. I'm betting the average college student has read way more than six on this list. The average american? Who knows...

So much for not going months in between posts...

My practicum is already wrapping up. kinda. There's still a ton I have to do by it's getting there.

On the hospital front, I'm now an official employee of MGH. I got a .6 position in Transfusion Services, which is really what I've always enjoyed about the lab so I'm pumped about the job and how well everything has been going.

Things outside the lab have been well, nonexistent. Due to getting this job I've started training and doing my student stuff every day. So I'm a student from 7-3 (in micro for my last part of the lab) and an employee in Transfusion from 3-6ish. Makes for a very long day. Seeing as I'm at the lab so much every day I have very little energy left whenever I'm done. So it's basically come home and crash. Every now and then I manage to get out and do something but I've become very non-social in the past week and it's gonna be that way through December. :-(

So right now Jacki's unconscious next to me on the futon. Darvocet seems to knock her out. To explain why she's taking Darvocet; I managed to brake her yesterday. :-( Yesterday morning she decided it would be funny to tickle me (since I'm always the one doing the tickling). Well she tickled my foot and when I spasmed out of reflex I caught her in the shoulder. Turns out it was hard enough to sprain the ligament that holds her collar bone to her shoulder joint. She's in a sling for at least three days and can't to any right handed work for two weeks. It's going to be a long time before I live this one down...

Other than the broken girl friend things are going pretty well. Graduation is in just over a month. The comprehensive exam is too...eesh. It's gonna be a tough month. Looking foward to finally being done though. It's been an interesting four years.

(Band members, the userpic is for you. :-) Good luck with camp this week and everything this season.)

Here we go

I started my practicum on July 21st and have been busy as crap ever since. Thankfully I'm no longer working at the theater, so that frees up my weekends. (For the time being at least.) MGH's lab is really nice. Doing bench work again has reaffirmed my feeling that this is what i want to do with my life.The frustrating thing is that I was told i would be working contingent on the FIRST DAY of my practicum. It's almost week 6 and nothing has happened in regards to that. I understand that kelyn had trouble with getting employed while a student but i have a degree and work experience already. (No offense intended at all Kelyn.) I'm tired of sitting there and listening while Marty (Core lab manager) complains about not having staff....Chelsea and I are actually going to talk to him tomorrow about it. Maybe I'll get insanely lucky and there will be an opening in transfusion (Seeing as blood banking is what I've enjoyed the most in the past.) On the employment note, Marty did just hire a new tech that starts on the 2nd of September. When Marty said "He's coming from War Memorial, he's worked the night shift there and has a lot of experience." I was confused cause the only male night tech at WMH was old and well...fired. Also, Marty has made a big deal about NOT hiring MLT's because the training curve is huge and he's had some really bad luck with MLTs in the past. Well, I finally get a name out of him and it's Dave Riley. No offense to Dave, but he does NOT have a lot of experience. Yes, working the night shift at WMH builds independence, it does not however build competence. When in doubt in the Soo we just referred it to the pathologist or sent it to the lab in Marquette...ALSO, here's a time line for ya. I did my practicum in the winter of 2006, Stew did his the fall after that and then Dave did his the following winter. So, his practicum was the winter of 07 which means he started working in/around May. So one year of experience now equals a lot? wtf? Whatever, all my complaining wont change anything, just needed to vent a tad. i'll keep everyone posted on how it's all going.

On a POSITIVE note, Jacki's back in marquette and that makes me very happy. This summer was the toughest summer I've ever had. We made it though, and I'm positive our relationship is stronger for it. Having her back in town (even if she is a little sick at the moment) is so much better for the both of us. (And yes honey, I'm thinking of how many times you've reminded me to update this as I write it. :-p)

Currently Jacki's at Band Camp for the NMU marching band. And that's another bag of worms...I miss it. Marching band was a huge part of my life for 8 years, not participating kinda hurts. But there's just no way for me to march this season. I'll be there supporting you guys at every game and helping how I can, but not being on the field is gonna be tough. Also, to those of you who read this and this actually pertains to, after rehearsal yesterday (I crashed the field rehearsal yesterday evening) I heard two different people planning activities (movie nights I think) OTHER than the evening activity. WTF? DURING band camp? We had activities for a reason....the feeling of the band being a big family came DIRECTLY from the foundations set at camp...what's the deal guys? The band keeps getting smaller, partly because of the FYE blocks, and partly because of freshman that don't come back for a second year. If that feeling of family is lost the marching band wont last another two years. :-( not much I can do from the outside, just think on it.

Times are a'changin...These past few weeks there's been a lot of memories brought up by different things. Most of them good. My college experience will be drawing to a close in December and I realize now how much my experiences and choices up here have shaped who and what I am. I've been very introspective the past couple days but not all of it can be posted tonight. More to come in the near future. Hold me to that one people, no more of this "months in between posts" crap.

So, the lyrics that I had "lost" were found! Basically, I left them in the living room and Bodamer sat on them. She then put them on the stairs after her cleaning rampage yesterday. Thanks Amanda!
So without further ado: The 'lyrics' to Raiders March that Bodamer and I made up at work. (Note, this is based on the marching arrangement rhythms, not the song that is playing on movie tunes.)
::Bows:: Thank you, I'll be here all week, try the veal. Also, as you can tell by the vulgarities, we were very angry about the song and the amount of times we were going to have to hear it while the movie was here playing. (The nuts in costume on opening day helped with the bitterness also)

I know the cheat is usually my rant icon but i felt that since I haven't used him in a while he needed to make an appearance.

Well, I said I'd update if something happened. I guess you could say something happened...

I just got home from Courtney's 21st birthday shindig at the Doghouse. Before that it was work, before work church and Sunday school.

I realized this morning that I am a completely different person than I was when I first came to NMU. Some people say that for the sake of saying it, but in my case it's absolutely true. Most of this came from the fact that a ton of stuff today reminded me of early NMU memories and how things have changed/not changed since they occured.
For instance, one of the final songs we sang today in service was the song "Trading my sorrows."  I'm NEVER going to be able to hear that song again without thinking of the 4th dimension skit at His House where Katie and I were having a conversation that turned into a full blown choreographed dance by about 10 girls...simply amazing. On the drive home I was thinking of Katie and how great of a friend she's always been and everyone that has come and gone in my time here at NMU. Being in a semi-weird schedule/setting has caused a lot of this too.

I.E. room mates. (Or "Housemates" whatever you prefer. ;-) )
Freshman year- 3 guys, suite in Mountain House, all pot smokers, Robbie depker annoying as crap and known around campus for his ridiculous voice...
Summer- home, work at Bay Med. as "Environmental service"
Sophomore year (Fall)- 1 girl, Off campus apartment with Jamie good friend from Marching band
Sophomore year (Winter)- alone, Apartment in Sault Ste. Marie, MI. Practicum/ working at War Memorial Hospital lab
Summer- 1 guy, Stew, friend from the CLS dept. met through other band members. Working at WMH lab
Junior Year (Fall)- alone, off campus apartment on Longyear
Junior Year (Winter)- Stew, back from the soo and living/going to school together
Summer- Stew, Longyear/wilkinson transition, Working at movie theatre.
Senior year- 2 guys, Stew and Jordan(Friend of Stew's from WI/highschool) all going to school
Summer- 2 girls, Andrea and Amanda, both friends from marching band. Again working at the theatre.

These different people have each taught me something different.

Wow....took a total tangent there....oh well...ask for a post and you get a small novel.

The main reason I wanted to write this was in response to what happened at work tonight. It was the ten o'clock set so things were slowing down and I was starting to organize stuff/put stuff away. I looked up, and standing on the other side of my register was Eric Hautamaki. I have never been speechless in my life until that moment tonight. Then work instinct kicked in and I helped him with his order. He recognized me about halfway through and we had a short, decent conversation. Well, he asked me how things were going and I explained how i was graduating in December. This is the first time I had seen him since he almost literally disappeared over night (about two years ago)...After the order I had to sit down in the back on the popcorn and just let the TONS of memories crash on me for a few minutes before I was functional again...There are so many memories tied to that, that it hurt to think.
For those of you who don't know who he is/ what I'm talking about, don't worry about it, I'm kinda just dumping here.
I realized as I was cleaning the popper (and still doing some heavy thinking) that the person I am today is not just because of the decisions I've made, but also because of the decisions of the people around me. We are constantly being shaped by every event we live through and encounter, hopefully for the better.

I am one...

Jacki has been bugging me about the promised lyrics to the Raider's March that I mentioned a while ago. (Thanks honey, you're the only one that did.)
So, cue drew deciding (after another prod from the sweetheart) to update. Well, I went and lost the stupid piece of paper that had the lyrics written on them...You were right Jacki, should've done it a ton sooner...grrrr.

So this is me stating that I am an idiot and should listen to people (especially the special ones) much more often.

And on another note, work is going not horribly. Two new girls at the theatre now, they seem ok so far but I've only worked in close proximity with them today. We'll see, I think that one will work out really well, not so sure about the second at the moment.

Going downstate at the end of the month for a week to visit the family and Jacki. I'm really looking foward to that trip. :-)

That's all for now, I'll update if anything extraordinary happens.

P.S. Having the window open and hearing birds is awesome

CONGRATS WINGS!!! (And Henrik of course)
That is all for now. (I realized it has again been a month since I posted...)
Coming soon:
1. Alternative lyrics (similar to the ones that Bodamer posted) to the Raider's March theme.
2. A screen shot of how Jacki's LJ post in reference to the win tonight broke my friend's page
3. Update on the summer and all that jazz.
(Hold me to this. Bug me about this stuff 'til it gets posted or it never will.)

OK, as promised I'm posting the story for my mythology class below. (In the cut) the directions were:
". Your Life as a Devotee of XXXX Greek God or Goddess.  You live in Greece around 800 B.C.  If you are male, you are a landowner and a citizen, with the usual life of a landowner and citizen.  If you are a female you are either

1. a wife of a citizen with her usual life,  or

2. an independent woman, a hetaera (prostitute). 

Although you know the entire Greek pantheon well, you are devoted to one particular Greek god or goddess.  Discuss your relationship with your deity you choose (or the deity that has chosen you) and tell how that relationship has affected your life."

I chose Apollo and wrote on him.


I ended up getting a 98%. Weee! The prof's comments were: "You weave this together quite wonderfully, and actually have a sort of "Apollion" tone to your writing (balanced, judicious, no nonsense, and quite rational).!! What a lovely story."

Feel free to comment if you would like. Note: I wrote it in under 5 hours, in one sitting, there was no proofreading done before I submitted it, and the ending sucks cause I was on to page six (it was supposed to be five).

 

Well, it's been a long time since my last post.

Since my last update there have been quite a few changes.

1. Jacki has left for the summer (suck)
2. Stew has moved out (suck)
3. Bodamer and Andrea have moved in (not suck)
4. Finished 4 years of college and don't have my bachelor's degree (not a big deal, I'll have it in December)
5. Back to working at the theatre (working-suck/ money-not suck)
6. Still up after 3 a.m. (game night-not suck/ tired tomorrow night-suck)
7. Have decided to trash the old subject 'theme' (not suck, opinion anyway, so YOU have to deal with it.)
---In case you never figured out the 'theme' to my subject lines, they all used to be lines from Jimmy Buffet songs.

OK, going to bed now, (as soon as andrea gets done using the shower so I can get my contacts out).

There will be a post in the very near future with the story that I wrote for my mythology class (5 [single space] pages in under 5 hours) soon. Just to see what everyone thinks. It's fun!

I had intended to work on homework during my break between medical terminology and band today...so much for that. After sitting in a room for 2 hours getting term after term thrown at me my brain is fried and is yelling at me when I try to think...GRRRRRR I've discovered that after about an hour of any class my brain checks out and contracts temporary ADD...

On that note, off to Fieras!!

I FINALLY got the notice. MGH is still taking two students, so I will be placed there for the Fall semester.
YAYYYYY [edited cause I'm an idiot...fall, not winter...]

To the CLS department: COME ON....I understand that this is a busy time with a faculty search going on, and a new dean for our college (college of professional studies) but I have asked repeatedly about practicum placements...after getting the run around for over a month ("We'll know by spring break, we'll know next week X2 and the best one "the placements aren't usually made 'til early april") BULL. Anyway, finally get a straight answer from linda yesterday "I will know by Tuesday after my meeting and will email you immediately." Well, the meeting ended before 3...(called kelyn to verify it) and it's now after five....how the crap is that immediately?...I was supposed to call Curran today about staying/not staying in this unit, and now they're closed. They have been extremely lenient with me about notifying them and yesterday was supposed to be my last day, but they let me have another since I was SUPPOSED to know by now...I'm pretty sure that beating my head against a brick wall would accomplish the same thing at the moment.

On another note: Dear room mate: If you get angry playing a video game STOP PLAYING! You yelling "GET OUT OF MY WAY" and "I wish they had friendly in this game" is not going to relieve your frustration....and it just pisses the rest of us off...growling and flailing doesn't help things either. Isn't the point of a video game to have fun? I've never seen anyone as frustrated and angry with things as he is....jeez. If i get that frustrated I just turn the thing off...

I'm so wired right now...there's an ass-ton of stuff going on and the stress levels aren't helping...grrrr

Lindsey's post got me thinking a tad. (Well, prompted me to post, the thinking occurred earlier today.)
Now, (as I told Bodamer earlier today) I'll never consider myself a Packer fan. But after hearing Brett Favre speak, I'll consider myself a Favre fan. (Before my fellow lion fans jump on me allow me to explain.)
I turned on the TV today and it happened to be on CBS from last night (I typically watch letterman before I go to bed.) The feed is out of GB and was showing the Live press conference with Brett Favre. That was the only press conference I've ever really watched, and was seriously impressed with him. I've known how articulate he is from other interviews but his personality and beliefs are just amazing. When he pointed out that his charity work was "more important than football" I was very pleased. It's not very often you see a professional athlete that's as well known (and worshiped) the way Brett Favre is and they're willing to say that their sport isn't the most important thing. He's just an amazing guy, on, and off the field.
He also made some statements about truly leaving on his own terms and dissuaded the reporter that compared him to Elway. (She asked why he didn't try for another superbowl and then retire after that.) He pointed out that when Elway retired on top (after his superbowl win against the Packers) he had never won one before. Favre on the other hand, had. So he's got the achievements to rest on. There was a bunch of other stuff said that I really liked but you should watch it yourself. (Hopefully it'll be up on nfl.com).
Hat's off to you Mr. Favre. You will be missed. (Even by us Lion's fans...)

Well, we're just over halfway through the semester and pretty much the only post I had was the rant almost a month ago...I'm not sure what to really say...I'm staying in Marquette for Spring Break (no tanning for me) and just lazying around the house. Playing a bunch of video games and doing a lot of reading. Keep hearing from Jacki about how nice it is down in Florida (worst day so far was yesterday....80 degrees and cloudy...boofreakinhoo...) The hockey team starts CCHA playoffs this weekend against OSU...the pep band situation is going to be very interesting as all of the alumni that were contacted about alumni band in the fall have been contacted again....we're not gonna have room...oh well, I'm not too worried, worse case scenario, we have people standing on the other side maybe....hrmm, never thought of that before...
You know, Laurel had a great post a week or so ago about stuff that's good (she called it an anti-rant) and I think I'm just gonna follow suit.

Stuff that's kept me sane/I've really enjoyed so far this semester:

- The Coney Joint (Specifically mark the owner)
- Los Tres Amigos
- lolcatz
- Halo 3
- Rock Band
- Being done with my medical ethics class
- TAing for 3 CLS lab sections (And realizing I actually know what I'm talking about theory wise...:-) )
- Finding out I'm involved/standing in three weddings in the next year or so
- Free bagels every sunday
- Teaching Sunday school
- Talking with others about sunday school/church/religion in general
- Game nights
- American Gladiators
- Not having Friday classes
- Chuck a baby
- Red Vs. Blue
- The Left Behind book series
- Coffee
- Thursday/Friday nights (depending on the week)
- Already having a job if I stay here this summer
- Friends in general (Thanks!)

On another note, I still haven't heard about my practicum placement (EPIC GRRRRRRR) I was told "you'll know by spring break...." yeah..so much for that...If I don't know by the Wednesday after break I'm gonna be extremely aggravated...

That's all for now, if I think of something else I'll actually post it, seeing as I have a ton of free time now. :-)

I know I haven't posted in about 6 weeks. And I didn't want to come back with a rant...but there's not much for it. (I apologize to those of you who find any of the language offensive)

I don't care WHO you are. If you're a guy, you have NO right to hit a girl unless it is in all out self defense. Don't try to justify yourself after the fact either...."She kicked me!" (you know that you were no danger in our own apartment moron...) I don't give a damn....what kind of ass hat behaves like that?!

If that or anything like that occurs again it's not just going to be a verbal question/accusation, I'm gonna lose it...

Christy: I apologize on behalf of my room mate that doesn't understand how to behave with, well, ANYONE...

Woke up...can't get back to sleep...then realized I had forgotten the day's entry anyway...