So apparently after Fall Break my life ceased to exist. I've been going from one hing to another, and when i get a chance to relax I rarely do. So here's a short run down of all the important things going on here:
The weather skipped fall and went from summer to winter. Today the high was 44 degrees. Yesterday I played flag football in 40 degree weather. It was cold, very very cold. I am liking the cold weather a lot though. I'm breaking out all the warm clothes, although I'm running out so this Saturday is laundry day.
I'm working pretty steadily at the Roadhouse. I work Wed. nights, Fri and Sat nights, and Sunday mornings. Unless, of course, I ask off for one of those days, which includes the next 3 Saturdays!!! Oh well. I make ok tips there, they average out I think.
I'm passing all my classes, which is always a plus. I kinda don't care about Basic Reporting because it doesn't matter if i try my hardest or not i still get a 'C'. I'm kinda like w/e for that. PR is starting to get a little harder as more work is being do. I'm still loving history, just finished my presentation in there last week, next thing do is a paper. Theory has turned into research and concentrating more on our research proposals. Audio is just a 3 hour homework period for me. Voice is amazing. I'm beginning to memorize my songs for my jury at the end of the semester.
Our flag football team is 1 and 2 now, which is all sorts of fun. I enjoy playing/running around. :) I like to go to other teams games as well. Sig Ep has two 'B' teams, one of actives and one of pledges. They played each other last week and the actives won 45 to 14. They played again tonight, and the pledges beat the actives 36 to 33. The actives were not very happy. I'm sure the pledges heard about that later this evening.
This Friday is Halloween and I have been invited to a closed Halloween Party at Sig Ep, which I am really excited about! I am going to be a referee for halloween. I've got a really cute costume and everything. :) On Saturday is Carnation Ball. Amanda and I are having our dates over for dinner before we leave. It should be a good time. I'm really excited about that too.
Last weekend Sugarland played on Friday night, and one of the country stations came to the roadhouse to give away free tickets form 4 to 6 so at 5:30 we had a 60 to 75 minute wait on our hands. Then after work on Saturday night I went over to Sig Ep to hang out with some buddies. it was a good time.
In other words, somehow I'm managing to maintain a balance b/t my school work, my social life, and my actual work. Don't ask how, just go with it. I'm loving life right now and living each day the best I can. I'm in a great place right now. Everything seems to be going my way, and I'm pretty content.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Fall break
So the past two days have been Fall Break for me. I've decided Fall Break is an illusion. It's just two days of no classes that school gives you in the middle of the semester to get caught up in all of your classes. I had a lot of fun though.
I drove home Friday night, picking up Gavin, my cousin Erin's 20 mo. son, on the way. We got to baby-sit him Friday night through Saturday night while Erin was at a wedding in McKenzie, TN. Gavin didn't cry a single bit while in the car, but as soon as we got out of the car and into the house, and he realized mommy wasn't there he started crying. So we turned on Cars, his favorite movie, and he forgot about pretty much everything else. There were very little troubles the rest of the weekend. That night I went out with a friend. We went and played pool and darts. It was fun.
Saturday was the OU-Texas game... boo Longhorns (especially since they won). I worked on my Public Relations homework while I watched it. We also took Gavin to the pumpkin patch and got him a new toy car, which was inadvertantly left at our house. That night we celebrated dad's 50th birthday, a week late, but still. We had spaghetti, french bread, and blackberry pie and ice cream. It was very good. Gavin loved the blackberry pie. it was so cute. he'd get up on the chair and say "bite" to my mom, who would give him a bite, and then he would get down and go play, and then come back and repeat the process. That night Erin came in and we chilled that night. it was cool.
Sunday I went to church with my mom and sister and Erin and Gavin. Erin and Gavin left for home. My computer was confiscated for the day to run virus scans. I spent the day chillaxin' and watching tv. :) I got my computer back that night and rewrote my University Relations article for Basic Reporting.
Monday I spent the day at mom's school giving out surveys for my Adidas campaign for my public relations campaign. That night a friend and I went out to see Eagle Eye. It was an amazing movie. Then We went to Texas Roadhouse where I got caught up on the latest gossip I had missed in the two months I had been gone. After that we went over to his place to watch You've Got Mail. It was a lot of fun.
Today I pretty much got up, took my time getting everything together, and then proceeded to drive 5 hours back to school. For some reason the cops were out in full force today, more than usual, so it actually took me 5 hours to get home. Sad day. I got back, and met Stephanie, who had my ID so she could get a meal earlier that day when the new student center opened, and we went over to the new student center and explored. It is amazing! When you're inside it, you feel like you actually go to a big school. It's so cool. I love it, and it was totally worth the inconvience of a year and a half of construction, almost. Now, I'm continuing to do homework, and getting ready to go to bed. Hope everyone had a great weekend/beginning of the week!
I drove home Friday night, picking up Gavin, my cousin Erin's 20 mo. son, on the way. We got to baby-sit him Friday night through Saturday night while Erin was at a wedding in McKenzie, TN. Gavin didn't cry a single bit while in the car, but as soon as we got out of the car and into the house, and he realized mommy wasn't there he started crying. So we turned on Cars, his favorite movie, and he forgot about pretty much everything else. There were very little troubles the rest of the weekend. That night I went out with a friend. We went and played pool and darts. It was fun.
Saturday was the OU-Texas game... boo Longhorns (especially since they won). I worked on my Public Relations homework while I watched it. We also took Gavin to the pumpkin patch and got him a new toy car, which was inadvertantly left at our house. That night we celebrated dad's 50th birthday, a week late, but still. We had spaghetti, french bread, and blackberry pie and ice cream. It was very good. Gavin loved the blackberry pie. it was so cute. he'd get up on the chair and say "bite" to my mom, who would give him a bite, and then he would get down and go play, and then come back and repeat the process. That night Erin came in and we chilled that night. it was cool.
Sunday I went to church with my mom and sister and Erin and Gavin. Erin and Gavin left for home. My computer was confiscated for the day to run virus scans. I spent the day chillaxin' and watching tv. :) I got my computer back that night and rewrote my University Relations article for Basic Reporting.
Monday I spent the day at mom's school giving out surveys for my Adidas campaign for my public relations campaign. That night a friend and I went out to see Eagle Eye. It was an amazing movie. Then We went to Texas Roadhouse where I got caught up on the latest gossip I had missed in the two months I had been gone. After that we went over to his place to watch You've Got Mail. It was a lot of fun.
Today I pretty much got up, took my time getting everything together, and then proceeded to drive 5 hours back to school. For some reason the cops were out in full force today, more than usual, so it actually took me 5 hours to get home. Sad day. I got back, and met Stephanie, who had my ID so she could get a meal earlier that day when the new student center opened, and we went over to the new student center and explored. It is amazing! When you're inside it, you feel like you actually go to a big school. It's so cool. I love it, and it was totally worth the inconvience of a year and a half of construction, almost. Now, I'm continuing to do homework, and getting ready to go to bed. Hope everyone had a great weekend/beginning of the week!
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
ice skating in the kitchen
SO tonight, Amanda and I were taking a break from watching Gilmore Girls, were on about 7 episodes right now, and we decided to slide on the kitchen floor. I seriously haven't done that since I was a little kid. It was so much fun. We were both sliding back and forth in the kitchen, and at one point we even slid into each other. that was kind of fun. We were sliding and screaming and laughing. At one point, we both slid, I went towards the fridge and she went towards the pantry. Her feet got in front of her body and she went right into the pantry door. She knocked it off the hinges. She fell down laughing. It was sooo funny. She wasn't hurt. It was just really funny.
Another fun thing... I got her sick. I've been sick for the past two weeks, coughing real bad. That's it just coughing, but it was really really annoying. Now she's caught it. I feel bad for her, but she's doing ok. Today was so interesting. I had a class form 9 to 9:50 and that was it. That was the only thing I had to do all day. It was o nice having a lazy day. Although technically it wasn't completely lazy since I did do some homework. It was so cool. Anyways, that was my day.
Another fun thing... I got her sick. I've been sick for the past two weeks, coughing real bad. That's it just coughing, but it was really really annoying. Now she's caught it. I feel bad for her, but she's doing ok. Today was so interesting. I had a class form 9 to 9:50 and that was it. That was the only thing I had to do all day. It was o nice having a lazy day. Although technically it wasn't completely lazy since I did do some homework. It was so cool. Anyways, that was my day.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Chocolate covered bacon anyone?
So the past couple weeks have been crazy in my apartment. Between the four of us we have had tests, papers, and general craziness happening. I think between the four of us we've had about 10-12 tests in the past two weeks, and 3 - 4 papers due. Not to mention three of us have sorority stuff, and two of us have exec sorority stuff! Ugh! All I can say is I will be glad to be done with exec. :-D I myself just got done with my second mid-term. My first one was yesterday in Media Theory and Research. I think I did ok on that one. He told us it would be broad, but this was way broad.
Today I had my WWII midterm. It was 20 short answer questions and 2 essays in 75 minutes. The 20 questions were to test our factual knowledge that we had gotten from the book. Now I read all 14 chapters in that book, I'm pretty certain this is the only class I've ever kept up on my reading for in any class ever, and I even take notes! Yet, I still didn't know half those quesitons! And he told us that if we missed more than 2 we couldn't get an A on the test, and I left at least 3 or 4 blank and got a few others wrong. As I was walking back to my room about 3 hours later, Irememebred an answer to a question I had left blank. I hate it when that happens.
I also turned in my problem statement and situational analysis for my Adidas campaign in Strategic PR. I'm having a lot of fun in there, my campign is centered around "comfort zone" so we'll see hwo well that works out. And other than my reporting class, which is not just kicking my butt, but rubbing it in my face as well, all is going well. I turned in 30 academic hours for last week, which is about 26 hours of studying and 4 hours of tutoring.
As a rewards for keeping up on my studies, me and my friend Stephanie went to Fall Festival tonight. Now Fall Festival is like a fair, but instead of being all about the rides or all about the best pig/pie/vegetable/cow/whatever, it's all about the food. Sure they have rides there, not a ton, but some good ones, and they have a talent show and stuff like that, but the food is the main event. It's why most people go down there. They have about 4 blocks lined on both sides of the streets with booths of food. Everything from your regular stuff: hotdogs, hamburgers, corn dogs, funnel cakes, bar-ba-que, sausage, ect.. and the not so reglar stuff: fried cookie dough, fried mac n cheese, alligator, Pig toes, Chocolate covered crickets, fried oreos, banana canoes, chocolate covered strawberries, buckeyes and of course chocolate covered bacon. Now I think that last one was new this year, I don't remember it from last year, but it sounded interesting, and I like bacon, and I like chocolate, so I decided I would try it. It wasn't bad, but after about one and a half, I was done with it. It was just sooo... something. I don't even know what it was.
Stephanie and I also played the mouse game, where you put your quarters on a color, and they let a mouse loose in a wheel of fortune looking thing, and hich ever color hole it goes in, that color wins, and if your quarter is on that color, you win! YAY!!! I didn't win. Neither did Stephanie. We also went on teh Himalaya, and all I can say is, the announcer makes the ride, I miss the guy at Bells. So now I'm relaxing before I work on my Lit Review tomorrow for my Media Theory and Research class. Yay fun times. This weekend is Fall break, and I'm looking forward to going home. I'll probably work the entire time, but oh well.
Today I had my WWII midterm. It was 20 short answer questions and 2 essays in 75 minutes. The 20 questions were to test our factual knowledge that we had gotten from the book. Now I read all 14 chapters in that book, I'm pretty certain this is the only class I've ever kept up on my reading for in any class ever, and I even take notes! Yet, I still didn't know half those quesitons! And he told us that if we missed more than 2 we couldn't get an A on the test, and I left at least 3 or 4 blank and got a few others wrong. As I was walking back to my room about 3 hours later, Irememebred an answer to a question I had left blank. I hate it when that happens.
I also turned in my problem statement and situational analysis for my Adidas campaign in Strategic PR. I'm having a lot of fun in there, my campign is centered around "comfort zone" so we'll see hwo well that works out. And other than my reporting class, which is not just kicking my butt, but rubbing it in my face as well, all is going well. I turned in 30 academic hours for last week, which is about 26 hours of studying and 4 hours of tutoring.
As a rewards for keeping up on my studies, me and my friend Stephanie went to Fall Festival tonight. Now Fall Festival is like a fair, but instead of being all about the rides or all about the best pig/pie/vegetable/cow/whatever, it's all about the food. Sure they have rides there, not a ton, but some good ones, and they have a talent show and stuff like that, but the food is the main event. It's why most people go down there. They have about 4 blocks lined on both sides of the streets with booths of food. Everything from your regular stuff: hotdogs, hamburgers, corn dogs, funnel cakes, bar-ba-que, sausage, ect.. and the not so reglar stuff: fried cookie dough, fried mac n cheese, alligator, Pig toes, Chocolate covered crickets, fried oreos, banana canoes, chocolate covered strawberries, buckeyes and of course chocolate covered bacon. Now I think that last one was new this year, I don't remember it from last year, but it sounded interesting, and I like bacon, and I like chocolate, so I decided I would try it. It wasn't bad, but after about one and a half, I was done with it. It was just sooo... something. I don't even know what it was.
Stephanie and I also played the mouse game, where you put your quarters on a color, and they let a mouse loose in a wheel of fortune looking thing, and hich ever color hole it goes in, that color wins, and if your quarter is on that color, you win! YAY!!! I didn't win. Neither did Stephanie. We also went on teh Himalaya, and all I can say is, the announcer makes the ride, I miss the guy at Bells. So now I'm relaxing before I work on my Lit Review tomorrow for my Media Theory and Research class. Yay fun times. This weekend is Fall break, and I'm looking forward to going home. I'll probably work the entire time, but oh well.
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