blog 69 - its raining its pouring.

So I don't really mind rain at all, when it's raining the only thing I ever HAVE to have is my rainboots. I hate getting my shoes soaked because a, my feet get cold, and b, it ruins them. Like today I had boots on, sad. The rain got them all gross, I mean I waterproofed them so hopefully they're okay. But yeah, it wasn't raining this morning so I didn't have them on, and then it started raining and my shoes got all gross. So me and my friend lunch-ed at Marketplace and then I stopped at my dorm and picked up my rainboots, and then I felt complete. So we finished our group memo a little early so I left english a little early. One of the girls in our hall has all of the seasons of Gilmore Girls, and me and one of my roommates are sick, so we're watching season 4! I love Gilmore Girls, I think my favorite part of the series is when she was dating Jess. Jess is definitely the cutest out of Dean, Jess, and Logan. I got really excited when she ran into him a lot later into the series, I can't remember the season but i'm pretty sure she's dating Logan by then. Anyways, we started with the episode when Rory and Lorelei get back from backpacking in Europe and she's about to go to school. I used to watch these all the time with my mom, we love this show! Watching it kind of makes me miss my mom. But hey, only a little longer until winter break, yay! I'm so pumped to go home, but that means I need to study for finals and finish revising these papers so that's all for today, later!

Blog 68 - i miss baking.

Me and my friends have lots of swipes to burn, so today we went to Marketplace and went grocery shopping with our swipes! We got cookies, coldstone, crackers and a couple frozen dinners. I miss grocery stores a lot so this will have to do. When I was home I went and got a batch of the break and bake mint chocolate chip cookies that only come out for christmas. I remember last christmas me and my friend got them, and seriously they're amazing. So we went back for more and after the 3rd Kroger's and lots of web searching found that they're limited edition and only come out for the holiday's. The night I bought them I made 6 of them and they all burned. We decided it was probably because I tried eating the cookies without her. So she was over the next day and we made them, they were delicious. All this talk about cookies makes me miss baking a lot. I miss all the recipe books, so i'm really excited for break! Classes are totally over and so we have nothing that we're actually responsible for getting done, yay! I can do whatever for all of break, now I just have to get through finals week, great. I'm excited to bake and see everyone and get adequate sleep, kind of. Well, get sleep that isn't cut short because of late night studying and homework. Well anyways, thats all i'm going to blog about today. I now need to go work on my papers and do some homework and studying for classes so, later!

Blog 67 - Break is over. sad.

So break is officially over, but hey christmas break isn't that far away, yay! My roomies and I are again listening to Christmas music, we were watch Disney earlier. Good luck Charlie was on, love that show!  I'm really tired, and I seriously want to go to bed, so I'm going to share some of the ARP paper that i'm revising at the moment. Its over Buffy the Vampire and how it shows the dynamics of teen, parent relationships. These are my first two introductory paragraphs, which are actually still under revision: 

Buffy is a sixteen years old. She is the typical teenage girl: she is a cheerleader, and she is quite outgoing. She has two great best friends, she does well-enough in school, and, of course, she just wants to fit in and be loved.

Sadly, Buffy can’t easily fit in, or embrace her extroverted personality and have fun with her friends often. She is the Chosen One: A vampire slayer. The citizens of her city are at risk of death unless Buffy continues to constantly train, learn, and patrol for vampires and other hostile creatures.            She doesn’t find this fair at all though, which is evident in her often-pouty faces and occasional lies to Giles. She understands somewhat that she has to do this, but she is a teenager, after all, and wants to have a fun, normal life like any other teenage girl. 

So thats most of my introduction to my paper, i'm trying to establish a background for Buffy. Anyways, that’s all for today, later!

Blog 66 - awhh, tomorrow's sunday.

I really don't like Sunday's. It's the day before a long week of classes and work, hate it. I have homework I should probably start, but instead I decided to watch Click, it's on TV right now. It's such a cute movie, but I kind of want to watch a christmas movie. Maybe after this i'll go find out copy of Beauty and the Beast Enchanted Christmas. It's such a cute movie! I like it a lot better than the regular Beauty and the Beast. Umm as usual, I have no clue what to blog about, I just want to get this over with. So i'm just going to ramble for a little while. I'm really scared about finals week, its going to be stressful. I'm scared about studying, I really don't know what to study for chemistry since clearly I study the wrong stuff every time. Anyways, i'm watching a movie now and I really want to be done with this so I can just watch and not have to do this. I got lots of fun stuff for black friday, I may have blogged about this already but this stuff includes a copy of The Hangover! Also PS. I love you, one of my favorite love-y movies. I love it, seriously, so cute. Like I understand why guys don't like The Notebook, even though I think it's a great movie, but PS. I love you, so good. I just love Gerard Butler! I had a fever all day today, i'm guessing I caught at mirror lake considering how easy it is to get a cold when you're running around soaking wet in freezing weather, so i've been in bed most of today, which sucked. To end my post, what do you call a pretty girl on Michigan's campus? A visitor. Yay Bucks!

Blog 65 - friiiiday !

Ahhh I need to get these blogs done. Well, now that this break is almost over i'm dying for winter break. Mainly because that means finals are over too, and I dont actually have any homework or anything hanging over my head! Plus its snowy outside, and theres christmas lights, music, and cookies galore. I can't wait! So now I just need to get through these next two weeks. I have the papers to edit for english and then a chemistry final, eek, and a math final. It's going to be a long week. So i'm doing this blog and watching Enchanted on TV, I'm probably going to go meet up with some friends later. I have no clue what to blog about. So I'm really excited about Tangled, it looks like such a cute movie. I feel lame but I really want to go watch it. I've heard that Disney isn't going to make any more princess movies for a while, I don't know if it's a rumor, I really hope it is, but if not thats sad! I've heard its because they never focus on males and so they want to try and do that, so I guess Tangled will be the last one for a while, how sad. So a christmas commercial is playing right now and it's making me even more excited for christmas! It's one of the funny Target ones, I love target. Me and my friend were getting break and bake cookies and around christmas time Toll House comes out with their mint chocolate chip ones, and then they like pull them out after chrimtmas, its sad. They're delicious. Anyways, that's all for now, later!

Blog 64 - Hey there.

So I forgot to blog yesterday, I have no clue why we have to blog on thanksgiving day, how is anyone supposed to remember to do that. Well anyways, thanksgiving was awesome! We made yummy stuffing and went to a thanksgiving dinner at a family friend's place. It was a lot of fun seeing everyone again, I really missed people. Umm i've been black friday shopping forever and I have a massive headache now and I really just want to go to bed, me and my mom went to old navy at like one, the line literally did, not just wrap around the store, but weave back and forth through the store. I think we waited in line for more than an hour, or maybe even two, but seriously, a long time. I think it was worth it but my mom begs to differ, it was fun though, i've missed my mom. We got lots of pajamas and some super fuzzy socks! Then I definetly set my alarm for like 7:30 after I got home at 4, and I totally slept through it, but i still got some semi good deals at the mall. It was a nice day, but my mom and I have definitely been popping Advil for the sleepless shopping day. Tonight i'm definitely relaxing with some food and movies. Maybe some chocolate covered raisins too, i've missed those. I got a copy of the Hangover from Target, even though I went pretty late, which I was pretty excited about, I think me and my friends are going to watch that tonight. So yeah, that’s all for this blog, now I need to do today’s blog.

Blog 63 - HOME :)

Okay, so i'm home now and i'm really tired and happy to be home and I really don't feel like blogging at all. I have no clue what to talk about. Well, i'm really bummed thinking about how much stuff I have to get done next week, its going to be one hell of a stressful week, oh boy. I really don't want next week to come any time soon. I'm really excited about all the driving, eating and shopping, and showering without shoes that i'm going to be doing for the next couple days! What should I blog about, hmm. The mirror lake jump was SO MUCH FUN! I think I jumped like 3 times, it seriously was probably one of the best nights yet. This morning I was trying to get a hold of my friend to give stuff back to her and the call wasn't going through. I then found out that someone had dropped her jacket that had her phone, camera, and coach wristlet in it, into the lake! Thankfully the pictures from mirror lake survived, but that still doesn't make up for the hundreds of dollars of replacement. It was really fun though. Then when we got back my dorm was making grilled cheese and hot chocolate for everyone, the night just got better and better! Theres nothing better than grilled cheese after a freezing dip into a lake. Traffic trying to get home today was ridiculous, like it took way too long to get home. But my friend was driving so I just took a nap in the backseat, it was nice. Anyways, that's all for today, later!

Blog 62 - finalllly time for break!

Today is just a fabulous day! I have a couple classes, I get back and do nothing, then its mirror lake time! Then tomorrow morning I go home, i'm so excited to see everyone and go shopping! So today I had a HChemistry lab, at 8:30 am the day after our killer midterm. Sometimes I feel like the only work and homework I ever do is for HChemistry. I haven't been to math lecture, or recitation in a while. It's sad how much I work I do for honors chem. Anyways, after that I, once again, skipped math recitation and actually got breakfast for the first time in a while. I had a toasted bagel! As I was eating it I realized how much I've missed like toasting break and bagels before I eat them, I miss my toaster. Then I went back to my dorm and cleaned, kind of. More like moved the mess into a smaller area, and just relaxed for a little while, rare. Then I came to this class. It's so nice out! It's hard to believe that it's already late November! But I mean i'm not complaining, I love it! I'm really excited to bake when I get home, I miss the kitchen with readily available ingredients, and large counter space. Me and my roomies have been listening to lots of christmas music lately, I think i'm going to bring back christmas lights and stuff to put up, ahh i'm excited! Well anyways, that's all for today. Later!

Blog 61 - sometimes professors are jerks.

Like really, I think my chemistry professor is making the class hard just because he can. Today, in lecture, a few hours before our midterm he decides to tell us that he took ALL of the multiple choice questions off of our midterm because he doesn't like multiple choice questions. Why he didn't realize this a day or two, or ten before the midterm so he could tell us the whole test was multiple choice, I don't know. Then, we have a practice midterm online, and he refuses to put up an answer key believing that, despite the fact that it's an honors class and most students in it are motivated, we would stare at the answers rather than trying the problems. Along with that, the practice midterm was normal freshman-ish chemistry. Like, more complicated problems than the ones in 122 but not impossible. Normal things like Pvnrt, and other gas law concepts and specific heat concepts. Of course though, our exam consists of only 5 short answer questions, which span over 9 pages (something is already wrong with this picture), where half of the questions are over things that were barely discussed or dismissed by the 4 chapters of the book we had to know. I understand where my professor is coming from. He believes strongly, very strongly in learning, like expanding of knowledge, and does not care one bit about grades. He doesn't realize that though we do want to learn, seeing that we took an honors class, grades are a little bit important, you know. Grad school's, medical school's sometimes seem to care less about whether you learned a ton of new information and got a B in an honors class. They would probably be happier with the A you receive in a regular chemistry class. It's sad that you have to give up the pursuit of knowledge for the sake of your long term career goals. I feel like i've blogged about this before, but I feel really strongly about this again, especially after this midterm. But yeah, i'm done ranting. Haha, thanks for listening!
grades vs, profession

Blog 60 - i hate sundays. especially when they're sunday's before a midterm

So tomorrow is my chemistry midterm, and I don't know how to feel about it. The material isn't super difficult, but that means everyone will do pretty decent and the curve wont be that great, so I don't know how to feel about it. So i'm going to keep studying for that and share a little bit more of my commonplace paper, after I talk about how excited I am to go home. I seriously miss my family so much sometimes, and this is one of those times. I really just miss my mom and everyone. What else, i'm really excited for tomorrow to be over, and for it to be tuesday for the mirror lake jump! Me and my friends are going to write on our stomach's and jump in, i'm pumped! Apparently to get back into the dorms you have to wait to get hosed down. But I heard my dorm is making everyone grilled cheese which sounds yummy! Then, go out after that and go home the next day, what a fabulous weekend. So yeah, anyways, here's some more of my common place paper. This is one of my middle paragraphs on why it is bad for the eldest child to be a parent: 

The eldest child would now spend a significant amount of time looking out for the younger sibling, would feed them, dress them well, help them fit in and feel loved. In this way, all the responsibilities that parents are meant to take on to raise their children are instead, taken on by their eldest child. Dr. Bartell speaks about how this can cause the elder sibling to “(worry) about younger siblings to an extreme,” which can be unhealthy.

SATURDAY !

So it's saturday! My birthday's coming up so my roomies made me birthday cookies today, I love them! I'll finally be 18, thank god. My friends make so much fun of me for being young, no longer can anyone call me jailbait or any other, you're not 18 kind of name. Today was a pretty chill day, I tried to get up early so I could do some studying and homework. I definitely need to be up early tomorrow too so I can study! So, it's time to go out, and I don't know what to write about, so i'll share some more of my commonplace paper! So here's the actual intro to my paper, the one thats supposed to hook you and catch your attention. Do you guys think it works? It's one of those intro's where you set up hypothetical situations. I did these a lot for papers in high school.

            Mom stops by at home and shoves a granola bar down her throat as she leaves to her second job: the night shift at the clothing factory downtown. Max, her eldest son, feeds an off-brand baby food to his younger brother Tyler. As he spoons food into Tyler’s mouth, he  attempts to catch up on three chapters of History reading.

At the same time, Max’s friend Liz is living in a similar situation. Liz’s mom’s flight from Boston is landing in about two hours, and her father has, once again, been paged to the ER. Liz is at home, with her two year old brother and their Nanny. After having grown up with a busy mother and a father finishing his residency, she feels obliged to pay attention to her younger brother. She wants to give him the love and attention she never received.

Blog 58 - FRIDAY!

Yay! It's friday! So i have a honors chemistry midterm on monday, but i'm going out tonight anyways, even though I should probabbly stay in and get some reading and studying done. Maybe i'll stay in tomorrow! Not likely but maybe, I really really should. I don't know what to blog about today, and I really need to do my homework. So, i'm going to share some of my commonplace paper. Here's a part of my introduction, and my thesis. Even though there are a variety of family structures, parents are always a foundation to these families. A parent is someone who raises a child. If that parent cannot find the time to do this, can they even call the child their own? A parent is a mother, a father, a guardian, protector, but can be none of these to a child unless they can take part in raising and nurturing the child.

            At a young age, a child must receive abundant love and care to grow into a successful, happy teen and adult. In these circumstances where parents do not have the time to provide love and care, the child grows up independently. If this child eventually has a sibling, he or she feels obligated that it is his or her job to raise the younger sibling. When the eldest child must step up to raise a younger sibling it impacts his or her life physically, socially, and emotionally.

            So yah, the last sentence was my thesis statement, and that is a piece of my paper. Time to get back to chemistry for a little while so see you later!

BG - its an interesting show.

So today we watched BG and it was really a lot different than any show i've ever watched, in my life. First off, shes a robot and she makes out with and has sex with people? It's just so weird! And then, all of a sudden she's with that other ladies baby and she's just looking at it and playing with it when all of a sudden she just snaps its neck? I was just like, why. I mean they pretty much kill everyone anyways, why did she have to snap the babies neck and freak out the mother early. She could have let the mother and the baby spend a few more days together rather than rob the mother of her last few days with her child. It really bothers me that it happened like that. It's just a baby. Then all of a sudden they're at war and there's these crazy missiles that follow the path of the jets. Thats weird, the missiles like don't shoot in a straight line, they follow a path. It was ridiculous how many missiles were shot and how perfectly they hit every target. I don't understand how that happens. The show has some very interesting relationships, and charecters. There's the girl who seems to be very feisty and has a big temper, she's the one that ends up in jail early. Then theres also the couple that isn't supposed to be together, they seem to get along very well. The leader always seems to be very calm which is good. He seems very controlled, and so does the lady cabinet member who's leadership skills someone doubts initially. The person I don't really understand was the one who was burning the lady's picture. He seems sour, and cynical, but maybe has a soft side that was hurt by her, he's confusing. Overall the show is better than I thought it would be!

Blog 56 - just a wednesday

So nothing too exciting happened today, its just a regular wednesday and I have lots of homework to get done. When we were studying yesterday we were all listening to Pandora and my friend was like, type in Perry Como. Yup, I didn't know who Mr. Como was, and then I found out he sings chrismas music, so Christmas time is here started playing and we all got really excited for Christmas! I know its not even thanksgiving yet but I just love the holidays! It's so much fun, it's just a great time. So only a few more days until break and MIRROR LAKE! yay! I hear someone yelling in the hall because someone else doesn't have class thursday or friday, that is pretty crazy I guess. I'm kinda hungry, so we were eating at Fresh today, its so much better than the places on south. North gets Fresh, and Burritos, and Noodles is close to them too! jealous. I guess marketplace is pretty awesome but yah, Fresh is yummy. I really don't know what else to talk about right now. I'm kind of craving like a christmas movie marathon, that would be a lot of fun! I really want to bake something too. I love baking, I miss doing it. It was my sisters birthday today, i'm kind of sad i'm not there! That means its almost mine too yay! If only I didn't have a midterm and a lab to do on my birthday. What else is new, I cleaned my room and so did the roomie that lives on the same side as me so we're very proud of how clean our side is, its really clean. That's all for today, later!

Blog 55 - its tuesday.

Tuesday's are my worst days of the week, in close competition to Sunday. I have lab on tuesday's at 8:30 am, and last weeks lab report is due at this lab. So, of course, being an avid procrastinator, I start, and finish my lab on Monday's. On occasion I start on sunday but usually get little to nothing done. So I get little to no sleep on Mondays and then have to do a lab early the next morning, I hate it. Then, we get to lab and 15 minutes in my TA begins to tell us about the bomb threat that just went into action for three buildings, one of which was adjoined to the one we were doing our lab in. Though out building, Celeste, wasn't closed and evacuated right away, it did close soon after. We though, in the midst of this danger, had to stay and complete our lab in celeste. We continued to take temperature readings every 30 seconds while the building was getting closed. After the lab we couldn't even leave out the door, we had to weave our way through staircases and connections to get to another building to leave. It was just great. Other than it being a crappy tuesday, I don't have a lab to do tonight! I think i'll watch some TV, and maybe do some english homework! Start working on my ARP revision, and study for math or something. Maybe i’ll study for chemistry, get a head start and make the weekend study load lighter. We’ll see, anyways that’s 250 so later!

Blog 54 - black friday!

So along with being excited for thanksgiving, yummy food and friends and family and all of those lovely, wonderful things, I'm kind of really excited for Black Friday! Sometimes I wonder, since a lot of people expect stores to have their best deals ever this day, do they rip you off and have sales that aren't really the best sales ever. Seriously, since black friday is so hyped up they really don't need amazing deals, people are going to shop just because its black friday. I feel like there's probably better deals after Christmas. But really, if they didn't have somewhat good deals people would probably catch on. The best deals are definitely on electronics though, I really want a new camera so maybe i'll wake up super early this year for a  camera, and if i decide sleep is too valuable i'll just hit up Victoria's Secret first. I really miss just hopping in your car and driving to the mall whenever. So yah, black friday will be fabulous. Hmm, what else, well I really need to start working on this commonplace paper since I don't actually even have a legitimate draft yet. I had a math midterm today, it was okay, definitely somewhat harder than the last one but whatever. I'm tired, a nap seriously sounds amazing right now. Me and my roomies cleaned our room on Friday and now its just as messy as it was on Friday all over again, this is what we get for cleaning on a friday before game day. Sundays are definitely cleaning days from now on. Anyways, i'm at 250 so talk to you later!

Blog 53 - you're style?

So I need to get two blogs done today since I didn't blog last night because I decided to wait till yesterday to study for my math midterm that was today, and so I stayed up super late and just skipped blogging and went to bed. I'm really craving some goldfish, and I need to do my nails. So many things so little time! I'm just going to blog about some of my favorite things to wear today. I love wearing prints. Cheetah is probabbly one of my favorites. I used to be unhealthily obsessed with zebra but now i've found a liking for cheetah too. I love heart prints, and stripes. I love the color pink; don't really love wearing straight up pink like a pink dress or anything but I love pink accents. Like, I think pink and cheetah go together really well, or a bright pink purse. I remember I work at calvin klein, and i'd been eyeing this bold pink purse for the longest time, I finally bought it and brought it home and left it on my bed. So my mom is a pretty traditional classy person. She prefers blacks, whites, and beiges, and doesn't understand why anyone wouldn't. So she freaked when she saw it, she just didn't get why i'd want such a bright colored purse. Sometimes I don't understand my style preferences though because I feel like people usually fall into one type of style. I love bright bold colors, like the coach poppy collection. But I also really like Fossil crossbody's and wristlets. Sometimes when i'm carrying a bold purse like that, and wearing a, hmm, a cheetah cardigan with a tank and jeans, with some boots, I seriously feel uncomfortable walking into Fossil. I feel like i'm being judged even though I dress that way sometimes too. Sometimes I feel like I need to really figure out which style I like best and stick too it, but do you really have to? Can you switch between hipster with skinny's and a cross-body bag, to prep with a cheetah cardigan and pumps, to bohemian with a floral dress and moccasins, to maybe even slightly punk with a billabong hoodie and bright vans, and it just be okay?

Blog 52 - whatev's.

So the game today was a lot of fun! We won, awesome, and then we got dinner, I feel like I should probably take a nap before I go out again but it's probably not going to happen. I need to get some homework done; a little more important than napping. So yeah, i'm not really sure what to write about today, i'm just really tired and I need some energy. Hmm, well me and my roommates are all pretty messy, and we really don't mind the room being fairly messy all the time. I have a quad so there's a lot of room, but you really usually can't see the carpet on either side of the room because its covered in stuff, and the middle area is a mess of chairs, food, dirty dishes, movies, and usually other peoples stuff and our shoes, its just messy. So friday we had a big cleaning session, we cleaned our sides and vacuumed and swept and everything! It was clean for a while. Not. Cleaning day's should definitely be Sunday's and not Friday's. But whatever, it was exciting for a day. Now we just need to get the massive amount of halloween decorations off of the door and we'll be okay. I had noodles and company for dinner and remembered how amazingly delicious it is. I've missed it a lot. We had one like 10 minutes away from us at home and I used to go all the time after school and stuff, and here its like a super long walk away, but we just went after the game and it was yummy. I always get the same thing, maybe a little lame I know, I just love it! Japanese Pan Noodles, best dish they have, ever. Anyways, thats it for 250 words, so talk to you all later!

Blog 51 - Friday!

Yay it's finally friday! Yesterday, I definitely thought it was like sunday, and then every couple minutes I would remember that it's actually thursday and tomorrow is FRIDAY! I seriously love fridays, like the week kind of just goes by, getting closer to friday. I've started making plans with my high school friends, for when we all go home over thanksgiving break so i'm just really excited for thanksgiving to see my friends and my parents! So lately a lot of my guy friends have been playing cod, way too much, because a new one came out? And I hang out with them a lot, and so i'm kind of bored. So I was like, okay I wanna learn how to play, and they were like if you can play this well you will be the perfect woman. So I was like sweet, so before I go out tonight I think i'll learn how to play that! What else is new, umm this sounds really lame and gossip-y but Justin Bieber has a girlfriend who's apparently 16, but I swear she's at least like 18, anything but 16. I know this song is getting kind of old but I still really like Secrets - One Republic, i'm listening to it right now and it's just such a great song. You know what else is great? Apologize - One Republic. One Republic just has great music, all the time. It's always good. So i'm still really excited its friday and I dont know what else to write about, so i'm just going to keep rambling until I hit 250 words. I think i’m there so peace!

Blog 50 - Fabulous day off :)

So I chilled out and watched movies and ate with my roomies. We had a harry potter marathon, and then grocery shopped a little bit and got some Panera. So I'm finishing my homework now, at 3 am. Now I have to write this blog that i'm really not too thrilled to do right now, I really just want to go to bed, so i'm going to share a part of a draft for a satire I have to write:

Let’s think about racism for a second; the main way people first could differentiate others enough to be racist was by skin color. They would use the phrases “white people” and “colored people.” Not only is discrimination by skin color bad for the minority, it can often hurt the majority. Through affirmative action policies, the majority is often discriminated. Skin color is still a large factor in racism, and discrimination today. There is an easy fix to this problem, to avoid tears and stressful policies.

         We can dye ourselves.

         Every citizen of the world, I am sure, has a favorite color, or at least a color that they find to be bearable. They could then choose this color, and soon after, become this color. They can go weekly to a “dying clinic” and become a color of choice. This method would cause much less pain to the heart and body than all the tension, and stress put out by people to suppress racism. It would begin to eradicate one way in which humans deviate from living harmoniously.

Blog 49 - today?

We don't have class tomorrow, so today I did a lot of sleeping and disney channel watching, it was great. I'm staying in tonight too, i'm just super burned out of classes and homework. We just ordered insomnia cookies so i'm pretty excited for those, i've heard they take forever to get here though, which is a bummer. We're watching law abiding citizen, the best part of this movie is probabbly just the fact that gerard butler is in it, I love him! PS I love you, 300, bounty hunter, every movie he's in is just great. But this movie not only has gerard butler, but jamie foxx too!? Hmm, what else happened today, it was beautiful out again today! Its been a great week for weather, and then watch, this weekend when everyone seriously wants it to be nice and warm its going to be freezing. Waiting for these cookies is making me seriously hungry, I might fill myself up with nutella before they even get here. I'm really excited about no classes tomorrow, i'll be doing a lot more sleeping and tv watching tomorrow too. I really need to get my curriculum proposal done though, haven't gotten very far on that yet. When we were watching The Suite Life on Deck today, I totally saw the parallel between London Tipton and Paris Hilton, I don't know why I didn't see this earlier. London, Paris...the hotel chains, loaded fathers. They totally modeled her off of Paris! It totally makes sense now. But yah thats all for today, later!

Blog 48 - Its gorgeous out!

So I assumed it was cold this morning and headed out in a fuzzy jacket and it was alright, after class I put it on to head back out and realized how great the weather was, it's perfect! I just really hope it stays like this for the weekend, that would be fabulous, not having to bundle up all weekend. I'm really excited to go home for thanksgiving and see all my friends! The rest of this post is going to be about, hmm, post its. Seriously, how great are they. They come in bright, cute, attention-grabbing colors, and they stick to anything and everything! They remind you of things, help you leave cute notes, and even entertain you when they come in that like accordion style. Okay so thats all I have about post-its, how about, my car! When I got my license my dad got a new suv and I got his volvo, I learned how to drive in it and that's pretty much the only car I ever drive. Its been on shady streets in downtown clifton, backed into a cement wall, been rained on when I left the windows down, happily taken all the beads and other things I hang in it, I could go on and on but it's just always been there for me. I know its dumb to become that attached to inanimate objects, but I seriously love my car. When I went home this weekend my parents said they were selling it and getting something else, and I mean I should be happy. They're selling the old car and getting something newer and better, but I really, really would rather just keep the volvo. It will be missed!

Blog 47 - a quotation, weather, and texting.

So i'm still up because i'm working on my chemistry lab. My friends halloween oreo's are making it a little bit better. They're so cute, they have orange cream and different little halloween shapes on them like ghosts and stuff. So today I was creepin' on my friends facebook and someone's status was "we always ignore the ones that adore us and adore the ones that ignore us." So I was thinking about that, and it really is true in a lot of cases. When people care/love us, sometimes we take it for granted and go after someone who doesn't seem to return our adoration. I guess maybe that's immature but I think it happens sometimes, like I feel like I do that a lot but maybe i'm just immature. Anyways, I thought that was sad. Then I ate some nutella and watched tv and stopped thinking about it. Hmm, what else happened today. Well, i'm really glad we have thursday off, its finally a break from endless things to do all the time. It was beautiful outside today! I was not wearing a jacket and boots and it felt great. When I was watching House today, one of the commercials was about the news and it showed a girl that had developed a thumb pain because she texted so much, she said it "hurts to text." I laughed for a little while, but that was mean because she's in pain, its also hypocritical because I text a lot too. It was just funny because everyone could totally see this coming, some kind of hand issue because of texting, and soon its going to become a really big deal. What else, i'm really excited my birthday's in exactly 2 weeks, i'll finally be 18, yay! Umm yah thats all, i'm going to go back to my chemistry lab now!

Blog 46 - hello.

So, me and my roomates watch a lot of disney channel, and a lot of wizards of waverly place, haha. I love that show! Seriously, how awesome would it be to be a wizard. You could poof yourself A's and money, and all you would really want to do is have fun, and learn. Sometimes I think about how schools are set up, like, especially if you want to go to grad school, you have to maintain a good GPA. So, you want a 4.0, but people that want to go to grad school usually like to learn, so you want to take those interesting upper level classes. Since you need a good GPA, i feel like people give up taking challenging courses. It's just not fair, college is kind of hindering you from learning. If I didn't have a GPA to worry about, I would probabbly continue the honors chemistry series. But no, I need good grades for med school! So, I'm going to drop to regular chemistry and take a different honors course. Chemistry is really interesting to me though, and its sad that I can't take it anymore, it just doesn't seem right how that works out. I feel like I need to go to school and take average-ish classes and get good grades and then, i dont know, find a tutor or something outside of school to learn the stuff that i'm missing out on in 202H. Mark Twain is so right, he said "Never let formal education get in the way of your learning." Agreed, Mr. Twain. Formal education is getting in the way of my, and probabbly many other people's, learning right now. Sad, but true. Yah, being a wizard and magically making A's and then getting to take any classes you want and just learn, that would be sweet.

Blog 45- Facebook Fan things :)

So sometimes when i'm on facebook I see the things you can become a fan of like "Saying "Yeah, i'm on my way" when youre still at home" or "waking up with unread texts that make you smile" I get excited because some of them are just things I didn't even realize so many other people agreed upon. Like, re-reading texts that make you smile, seriously, sometimes I feel seriously lame when I do that, it makes me feel a little better to know that like more than 600,000 other people do it enough to be a fan of it on facebook, haha. And like, the one about people that think texts are too serious without a haha or an lol. I feel like it gets really annoying but whenever i'm texting I really cant send something without one of those two and not wonder if the person reading it thinks i'm mad, because I just always do it. I might start, because really, it probabbly gets annoying reading extra lol's and haha's for no reason except the comfort of knowing i'm not mad, i think they would already know if i was mad. anyways, hmm theres another one that was like i was waiting for a reply and then i realized i didn't even send the last text. Hahahhaa, i love that one. I do it so much, i pick up my phone, unlock it, and see an un-sent text after like a good ten minutes, its fabulous. So all of those were text themed, i feel like a phone addict, i'll throw in a non-phone one. Hmm, oh! One was, certain songs remind me of certain people. It's so so true, sometimes it makes no sense at all, the lyrics and the person have no connection, it just happens haha. 

Blog 44 - Commonplace

So I’m rewriting the intro for my paper, but I don’t really get what kind of introduction she’s looking for. Like, an artsy, reel you in kind of intro? Or just something quick and then get straight to the information that needs to be in the paper. So my original title was Mommy, or Sissy? And I meant sissy as in like sister sissy, but it could get confused for like the other definition of sissy, so I changed it to: Mother, or Big Sister? I kind of liked the first name better, but I guess it can be misunderstood.

His mom stops by at home and shoves a granola bar down her throat as she leaves to her second job, the night shift at the clothing store down town. Max, the eldest, is feeding some baby food to his younger brother Tyler as he reads his history book that’s open on the table.

            Her mom’s flight from Boston is landing in about two hours, and her father has been paged to get his butt to the ER, once again. Liz is at home, with her two year old brother and their Nanny. After having grown up with a busy mother and a father finishing his residency, she feels obliged to pay attention to her younger brother. She wants to give him the attention he never received.

            There are many, many different reasons and familiy set ups that cause an older child to raise their younger sibling. That’s pretty much my intro, I’m not sure where to go with it next.

Blog 43 - Being Healthy, and staying pescatarian?

So, for hmm, a little longer than 6 months, I had been pescatarian. A week ago, I started to eat meat again. I was seriously just getting so sick of going to get food with my friends, and having to search the menu's for the foods with little leaves by them, or something with just seafood, while I watched my friends just pick anything that sounded yummy to them. I was just like, why am I even doing this, whatever, i'm gonna eat meat. So I started, and here's how its going. It was fun for two days, getting to eat grilled chicken and sausages and turkey subs again. Now, I just feel sick to my stomach thinking about how much meat i've been eating. It's sickening. After not eating meat for this long I just find it disgusting. It was seriously easy to be nutritious and be a pescatarian at home. Whole Foods was just a few minutes away, as well as yummy sushi. My mom knew I didn't eat meat so she made yummy fish all the time! Now, here, you can get salmon burgers and greasy panini's, and the vegetarian options. I mean they're all yummy, but that's all you can eat. So it sucked, but now i've realized that was so much better than the gross meat eating feeling I have now, I just feel so sick. Definitely going back to veggies and fish. It's so much healthier. I really feel like i've gained weight since I started eating meat again, and it feels gross. I miss Whole Foods the most, healthy cookies and crackers, and yogurt brownies, I kinda wanna go home and go grocery shopping haha.  Anyways, thats all, goodbye chicken all over again!

Blog 42 - Career vs. Children.

So yesterday, instead of studying for my chemistry 201H quiz, I decided to have a ridiculously long conversation with they guys on the 8th floor about life. Ever since I can remember, i've wanted to be a doctor. I've always wanted to be a pediatrician, to go to Sri Lanka after I finish my studies and volunteer a year or two, and practice medicine for my life. This had always seemed totally okay, I mean you know, go to school, get your degree, then have kids and volunteer. Then, we sat down and thought about it. My undergrad is four years, then medical school is 4 years, and then your residency is a minimum of 3 years. If i'm 17 right now, i'll be done with ALL of that when i'm 28, and then i have to find a job, and if I want to specialize that'll take even longer. When does the whole falling in love, getting married, having kids and volunteering thing happen? At the rate the world is going now, doctors will be working ridiculous hours because of the deficiency of doctors right now. Do I even have time to look after children if I have children? Am I thinking too hard about things I don't need to think about too soon? Sometimes I think it's ridiculous that i'm thinking about this right now but then i'm like, but really its important. I REALLY want to be a doctor, but I REALLY want children too. Do you have to choose? Do I need to be content with being a pediatrician and seeing kids all day rather than having my own children? maybe having a dog to make up for it? I don't know, maybe i'm thinking too hard about this right now. I guess i'll just see how things go, and chill out for now.

Blog 41 - Oh warm weather.

I seriously miss the warm weather. I mean, I was born in Winnipeg so I love snow and all that fun stuff, I just miss being able to walk around in shorts and a tank and flip flops. I guess the fall/winter and summer have their upsides and downsides. I mean, now that its cold you can wear sweats all the time and not be overheated. And it's time for hot chocolate and sledding! Building snowmen and all that fun stuff. Christmas of course, and black friday! But of course you have to bundle up all the time, and its going to be a pain walking to classes and to friends houses through all of the snow. I think i'm going to order a pair of snow boots, like actual-not just warm and fuzzy-water repellant snow boots. But yah, I'm pretty excited for the holidays though, and going home, and i'm going to work over break so I get to see everyone from work, yay! My friend has a car so yesterday we drove to Krogers, and it felt really nice to be in a normal grocery store again for once. I really miss just getting in your car and driving to the grocery store when you want cookies or some milk. Thats what else is going to suck in a few weeks: walking to get food and groceries. Honestly, if it's like 20 degrees outside I don't know if i'm going to want to walk all the way anywhere to actually get food. I might sacrifice a yummy dinner for staying warm. Guess I better start loading up on lean cuisines and mac and cheese. I might go out of my way to get milk though, you need milk for everything. I never realized how awesome fridges at home are until now, you open it and theres always food! Here, you have to trek through the cold to get milk to put in the fridge. Okay i'm done whining about cold weather, see you later!