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6-14-03 1:36pm
Hey everyone! So, I've created the new and improved version of my site (I was up until about 5:30 this morning working on it). It's not quite done yet so some of the links won't go anywhere... but check it out and let me know what you think!
4-22-03 4:09am
So... it's a little after 4am, and what am I doing? I'm sitting here at my computer desk enjoying a delicious bowl of steaming hot apples and cinnamon oatmeal while absentmindedly watching Dead Man Walking and wondering "Why the hell am I still up?" I think I've come to the conclusion that the reason I'm still awake is becuase this is the only time I really have for myself. I was going to go to bed around 1:45am, but then I realized I had no sheets on my bed (I just got back from Easter Break today, so a lot of my stuff got washed while I was at home). So, I made my bed, but then decided to clean the rest of my room (which was a mess) and put away all of my clothes, which took a substantial amount of time. For the past 45 minutes though, I really haven't been doing much of anything. I'm really not even feeling that tired. I know that if I don't go to bed, I'm going to be screwed tomorrow. I kind of have class at 8am, and then my mom's taking me out to lunch when I get out of class at 12:15. After that I have SO much stuff I need to do. I made new "To Do" lists today... they're pretty (but very long). I need a couple extra weeks in the school year to get everything done, but I'm not going to get them, so it's just gonna be hell for a while. I will continue to be stressed until May 26. Why May 26 you ask? ... because that's the day I'll get home from the conference. School will be over, the conference will be over, my term as NCC will be over, and I'll have about a week before I start summer classes. Of course, during that week, I'll probably have my wisdom teeth removed, but right now, that experience is looking preferable to the remainder of the semester. Anyway, I really probably should go to bed... since I do have the whole class thing to look forward to in a few short hours. So g'night... and mmmmm... yummy oatmeal...
3-30-03 4:07pm
Yeah... it's been a while, but I've been insanely busy, what with planning a conference for 3000 people and figuring out how to get 48 people to Raleigh, North Carolina this May. My life has pretty much consisted of 3 things: classes, meetings, and Matt (with the occasional food and sleep tossed in there). I just got back from my NACURH bid team retreat today, which went well. We got a lot of stuff done, so that was good. Next weekend, I'm going to an NCC retreat at Northwest Missouri State, and the following weekend, me and Matt are going to visit friends at Truman State. So, it's a busy month. Spring break was relatively uneventful, but nice. I wish it was longer. Actually, I wish I could just not go to school all together, but that's not going to happen. I switched my major from Health Information Management to Management Information Systems becuase I'm really liking my java class. Of course, that means that a lot of the classes I took last year (like medical terminology and medico-legal aspects) are completely useless now, so I have to take Calculus and World History over the summer (fun fun fun). I also need to start looking for a job for this summer. I was going to get a job doing office work for United Vanlines (my uncle works there), but business isn't going so well, so they're most likely not going to be hiring anyone. So, I need to start looking around. I might get stuck doing retail for another summer, but oh well, I need the money. I figured out my housing for next year.. I'm living on campus in the Village apartments with three other girls. I get my own room and phone line, and I don't have to pay for laundry (there's a washer and dryer in the apartment). There's also two bathrooms, a living room, and a kitchen. So it's gonna be pretty nice. Well, I am really really tired, so I think I'm going to take a nap before writing my spanish paper. Have a good week!
3-2-03 8:11pm
So, about my ethics teacher... yeah, he was arrested for drug dealing, and my new professor is a criminal defense attorney... talk about the irony! Anyway, I'm writing this post right now because it's the Sunday before midterms week, and I, as usual, am procrastinating so that I don't have to study (yet...). I definitely ahve 6 midterms this week, which is fabulous, especially considering I'm only taking 5 classes... (because that makes sense...). Let's see, so what's been going on with me lately (other than school...)... Valentine's Day was great! I'm generally not a huge fan of the holiday, but this year was a good one. Matt took me out to dinner and then dancing at Casa Loma. The host guy there was kinda creepy... he hugged me when we went in... but it was great fun! Last weekend, some of my friends and I drove out to my grandma's farm (not really a farm, but a very large house in the middle of nowhere, kind of close to Rolla). We almost got killed by a dog on the way out there. We were driving on the highway, when my friend Paige starts yelling "Doggie doggie doggie doggie!!!", and I'm just looking around like "where?", and then I see this dog running across the road, so I had to swerve onto the shoulder of the highway and slam on my breaks to miss the dog, which would have been really bad had we been up a little bit further where there was a car parked on the shoulder of the road... I almost had a heart attack. I think my heart rate went back to normal about 10 miles later. Also, I would like to point out the highlight of the drive out there... At one point, there is a billboard for an "Adult Boutique"... and right next to it is a neon pink billboard that says "porn destroys lives". It's quite entertaining. I would also like to point out that on the way back, there's another billboard for the Adult Boutique, and it makes a point to let you know that it is wheelchair accessible... This past Friday, my new roommate, Erin, left and went back to Chicago. She's not coming back, so I don't have a roommate anymore, which is sad. Friday night I went over to my advisor's condo with the rest of the RHA executive board. We just hung out and watched movies and such. I got back to school around 3:30 on Saturday, and then I went to dinner with Matt and his family. After that, we came back here and just hung out for a while, until I fell asleep (I was really tired). Today, I got up, went to brunch, went to Target to get a new phone (I bought one on Thursday night when I found out my roommate was leaving, but it didn't work, so I had to bring it back), then I came back, worked on my java program that's due tomorrow for about 3 hours, came back, dyed my hair, and went to dinner at Pasta House to celebrate my friend Breen's birthday. Now, I really should be studying or doing the rest of my java homework, but I really just don't feel like it. I might actually take a short nap for an hour or so... we'll see. Have a great week!
2-16-03 11:36pm
Ok...well, I was going to type a post up here, but my friend Pat just got here, and we're heading down to the coffee house before it closes. I'll post something tomorrow. Have a good night!
2-4-03 10:10pm
Well, it's Tuesday afternoon, and I still have yet to go to a single class this week. After my meetings last night, I went over and hung out in my friend Pat's room and had some drinks. So, when my alarm went off at 7am this morning, I decided not to go to business stats becuase it was too early, skipped sociology because it was too far away, and when I actually went to my ethics class at 11, there was a woman standing there who said, "Class is cancelled. Report to class on Thursday. You will have a new instructor." So that was a little bit odd. So at the most, I will only attend 6 classes this week, which is just crazy. Hopefully, I'll get this urge to skip out of my system between yesterday and today, and then tomorrow I'll start a new habit of actually going to classes...
2-3-03 3:35pm
Today's been a fabulous day. I decided to extend my weekend an extra day by boycotting all of my classes today (there were only two of them... so it's not so terrible). Granted, I'll probably be regretting it later, but for the moment, it's great! It'd be nice if I could do this every Monday... Let's see, this past weekend wasn't too terribly eventful. Matt came over Friday night and we watched a movie. Then I cut my friend Emily's hair in the hallway around midnight, and my friend Pat came over for a while. After Pat left, Matt and I went downstairs and made cookies around 2am. I eventually went to bed around 5am. I spent a good chunk of Saturday making advertisements for NALGENE water bottle sales. We're selling water bottles with a billiken on them to raise money for NACURH (so we have enough $$ to get to the conference in May). So if you wanna buy one, by all means... IM me at Katharos83 by February 12. They cost $10. Let's see... later on that day, Pat and I went to Walgreens and bought hair dye... and then came back to my room and dyed our hair. Then we went and grabbed food at Jack In the Box, came back, and left to go see 25th Hour which was really really odd, but good. Sunday, I got up, went to brunch, and then went driving around at random with Matt since it was a nice day. Went to dinner, played Uno and Phase 10 with Pat and Dhara... losing every time, and then spent the rest of my night in the coffee house talking to Pat until about 1:30am. Basically, I went through the entire weekend without doing an ounce of homework, which is fabulous! Not that I didn't have homework to do... I just opted not to do it... yet... So far, today has been nice. I slept in, sold a couple water bottles, went to lunch, hung out in Pat's room, and came back here and have been doing a whole lot of nothingness. I've got meetings tonight from about 4:30-7 and then who knows what I'll end up doing. This coming weekend I'm going to a conference at Northwest Missouri State in Maryville, so I'll be gone Friday through Sunday. Anyway, I think that's about it for now. Have a great week!
1-29-03 11:08pm
I just put up two new pages: The Rules of Katie and A Woman's Vocabulary. Some of you have seen the Rules of Katie before. I originally made them up last year, although I don't exactly recall the reasoning behind it. Anyway, I was bored, so I decided to put them up here. Why not? The pages look kinda crappy at the moment, but eventually, I plan on putting some sort of background or something midly interesting on there to make it more aesthetically pleasing. We'll see. I also need to get some more picture pages up... because they're ever so fun. Anyway, I got some ethics that needs to be read before my test tomorrow, so you all have a good night!
1-27-03 9:42pm
Well, this past weekend was fun... and lazy. Friday night, I watched 2 movies, went to laser tag at the rec center, and watched another movie. Saturday was fabulous! It was the Anne of Green Gables movie marathon: me, Annie, and Erin enjoyed 10 straight hours of pure, unadulterated Anne of Green Gables movie watching. We got done around midnight, then went upstairs and played Monsters Inc. Life for a while, until we decided that wrapping my friend Joe up in duct tape was more entertaining. Ended up going tob ed around 3:30 that night. Sunday was the superbowl, and there was a big party in the lobby of my building. I cared more about the commercials than the actual game, but it was fun. Today was... well, Monday. There is no other word to describe today other than "Monday-ish". It kinda sucked. This week is full of meetings and such... kinda busy, but not too terrible. If I have time tonight in between reading for sociology and ethics, I might put some pictures up on the site... I don't know. Check out my friend Jared's site if you get a chance. I put a link to it up at the top of the page. Have a great week!
1-22-03 5:20pm
Well, right now, I'm sitting in my friend Pat's room. Pat and Matt are both engrossed in some video game... I don't anticipate them even noticing me for at least half an hour. So anyway, I've been in classes now for about a week and a half. I lied... it didn't take half an hour. Anyway, classes are ok I guess...nothing too terribly exciting. I like my honors intro to sociology class a lot. The teacher's great and there are only 7 people in the class. Granted, that means I can't exactly skip it because it would be painfully obvious if I wasn't there, so at least I enjoy the class. For the past three days I've been working on award bids for a conference I'm going to in February. I have to email them in tonight by 11:59pm. I'm so glad that those are done. This past weekend, I did so much nothingness... even though it was a three day weekend and I really should have gotten caught up on homework and such. I did, however, do my Java homework that's not due until next Monday. Granted, I did it today during class when I was supposed to be listening to whatever my teacher was babbling about, but hey, it got done, and my program actually works, which is good. For some reason, I've been incredibly sleepy lately. I haven't been going to bed too late, so I don't really know what it is. I guess I'm not used to getting up for 8am classes anymore. Oh well, I'll get used to it. Anyway, hopefully we'll be getting something to eat here soon, if I can drag Pat and Matt away from their game...
1-14-03 10:08pm
Ok, so I lied. I didn't get any more picture pages up like I said I would. Hopefully I'll get those done sometime in the near future. I'm back at school now, just started classes yesterday. I'm sick of them already. I'm taking Programming Development Techniques (which is basically just Java), Spanish 410, Intro to Business Stats (at 8am in the morning... ick), Honors Intro to Sociology (which only has 6 other people in the class), and Ethics. Classes actually aren't that bad. The only one I'm not particularly fond of at the moment is business stats. Right now, I'm avoiding my homework. Reading two chapters in programming and learning how to write a summary in Spanish (which is exactly the same as it is in English... go figure) just doesn't sound appealing right now. I was in the middle of watching Signs earlier this evening (I've never seen it), but about an hour into it, I had to go to a meeting, which was slightly annoying. Oh well... I'll catch the rest of it tomorrow hopefully. I added two new Joe Quotes today... in case you're interested. They're at the bottom of the Joe Quotes page. Anyway, I suppose I should start my homework so I can go to bed at a reasonable time. I feel like I've been up forever since I got up at 7am this morning. I'm not used to this 8am class thing. There's such a huge difference between 8am and 9am classes. Now I remember why I disliked my 8am Spanish class last year. Oh well, at least I'm done with classes by 12:50 at the latest. Anyway, I hope the first week of classes is going well for everybody else... I'm jealous of any of you Mizzou students that are still on break... grrrrr... Anyway... I have a visitor now, yet another distraction from homework (yay!)
12-30-02 8:41pm
I got home from my aunt and uncle's house in Illinois around 3:30pm today. It was a relatively uneventful trip. We got there Friday night, so we didn't really do much then. Saturday, "the guys" went out to lunch, and who knows what else. My mom and my aunt and I went out to lunch and did some shopping, although I really didn't feel like shopping anymore... and they always want to go to Wal-Mart, which gets on my nerves. That night was "Christmas", so we opened presents and such, along with playing a massive family game of Uno. Sunday, I read a book, and then met up with my mom, my aunt, and the three boys (my brother and my two cousins, Matt and Nate) to go see Lord of the Rings. I loved it, although it was insanely hot in the theater, and the light above my head never turned off. Oh well. We left to come home this morning, and I haven't really done much of anything since I got home. I've been attempting to figure out what the hell I'm doing tomorrow night (since it's kind of New Year's Eve), but I haven't been successful as of yet. I realized that two posts ago when I was talking about what had happened in the previous 20 days, I forgot to mention that my roommate, Tasha, moved out. We had some issues, and she ended up moving to the third floor of our building. However, I have a new roommate, Erin. She already lived on my floor, but didn't really get along well with her roommate, so I told her to move in with me. So that's the story with that. Friday night is my yearly fancy dinner with my grandma and my older cousins (frightening thing is, my brother is included this time... apparently, 7th grade is when we started going to this thing). My brother has to start school on Monday (hehe, I still have another week left). I'm almost ready to go back though... little bit too much family I think. I mean, my family's great and all, but I like my space. My mom and I brought up the idea that I might not graduate in 4 years to my dad today on the way home... that didn't go over so well. Anyway, I think that I'm going to put together some more picture pages for you all here, so I'll probably post again later on tonight to let you know when those are up. Hasta luego...
12-27-02 9:48am
Well, my Christmas eve didn't go exactly as planned. My dad was sick the night before Christmas eve, so he slept all day, and then I started feeling like crap sometime in the afternoon. That combined with the massive amount of snow that we got that day resulted in us not going to my grandma's house that night. So, it was really a rather boring Christmas eve... and a pretty crappy one, becuase it just sucks being sick. Christmas was just kind of odd because I was in a daze all day because I hadn't really slept at all the night before because I was sick. Other than that though, it was a pretty good Christmas. I got a DVD player (that I had asked for), and a new coat (that I picked out), and some other little things. My aunt really liked the picture I painted of her house, so I was happy. Some of my cousins and I went to our yearly movie on Christmas. This year it was Gangs of New York. Not exactly a happy Christmas movie, but it was a pretty good movie. In previous years, we've seen Ocean's Eleven, The Emperor's New Groove, The Green Mile, and Patch Adams. It's a tradition now. Four years ago, my cousins and I were sitting at my grandma's house... kinda bored... becuase we were too young to really hang out with the adults, but we were too old to just be happy running around playing with our new Christmas presents like all of our younger cousins, so we randomly decided to go see a movie. Now, we go see a movie on Christmas every year. Last night, Matt came over and we watched Ice Age... funny funny movie. Today, my family and I are leaving to go to my aunt's house in Illinois for a couple days. For once, we're actually coming back before New Year's Eve. Hopefully we won't get snowed in up there... that happened once, and it really sucked. Anyway, I need to pack because I haven't exactly done that yet and we're leaving in a couple hours. I hope everybody had a good Christmas. If I don't post again before then, have a happy new year!
12-23-02 10:55pm
Let's see... what's happened in the past 20 days... Well, I had finals for one thing, which weren't so fun. I only had three though, so it wasn't too terrible. I finished my cummulative MIS final in 10 minutes (literally). My history final was evil. I stayed up until 5am studying for it (it was entirely essay - 4 of them), and then set my alarm for 7am (the final was at 8), and I don't know if I just ignored my alarm for 43 minutes or if I pressed the snooze button a lot in my sleep, but I definitely did not wake up until 7:43am. So, I was a bit frazzled going to my history final that morning. I was annoyed... I came SOOOO close to getting a 4.0 this semester... so close... oh well, there's always next semester, and I still did better this semester than last year in its entirety, so it's all good. I wrote 3 papers within a 2 day period as well during finals week, in addition to having 2 choir concerts the day before my 8am english final. It got a little hectic towards the end of the semester. I came home on Tuesday, December 17th. Since then, I've been shopping, wrapping presents, hanging out with high school friends, and spending too much time in movie theaters (I saw 3 movies in a little over a 24 hour time span... almost saw Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings in the same day... but LOTR was sold out, so that didn't quite happen). Today was a LONG day. I had to take my car in to get some stuff fixed on it (like the power steering), so I dropped my car off at 9am this morning, then I went with my mom and my brother to my brother's orthodontist appointment, which was in south county. From there, my mom dropped me off at Crestwood Mall, where my friend Pat met me (after I wandered around by myself for an hour and a half) so we could go shopping. In the course of the day, I went to three different malls, two different Best Buys, four food establishments (eating at 2 of them), and the car place. Considering the amount of money I spent today, I sure don't have a hell of a lot to show for it. I could fit everything I bought in my purse. However, I did get almost all of my Christmas shopping done (yes I realize that tomorrow is Christmas Eve, so I don't really have a whole lot of time left). All I still need to buy is a picture frame to put the painting in that I made for my aunt. Tomorrow I have to make rolls to bring in to dinner at my grandma's house. Then, I have the fun job of going upstairs and bringing down all of the presents that my aunts and uncles bought for their kids with the money that my grandma and my uncle Fran gave them, separating them by child. Keep in mind that I have 23 cousins... and we have to have an individual pile for each child, keeping families together, all in one room of my grandma's house... not to mention the presents for the adults (which are all just put together in one big giant pile). So, it's a little crazy. After that, we'll head over to my great grandma's house (although it's not really hers anymore since she died 12 years ago... I think it was 12 years ago anyway... but I still consider it her house). My two great-aunts and my great-uncle still live there. After that, we'll probably go to midnight mass somewhere. The past two years we've just gone in the city at the church where I was baptized (Joan of Arc)... but two years ago, we got the time wrong, so we ended up getting there half an hour late. It was the shortest Christmas mass I've ever been to. Anyway, this has become a rather long post, so I think I'm going to call it a night. Have a merry Christmas if I don't talk to you before then! (or happy *insert name of holiday you celebrate here* if you happen to not celebrate Christmas... or just enjoy the break from school...
12-3-02 2:39am
Well, after getting out of class around 4:45, I ate a *delicious* dinner at Dematt, and then went to the RHA meeting at 6pm. I was elected as NCC (National Communications Coordinator) on the RHA E-board, which I'm really excited about, but that meant that after the RHA meeting, I went to the RHA E-board meeting. That ended just in time for me to walk back to Marguerite for my one on one meeting with Paul, my advisor for hall council, so that we could discuss how we're going to handle elections to fill my position. After that, I grabbed a coat and headed to the NACURH meeting at 10. That got out around 11:15-ish, and then I met with Eliza (the former NCC) to talk about some stuff with her. Around 12:15, I met with Kelly, hall council secretary, to talk to her about some stuff, and then round about 1am, I headed over to Pat's room in Fusz, where I put some letters in envelopes to be mailed off tomorrow and typed up the minutes for the NACURH meeting. It's been a busy day. I was literally in meetings from 6pm-12:45am. The next two weeks are going to be crazy, but somehow I'll survive. I've got a long day ahead of me tomorrow as well, so I should probably get some sleep. G'night!
12-2-02 10:17am
Well, I'm back at school now... going to all of my ever so fun and exciting classes (note the sarcasm...). My Thanksgiving break was rather boring and uneventful... but I got LOTS of sleep, so that's definitely good. Like I said, my family always goes to my aunt's house in Little York, Illinois (basically, the middle of nowhere... about 5 hours away). I slept almost the entire way up there, and then ended up crashing on the couch around 8:30pm. I got up at 10:30... long enough to make my bed on the couch and change into pajamas. Then I went back to sleep and didn't get up until about 9 the next morning. Then, I made rolls with my Aunt Annie (as usual). We ate Thanksgiving dinner in the afternoon, and then after a couple glasses of wine, I took a short nap (yay again for sleep). We had about 18 people there for Thanksgiving. Friday, all the women of the family got up early to embark on our traditional day-after-Thanksgiving shopping spree... yes, I am one of those crazy people they show on the news getting up at the crack of dawn to go shop... like some kind of animal on a feeding frenzy. It's insane... I didn't really have anybody to buy for this year though (we usually buy presents for all the people we need to buy for that live by my aunt becuase then we don't have to lug them up there at Christmastime). They decided not to draw names this year, so I didn't have anyone to buy for. I did manage to get my roommate's birthday present though, which is rather amusing I might add. Oh, and I randomly decided to add another hole to my head by getting my cartilage pierced. My dad wasn't too happy with that... he shook his head at me and said "well, you're old enough to look silly if you want to..." I told my mom that next comes the tattoo... So after shopping for about 12 hours, we came back to my aunt's house, ate dinner, and played games/watched tv until everybody else left and then we went to bed. Saturday, I realized that I had a ton of work to do before classes started again, so I opted not to go with my mom and my aunt and my cousins to Wal-Mart (why would I want to go to Wal-Mart anyway? It was freezing cold outside, and we have a Wal-Mart at home... what's the point?). So, I ended up staying at my aunt's house with my little cousin Jake. He's 5. So, needless to say, I did not get a whole lot of work done (not that I actually intended to anyway... I just used it as an excuse to not go to Wal-Mart). I did, however, get the play read that I was supposed to read, so that was productive at least. That night, we watched National Lampoon's Vegas Vacation on tv... which was followed by the horrific show.... When Good Pets... GO BAD! (which was highly entertaining... they were trying to be all serious and everything, but it really just succeeded in us making a big joke out of it... especially with the elephants, alligators, and moose...). Sunday morning, we got up and left to come home. I got home around 2:30pm and got back to school around 4:30 or so. I walked to Crazy Bowls and Wraps to get dinner, and then spent the rest of the evening decorating my room for Christmas and doing work. All in all, it was a pretty good break. It's the first Thanksgiving that I can remember that my mom and I didn't get into a massive argument, so that's definitely a good thing. Anyway, I've got some work to do before heading off to the exciting world of history...(blech)... I can't wait until the semester is over. Thanksgiving break is such a tease...
11-26-02 10:38pm
Soooo much going on right now, but I don't want to post any of it up here until I know more. I'm at home right now for Thanksgiving break. I got home around 8:30pm or so. Tomorrow morning, I'm getting up at 6:15am (which is gonna be great fun) and going to the Thanksgiving liturgy at Cor Jesu with my friend Lara. It should be fun. If we have time, we're also gonna hit Steak n Shake afterwards. After that, I'm coming home again, and then my family's leaving to go to my aunt's house in Illinois (like we do every year). I'll be there until Sunday, when I go back to school. This weekend wasn't too eventful. I slept most of the day Saturday... went to my uncle's wedding reception with Matt that night. Sunday, I slept most of the day as well, waking up to go to a meeting at 4pm and to sell candygrams in the lobby of Marguerite from 7-midnight. I actually got a lot of work done in the lobby. After that, I ended up going over to my friend Pat's room in Fusz and played some GTA-Vice City (always fun), but then I started to feel like crap, so I slept for about an hour and a half over there before Pat woke me up and kicked me out of his room. So I ended up going to bed around 3:45am or so. Last night, I was up until 3:30, but I didn't have class until 2:15pm today, so I slept until 11am. I spent the day packing and cleaning my room because I had to leave my room before 8pm tonight. I left my room a little after 6pm, got dinner with Matt, and then drove home. Since I got home, I've played the piano, gotten jumped on by Scout (our dog that doesn't know me at all), and watched some strange TV show with my family. Now, I need to go downstairs and put my laundry in the dryer so I can finish packing for Illinois. I hope everybody has a great Thanksgiving! Eat lots of turkey (unless you're like me and don't like turkey... except at Subway... don't ask.. just go along with it...). G'night!
11-20-02 10:50pm
FYI, I've got the MACURH picture page up if you want to take a look at it. I have a ton more pictures that I want to put up, but I don't have the time to put them all up at once. Hopefully within the next week you'll see a couple more picture page additions.
11-20-02 11:48am
I'm sorry. I have REALLY been slacking on the posts. Let's see... what have I been up to for the past month... On Halloween, I had people over to my room and we watched scary movies, which was fun. I saw West Side Story at the Fox with Matt. There was about a week in there that I was completely burnt out on everything and wanted to quit school, all of my meetings, and everything else. That wasn't a fun week, but everything's back to normal now. This past weekend, I went to the MACURH conference at the University of Northern Iowa. That was lots of fun. I barely got any sleep, but it was fun. I should have some pictures up from that shortly. I registered for classes on Monday. I start at 8 or 9am every day, but at least I'm done by 1pm instead of 5pm like I am now. Tonight I'm going to see a philosophy movie... I'm required to go see one and write a summary on it before the end of the semester. This weekend, I'm going to the Barenaked Statues concert on Friday (the male a capella group at SLU), I think, and Saturday, I'm going to my Uncle Mike's wedding reception at the MO Botanical Garden. He actually got married a month ago, but the wedding was in Italy, and the rest of the family couldn't reall afford to go to Italy for his wedding... so the reception is this weekend. I missed my first 2 classes this morning because I don't feel so well today, and I'm currently debating whether or not I want to eat lunch. In any case, I have to get ready to leave soon, and my roommate is sleeping, so hopefully I'll write more soon. Keep your eyes open for new pictures!
10-27-02 8:29pm
Well... today has been interesting, to say the least. So, I woke up at 6am this morning, and realized that we had no running water. So, I was thinking, this is going to suck if it doesn't come back on because then I won't be able to take a shower. So, I went back to bed. Around 10, my heater turned off, and I was thinking "hey, that's kinda weird"... yeah, the power was out. It turns out, a pipe in the boiler room burst, and there was about 4 and a half feet of water down there. So, they spent most of the morning pumping the water out of there, but in order to fix it, they had to turn the power off. So, since it's against the law for students to stay in a building without heat, we were all kicked out of Marguerite and pretty much left to fend for ourselves and find a place to stay. So, I'm homeless tonight. Well, not really, I'm staying in my friend Dhara's apartment in the Village, so I have a nice comfy couch to sleep on, but it still sucks. They told us to pack for 2 days becuase we may not be able to get back in tomorrow night either, so this could be a fun week. Anyway, I'm going to go now because I'm using Dhara's computer, and we're making cookies in the kitchen, and they smell really good. So, I hope you all have a good night!
10-26-02 11:16am
Good morning! I'm in a fantastic mood this morning... not sure why. Actually, lately I've been in a fantastic mood (with the exception of the previous post...). All of my midterm grades were good... including my evil history midterm that I was almost positive I had gotten a C on. My mom can't give me lectures now about how school comes first and about how my grades better not suffer because of all the stuff I'm involved in. I'm getting better grades this semester than I did either of my two semesters last year. This week was nice... I only had three days of classes. Last night, I went to Eckert's with a HUGE group of people from my building. It was fun. We had a bonfire and hotdogs and marshmallows, and a hayride. It was amusing though... This girl named Anna (she lives on my floor) and I were in search of the bathrooms, and as it turns out, they only have port-o-potties... and let me tell you, it's not so fun using a port-o-potty in the dark. So, I'm outside waiting for Anna, when she asks me... "Katie, is this a sink or a urinal?" I'm like "Anna, that's a urinal..." She definitely almost tried washing her hands... in a urinal... which we both found very amusing. I got back to school around 10:45 or so, then I went to Rally's with Pat and Matt... to which, they were out of hamburger meat... which is interesting. Then we went back to Pat's room and hung out for a while. Dhara came over and hung out for a while too. I came back to my room around 2:30am-ish, went to bed around 3am, and got up at 10am. I'm driving my friend Chip to some observation thing he has to do today. Tonight, is GIRLS' NIGHT OUT! Me, Paige, Annie, Emily, and Katie Fitz are going to Macaroni Grill (yum yum), and then doing something afterwards.. possibly bowling.. who knows. Anyway, I have to go. Hope everybody has a great day! and a great week... since I may not post again for another week...
10-19-02 10:08pm
I'm really in quite a pissy mood right now. I shouldn't be. I'm on fall break, and midterms are over... I came home this afternoon around 2:30pm with the intention of spending time with my family. However, my parents have company over tonight, so my mom spent the afternoon cleaning (and it's kinda hard to spend quality time with your mom over the sound of a vacuum cleaner), and I didn't even really see my dad or my brother until dinner. My friend's parents came over for dinner, and they're still here. I don't mind at all that my parents have friends over... it's just that I'm not seeing what the point of my coming home was. I'm writing this post during my break from watching Gone With the Wind. I'm bored out of my mind, and I really wish I would have known that my parents had made plans for tonight becuase then I would have made my own plans and everyone would have been happy. Also, I'm upset because I told my mom that I have a B in my MIS class (which is the only midterm grade that I know as of right now because grades technically aren't due until Monday), and she spazzed out over a B. I thought we were past that. It pisses me off when she does that. It's like nothing is ever good enough for her. I'm tired, and I'm cranky, and I really just feel like crying...even though I really don't have much of a reason to. I'm actually tempted to just go to bed. I have to get up at 5am tomorrow anyway. I'm supposed to go on a balloon ride with my mom tomorrow morning. Hopefully that will be fun. After that, I don't know what I'm doing. I should probably do some work. I was going to write a paper for Monday (it would have to be emailed to my professor), but I kinda forgot to bring home my drama book (which is kinda necessary for writing this paper), so I'm pretty much screwed with that. Oh well. Anyway, I think I'll go back to watching my movie now. Hope you're having a better Saturday than I am.
10-7-02 5:49am
Yes, it's very early... no, I did not just wake up. I actually just didn't go to bed. I'm over in my friend Pat's room in Fusz. I came over here and was doing homework earlier, and we both just randomly decided to not go to sleep tonight, therefore, I'm still awake. I did finish my homework though.. I've got about 3 hours before my first class still, and I've been playing Grand Theft Auto III for the past hour I think. It keeps me awake.. and it's fun to run into stuff and whatnot. I enjoy it. I really don't know why I decided to not sleep tonight. I got up at 5am yesterday mornning, so I have now been awake for essentially 24 hours (I think I might have fallen asleep for an hour from about 9-10am, so it's not an entire 24 hours, but it's close enough). I'm interested to see what I'm like at my 10pm NACURH meeting tonight... that should be interesting. Anyway, that's what's going on right now...
This past weekend was fun. Friday night I went camping with my roommate (Tasha), her boyfriend (Greg), and this guy named Phil from the 5th floor. It was fun. Saturday I went home because it was my dad's birthday, and we went out for yummy dinner at Casa Gallardo. After that we went back home, and I just kind of did a whole lot of nothing for a while. I went to bed around 10 that night because I was exhausted because I never sleep very well when I'm camping. Sunday morning I had to get up at 5am because my mom and I were supposed to go on a hot air balloon ride. We got to the place at 6:30am (the time we were supposed to), and the guy called to get the weather report and found out that there were going to be thunderstorms there in about half an hour, so our balloon ride was cancelled and had to be rescheduled, which kind of sucks because now there is another Sunday morning that I have to get up insanely early (only this time it's during my fall break). Oh well, my mom and I went out for breakfast instead. Then we went back home, and I slept for about an hour, and then we got ready and went to West County Mall... damn that place is huge, and obnoxiously crowded (of course, that might have something to do with the fact that it just opened last weekend). Anyway, my mommy bought me a new outfit, so that was fun. Then I came back to school, locked my keys in my car, did some nothingness until my meeting at 4pm, and then another meeting at 6pm, and then worked on NACURH presentation with Chip for a while, and then I've been doing homework and hanging out with Pat for the rest of the night. It is now 5:58, and I think I'm going to go back to driving cars into things now. Hope you all had a good night's sleep!
9-28-02 12:21pm
Ok, so I lied... I didn't go into detail about my golf cart parade experience the day after my last post. Oops. To make a long story short, I suck at driving golf carts (especially when that golf cart is completely covered with orange crumpled paper to make it look like a bulldozer), and I almost ran over 5 small children (which was absolutely terrifying). Oh, and at the end I kinda ran over the front part of our bulldozer... that kind of sucked.
Anyway, so what happend this week.... Well, tons of meetings Monday and Tuesday... most memorable thing from Tuesdays meetings: Q-Tip Jousting. Wednesday wasn't such a good day. I went home after class (got home around 6pm)... ate dinner (which was yummy tacos), then played Chinese Checkers with my mom and my brother... (you're probably not seeing why this wasn't a good day yet...)... Anyway, got back to school around 10pm, only to realize that I had completely forgotten about a meeting with Bryan I was supposed to have at 8:20, and to listen to a message on my answering machine from a person in my MIS group telling me that he didn't remember how to put links on the page (and the assignment was due the following morning by 9am). Then I studied for my MIS test that I had on Thursday, and had to figure out what I was going to say for my oral presentation for Spanish class that I was also videotaping the next day. I was rather stressed out. I ended up falling asleep while studying in the coffee house downstairs. Thursday wasn't too bad. I don't think I did so well on my MIS test, but I'm not too concerned. Taped my presentation, which went fairly well, and then spent the rest of the night cutting Pat's hair and watching Fight Club. Yesterday (Friday), I went to classes and such, and then after class, Sarah came over and we watched a movie. After that I just kinda hung around in my room until I went to see the play Crimes of the Heart at 8pm. It was pretty good. Then, we came back here, watched Mulan, and went to sleep. This morning, I got up around 9:30, did some homework, and relatively soon I'm leaving to walk across campus for my NACURH retreat which is taking up most of my weekend. I believe that's all for now.
9-23-02 11:41pm
Well, when I was originally going to type this post, it was 11:41pm, but now, it's 1:46am... Anyway, I received a complaint becuase I hadn't posted in a while, so here I am. No, I haven't died or fallen off the face of the earth. I've been insanely busy this past week with homecoming stuff... statue making contest, lobby decorating contest, and golf cart parade, in addition to going to the dance on Friday and the soccer game on Saturday night. I'm glad last week is over. It was fun in a sense, but it was a LOT of work. This week isn't so crazy... just classes and meetings and such... going to see Crimes of the Heart (put on by SLU) this Friday and I have a retreat for NACURH this Saturday and Sunday. Anyway, I will go into more detail about my golf cart parade experience tomorrow... it was interesting... but now I'm sleepy, so I'm going to go to bed now. G'night.
9-15-02 3:01am
I'm sleepy. I didn't go to bed Friday night. I finally went to sleep around 8 Saturday morning... long story that I really don't want to go into right now. Anyway, so I slept off and on for most of the day today. Tasha, Paige, and I ordered some Imo's for dinner, and then Paige and I got ready to go out. We left around 10pm to go to the Beta Bid Bash, which was pretty fun. Drunk people amuse me. I drank some, but not enough to be noticeable. There was a party afterwards, but I decided not to go to it. So, I came back to my room, took a shower, watched part of Children of the Corn, and picked up my room (my crap was EVERYWHERE). It's now after 3am, and I'm tired, so I'm going to go to sleep now. G'night!
9-11-02 11:25pm
It seems almost impossible that a year ago, the World Trade Centers crashed to the ground. I remember waking up that morning to go to class. The radio was on, and they were talking about planes crashing into the World Trade Center towers... My roommate and I thought they were joking, but also thought that it really wasn't funny, so we turned it off and turned on the TV instead, and stood there staring in shock for several minutes. It doesn't seem possible that that happened a year ago already. That day is so vivid in my memory...
Anyway, that's my flashback for the day. Today wasn't too exciting. I woke up at 8am, went to my drama class, turned in my paper that I wrote last night, came back to my room, went to history class at 11am, then walked very very rapidly to the church for a memorial mass at noon (for 9/11). After that, I had to go straight to Spanish class. On my way back from class, I met up with Phil and we wandered around the bookstore for a while (for lack of anything else to do) and looked at all the stuff that we don't have money to buy. After that we stopped at Fusz because I was very hungry (having skipped lunch to go to church). Then we came back to Marguerite. I didn't do a whole lot this afternoon. Phil came down and visited for a while before going to his class. Then Enrique and his roommate Mark came by and woke me up from a nap that I really didn't need to take anyway. They left around 6pm, and I watched the end of French Kiss because Tasha and I fell asleep watching it the other night. After that, I went with Tasha to Fusz, then we came back to the room and some people came over to watch Save the Last Dance with us. Somehow, during the course of that movie, I became very VERY hyper. After it was over, I went out in the hallway and took rather amusing pictures of people on my floor with my digital camera (those will be on the picture pages shortly). Hung out in the hallway for quite some time, eventually got my AIM to work again (it's been a bitch all day), so I talked to a friend for a while. Now I'm trying to figure out what the hell I'm going to do because I have SO much energy and absolutely NOTHING to do... it's sad. I'm usually complaining that I have too much to do, and now that I've got nothing to do, and I'm not tired enough to utilize that time sleeping, what do I do? I complain some more... Anyway, I'm goin upstairs to visit Phil and Scott's room, and I've only got an hour of visitation left on the guys' floors, so I'll talk to y'all later.
9-10-02 10:52pm
I'm really falling behind on the posts lately. I'm sorry, I have been SO unbelievably busy lately. This past weekend wasn't too bad. Went to a party Friday night, which was interesting... my roommate and I had a little bit too much vodka and grape juice. Saturday, I went with Joe and Tasha to the Galleria, Borders, and Target (3 of the stops on the shuttle loop at SLU). It was fun. When we got back, I ate some dinner, and then did some laundry (always exciting). Randomly decided to go to a party in the Village apartments. Almost all of the people from my floor last year were there, so it was kinda fun seeing them, but Tasha and I left after about half an hour. Then we watched a movie. Sunday was pretty uneventful. Did some homework... went to church... went to the rec center.. that's about it. Yesterday I went to class and such, then went to the RHA meeting, did some homework, had a meeting with Paul (my advisor for hall council), then went to my NACURH meeting. After that, I came back to my room, watched a movie with my roommate, and went to bed around 2:30am or so. Today's been kinda crazy. I got up, went to St. Joseph's hospital to get my blood test done. I didn't have enough time to get my transcript sent over from Meramec, so I just came back to SLU and went to MIS class, where I took a test (finished in about 20 minutes). After that, I went to lunch, and then I took a short nap until my philosophy class started. I was going to sleep through my philosophy class and just not go, but my friend Phil wouldn't let me. He came down and woke me up at 2pm to go to class. So I went to philosophy, ended up getting out early anyway, came back here for a while, went to Spanish lab, came back here, ate dinner, then typed up my agenda for my hall council meeting that I had tonight, and made some copies and such before my executive board meeting for hall council started at 7pm. After that, I had the general hall council meeting at 9pm, which I think went pretty well. We're working on plans for homecoming because it's next week. It should be a lot of fun. That has been my life lately, and now that my meetings are all over, I can actually start on my homework, and hopefully go to bed at some point because I'm quite tired. Anyway, have a good night! Hopefully I'll post again soon (although my life hasn't been terribly interesting lately).. g'night.
9-5-02 8:08pm
The past few days haven't been too terribly exciting. Just class and meetings and such. Right now I'm up in Phil and Scott's room typing on Phil's computer. I had the intention of doing my homework, but that hasn't exactly happened yet. Today, I was supposed to go get a blood test done, but yeah, I didn't exactly do that. Oh well, I'll go on Tuesday. I was also going to have my transcript sent over to SLU from Meramec, but that didn't exactly happen either. I've felt pretty shitty these past few days. I need drugs that make allergies go away, but I don't have any. Oh well. So, I got up this morning, got ready for class, went to MIS, came back, did my philosophy paper, called the IMC (instructional media center) to find out some information, went to philosophy, had a meeting with Paul and Chrissy (hall council treasurer) to put together a preliminary budget for the year, went to dinner, came back and came up here because my roommate's taking a nap. She might be awake now actually. Tomorrow I've got class at 9, 11, and 1:10. I'm out of class at 2:30, which is actually the earliest that I ever get out. I guess maybe I should start my homework now...
9-3-02 10:17am
Well, the night before hall council elections, I went around to every door in the building reminding people to vote and writing on their dry erase boards. Around noon, the day of the elections, I was informed that my competitor dropped out of the election... something about golf or something. So, needless to say, I am now officially Marguerite's hall council president. We've got our first exec board meeting tonight. This past weekend wasn't too exciting, but that was perfectly ok with me. I needed a break. Friday, I was exausted. Jim came up to SLU for a while, but he ended up leaving and I went to bed at 11:30. Saturday morning, I got up and left to go home. My family was having a birthday party for my grandma. So I spent the night at home Saturday night and left to come back to school around 2pm. Got back to school, watched Miss Congeniality with Scott (a guy from the 5th floor), and then Scott, Joe, and I drove to my friend Chris's house (high school friend), picked her up and went to Steak n' Shake for dinner (yum). Then we came back to SLU, watched part of I Am Sam before going to church at 9pm. After church (around 11:15), Joe came with me to drop Chris off at her house. Got back to school around midnight, and Scott came back down to watch the rest of I Am Sam until he was kicked out of my room around 1am. I think I ended up going to bed that night around 3am or so. Monday was very unproductive. I got up around 10:30am, went to lunch around noon with Paige, Tom, and Scott. Tom and Scott kinda followed me to my room after lunch, and Tom and I played Nintendo for about 6 hours after that... yeah, that's a long time... Then we went to dinner. After dinner, I should have done my homework, but I really didn't. I had a meeting with Bryan at 9:20, and then another meeting at 10. Got back to Marguerite around 11:30... was going to start my homework, but talked to people in the hallway until 12:45 instead. Then I hung out across the hall untila bout 1:30. Then I decided to go to bed. Never really did my homework... but oh well. Now, I've gotta leave to print out my MIS notes at Des Peres before going to class at 11, so I'll talk to y'all later!
8-29-02 9:08am
So, I started class this week. My classes don't actually seem too bad. The only problem I have with them is that I have an hour break between most of my classes, which doesn't sound too bad, until you realize that an hour is not enough time to really do anything, but too much time to just do nothing. It's a pain in the butt. Also, because of all of my hour long breaks, I usually don't get finished with classes until 5pm (well, on mon/tues/wed anyway). So I gave my speech on Sunday... yeah, I pretty much made a fool out of myself, even though everybody else said that I did good (despite the fact that I lost half of my speech while I was up there and completely BSed most of it). Anyway, I've got a freshman named David running against me for president now, which wouldn't bother me, except he's running for the wrong reasons. He approached me as well as Sarah Beth (the assistant building coordinator) that he was just running for the hell of it. He doesn't really want the position... he just wants to run just to see what happens, and that's what annoys me. Oh well. This has just been a really long week, for various reasons, but it's almost over, so that's a good thing. First NACURH meeting of the year was last night. I also went to Vito's for dinner last night for Pat and Jen's birthdays, which was fun. Well, I've gotta do some homework before my MIS class at 11am, so this is all for now. Know what I hate? When you drink something hot and burn all of the taste buds off the surface of your tongue, and then you can't taste anything for the next few days....
8-25-02 9:06am
Ya know, you'd think that now that I'm back at school, I'd be better about posting... not worse. Oh well. So this whole week has been pretty busy. I had VISA training on Monday, and then spent the next 48 hours decorating the lobby with Paige. Wednesday morning, the freshmen started moving in, and then more of them moved in on Thursday. So, I was running around talking to people, answering questions and such. It's funny... a lot of the freshmen think that I'm an RA, and I'm really not much of anything. Anyway, my goal for the year is to know everyone in my building by name... don't know if it'll happen or not, but I'm getting a good start. It's been so much fun. For some reason, meeting all these new people has made me so excited. My roommate moved in Friday, and damn do we have one big ass TV. The box barely even fit through the door. Granted we can't hook it up yet because our cable hookup thing is just a bare wire right now. It kind of sucks, I've had to put in two maintenance requests for my room in addition to calling res life about the cable thing. Our window doesn't close all the way, so our room is ungodly humid and sticky... yuck... and the pipe underneath the sink.. yeah, it's really loose, and if you bump it at all, it starts leaking. So yeah, not so fun. Apparently maintenance came by yesterday and looked at it while we weren't here. They wrote a note saying they'd be back to fix it as soon as the parts came in. So, that should be all better soon. Last night, I went to this "Rock Around the Clock" thing. Basically, there was a DJ by the clocktower. I had lots of fun. For some reason, I was REALLY in the mood to dance last night. That ended at 1am, and I went back to Marguerite with my friend Sarah. We were going to go up to my room, but Joe was down in the lobby, so we went down and hung out with him and this guy Nate that I had met a couple days ago. Met these two guys named Phil and Greg and talked to them for a while, until everybody left except for me and Greg. So yeah, ended up talking to him until almost 4am, then we finally decided that we should probably get some sleep. So, we rode up in the elevator together, and I got out at 4 (yeah, I was being lazy last night.. I usually take the stairs), and he was still going to 7, but we were still kind of talking when I got out of the elevator, and I said something like "oh, you should come visit me" (meaning like... tomorrow or something)... so as I'm walking to my room, I hear my RA's door open, and she popped her head around the corner to make sure that I wasn't bringing a guy to my room. I'm just like... dear god, he didn't even get off the elevator... leave me alone. Once she realized that I wasn't breaking the visitation rules, she went back to her room, but it still annoyed me. So, now I'm quite tired, since I woke up around 8:30, and I went to bed at 4am, but oh well. Now, I'm gonna find some breakfast and then I need to get started on my speech that I have to give tonight. Nothin like waiting until the last minute...
8-21-02 12:23am
I've been really busy with stuff since I moved back to school, which has also made me too tired to feel like typing much, so good night.
8-18-02 9:42pm
*Yawn*... Well, I'm back at school now, and I'm really really sleepy. I swear I only got about 2 hours of sleep last night. I could not sleep for the life of me. It really really sucked. So, today I moved in... I swear, mother nature did not want me to get to school today. First of all, it was pouring down rain all morning, so we had to kind of wait for a lull in the rain because most of my stuff was in the back of my dad's truck. We ended up wrapping everything in trash bags anyway though. So then we leave my house (keep in mind I live on an itty bitty gravel road)... We get halfway down my road, and there's this giant tree down in the middle of the road because of the storm. So, my dad had to go back to the house and get a chainsaw so he could cut the tree into pieces so we could move it out of the way. It was great fun... lemme tell ya. Once we actually got here to school, everything was fine. After I got everything in my room, I went out to dinner at California Pizza Kitchen with my friend Pat, and then I came back here only to leave again to go to Target with Paige and Joe. Now, my next task is to try to find the floor of my room...
8-18-02 1:36am
It's amusing to me... my parents let me drink while I was on vacation... had absolutely no effect... I go to a barbeque at my friend Lara's house tonight... have 3 mountain dews, and I'm the equivalent of an intoxicated person... Oh well. Today was a long day of packing and more packing, and then I left around 6:30 to go to Lara's house. A bunch of my high school people were there, so it was great fun. My stomach still hurts from laughing so much. I left there around 12:45 or so because I've got to get up relatively early tomorrow because I still have some packing to do before I move in at noon. That was pretty much my day, and now I'd better go to bed. G'night.
8-16-02 9:49pm
Hello again loyal readers... I am back from my vacation to "the most exciting place on earth" (aka Wisconsin). Actually, despite my doubts, it really wasn't too bad actually. It was relatively enjoyable. I did write one post while I was gone when I was bored one night... Obviously, having no computer access, I couldn't actually put it up... so it'll go up now... I'm warning you though... it's quite long..
8-11-02
Well, so far, my family vacation hasn't been too bad. We left on Thursday around 3:30pm and spent the night in Rockford, IL. We left the next morning and met up with my Aunt Annie and Uncle Jerry somewhere in Wisconsin... don't quite remember where. From there, we drove about another hour and a half to the house we're staying at (it's name is "Hank's Place" in case you were curious...). It's actually a pretty nice house... right on the water (the Green Bay side of the Door County Peninsula). It's right outside of a little town called Brussels, which isn't too far away from Sturgeon Bay. I must say, one would think that whoever named the roads up here could have been a bit more creative... We drove by "Dead End Rd", "School Lane", "Dump Rd", "Short-Cut Rd", and the list goes on... Oh, interesting story about the dump... My aunt is absolutely convinced that one night while we're here, we need to drive to the dump and sit there, waiting to see if we can see a wild bear... Who the hell sits in a dump for their evening entertainment? Certainly not me... The only reason I would even consider going would be to take pictures of them to put on my site in order to make fun of them... but even that is stretching it. ANyway, the day we got here, we just kind of hung around the house. Yesterday morning, we got in our van (we rented one to drive up here in), and just started driving around the peninsula. Our first stop was at the Dairy View Country Store - home of "Cookie the Cow"... sounds exciting, doesn't it? Actually, our main reason for stopping was the homemade ice cream... yum! However, they also had this giant corn maze... and I mean GIANT... There were two different mazes... a 4 mile one and a 1.5 mile one. I ended up going in with my brother Mick, but there was no way I was going through a 4 mile corn maze, so we took the shorter one. It was actually kinda cool... as bizarre as that may sound. After we left there, we continued our drive up to the tip of the peninsul, stopping in one of thel ittle towns for lunch. I have never seen as many barns and silos in one place as I have here. Oh, and the orchards... they're everywhere too. Mostly cherries... which I'm not particularly fond of. So we drove all the way up to the tip of the pininsula, came back a different way... stopping at a winery on our way back. We got back to our house around 6:30pm or so, ate a late dinner, and went to bed. This morning, we got up and headed to Peninsula State Park. Activity of the Day: Bike Riding. We rode bikds all over that park. The path was right by the water most of the time, so it was really pretty. We stopped on the way to take a tour of a lighthouse, which was relatively interesting, continued our bike ride to Nicolet Bay, where there were tons of people swimming and such. We grabbed something to eat there and continued on our bike ride. We bot back to the rental place around 4pm. We rode about 10 miles, and this may be too much information, but damn is my ass sore! I did enjoy the bike ride though... I think it was almost too much for my aunt to handle though. On our way back to the house, we stopped at several different fruit market type places... oh, and we just had to go to this one plave that had a sign saying "Pick your own flowers"... so of course, my mom made us do that... We got back to the house around 6pm, and it started to storm while my dad and my ucnle were barbequeing. I love storms! Apparently, my aunt hates them. According to her, you can't use the water, you can't watch tv, and you have to stay in the center of the room. Everytime it would thunder or lightning, she would gasp. She wouldn't even go to the bathroom because she refused to sue the water. She spent part of the evening hiding in the bathroom or the basement. It was actually quite humorous, although it got annoying after a while. Right now, it's still raining... so I think I'm gonna go grab a hard lemonade and go watch a movie with my dad and my brother... I think they put in "Independence Day"... one of these days... I will get someone to watch "Pretty Woman" with me...
As for the rest of my trip...Monday, my mom, my aunt, and I went shopping because it was raining. We met up with the others for dinner, and that was about it. Tuesday, my aunt and uncle went to Green Bay (they're big Packer's fans), and my family went to Bailey's Harbor and went fishing (didn't catch anything either... so it really wasn't too terribly exciting). We met up with my aunt and uncle for dinner so my aunt could go to a "Fish Boil"... there was no way in hell anybody was getting me to eat fish that had been thrown into a pot and boiled... I don't eat fish... unless it's fried... and even then, I would usally choose something else to eat. Luckily, there were other things on the menu. Wednesday, we went over to Washington Island... it's an island past the tip of the peninsula. We had to take a ferry to get to it. Once we got over there, we went to a beach and ate lunch (we brought sandwiches and such)... couldn't swim or anything because the water was contaminated... with what I don't know... but that was just as well becuase it was kinda cool anyway. After that, my mom, my brother, and I went horseback riding. It was fun, although when horseback riding on an island... one would think that they would take you by the water.. but no, we rode by the rode most of the time. Oh well. After that, we shopped a little bit, and then we took the ferry back to the peninsula, and went back to the house, stopping in another town to shop on the way back. When we got back, we ate dinner, and watched tv/played games until we went to bed. Thursday, we slept in pretty late. When we finally did leave, we went to Sturgeon Bay to take a lighthouse cruise... which was this two hour boat ride that went up and down Sturgeon Bay, going by 3 different lighthouses. It was neat... although my mom gave me trouble because I read my book most of the time. I did look up at the points of interest though... After that, we went out to dinner, went back to the house and started packing. My mom was in a particularly bad mood that night, so we got into a couple fights, but nothing too bad. I stayed up late reading, fell asleep somewhere around 2am, and got up this morning at 6:30am. We finished packing, got ready, and left around 8:30, getting back tonight a little after 7pm. Then, we unloaded the car, and my mom and I left to go pick up my car (it was at the car place getting its boo boo fixed), and then we went to drop off the rental van, and picked up Imo's Pizza on the way home. That's about it for today I think. Tomorrow is packing day... I move back to SLU on Sunday around noon...
8-8-02 1:34am
*Yawn* I'm sleepy... Went to my meeting today. It went pretty well, then I came home and started packing and such. Finished off the Marguerite Hall Council Constitution... packed some more.... Just so everybody knows, this'll be my last post for the next week or so. I leave for vacation tomorrow and don't get back until the 16th, and I move in to school on the 18th, so I may not post again until I'm back at school. So, I hope you all have a great week! If you want to reach me, you can call my cell... I don't get charged for roaming... however, it might not be on. Anyway, g'night, and I'll talk to y'all soon!
8-7-02 12:03pm
Well yesterday I went down to SLU for a lunch meeting with Paul. That went pretty well. After leaving there, I came home and typed up the Marguerite Hall Council Constitution. Last night I went to the Muny to see Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (interesting side note: when I was first typing that, I typed "Amazon" instead of "Amazing"... which kind of amused me). Anyway, the show was really good. Then, I came home, talked to people on the internet for a while and went to bed. Nothing has happened today yet... well, that's not entirely true... actually, something that makes me really nervous and absolutely terrifies me happened this morning, but I'd really rather not discuss it on a webpage. Anyway, I have to leave to go to another meeting at SLU relatively soon, so that's all for now.
8-5-02 9:43pm
FYI: I added to the picture pages. Other than that, I don't really have much to say right now...
8-5-02 11:45am
I know... I've been slacking a bit the past few days on the posting... but you survived... So, here's an overview of my weekend... Friday night I went shopping with my friend Dana (buying crap for school and such), and afterwards, we ended up at White Castle... where we ended up seeing 5 people that were a year behind us in grade school... so that was kind of crazy. Then I came home and cleaned my room (like the previous post says...). Saturday morning, I got up at 7:30 (b/c I had to do laundry and stuff before going to work at 10:45), went to work, left work at 6:30, told my boss I was quitting on my way out, and then went over to my friend Chris's house (stopping by McDonald's on the way there since I hadn't eaten since my cereal that morning). Then, we left and went to the Fox for the Guster/John Mayer concert. We parked at SLU because we're cheapskates and didn't feel like paying the $5 for parking closer to the Fox. The concert was REALLY good. I even liked the opening guy that I had never heard of... Martin Sexton. It was crazy there too b/c I turned around at one point, and there was this girl Stacy that I went to high school with, and who now goes to SLU. Then, I realized that the girl sitting next to me looked really familiar, so I talked to her, and it was this girl Rachel who plays the piano at church during the school year. After the concert, I dropped Chris off at her house, and then went home and slept. Got up at 7:30 on Sunday to be at work by 9, turned in my two weeks notice (not that it matters b/c I was going to be off work until August 31 anyway), got off at 5:30, stopped by Jim's house to pick up a check, went home, ate dinner, and fell asleep around 8:30 while watching Evolution. This morning I got up around 8:30 to go to the dentist. Then I came home, and that's about where I'm at so far today. Tomorrow, I've got to go back down to SLU for another meeting with Paul, and I'll be back down there again on Wednesday for a meeting with the head of PR at SLU. Other than that, I've got the Muny tomorrow night, and lots of packing to do...
8-3-02 2:52am
*Yawn*... I'm sleepy now. I didn't feel like going to bed earlier, so I decided to clean my room so that I could find the floor in the morning... It's relatively clean right now... except for the pile of stuff that's going back to school with me... but I need sleep now since I'm getting up around 8am... g'night.
8-3-02 1:11am
So... to explain the quitting of the job thing... I got sent home early today... again... and I decided that I had had enough of their shit. So, I went and talked to one of the managers. I have been sent home early on probably over half of the days I have worked this summer (which hasn't been too many because they rarely schedule me). When I was hired, the manager told me that my hours would depend on sales. One week I might only have 15 hours... the next week, I could have 30. I don't think that I have ever worked for more than 15 hours in one week this entire summer. I think I was schedule for 17 once... but I got sent home early a couple times that week. I've worked there for 2 months now... and they still haven't trained me on the damn register (which is why they send me home early... if I can't work the register, what's the point of keeping someone there to fold shirts when sales aren't going so well?). People that started working the same day as me, and even a couple people that started after I did have already been trained on the register. I worked in retail for 3 years before this job... I think I can handle the stupid register. And on calls... don't even get me started on those... I am not a f***in doctor. It's ridiculous that I have to be "on call" for Old Navy. It's obnoxious that I have to plan my life around when I "might" have to work... and not finding out if I actually have to work or not until an hour before I "might" have to work. Most of you know how busy I'm going to be this year... and if you don't know, well, I'm going to be ungodly busy. Schedules at Old Navy don't come out until Thursdays (for the following week starting on Sunday...). With all the crap I've got going on, I'm going to need to know before Thursday whether or not I'm working on Sunday... That just won't work for me. If I continued working there, the only reason I would be staying would be for the discount (b/c I do like a lot of their clothes)... but it's not worth it. It's not worth it for me to drive 25 minutes to a job that is going to send me home after 3 hours. It's ridiculous, and I'm not putting up with it anymore. So, I'm going to have a nice little chat with my main manager tomorrow while I'm there (that is, if they don't send me home before she gets there...), and I'm putting in my two weeks... not that it really matters too much, because after Sunday, I wasn't going to work again until August 31 anyway. So that, my friends, is why I am quitting my job. My advice: Don't ever work at Old Navy... or Six Flags... Am I ever going to find a job that doesn't piss me off?
8-2-02 5:42pm
I'm quitting my job tomorrow.... Old Navy REALLY pisses me off.
8-2-02 12:37pm
Yesterday morning, I left my house around 9am to go to SLU and pick up my parking permit before going to my meeting with Paul (my building coordinator) at 10am. My meeting was.... interesting.... For those of you who don't know, I'm going to be president of Marguerite Hall Council this year (Marguerite being the building that I live in at school...). Being that I've never really done anything with hall council prior to oh, my meeting yesterday.... needless to say, I'm just a bit overwhelmed. I told Paul that I didn't really know what I was doing... yeah, he responded by saying "well, we can pretty much do whatever we want." So... that didn't really help with the whole being overwhelmed issue... Oh well, I'm sure everything will be fine once I kind of get the hang of things. After my meeting with Paul, I went to my grandma's house to pick up Muny tickets for Tuesday, and then to the bank, and then I went home and went out to the pool for a few hours. Then, I got ready, ate dinner, and went to see Camelot at the Muny. It was pretty good I suppose... definitely not my favorite musical, but not bad... Then I came home and went to sleep. Woke up this morning at 8:30 when my brother's friend came over. I had planned on going back to sleep, but for some reason, I started getting ideas for this hall council thing, so I decided I should write them down before I forgot them, so I ended up getting up then anyway. Then I went for a walk for about an hour, came back, and got ready to go to work. That's the point I'm at right now. I'm working today from 1:30-7:30. I'm not thinking I'm going to do anything tonight... or really any night this week (except the John Mayer concert tomorrow night and the Muny on Tuesday)... After today, I have 5 days to pack for school, pack for vacation, plan a hall council, go to two meetings, a dentist appointment, and a doctor appointment, and bring my car in to get it fixed (they're doing that while I'm gone). And, I'm working today, tomorrow, and Sunday. I told them that I couldn't work Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday, and I'm already taking off August 8-31, so after Sunday, I don't work again until September, and there's a good chance I'm going to end up quitting my job because I don't know if I can handle working in addition to all the other crap that I'm doing. Anyway, I have to go to work now...
7-31-02 10:10pm
NO MORE ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY!!!!!!!!!!! (well... at least until next summer when I take A&P 2...) I am so happy though that I am done with class. Of course, August 26, it starts all over again. Oh well. I don't feel like typing much tonight... G'night.
7-30-02 8:52pm
So yesterday was not so fun. Those of you who know me, you may be aware that I have somewhat of a "phone phobia"... meaning, that for some reason, I hate calling places where I have to talk to people that I don't know. For example, I used to never call pizza places (I had to get over that one this past year in college). Anyway, yesterday, I called two different places to take my car in to get estimates, and then I called the place where I get my hair done so I could get it highlighted again. So that's 3 phone calls that I would normally be terrified to make... it wasn't so bad though. Anyway... after that, I studied for my test on the nervous system that I had last night. I'd like to say that I studied for the rest of the day until class... but that would be a lie. I don't think I did so well on the test... I really didn't know a whole lot of the information, and my head really hurt when I finally did leave class. After class, I went and got food with Jim, and then I went home so that I could go to sleep since I had to get up at 7:15 this morning. Why, you ask? Because one of the places I was taking my car in to get an estimate at was only going to be there between 8 and 9 or after noon, and since my hair appointment was for 1pm, I decided to go between 8 and 9. From there, I went to the other car place... decided to go with the second place because it was $300 cheaper. Then I went to Office Max to buy stuff for school and such... and just because I love office supply stores... don't ask me why. After that, I went to Chesterfield Mall, got something to eat, and got my hair done. Then I came home and started getting together stuff that I have to bring with me when I move back to school. I know it seems early... but I'm going on vacation next Thursday, and I won't be getting back until the day before I move in. So, I don't have a whole lot of time. I have another anatomy and physiology test tomorrow, so that really sucks. Especially since we didn't go over any of the information for it until tonight... but, since we didn't have enough time to learn the material, the test is going to be really short, and he said that we could bring in a 3x5 notecard with whatever we want written on it while we take the test. So that's pretty cool. Anyway, I need to start studying a bit now because I have to work tomorrow morning... and I may end up having to work until 5, so I don't know if I'm going to have a whole heck of a lot of time tomrrow. Besides, this post is getting ungodly long...
7-28-02 11:59pm
Question... does it bother anyone else when you do something nice for someone (something that, under the circumstances, was definitely not required of you) and you don't even get a simple "thanks" in reply?
7-28-02 9:42pm
Well, I'm back at home now everybody. My cousin's going to stay at one of her aunt's houses this week, so I don't have to stay at her house with her anymore. Tomorrow I've gotta make some phone calls... I have to call places so I can get estimates on my car... I have to set up a dentist appointment... I have to set up a doctor's appointment (my mom thinks I should at least meet my new doctor before going back to school so that if I happen to get sick or something, he might have some clue as to who I am)... I have to make a hair appointment (no, I'm not doing it myself for once...)... and I have to call my building coordinator guy at school because we've been playing phone tag for the past 3 days now. I've also gotta study tomorrow because I have a test on the Nervous System tomorrow night. Only 3 more nights of class left though... and I could actually skip Tuesday if I really wanted to... I probably shouldn't though. Anyway, that's all for now.
7-27-02 3:27am
Well whadya know... it's exactly an hour since my last post... *Yawn...* Anyway, I'm really tired now (especially since I was already tired when I first posted around 10:30. Just wanted to let you all know that my photo pages are up... they're kind of a work in progress right now... no backgrounds or anything like that. Hopefully I'll be adding more pictures when I get back to my own house. These are the only ones I had uploaded to geocities before I came to my cousin's house. Anyway, enjoy... and g'night...
7-27-02 2:27am
So I left here to bring Chris home around 1:20am or so (she lives about 5 minutes away from my cousin's house). When I left her house and started driving back... I found myself turning in the completely opposite direction of my cousin's house... I have no idea why... I just started driving... no where in particular... just driving... on roads inhabited by blinking yellow lights and very few cars... There's something very soothing about just driving and driving, and never having to stop because there's a red light... I'm sitting here thinking... thinking about the year I have ahead of me, and realizing just how big some of the things I'm taking on are... and although in one respect, that terrifies me... on the other hand, I can't wait...
7-26-02 10:31pm
I'm tired... I worked all day today, and for once they didn't send me home early. I picked my friend Chris up after work, and we went back to my cousin's house. She wasn't there because she was eating dinner at her friend's house, but then my cousin and her friend came over here adn we all went to blockbuster and rented movies. We're watching John Q at the moment. It's pretty good so far. I'm working again tomorrow evening, but I should be home for good after that. Maggie's going out to her Aunt Sarah's house, so I won't have to stay here any longer... anyway, I'm going to go back to watching the movie now, so I'll talk to y'all later.
7-24-02 10:12pm
Well, I'm back at my cousin's house. I met up with my mom, brother, and my out of town relatives yesterday, and we went to Grant's Farm, which was actually kind of fun since I hadn't been there in forever. After that, we went back to my house and I swam with my little cousin Emily for quite a long time... so long, that by the time I got out, there wasn't enough time for me to get to class (oh darn the luck). I haven't gotten any better about the whole skipping class thing... I skip almost every Tuesday. Now, I've only got 3 more days left... and two of those are test days... but, that means I can still skip the class in between! I spent the night at home last night (my other cousin Amy stayed here with Maggie), and this morning, we all left my house and went to the City Museum, which I had never been to... For those of you who have been there, ya know how they have all of that climbing stuff on the first floor? Well, I was taking my little cousin Emily around (she's 6)... and my brother convinced us to go through the tunnel that goes underneath the floor... he said that there was plenty of room... never again will I listen to my brother... Anyway, after that, we all went to lunch at Fitz's in the loop, around 3pm. After that, I went back to Maggie's house. Then, my grandma decided she was going to take me, Maggie, and her friend Elaine out to dinner at 5. Blah.... I don't think I can eat another thing for at least 24 hours... Oh, and dissecting the sheep brain in class tonight didn't help with the whole food thing... After class, I came back here, and I've been doing laundry since I got back, and that's about it. Tomorrow morning I get to go renew my license... fun and excitement...
7-22-02 9:19pm
I'm tired tonight... and it's not even late. Of course, I went to bed late last night (I'm not really sure what time, but I slept on the couch in my cousin's basement, and I woke up about 5 times last night), and then the phone rang at 8am this morning. Apparently, my aunt and uncle were supposed to have a new garage door installed today, and the guy called this morning saying that he was already out back, but I told him that my aunt and uncle were out in San Diego with a family emergency, so I didn't really know what he should do, and I didn't really have any way of paying for the installation, so he left. So, that was fun. Then I went back to sleep for a while until it was time for Maggie to get up to get ready to go to her thing at Rosati, and I had to get ready in case I had to go to work today, which I didn't. So, I spent the entire day studying. My brain was completely fried by the time I got to class this evening, but I think I kicked ass on the test I had tonight, so that made me happy. I think on Wednesday I have to dissect a sheep's brain..... fun... Right now, I'm sitting in my cousin's basement, getting jumped on by rambunctious dogs occasionally, and watching Evolution. I think that's all for now... g'night.
7-21-02 6:41pm
Well, soon I'll be leaving to go stay at my cousin Maggie's house. Her parents are still out in San Diego, and she has this thing she has to go to at Rosati Kain every day this week, so I'm going in with her to stay at her house for most of this week. I'll be in and out of my house because we have relatives from Illinois here (my cousin Amy is going to fill in for me with Maggie when I'm not there). If you want to get a hold of me ever, my cell phone is probably the best bet... leave a message if it's not on. Anyway, I've come to the conclusion that I am ready to go back to school already. I don't even think I'll mind classes again (although it's not really again since I haven't exactly had a break from classes at all this summer). I need a routine again. I want to have things that I need to do again (that doesn't mean I'll do them, but there's no fun in doing nothing if there's nothing you're supposed to be doing). I don't know. This week, in addition to staying at Maggie's house, I have class (and i think we're dissecting a sheep's brain this week), I have to renew my driver's license, work a bit, and find time to spend with my relatives since I never see them. Oh well.... It's dinner time...
7-20-02 11:19pm
Why? "Why what?", you ask, but that's not the right question...just simply... why? Does anyone ever really know a complete answer to the question "why?" It seems that any answer you give to a "why" question can immediately be put into question again... It's like when you were little and just to be cute (or annoying) you respond with "why" to everything. It can get so exasperating because the tirade of "why's" is unending... Eventually, the person you are questioning gives up and says "just because". In my house, that was never an acceptable answer... I can vividly remember my dad telling me on numerous occasions... "because is not an answer" ... and then he would ask me "why?" a second time. Why must everyone always know our reasons for everything? Why do we have this insatiable desire to know why? Why? Why? WHY? Of course... to any response you give me to any of those questions... I could simply respond with... why?
7-20-02 2:30am
THis is gonna be short because I'm really really sleeppy, and for some reason, the computer screen's a bit blurry. Yesterday I stayed home and cleaned my house and did other random stuff... watched Moulin Rouge with my cousin. Later, my cousin and I went to Applebee's for dinner and got a movie from blockbuster. TOday, I had a party at my house... the last people just left about half an hour ago, and i'm about to fall asleep at my computer, go 'gggnight.
7-18-02 12:48am
Just so you know, I have now created an "Honorary Joe Quotes" section on the Joe Quotes page.... there's only one qoute on it right now, but it amused me. Let's see... worked today... went to class... that was boring... got a 95 on my last test though... went to Steak n Shake with Jim... my car got a boo boo... went home... talked to my mom and my cousin for a while... got on internet. That's my day.
7-16-02 8:24pm
I was a little preoccupied last night, which is why I didn't get around to posting. Also, I had to keep the phone line open. Around 11pm last night, we got a phone call from my Aunt Kathleen. My aunt Jan had been in San Diego with her daughter Maggie, my grandma, and one of Maggie's friends (my grandma takes all of her grandchildren on a 4 day trip anywhere in the continental US when they graduate from 8th grade... so this was Maggie's trip). Well, the first night they got there, they went out to dinner, and my aunt had to be taken to the hospital. At first, we were told that it was a stroke of some sort, but she actually had a cranial hematoma (basically, a collection of blood in part of her brain). It didn't really sound very good last night, but after talking to people today (her husband and her sister both went out to San Diego, and my Uncle Mike who lives in Colorado, flew out there to drive them around and such), she seems to be doing ok. There is some brain damage, but they're not sure to what extent yet. She is paralyzed on one side of her body, but she has been awake and has been trying to talk (her speech is slurred since she can only move half of her face). So if you could, just say a little prayer for my aunt and her family. Maggie and her friend are on a flight home right now, and Maggie (my cousin) is going to be staying at my house for a while when she gets back (along with her two dogs). So, hopefully everything will work out alright and my aunt will be able to come home soon. I did find it amusing though today when my aunt Kim called to talk to my mom and told my mom that it wasn't a stroke, that it was a hemoglobin. Yeah... hemoglobin is the iron-containing pigment in blood (it makes it red) that carries oxygen from the lungs to all the different body tissues... so I found that somewhat amusing... and you can't tell my Aunt Kim anything... she thinks that she knows everything. Oh well... I didn't go to class tonight... I just didn't feel like it... and I drove all the way there last night, and my professor wasn't even there. That was kinda aggravating. I ended up staying there for an hour and a half anyway to study and such since I had driven all the way there anyway. Tomorrow, I'm supposed to work, and then I have class... I think I'll actually go tomorrow night. Maybe since he wasn't there yesterday, he'll push back the test we were supposed to have on Monday... nah, I'm not that lucky. Anyway, I think that's about all I have to say for now...
7-14-02 11:56pm
My brother left for a week of boy scout camp today, so my house is blissfully quiet... I spent the majority of my day doing laundry and painting (either for my aunt's birthday or Christmas present, I'm painting a picture of her house for her and framing it), while my parents drove my brother down to Farmington, helped him set up his tent and such, and drove the two hours back home. I was supposed to see MIIB tonight, but somebody had to be a bum and decide that we weren't going (boo hiss... Pat, did I mention that you're a bum? j/k). Anyway, went out to dinner with my parents, came home, played the Sims, got online and talked to people and such, and that brings me up to the present. I may or may not have to work tomorrow... so we'll just have to see about that. I'm kinda bored right now. I don't feel like going to bed just yet, but all the people I was talking to are leaving me. Oh well... g'night.
7-13-02 11:48pm
Didn't do a whole lot today. Woke up, went up to the neighbor's house and fed their dogs and cat, then went to work. Work wasn't too bad... lots of shoplifters though. I bought a pair of jeans for $12 though, so that made me happy. Left work at 10, decided to get gas on the way home... big mistake. Everyone and their dog was getting gas at the gas station out by my house because everyone was leaving Six Flags. So, I had to wait in line for about 15 minutes before I could get gas. Then I came home, and that's about all for today. I think sometime soon (when I have the time and the motivation), I'm going to add a picture page to my site... so keep your eyes open for that soon.
7-13-02 1:22am
Yeah... so my birthday's over... definitely not one of my better birthdays. My mom barely even remembered that it was my birthday (after being confused about how old I was going to be anyway...), and my brother definitely didn't remember (but I didn't expect him to). I was supposed to go in to work at 2:15, but they called me and told me not to go in until 5. So, I worked from 5-10, came home, ate some ice cream cake (my mom had my dad pick one up on the way home from work), and messed around on my computer for a while. Anyway, I'm in a bad mood, and I'm tired, so g'night.
7-12-02 1:25am
Well, I am now 19 years old. It's kinda sad. My mom thought I was turning 20... my own mother didn't even know how old I was... Oh well... So, I ended up not working today... dropped some movies off at Blockbuster and went to Wal-Mart to pick up some stuff for my mom instead (which I've decided is I think tied with Wisconsin for being quite possibly the most exciting place on earth). Then I went in to Meramec to watch Jim's speech, picked up my brother's prescriptions at the doctor's office and went home. I was supposed to go to the Muny to see How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying with my mom tonight. However, she's been kinda sick lately, so I could tell that the only reason that she was going to go was because she felt bad about ditching me for the last one we were supposed to go to. So, I told her that if she didn't feel good, that I didn't want her sitting outside in the heat coughing up a lung throughout the entire performance just because she feels bad about ditching me. So, yeah, she didn't go. Jim and I ended up going (he had told me that he had never been to the Muny... to which, I think it's a crime to have lived in St. Louis all your life and to never have gone to the Muny... but that's just my opinion). So, we went... and about 20 minutes into the show, it started raining. (For those of you who may not be aware, the Muny is an outdoor theater) So, we stood around for about an hour while it rained and such. Eventually they started the show back up. It was pretty good. Before they actually started up again.... or maybe it was during intermission... I don't remember. Anyway, there's this thing that holds a bunch of the stage lights above the stage... well, actually kinda out above the audience... and there were these two raccoons that were walking across it... the entire section we were sitting in was looking up and pointing. It looked like they were about to jump on someone's head. It was quite amusing... but we couldn't figure out which was more entertaining... the raccoons themselves, or the people that were spazzing out in the row behind us. OH, another amusing event... I had brought an umbrella... and while we were waiting for the rain to stop, Jim was messing with it, and all of a sudden, the handle and part of the metal pole part of the umbrella flies off the umbrella and almost beams some woman in the head. Yeah, my umbrella is quite non-functional now. It was kinda funny though. I'm unbelievably sleepy right now, so I'm going to go to bed.
7-10-02 1:29am
P.S. Will someone leave me a damn message? This lack of messages is getting kind of depressing...
7-10-02 1:16am
It's really frustrating when you try to make someone see the truth about something, but they completely deny it and don't want to hear it. But, anyway... I went to class last night, and there were only 10 people there (and there are 22 people in the class). My professor wasn't lecturing or anything, so we were supposed to be working on our next lab, but being that I had a test tonight, I chose to study for it at class last night instead. So, I stayed for about an hour and a half and then came home. I called my friend Chris on the way home because I was supposed to be getting tickets for the John Mayer/Guster concert for myself, her, her friend, and two of her friend's friends. However, I had told her that I wouldn't put the tickets on my credit card until I had a check for the amount that they owed me in my hand. Well, Chris sent me her check, but her friend never did. So, I called Chris, and we decided that if her friend's check wasn't in the mailbox when I got home, that I would go ahead and just get two tickets... one for me and one for Chris. Now, however, none of us are going to the concert becuase there are no tickets available. So, I already dislike Chris's friend even though I've never met her, because that just annoys me. When I got home from class, I played the Sims for about 2 hours (I'm becoming addicted again)... and then I watched I am Sam. Today I watched Ocean's Eleven with my mom, and then it stormed a whole heck of a lot. Then I studied for my test a bit, went to class and took my test. I was the first one finished, which always makes me nervous, but oh well. Then me and Jim went out to our friend Dana's house. From there we (or rather Dana because Jim and I don't make decisions) decided to meet up with some other people at Steak n Shake (one that wasn't exactly close to Dana's house). So, we went there, ate, talked, and whatnot, went back to Dana's house and talked some more until Dana started falling asleep. Then Jim and I went outside to leave and ended up talking some more before going home. When I got home, I talked to my mom for a while (yeah, she was still up... reading a book), and then I came up to my room... and now I think I'm going to go to bed because I may or may not have to work tomorrow morning... Either way, I still have to get up... g'night.
7-9-02 3:22pm
Yesterday wasn't too terribly exciting. After I got up, I vacuumed the downstairs because we had company coming in the afternoon (they're still here... they're staying for a few days). Then I cleaned my room. By the time I was done with that, my relatives were here, so I talked with them a bit before heading up to my room and studying for my anatomy and physiology test that I had last night. Then, I ate dinner, went to class, probably failed my test, came home, played the Sims for a while, and went to bed. Today, I got up becuase I had to call Old Navy to see if I had to work today or not, which I didn't. I put together the new computer desk we got for the computer room (note: this is the second desk I have put together in the past few weeks), took apart the computer, moved the old desk, put the new one in its place, and re-set up the computer. It's great fun, but I'm getting paid for it again. Blah, I do NOT want to go to class tonight, but I think I need to get out of this habit of skipping class once a week. I don't think it's really working out for me so well. I have another test tomorrow night on the muscular system... fun and excitement. Anyway, that's all for now.
7-8-02 12:22am
So, today I worked... only from 9-2 though, which wasn't too terrible. I don't like working SUnday mornings though because I have to get there at 9, and the store doesn't open until 11. I had to clean the bathrooms this morning...yuck. Anyway, after work, I went home, taking a detour to stop at Wal-Mart to get a wallet because I didn't exactly have one prior to this afternoon. I went over to my friend Liz's house around 6:30 and me, her and two other people went down to the arch to see the fireworks and such, which was fun. When we got back to her house, I was tired, so I left and came back here, getting home by about 11:30 or so. Now, I'm incredibly tired... I think because I haven't been getting much sleep in the past 3 or 4 days or so, so I need to sleep... so I can study tomorrow... so I won't fail my test tomorrow night. ANyway, g'night.... and p.s. it's kinda sad that I haven't gotten any messages on the message board lately... hint hint...
7-7-02 2:26am
Just got back from seeing Minority Report not that long ago. Worked all day... I'm really tired right now, and I have to be at work again in 6 and a half hours... so g'night.
7-6-02 12:42am
For some reason, I did not fall asleep until 5:30 this morning, and then my mom called pretty early just to say hi, and then the neighbor kids called to see if we had any plastic cups because they wanted to set up a lemonade stand (they do that occasionally). So, I decided that going back to bed was useless. I ended up having to go in to work at 2:30. I need the money, but I really didn't feel like going in then... I would have much rather waiting until 6:15 when my shift was supposed to start. Oh well. I had to go through this new "denim training" thing today... blah... we have new flashers (the big tags on the pockets of jeans that tell you what style tye are) on our jeans, so we had to go through this training so we know all about the different fits and styles and whatnot, and we have to wear this lanyard around our necks with a card with all the fits and styles on it (so we can't possibly forget). OH, and not only that, but we had to TRY ON one pair of jeans from each fit category (or "camp" as they call them) so that we know firsthand how they fit so we can help customers. Not only that, but I didn't just have to try on women's jeans... but men's jeans as well. According to my manager, that way, if we're helping a guy find a pair of jeans, we know how they fit. That's a bunch of bull!! Guys jeans sure as hell are not going to fit me the same way they'll fit a guy. But oh well... I get 50% off a pair of jeans for filling out the damn thing. Anyway, so I got off work at 10:15, came home, and had to do laundry or else I wouldn't have anything to wear to work tomorrow. Now, since my clothes are clean, I'm going to go to bed because I'm absolutely exhausted.
7-5-02 12:23am
Happy 4th of July! Well, today started out pretty shitty, but it got better. When I went to bed last night (probably around 2:30 or so) I checked 3 times to make sure that my alarm clock was set because I had to leave my house by 8:30 this morning in order to get to work by 9. I woke up this morning thinking "hmm, it's rather light out... I wonder what time it is..." and I turned to my clock... and it was defintely 9:10. I jumped out of bed, screamed "shit", threw on some clothes, then realized that I should call work and tell them that I overslept. So yeah, I was over an hour late to work, which was great fun. Then, when I get there, they tell me that they ARE going to have me work until 5 instead of getting off at 2:15. That kind of annoyed me... until I was told that I was getting paid time and a half because it's a holiday, so I was making about $10. Then, I didn't mind so much. There were tons of people there today. What's the deal with that? who goes shopping at Old Navy on the 4th of July? Lots of shoplifters, that's who. Anyway, they had me back in the baby section, which was ungodly boring because it's only one little section, and once I had straightened everything and done the whole customer service thing to the people that were looking at the clothes, there was absolutely nothing to do. Went on my 15 minute break, came back... went back to babies... worked in the fitting room for a while. Went to Bread Co on my hour long break. It definitely went by a lot faster after my break. They actually had me doing stuff. Then there was this one woman who came up to me and asked me to help her pick out outfits for her two little daughters. I swear, I was with that woman for almost 45 minutes... she was so damn picky. Once I got off work at 5, I went out to my friend Jen's house (she was having a little 4th of July gathering), and we swam in her pool and whatnot. Then I came home, and now I'm tired and my feet hurt... don't feel like going to bed though. Oh well... this post is entirely too long already, so g'night.
7-3-02 11:26pm
I did a whole hell of a lot of nothing today. I slept in late. My family left to go to my grandma's farm for the weekend. I read a book. I didn't go to class... again, and now I'm preparing myself for a rather shitty weekend. I'm working tomorrow (until what time, I won't know until I get there), and then Friday night until 10:30 and then Saturday until 6:30 or 7:30. My cousin Bud, his girlfriend, and his two kids are coming to stay at my house on Monday. Don't know how long they'll be staying. My birthday's next Friday, but most likely, that'll be one of the two or three days they have me work next week. That's all for now.
7-2-02 11:27pm
I meant to mention last night... that on my way home, I had to brake for 4 different species of animal. Now, I'm used to almost running into deer on the way home, but last night, there were dear, raccoons, possums, and foxes. It was craziness. Anyway, so today wasn't too terribly exciting (not that most of my days are...). I decided to organize my closet because I couldn't find anything in it, and then I put together my brother's new computer desk (my family bought a new computer, and my brother gets the old one, so he had to get a desk... and my mom offered to pay me $50 to put the stupid thing together, so I'm like hey, why not?... basically she didn't want my dad putting it together, because he really sucks at putting stuff together). Anyway, so I did that, and managed to get several painful cuts in the process (I'm a klutz). Then I relocated the computer from the computer room to my brother's room and set up the new computer in the computer room. By the time I was done with that, it was time to take a shower, eat dinner, and go to class, which was boring as ever. He lectured for an hour and a half. Luckily, he decided to make our lab test on Monday instead of tomorrow, which made me very happy because that means I don't have to study tomorrow. Yay! Well, that's all for now.. adios.
7-2-02 1:40am
So, I was online last night, and I was about ready to post... when the electricity in my house decided to flicker, thus shutting my computer off. Then, the electricity continued to flicker, so I decided not to turn my computer back on. Yesterday was Sunday. I spent a good chunk of my day powerwashing our shed (my mom looked in to hiring a handyman to do it - we're repainting it - but he was going to charge her $500, so my mom decided that she'd rather pay me $500 than him, which is perfectly ok with me since I need the money). Anyway, so I was powerwashing the shed, and paint was flying everywhere... I looked pretty scary afterwards. Then, I turned around... and my car was speckled. Now, for those of you who don't know, my car is red... well, it was red with cream colored speckles all over it. I figured, not a big deal, I'll just powerwash the car. Well, the paint had apparently already had time to bake on to my car sitting out there in the sun, so was not exactly easy to get off. It was great fun, let me tell ya. After I was finished (for the day anyway), I went down to the pool for a while, and then later on that night, around 8 or so, my friend Liz came over and we talked and went swimming again and whatnot. Shortly after she left, I went to bed. So that was yesterday. Today, I got up and started studying for my A&P test that I had tonight. My studying kept getting interrupted (occasionally my own fault...). Let me just say that I do not think I did so well on the test this evening. It usually does not take me a very long time to take tests... maybe half an hour. Class started tonight at 7. I wasn't finished with the test unil 8:30. Oh well... we'll see. I have another test on Wednesday...blah. Anyway, afterwards, I met up with my friend Tim and we went to Steak 'n Shake. Then we met up with my friend Jim at Ronnie's and saw Sum of All Fears. I enjoyed that movie. It was pretty good. Anyway, now I'm home, and tired... but I don't feel like going to bed, but I won't make this post any longer than it already is...
6-30-02 12:29am
I'm in... well, I wouldn't really call it a bad mood... but not a good mood either... first I was thinking a depressed mood, but no, that's not quite it either... I don't know... but that's all I feel like typing tonight...
6-29-02 1:39am
Tonight I went with my friend Dana to the Cardinals baseball game. It was interesting, mainly because a lot of people went that I haven't seen in over a year. It was odd. I had fun though, even though I pretty much talked throughout the entire game. (I think that baseball has to be one of the most boring sports to watch ever... it's so slow paced.) Anyway, after that, Dana and I ended up going with Jim to the house where he's house sitting for a while and watching their doggies. Considering I fell asleep there before having to drive home, that's the end of this post because I'm going to bed. G'night!
6-28-02 12:55am
Yesterday... yesterday was Wednesday, right? Well, I got up yesterday and went to work. They had me working in the fitting room most of the day, to which actually, time goes by faster in the fitting room, so that wasn't so bad. After work, I came home, made myself dinner, watched some tv, and then decided that I didn't feel like going to class. I'm getting bad with that... Anyway, that's about all for yesterday. Today, I went out to lunch with two of my friends, Kelly and Chris at Tomatillo's in the Loop. After that, I stopped by Old Navy to pick up my schedule for next week. Yeah, they have me working about 17 hours next week... and they're on July 4, 5, and 6... fun... Oh well. Then I came home for a while before leaving to go to my friend Lara's house. She and I were going to the Muny to see Hooray for Hollywood, which is the Muny's medley for the year. It wasn't so great. I didn't know half the songs they sang, so that didn't help, but we got to see Lil' Dan!!!! Yay!!! Near the end, they definitely sang "My Heart Will Go On" from Titanic, and in the middle of the song, I swear an animal ran across the stage. It amsed me greatly. Anywho, now I'm tired, so I'm goin' to bed.
6-26-02 12:36am
This morning I got up around 9, threw some clothes in the washing machine (because I realized that if I did in fact have to work at 11, I wouldn't have a shirt to wear to work unless I did laundry), called Old Navy around 10, and oh, what a surprise... no, they didn't need me to come in to work today. Anyway, then I just kinda hung around my house until about 3:30 or so. I then randomly decided to leave to go buy watercolor paper (I took pictures of my aunt's house with my digital camera while I was there because I'm painting a picture of her house for her for Christmas... I don't know exactly what the deal is with people wanting pictures of their houses... my mom wants me to make her one too... oh well). Then, I stopped by Bread Co on the way home to pick up dinner. Came home, ate, got ready for class, and left again. Didn't want to whack myself in the head with a femur today.... I had moved on to the arm... so this time it was a tibia... I got out of class around 8:40, and then I went to Crestwood Mall to meet my friend Dana. We wandered around until our movie started at 9:35... we had decided to see The Devine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. I still haven't formulated an opinion on that movie yet... After that, I just came back home, and now I'm going to bed because I have to be at work at 9am tomorrow.
6-25-02 12:30am
Well, I forgot to post yesterday... oops. All I did yesterday was work from 9-1, and then I took a nap, and then I watched some crappy movies on the hallmark channel. That's about it. Today, I got up, did some laundry at my aunt's house, vacuumed a little bit becuase the floor was disgustingly dusty, did the dishes, and then my little cousin Theresa scared the crap out of me by barging in the door. My aunt had said they wouldn't be home until late, and there they were, barging through the door at 3 this afternoon. So, I left and came home, ate dinner here, and went to class. We were doing lab the entire time, which is basically just looking at models of bones and memorizing all the little bumps and indentations on them and their names. I swear, I wanted to whack myself in the head with a femur. Then I met up with my friend Jim and we went to a Taco Bell/Pizza Hut (which we both found to be an odd combination)... and then we just wandered around in my car for a while (for lack of anything better to do) and then I came back home. The end.
6-23-02 1:34am
Well, I went in to work again today. I was supposed to work from 1:30-10:30. They stuck me in men's for a good chunk of my shift, which was really boring... even more so than working in women's. Then, at 3:30, they told me I had to take one of my two fifteen minute breaks... only problem being, I was going on my meal break (which is an hour long) at 4. So, it was all rather pointless. Anyway, on break, me and this girl named Miranda went over to Bread Co and brought back dinner. Then I went back out, worked in the fitting room for a while, which wasn't nearly as boring as working on the floor. Hopefully I'll get trained on register sometime soon, because that at least doesn't seem boring. Anyway, so around 7:15, the manager tells me that she's sending me home, which is a bunch of bullshit. If she was going to send me home then, why did she make me take an hour long break? So, I worked for less than 5 hours today.. combine that with the 5 I worked last night and the 2 I worked on Tuesday... that's not a whole heck of a lot. Blah. I need a second job... but no one will hire me now. Oh well... However, getting off early tonight wasn't entirely bad. I went over to my friend Brian's house for his birthday get-together. It was fun, and I got to see quite a few people that I hadn't seen since school got out. So, I just got home from his house not that long ago. Oh, and when I got back to my aunt's house, I realized that I had forgotten to close the garage door (and the door that went into the house... yeah, I left it unlocked)... I'm so smart... Anyway, I have to work again at 9 tomorrow morning. I'm only scheduled for 4 hours tomorrow. I'm supposed to be off at 1, however, knowing my luck, they'll send me home at 11. Anyway, I need sleep, so g'night.
6-21-02 10:30pm
I just got home from work not that long ago. At least they didn't send me home after two hours again, however, it was rather boring. I was basically just wandering around the women's side of the store all night straightening stuff, and helping customers. There's only so many times that you can fold and refold the same shirt before it gets a bit old. It wasn't too bad, but the time seemed to go by rather slow. I'm definitely thinking that I'm going to have to get a second job though. I'm only scheduled for 10 hours next week. Of course, it's going to be a bit hard to find a second job now, especially since I'd have to quit in the beginning of August (I'm going on vacation, and then a couple days after I get back, I move back to school). So, I really doubt that anyone else will hire me when realistically, I'd only be working for them for a month. Oh well... I guess I'll just have to work on not spending money once school starts. Anyway, I'm kinda tired... not "I want to go to bed" tired, but "I feel like collapsing on the couch and watching tv" tired.... so that's exactly what I'm going to do... I have another fun day of work ahead of me tomorrow... from 1:30-10:30, and then I work again on Sunday morning... fun stuff... anyway, g'night.
6-20-02 10:24pm
Well, I'm in a really bad mood right now, so forgive me if this post makes me sound like a bitch. Most of today wasn't too bad. I got up at 8 this morning (blah) because my mom and I had to go to our ever so wonderful weight watchers meeting. I'm sorry... I like the program, but those meetings are quite possibly the dumbest thing I have ever attended. The woman who leads them drives me nuts. She's trying to be all motivational and whatnot, but she really just succeeds in making me want to kick her in the head. However, I did lose 5 pounds in just one week, which was rather surprising. Then I went to the mall with my mom, and I bought some new clothes (not that I needed any... but I decided a few weeks ago that I dislike almost all of my sleeveless shirts), or rather, my mom bought me some new clothes... but I told her that they could be part of my birthday present. Then I went out to lunch with my crazy friend Pat and two of his crazy friends (they amused me greatly). Then we just kinda "meandered" around for a while. Then I left to go pick up my brother at his hunter education class (it frightens me that my 12 year old brother will have a temporary license to use a firearm...). Anyway, my mom came and picked him up from my aunt's house. Then I called a friend of mine that I was "supposed" to do something with tonight, however, I pretty much got blown off. I called about 4 other people too in an attempt to get out of my aunt's house (becuase I'm not a big fan of sitting here by myself watching tv at night.... I have now seen 5 different episodes of "Whose Line is it Anyway" this evening...) ANyway, all the people I called had some excuse as to why they couldn't do anything, and I'm working until 10:30pm tomorrow night and Saturday night, and who the hell knows if I'm working Sunday yet. And now, as sad as this sounds... you'll have to excuse me because I'm going to go watch "The Newlywed Game" on the Gameshow Network.... yeah... that's my excitement for the evening... grrrr
6-19-02 11:15pm
I would just like to say to the world... that I ENJOY MELBA TOAST! So don't mock the melba toast... Anywho, so I almost fell asleep twice during anatomy and physiology tonight... and there are ants at my aunt's house (hehe.. that sentence amuses me)...
6-19-02 3:49pm
Well, if every day I work ends up being like today, I may have to find myself a second job. I was supposed to work from 11-4:30 today. So, I get in at 11, and then the manager on duty (Marie) tells me that sales aren't so good today so they had to cut back on hours. Therefore, I was sent home at 1 this afternoon. So, that pretty much sucks, especially since I only had 18 hours this week to begin with. Hopefully Friday won't be a repeat of today. I have to work from 5-10:30 Friday night...
6-19-02 12:34am
So yeah, I'm still working on that whole patience thing... Anyway, my car's all better now (yay!). My mom called at 6:30 this morning telling me that my dad was coming by in about 20 minutes before work to see if he could figure out what was wrong with it. So, he comes over, decides that it's the battery. So he takes the battery with him to work. Then, he comes back on his lunch break with a new battery and puts that in my car, and poof, it works again. Yay! So I ended up going over to a friend's house for a barbeque, knowing that I had to leave at 6:30 to make it to class by 7. However, due to the bad influence of her friends, Katie did not attend class this evening. But shhhhh, my mom doesn't know that, and I swear that woman has spies everywhere. She knows whenever I do something the slightest bit wrong (and I don't do anything bad really). Anyway, I didn't leave my friend's house until a little after midnight. Tomorrow, I start my first day of work. I'm slightly nervous about it simply because I do not know what the hell I'm doing. You'd think after working in retail for 3 years, I'd be ok with this, but at training, they didn't really tell me anything. All that consisted of was filling out paperwork, watching the safety and loss prevention videos, and taking a tour of the store. I don't feel trained at anything... so it should be interesting... Anyway, I'm sleepy, and I have work and class tomorrow (which I'm not skipping this time), so I'm going to go to bed. G'night.
6-17-02 9:08pm
Well, today was a great day (much sarcasm intended). Actually, it wasn't too terrible until about 6:30 this evening. I spent most of my day studying for my anatomy and physiology test that I had tonight. Everything was fine... I took a nap from about 5:30-6:15, and then got ready to leave. I went out to my car around 6:30, and my car decided that it didn't want to start. I turned the key... nothing... occasionally got a few clicks, but that's about it. So, I called my mom, and she drove to my aunt's house to pick me up... took her about 25 minutes to get here. So, I walked in to my first A&P test about 20 minutes late. They were on question number 10 of the lab test (he put 10 different overheads on the board and we had to identify the different types of tissues...). Luckily, he was nice and went back through all of them a second time for me. I only missed one on the lab test. Then I took the lecture test, which wasn't particularly hard, but my brain still felt fried afterwards. Luckily, my professor changed his mind about lecturing after the test, so we could leave as soon as we were done. I had called my friend Jim (whose class gets out at relatively the same time as mine) to see if he could give me a ride back to my aunt's house since I had no mode of transportation. So that's how I got back here. Now I'm just sitting here twiddling my thumbs and wondering how much a ne car battery is gonna cost me... but, my friend Liz is coming over to twiddle her thumbs with me, so I won't be bored out of my mind.
6-17-02 12:36am
Patience... patience is a good thing... I am not a very patient person... I need to work on that... ANYWAY... so, today I woke up, got ready and left my aunt's house to go to my own house for Father's Day. We gave my dad his presents (mainly a cell phone), and then we all went out to the pool for a good chunk of the day. Of course, the pool pump decided to die today, so now we have to buy a new one... but oh well. I ate dinner at home, and then stayed there until almost 10. Then I drove back to my aunt's house, and I've just kind of been migrating from the tv to the computer since I got here. Can't sleep. Too much on my mind. Haven't studied for anatomy and physiology yet... but that's what tomorrow's for. Migrating back to the tv now... g'night...
6-16-02 1:34
Don't you hate that time between the time you do something and the time when you find out someone's reaction to what you did? I hate that time... becuase that's when I wonder repeatedly whether or not I should have done what I did. (no, I did nothing bad or criminal or any such nonsense... unless being honest with someone's a crime). But anyway, enough about that... Today I woke up around 8am (on the couch again... definitely need to sleep in a bed tonight)... but I was still tired, so I went upstairs and went to sleep again until 11 when my mom called. I just kinda hung around my aunt's house until around 4 when I left to go to my grandma's house. A bunch of people were going over there for dinner (it's like a weekly ritual in my family)... anyway, after dinner, I went to see The Bourne Identity at the Galleria... good movie... slightly confusing at the end, but very good movie. But that's about all for tonight... I have to get up relatively early in order to get some stuff done in the morning and get out to my house for Father's Day. So, g'night...
6-15-02 1:55am
Well, as you can see, it's 1:55am... and I am not the slightest bit tired. Last night I slept on the couch in my aunt's basement. The bedroom that I've been sleeping in is insanely quiet, and I'm used to falling asleep with the tv on at home... however, their couch is not all that comfortable to sleep on, so I don't think I'll sleep down there again if I can help it. So, I woke up this morning... think I heard the tv say something about the 6am news... so I went back to sleep... next thing I knew, it was 11. So, being that I didn't really have much on the agenda for today, I watched a movie. Some guy came over and mowed my aunt's lawn today. She told me that he was going to do that... she didn't mention how hot this guy is though... let me just say that I'm glad my aunt's living room has lots of windows... Anyway, my friend Dana came over around 6 and we just talked and watched random things on tv until about 10:30-ish or 11. Then we left and went to a pool hall and met up with these two guys and played pool for a couple of hours. It was fun. I don't suck nearly as much as I thought I did. I just got back about 15 minutes ago or so. That's all for tonight... definitely need to do some studying for anatomy and physiology tomorrow...I've got two tests on Monday (of course, I'll probably just end up studying on Monday... about an hour before I take the tests...) Oh well...
6-13-02 9:06pm
Today wasn't very exciting. Stayed at my aunt's house until about 2:30 or so. Then I left and picked up my schedule at Old Navy. I don't actually start working until Wednesday, and I only have 18 hours next week, which is a bit disappointing, but oh well... at least it's a job. Then I came home (home home... not aunt's house home). I told my mom that I'd be home for dinner (but of course she forgot...). Anyway, so now I'm still here at home. I'm waiting on some laundry before I head back over to my aunt's house...OH!!! ...In response to "Lucas's" post on my message board... if I remember correcly, you had wanted me to have you fall off the roof (not the deck)... but Lara and I nixxed that idea because it would have been too difficult to film... you never said anything about "jumping" off the roof, you specifically said "falling" (note: for those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about... when Lara and I were about halfway through writing the horror movie, "Lucas" told me that he no longer wanted to be in the movie, so we should kill him off..."can't I just fall off the roof or something?" were the words used I think...)
6-12-02 10:47pm
Hi... well let's see... what did I do today... well my mom came and picked me up at my aunt's house at 10am, and we went and joined Weight Watchers, because let's face it, Katie needs to lose some weight. Then, we went and picked my brother up (whom we had left wandering around Best Buy for about an hour... he thought he was the coolest 12 year old on the planet, being left at Best Buy with his mom's cell phone... it was amusing). Then we went out to lunch because my brother was hungry... (really kinda killed the whole "watch what you eat" thing for today...) Then we went to a Cingular Wireless place because we decided to get my dad a cell phone for Father's Day. (not that he wants one... because he doesn't want anything that causes our family to spend money if we don't absolutely need it, and even then he complains about it... but the other day he was like "well, I guess I'll have to get a cell phone now because pay phones are getting hard to find"... so that's what he's getting). We were there FOREVER... because the guy kept having to call Texas for confirmation numbers and credit checks and such, and apparently their computers were down. Eventually, my mom took me back to my aunt's house, and then I did a bit of nothing before I had to go to class at 7pm. Class is supposed to get out at 9:50. I was definitely out of ther by 8pm tonight. It was great. So, then I came back here to my aunt's house and discovered her old Cor Jesu yearbooks... so those entertained me for quite some time (for those of you who don't know, Cor Jesu is where I went to high school... my aunt graduated from there in 1982). Now, i'm sitting here at my aunt's computer, still being bored... contemplating the thought of either A) going to bed (although it's a bit early for that)...B)watching tv or a movie (there's not much on tv, and the only movies at my aunt's house are mainly Disney movies because she has 3 kids... and I'm not exactly in the mood for Disney... or C) studying for my anatomy and physiology tests that I have on Monday.... I *should* do the last one (because I know if I don't do it now, I'll be doing it on Monday about an hour before class starts...). Anyway, that's all I've got for now. Ttyl.
6-11-02 5:17pm
Well, I had training today at Old Navy... it doesn't seem like it'll be that bad of a place to work. I won't actually start working until this Sunday or so because they already have the schedule done for this week, but that's alright. Class last night was incredibly boring. The guy who teaches it gives us typed up notes of his lectures, and then basically just sits there reading his notes to us during class. It's a waste of time really. He gave us the option of getting to lab tonight at 6pm instead of 7pm, which I might do just so I can leave early. That would be nice. We got out about an hour early last night too, so that was also good. I really don't feel like sitting through that class again, which is bad considering I've only had one class so far. Oh well. I have two tests on Monday. However, I'm not really too concerned about this class mainly because I only have to get a C or higher in it in order for the credits to transfer to SLU, and a 65% is a C in that class... so I don't think it'll be an issue. Anyway, I'm going to grab something to eat before I leave for class.
6-10-02 3:06pm
I HAVE A JOB!!!!! YAY!!! I finally got a hold of the lady at Old Navy, and she offered me a job. I have training tomorrow from 1-4pm. I'm starting out making $6.75, which isn't too bad considering most places start you out at $5.50 (I'm not saying it's great, but hey, money is money). Anyway, that's all I have to say... gotta go take a shower now... wanna join me? (wink wink)
6-10-02 1:17am
I could have sworn that about a minute ago, the clock said 1:18... Anyway... woo-hoo!! My aunt's internet connection works well enough for my purposes. Strangely enough, I found myself back at Swing Around Fun Town tonight. I went mini golfing with some high school friends. Then they came over to my aunt's hosue and we watched The Princess Bride... Great movie! Very fun to quote. However, the song at the end really really really sucks... a lot. Blah... I keep thinking I hear things in this house, but I don't... well, I do, but my mind is playing tricks on me... When I was upstairs, it sounded like there was someone walking around downstairs, even though there wasn't. Being here by myself kinda freaks me out. I'm ok in my own house, but other people's houses weird me out a little... Anyway, my mom's picking me up at 9am tomorrow... or rather today, considering that's in about 7 and a half hours. SO, I should go to bed.... because I'm quite sleepy. G'night.
6-9-02 2:28pm
Well, another uneventful day has begun. I really need to get out of this habit of sleeping until 11am. I feel really lazy... perhaps that's because lately, I have been lazy. Oh well. I called Old Navy back today, but the person I needed to talk to doesn't work today, so grrrrr. My class starts tomorrow, which sadly enough, I'm actually somewhat looking forward to going. At least then, I'll have something to occupy my time with (granted, anatomy and physiology is not exactly my ideal way of occupying my time... but oh well). I don't really know how often this page will be updated in the next few weeks. I think I already mentioned this, but I'll be staying at my aunt's house until June 24th, and in the words of my aunt "the computer is pretty much a piece of junk, but help yourself to it".... so we'll see how well the internet capabilities work for me... I think perhaps I'll go down to the pool for a while now, so that I can waste more of my time getting a tan and promoting skin cancer (yay). Talk to y'all later.
6-8-02 11:18pm
Another unexciting day for Katie. I woke up, vacuumed the pool, went swimming for a couple hours. My friend Dana came over, and she came with me and my brother out to dinner at Cracker Barrel and then to my aunt and uncle's house to feed the fish and such. After that, we went to Swing Around Fun Town and did mini golf and bumper boats. My brother rode the go-karts. I refused to... because the one time that I actually did ride a go-kart, when it came time to stop, my brakes decided not to work, so I ended up ramming my car into the car in front of me, and I got yelled at by the workers... even though it's not my fault that the brakes didn't work. Oh well. My parents went out tonight for their anniversary, so I was in charge of entertaining my brother for the evening. Old Navy finally called... but I wasn't home. The lady told me to call back between 7 and 8 tonight... which is really helpful considering I didn't get home until after 10pm. Oh well, I guess I'll call her back tomorrow. I think that's all I have for tonight. Starting tomorrow, it'll probably be easier to get a hold of me on my cell phone and not at home. Most likely, I'll be at my aunt and uncle's house in Fenton a lot. Hopefully I'll be working relatively soon too... because I desperately need some sort of income. Anyway, g'night.
6-8-02 1:46am
Well, apparently, the post that I typed out earlier didn't exactly get posted for whatever reason... not that it matters considering that nothing of exciting nature happened today. Old Navy didn't call me... grrrr.... I think I'm going to call them tomorrow, because if they're not hiring me, I need to look elsewhere. I have now watched three movies today, simply because of sheer boredom. I helped my mom with some stuff outside for a while, and my brother had a friend over, but other than that, another wasted day in the life of Katie. I really need to get out of this slump or whatever that I'm in. It's driving me nuts, and it's not exactly putting me in the best of moods... Well, it's late, and I'm cranky. G'night.
6-6-02 11:13pm
Today was COMPLETELY unproductive... but that's ok, because it was quite enjoyable. My friend Annie came over this afternoon, and we had an "Anne of Green Gables" movie marathon. Don't laugh at me... these are great movies!!! Ask Annie!! I got her hooked. During school, she had told me that she had never seen "Anne of Green Gables", so I told her that over the summer, she had to come out to my house to watch it as well as "Anne of Avonlea"... each of these movies is two videotapes long.... so we were watching these movies for over six hours. It was great fun!! She just left around 10 till 11 or so. Now I'm back to being bored. Hopefully I'll hear from Old Navy tomorrow about my possible employment. Blah... I do NOT feel like starting classes on Monday. Learning about Anatomy and Physiology three nights a week just does not sound appealing right about now....
6-5-02 9:10pm
I almost forgot! I got an email request for a message board on my page... so there's now a message board (refer to the "leave me a message" link above). Drop me a line and let me know what's up!
6-5-02 9:05pm
Well, I had my job interview at Old Navy today. I think it went pretty well. From the way the lady was talking, it seems like I basically have the job (but I could be wrong). She just has to call one of my former employers for a reference. I'm supposed to hear from her by Friday. So keep your fingers crossed (because I really need a job). Before I went to my interview, I stopped by my aunt's house to pick up a key to her house (I'm house sitting from June 8th to the 24th) and her dog jumped all over me as soon as I walked in the door... always nice to have dog hair on your black pants when going to a job interview. Oh well. Anyway, that's all for now. I'm not in the best of moods right now.... I think just because I have a lot on my mind... oh well, it'll all work itself out in the end...
6-4-02 7:57pm
Well, I had this post typed already, but somebody (aka my younger brother) decided to try to call his friend while I was on the internet, thus kicking me off before I could save my changes to this page. Anyway, not much to say about today. I found out this morning that my mom was coming home today instead of Wednesday, so I had a lot of work to do around the house before she got home. Finally got a call for a job interview today... at Old Navy. It's tomorrow at 2pm. Not the most ideal employment opportunity, but I don't think it'd be too bad. Went out to dinner with my family, and now I'm just kinda sittin' around/cleaning my room and such... Nothing too exciting...
6-4-02 1:15am
Well, today (or this evening rather) ended up not being quite so boring as the rest of my days lately have been. I spent my day doing some sitting around and doing nothing for a while (surprise, surprise)... then I decided to do something productive, I vacuumed the kitchen floor (fun and excitement). I should have done more housework-ish stuff... becuause now I have to do everything tomorrow before my mom gets home on Wednesday and yells at me becuase the house is a mess and the laundry isn't done...
Anyway, this afternoon, I was trying to figure out what I was going to do. My mom and my brother are out of town, and my dad was going to the hospital after work to visit a friend and wasn't going to be home until late, and I was tired of sitting here in my house. So, around 4 or so, I left and impulsively got all of my hair chopped off... well, not "all" in the literal sense (as I was corrected by an anonymous friend...). So, that's going to take some getting used to. When I got home, and was tryin to decide what to do for dinner, when my friend Lara calls and asks me to go to the Shakespeare Festival in Forest Park. So, of course, I go. It was great fun... sitting on blankets while watching people perform "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Great fun! Then, what night is complete without stopping at Steak 'n Shake? So, we hung out there for a while, and then I came home... to which, my dad had left all of the lights on inside the house... but did he leave the porch light on? Of course not... Finding the right key in the dark is fun! G'night!
6-3-02
Well, boredom has hit again. Probably due somewhat to the fact that I've been out of school for almost a month now, and I still have yet to find a job. Don't get me wrong, I've been trying. I've turned in 6 applications, and I have 3 more ready to turn in tomorrow, but I haven't heard back from anybody yet, so that kinda sucks. Don't think that I've been spending ALL of my time sitting here at my house though...
May 21, I think it was, I left to go to a national conference in Minnesota. Basically, you go there, there's a ton of other people from all over the country (and Canada)...around 2600 this time I think, you go to different programs to learn stuff to bring back to your school, but you have tons of fun in the process (and frequently lose your voice). It was lots of fun though... somewhat terrifying (realizing how much work we're gonna have to do in the next two years if we want to host the conference in 2004)... but great fun!
Once I got back, I had to go around turning in job applications and chauffering my mom and my brother around (my mom had her gall bladder removed a couple weeks ago... she's fine... she just wasn't allowed to drive until a day or two ago). This past Thursday, I saw quite possibly THE stupidest movie I have ever seen. Most definitely the stupidest movie I have ever paid money to see in a theater. Which movie you ask? Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron.... bad, bad movie... I was meeting a group of friends at the theater, and we were supposed to see Insomnia (which I actually wanted to see... and still do..)... so I got there, bought my ticket, met my friends inside... when one of them tells me... "oh, we're not seeing Insomnia anymore, we're seeing Spirit... the horse movie" Why? Because she likes talking animals.... although in every preview I had seen for the movie, the horses never said a word... So, I had to go back to the ticket window and ask the girl to exchange my ticket for Insomnia for a ticket for Spirit.... got the strangest look from that girl... and for good reason... So, we went and saw Spirit (and the animals didn't talk by the way... you had to guess what their "neigh's" meant...) It was basically like watching some cartoon horses while listening to a Bryan Adams CD (he did all the music... and since the horses didn't talk, they had to fill the silence with something, so he sang A LOT)... It was not an enjoyable movie...
This weekend has been pretty boring. Went and saw Star Wars for a second time Friday night. Saturday, I did a whole lot of sitting around doing nothing... decided to rearrange my room at one point... that was fun... I didn't realize my furniture was quite that heavy... Today, my dad woke me up at 10am to go outside and help him open our pool. Well, in our attempt to get the pool cover off (which had quite a bit of water on top of it), we accidentally dumped a bunch of the water into the pool... including the 50 million baby tadpoles that were apparently living in the water on top of the cover... Then, I cleaned the deck, the walls around the deck, the pool cover, and the water bags that hold down the pool cover. Let me just say, that being outside in the hot sun and 94 degree heat in a swimsuit for 6 hours with no sunscreen is not the most intelligent thing that one can do... So, right now, I'm very tired, bored, sunburned, and still unemployed... So that's the update of my summer so far... G'night!
5-18-02
I'm bored right now... Hence the creation of this page, if you can call it that.
I'm having loads of fun trying to remember the html I learned last year in computer
class, but it's obviously coming back somewhat if you can read this, right?
Anyway, so far, my summer has been pretty low-key (translation: boring). I've been doing
quite a bit of sitting around watching TV and sleeping. I mean, I've done stuff, but nothing
too terribly exciting. I went swimming at my roommate's house, went to my little cousin's
roller skating birthday party (woo-hoo), went to the mall twice (to shop for my mom because
Mother's Day and her birthday are only a week apart), picked up job applications (didn't turn
any of them in yet though), went to Meramec Community College to buy my book for Anatomy and
Physiology... the damn thing cost almost as much as the class.... grrr, saw Spiderman (again),
and went bowling. I think that about brings me up to yesterday. Today and yesterday have not
exactly been pleasant days. Yesterday morning, my mom had her gall bladder removed. That went
well, thankfully, and she came home from the hospital this afternoon. So, since my mom and dad
had to get to the hospital really early yesterday morning, I had to get up and drive my brother
to school by 7am. This wasn't such a big deal because I had to be at SLU to sing at the
baccalaureate mass at 7:45 anyway. However, I only got 4 hours of sleep that night. Anyway,
I drove down to SLU... it was kinda raining, but not too bad. I sang at the Mass thingy, and then
Annie and I went to breakfast at IHOP...yum. After that, I drove back home. Keep in mind here,
my home is 40 minutes away from SLU. So, I get home, and there's a message on my answering
machine from Donna, one of my advisors for the conference I'm going to this week (which I'm sure
you'll hear about later). So, I called Donna back, and it ended up that I had to drive all the
way BACK to SLU to pick up the purchase order for the stuff I had to buy for the banner I have to
make for the conference. So, I drove back to SLU, this time in the pouring rain... and was very
thankful that I had spent lots of money a couple days ago getting new tires. When I finally got
home (to stay), I decided that there was no way I was getting back in my car that night considering
I had been in the car for almost 3 hours that day. So, I stayed home last night, which was probably
a good thing because I've been sick for most of this week.... which brings me to all the fun I had
today....
So, my cell phone rings this morning at 8:30 (I hadn't even realized that I had left it on all night).
It was my mom, calling from the hospital... because apparently my dad was on the internet, and since
they don't make DSL for the middle of nowhere yet, I'm stuck with a crappy dial-up connection with
one phone line. That was the beginning of the phone calls. I was on the phone ALL morning. I decided
that I really was quite sick, and that I think I have strep throat. So, my mom told me to call my doctor
because if I do have strep throat, it probably wouldn't be so good if she got it from me after she just
had surgery. Slight problem with calling the doctor... A) My mom just switched me to this doctor
from my pediatrician, and I've never met him... B) My doctor is out of town... C) The office is apparently
closed on Saturdays, so I had to call the "exchange" and leave a message for some doctor that isn't even
mine to call me back. Oh, and the first time I called, the lady I was leaving my number with accidentally
hung up on me, so I had to call back. (why is this such an issue, you ask? becuase I have a phone phobia..
I hate calling people on the phone that I don't know... it's really bizarre... I used to have problems
calling pizza places, but I've gotten used to that now...). So, the doctor finally calls me... and says
that he's going to call in a prescription for some antibiotics to my pharmacy... only problem is, I
don't know my pharmacy's number, and I was too out of it to think of where to look for it (I'm an idiot,
I realize this). So, I had to hang up with the doctor, call my parents at the hospital, find the number for
the pharmacy, call the pharmacy, and have the pharmacy call the doctor on the exchange and get a
hold of him the same way I did. BLAH! So, a little while later, I called the pharmacy back to see if my
prescription had been filled. They said that it was, so on my way to go buy the stuff for the afore-mentioned
banner, I stopped at Wal-Mart to pick up my prescription. I get there, and there are people
pouring out of the doors of Wal-Mart and leaving. Why? Oh yes.. the power was out in Wal-Mart. So, I
went in anyway to see if I could still get my prescription...it's weird being in Wal-Mart with no
lights on... Anyway, the stupid guy said that they couldn't give me my prescription because the register
wasn't working. HELLO?! Whatever happened to a back-up plan, like say, pencil, paper, and a calculator
maybe! They already had it done. ALl they had to do was hand me the little bag, and I would have
handed them some money. How hard could that have been? But NO, they wouldn't give it to me. So, I
called my parents from the parking lot (who were on their way home by this time), and my dad said
that he'd go in and talk to the pharmacy people. Then, I realized that power was out in the entire "city"
(if you can call it that) of Eureka. None of the street lights were working... nothing. Then, the girl
I was meeting to buy the stuff with me called and told me she was going to be late. "Oh great... just what I
needed now." Well, she ended up not being that late, we bought the stuff, and I went back home. Meanwhile, my mom
had been on the phone with the doctor again getting him to call the prescription in to a different pharmacy. My dad went
and picked it up. I took some, and then slept until dinner. I've been working on the banner ever since, until I
came in here and had to fix my computer... because for the 4th time, it decided to think that I
don't have a hard drive... it's very finicky like that. Anyway, here I am, ramblin on about my past two days.
Tomorrow is my mom's birthday. I thought my brother and I got her a really nice present... a new watch.. it's what she
wanted... but then I found out that my dad bought her the same thing... so, we're just going to give her them
both and she can just pick which one she likes better and take the other one back. What's with that? My dad NEVER goes
shopping until the day before he needs the present.. he had the watch 2 days ago... argh... Well, that's all for tonight.
G'night!
