mondays

got to love it when your first class of the day is at 8:30 in the morning and you have to sit through the end of a movie about a girl becoming a suicide bomber. happily the chick chooses to not kill herself, but gesh... it really kills ones mood for the morning. or maybe it's just me. who knows. admittedly last week when we watched the beginning of the movie, everyone left the classroom really quietly and rather depressively. so i'm not the only one who felt a little weird about the timing of the movie.

the weekend was mostly relaxing, but for some reason i still feel tired. at some point, i'm eventually going to get around to making my bed. i've been sleeping on the couch (which pulls out into a full twin bed) since i moved back to school this semester and just haven't gotten around to making my bed. although the darn thing is over six feet in the air so that may have a bit to do with why i haven't gotten around to making it. plus with everything else going on in my life and the fact that most nights i come home and either eat dinner then go to bed or just go straight to bed, sleeping on the couch is seriously convient. but my brother is coming to visit in about two weeks so i should really get the bed made and wash all the couch blankets.

in other news, i finally got the proofs back from my senior yearbook pictures. the school goes through some strange studio that comes to campus to take the pictures and then they mail them to you. well after much hasseling and phone calls, my parents finally got the proofs saturday. from what i saw of the scans my dad made, they turned out pretty decent. a couple have rather goofy grins and in one my nose is all scrunched up for some weird reason. the studio also likes to take a picture of the student in cap and gown, which is a tad surreal to look at. i mean, i know i'm graduating in a couple months, but pictures like that seem to make it that much more of a certainty. the pictures also make my hair look really red and made my eyes look kind of green in a couple of them. i have blue eyes naturally and well my hair color is still up for debate. i've never dyed it, but no one can ever make up their mind what color it really is. i inherited by father's hair color and well..he says it's more dark blond, my mom says it's brown with blond and red highlights, and well i refer to myself as a brunette just to simplify matters. plus they don't like to put more than one word on your drivers license.

anyway, i've got a busy week ahead filled with meetings, a career fair, and lord only knows what else. will indie survive the week?? tune in next time, for further adventures...

writing my butt off

i've succeeded in writing four papers this week. it's been ridiculous. of the four, three were for my class with the retired professor. for some reason he seems to enjoy having to grade lots of undergraduate papers as part of his retirement. i think he's a little bit nutty myself, but i'm just a student who would rather get out of excessive busy work when possible. however, i did write and turn in early the paper due on sunday so that's one less thing i have to do this weekend. i might even be able to go goof off with my little sister and read something that isn't a textbook for one of my classes. had to narrow the definition there because i tend to read a lot of nonfiction, of which some could be used as textbooks. i know i'm a strange kid. i think i only have 30-40 books from the library living me with me currently. although i'm not real sure on that one, i haven't counted lately.

oh my goodness...

oh my goodness...

i got linked by Ith. holy cow... i'm so honored...

as for an explanation of my unofficial major: well when it came time to create a real resume and apply for jobs, my dad (The Thomas) and i were trying to come up with a way to describe the variety of classes and majors i've been apart of and an unofficial major of indiana jones really fits the bill.

i almost bought the hat and whip the last time i went to disney world, but my mom was worried about taking the whip back on the plane and scaring the baggage security people. although that was before 9/11 so heaven only knows how they would have responded to it. hmmm can't say i would be adverse to receiving them as graduation gifts though.. hint hint to family members...

more 24

wow this last week's episode was absolutely nuts. i'm totally calling this season. i called wingnut and assassin last week and told them that i thought it was going to be georgian terrorists and they had found sarin gas. oh i was sooo right. yay me!!

sarahk's got the round up for this week's cool quotes and commentary.

rhetorical questions

is it wrong to do the happy dance when you find out that the last guy you dated now has a new girlfriend? is this wrong psychologically or just strange?

because i totally did a huge happy dance when i found it out this morning. i'm happy partly because now he definitely isn't moping about me ending the relationship, and because he is happy. we used to be extremely good friends and then tried to date over the summer. a lot of the things we could tolerate in each other as friends didn't carry over very well in a relationship. plus he was smoking more and more and i refuse to ever be in a serious relationship with anyone who smokes. gag. anyway, i'm very happy for him and wish him the best. i really hope this works out well for him, he deserves a good girl.

24 premiere party

my friend wingnut had a premiere party last night to celebrate this season's premiere of 24. we all had a ton of fun. i ended up driving up with a girl who lives up at school in the same building which was an interesting experience. wingnut had had a big crush on her his last year at school, but nothing really came of it. well i got to spend an entire car ride up to wingnut's house with her pumping me for information about him and trying to find out my position in our group of friends. she's known me for over a year and she still doesn't seem to realize how i fit into the group. just because the group is made up of a bunch of guys, me, and then their wives and girlfriends, does not mean that i'm some sort of weird obstacle in her attempts to get at my friend. good grief.

anyway, the party was a blast. got to watch 4 or 5 episodes from last season to build up the suspense before the premiere. also got to see two of my friends and their wives, since they have all graduated and now have real jobs, who i haven't seen in quite a while. kind of funny to realize how many of my friends are now married or in committed relationships and i'm still the lone single, but it's cool. i like my current relationship status. i also got to meet the new girl in wingnut's life. she's really great. she even brought cookies over. good cookies too.

the 24 premiere was sweet!! sarahk says it best with her post here and we all totally got annoyed by this, but we survived. it was a great premiere. four hours of fantastic television. only downside to the whole thing was my stupid ra decided to have a floor meeting tonight at 8pm when 24 started. what idiot schedules a meeting during somethign as important as this.

eh, well now i've got to try and pay the ticket i got for leaving my car at a meter overnight. stupid city ordinances. just cause a gal doesn't want to walk from a dark, scary parking lot late at night she doesn't deserve a ticket. heck the weekend before classes started some girl got kidnapped by a sex offender and thankfully the police pulled over the car and she was able to indicate to him that she wasn't in the car by choice and everything ended well. needless to say, i'd much rather get parking tickets in this case.

friday the thirteenth

so why is friday the thirteenth so unlucky?

well my favorite explanation concerns the knights templar:

"During the Middle Ages, the superstition against Friday the 13th grew. On Friday, October 13, 1307, King Philip IV of France ordered the arrests of Jaques de Molay, Grand Master of the Knights Templars and sixty of his senior knights in Paris. Thousands of others were arrested elsewhere in the country. After employing torture techniques to compel the Templars to "confess" to wrongdoing, most were eventually executed and sympathizers of the Templars condemned Friday the 13th as an evil day."

From here.

good luck

just want to send out a huge good luck to my friend wingnut, who is going on his first date in six and a half years. after a five year relationship and a bit of dry spell, he's now back on the dating scene.


UPDATE: (1/14) apparently the date went really really well according to wingnut. in fact, he said that he thinks she might be the one. looks like i might have yet another married male friend :)

rain

i love the rain, although not when i'm running all over town with idiots who don't have their headlights on when it's downpouring outside and rather dark. grr.. but it was nice to get out and enjoy the weather. get some great fresh air. just wish i had had time to take a nap.

UPDATE: so now it's snowing outside. in fact it's already covering the ground and blowing in big fluffy wet flakes. should be interesting when i wake up in the morning.

last semester

wow it is so weird writing that. it's strange to think about how this is my last semester at school. after being in school for so many years of my life it is weird to think about it finally being done. that i finally have to enter the big adult world and leave what has become so familar.

enough melancholy thoughts, on to the school dirt:

this semester should be interesting. it's going to be a lot of work, but that's good for me. keeps me from getting into too much trouble. although a bit part of what would get me into trouble have either graduated or moved away so that alone is a major factor. my professors are all quite the characters. i have one professor who is determined to be the coolest guy and everyone's best friend (i'm thinking he's going through a mid-life crisis), one professor who thinks that everyone is eight years old and incapable of understanding the material and proceeds to talk about one word per ten seconds (it's getting to be a long class), one professor who is so ditzy that i'm not even sure if she knows where she is, one professor who is the classic little old prof lady who loves cats (can we say huge cat earrings on the first day of class), and the last one is so strange that he gets his own sentence. my poli sci prof is so strange. he can't say anything without saying 'right' after it. he can't even say a whole sentence without saying it. i think he said 'right' at least four times in one sentence alone. all his statements have the intonation of a question and then he follows them with 'right' in either a further questioning tone, or in a very firm affirmation of his statement. needless to say the class gets annoying fast.

well i've got homework i need to get done before the weekend so that i can get some time to relax. plus my friend wingnut, who graduated last spring, is having a party sunday night for the 24 premiere. yay!! only 2 more days till 24!!! can we say incentive to get stuff done :)

grrrr....

i need to stop writing posts here... i just lost a very awesome post and i'll never get it back ... stupid internet

i'm back

i'm back!!! an update will follow as soon as the week's events allow... let's just say my break was a bit of doozie...