"How am I supposed to tell you how I feel?...

...I need oxygen."

-Colbie Caillat

Wellll...all I will say is this: it's hard to do homework when it's bright and shining outside and it's steaming hot in your room. Also, this semester will prove to be quite a difficult task...

My work load is already more than last semester and it's only been one measly week.

HOWEVA, it is a beautiful three-day weekend! Thank you Martin Luther King, Jr....not just for the three-day weekend. :)

My future roommates and I decided to go to the

beach yesterday. It was LOVELY! My roommate brought the guitar and we jammed on the beach. What a great time...I also went exploring in the tide pools with another friend of mine. WHAT FUN! We commentated the underwater land as if we were watching dramas. Haha. It was funnay. But as I was being so cool and adventurous, I slipped

on a rock and got a little cut my foot. How sad. (It was really quite anti-climactic. It sounds really cool, but...just trust me. If you had been there, you'd understand that it was really not anything of a big deal at all. Hahaha.) Then my friend stepped on something pokey and hurt her foot as well! Jeepers.

And here I sit in my room by myself, uncomfortably warm, avoiding my homework. I'm one fourth of the way there! The way I see it, if I do it t

oday, I'll get to do everything--

well, my friend just called me and invited me and my roommate and my friend (the one who also hurt her foot) to the beach tonight! Hahaha. Though I'll have to ask him about more details, I think we're going to do it. There's no reason NOT to! (The way I see it.)

--...anyhow, as I was saying, I'll get to do everything that I want to do today tomorrow! But now I am going to make a very contradictory statement and say that I'll just do my homework tomorrow. Especially if I end up going to the beach tonight. Bwahahaha. ORRRR, I could just stay up really late tonight finishing my homewor

k, sleep in tomorrow and STILL do nothing tomorrow! WOO! That sounds ideal. Yee.

Alright, well here's a memory from the beach yesterday:

Alright, headed to the beach again! Hahaha. WOOOOO!

peace.

-5:20pm

"Rain down...

...all around the world, we're singin'."

-Delirious

Well, today was the first day of classes! And the second day back to school for me. It is absoFRUITly splendid to be here. I love everyone

and all my friends and I missed them all terribly! AGH. I've met so many new people, too. We got two new girls on our hall. And on my guys' hall they got SIX new hallmates! And there were only thirteen placed in the entire dorm...so they got the majority of them, per capita, anyway.

My class schedule...it'll be interesting this semester. I tried to switch into the class on M/W/F at 10:40am, and I emailed the teacher (the one who asked me to send a headshot--weird!) again before break ended just to verify that we were still on the same page about me being added to the class at the start of the semester. He emailed me back a few days later (the day before I arrived to school) and told me that he's not teaching t

hat class anymore, but to contact the other professor. And I didn't get that email until Sunday. Yesterday. The day before class starts. :|

So I emailed the other professor and he didn't respond, so I decided to crash the class and just show up and talk to the professor myself in person. I went with my friend who I knew had the class, and the professor seemed not to have an issue with me joining the class. So that was good! Except, it was slightly stressful for me because I LIKE HAVING EVERYTHING PLANNED OUT! Ha.

I have five classes on Mondays...again. Haha. And I had a growing headache throughout the day. I'm guessing it's from shock of lack of sleep... -_-

And I got back to my room at about 8:45, and decided to

get all my books figured out. I just now finished. I have sent my rampage for the quest for the cheapest textbooks down the internet's throat. And my headache is not getting any better. So I found the prices of the same books on different websites and then calculated the total price if I could get the cheapest one of each book, and then if I could get the second to cheapest price, etc. all the way to the WORST situation for the total amount that I would have to pay. Haha. There was a difference of $191 between the cheapest and most expensive textbook options. O_o

Alright...I'm heading to bed, I think.

But another thing...I don't know if I should go to the class that I'm planning to drop tomorrow morning or not. It's at 8:05am. That's why I need to drop it! HA. So...I'm pretty sure I'm going to switch out of the class, but I'm a little hesitant to drop

it just in case something goes wrong in the adding process. Ahhhh. I'll figure it out. I don't think I'm going to go. Haha. Okay, I'm really going to bed now. Or at least going to get ready for bed. Ha...

here's just a little math humor...because, oddly enough. I sort of miss math....:

peace.

-11:10pm

"Sometimes all it takes...

...is a walk around the lake."

-Lost in the Trees

Wellll...it's just about time for me to start packing up to head back to school! YES. AND no. Haha. I just hate packing...it's the worst part of going/leaving somewhere. And I seem to always wait until the very last minute before I actually put things in the luggage. Ha.

It's cloudy and rainy outside...though it's not actually rainING, it's rainY. Haha. And Lost in the Trees is the perfect music to listen to at times like this. It's so soothing and beautiful.

I'm going to be driving back to school in the car with my father. It shall be interesting. I'm going to start gathering all the small little items that I'm

going to bring back to school so that when the time comes, I can just pack up all my clothes and be done with it all.

My older sister is going to NYC with her best friend in about a week. I'm quite happy for her...and maybe a little bit jealous. Haha. She's never been before, and I LOVE that friggin' city. It's so....much. That's the only word I can think of to describe the overall feeling of it.

I am currently stopped in watching episode six of Star Wars (The Return of the Jedi). But, my little sister is going to the library...because she likes to read or something like that. HAha.

I'm going to go get lost in the trees to this Lost in the Trees music. It is so strikingly beautiful...I think, anyway.

here's a photo:

WHO ARE YOU?! WHERE ARE YOU?! Hahahaha. These are the questions that haunt me at night.... :P

peace.

-2:03pm

"And I think to myself...

...what a wonderful world."

-Louis Armstrong

HIYA! Another year has passed. Can you believe that it's already 2011?! Oh my. This is just crazy. Well...home has been a really great time, but quite honestly I've been ready to go back to school for about a week now. Haha.

I've hit the point where there's really nothing else for me to do here, so I watch movies. And more movies. And more movies. Haha. It's kind of true, though. Sad, but true. Last weekend, I watched Toy Story 3 on Friday night, Star Wars: Phantom Menace on Saturday night, Star Wars: Attack of the Clones AND Revenge of the Sith on Sunday night, Remember Me on Monday morning, and I can't remember if I watched any movies on Tuesday & Wednesday...but today I watched The Jungle Book AND Star Wars: A New Hope. Yep...clearly my time is very valuable at this point. Hahaha.

I don't really have anything else to say. Except I'll probably watch episode five tomorrow. Yuuuup. I'm quite excited to get back to school! WOOT.

peace.

-9:32pm

"O, come let us...

...adore Him."

-Unknown

Wellll...I'm HOME AGAIN! Yay. But in more eventful news, my older sister graduated from COLLEGE on Saturday!! SO AMAZING. I am so proud of her. I just cannot believe it. AHHH, SO AWESOME. Anyhow, we decided to drive back from school at 5am in order to make it back in time for the last Christmas service at our church at 11:30am. We made it. HA.

Finals week for me was....reasonable. I just love my school...

And as odd as it sounds, I kind of wanted to stay at school with all my friends and just all stay there for a week and THEN go home. But alas, I must follow the ways of the world. Haha. Not really.

I can't think of much to say, except the fact that I would like to see my GPA and/or my grades for the semester. I would ALSO really like to go to sleep. Too bad I took a three-hour nap at four o'clock and then I ate some coffee ice cream. YAY ICE CREAM!

Aaaaaanyhow. I've been sitting here by myself watching recorded episodes of a television show I never really got "into" because all the episodes of my favorite television series have been deleted. :|

NOT. COOL. Hahaha.

Alrighty, well I'm going to head out now. Hopefully go brush my teeth and then really sleep. :)

peace.

-2:50am

"Those Christmas lights...

...keep shining on."

-Coldplay

Welllll, I have quite a bit to review. However, I would first like to observe the fact that one of my roommates and I are listening to this song right now (the aforementioned song) and we turned all the lights off except the Christmas lights in our room. Tehe. How fun. :)

Anyhow, Thursday, at about 11:45am, during class, a friend of mine turned around and asked what I was doing later that night. I didn't have any plans, so she asked me to go to the opera with her. THAT NIGHT. So...I said I could probably go. The entire night was just a beautiful thing. The entire event was just completely last-minute, yet so relaxed and enjoyable. Haha. I didn't know any of the details until right before I needed to...which is absolutely NOT how I normally operate. Haha. We borrowed our friend's 2009 Mustang (silver, leather interior and a button to control what color shines on your feet and in the cup holders--HA!). We drove into the city and looking all dressed up and whatnot, we just enjoyed the night. However, there is some comedic irony within this....she was told the opera started at 7:30pm, so we got there in plenty of time for that. However, as we approached the door, we realized that on the ticket it said 6:30pm. HAHAHAHA. We only missed the beginning of the first act, however. Lohengrin, it is called, and it is a three-act play. Just over FOUR HOURS. Ha! I had never been to an opera before, but I was more the pleasantly surprised with my first experience. I was just blown away by the endurance of the players and their voices were just absolutely incredible. I can't really put it into words. My friend had gotten the two tickets (orchestra seating) for free. Why? Because her voice teacher really wants her to be an opera singer and thought that if she went to an opera, she might give it more of a chance. Her teacher got the tickets for free because she knows someone involved in the opera, but she couldn't go, so she gave the tickets to my friend. Welp, it worked. Because after that she was definitely considering it. :) The whole night cost me a whopping $13. Which is NOT bad at ALL! For orchestra seats at an opera, gas for a Mustang and parking in an over-priced parking garage. Very worth it.

Then yesterday night (Friday), my roomie and I went and watched a movie in our guy friend's room. It was called "Repo Men," and beforehand, I was pretty sure it was rated R, so I took my computer just in case. OH MY GOODNESS. It was AWFUL. I literally had to leave the room because I thought I was going to throw up. So much blood. So much gore. So much of a boy movie. Hahahaha. Then we played foosbol. Then some people decided they were hungry at midnight and five of us walked to a nearby Mexican food place. I am reeaaaaally trying not to spend real money, because I have so many meals left and dining dollars. Ha. So I got nothing. Then we came back and hung out outside because we have a curfew for boys to be in girls' dorms and girls to be in boys' dorms. I turned in approximately 2:20am, and that's all I know of.

I think I finally finished my music project today...I'm not positive, though. It's pretty crazy how much you can do with equipment that's so easily accessible. It's pretty pretty amazing. Anyhow, I'm very satisfied with the instrumentation and not-so satisfied with my vocals. Because of COURSE I would have a bunch of phlegm and coughing issues when I really need to sing for a music project. Ha. Whatevs. I've put so much time into this project...like, literally 24 hours, probably.

And here I sit, while I have two papers due tomorrow. One, being ten pages. The other, being two pages. So...it shouldn't be so bad....*cough* I should probably go and start on the two-page paper. So....yeah. Alrighty, buh-bye! :D

peace.

-1:37am

p.s. my sister is graduating COLLEGE on SATURDAY! I CANNOT BELIEVE IT!! O_O

"More than words...

...to show you how I feel."

-Extreme

It is far beyond words to describe how horrifying this is. HA! O_O

Well, you know how I skipped that class on Tuesday to write that huge paper and missed a quiz? On Thursday, after class, I went up to my professor and was fully willing and expecting to take a zero on the quiz because I missed class. But my professor told me that I need to take it, so I had to go into his office the next day. He asked me if I had class before 11am, and I don't have class on Fridays until 1pm. So he told me to come in at EIGHT O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING. Ohhhhhh my. It was not pleasant. Haha. But then I was on my way back to my dorm when I ran into a fellow classmate of mine. A kind soul, he decided that we should sit and eat our breakfasts outside. It was lovely. :)

All the choirs are putting on this giant Christmas concert at a nearby church. I am SO privileged to be a part of this. I LOVE IT. I REALLY REALLY LOVE IT. There are only two performances and the first one was Friday night. Sooooo much fun. AGH. I just love making people happy and seeing the different expressions on people's faces when something happens that they don't expect. :) The next and last one is tomorrow (Sunday). Ahhhh...then DEAD WEEK. JOY.

Back to that huge Bible paper I had to write. I was supposed to have a meeting with my professor the day I turned it in (that's just when I happened to schedule it) so he could read it over and give me some feedback. Everyone has to do this. My appointment was scheduled one time increment directly after my friend's appointment. My neighbor received a text message that morning that her appointment was cancelled. Then, I asked my friend when her appointment was so I could double check the time of mine...she said that the meetings were cancelled that day, so I just figured I didn't get the text message for some reason. Then, my neighbor asked me one night if I got the email to reschedule the meetings that were cancelled. I had not received this email. At this point, I just thought my professor wanted me to fail, exemplifying such poor communication skills with me. Haha. So I sent a secret-sass email to him explaining that I never received an email about the cancellations OR the re-schedulings. He replied simply, "Actually, yours wasn't cancelled.....etc., etc..." I'm pretty sure my jaw dropped. I FELT AWFUL. There I was being all secretly sassy and whatnot, and I'M the one at fault. So I rescheduled for today (Saturday) at 4pm. I left at about 3:35 to walk over to the other campus. I got there just about ten minutes early, and then just kind of chilled on the empty campus and soaked up the beauty of the hour and time of day, and whatnot. It was beautiful.

Then I finally got my appointment (subtopic: my friend completely forgot about her rescheduled appointment, missed it, and had to rush over to the meeting slot right before mine because the scheduled person did not show up. How ironic. Hahahaha!) and expressed my apologies again, but he seemed very merciful and gracious. :)

I feel that I had a lot more to say, but this shall suffice for now. Alrighty, my eyes are gettin--

--wait, I remember now. For my final project in one of my music classes, I'm recreating a song that's already done, and it's kind of exciting to hear it! All I'm doing is listening to the instrumental version of the song pretty much 990823657615928350883746582 times and choosing one instrument to focus in on to master and then figure out on a small keyboard and then play into my computer using MIDI keyboard and then choosing the instruments, etc. It's fun, but it's a process. Today, the keyboard, organ and drums are all done. Tomorrow comes the actual hard stuff. Haha.

Alright, for real this time. My eyes are quite heavy...I guess the Sand Man has paid me a visit! ;)

peace.

-3:01am

(aaaaand of COURSE it would be past 3:00am. Hahahaha.)