So I have been lazy...lol

Ok...I know it has been a REALLY long time since I last posted. See what happened was that my laptop crashed and that is where I had my link to blogspot. It's not that I didn't know the address on how to get to blogger, but I just kind of forgot because it wasn't on my favorites page anymore. But now I'm back and I'm hoping to get back to bloging like I used to. I know Kristin is going to have something to say...but oh well.

Well this past week we have been doing two-a-days for fencing. I haven't gone to all of the practice for one reason or another, but my body is still sooooo sore. Every summer I tell myself that I going to work out so it's not so bad in the begining of the year, but do I ever work out during the summer????...no. And each year I'm like ouch, and I haven't learned yet. Today at the end of practice this morning, we had to put tape on the edge of all the strips because they are painting the floor tonight. I definatly don't mind not having a second practice today. So instead, I might be going out to wall tonight with a girl named Jamie who I have been talking to. She is from Athens Ohio. It will be nice to finally meet her. She nothing more than a friend because both of us are not looking for a relationship right now.

Well let me refrase that....I'm not trying to jump right back into a realationship. Whatever happens happens. If I meet someone new great, if I don't it's ok. There is plenty of time to meet new people and that is what I'm really trying to do. Just get out there to meet new people.

So other than fencing, I have been really lazy and haven't done much this week. I really need to finish putting things away in my apartment and get it organized for the school year. I actually want to have a place to do my homework since I have a kitchen table, but I can't really use it since it has a whole bunch of shit on it. So I'm hoping that this weekend I will be a bit more productive in organizing my apartment. We will see....I know once I actually start to clean and unpack some boxes I can have my apartment cleaned and organized in no time at all.

The other week I did drive out to Missouri to see Micki and I stopped in Carbondale on the way home to see Kristin. I have to say, it was not fun driving 13hours out to Missouri in one night. I was beyond dead the next day because I was soooo tired. I had fun out in Missouri, and I had alot of fun haning out with Kristin too. We went out to two bars on the one night. I wasn't planning on getting all that drunk, but I did. Then I was like crap because I had to drive the rest of the way back to c-bus the next day. I did buy a new outfit while I was in Carbondale at Old Navy. I still think it sucks that you have to pay sales tax on clothing because in PA you don't have to. But oh well..."das is life"...as I always say.

Well I think I am going to go and work on a picture that I have been working on for my mom on photoshop. It's a little doodle that my grandma did and my mom wanted me to do something with it so that she can frame it. So until next time....ttyl!

Sometimes things slap you in the face...

Yesterday is a day that I don't want to remember. Yesterday Micki and I broke up and it hurts. The sad thing is, is that Saturday is supposed to be our 2 year aniversary but that is not going to happen now. This probably won't be a very long blog because I will probably start to cry and I don't want to do that since I'm at younkin. It seemed to me that everything was going fine, but apparently not. It's going to be a rough few days, but I'm not going to ruin Kristin's wedding since it is her day. When I leave c-bus tomorrow to drive to Chicago I'm going to leave my feelings for now in c-bus and not bring them to Chicago with me. All I need to keep telling myself is that there are many other fish in the sea and that there will be somone else out there for me. Well I think I am going to sign off because it's getting harder to write so until next time....ttyl :(

Soooooooo tired

I know it's been a long time since I have posted anything, but school has been consuming my life and that is no lie. I had my last final or rather project today (which today for me is wednesday) and now I'm just sitting working at younkin being bored off of my ass because there is no one here execpt for me and Staci and this one guy in the computer lab. Tomorrow (which is really now) is the last day of finals so most people are done with their finals and there isn't anyone here studying. But hey, I'm at least getting paid to sit here and write this blog and I got paid to drive to Giant Eagle and Kroger which were not 24hours and then to 711 to get me some stuff for my upset tummy. I didn't miss much that is for sure. I don't know what I did to make my tummy sooo upset but hopefully this stuff works. It normally does. Then maybe I will eat some snack food, who knows. I think that is quarter I am going to get close to a 4.0 because I'm going to be getting an A in my Art Edu 252 class, an A in my English 304 class, and hopefully an A my textiles class. We just turned in our final project today that is worth 50% of our grade. So if I fail this project, (which I'm not going to) I will fail the class. My teacher said that our projects would maybe be done late tomorrow(today) so I asked if I could stop by between 2 and 3 to get it since I am driving home. So hopefully it's done, if not I will just have to wait until grades are posted to know what my grade is going to be in that class. But I'm going to guess some type of an A.

So you know when your teacher says as long as you study the study guide you will be fine for the exam and you do that and then your not ok...well this time for my english class that is what he said and that is what I did and it turned out that the sample final that he made was exactly the same as the actual final. There was like one question that I was iffy about and there was one part of the short anwser that I forgot because there were 5 things that we had to list and I could only remember 4. So I'm pretty sure that I got an A on that final. I really wish that all teachers would do what he did in that making the exam exactly like the sample final, but not all teachers do that. But anywho...

So on this past saturday I had a bad thing happen. My computer, which should have already been a lemon computer crashed for the 2nd time in like a year. This time in the store they were not able to get ANYTHING off of my harddrive and all I wanted was my pictures, but they are all gone. They said that I could have the place that it gets shipped to use more technical stuff to retreve my pictures, but it could cost up to $1600 bucks and I was like NO....and then yesterday the geek squad calls me and asked if I wanted them to do that and I still said NO. Then they said that my computer would be shipped last night and would be back in 3 business days. Well I was planning on sending my computer in after finals week, but it had to get sent in a little early. I was soooo pissed because I haven't had anything to inertain me....well that's a lie. Up until tonight I had been working on my textiles and clothing project. But tonight has been the killer because I don't have anymore finals or anything so I'm just sitting around with Staci talking or on a computer when I should be at the desk, but then again, Staci is sitting right next to me at the computer. And there is also no one here. If there were people here I would be at the desk. So when I get my computer back I'm going to try to send it back out to get a lemon computer if the jack in the back is still having problems. I'm just sick of this computer really.

I'm driving home tomorrow(today) on my birthday but oh well and then I'm going to chicago this weekend for Kristin's bridal shower and then back to pittsburgh for a jury summons and then driving back to c-bus on the 15th or 16. Then summer school starts on the 18th. Well I think that is all I have to write about...can't think of anything more. My eyeballs feel like they might just fall out. So I think I might go and close my eyes for like 15min. So until next time...ttyl!!

Time to respond to the tag...

I know it's been awhile, but here we go..

Here are the rules: each player starts with 7 random facts/habits about themselves. People who are tagged need to blog about their seven things and post the rules as well . At the end of your blog, you need to choose 7 people to get tagged and list their names. Don't forget to leave them a comment telling them that they have been tagged and to read your blog!

1) I lived in France for 3 months when I was a baby and went back when I was 7 or 8, and then celebrated christmas there in I think 2004

2) Since I don't cook many complicated meals I normally fix pasta with prego since that's the easiest thing to make

3) I have become addicted to my xbox 360 again which is not good because then I don't get my work done that needs to get done.

4) I have been going to Florida for family vacation for the past 21 years, and this is going to be the first year that I won't be going because I'm taking summer school.

5) I made it to the NCAA for fencing this year and only one 6 bouts of 23...that is kind of sad.

6) I am a huge Harry Potter fan and I can't wait until the new move comes out and espically until the last intalment of the books comes out too...

7) Lastly....I'm addicted to the discovery health channel.

Now since Kristin, Patty, and Angi have been taged...all I can tag is Eileen since I don't know anyone else that has blogger....so onto the rest of my blog...

This quarter has been going by very fast and before I know it, it's going to be finals week. The nice thing is that I only have one written final and in my other two classes I just have final projects. If the quarter were to end now, I would have a 4.0 which will help my GPA when the quarter actually ends. I have been very busy doing my drawings for my textiles and clothing class. I had my interview for the textiles and clothing 670 class. It was a very short interview, so we will see what happens. I got a 250/250 on my art edu midterm which was nice. Other than that, school has been school.....

I started to ride my bike more. I think the reason why I have started to ride my bike again is for two reasons. One being that Micki decided to buy a bike and we went for a small bike ride the day she got it and ever since then I have been riding my bike to class. See, before my rents got me my car I would always ride my bike to campus no matter what. But once I got my car I was just like..."I will just drive and then walk from the car." So that is what I have been doing. Second being that with gas prices being so high, it's worth it to bike where I can so I can save gas, and plus I get my exercise in and it will help me to keep my legs in shape for fencing. We are not even going to talk about fencing because I got my ass chewed out by coach on thrusday and I actually went to practice on friday and now I have to keep going. Put it this way, coach is really pissed at me, and that is putting it nicely.

Well anywho....I have to go and pick micki up ...I would write more but I don't have time...so until next time....ttyl!!!

I swear I'm not dead....I'm just a bad bloger

I know that I have been a very BAD blogger, but I have a reason. I have had no time to sit down at a computer for an extended amount of time and write a post. My school work this quarter has been taking over my life it seems like. For my TC370 class all I'm ever doing is drawing. Since the class meet M,W,F, we always have something due wether it's a practice drawing or an actual project due. So that class has been consuming my evenings when I would normally be on the computer or when I would get up in the morning to finish a drawing. My Art Edu 252 consumed my weekend last week because we had the first half of our midterm due for a critique and people actually got my concept right which made me quite happy. I have to do the other half this weekend because the final print out of my midterm is due on Monday at the begining of the class. My first half of my diptych was showing all of the benifits that athletes get. I showed a football player handing over the ohio state university symbol to the department of athletics and then I had hands giving things to athletes such as books, art supplies, clothes, special buildings and other things like that. The other half is going to be a student handing over money to the ohio state university and then having two hands coming out from the ohio state university giving the student a place to live, a place to eat, and a diploma for their money. Then I'm going to have a few hands coming out of the student holding money showing the different things that they have to pay for. So I have that half to finish this weekend and then I have a paper thing due for my online class tomorrow that I have to do. So since I have almost a 4 hour layover in Atlanta hopefully I can get some of that done. If I don't, then I wil lhave to work on that when I get to the hotel after I go over to the venue to check my equiptment and what have you. It's kind of weird not having my parents go to a fencing competition. This is my first tournament that my parents or my dad is not coming to. I'm a little bit nervous about it, but at the same time I know that it's going to be ok. My goal this weeknd is to as well as I did in virgina if not better. As long as I come in the top 32 I will be happy since I haven't done all that many national competitons lately. I mean besides college fencing that is all I have been doing. other than that I don't think much else is going on. Oh, I did go to the spring career fair and there were a few companies that seemed interested. They were Wal-Mart, Kohls, and possibly Sears. I have been talking to a women at Dick's Sporting Goods for awhile, but we will see how that goes. Atleast for this summer it's not looking too good for Dick's just because they want you to have photoshop and illustrator, and I have the photoshop experience, and they also want you to be going into your senior year and graduating in the spring of 2008. I would be graduating in the spring of 2008, but since I want to complete my business minor I won't be graduating until Autumn of 2008. Most of the companies said that since I was not graduating in the spring of 2008 that I would have to wait until the following summer to do my internship with them. I would like to do my internship this summer so I get it out of the way and so that I don't have to depend on getting an internship next summer. So who knows what's going to happen. When I find something out I will let you all know. Well I think that if you have gotten this far in reading I think that you are probably tired of reading so until next time....ttyl!

We sucked...

This is going to be very short because the more I think about it, I will start to get upset about it....overall we came in 5th which is not good at all. I only won a total of 6 bouts when I know that I could have won alot more. The guys did ok, but they didn't do as well as they could have. In women the saber girls I think did really good with 15 wins for Eileen and 13 wins for Shiboan, but I'm sure that they think that is not good at all. Julia did good with like 16 or 17 wins...I'm not exactly sure. I know that Shura made 3rd team all american, but I'm not sure how many bouts she won. And then there is me that did the worst out of everyone and that is all I'm going to say because I'm about to cry again. I started to cry when I was talking to Keala....so until next time...ttyl :(

Sitting in the airport...

Not much to say....this past week all I have been doing is fencing, fencing, and did I mention fencing??? I'm excited for tomorrow, but I'm also VERY nervous at the same time. Right now we are in 5th place in the NCAA championship. Mike had 11 bouts, Surgay had 9, Mesha had 6, Pryor had 5, Andraus had 11, and Will had 6. Hopefully that guys do better today. Then our big day starts tomorrow. We have the banquet tonight and I'm actually going to be waring a dress. This is probably the only time that I will be warring a dress. It's raining here so there is not much to do. Micki and I were going to go roller blading yesterday, but it was raining in the morning and then it just kept on raining on and off...plus it's not fun to roller blade on a wet ground. My parents are coming out the NCAA's which is nice. I get to save my predum this weekend. The only time I will have to use it probably is on Monday when we come back....well unless I don't go out to dinner with my parents. Anywho, that is about it...there really isn't all that much going on. I will post tonight after the guys are done to let you all know how we are doing. So until next time....ttyl!

I QUALIFIED FOR NCAA'S!!!!

This is going to be a short post because I'm working at younkin and I'm just taking a quick study break. I just wanted to let everyone know that I qualifed for the NCAA's....I'm soooo excited. I reallly wanted to qualify and I did. Coming in 2nd place is the best I have ever finished in anything such as a national competition or even a college meet. I'm just hoping that how well I fenced at the Midwest Championships and at Regionals will stay with me for the NCAA Championships. I think if I don't think about it and just fence hard and do my best I will do well. That is what I did this weekend. I didn't worry or think about qualifying and just fenced and look how well I did. I think I have come a long way since my freshmen year of fencing. I think that I have finally found my kind of fencing in the past two weeks and I hope I can keep it going. I think I might actually bring my camera to the NCAA's if they let us bring it in so I can capture my first time of being there. Anywho, I should probably get back to studying since I do have my final at 7:30am and I'm working until 7....so until next time....ttyl :):):):):):)

Midwest Championships Part 2

Well the good news is that we basically kicked Notre Dame's ass for 5 years in a row now. We were the Midwest Champions. We won men's and women's over all, women's saber came in 1st while women's foil and epee came in second. The men came in first in all of thier weapons.

I actually fenced really well yesterday even though we lost to Notre Dame in the finals. To get into the finals we had to fence Northwestern which is a really tough school in women's epee. They have both french girls and some other girls that are really good. I don't know how I did it, but I beat both french girls....both of the bouts going into overtime. I did beat one of the french girls at the NYU meet, but I sure can't tell you which one because they both look the same. I mean they are twins after all. We only lost one bout to Northwestern. Elyse lost her one bout to one of the French's. Shura won her two bouts and I won mine, and then Elyse won the 5th bout that allowed us to beat Northwestern. When it came to the finals we knew that we were going to have to either fence Wayne State or Notre Dame. Well, Notre Dame beat Wayne state and so we fence Notre Dame. I was up first....I ened up losing to Kim Montoya, in over time 2-3...which I should have fun, but oh well. And then Elyse was up next, but she lost her bout to Kelly Hurrly. Then Shura beat Amy Orlando so that brought our spirts back up. So then it was my turn to fence Kelly and I don't know how I did it, but I beat her 5-3. Take into count the Kelly Hurrly is like ranked number 1 in the US, so I was quite happy. And then Shura won her next one to Montoya. Then Elyse had to fence Amy Orlando and lost 4-5.....So now it's 3-3 for the overall team score. Then Shura had to fence Kelly Hurrly and almost won, but lost. So then it was my chance...All I had to do was beat Amy Orlando and then we would be tied 4-4 for a team record. Well, I was winning, but I ened up losing 3-5. And then I lost it....I know it's not all my fault, but I blamed myself for not beating Amy which caused us to lose even though I know it's not all my fault....But hey, I'm still happy with beating both French girls and beating Kelly Hurrly.

Other than that not too much else has been going on. It seemed like it took forever to get back. I couldn't get comfey on the bus to sleep even though I was ass tired. I was also freaking out about my textile quiz. So I got up early today to study for it...I mean I did study on the bus, but I needed to do some more studying. So when I get to class a 8:30 this morning I found out that the quiz is actually on wednesday....oh was I pissed....I soooo didn't want to go to class today because I'm sooo tired. But I went because I thought that the quiz was today. Had I known that the quiz was actually on wednesday I probably wouldn't have gone to class because I needed to catch up on my sleep.....oh well. The other thing that sucks is that we have practice today. It's not actual fencing, but we have to go to the arpac to do "rehabilitation" as coach puts it. All I'm going to do is maybe run on a machine for a bit, and then change into my bathing suit, go in the hot tub and then the sauna, an then leave, go home and take a nap. I don't think I will nap too long because I have alot of work to do, so I might just sleep for like an hour or two....well that's about it, so unitl next time....ttyl! :)

Midwest Championship Part 1

Ok, so day was an ok today for me. Today was the individual day. In the pools I went 3-2 and I really should have gone 5-0. My record went like this.....5-0,5-0,5-1,4-5,4-5...my last two bouts I lost because I just did stupid things but I fought pretty good. Had I won one more bout I would have had a bye in the first round. So I won my first DE and then I lost my second one to non other than Amy Orlando. I'm not even going to get into my DE with her because it will just piss me off even more about her. I'll just say I lost. But tomorrow is another day, the more important day and hopefully I will beat her tomorrow when it's really important. Overall I think we did pretty good. When I was done I asked coach if I could leave with my parents and he said yes. I had homework to do so he let me go and then I had dinner with my parents. So tomorrow women's epee doesn't start until after 12 which is a good thing, but also a bad thing. It's good because I actually get to sleep in for once...women's epee always go first early in the morning. The bad thing is that we are not going to get done until like after 5pm or so....I think that the earliest that we are going to be able to leave is like 7pm. So hopefully we don't go that long. Other than that not much else. I'm going to bed soon because I'm really tired and I want to get some sleep tonight. I'm going to get up tomorrow around 8:45 to go and get breakfast and to do some homework. I have alot of homework to do. I have a quiz in my one textile class on monday and I have a paper for my history class that is due on the 8th. I did the reading for the paper, but I have no idea what I am going to write about. I'll figure something out. Well I'm off to bed, so until next time....ttyl!

The Stressfullness of School...

It's hard to believe that there are only 2 weeks or so left of school. It seems like we just started yesterday. I guess it's the fencing that makes it go by fast when you have a competition 3 weeks in a row. This next weekend we travel to Notre Dame for the Midwest Championships....I'm getting a little bit nervous, but I think that we will do well.

All I did this past weekend/week was look for a apply for internships for this summer. I have three options as to where I can do my internships...I can either do my internship in pittsburgh, chicago, or columubs. So far I have applied at LimitedBrands, American Eagle, Nordstrom, Old Navy, and Dick's Sporting Goods. I want to apply at Macy's, but they don't have an internship available in the area that I'm looking for which is either product development or merchandising. The only internship that they have open is in managment. Dick's says that they have an internship porgram on the website, but when you click on it, it says that it's not available so I sent a letter to a person in marketing. When I was applying at Nordsrom, it seemed like I was just filling out a regular application and not an application for an internship. No where in the application did it have you attach your resume. So I'm trying to figure out who to send my resume to. I still my apply at Target, David's Bridal, and some other places....I'm still doing my research.

Other than that not much else has been going on. I had a quiz today in my TC 371. I'm kind of worried about the class because I have gotten D's or D+ on the first two quizes and got a D on the midterm. The sad thing is that I HAVE been studying for this class. And it's not just me that is getting D's....So far the two study group sessions that I have been to thoes 4 people are also getting D's, but when we had the 3 pop quizes that are extra credit we get like 3 or 4 points. I mean we also have our 10 point yarn identification and 30 point swatch identification, but I really need to do well on this quiz. I feel like I knew the stuff. There were only 6 questions of 37 that I was "iffy" about. The questions are worth 1.5 points a piece so there are a total of 57 points even though the quiz is only worth 55 points. So lets hope that I did good. I'm doing well in my other textile class and I got a B(88%) on my history midterm which I was quite happy with. I still have two more papers for my history class, one is the Major Problems paper and the other one is the book review which I still need to read the book for. I think I will get the Major Problem's paper done this week and then I will start to read Worriors Don't Cry on the bus trip to Notre Dame. I just know these last two weeks are going to fly by and things are going to start to bite me in the ass because things are going to be due before I know it and I'm not going to have things done.....But I will do my best to get the things done ahead of time.

Well I think that is about it. Not much else is going on. This probably was a very boring blog, but deal with it.....I'll post something for the Midwest Championships....that will give me something to rant about. So until next time...ttyl! :)

5 Hours Later...

(The first part is what I did yesterday and the second part is today)

So yesterday was a big cleaning day for my room. Micki and I decided that we were going to make friday cleaning day for my room because it really needed it. Micki went over to her parents house while I was at fencing practice and when I got home she was still over at her parents house so I started to clean my room. You would not believe how much stuff I threw out...ALOT.....First I got my floor cleaned, or rather I put the stuff away where it was supposed to be. Then I started with the all mighty closet. Micki got home while I was cleaning the closet so I had her organize her shoes and jeans on these two wooden racks that we got from target. Then I was the lucky one to tackle the top shelves of my closest. It's not so much that the shelves were full it's that everything was just spread out so it seamed liked the shelves were full. Micki just layed on the bed for the most of the time while I was cleaning the top shelf, but I did tell her that I would do the shelf because it's easier for me to reach. Once I got that done I took a small ten minute break and then Micki and I tackled my desk and got it all cleaned off. Micki cleaned the shelves in the closet that we have all our vitamins and meds. and after we were done with everything my room looked as clean if not cleaner than when I first moved in. I don't think that I have had my room this organized since I moved in. So hopefully, I am going to try my best and keep my room cleaned because Micki and I worked too hard to trash it. I'm hoping that I will get to cleaning the bathroom and the living room on sunday....so that's it for the cleaning part hence why I titled this blog 5 hours later...


Today on the other hand was not that great of a day. Micki is sick and I am taking care of her. She was supposed to work today from 12pm-9pm, but she was too sick so she called off. She was also supposed to work this past wednesday, but the roads were too bad for her to drive to work and her dad told her not to drive. So I think around 10 or so I got up to go to Kroger to get Micki some tylenol(sp) to reduce her fever and to get me some day quil because I'm getting a little bit sick. When I got back she had already called off and she took the meds. After that we both slept until like 3 or so. I did make her some chicken noodle soup which hit the spot. Once we got up we just kind of layed around in bed. Around 6 I went to the Buy Back store to sell some of my old xbox games. I got $30 bucks which was not too bad. When I got home I was going to make some mashed potatoes, but once I started I realized that we didn't have any milk. So I did another run to Kroger to get milk and sour cream. When I got back Micki had started the potatoes so we sat on the couch watching tv. I also made rice a roni: chicken and rice. That did not turn out too well at all, so I didn't eat too much of that. Once csi was over Micki went back to bed and I cleaned up the kitchen. Micki didn't know her work schedule so I told her that I would drive over to Giant Eagle and get it after I was done cleaning up dinner. So on my third trip to the store I asked her if she wanted anything and this time she said pepmobismal(sp)....so I got that too and some more vitamin C. Once I got home I took a shower and now I'm sitting on my was on the computer. I might watch a dvd on my laptop in bed because I'm not all that tired because I slept for most of the day. Tomorrow on the other had, I will sleep in for a bit, but then I need to do some more cleaning of the apartment and alot of homework. I'm sure that by now you are getting tired of reading my boring weekend. One last thing I have to say is that I enjoyed the two days last week that school got cancled. So until next time....ttyl

I Feel Like Crap...

So yesterday was the OSU duels...I did ok. I went 17-2. The two that I lost I shouldn't have lost but the problem was that I didn't really care that I lost them because they were just club bouts and they don't cout towards our overall record. What was kind of funny was that fact that women's epee was always the first one done when normally it's saber that is done first. I think we did more waiting around to fence than actual fencing. By the end of the day I was sooooo tired, but I went out to dinner with my parents and Lori (one of my mom's friends that I have baby sat for) at the Blackwell. We had a good dinner. Then after dinner me, Eileen and Micki went over to Shura's house to drink after a long day. Eileen was already tired from traveling all day, and I was tired from fencing. Micki didn't drink because she was the DD. I think Eileen only had one beer. I had four beers at Shura's and then I had my fifth one when I got home. I know that I shouldn't of had the fifth beer, but I haven't gotten drunk since like the begining of the school year. It's not like I'm going to be drinking agian anytime soon. I had alot of fun last night, but I did not enjoy this morning. When Micki left for work I woke up with a bad headache so I took some excedrin, but it didn't go fully away so I took a third excedrin a little bit later. I knew that I was going to end up with a hang over of some sort, but it was worth it. I have a midterm in my other textiles class tomorrow. I have been trying to study, I'm even at younkin, but I'm just not movtivated to study at all. Maybe while the grammy's are on I will study. Before I came to younkin Eileen and I went to the RPAC to sit in the jacquize(sp) and then in the sauna...Let me tell you, it felt good to do that. I felt refreshed after that. This week I have to turn in a form for a scholarship through Human Ecology. I hope I get something from Human Ecology. I really could use the scholarship, but it's partly based on your financial need. So when they look at that they probably will say no...but oh well, my moto is "always ask, it never hurts to". Other than that not much else is going on. Hopefully this week I will find some time to start to look at and apply for internships for this summer. I have three options, I can either get an internship in Columbus, Pittsburgh, or Chicago because I have places to stay......if anthing changes I'll be sure to post it. So until next time.....ttyl!

Time to freak out!!

This is going to be a short blog, but I decided that since I haven't posted in awhile I will do a quick one. So I have my textiles and clothing midterm at 1:30. I have studied for it and I made flash cards, but I still getting nervous. Tomorrow I have my history midterm which will be interesting. My professor gave us the 10 terms to know and HE will pick five for us to define and the 3 essay questions and HE will pick one for us to write about. After my midterm is over today I'm coming back to younkin to study and Aly is going to tutor me. So hopefully I will do well. I wish that we could have all of of the stuff done ahead of time and just bring it to the exam, I guess what I'm trying to say is that it would be nice to have a cheat sheet, but that is not aloud. I probably won't get much sleep tonight. I will be up late trying to remember everything that I have written and then I will get up early to study since the midterm is at 10am. After that I will have practice and then I can relax from studying for a little bit. We have to set up the fencing strips on friday for the duel meet on saturday. I'm guessing I won't be going out on friday because I will be studying. My parents are coming out, but I don't know how late they are getting here on friday if I am going to do dinner with them or not. I think for sure we are doing dinner on saturday night. Then sunday will be another big study day for me because I have my other textiles and clothing midterm at 8:30am. So sunday night will be another night with not much sleep. I can't wait for midterms to be over, or rather I can't wait for the quarter to be over!!! I have an interesting story about the snow storm that came through last night, but I don't have the time to write about it right now. For right now the long story short is that I had Eileen's car because it needed to be driven and it snowed and I was afarid to drive, but I did make it home in one piece and Eileen's car is in one piece too.....Well I should probably look over whatever I can again before I leave to go to ODS, so until next time...ttyl!

Glad to be home...

I'm glad to be back in Columbus after a long weekend in Notre Dame in a freezing ice rink. I just couldn't stay warm. So I got back around 10pm last night to 3-4inches of snow....You have no idea how happy I am to have snow. Even if it doesn't snow any more I'm happy that we had a little bit of snow.

So today I had a quiz in my one textiles class. I was getting a little bit worried this weekend because I felt like I didn't get enough studying done for it. I got up this morning around 7am to look over my notes and to look over the old quizes which was helpful. I still had to go to the actual class because my professor lectures for the first part of the class and then we took the quiz in the second half. So at the break around 9:30am I had to bike my way over to ODS to take my quiz. I think I did ok on it. There were 28 questions worth 2 points a piece, but the quiz was only worth 55 points. So in reality we get one extra credit point. There were only four questions that I had a problem with out of the 28 which for me is not that bad. My luck I am going to jynks(sp) myself....oh well. I was talking to a girl in my other textile class that had taken the 371 course last quarter and she was saying that she would always think that she would do well on the quizes but she would always get B's, but never A's. My professor posts old quizes and from what I could tell they were almost the same questions. But the girl said they may seem the same, but Dr. Jakes always tweeks the questions just a little bit so that they are not the same. Hopefully she posts the grades sooner than later and I will get to find out my grade.

Micki's dad had to go back in to surgery today. He is getting a stint(sp) for his liver taken out and two more put in. When I called Micki after my 1:30 class he still hadden't had surgery. Hopefully everything goes ok. I think it will. I'm going to go shortly to get some food from market place because my tummy is quite hungry because I haven't had lunch yet. After my 8:30 class on my way out from ODS I got a dounut, a brownie, chips, and a drink. I ate evertyhing execpt for the brownie because I was going to save it for my 1:30 class. It was good at the time that I ate the brownie, but my tummy is now really really hungry.....If the line is not long I think I am going to get a number one....and yes Kristin, I still have like 70 or 80 something swipes so don't worry....I will have some left for when you come to visit.

Well I think that is about it for now. I have to give myself props for how much I have been posting lately. I have actually found time to post and I'm not forgetting about my blog. I think that is what has been happening the the past...I forget about the blog. Well off to feed the tummy, so until next time....ttyl!

A Long Day Complete

I have been up since 6am and I got done fencing a little bit before 3pm. I did ok today, but I know that I could have done alot better. There was one bout against Wayne State and Notre Dame that I should have won. I also lost one against Lawerance that I should not have lost at all, but is life. I almost beat Kelly Hurlly. I was behind 3-4, and that I got a single light and tied it at 4-4. Had I just wanted a little bit more, I think I would have beaten her, but there is always the Midwest Championship that I can have a rematch with her. My overall record was 14-6. They were all varsity bouts so they all mattered. I mean I can't really complain about that record because that is a better starting record than last year. The guys fence tomorrow so hopefully they do well

Anywho, I have a really bad headache. I really wish that I had some excedrin to take or somthing, but I don't. I guess I will just get some from my mom when I go out to dinner with my parents. Everyone is going to dinner at 6, so I told my parents to pick me up and we are going to go to dinner. Where I don't know, but we can't go to a real fancy place because I don't have any nice clothes. All I have to ware is sweats and my warm ups. I didn't even think to bring an outfit to go out.....oh well.

So I have a ton of homeowork to do. I need to get a little bit more done on my history paper that is due on the 25th, and I have alot of reading for my textiles class. I have a quiz in there so I really need to get the reading and studying done. Hopefully tomorrow since I'm not fencing I will be able to get some homework done. I mean I want to cheer for the guys, but at the same time my homework is more important. I have decided to do my history paper on the Columbine High School shooting. We have to pick a historical event in our life time and write about how it has changed america. My professor was kind of leaning away from 911 because everyone is going to be doing it. Also the war that is going on....everyone is going to be doing that. If anyone has any other ideas of what I should write about speak now or forever hold your peace. The other events that I have thought about were Okalahoma city boming,Atlanta City olympic boming, Katrina...and I don't think I thought of anything else.

Well I should probably start to work on my homework because I'm using my mom's laptop and she needs to take it back with her tomorrow when my mom and dad leave to drive back to chicago...so until next time....ttyl

IT'S SNOWING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is real quick, but when I woke up this morning it was snowing....I'm so excited that it's snowing. Even if it's not that much I'm happy that it's snowing because there is a bubble over columbus when it comes to snow. It will probably only be like less than an inch, but that's ok with me. Anywho, I need to get some stuff done before I leave. So until next time...ttyl!

Can't Sleep.....

I don't really know why I can't sleep. I know that I'm tired but I have this energy in me that won't let me go to sleep. Maybe I can't sleep because I'm getting nervous about this weekend. That is what I think. I don't know why I'm getting nervous, but I am. You would think that after two years of fencing in college I would be fine the third time around....wrong. Maybe it's because I'm nervous on how we are going to do since Kaela isn't going to be fencing this season because of her knee and when it first happened she told me to do well for her. I told her that I would and maybe that's another reason too.....I just don't know. The nice thing is that we are getting a free lunch tomorrow from this pizza place. We are all getting subs and they are being delivered to the gym. The other nice thing is that we get FREE money and I won't have to spend that much of it since my parents will be there this weekend. Well they will be there on saturday, but I will be going out to dinner with them so I won't have to pay for dinner which will be nice. When I get back I will post how we did. I'm hoping that we kick Notre Dame's ass....Hey Eileen, what are we going to do to Notre Dame???.....inside joke.

As far as my laptop goes I'm still waiting for them to say that it's a lemon. I called them today and they said that they will probably hear something from the place that it's getting fixed at on saturday and they will give me a call. I really hope I get a new computer because the one that I have now has given me soooooooo many problems.

I did a little bit of cleaning this evening. I did the dishes and managed to get a full sink of dishes all into the dishwasher. My mom taught me well...that's all I can say. I also picked up the living room a little bit. I want to have a clean apartment to come back to. When I get up in the morning I'm going to do the rest of the cleaning like cleaning the bathroom and picking up my room. I think I will have time before I have to be at the gym to do that. I still have to pack for this weekend, but that won't take me very long at all. I can pack in like 10minutes or so.

So when I went to go and get my notes from ODS this evening there was the cutest baby beagle. She was the cutest and most adorable thing ever and it really made me want to get a puppy, but I can't because you are not aloud to have cats or dogs at Colony Club, but you can have rabbits....go figure. Hopefully one day I will be able to get a kitten and a puppy from the humain society.

I really want something to eat right now, but I don't know what I want. I think the only reason why I'm hungry is because I'm awake. If I were asleep I would not be hungry. Maybe I will have a popcicle or something like that and then go to bed because I really need to get a good nights rest because I know that I won't get much sleep this weekend. I'm sorry if this blog had very random thoughts. I was just typing what ever came to my head. So until next time....ttyl!

I can't believe we are leaving in like two days...

Ok...by having the NAC this past weekend my whole week has been messed up. I also think that by having monday off, that is messing with my head too. I don't think that I did that great in the Columbus NAC. I came in like 99th or something like that. I could have done a heck of alot better. I went 2-4 in the pool. I should have been 3-3, but I messed things up. I was winning this one bout 4-0, and in the last like 30seconds or so the girl tied it up 4-4 and then we went into overtime. She won priority and she ened up scoring anyways. I just can't believe that I let her come back. I think I got into one of thoes moods were I was like "Oh, I'm winning...I can just wait the time out"...note to self, don't do that again. I was lucky, I did make it to DE's, but I lost my first DE and that was that. I fenced horribly in the DE. It didnt' help that I rolled my ankle and it got hit yet again. Two fridays ago Noam hit my ankle and that agrivated it then. So when I was fencing my DE I was in alot of pain. This weekend friday we are leaving to go to Notre Dame. We are leaving on friday becasue it's a two day event. Individuals are on one day and then it's team on the other day. I really hope that I start off the season well. I will be able to tell when I start fencing how I am going to do. I just don't want to do the individuals because that will take alot out of me. Lets hope that the individual event is on sunday and NOT saturday. I would rather have more energy for the team event than the individual event.

Other than that, I did not do much else this weekend becasue I was at the convention center like everyday...no joke. Although, last night Micki and I did go over to her friend Justin's house for dinner and a movie. Dinner was really good. We had pasta and garlic bread. I had a second helping of pasta. There was also salad, but I didn't want any. We watched Saw 2. I really don't like scary movies...but I was forced to watch it becasue I told Micki to pick the movie out. The movie wasn't really that bad, just the begining was bad because it had eyes in it and I HATE eyes with a passion. So I guess now I have to see the first one. We will see.

Micki is going to Kent tonight to visit people because she doesn't have to work tomorrow. So tonight is going to be a homework night for me after I get back from practice and after I get my car....Oh.....I completly forgot to metion this. On saturday when I left at like 6:20am to go and pick Shura up to go to the convention center I found out the hard way that my car was leaking from the roof. The water was coming out of the button that you push to turn on the light in the center. I was pissed. So yesterday I dropped my car off to get it fixed and it's done so hopefully I will be able to get it if Eileen will take me to get it....It seems like I always get defective stuff, but that is life as my dad says.

On a side note I was successful in getting a note taker for my history 152 class. When I had asked my freshmen year for a note taker they said no, but I have a new counslor and he said yes. Someone in my class volunteered and they take the notes and drop them off at ODS. I still take my own notes, but it's nice to have because I have trouble taking notes. See, my teacher doesn't use any type of powerpoint or anything like that. He just talks. I'm horrible at trying to take notes when I have nothing to look at and just have to listen. I end up missing alot of things. So we will see if the note taker will help. I don't think that my history class is going to be too hard becasue we have like 3 papers and our final is two essay questions. On the midterm we just have to define like 5 terms and there will be 3 essay questions and he will pick one for us to write about. He will give us the terms and the essay questions in advanced so I should do well on that too. Not that you really needed to know this about my history class, but I just thought about sharing it....anywho, I'm off to go and bike to class...so until nest time...ttyl!

And school has begun again...(i started this on the 4th)

oops...i forgot that I had started this blog....so I will just continue with it and it probably won't make an sense.. Oh well...

Yesterday was the first day of school. It wasn't too bad. I made it through all of my classes. I think my textile classes are going to be quite interesting. I have my history 152 class today at 10 so this might be kinf of short because I have to walk there. I'm hoping that history will go ok considering how much I hate history and I have never been good with it period. Also yesterday I spent one and a half hours with her trying to figure out how to get out of here by spring of 2008. It is possible for me to graduate by spring of 2008, but from now on my quarters will be packed and I will want to kill myself. There is a second option, but that gets me out in like august of 2008 or winter of 2009. (This part is from the 4th)

This weekend is the NAC that is in columbus. I'm kind of excited for it. I get to see my rents and go out to dinner with them. I have to talk to them about my whole graduation thing as to which option we are going to go with. See, it wouldn't be such a problem if I was getting some type of scholarship from fencing. My dad's big thing is paying for school. Being out of sate my tutition is higher and that means we have to take out even more loans if I stay longer than spring of 2008. So we will figure this out this weekend. I'm also excited about having monday off. I might actually be able to sleep in for once. Every day this week I have had to get up early. On monday's and wednesday's I have an 8:30 class so I have to get up early anyways, but the other days I have a 10am class or a 1:30 class and so far I have had to get up earlier than I need to because I have to get stuff done. I'm just really tired and just need a day to rest.

We having fencing practice today, but I don't think that it will be that intense since we have a competition this weekend. My guess is that we are just going to play soccer. I just have to be careful because my knee has been bothering me alot and my ankle is still sore from where Noam hit me last friday. Maybe I will just be a goalie instead of defense. We will see. Well, I think that is it for now because I am going to go and take a nap before fencing. So until next time.....ttyl