Employed:)

I just found out I was hired for a job that I interviewed for on Tuesday. I am a front desk receptionist in my dorm building. Basically I am going to get paid 8 bucks an hour to do my homework or watch movies on the tv behind the counter. My new boss told me the job is really easy and the all the duties I have to do each shift take about a half hour so I have 2 and a half hours to just hang out. It's Monday Wednesday Friday 9am-12pm and I can pick up other shifts as well. I'm pretty excited about the whole thing; it's pretty much the perfect college job!

bio shmio

four straight days of looking at nothing but biotech. a week before that of studying a couple hours a day. a study session with others in the class that i ROCKED. how did the test go you ask?
o. about that...
sometimes things are easy. sometimes things are hard and you have to work for it. other times you try your best, you work your hardest, you do everything you can, and you still end up short.
nobody said college was going to be easy.

DEAD WEEK

wow "dead week"... what a name. as a naive little freshman i assumed dead week was so named because it feels like you are going to die because of finals. Turns the week of finals with no class is referred to as "dead week" because you are dead. you do nothing. no noise is allowed. If a CF can hear you you get fined $50!!! People sit. People study. People sleep. People eat. We are all like zombies barely surviving the 50 page study guides, 10 page essays, 2, 3, even 4 finals! Its probably the most depressing atmosphere in the whole wide world. Well I must go... biotechnology calls.

Finals week

Next week I don't have any class:)

Next week I have finals:(

I only have to take two:)

I have to stay till friday while others leave on tuesday and wednesday:(

I get to go home in a week:)

I have a lot of mixed emotions about next week. I will have to study really really hard for those two tests, especially bio tech. Plus I have a 10 page essay to write, but I'm half way down with it already so I'll be ok. I'm completely done with English and I turned in my portfolio with all my papers including the last two that she hasn't seen. I worked really hard on them, so we'll see. I'm really looking forward to break; my bday, christmas, new years, snow! it's all very exciting:)

Home...

I just got back from my nine day trip home. It's weird to be back. I love both places so much so I'm trying to be positive and consider my situation a win win, like I'm always someplace I love to be... instead of thinking about how I'm always away from someplace I love to be. It's real hard to be excited to come back here (Cali) tho cause I know I'm just here to study, write three essays, take two tests, and finish a butt load of Spanish homework. It will be two weeks of intense studying. I'm sooooo excited:) I CAN wait to go home in two weeks. It will go too fast because of the tests. A lot of my friends are leaving early next week cause their last test is on Tuesday or Wednesday.. but Noooooo my last test is Friday afternoon! more time to study I guess:) I'll have the room to myself after Suze leaves on Tuesday so I can just focus on Espanol. Me amo espanol, es muy divertido:) Well hopefully something fantabulous will happen or I will do something glorious so I can write again on my blog something other than how sick I am of reading.

Vets Day

A lot of my family and loved ones have or are currently fighting for our country. God bless you all. Thank you all. I love you all.

santa cruz

in santa cruz we ate.
in santa cruz we laid on the sand.
in santa cruz we had the best breakfast burritos in the world.
in santa cruz we protected ourselves from harmful uv rays.
in santa cruz we lost a lot of fooz ball and were forced to jump in the ocean at 2 am.

Catholic?

Coming to this Catholic college I had a lot of preconcieved notions about what these "Jesuits" would think, believe, talk about. I have a few friends that are Catholic, I have Catholic relatives, I've read A LOT of the Bible, and I thought I knew enough to get by. Turns out I was wrong. I thought most, if not all Catholics were pretty conservative on a lot of issues. I thought most, if not all believed in the Bible pretty literally. My Christian Traditions class is taught by a Jesuit, Father Reites. He talks about evolution, the big bang, and how most of the bible has to be read with the context in mind. Not really the uber conservative hermenutics I was expecting, but I like it. This openess is what I have always believed in. I believe in God. I know God is real, proven by the fact that everyone, in different cultures, on different continents, they all have this hole they fill with some sort of religion or diety. I really believe all religions hold a bit of truth, they all point to the same great power. Surprisingly my Jesuit teacher talks about the same thing.

Happy day of the dead!

you feel lucky... punk.

A pixie, a carnation local, and two nerf sharp shooters ready for a good time.
"The Dude" Sandwhich.
Life's funnier with your tongue out.
shoot out in the hall way. obviously I was victorious.

I miss.....

my sante fe
car rides with dad
cooking
laying in bed with mom
lake joy gang gatherings
walking around the lake
eating the smith's food
knowledge bowl
jazz, angel, star
baths
duvall fitness
mom's barbeque sauce
movies with missy
duvall safeway
dates with carrie franks
ixtapa
janice's cooking
driving my boys to school

Earthquake!!!

It was a 5.6. I honestly thought it was the floor above me having a lot of fun. I had hung a picture of my daddy and me earlier that day, and thought, wow if there is an earth quake this will probably fall down. It didn't:) no one was hurt but the building shook pretty hard. All the people from California were like "hey washington was that your first earthquake?" I laughed and explained to them that their cool little fault line runs all the way up into Washington and I've been in numerous earthquakes.
Funny story: a kid in a dorm next to ours wanted to play a prank on his roomie and so he filled up over a hundred dixie cups with water and covered every horizontal surface in their room so that his roomie would be forced to pour every cup out to be able to get in. Before his roomie could see his surprise....earthquake. All the dixie cups spilled and now their whole room is wet. Unfortunate:)

Frustration

I want a degree in Sociology. All of the classes required to major in this adds up to 130 credits. I would love to take 130 credits and leave happily with my degree. But no. To graduate you need 175 credits. I understand why, they want to give students the chance to decide what they want to do by taking random classes. They want to make sure that you get to take classes that you want, even outside your major. What if I don't want to? What if I want to just get my degree and go. I love it here, I love the experience. But I doubt I'm going to love my entire senior year; taking classes that have nothing to do with nothing, knowing I could be done. I know it will be nice to learn about random things, to maybe find a speciality in Soc, but I can definately see my self being upset that I am forced to pay for an additional unecessary year. Maybe I'm just in a negative Nancy mood. I have no clue what I'm going to think when I'm a senior. Best to not worry about it now:)

World.. meet mikey

My wish list.

All I want for my birthday/Christmas is for everyone I know to read this book. Literally that is what I want my loved ones to do. You don't need to be a Buddhist or even know about Buddhism to understand the beautiful message Satish Kumar portrays in The Buddha and the Terrorist. To read this book is to understand how I view the world. How I try to live my life. To read this book is to read me. It is so short, only 116 pages with huge print and small pages. The words are simple but the message behind them is life altering. PLEASE read this book. Honestly I don't ever want anything for my birthday or Christmas, but this year I'm asking for a few hours out of your life. If you read it, let me know what you thought. Call me, email me, write me, text me, I don't care just let me know.

Body Worlds

Body Worlds was in Seattle for a long time, but I was never able to go. Once I found out it was in San Jose (The city right next to Santa Clara) I knew I had to go. My friends had seen it and told me it was really interesting, and when the school offered a "go to body worlds for free" day my choice was made. I don't know what I was thinking. I Morgan Wilhelm cry when I see road kill, I cry druing the news when I hear a horrbile story, I'm the biggest baby when it comes to death. So I'm not sure what I expected my reaction to be when I was looking at actual dead bodies. We went and I was ok untill the fetal part. Not ok. It reminded me of this time I was in a seafood restaurant with my dad and there were crab and starfish hung as decoration all around the wall. My dad said something like "imagine if aliens came, we were the food, and our dead bodies became the decoration." i still completely support the Body Worlds exhibit, it has taught so many so much and all the bodies were donated willingly. But It's not for everyone. It wasn't for me.

Girls soccer game at STANFORD!!

Wicked awesome picture.. with some wicked awesome broncos
There were not enough seats... Wren and Suze's lives were put on the line.
It was quite dull....
I am an artist.
Thats my hat and it's friends.

Its late

Im tired. stay with me. sometimes... homeworks not fun. other times... its a little fun. right now... is one of those times... its not. so im tired. and whispering. and listening to music with claps. thats annoying. who needs drugs when you have sleep deprivation? not me. thats who. good night. its not even that late. my brain has thought a lot lately. its tired. good night.

Yeah...there are beaches in California

Jeremy mentally preparing for the waves... how tranquil:)
The view from my rock
My rock
wet suit stud
messing with the animal life

Coach Mo

Captain Jimbo is an amazing QB. I taught him everything he knows.
McCoys tired.
Standing tall Mikey.
Gettin their head in the game.

A little explination: I'm Coach Mo.( I hold the access cards and cell phones of the team while they play) i have a whistle and a manly insulting voice...so i do a pretty good job as coach:)

In and Out Burger

Susan(inandout virgin), Kelsey, Me (inandout virgin)
This is Mikey trying to be short with me... he's tall
My friends...We're cool I swear.
See... I told you...
Did i mention my mom was with us.... yup

I give up

Everytime I have walked into the Cowell Health Center I have come out with something new... mono... strep...tonsilitus... what made me think this visit was going to be any different. My left tonsil is infected. It had a huge absys on it that would need to be taken off. So i found a ride with an amazing friend named Kelsey and we went to a Ear/Nose/Throat specialist. My doctor warned me to take to valium before i got there which is always concerning. But after talking to Janet I took the pills and before long I was a little loopy. and then i was a lot loopy. The Doc was all about it and wasted no time. All of a sudden there was a huge needle going into my mouth to numb my throat. Then another uncomfortably large needle to numb my tonsil. The Doc warned that he would not be able to numb the actual absys so it would hurt when he was lancing it. Basically he took a big knife, cut my tonsil open, drained a teaspoon of puss out. Yes. It hurt. A lot. But I am alive and supposedly the procedure will help me be able to swallow so that sometime soon i can eat food. Well my mommy dearsest is flying down here to take care of me for the rest of the week since im not really able to be up and around after being cut open. So yeah. good times.

oh california

This is how we get our study on

We play frisbee... often
Washington meet palm trees and blue sky.
I love life.

Im still alive... but why does that need to be said?

Two nights ago I stopped breathing. My tonsils finally got so big my throat closed and I woke up cause I wasn't breathing. It was quite alarming so I got to the CF on the hall and she called the campus EMT's since I couldn't talk. They put me on oxygen and called the real EMT's who called the Paramedics and they loaded me up in the ambulance and we were off to the ER. A little scary going to the ER all by myself knowing that no one was on their way. I got poked with needles a hundred times since I was so dehydrated my veins were almost collapsed. Soon they had an IV in one arm and blood being drawn from the other so I couldn't talk or write so it felt like I was in another country where i couldn't communicate with anyone. It was awesome. Thank god for meditation because except for when the nurse was stabbing at my arm to find a vein, or when she made me swallow a pill before giving me something to make my tonsils smaller, or when she gave me the most painful hip shot of my life I was fine:) The rest of the time when I was just scared and in pain I was able to breath out of it and keep my cool. After they kicked me out of my bed, I was instructed to walk to the front desk and get a taxi. I passed out in the waiting room so they called the taxi for me. How sweet of them:) Once I got back to the dorm at 6 in the morning my friend Michael helped me up the stairs and I passed out until about 2. I'm ok now. The drugs they gave me at the hospital to make the swelling go down are working fine. I can actually swallow jello now. It takes awhile but I can do it. Game plan: sleep all weekend and then go see the doc again on Monday to see our next steps are. Hopefully my tonsils can hang in there until December so I don't have to miss any more school. All in all I think it was a great test on my inner peace and independence. I'm pretty sure I passed.

Some get sad, some get drunk, I get...

MONO! Week one at college and I have mono. The doctor said I've probably had it for a month and it's just flairing up because of the stress of moving and lack of sleep. So I can't eat whole foods, I'm sleepy all the time, the meds make me nausious, and all the walking makes me dizzy. Good times. I am officially the girl you hang out with if you are too lame to go out and have fun. just kidding new friends:) Sitting and laying are my new favorite positions. Well good news is I have academic relief, which means if I get really dizzy or drousy I can miss class or an assignment and the teacher will take pity. I love pity:)

Two out of three aint bad

College is made up of three parts... from my three days of experience... academic life, social life, and sleep. You have to pick two. There just isn't enough time for all three. Obvioulsy since I am writting this at 1:30 in the morning and i still have 40 pages I plan on reading tonight I have made my choice. I figure I can sleep when I graduate and become a boring adult. Don't worry adult friends and family my social life is a sober one. Like I said before, I found a sober buddy and we are quite content going out without getting "shmangled". I have an awesome group of people to hang out with and I'm loving life. I am starting to wonder how long it will take before the sleep deprevation wears me down. No bother. Small bites.

Wait... you have to learn at college?

After meeting so many cool people and finding so much fun stuff to do we all comnpletely forgot that we are here to go to school. Today was a huge wake up call. I already have about 50 pages to read by wednesday and an essay due friday. I haven't even gone to my third class yet today. My Christian Tradition class is going to be a lot of fun. I have a group of my firends in there with me and the teacher seems pretty open. On the other hand.... my Biology 21 class.... I almost cried after five minutes. The teacher seems so nice but the class is going to be so tough. She told us that if we highlight while we study we aren't doing our job. Highlighting infers that the unhighlighted things are unimportant and that's just not true in this class because we will be tested on every word of that huge book. Not just the facts either. We will have to know what Metabolism is and then be able to compare the systems of a plant and a beetle conceptually. Boy oh boy am I excited. And so the work begins.....

My Roomie:)

This is my girl Susan. She's from Carnation so we have random similar friends. I got so lucky cause i get a roommate and a friend all in one:) How precious!

My beautiful dorm:)

Move in day

Move in day… good times. It was way easier than I thought in every way. We got there and my car door was literally opened for me. By the time I got my keys, volunteers had brought ALL of my things up to my room on the second floor. It was magical:) I waited for my ridiculously awesome roommate, Susan, to get here and then we rearranged furniture and moved in. With our posters, our pictures, our hideous rug, and our plants we had the most interesting room…by far. See the pictures and you’ll understand. Now we are making tshirt curtains. It’s taking awhile but I promise to post pictures once they’re up. My roommate is going to be such a great friend. We’ve already met so many cool people just by keeping our dorm door open. Our room has become the hang out spot real fast. We like it that way:) Night one we ended up at a Frat party. I’ll admit it was my first, but it was everything I expected…a lot of drunk people. I’ve already found two sober buddies to go to parties with and that’s probably the coolest thing I’ve found here so far. We ended up going home pretty early but keeping our door open until about 1 so that everyone could hang out here. All and all day one was amazing. I miss Carrie and everybody but through the internet we’ll all keep in touch. Thank god for technology.