woohu..

:: 2007 3 September :: 6.15pm

So I just applied to go live on a bus and plant trees and teach kids about loving the earth. It's going down next spring. Here's the site: www.commonvision.org

I am crossing my fingers really really hard.

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You know, if my stupid job is gonna make me stay up all night, they need to actually provide work so I can get paid. I'm sure as hell not doing this for my health. Cause that's starting to go down the tubes on account of I can't hang with these hours very well.

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ears	:: 2007 3 September :: 10.31am :: Mood: thoughtful :: Music: Jeremy Camp Time does not heal all wounds. GOD heals all wounds. (But the scars still hurt and I wish He would get rid of those too.) comment

:: 2007 2 September :: 4.53am

So I went to sleep at 10 last night and only meant to sleep for a few hours, cause thats how I sleep on this fucked up schedule. But I just woke up a couple minutes ago. Which means I fucked up my already fucked schedule. Dammit! I hate working 3rd shift.

:: 2007 31 August :: 9.37pm

Mom was apparently going to put McHenry to sleep last Wednesday but she didn't want to do it without telling us.

He falls down the stairs and cries now. Poor kitty. He's not even old enough to die...

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:: 2007 29 August :: 7.41pm

We got our grades from France today. Finally. I did well.

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:: 2007 29 August :: 4.59pm

So I started a new job yesterday and it sucks GIANT DONKEY NARDS!!!! Man what I wouldn't do for a job that doesn't blow. Or to not need to have a job. And yes, it does suck and blow simultaneously. I work in a factory packing boxes all day. Or all night I should say. It's 3rd shift which makes it even suckier. So now my sleep pattern's all fucked up. I'm going on 2 hours of sleep today because I passed out as soon as I got home but then I had to get up and try and find a job that sucks less. And then after that I couldn't go back to sleep. So hopefully I can before I have to go back to work.

However, it won't be too much longer before I can get the hell out of here.

:: 2007 28 August :: 10.33am

I got published. Sort of. It's a paper I wrote for an english class and some other people liked it apparently. Here's the link if anyone's interested.

http://isabellamagazine.com/NonFiction/Issue1/Default.aspx

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:: 2007 27 August :: 11.04am

I overslept and missed my first class so I shall use this opportunity to do what I always do, talk about my classes.

I had 17 credits this semester but I just dropped a class so now I'm down to 14. This semester is pretty much just catching up on requirements.

On Mondays and Thursdays, I have Earth Environments at 10:50. This class seems exactly like my 9th grade science class. The professor is married to my fourth grade teacher. It's like a timewarp. That's the one I missed this morning.

I also have Intro to Communication at 12:15. This is a requirement so I don't really care. I'm trying to see if I can avoid buying the book at all. It's going well so far. I just wrote a min 2 page paper last night that turned into 4 pages.

After that I had a French class. I dropped it. Gasster taught it, not Pichot and her idea of contemporary Francophone literature was African colonization books from the fifties to the eighties. It was horrible. Plus the books were very difficult.

Then tonight I have Image Editing. It's my only fun class. It is way too easy. During the first class, we changed a picture to grayscale! And that was our assignment.

Tuesdays, I have Humanities at 8am. I have it with McMillan who is pretty much the easiest prof at AQ. This is another required class. It's actually a sophomore required class that I didn't take last year because of stupid France.

Then I have my lab at 1:40. He says we'll watch movies and walk along streams. That's as hard as that class gets really. The walking.

Tuesday nights I have my first quad. It's Theology of Christian Marriage and it is with the hardest theo prof. Yay for me. It runs from 6:30-10:30. My first paper, due tomorrow, is supposed to be 5 pages of what I expect marriage to be like. It is going to be a lot of blabbing.

Wednesdays I don't have any classes. I just work.

Thursdays are just like Mondays except I don't have Theology.

And on Friday, all I have is Humanities and then I work.

I work on Tuesdays and Thursdays too.

So yeah. This semester sucks. I have to give two TAPED speeches eventually in my communication class. It shouldn't be too bad. It is a required course so most people should be able to get As.

I'm going to go try to find clothes now. I love you all.

P.S. Nick's grandmother isn't doing very well. Please think happy thoughts for her. Thanks.

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:: 2007 26 August :: 6.41am

I can't wait until I'm 21. Then I'll be a real adult and get to go to any concert. I'll be past all stupid age limits. Ha ha, world, I scoff at your attempts to foil my plans!

I should go to bed now. It's actually almost 3. Not 7.

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:: 2007 24 August :: 6.18pm

Man, I really don't know if I can do this whole knife selling thing. I'm supposed to set up at least 6 appointments tonight and that alone seems insurmountable. Being that I've already called 4 people and no one picked up. Let alone actually selling anything. I'm really tempted to just say fuck it but I need the money real bad. Fuck! I should just start hanging out downtown and busking.

:: 2007 24 August :: 5.40pm

What is the worst thing that I could ever see?

A beaver.

It was on the corner of E Beltline and Burton. It looked exactly like those stupid pictures and videos except its tail was brown and not cross-hatched. He was hanging out in a ditch on the side of the road by some marshy area.

Hannah says the government discovered that I was on to them and sent a robot to convince me.

I think she's right.

P.S. Changed my background. It's a picture I took in Venice. Sigh. I miss Europe.

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:: 2007 23 August :: 11.11pm

We lost our power yesterday. But obviously, its back on now. Had my first day of knife-selling training today. It was quite dull (pun intended). Also, if any of y'alls parents want to buy some high quality knives (or are at least willing to sit thru my spiel) please let me know. It would make me very happy.

:: 2007 23 August :: 7.31pm

A STORY!
I took my first ride from a stranger. It was like inadvertent hitchhiking.

I was on the bus and it started sprinkling a little bit and then, out of nowhere, POURED. I got off the bus and the driver suggested I take a schedule to use as a makeshift umbrella. I did. I walked five steps and my pants were soaked. I don't even know what my backpack is like, I should probably go air it out.

I got to E Beltline and the light just turned red so I had to wait. I was standing in the rain for maybe 15 seconds when a car pulled up and the driver started talking to me. It was a kind of old car and there were two kids in the back. He asked me how far I had to go, I said only down E Beltline. He offered me a ride and I accepted.

Maybe only Kelly will understand why I did this. It was raining, I was soaked, wearing a very light tank top and jeans, the light was red, I still had 479 yards to walk (1,437 feet) and I did not get any apprehensive/creepy feelings at all. Which is unusual for me because I worry about everything. He had two kids in the backseat, I had my cell phone and plenty of heavy books with which to whack him.

I got home fine and was filled with warm fuzzies about very kind people. People rock, the world is good, the end.

Now I have to wait until Nick gets home to get lectured.

I love you all.

P.S. I also have been overpaying for my bus rides and the bus driver was kind enough to point it out. She said that AQ students only pay 40 cents and the 10-ride card is basically 80 cents a ride. I only had a ten dollar bill so she said I can just pay twice tomorrow instead of overpaying. People are awesome!

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