i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

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I'm learning how to drive, I am saving my money fairly well, and I am trying hard to be more productive and I've done average at that. Also, apparently I'm decent at bowling, and I don't know where that came from. My aim is usually dead on, but unfortunately I apparently have no arm muscles so I bowl at like half the speed of a grandma. Oh well, dollar bowling is a good cheap way to spend Monday nights. And in other news, I'm going to the shore for two weekends in a row. Thank goodness. It might be 6,000 degrees, but I need some shore time. I really should get back to cleaning my room, as it's a little less of a disaster then yesterday, but still pretty pathetic.

This summer is flying by, and I'm no more productive or less inhibited by my procrastination (which has sunk to a new low of unintentional... its a sickness). I got to meet one of my California cousin's kid and go to Hershey Park with him and a ton of other things. It's not really the first time I'm seeing him, since I saw him 2 or three times when he was a baby, but this is the first time he'll actually remember me. And to really make this a quality post, why not stick a meme in here?

I will eventually update on the amazing time that was Bonnaroo '06, but for now I will just say that I have dealt with an impressive amount of helpful and friendly people this weekend, but my body is currently not being helpful or friendly. I am hoping that a tall glass of OJ, lots of water, more robutussin than recommended, vapor rub, and sleep from 8:30 until 7 tomorrow morning when I have to go to work. The smart thing would probably be to call and let her (my neighbor whose children I babysit) know that I am sick and exhausted, but I already canceled Monday for Bonnaroo and Tuesday to oversee the move-in at my aunt's new house. Plus I really need money.

Hooray for being in a fight with my own body!

I'm going to Bonnaroo this weekend. My friend just called me yesterday morning and asked if I wanted to go. I had thought about going a few months ago, but then let the idea die as it didn't seem possible transportation and planning wise. But tomorrow night or early Thursday I will be bound for Manchester, Tennesee. So excited.

Death Cab for Cutie, Ben Folds, Bonnie Raitt, Elvis Costello, Radiohead, Bright Eyes, and more - here I come!

So I made a batch of chocolate chip cookies, only to find that the milk in my fridge was pretty sour. Bah humbug.

The DSL has been ordered, so now all I have to do is patiently wait for the software and modem to arrive. Yaaay, only a few more days of slow and crappy internet service.

I really need to get on filling out my accountability sheet for OC, as it's due on Friday. I need to get to the post office, but how?

So we might be getting DSL. Please let this be true, this dial-up at home is awful. Might be ordering it today, and if we do I will pay the money myself to get a wireless router. I'm tres excited!

Now to get off my bum and do something productive.

So, it's literally been since my last entry that I've been online. The slowness and general suckiness of the connect has discouraged me, but I figured I needed to be in touch with the world every now and then. Especially since I need to keep in touch with my siblings for OC.

So I hope everyone's summer is going well so far, or more relaxing than finals week at the very least. I've been a complete bum and while I'm convincing myself I've been unpacking, I've really been sleeping until absurd hours (my latest thus far was 3:45pm), looking at the boxes in my room and pushing them around a little, and then watching some TV and doing completely unproductive things. Oh well, it's summer.

I've been thinking about what kind of flowers I could plant for this summer, and I've also been giving some thought to what kinf of plants I could have for the room.

That's about it. Really exciting stuff.

So I'm home and have been since Saturday evening, but I've been unpacking and unwinding. This is mostly for Rachel, since I'm pretty sure she's the only home person who reads this. Let's hang out.

Also, tonight I made a delicious dinner of asparagus, chicken, and angel hair pasta. It was a million times better than any of the crap Aramark makes us, and undoubtedly much healthier.

That's all for now.

So. It may have been a bad idea to be involved in the two organizations that extend my stay at school by 10 days at the beginning for orientation and 5 days at the end to sing for graduation. Not that I won't hang out with some of my friends who are staying for the summer, but my room echos now and its weird and I feel bored. Ha. It's funny how the appeal of all the shit I procrastinate with (like reading LJ or talking on AIM) goes way down when I have nothing I'm supposed to be doing.

I just want to say that I have the best advisor in the world.

The end.

It's time for that "I can't wait for summer" broken record that plays at this time of year.

I can't wait for summer to: take showers in bare feet, sleep in my big comfy bed, play PS2 ridiculous amounts, have time to be crafty, go to the beach and get a tan, eat healtier, be out in and enjoy the nice weather more often, write more regularly, go to garage sales, check out craft fairs, see my cousins' kids more often and watch them grow, crochet a lot, not worry for one second about homework or studying or getting up for class, swim, live for myself and what I need/want to do, wear sunglasses and flip-flops more, stay up REAL late, read for pleasure not for grades, and millions of more things.

I need to get a haircut real bad. I think I've decided that I want to keep most of the length, but it definitely needs a trim, and to do something more fun than just grow wildly.

Riker 123! We got the doubles quad! Hooray for showering without flipflops next year!

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Total Credits: 17 (excluding waitlist)

That is the final result of me having a heart attack for half an hour as CampusWeb told me (and most of the people trying to register at 9am this morning) that registration wasn't available for the first half hour and ten minutes prior to official registration time. CampusWeb is horrendous and I think it's time a new software was used. I also got waitlisted for Learning and Memory, which I really wanted. So we'll see how that goes.

Sooo, Bush tied for third place in a poll of who Republicans want to run for president in the next election.

...Oooook.

I went food shopping the other day with Laura and Jacob, and since we had Laura's car I didn't have to worry about the weight of the groceries. Oh man, I am so happy just to have some real food now. I just had some crunchy raisin bran (stop and shop's rip off of raisin bran crunch) with some milk, and now I feel wonderful. Perhaps I'll be awake in the morning now for a few days of class, instead of just crashing from lack of breakfast.

I'm at work... and I feel as if I really have nothing to do. But since I committed to being her today, I am not leaving. She did say that if I don't really have anything to do I can just sit around and do homework. Technically this isn't homework, but after researching for my new bulletin boards and then also researching for the new OC website, I really only have this to do. So I'm sort of bored right now, but then again, I see this job being much more fun when there's more for me to realy do. Looking up articles has been fun though, I'll admit. I always want extra time to read the news, and here it is. Only it's much more psychology and other related science. Oh well, it's the NY Times, and beggars can't be choosers.

Sooo, glad it's Friday. Yet now I have to figure out how to spend twenty more minutes before I leave for OC. I may just leave early, since only like 3 people in the department know WHO I am at this point, and I'm willing to bet only one knows that I'm actually here to do work and what hours I am here yet.

I'll think of something.

How quickly things can go wrong. All of my music, pictures, and videos couldn't be salvaged. Goddamn you faulty hard drive! Thr music I can part with, but the loss of all my pictures is killing me.

I haven't updated this in forever.

Let's see... recent things... I accidentally cut a huge scrape across my forehead with my nail (go intelligence!), I got a job as an assistant to the psychology department, classes are going well, it snowed a lot (in case you missed that one), my computer's hard drive died (but luckily I am going to be able to save my files, or so I am told), Karaoke Revolution and We Love Katamari are delightful, aaaaand I gave up drinking soda and I'm cutting down on sweets. That's all I can think of right now.

Despite the loads of work I have coming up, I feel good. Tired, but good.