homework
ugh...class is boring. who wants to have a 2 and a half hour class on quarkxpress? ick. anyways...i need a list of the homework i have to do this weekend so i'm posting it here:
-typo and layout: grid design in illustrator
-multimedia: quizzes
-multimedia: information arcitecture assignment
-publication: chapter outlines: 10 and 11
-publicatin: thanksgiving card in quark
-typo and layout: buy black mat board for book
-typo and layout: buy books on how to make cool books
-study chapters 7-10 for publication text on quark
-there's probably more... o, which reminds me...
-bring a magazine into typo and layout on monday
for work:
-go to engalstad for pics
-talk to mr. k
-do creative expressions site
another thing i have to do: see if we still have newspaper paper at home for habitat meetings
think that may be it...
Thursday, September 30, 2004
as if athens wasn't enough...
there's more swimming coming up on tv! the fina world short course championships are coming to indianapolis and the conseco fieldhouse on oct. 7 and they'll be on tv! that means more michael phelps, aaron peirsol, amanda beard, natalie coughlin and all the rest. and instead of using the fastest long course pool in the world located at the iupui natatorium (where i've actually been...it's the most gorgous pool ever) they made the fastest short course pool at the fieldhouse. they've built it in the past month and are filling it with water as we speak. after the meet, they will sell the pools that were built.
i think i would die if i had tickets to that meet. besides the fact that indianapolis is one of the most gorgous cities i have ever been to (new orleans is right up there), just going to a meet where big names in swimming will be competing would be a dream come true.
there's more swimming coming up on tv! the fina world short course championships are coming to indianapolis and the conseco fieldhouse on oct. 7 and they'll be on tv! that means more michael phelps, aaron peirsol, amanda beard, natalie coughlin and all the rest. and instead of using the fastest long course pool in the world located at the iupui natatorium (where i've actually been...it's the most gorgous pool ever) they made the fastest short course pool at the fieldhouse. they've built it in the past month and are filling it with water as we speak. after the meet, they will sell the pools that were built.
i think i would die if i had tickets to that meet. besides the fact that indianapolis is one of the most gorgous cities i have ever been to (new orleans is right up there), just going to a meet where big names in swimming will be competing would be a dream come true.
Sunday, September 26, 2004
ick
i smell. i really need to take a shower. and i will do so after this...well, i plan to.
i just finished up a bunch of much needed things i needed to do. work related stuff, homework related stuff, all sorts of things. i also did some habitat stuff. i checked online to look at spring break destinations. you have no idea how badly i want to go. i would do anything for them to push back the eurosping date a couple of days. anything. i was looking at the destinations and i think a good place for them to go would be seattle, washington. i've always wanted to go there. how can i be in charge of a group that the big thing is to go on this trip, and i can't even go? there's no way i would back down, but i really really really want to go on the spring break trip...it's what i live for every year. i know i have 2 more years to participate...but...i want to go this year. we have so many new members and i don't want to miss getting to know them, because that is where you get to know them...it's where they become family...or in some cases, people you don't want to talk to anymore...but that rarely happens. wow...maybe i can catch the next flight to europe and meet them there? hmmmm.....
but back to showering...and more homework.
i smell. i really need to take a shower. and i will do so after this...well, i plan to.
i just finished up a bunch of much needed things i needed to do. work related stuff, homework related stuff, all sorts of things. i also did some habitat stuff. i checked online to look at spring break destinations. you have no idea how badly i want to go. i would do anything for them to push back the eurosping date a couple of days. anything. i was looking at the destinations and i think a good place for them to go would be seattle, washington. i've always wanted to go there. how can i be in charge of a group that the big thing is to go on this trip, and i can't even go? there's no way i would back down, but i really really really want to go on the spring break trip...it's what i live for every year. i know i have 2 more years to participate...but...i want to go this year. we have so many new members and i don't want to miss getting to know them, because that is where you get to know them...it's where they become family...or in some cases, people you don't want to talk to anymore...but that rarely happens. wow...maybe i can catch the next flight to europe and meet them there? hmmmm.....
but back to showering...and more homework.
Thursday, September 23, 2004
not your homecoming queen
no, i wasn't selected homecoming queen. which is fine by me. the 2 from the american indian science something or another won. which was nice and all...but i think it would have been more exciting to have typical college students who won...not older than average ones who have kids...but i'm still glad for them non the less. the queen had her son get dressed in a tux and they had their picture taken together.
which in fact, i hated the pictures. i think the photographer thought that all of us taking our pictures with our escorts were couples or something. they kept telling us to get closer and closer together...i didn't want to be any closer.
last night was very tiring though. i got there at 6, got my corsage, took pictures and then my family arrived. talked to them for awhile and then we had to sit and wait another hour plus until we walked out. my feet hurt, i was hungry and i was tired. i have no idea why they wanted us there for 2 hours.
when we were all done, i was supposed to go out for perkins with habitat, however, danielle had to go to a meeting, publicity had things to do and lynette, a new member, also had to take off. otherwise that's all that was there for me besides my family. i was hoping more of habitat or the habifam would show up so that was slightly disappointing but i'm sure they had their share of things to do. which, that reminds me, danielle got me a white board that says "Ye Royal To Do List" and a frog that is my price charming. i kissed him. nothing happened. i also got a pretty pink rose from my grandparents. but anyways, i didn't get wednesday night perkins. hopefully that's not dead. if anybody wants wednesday night perkins, and i have money, i would love to go.
so yeah, that's how my night went. i got home at night, made food, talked to nate, didn't study, and talked to gizmo as we sprawled out on my bed. it was fun, i enjoy talking to her. then at 1 i crashed only to wake up early the next morning, tired and wanting to stay in bed. but i had a meeting at 9 so up i got. i now have the files to put together the mock ups for the pe complex. that place is gonna look hot when i'm done. if only mr. k would get back to me...hmmm. maybe i should have zerek send him a note. i'll figure that out later.
i have to get back to class...tschus
no, i wasn't selected homecoming queen. which is fine by me. the 2 from the american indian science something or another won. which was nice and all...but i think it would have been more exciting to have typical college students who won...not older than average ones who have kids...but i'm still glad for them non the less. the queen had her son get dressed in a tux and they had their picture taken together.
which in fact, i hated the pictures. i think the photographer thought that all of us taking our pictures with our escorts were couples or something. they kept telling us to get closer and closer together...i didn't want to be any closer.
last night was very tiring though. i got there at 6, got my corsage, took pictures and then my family arrived. talked to them for awhile and then we had to sit and wait another hour plus until we walked out. my feet hurt, i was hungry and i was tired. i have no idea why they wanted us there for 2 hours.
when we were all done, i was supposed to go out for perkins with habitat, however, danielle had to go to a meeting, publicity had things to do and lynette, a new member, also had to take off. otherwise that's all that was there for me besides my family. i was hoping more of habitat or the habifam would show up so that was slightly disappointing but i'm sure they had their share of things to do. which, that reminds me, danielle got me a white board that says "Ye Royal To Do List" and a frog that is my price charming. i kissed him. nothing happened. i also got a pretty pink rose from my grandparents. but anyways, i didn't get wednesday night perkins. hopefully that's not dead. if anybody wants wednesday night perkins, and i have money, i would love to go.
so yeah, that's how my night went. i got home at night, made food, talked to nate, didn't study, and talked to gizmo as we sprawled out on my bed. it was fun, i enjoy talking to her. then at 1 i crashed only to wake up early the next morning, tired and wanting to stay in bed. but i had a meeting at 9 so up i got. i now have the files to put together the mock ups for the pe complex. that place is gonna look hot when i'm done. if only mr. k would get back to me...hmmm. maybe i should have zerek send him a note. i'll figure that out later.
i have to get back to class...tschus
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
anxiety
i'm full of so much anxiet right now. for some reason i don't want to be sitting here in class and listening to this bring lecture on information architecture. but then again, who would.
i found out that many of my friends are running for homecoming queen. my sista, adrienne, and 2 of my friends, carly and katherine. the 4 of us lived on the ghetto end of our floor our freshman year. carly and katherine are also going to europe, so it should be fun to have them with.
nate keeps saying i'm going to win tonight but i know i won't. maple hall usually wins, and that would be adrienne. but for some reason, im getting my hopes up, which i shouldn't do. on one hand i don't want to encourage this whole homecoming queen thing but on the other hand i secretly kind of want to win...something that i thought would never be a part of my life. we'll see. everyone on monday was voting for this shawn lohse as she had a short girl with red pigtail braided hair and a nose ring that was threatening to break your fingers if if you didn't vote for shawn. i didn't have someone willing to threaten people to vote for me but nate said he would smash her head in. good to know that the people who are willing to do some damage in my benefit are out of town! zerek even said he paid someone 10 bucks to vote for me. i don't think zerek could part with money that wasn't used to buy materialistic things so i'm pretty sure that was a load of bs. wait, no, i'm possitive.
so that's the news as of right now...o, except for the news that i will be re-doing the interior of the john glas fieldhouse here on campus! i'll be in charge of painting the walls and coming up with mock ups and the whole thing. i had a meeting this morning and another tomorrow morning. excitement.
i'm full of so much anxiet right now. for some reason i don't want to be sitting here in class and listening to this bring lecture on information architecture. but then again, who would.
i found out that many of my friends are running for homecoming queen. my sista, adrienne, and 2 of my friends, carly and katherine. the 4 of us lived on the ghetto end of our floor our freshman year. carly and katherine are also going to europe, so it should be fun to have them with.
nate keeps saying i'm going to win tonight but i know i won't. maple hall usually wins, and that would be adrienne. but for some reason, im getting my hopes up, which i shouldn't do. on one hand i don't want to encourage this whole homecoming queen thing but on the other hand i secretly kind of want to win...something that i thought would never be a part of my life. we'll see. everyone on monday was voting for this shawn lohse as she had a short girl with red pigtail braided hair and a nose ring that was threatening to break your fingers if if you didn't vote for shawn. i didn't have someone willing to threaten people to vote for me but nate said he would smash her head in. good to know that the people who are willing to do some damage in my benefit are out of town! zerek even said he paid someone 10 bucks to vote for me. i don't think zerek could part with money that wasn't used to buy materialistic things so i'm pretty sure that was a load of bs. wait, no, i'm possitive.
so that's the news as of right now...o, except for the news that i will be re-doing the interior of the john glas fieldhouse here on campus! i'll be in charge of painting the walls and coming up with mock ups and the whole thing. i had a meeting this morning and another tomorrow morning. excitement.
Sunday, September 19, 2004
Saturday, September 18, 2004
so far, so good
well, i went out and bought my dress this afternoon. it took some time, about 2 hours to conquer our small mall and try on every short dress they offered. i hit up herberger's, maurice's, vanity (which maurices' and vanity didn't have anything for dresses surprisingly with homecoming around the corner) deb and jcpenney's. i found a lot of decently priced dresses at jcpenny and one i really liked, but that one killed my shoulders with it's extremely tight straps. after my second trip back to herberger's and a trip to dq, i tried on one dress a second time and when i shortened the straps, i realized i liked it much better. so at a grand total of 19.99, i walked out with a great dress. i then hit up claire's for some earings and i was good to go. so now that i've hemmed up the straps, i'm loving my dress. woohoo!
well, i went out and bought my dress this afternoon. it took some time, about 2 hours to conquer our small mall and try on every short dress they offered. i hit up herberger's, maurice's, vanity (which maurices' and vanity didn't have anything for dresses surprisingly with homecoming around the corner) deb and jcpenney's. i found a lot of decently priced dresses at jcpenny and one i really liked, but that one killed my shoulders with it's extremely tight straps. after my second trip back to herberger's and a trip to dq, i tried on one dress a second time and when i shortened the straps, i realized i liked it much better. so at a grand total of 19.99, i walked out with a great dress. i then hit up claire's for some earings and i was good to go. so now that i've hemmed up the straps, i'm loving my dress. woohoo!
Friday, September 17, 2004
yay for the weekend!
so i figured that i should probably post before lindsi removes me from her blog links for not posting often enough. it's weird...some weeks i'll be an excellent blogger and other weeks...well, not so much. but i guess that's just how life goes.
so this week has been interesting enough. but first i should probably back up to last weekend. i drove all the way to fargo to visit my cousin and friend, squeak. we hung out, did lots of shopping, eating and movie watching. o yeah, and i got another hole each in my ears. which by the way, they're kind of sore. but i'm dealing with it. i got back in b town saturday night for kt's 21st birthday where we partied it up(well...when considering the definition of the college students version of that word, i would have to say that only kt partied as we were all under age) at applebee's. good food was eaten, pictures were taken, and birthday songs were sang allowed to kt in an attempt to embarrass her. it was good times.
sunday was spent doing homework and doing what i do best: relaxing
monday was the day of my nomination of homecoming queen. o boy. well...i still have the dress situation to figure out but d will be doing my hair, j my make up and t and c will be helping with the dress situation. all obsticles may have been figured out...o except for that part about having to parade around like a beauty queen in front of the whole school. why me? buy as my mom said, go and have fun with it. o yeah, my parents are coming too. woohoo
coaching also started monday night. it was a good time. not too many kids, all of them hard workers except for one, and i think its because shes not used to being pushed hard. she's 17 and hasn't had much swimming experience and has spinal something...anyways...she's always saying she can't do something and is constantly trying to change my work out for something easier...yet if we have free time, all she will do is swim laps. i personally think she is probably only there to get herself in shape, didn't understand what the term "swim team" means, and would probably do better off at lap swim. but, she is a paying customer and i'll coach her. like i had any other choice anyways.
tuesday and wednesday went by uneventfully, nothing too exciting. square left for s.c. and the americorps on tuesday morning. made it there with no problem. it's just weird not talking to her almost every day. thursday i was supposed to pick up my financial aid check except instead i got a bill. frustrated i called my mom and we figured out that my self loan hadn't gone through. wtf? so i went and talked to financial aid and apparently you have to reapply for the loan every year. my mom and i are pretty sure that i didn't reapply last year, and we know that one came through. i'm just pretty upset at bsu's financial aid as i was in there a couple of times and being a student who knows only a little bit about paying for college, you would think they would have noticed when pulling up my account that i had used the self loan to pay for my huge tuition bill and would have looked at me and said, "would you like to reapply for the self loan?" i think i would have gladly said yes. but now, i'm just slightly frustrated and upset and disappointed all at once. so today i'm calling the self loan people to find out what's up and what i need to do. hopefully i can get it figured out by october 12, when my tuition bill is due. actually i would like it sooner so that i can eat lunch at the union instead of running home all the time. it gets slightly hectic when i have to run to my car, drive home, eat, drive back, drive for 10 min. trying to find a decent parking space when i should actually just park and walk as I would get to where i need to be faster but i still hold up hope that i can get a spot that's within a block of the building i'm supposed to be at but actually after 15 min. and i realize that i'm late i just take the far away spot and walk the 10 min. it takes to get me to my respected classroom.
eh.
last night i had pizza with kt after practice and then i went home to finish rearranging my room. i wanted a different look so i'm switching things around. so far. so good. now i just have to finish scrapbooking stuff and put my table away and i'll be set to go. yay!
the plan for this weekend? homework, cleaning, dress shopping, fill up bike tires with air, work out hard core as i have to parade in front of people on wednesday and i want to look good and i'm sure there are other things that i still have to do. fun fun.
well, hopefully you'll have an excellent weekend...i'll try to.
so i figured that i should probably post before lindsi removes me from her blog links for not posting often enough. it's weird...some weeks i'll be an excellent blogger and other weeks...well, not so much. but i guess that's just how life goes.
so this week has been interesting enough. but first i should probably back up to last weekend. i drove all the way to fargo to visit my cousin and friend, squeak. we hung out, did lots of shopping, eating and movie watching. o yeah, and i got another hole each in my ears. which by the way, they're kind of sore. but i'm dealing with it. i got back in b town saturday night for kt's 21st birthday where we partied it up(well...when considering the definition of the college students version of that word, i would have to say that only kt partied as we were all under age) at applebee's. good food was eaten, pictures were taken, and birthday songs were sang allowed to kt in an attempt to embarrass her. it was good times.
sunday was spent doing homework and doing what i do best: relaxing
monday was the day of my nomination of homecoming queen. o boy. well...i still have the dress situation to figure out but d will be doing my hair, j my make up and t and c will be helping with the dress situation. all obsticles may have been figured out...o except for that part about having to parade around like a beauty queen in front of the whole school. why me? buy as my mom said, go and have fun with it. o yeah, my parents are coming too. woohoo
coaching also started monday night. it was a good time. not too many kids, all of them hard workers except for one, and i think its because shes not used to being pushed hard. she's 17 and hasn't had much swimming experience and has spinal something...anyways...she's always saying she can't do something and is constantly trying to change my work out for something easier...yet if we have free time, all she will do is swim laps. i personally think she is probably only there to get herself in shape, didn't understand what the term "swim team" means, and would probably do better off at lap swim. but, she is a paying customer and i'll coach her. like i had any other choice anyways.
tuesday and wednesday went by uneventfully, nothing too exciting. square left for s.c. and the americorps on tuesday morning. made it there with no problem. it's just weird not talking to her almost every day. thursday i was supposed to pick up my financial aid check except instead i got a bill. frustrated i called my mom and we figured out that my self loan hadn't gone through. wtf? so i went and talked to financial aid and apparently you have to reapply for the loan every year. my mom and i are pretty sure that i didn't reapply last year, and we know that one came through. i'm just pretty upset at bsu's financial aid as i was in there a couple of times and being a student who knows only a little bit about paying for college, you would think they would have noticed when pulling up my account that i had used the self loan to pay for my huge tuition bill and would have looked at me and said, "would you like to reapply for the self loan?" i think i would have gladly said yes. but now, i'm just slightly frustrated and upset and disappointed all at once. so today i'm calling the self loan people to find out what's up and what i need to do. hopefully i can get it figured out by october 12, when my tuition bill is due. actually i would like it sooner so that i can eat lunch at the union instead of running home all the time. it gets slightly hectic when i have to run to my car, drive home, eat, drive back, drive for 10 min. trying to find a decent parking space when i should actually just park and walk as I would get to where i need to be faster but i still hold up hope that i can get a spot that's within a block of the building i'm supposed to be at but actually after 15 min. and i realize that i'm late i just take the far away spot and walk the 10 min. it takes to get me to my respected classroom.
eh.
last night i had pizza with kt after practice and then i went home to finish rearranging my room. i wanted a different look so i'm switching things around. so far. so good. now i just have to finish scrapbooking stuff and put my table away and i'll be set to go. yay!
the plan for this weekend? homework, cleaning, dress shopping, fill up bike tires with air, work out hard core as i have to parade in front of people on wednesday and i want to look good and i'm sure there are other things that i still have to do. fun fun.
well, hopefully you'll have an excellent weekend...i'll try to.
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
Sunday, September 12, 2004
breakaway
Grew up in a small town
And when the rain would fall down
I just stared out my window
Dreaming of a could-be
And if I'd end up happy
I would pray (I would pray)
Trying not to reach out
But when I'd try to speak out
Felt like no one could hear me
Wanted to belong here
But something felt so wrong here
So I pray (I would pray)
I could breakaway
[Chorus:]
I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly
I'll do what it takes til' I touch the sky
I'll make a wish
Take a chance
Make a change
And breakaway
Out of the darkness and into the sun
But I won't forget all the ones that I loved
I'll take a risk
Take a chance
Make a change
And breakaway
Wanna feel the warm breeze
Sleep under a palm tree
Feel the rush of the ocean
Get onboard a fast train
Travel on a jet plane, far away
(I will)And breakaway
[Chorus:]I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly
I'll do what it takes til' I touch the sky
I'll make a wish
Take a chance
Make a change
And breakaway
Out of the darkness and into the sun
But I won't forget all the ones that I loved
I'll take a risk
Take a chance
Make a change
And breakaway
Buildings with a hundred floors
Swinging around wild indoors
Maybe I don't know where they'll take me but
Gotta keep moving on, moving on
Fly away, breakaway
I'll spread my wings
And I'll learn how to fly
Though it's not easy to tell you goodbye
I gotta take a risk
Take chance
Make a change
And breakaway
Out of the darkness and into the sun
But I won't forget the place I come from
I gotta take a risk
Take a chance
Make a change
And breakaway, breakaway, breakaway
Grew up in a small town
And when the rain would fall down
I just stared out my window
Dreaming of a could-be
And if I'd end up happy
I would pray (I would pray)
Trying not to reach out
But when I'd try to speak out
Felt like no one could hear me
Wanted to belong here
But something felt so wrong here
So I pray (I would pray)
I could breakaway
[Chorus:]
I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly
I'll do what it takes til' I touch the sky
I'll make a wish
Take a chance
Make a change
And breakaway
Out of the darkness and into the sun
But I won't forget all the ones that I loved
I'll take a risk
Take a chance
Make a change
And breakaway
Wanna feel the warm breeze
Sleep under a palm tree
Feel the rush of the ocean
Get onboard a fast train
Travel on a jet plane, far away
(I will)And breakaway
[Chorus:]I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly
I'll do what it takes til' I touch the sky
I'll make a wish
Take a chance
Make a change
And breakaway
Out of the darkness and into the sun
But I won't forget all the ones that I loved
I'll take a risk
Take a chance
Make a change
And breakaway
Buildings with a hundred floors
Swinging around wild indoors
Maybe I don't know where they'll take me but
Gotta keep moving on, moving on
Fly away, breakaway
I'll spread my wings
And I'll learn how to fly
Though it's not easy to tell you goodbye
I gotta take a risk
Take chance
Make a change
And breakaway
Out of the darkness and into the sun
But I won't forget the place I come from
I gotta take a risk
Take a chance
Make a change
And breakaway, breakaway, breakaway
Saturday, September 11, 2004
just keep swimming
so today i found out interesting news. my friend heidi had transfered to university of minnesota moorhead (i already knew this...it's what's next that i found out) and she has joined the swim team. (heidi and i both swam for east grand forks through central high school in grand forks) she ended up running into our other swimming friend from high school and she convinced heidi to join the swim team. i really am happy for both of them, i'm glad that they're still swimming. but part of me is jealous. i would love to still be swimming...to be on a team.
i had called my mom right after i found out to tell her the news, i knew that she would be happy too. her reply was that she didn't know that there was a swim team at moorhead, like it would have been an option.
years ago when i quit swimming it was because a couple of reasons that i don't consider mine. part of it, i have to admit, was because i didn't think that my parents would want to me to keep swimming. as they said, "all good things must come to an end." bemidji was chosen as my college of choice as my mom had heard they were known for producing good graphic designers. graphic design was chosen because i was good with computers and at art. it just became...known...that that was what i was going to do. so from the moment that i finished my last race, i was destined for bemidji and i was going to come out 4 years later as a graphic designer, swimming in the past. i don't like to cry, but i didn't stop crying for a long time that night.
so when i found out that moorhead could have been an option, that i didn't have to stop swimming, doing the one thing that i truely love, i started to think...what would it have been like to go to moorhead? what would be different? i know that i shouldn't dwell on the past, but you still have to wonder. i know i wouldn't like the fact that there are a lot of my past classmates that went there. but swimming was my life... i look at what i have now...my classes, my teachers, my jobs, habitat, friends and i know that i wouldn't give it up for moorhead, but...i love swimming. i just wonder, what it would be like to still be swimming. there's a saying that goes, "the only things to regret in life are the risks you didn't take." it would be a risk to go to moorhead just to swim, and i do regret that i'm not swimming right now, but i also know that it's still a risk to stay here, to finish up my time in bemidji, to get the job that i want, to live out the life that i want. so even though the love of my life is in moorhead (swimming, not heidi or erica...i'm sorry...you guys are too, but i'm talking about swimming here), i'm going to stay here, because you can't go back and choose a different path, but you have to make the best of what you have. and i don't regret the life that i have, i love it very much...and so, again...
on with life!
so today i found out interesting news. my friend heidi had transfered to university of minnesota moorhead (i already knew this...it's what's next that i found out) and she has joined the swim team. (heidi and i both swam for east grand forks through central high school in grand forks) she ended up running into our other swimming friend from high school and she convinced heidi to join the swim team. i really am happy for both of them, i'm glad that they're still swimming. but part of me is jealous. i would love to still be swimming...to be on a team.
i had called my mom right after i found out to tell her the news, i knew that she would be happy too. her reply was that she didn't know that there was a swim team at moorhead, like it would have been an option.
years ago when i quit swimming it was because a couple of reasons that i don't consider mine. part of it, i have to admit, was because i didn't think that my parents would want to me to keep swimming. as they said, "all good things must come to an end." bemidji was chosen as my college of choice as my mom had heard they were known for producing good graphic designers. graphic design was chosen because i was good with computers and at art. it just became...known...that that was what i was going to do. so from the moment that i finished my last race, i was destined for bemidji and i was going to come out 4 years later as a graphic designer, swimming in the past. i don't like to cry, but i didn't stop crying for a long time that night.
so when i found out that moorhead could have been an option, that i didn't have to stop swimming, doing the one thing that i truely love, i started to think...what would it have been like to go to moorhead? what would be different? i know that i shouldn't dwell on the past, but you still have to wonder. i know i wouldn't like the fact that there are a lot of my past classmates that went there. but swimming was my life... i look at what i have now...my classes, my teachers, my jobs, habitat, friends and i know that i wouldn't give it up for moorhead, but...i love swimming. i just wonder, what it would be like to still be swimming. there's a saying that goes, "the only things to regret in life are the risks you didn't take." it would be a risk to go to moorhead just to swim, and i do regret that i'm not swimming right now, but i also know that it's still a risk to stay here, to finish up my time in bemidji, to get the job that i want, to live out the life that i want. so even though the love of my life is in moorhead (swimming, not heidi or erica...i'm sorry...you guys are too, but i'm talking about swimming here), i'm going to stay here, because you can't go back and choose a different path, but you have to make the best of what you have. and i don't regret the life that i have, i love it very much...and so, again...
on with life!
Thursday, September 09, 2004
all in the name of free pizza
so, as you all know from my last post, not much was eaten by me today. which, in all reality, isn't such a safe thing. i found out that when you skip on the food intake, you could wind up in some embarrassing situations.
let me start at the beginning:
first of all, when i was at the campus organization fair, i was taking a break from the habitat booth to see what all was happening at the other booths. while making the rounds, i paused and just happened to look at the college republican booth, which is no problem, i do consider myself i republican even though i would rather not meddle with politics. but i did somehow, through the persuasion of a fellow member of the republicans (i think he should be a sales person...) manage to sign up to be on there email list. and thus, i was sent an email about a college republicans meeting, that was to be held somewhere in the union today and would have free pizza.
so after my enormous list of things to do, and after a presentation that left me in the biggest classroom our college has, by myself, instant messaging squeak and booty on the huge tv screen in the front of the room (no one was there...which reminds me...i didn't call them to come and shut down the room! o no...eh, it'll be ok)...all by myself, i went and dropped the laptop off at work and then thought...wow, i'm hungry...and there's free pizza somewhere in the union! so, i decided, i take a u turn in the hallway and then i head over to the union to find the college republicans meeting.
well, i get over there, and in one room, i find a bunch of people, and boxes of pizza on the table. so what do i do? i head in there, thinking i've found the meeting. it wasn't 2 seconds after i sat down that i realized that i was in the college democrat's meeting. not that there is anything wrong with that...except that i knew all these people...and that's not where i was suppose to be! so i did decide to stick it out, as i did have somewhere to be at 5, but i just felt...out of place. i'm sure they would have loved to have me join...but i don't know...it's just not my calling. but what i did hear was interesting and i'm glad i didn't just get up and bolt it out of there...besides that would have been rude. it's just funny that all i wanted was to hear what college republicans were doing and get some free pizza before i had to run again! so yeah, i didn't get free pizza. but as i did find out...there were quite a few groups there today with free pizza...but, lesson learned: when free pizza is calling...maybe you shouldn't answer...unless you know where you are going.
and that wasn't the only "mistake" i made today. i also mailed out my utilities bill to the credit union for my car loan and left my car loan check here for my roommate to send in for utilities. oops....i feel like such a doorknob.
so yes. people, lesson learned. please eat when you are supposed to, that means breakfast and lunch, because who knows what you may do...embarrassing moments are no fun...and stay away from that free pizza.
so, as you all know from my last post, not much was eaten by me today. which, in all reality, isn't such a safe thing. i found out that when you skip on the food intake, you could wind up in some embarrassing situations.
let me start at the beginning:
first of all, when i was at the campus organization fair, i was taking a break from the habitat booth to see what all was happening at the other booths. while making the rounds, i paused and just happened to look at the college republican booth, which is no problem, i do consider myself i republican even though i would rather not meddle with politics. but i did somehow, through the persuasion of a fellow member of the republicans (i think he should be a sales person...) manage to sign up to be on there email list. and thus, i was sent an email about a college republicans meeting, that was to be held somewhere in the union today and would have free pizza.
so after my enormous list of things to do, and after a presentation that left me in the biggest classroom our college has, by myself, instant messaging squeak and booty on the huge tv screen in the front of the room (no one was there...which reminds me...i didn't call them to come and shut down the room! o no...eh, it'll be ok)...all by myself, i went and dropped the laptop off at work and then thought...wow, i'm hungry...and there's free pizza somewhere in the union! so, i decided, i take a u turn in the hallway and then i head over to the union to find the college republicans meeting.
well, i get over there, and in one room, i find a bunch of people, and boxes of pizza on the table. so what do i do? i head in there, thinking i've found the meeting. it wasn't 2 seconds after i sat down that i realized that i was in the college democrat's meeting. not that there is anything wrong with that...except that i knew all these people...and that's not where i was suppose to be! so i did decide to stick it out, as i did have somewhere to be at 5, but i just felt...out of place. i'm sure they would have loved to have me join...but i don't know...it's just not my calling. but what i did hear was interesting and i'm glad i didn't just get up and bolt it out of there...besides that would have been rude. it's just funny that all i wanted was to hear what college republicans were doing and get some free pizza before i had to run again! so yeah, i didn't get free pizza. but as i did find out...there were quite a few groups there today with free pizza...but, lesson learned: when free pizza is calling...maybe you shouldn't answer...unless you know where you are going.
and that wasn't the only "mistake" i made today. i also mailed out my utilities bill to the credit union for my car loan and left my car loan check here for my roommate to send in for utilities. oops....i feel like such a doorknob.
so yes. people, lesson learned. please eat when you are supposed to, that means breakfast and lunch, because who knows what you may do...embarrassing moments are no fun...and stay away from that free pizza.
rumbling stomach
i haven't had anything yet to eat today and my stomach is starting to complain. it's 2:40 in the afternoon and i haven't had a spare second today to go and grab some grub. and i know that some people (ahem) would be saying, get your butt off of the blog and go and get something to eat! but it's not that easy as i'm in class.
in all actuality, i would not be sitting in class typing on my blog. but my instructor is running the class, EVERYTHING YOU ALREADY KNEW HOW TO DO IN QUARK XPRESS. it's quite good. i feel i may get an a, especially since i already know most of this.
so anyways, back to why i haven't eaten today. it was my plan to go and get food today at lunch, but my books haven't shown up at my house yet for today's afternoon class in which we have an assignment due. well, one of my fellow classmates that i ran into had the book, and so i stayed in the computer lab over lunch, typing up a storm, putting together an outline of 2 chapters of boring "how to set up a print shop" information.
so yes, that is why i am sitting here, in class, with a rumbling stomach, typing on my blog.
so yeah, don't know how much i will write this weekend. i'm going to fargo tomorrow to visit squeakers at concordia and i'm going to spend the night there, then i'm going to come back here saturday night for kt's 21st! woohoo! she's gettin old! hahaha...jk, kt...
then on sunday, i plan on doing homework and stuff. i found out nate was going to be in town on saturday to take a test and then he was going to hang out. it's ok that i won't be in town, he'll probably be visiting a certain somebody else anyway!
so i'm going to go ahead and stop this post here...my teacher is still rambling on, but i don't have much more to say, so i figure i would stop now...before this gets too uterly boring with me...just rambling on...kind of like how my stomach is rumbling on...ok. i'll stop!
i haven't had anything yet to eat today and my stomach is starting to complain. it's 2:40 in the afternoon and i haven't had a spare second today to go and grab some grub. and i know that some people (ahem) would be saying, get your butt off of the blog and go and get something to eat! but it's not that easy as i'm in class.
in all actuality, i would not be sitting in class typing on my blog. but my instructor is running the class, EVERYTHING YOU ALREADY KNEW HOW TO DO IN QUARK XPRESS. it's quite good. i feel i may get an a, especially since i already know most of this.
so anyways, back to why i haven't eaten today. it was my plan to go and get food today at lunch, but my books haven't shown up at my house yet for today's afternoon class in which we have an assignment due. well, one of my fellow classmates that i ran into had the book, and so i stayed in the computer lab over lunch, typing up a storm, putting together an outline of 2 chapters of boring "how to set up a print shop" information.
so yes, that is why i am sitting here, in class, with a rumbling stomach, typing on my blog.
so yeah, don't know how much i will write this weekend. i'm going to fargo tomorrow to visit squeakers at concordia and i'm going to spend the night there, then i'm going to come back here saturday night for kt's 21st! woohoo! she's gettin old! hahaha...jk, kt...
then on sunday, i plan on doing homework and stuff. i found out nate was going to be in town on saturday to take a test and then he was going to hang out. it's ok that i won't be in town, he'll probably be visiting a certain somebody else anyway!
so i'm going to go ahead and stop this post here...my teacher is still rambling on, but i don't have much more to say, so i figure i would stop now...before this gets too uterly boring with me...just rambling on...kind of like how my stomach is rumbling on...ok. i'll stop!
Wednesday, September 08, 2004
busy busy
so i haven't posted since last week. last week...wow that was a long time ago. the weekend came and went and i didn't post just because i didn't feel like it and because i don't have to post if i don't want to. but now i do want to, especially since for some reason people read my posts. so here's a post.
this weekend, well, not much happened. i went home to the fam and relaxed. i went running with my babies (my dogs, which i call my puppies...mocha and misty), had a fish fry with some family friends, played some phase 10 (longest game ever...we only played to phase 6), we watched some movies also and then we watched many many episodes of tlc's what not to wear. it's a good show...same thing hapens in every episode too, people dress bad, stacy and clinton surprise them, then stacy and clinton criticise them, then the person goes shopping does well the first day, the second day they have problems and "break the rules" then stacy and clinton surprise them yet again and force them to try on certain outfits, then they go back to studios for make over and final critique and then it's final surprise for friends of victim, the ones who submitted them to the fashion police in the first place. so, all in all, it's just a show about friends who don't think their friends dress well so they do something about it. my mom and i have made it our life goal not to be on there...so i went shopping at the jc penny labor day weekend sale so i should be good for another couple of weeks.
i got an email from the teacher who is leading us on our europe expedition today. i'll have to post it on my europe blog, it's on the side there marked my destination.
we had our first habitat meeting on monday night and i felt it went extremely well. we did an h4h educate night and had a quiz that went...well, it was education. next week it's all homecoming activities, we have a centerpiece contest title that we have to defend. that $100 is ours! we also have to make a banner and we have to vote king and queen to represent us. should be interesting. i have to do more habitat organizing yet this week. sunday was spent doing a lot of habitat organizing...i had a mess everywhere. but i finally feel organized except for the couple of papers i need from the past prez.
this week has been pretty hectic thus far. between doing all my chores during lunch hour and not eating all day until 1-2 o'clock and all the hecticness of work, it's been fun. my classes have been the easiest part of it all. now only if my books would finally show up at my front door.
square came to the end of our first habitat meeting on monday night. it was great to see her. we went to walmart with gizmo and forced square to try on many black shirts as she needed to buy one. i think i got a little too motherly with her, but in my opinion it needed to be done. so now she has a great black shirt! she leaves next week for americorp...wow.
and i think that's it for weekly news. nothing else important i don't think has happened. i was going to write a couple of posts this weekend about actual things, not just what i've been up to...but then it was labor day weekend, and i felt the need to relax.
here's to another week where hopefully i'll post before another week whips by...
so i haven't posted since last week. last week...wow that was a long time ago. the weekend came and went and i didn't post just because i didn't feel like it and because i don't have to post if i don't want to. but now i do want to, especially since for some reason people read my posts. so here's a post.
this weekend, well, not much happened. i went home to the fam and relaxed. i went running with my babies (my dogs, which i call my puppies...mocha and misty), had a fish fry with some family friends, played some phase 10 (longest game ever...we only played to phase 6), we watched some movies also and then we watched many many episodes of tlc's what not to wear. it's a good show...same thing hapens in every episode too, people dress bad, stacy and clinton surprise them, then stacy and clinton criticise them, then the person goes shopping does well the first day, the second day they have problems and "break the rules" then stacy and clinton surprise them yet again and force them to try on certain outfits, then they go back to studios for make over and final critique and then it's final surprise for friends of victim, the ones who submitted them to the fashion police in the first place. so, all in all, it's just a show about friends who don't think their friends dress well so they do something about it. my mom and i have made it our life goal not to be on there...so i went shopping at the jc penny labor day weekend sale so i should be good for another couple of weeks.
i got an email from the teacher who is leading us on our europe expedition today. i'll have to post it on my europe blog, it's on the side there marked my destination.
we had our first habitat meeting on monday night and i felt it went extremely well. we did an h4h educate night and had a quiz that went...well, it was education. next week it's all homecoming activities, we have a centerpiece contest title that we have to defend. that $100 is ours! we also have to make a banner and we have to vote king and queen to represent us. should be interesting. i have to do more habitat organizing yet this week. sunday was spent doing a lot of habitat organizing...i had a mess everywhere. but i finally feel organized except for the couple of papers i need from the past prez.
this week has been pretty hectic thus far. between doing all my chores during lunch hour and not eating all day until 1-2 o'clock and all the hecticness of work, it's been fun. my classes have been the easiest part of it all. now only if my books would finally show up at my front door.
square came to the end of our first habitat meeting on monday night. it was great to see her. we went to walmart with gizmo and forced square to try on many black shirts as she needed to buy one. i think i got a little too motherly with her, but in my opinion it needed to be done. so now she has a great black shirt! she leaves next week for americorp...wow.
and i think that's it for weekly news. nothing else important i don't think has happened. i was going to write a couple of posts this weekend about actual things, not just what i've been up to...but then it was labor day weekend, and i felt the need to relax.
here's to another week where hopefully i'll post before another week whips by...
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