more pirates!

there's going to be 2 sequels to pirates of the caribbean! how cool is that?

spring semester:

history of modern design
3-D computer imaging II
multimedia processes II
senior project II
portfolio preparation II

14 credits.

i think i might die with this schedule.

this is the semester that should have been my last. but due to eurospring, i will be here another full year. super senior. as much as i want to be done with everyone else, to be done with classes...i'm relishing my childhood still. i may not be a child, but i'm still young. plus, i wouldn't have traded eurospring for anything!

speaking of still being young...i stayed up until 3:30 last night and fell asleep at a mini sleepover...and made it to my 8 am class this morning. and soon...i will take a nap, because i will pay for my late night later. i really should have come home last night and slept in my bed, except that where i slept last night really wasn't all that comfortable and it made it much easier to get up in the morning.

i was in fine form this weekend. no homework was completed, and i got somewhat drunk...ok, drunk enough that i don't remember talking to steph. and that's it. other than that...it was a good night. the agents and i turned quite a few heads...it was marvelous. jenny and i had one guy beg us to pat him down at the bar.

i'll post pictures as soon as i can get my hands on some.

here's to mondays!

i'm not a hobag!

or maybe i am...i didn't update for a reeeeeeaaaaalllly long time.

i have to say, life is starting to look up, except for the whole financial situation. calculated my savings incorrectly and sent too much money into the forbidden credit card that i should have saved for living expenses...o yeah, and the $380 in car malfunction that i had to fork over.

but here's what's making my life better:

-mid term week over! homework is muuuuccchhh more lax.
-i no longer have a hater! thanks again to my wonderful friend lindsi!
-good friends and good food (thursday nights rock my world)
-halloween is turning into one big party. fbi special agent kroll here with her partners in crime, special agent anderson and special agent virnig, along with assistant director seydel.

although, there are still some worries in my life:
-no longer going to fort smith, arkansas for habitat spring break. now going to beverly, new jersey...which is fine, but has just produced some new problems that other people decided to bring up...and we were JIPPED!
-the financial situation
-procrastination central...grr.
-my schedule for next semester...you may not see me.

but yes, that's about it in my life. i'll try to update this a little more often, now that life has slowed down a bit.

scarry!

what's up with that?

bemidji state dropout (no graduation day for you...)

homework has officially has kicked my ass. i'm ready to drop out right now. but i'll be fine.

haha...i love grease.

i had a little study break and now i'm all revved to go again. but i think i'm gonna catch some shut eye and then wake up early to finish er up.

and my god. my bad luck...i didn't win the powerball. jeez my luck sucks. and i had 2 tickets!!

and just a reminder...the people in btown rule. they made my night much better than it should have been.

horrible

every time i jump on a computer to finish homework, i have to prolong the inevitable: my homework. i get on the computer, check my 4 email accounts (yes, 4! why...well, one is h4h and the rest all served their purpose for different parts of my life...so i check all 4), then my blog, then others blogs, and (new!) then facebook. it takes about a half hour.

why don't i wait until after i finish my homework? i think i need to get it out of my system. i'm an internet addict. i have no idea why...but i think the idea of the fact that someone out there may have tried to communicate with me is what makes me check all of the above.

we wouldn't want to keep someone waiting on my answer, now would we? but truth is...they probably don't check email/blogs/facebook as often as i do, so they probably won't see if until later anyways.

but i still can't wait. it's a horrible situation.

for your enjoyment

this makes me laugh. i'm sure it will do the same for you!

www.eighthourday.com/falldown

wow...i had no idea

**********And then Andi made my life.*************
(if that isn't the case, I'm pretty sure I have officially died and gone to heaven)

...............

So today I salute you, Andrea Kroll, for your wonderful, kind heart, the way you always look out for your friends, and your people connections. Without you, I never would've met the Deuce. I owe you, big.

you do owe me big! but i won't hold it to you...we all make it up to each other eventually...after all, that's what friends are for!

it's gotta be the people

i've always know that btown is the glorious town, know for the lake, all that jazz. but seriously, this town wouldn't be what it was to me if it wasn't for the amazing people who go here. we (bsu students...that's right, ALL OF YOU) make this place the place to be. somehow, the craziest, coolest, most wonderful people, all ended up right here in btown. i don't know how it happened but it did. so let me tell you about my weekend, and why it really is the people and not the town...starting with the design guild trip to the cities, which was one blast of a time with some fellow bsu design students.

wednesday night i got approx. 4 hours sleep. i wanted to hang with some eurospringers, so i did, and so jennie and i went and were spontaneous and went to join steph for some good times at the keg. thursday morning, i piled my stuff in the bsu van (that's right 15 seater baby), ran and got cappucino, and picked up my crew at the design guild office at 6 am. let me tell you this: i don't drink coffee. but this stuff was amazingly good. however, it took a massive toll on my system. first i went from hyper (john: "NO sudden movements!") to extremely bad. it felt like my stomach was on fire. it hurt so much. i finally had the crew pull over at hackensack and i ran inside...where my eyes went black and i thought i was going to faint. i know i had to catch my balance...i was so scared. i made it to the bathroom where i was shaking but regained my composure and sight. i don't know what was wrong. after some quick fix solutions and jenna driving for a short period of time, i was good...but weak. i did end up driving for the rest of the trip, but man...i have no idea what went wrong. we figure it was due to the fact that i don't usually drink coffee and that i had nothing else in my stomach.

thursday we went to 2 different companies. star exhibits and eight hour day. eight hour day has a dog at their office! haha...it was a lot of fun, we were all laughing at the dog's little antics. o, and if you want a good laugh, check this out: northeast falldown you'll laugh.

friday we went to 2 more companies, ham in the fridge and triangle park creative. it was good times. ham in the fridge has done some very big stuff. check out their portfolio online and you'll see (target and cartoon network). we even got to see a new game they are working on...but i can't tell you...they would have to kill me.

it was so much fun in the cities. john, jenna and i, are, i'm sure, the only people to try and pimp out a bsu 15 p van. we found some 80s rap music to blast and john provided the hydrolics. we almost got it on video.

i also enjoyed dressing up and being professional for the day. asking questions, hearing the experts give you very note worthy advise...and picking up some cool business cards...all pluses. o yes, and let's not forget our games of sardines: 16 people in one 10 seater van, 18 people in one elevator...i had a lot of fun. plus, we hit up the walker for some amazing art work (well, in some cases, not so amazing...more like, "they call that art?") and the hard rock cafe minneapolis, where i got my first hurricane and glass, and got my bbq bacon cheeseburger. let's just say after this weekend, i definetly need to go on a diet.

friday night resulted in the bars and i finally saw my hater. and yes, he still hates me. said hi to all our other eurospring friends and just ignored me. pretty crushed by that move. i had to apologize to my friends i was with however as i kept keeping my eye out for him and was pretty distracted all night. it's really been bugging me lately. i sent him an email the other day, which i'm pretty sure he has to have read as he was online the today. this is what it said:

Hi xxxxx,

I've had a lot of time to think about our 'situation' since the Wednesday night you called me up at 1 am and yelled at me. After last night, I'm not sure how much more of this ignoring I can take. So here's what I'm proposing: can we get together sometime and talk this out? I would like to hear exactly what you think and hopefully I can give you my thoughts. I'll even make you cinnamon rolls, chocolate chip cookies, whatever you want. I just really want this to be over; I don't take people being mad at me very well. Let me know what you think and for now, here's some pictures for you to enjoy.

Have a good weekend!

Andi

i made sure to keep it short and sweet and no angry comments or accusatory sayings. he didn't send me back an email yet though...or anything. i'll keep you posted. and the pics i attached were pretty hilarious ones of the two of us goofing around. i miss those good times.

after bar on friday i ran in to friend tom and went back to his house where i hung out with chris and tom, roommates and dog sammy. it was good times...they invited me back over for more fun on saturday.

saturday was senior community clean-up day. we had good times raking extremely huge lake front properties. i definetly got my work out in. a little sore today. i was supposed to hit up the superlab on saturday and get some homework done, but of course, it didn't happen. so, hockey game (we're still sweeping! go bsu!!) happened with eurospringers and then afterwards, chris and tom's. it was quite the night. so much happened with me and the drinkers. keg, hockey party, perkins...where i think perkins was the highlight of the night with the whole hockey party there after it got busted, singing 'you've lost that lovin' feeling,' and the manager telling us to stop in a polite manner...even though, the hockey party occupied the whole place and we were all singing. it was hilarious. i even got to introduce steph to her crush, who is a bsu hockey player. let's just say she pretty much was in heaven. it was funny.

after perkins, i got chris to bed, carly was out and said goodbye to the boys...and then it was to bed for me.

and now here i sit in the superlab, waiting for renderings for projects to finish. it's great fun.

o, and aparently a blind date next weekend...should be interesting. julie's planning it. i'll keep ya posted.

and now....back to rendering.

such a whirl...

well, first news, my hater has yet to speak to me still. but then again, it's not like i'm trying to track him down either. and that's all i have to say about that for now.

secondly...i love my new job! i still need a couple of user names and passwords to get to me so i can do actual work, and i need to update myself on dreamweaver...but it will come. the whole uncertainty thing is a little uncomfortable, but i love the people i work with and we have a lot of fun, and it's so nice and laidback down there.

on monday, a good friend of mine was in town with her new baby. in fact, we used to be roommates. well, she called up all the other roommates, and one even skipped the class we are in together to spend time with her and the baby at the mall with the rest of them. let's just say i didn't get a call. i didn't find out until i asked one of the roommates where the one who was supposed to be in class with us was...and she told me and she was like, didn't anyone call you? hmmmm....no. not that i would have missed class. but i would have appreciated a call. it's hard for me to think that NONE of them would have been like, "hmm, wonder if andi would like to go to the mall with us?" it really hurts. i don't know what to think about this. i'm just going to steer clear from them for awhile. until i can sort my feelings out about this.

and i didn't even do anything to them....as far as i know anyway. i feel so forgotten.

tomorrow...i'm driving a bsu van to the cities for industry tours with the design guild! i love the bsu vans! i would never drive one regularly, but it's fun to drive them every now and then and feel like queen of the road. it'll be good fun. and i need to go shopping today to get a professional look for 2 days. i've got the pants, just need the correct tops...maybe a nice jacket or something? we'll see. i don't want to spend the money on it though if i don't need to...especially since my poor car should be done at the shop today! i miss it so much. the crap car the chrystler center gave me is really dragging me down. ugh. but, i've got to pay the price to get it back...plus, i need new tags on the car...that's a grand total of $400 to my car for the month. gross.

due monday...huge computer 3-d project due. crap. need me over the weekend? find me in the pc classroom at the superlab.

shopping today:
-new clinique foundation
-shoes?
-clothes for tomorrow and friday
-conditioner
-velum for 3-d comp project
-car?

maybe i should stop there....

ok...well, see you this weekend, if not tonight.

have a good one!

still nothin'

there was a possibility that i would have to see my hater last night. i was nervous. not sure what would come of the situation. would he start picking a fight? would he be cool about it? would we just ignore each other? or would we begin the make-up process? would we have to talk about it? i'm not sure...and i was nervous. he called the party host twice in the last 24 hours to say that he would call when he was done with work. 1:30 am rolled around and still nothing. figures. the host and i did figure this would happen, but we just werent sure since he called twice. makes you wonder.

i worry about the next time i will see him though. what will happen? i want that just to be done and over with, so that my life can get on. but as a friend pointed out to me, if he just can't see that fact that you are this nice, wonderful, amazing person, than what right does he even have to be in your life? but fact is, we were good friends before hand, we experienced so much of europe together, and i just wish he wouldn't act so childish about this and just get over it. if it was me in his shoes, i would have been over it right from the get-go. but that's just me.

so yeah, anyways. not drinking for a long time.

and i discovered text messaging on my cell phone last night (i know, call me a late bloomer). it was quite fun.

so yeah, it's 3 pm on a sunday afternoon...and i've accomplished nothing for the day. time to get up and get moving!

i'll talk to ya all later...haha.

andi

slacker

i know, i've been slacking on the posting. but i've been busy. and now it's a friday night, and i was at a party, but i wasn't drunk and i have to be up early for habitat tomorrow.

so i'm at home, in comfy clothes, kt's laptop on my lap, posting...and watching my new cinderella dvd. the mice are currently making her ungly pink dress, which eventually gets ruined...but it's ok, she gets a rockin, sparkly white one later.

i like they're drawing of the castle...it's so....dreamy? unrealistic, but so pretty at the same time.

well tomorrow night, i might have to see my hater. but to be honest, i'm not too happy with him right now.

cinderella's dress was just destoyed...i feel bibbitibobbitiboo coming on.

haha.

anyways, i also don't have my car with me. it started pulsating when i stopped at lights and such, so i brought it in and, in short, i'm gonna have to fork over 325 for a new egr plug, because apparently it's stuck open. and they have to order it from the cities and my car won't be ready until thursday. FUN. so i have this ugly dodge stratus that is kind of crummy on the inside and says bemidji chrystler center on the side. i guess i'm just complaining because it's not my car.

it's my dad's bday on thursday, too...any ideas on what to get him? i'm at a lost. i know what he really wants, but my mom won't let us kids get it for him...it's kind of a funny thing.

i'm split between getting an electric blanket for my bed. it gets really cold in the house at night and it would keep me nice and warm, but i don't think i would get out of bed in the morning. plus i'm worried about the whole electical thing....i don't want to be starting fires while i'm sleeping....so i don't know. any ideas kids? :)

i still pretty much feel like my little dude posted below. thanks to my hater. great.

well, i'm over and out, back to cinderella and a good nights rest. mmmmm....

andi

bad day

one of my close guys friends called me last night as he exited the bars, accusing me of calling him something that in no way, do i think that of him. or would have said it...well, in a sober state anyways.

apparently i did say it, but i don't remember it, because i was drunk. my roommate reminded me as i called a friend on saturday night, and well, for some reason i was drunk enough to call my friend this. and i don't remember it.

well, my friend found out and decided to include another one of our friends while he was drunk and then called me to take me out on it, while he was drunk. me, completely out of my element last night had no idea what was going on and why i would call him this and why he was accusing me of it. i pretty much started crying.

but good thing for great friends, the other 2 involved are going to talk to my mad friend tonight to get it all straightened out, even the one that shouldn't be involved. and i'm sorry that she got involved.

my mad friend told me last night that he needed time and that he would call me when he's ready...i'm starting to wonder how drunk he was, as half of what he told me last night wasn't true...however, i did call him something i found out today, and i can't hide from that, no matter how drunk i was.

i just hope that he forgives me...because it's eating me away from the inside.

last time i get drunk for a very long time...in fact...let's give up drinking for a very long time.

o, and my car is acting up on me too...hopefully it will start tomorrow so i can take it to the chrystler center so they can rack up a huge bill for me to pay.

what did i do to deserve this??

change!

finally! a change! i finally got out of the crappy job, and am now a part of a new job and team on campus: the web team! i will be meeting with people, doing interviews, making mock-ups and creating web pages as professionally that i can! it will be just like a professional job, but with student wages. my new boss apologizes for that, but i don't care! this will be so cool! and i should really stop with the exclamation points!

whew...ok.

other news...bemidji epidemic is almost done and over. being sick is the pits.

ok, i have homework to catch up on, and i should do it before design guild tonight...

life is getting better, i'm always up for that :)

i think this was written for me...

Good is good and bad is bad
You don't know which one you had
She put your books out on the sidewalk
Now they're blowing 'round
They won't help you when you're down

Love's on your list of things to do
To bring your good luck back to you
And if you think that everything's unfair
Would you care if you're the last one standing there

And everytime you hear the rolling thunder
You turn around before the lightening strikes
And does it ever make you stop and wonder
If all your good times pass you by

I don't hold no mystery
But I can show you how to turn the key
Cause all I know is where I started
So downhearted
And that's not where you want to be

And everytime you hear the rolling thunder
You turn around before the lightening strikes
And you could find a rock to crawl right under
If all your good times pass you by

When the day is done
And the world is sleeping
And the moon is on its way to rise
When your friends are gone
You thought were so worth keeping
You feel you don't belong
And you don't know why

And everytime you hear the rolling thunder
You turn around before the lightening strikes
And does it ever make you stop and wonder
If all your good times pass you by

When the day is done
And the world is sleeping
And the moon is on its way to rise
When your friends are gone
You thought were so worth keeping
You feel you don't belong
Neither do I