Thursday, March 18, 2004
I got accepted into DAE!! Exciting times. The only thing that made it more exciting was that Emily and Mike got in, too. We are going to have all kinds of fun next year. I haven't told my mom yet, but I'll calll her tonight. I don't know how well she's going to do with me spending even less time at home, but she'll be okay, I think. It's a good opportunity. She sent me a funny card in the mail, and I got that today, too. It's a Fresh Ink one - she knows how much I love those cards.
Tonight I am going to go watch Justin Keller be an Acoustic Fire. I like to call him "hot date" - he's going with me to Rebecca and Brian's wedding on Saturday. I am going to attempt to do some homework while I'm there, but I'm not sure how well that will all work out.
Today was mostly just classes and blah. I set up my new phone last night and got to use it today. One does not appreciate how convenient a room phone is until it doesn't work for three days. It rings "All the Small Things" by Blink-182. Tonight I might change it to "Lady Marmalade". And if I get really ambitious, I'll upload a song to it. Maybe something by Bon Jovi.
I took a quiz today and I am a Head Strong Romantic. It means that I go with love based on decisions made by my head rather than my heart, and that I am cautious. I have probably been burned.
Those quizzes are so spankin' on. How do they do that?
I like using the word spankin'. I think I should use it more often, but there are bad connotations that come with it. Sort of like the way Josh referenced pizza at lunch today. If I wasn't worried about the moral cleanliness of this journal, I would tell you what he said. But I am.
I know you're all wondering what he said. Dirtballs.
. celebrate . `@ 7:30 PM
Wednesday, March 17, 2004
So today Ben took me to the pretty park with the gazebo. I definitely saw a duck almost die and I cried and cried. I have a soft spot in my heart for animals, especially those I can't help. It was horrible. Then Kat told me about her catfish that used to eat baby ducks. It was a traumatic duck day. But I saw my duck -- Rudy -- and I want to bring him back to the dorm. I don't think it will work. I might try anyway.
I got a new phone for my room tonight, too. It's cute and I can change the color. I don't really feel like doing that right now, but if I did, I could.
Ben and I watched "American Idol" tonight. All I have to say is if Jennifer Hudson got cut, I would have been a very mad AI fan. I need to stop being addicted to this show, but I just can't. I get the weekly update e-mails and everything. I wish "Fame" would come on again. I would watch it all the time.
My room was clean this morning. And I lust after Emily's purple robe.
. celebrate . `@ 11:43 PM
Monday, March 15, 2004
Spring break was -- amazing. I went through that whole lobster stage, and now I'm definitely into the brown and peeling phase. That's life, you know. You burn and it's painful; then you recover and you look a little different than you did before.
Emily and I did a whole lot of nothing. We sat on the beach and hung out with her family and ate lots of good food. South African, seafood, Columbian? The restaurant was called Columbia, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it's Columbian, now does it? Poor Emmy. She had to go to bed and get up early because of field experience. That is not a nice way to start the first day of classes after spring break.
Yesterday Katie, Ryan, Ben and I went shopping in Cincinnati after church. I finally had money for Emily's birthday present, so I got her stuff at Newport on the Levee in Kentucky. I hadn't been there for over a year; I'd forgotten how beautiful it is on the bridge. We ate at a Cold Stone Creamery, for the second time in my life, and it was even better the second time, I think. I need to go visit BP in Colorado so I can eat lots of ice cream.
Or not. The extra pounds are scaring me already.
So now I'm supposed to be cleaning my room and I did. A little bit. It's a work in progress.
Sort of like me.
. celebrate . `@ 9:21 AM
