Where is my brain?

So I titled the last entry "Icee", and I didn't even touch on that...

So yesterday I saw a girl drinking an Icee, and so i was really really craving one. Well, I walked out to my car to go to Wal*mart to get tape and another tub for my stuff, cause I'm packing up to go home. Well, on the way to the car I saw the beautiful Elyse, and stole her to go to wally-world with me. Well, on the way back we stopped at a gas station, with no luck, and so we went back to campus and went to the Pilot, and got 2 large icees for 99 cents each. :D BUT, there was no cherry... so I had to get a coke flavored one... which was not nearly as satisfying. :(

This morning at 10 ish I got up, packed a little bit more, and then called my mom, talked with her for a long time about the apartment, and then I ate lunch with Elyse... turned in her English paper for her... then called my mom and talked some more. Now I am waiting for her to check her e-mail and call me back. That is all.

ICEES!!!!!!!!!!!

So, I am trying to pack up my dorm room, and study for exams, and be cool and fun and responsible all at the same time.... not working out so well.

I got to chat with an old friend of mine. We went to middle school together, and he's on my MSN list, but I am hardly ever on there, so when he signed on, I said hello.

I also wanted to share pictures of the new apartment that I will be moving into next fall.

New Apartment

hell-o

I went apartment hunting today.

Ohmygoodnessshootmenowplease.

That's all I have to say.

A New Day Has Come

BIOLOGY 101 029 LEC 09:40A-10:55A TR
BIOLOGY LAB 03:35P-05:30P W
ECONOMICS 201 023 LEC 11:10A-12:25P TR
ECONOMICS LAB 09:05A-09:55A M
ED INTER 335 001 LEC 03:40P-04:55P TR
EDUC PSYCH 210 004 LEC 05:05P-06:20P TR
MUSC ENSBL 380 001 GMI 12:20P-02:15P MW
POLIT SCI 102 005 LEC 02:10P-03:25P TR
RELIGION 398 001 LEC 06:30P-08:00P W

Here are my classes for next semester. Biology, Intro to Econ, ASL 3, Educational Psychology, Concert Choir, and Intro to Political Science.

18 Hours total. I declared a teaching minor, and now I just need to find a major. It doesn't really matter what I major in, as long as it's in Arts and Sciences. ASL is not in arts and sciences, so I can't do that. I will probably end up doing psychology or something like that. I dunno.

My schedule is really nice though. Monday is Econ lab in the morning, choir at noon, tuesdays and thursday I have class from 9:40 until 6:20, the bulk of it all. And then wednesday I have choir at noon and biology lab from 4- 5:30 and religion from 6:30 to 8. WOOT!!!

What is America coming to...

so earlier today Brandan told me there was a shooting at v-tech. I hadn't heard much about it, I don't watch the news, but I left for choir at "1 dead", left choir at "22 dead" and got back to my dorm room, turned the tv on and the death toll was listed as "31 dead". Brandan's ok... Chrissy... in case you haven't talked to him.

Go to bed! That's what I would do...

Ummm... hello... it is two in the morning (I'm writing a paper) and my suite mate has just decided it's a good time to get in the shower.... what is wrong with this picture? I hate it when she does this, because it means I have to listen to her sing for the next 30 minutes. GAH!

Ummm... in other news.... I hate my english class and all of the obsessive BORING, useless work we've done this semester. That is all.

The young are crazy.

So, for a while now I've been kind of falling in love with this guy, slowly but surely. So... I had been talking with a friend, and had come up with ya know, present the hypothetical scenario "I (me... Jessica), really like this guy... bob... but bob like's a mutual friend of ours... let's call her sue.... little does bob know, sue likes joe. What should I do? Should I tell Bob that I'm falling for him, or just leave it be and ignore it?" And Jon being... Jon... said "honesty is the best policy". So, we talked a little bit more about the situation, and I said that I haven't said anything because I've been hurt badly before, and I don't want it to happen again. Any ways, (this all happened while I was driving him home), when he got out of the car, I half way wanted to just leave it at the hypothetical situation and let him ponder a little bit, but I couldn't, so I said "Jon... you're bob." And there ya go. I told a guy that I like him... that I'm pretty much crazy about him. He was nice enough to let me know that he thought he was really like "sue", but after spending some time with her, realized that he would rather just be friends, and that we will go on a date or 5 (he makes me laugh), and see how things go. I then had to let him know that I was just putting it out there, and he could think on it for a while before saying anything... because i think he felt like I was expecting an answer, but eh.

any who... that's my journal post of the month.

Save me fromt he dark abyss of dark abyssness!

So.. it's been a while...

I keep saying this over and over again, but i understand why my friends that graduated before me disappeared for like a year before they started being socialable. I am DIEING! I have so much school work and church and... parties... lol that I don't have enough time to sit around on my computer any more. It's Thursday, but sadly I was ready for the week to be over on Monday, and Wednesday felt like it should be Friday, and everything was just mixed up, and the week is almost over and I feel like I've missed most of it! Go figure.

Last weekend I went to Nashville with some friends to go to the temple and it was amazing. I had done a session and was waiting for some of my friends. The weather was beautiful, the air was delicious, and everything was perfect. I just did a bit of reading and wrote in my actual journal (which is why this journal is suffering, because I have been writing in my real journal, which only has about 15 pages left in it.). Then on Monday I had to write two papers, and I had a math test to study for. It was sort of pretty much terrible because I didn't get back till 9:30, and I didn't get anything done Sunday because I had church, and then a fireside.

I'm not a slacker, it's important to realize that, but I've kind of been slacking a little bit, and I need to pick things up. I've started doing homework when it's assigned, instead of waiting till the night before (which is how I got through my first semester), and I've also decided after a few months of confusion and doubts that I like my religion, and I still believe what I previously said I believed, just in a little bit different way. I feel like a little bit of a hypocrite now, but I'm working on being a better person, and that's all that matters I guess.

I've got to run off to my philosophy class, but I'm going to try and update more then once a month.

Bless you?

When my suite-mate sneezes, it sounds like she's screaming, and it scares the crap out of me!

I won't grow up... I don't wanna go to school...

I feel like I'm being forced to grow up, and it is too much for me. some days i just want to crawl back in bed and hide from the sun, pretend like it never came out, and that it is night. Today I found out that a dear friend of mine tested positive for HIV. I never dreamed that some one so close to me could be affected by this, and it makes me worry that more of my friends are in the same boat, but not willing to talk about it. Along with that, I also found at that a friend from my graduating class has cancer and is going through chemo.

These people are both the same age as me, and they are being faced with the sudden reality that we are not as invincible as previously believed. No one should have to deal with this at 18. Or 19 or 20 or ever. Why do horrible things like this exist.

Mitchel the Second is born.

So I got my birthday present from Nanny and I am loving this woman more and more every day. lol. She got me an iPod...and it's beautiful!

Sick as a Panda

I haven't been this sick in a while. Last night was the worst night ever. I went to bed at like 10, but woke up every hour or so because i was coughing. I had taken some Mucinex DM, but it just isn't doing the job for me... so at 4 AM I got up, took some dayquil, and then went back to bed. I'm thinking about investing in some niquil just to make my life easier.

Give me your digits...

So... I find this slightly amusing...

where did my life go?

Life is freaking crazy. Today's agenda:

-Write English paper rough draft due monday...4-5 pages
-Write ASL review of activities: 6 page minimum
-Do math homework...for 5 sections in the book... that's like a million and TWO problems.

plus I could probably do some reading for my psychology class, watch my 30 minute video for ASL, and catch up on the reading for my philosophy class... but that would all be horribly ambitious. Oh well.

GET UP!

I slept through my alarm this morning and missed the first hour and a half of church. I can't get there fast enough for it to be worth it.

I really need to fix this whole alarm problem. I seem to not wake up to my alarms, or I turn them off with out waking up. GAH!

un-un-date-able.

So... I went on my first date tonight... with this guy. His name is Jonathan. It was great.

insert cuss words here ________________

I feel like such a loser. I am on the edge of tears, but I can't cry.

I'm invisible.

I'm too busy right now to write anything. lol. I'm on my way out to go to a party, but... eventually I will get around to writing again... now i understand why my friends that left for college last year became invisible people that didn't get online to chat or post any more. :P

Madness I tell you... shere madness

finished my first day of classes... that was hellish.

I have buckled down. I am actually doing the assigned reading, and trying to do a bit extra so that when I eventually "fall behind" I will actually be exactly where I am supposed to be. My enlgish class is called "Inquiry into Madness" and it is very interesting, and the teacher is hilarious. We are reading "One flew over the Cuckoo's nest, and some people in the class had already read it, and I hadn't, so I made this ambitious desicion to read the book, before she starts assigning reading, so that it's easier to understand the second time through. I have a problem with reading. I just don't like it. But this book is pretty interesting, so it shall be interesting.

I also had psychology today, which was a huge auditorium style class, and I wasn't expecting it to be so big (and neither was the teacher) but it'll be fine as long as I sit in the front.

I also had my math class today and the only thing good to report is that I met a really cute guy. He's not gay (as far as I can tell) and he's older than me. We got in these groups to do the stupid word problems from the book (speaking of which... I must go look at the book because it's not my thing...) and like, the teacher would assign a problem to the group, and this guy would have it figured out before any of us could think about it. Which, in all honesty sucks for me, because I need to be able to think things through.

I also had Choir today, which was awesome and amazing and all of those wonderful words. I love it.

Then after that I went to the Institute building and signed up for three classes. I am also going to be volunteering at the Tennessee School for the Deaf. I had a nice conversation with a man that works at the school, and he gave me some names and numbers of people to contact about volunteering there, so we shall see how things work out.

Other then that Institute was nice tonight, and then I went to the library, read a BUNCH, and now I am going to get in the shower and go to bed. Tomorrow I will wake up around 8:30, go to the gym, do some homework and then go to my one class of the day.

Ba-hum-bug.

30 minutes until "Christmas" and I didn't get my mom's present finished... well, I didn't get her SECOND present finished. I got her a piece of... well, she collects these figurines, and I got her one of them, but it was so impersonal. So... today we took family pictures, and I have this frame form target to put like... 5 different pictures in the frame, and I cleaned the entire downstairs (which in all actuality is a REAL accomplishment...). But any who. I am kind of ready for the commercialized holiday that we celebrate to be over. GAH. Not that I'm a grinch... trust me, i love christmas as much as the next guy.... but I am too tired to explain my feelings right now, so I am going to bed...


MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!