monday, january 25, 2010

dear granny,
today is monday.
monday is my hell day, but I made it through okay. There was cake in all the buildings for students because it’s St. Thomas Aquinas’ birthday week. I took two pieces (at different times) because I don’t get lunch. I swiped them on the way to class. Well, they were for anyone, but I felt like the second time I ought to be covert about it.

I got all kinds of stuff done, like registration for Elliott to come up this weekend. I did a causal “insight presentation” in Humanities today which is awesome because now it’s out of the way and I don’t have to worry about doing one later in the semester.

I also took a Earth Environments quiz and got 9/10, which, when the teacher asked about it because I was the last one in the room because I pack up slow, he said it was a good grade because usually people screw this quiz up because it’s hard and they don’t know what to expect. I was a little confused because it seemed like a really low-key thing. Oh well, good enough for me. I love earth science and it’s not that hard for me to learn.

We’re watching “An Inconvenient Truth,” as well, which I’ve seen before but now, having taken Communications and being in Principles of Persuasion, I can see the persuasive skills he’s exploiting the heck out of (emotional appeals, much?) but I also pretty well agree with the science, mostly. It’s interesting what changes between high school and college and how much my assessment of things changes.

Anyway, I’ve been drawing a bunch lately, as well. Mostly it’s just dumb pictures of our pseudo-family here because I’m not much good for drawing anything else. I’m kind of jealous because Tiff can draw animals SO well and I love her style, and Jake draws sci-fi concepts really consistently and realistically. uggghh. It makes me jealous, but maybe I’ll learn stuff when I start to take classes for my art minor and make my own style.

My RA interview is on thursday! ahh! I’m so nervous, but so pumped to start into this process more actively (I think my application/essay was good, but I’d like to meet these people, too, and show them who I am).

IN SUMMARY! haha, I’m not happy with EVERY tiny aspect of my life, but for the most part I’m having a dandy January. :]

love,
marah <3

monday, january 18, 2010

dear granny,
it’s monday
and I haven’t updated in a loooooong time. I apologize.
today I went to classes. a lot of classes. today is the day I don’t get lunch at all. I had earth environments, then humanities, then earth environments lab (which is basically more lecture time). then spanish later, which is a class of 7 kids. I was late the first day, last monday, on accident, but I’ll never make that mistake again. it’s really awkward when you realize you’re the only one who didn’t get there on time.
Anyway, today after dinner Sarah and Alicia and I went to the dollar store and party city and bought party hats and decorations for Tiffany’s birthday tomorrow! It’s very exciting and there’s a lot of pokémon stuff involved :]
Your cake will go to good use, too. I’ve saved it for tomorrow so between that and the cupcakes Alicia’s mom sent, she should have something for everyone to eat whenever we do her party.
I mean, I can’t wait for my birthday next month, but I’m more excited for tiff’s birthday tomorrow! She’s never really had a party. Especially not on her actual birthday. I’m soooo excited. :]
I only have spanish tomorrow, too, so that makes things even cooler. Although, I have a lot of homework, in exchange for not having communications tomorrow, which I’ll probably have to start on tonight.
I hope you’re having a good week!
love,
<3 marah

monday, november 3, 2009

dear granny,
today is monday!
usually that’s not exciting, but today was :]
Mostly it’s because I cranked out my speech for communications last night/this morning until 4am, but that means I only have to practice, now.
I also am going to be seeing Anberlin in less than 24 hours! ahhh! so excited!

Then, what’s almost even MORE exciting is that I get to go see Brandon Heath next thursday with Alicia and… someone else might meet us there (it just might be a boy… haha, who said that? shhh) because he said he’d try to get tickets tomorrow.

I am SO excited. Freaking out, pretty much.

We had a sort-of party for Alicia (we all hung out in her and her suitemates’ rooms.
We may have played some practical jokes on some boys.
It may have resulted in war.
This war may or may not be over…
I hope it’s over though, because the pranks are starting to escalate.
But I’m not doing anything else because the jibjab video was my gambit. I’ve got nothing left I’m willing to pull, mostly due to legal reasons. hahahah.

I hope you’re having a wonderful week.
I still get an intense amount of butterflies from someone not even present.

love,
♥ marah

thursday, october 15, 2009

dear granny,
today is thursday.
my day was fine.
then it was crappy.
mostly because of art.
You see, I was essentially done with my rendering and I knew that all I had to do was some touch-ups to even out the shading.
About 5 other people had left the class already and the professor was in-and-out of the room already, so I figured it was ‘leave when you’re done’ kind of thing.
WRONG.
He happened to be walking in as I was walking out and, not that he’s mean or yelling or anything, he says “we have a while left, yet, about 45 minutes. Are you sure you don’t want to use that time?”
and then, instead of going back to my room as planned, I wind up being told what’s wrong with the shading (stuff I already knew) and that “it’s [my] choice with what I do with the time…”
but then, as I’m shading and being angry in the corner, someone ELSE gets up and leaves while he’s not looking.
SO.
NOT.
FAIR.
I just had the worst luck with that.
blehhhhh I never want to do another stupid rendering.
I chucked my sketchbook into the drawer as soon as he left the room because I’m refusing to work on it anymore because I don’t see anything wrong with it after a whole stupid half hour of NOTHING changing on it.

Math study group went ok.
And I got most of my essay done before I went to the 40 days for life thing.
We stood on the sidewalk in front of an abortion clinic. I didn’t realize we were SO close to it, and I was kind of glad it wasn’t daytime.
I was intimidated out of my MIND by grand rapids, though, standing with my back to the road at nighttime with people driving by and honking every so often.
There was one guy who is going to be there from 9 pm today to 6 am tomorrow! jeesh! at least he was wearing carharts and had hand warmer packets and stuff. That’s dedication, though. :]

I’m cold, still.
My essay’s done.
I have to make a survey for my communications speech.
I hope I’ll be able to find sources for it. :\

love, marah

tuesday, october 13, 2009

dear granny,
today is tuesday.
I got to go to swing dancing again, which pretty much made my life SO much better. :]
It was cold, but I wore the perfect amount of layers and danced so often (because pretty much everyone but Evan and I chickened out due to cold) that I was fine. And I didn’t even have to ride the bus, my friend Anna (a senior who you haven’t ever met) gave us a ride down.
She danced with a stranger for a lot, but it was cool because they sort of learned it together.

I think I did pretty well on my Spanish oral (one of the questions she asked me was whether or not I had any children… hahahaha) and I got a paper back from communications that I’d forgotten about but I did really well on. Upon re-reading it, I realized I used awesome words like predilection. :]

Also, they had frost-your-own-cupcakes day in the cafeteria, which was beautiful. Except Katie made one and realized (after she started eating it) that she had confused the vanilla cupcakes for the coconut cupcakes :\

Ohhh, life is so much happier after you’ve gone to swing dancing. ;]
love, marah

ps: tomorrow is waffle wednesday! and I only have about two to three days until I’m home for break!

tuesday, october 6, 2009

dear granny,
today is tuesday.
I actually called you today and talked to you about making this blog. I think it’ll be a good thing for me to consistently write down my life. Introspection does a soul good. :]

I learned a little about power sets in math and I practiced a little Spanish. Then I came back to my room and discovered that, thanks to sickness season (I refuse to acknowledge the flu), my communications teacher was out of commission for today’s class.

Class cancellations are making my work load light this week. Though I do hope my math teacher’s daughter gets better soon. :[ I’m praying for her alot.

Anyways. I was pretty much lazy the rest of the day: watched a movie, checked facebook, did nothing. ¡Soy muy perezosa! (see, I really am learning Spanish!).

I ought to go to bed now. Waffle Wednesday tomorrow in Wege! (lots of w’s, right?)

love, marah ♥