Wednesday, April 7, 2010

dear granny,
today is wednesday.
This morning I found out that, in fact, I am not stupid and that I did pick the correct major and minors according to the 23904820948098235th test personality/career assessment I’ve taken in that dumb class thus far.
Again, it told me that my top interests and advised career clusters are, verbatim, “Art – Skilled,” “Art – Professional,” and “Communication.”
WELL DUH.
Moving on, I had a wonderful lunch of grilled cheese at wege, then read a while in my book, helped tiff study, and then we found out some ugly news about her grandmother. :[ Keep her (I think her name might be Elsie?) in your prayers, as well as the whole rest of Tiff's family, as things are not looking good. The word hospice has been used lately, and I think Tiff is going home this weekend.

Despite this, we had to stay focused: Tiff with her Art History studying; Sarah with her spanish homework; and me with my assorted tasks of a Spanish in-class writing, Earth Environments essay/studying, and reading/SparkNoting a book I don't even own (that I'm supposed to have read about 90% of for class tomorrow).
Currently I am quite distracted, although all that I have left is the sparknoting, which will probably be put off yet again in favor of other things, seeing as I supremely do not care for this book or this class.
That said, I would like to go to bed, so I probably will do just that very soon.
love,
marah :]
ps: I really want to either read more or catch Ho-oh in Heart Gold right now, but I’m resisting both of those urges in favor of more productive endeavors.

monday, march 22, 2010

dear granny,
today is monday :[
But it was, overall, a pretty darn good day.
I got up and went to breakfast at 8:30 with friends (which, if you remember, is my custom on Mondays and Thursdays, despite my earliest class being at 10:50). I stayed a little longer because our newer friend kaitlin showed up when everyone else was leaving and didn't have class until 12:15 (humanities, with me, which we endure together every monday and thursday. ugh.) so I waited while she ate.
Then after a shower and wasting my time before class, I realized (too late) that my ipod touch was dead. I had to leave it in my room to charge and go to class completely without it. How sad.
In Earth Environments, I apparently really wanted to take a nap and was half asleep while taking notes. I really don't remember much about what he talked about because I don't even remember writing most of the semi-illegible scribbles I found later. It's okay, though, we've been talking about glaciers and the land formations they make, which I'm a pro at thanks to high school Earth Science classes. When I came back for lab later, I opened my notebook and almost laughed out loud because I found that I had even included diagrams of some things, one of which was a poorly-drawn crescent shape. I had drawn an arrow to this, in my half-asleep stupor, and labelled it "pac man" with a smiley face.
I love my half-asleep notetaking. This not-remembering-what-I-took-notes-on has happened before with communications notes late at night. I wound up cutting that study period short by going to bed, but not before I wrote the definition of "face threat" as (verbatim) "a threat to your FACE."
Needless to say, I don't mind when this loopy notetaking happens because it's really entertaining to look back on.

After Earth Environments lab (which was a fantastic NOVA movie about theories of how large mammals from the ice-age went extinct), I came back to Sarah and Tiff's room and studied last-minute for a spanish vocab quiz. When we all walked to class at 4:30 (we're pretty much all in different classes, but have them at the same time) someone Tiff and I sort-of know walked with us and we discussed pokémon like a bunch of nerds because Tiff happened to have her gameboy out.
Anyway, I aced the heck out of that quiz, left before everyone else, and sat around in wege playing pokémon Heart Gold while waiting for people to come to dinner (it's really not wasting time because if I wasn't there and playing, I'd only be back in my room and playing. This way I don't have to walk back and forth an extra and extraneous time)
After dinner and before a meeting I cranked out what is essentially my only Spanish homework for the week and, just now, I finished my Earth Environments paper about some crazy volcanologists and what my career goals/plans are. You can ask mom or dad for details/actual paper, but since my career plans aren't even all that clear, I thought I'd give my professor an interesting paper and told him all about how I want to be a pokémon master when I grow up.
I actually feel like this will be one of the crowning achievements of my time at college, one of the other pinnacles being the Muffin Tree. :] :] :]

Anyway, I’m going to read some stuff and go to bed. Hope you’re having a wonderful week!
love,
marah <3

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

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

wednesday, october 14, 2009

dear granny,
today is wednesday.
I did indeed have waffle wednesday.
Then I worked on my paper alot.
Except I listened to music that distracted me pretty often.
I got through most of my paper, then realized I really was supposed to use specific examples. Now I’ll have to go back through. ick.

Veracity was good, we got into discussion about papal authority and apostolic succession. I also got a whole lot of extra books and cds from last year’s sessions with all kinds of stuff about apologetics and I’m super excited to start reading/listening, but first I have to get through the rest of midterms week. :]

I still have to figure out what we’re going to do about this swing dancing club. I don’t know when I’m going to meet up and talk about anything with evan, much less find an advisor. But I’m holding onto this dream and I friggin WILL find a way to make it happen. haha

Now to finish my humanities paper.
g’night!
love, marah

thursday, october 8, 2009

dear granny,
today is thursday.
I think I did decently on my Spanish in-class writing assignment. I wrote about all kinds of weird stuff and I had THE minimum of sentences required. haha, but it’s ok, I think. :]
Last night I was up kind of late so today I came back after humanities and sort of took a nap while watching a movie. I don’t really know how well the sleeping part worked, but still, I felt a -little- more rested.

I got a humanities paper turned in early/on the original due date despite the extension. This way I only have to do a little bit of homework this weekend… hopefully.

My math teacher’s daughter is getting better, and they’re home now! I’m really glad :] She’ll be teaching again tomorrow, so hopefully we can all start our group projects. (Mine’s on secret codes! hahaha it’s kind of exciting)

I hope I’ll be able to go to bed early tonight, although seeing as it’s already almost 11, I doubt it’ll work.
love, marah ♥

PS: 8 days until I’m home for fall break! :]