Wednesday, April 7, 2010
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
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
thursday, march 18, 2010
March 18, 2010
dear granny,
today is thursday.
I had a fantastic day, even though it started with a funny-tasting breakfast from fabulous Wege. (yes, the “fabulous” was sarcasm)
I didn’t do anything very memorable in classes, but afterwards I got a really good sandwich from the Moose, then I went and laid on a blanket with my friends in the sun. It was a little windy at first, but it calmed down after a while and got very pretty and sunny again. :]
We colored in coloring books and played gameboy and kaitlin ran around with my poké-walker (basically a step counter that trains your pokémon as you walk) and we ate goldfish and talked about all kinds of things like what we want to be if/when we grow up ;] and boys. of course boys. hahah
anyway, then I underperformed as always in Spanish by forgetting a notebook that had something I needed for class. It was no biggie, though, so I just made do with what the other people in my group had (It’s not like I didn’t tell the teacher, by the way. It’s hard to not tell her stuff when there’s only 7 total in the class and two were missing on this particular day).
then AFTER dinner, we journeyed on the mystical bus system downtown to visit the giant tire swing. It was fantastic, even if there were hooligans hanging out there at first. We were on a picture spree, though, so we had our little photoshoot and shot them awkward glances once in a while to intimidate them away. It worked after a while and we took some pictures on the tire swing, too :] I think you can look at them on facebook, but I might try to post a few here since I haven’t posted any in a while.
When we got back we hung out and put pictures up on facebook, decided on dates for our girl’s night (next friday), and decided that we were going to have a hair/makeup/getting ready/being awesome party before the spring formal, which I’m actually pretty excited about (and is a week from this saturday). It should be great.
There was a carnival, too, where Alicia, Sarah and I got matching airbrush tattoos. NEVER FEAR, THEY WILL WASH OFF. probably tomorrow if not in the shower, probably when I go swimming (which I’m pumped for. There’s a sort of game/activity night for our college at a YMCA near here. I soooo want to go swimming. :] )
anyway, now to take the Meyer-Briggs test again. Which I’ve taken multiple times. It always comes out INFP. I wish I could just write that down, but my Career and Self-Awareness professor probably won’t be happy with that. Oh well, I like taking personality test, I guess.
love love love,
marah :] <3
tuesday march 16, 2009
March 16, 2010
dear granny,
today is tuesday :]
After a night of restless, paranoid sort-of sleep, I’m still alive.
The reason for this paranoia and pseudo-insomnia is that we watched Signs last night. It was good and had a spectacular ending, but I HATE horror movies that let your mind go crazy with “what’s making that noise?” and look like they could happen to me (it all happens to one family in pretty much one (their) house)
Ugh. Anyway, I’ve not been swamped too horribly with homework yet. Right now I’m stalling taking spanish notes by painting my nails. It’s pretty and warmer than it has been outside so Tiff and Biz and I are wearing dresses today. I wanted to repaint my nails to go with this dress because my other stuff was chipping horribly.
Also, I’ve beasted through three gyms so far in my Heart Gold game :] I know you’re thinking “uhhh… what?” but it’s really exciting! Best remake of the best game EVER. yayyy!
I’m gonna go so I can paint my nails and they’ll dry in time for me to take notes before lunch. Hope your day is going splendidly!
love, marah <3
monday, january 18, 2010
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
tuesday, october 13, 2009
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!
friday, october 9, 2009
October 9, 2009
dear granny,
it’s friday!
It would be a more exciting friday if I had people here to hang out with, but alas, they’ve all gone home this weekend. At least I’m catching up on homework tonight, I guess.
Who am I kidding? Spending Friday night locked in your room doing homework is no fun at all :[
IN other news, my math teacher was back today because her daughter is, in fact, better.
My spanish teacher is still pretty funny (I think) and was saying something about the verb "to give" and giving objects, not people. Then she's like "well, you could have a baby there" (as in, like an object) and my face must've made me look really freaked out because she immediately says "for adoption! gosh!" pffffffffhahaha I almost died.
Two different boys have made my day in different but funny ways. I'll tell you about that later. Unless mom tells you first? oh well. The reason I'm writing this is to make sure I remember to tell you :]
I’m kind of listening to the songs from Glee a little obsessively now. Just FYI. I mean, that -might- mean I love the show’s soundtrack but… whatever… hahaha. I still think it’s effing amazing that you were in a glee club when you were in high school.
OH! I got a card from you in the mail today! You’re adorable. And there’s money in it? what? haha thank you so much! I want to come hug you, really badly. :\ I love youuuu
love, marah
ps: in less than 168 hours I will be HOME! :]
thursday, october 8, 2009
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! :]
tuesday, october 6, 2009
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 ♥
