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So much to do, so little time!
I think in my last post I had just gone home for the weekend. I had a really nice, relaxing weekend. Thursday evening, my parents and I went for a walk around the reservoir in our area. I took them up to see the quarry where I used to sit and write rather frequently. It's one of my favorite places in the world. I miss it all the time.
Friday I had most of the day to myself. I met Mother when she finished work, and we went ot Kohls. I now have a whole new wardrobe for summer! I needed a lot of cheap clothes to get me through summer camp, and I'd say we achieved our goal. Now I just need to find a swimsuit. Why does no one sell board shorts?! I'm not big on bikini bottoms, though I do love the tops, so I usually wear board shorts, too. Unfortunately, my Oakley board shorts don't fit anymore, and apparently nowhere around my house sells any... Hello, I'm from East Coast USA and we don't know what surfing is. So that's still on my to-do list to prep for camp.
Friday night I picked up my cousin Z and we stayed up kind of late playing Undertale. Well, I played Undertale and he watched both me and Dan Vs. I love Dan Vs. I find it to be a really funny show, and I knew he would enjoy it, so I put it on. Now, I feel a little guilty because I had an ulterior motive to inviting him over. Z is like a little brother to me. We grew up pretty close, and he is 2 years younger than me. Back in January he pretty much went off the deep end and dropped out of his final semester of college. Obviously, something big happened, but he won't tell anyone. On top of that, he has a lot of gender identity problems stressing him out all the time, and adding to that stress is the pressure from his parents. I wanted to spend some time with him and see what's been going on. Unfortunately, he dodged all of my questions like a pro. I taught him too well. Anyway, he spent the night.
Saturday was spent enjoying the outdoors. At the end of August last year, my family moved into a huge house on 3.15 acres. Mind you, we came from stereotypical suburbia, so it's amazingly wonderful to have so much space now. The house had 2 owners before us, and the first had a garden plot out back. The second never touched it. We spent the afternoon digging it out and setting it up so that come Mother's Day mother can start planting her vegetables. The garden plot is a short way down a pretty steep slope, so I dug the hill out and made rock steps for her. It's not the first set of rock steps I've ever made, but given the land I'm not sure they will last all summer. I told her and Father that they should look into getting it at least reinforced by summer, if not professionally done. Father seemed way more confident than I felt about my masonry, haha.
On Sunday I returned to campus. I was very hesitant about driving all the way back up here alone. I had other reasons to hesitate, too. Honestly, I would rather have walked barefoot down the entire Appalachian Trail than come back here and deal with this. It's a 4 hour drive and even on a good day I don't do well alone for that long. I don't get along with myself, to put it simply. In order to keep my focus, I listened to Coheed&Cambria's albums, starting from the first one. For those who don't know, their music tells a huge space opera scifi story. I spent 6 years studying every line and every comic book to figure it out. To this day I still am unsure about some parts. But anyway, I made it all the way through three and a half of their albums! I almost finished the main story! They also have a prequel album, 2 spin offs, and one album (their most recent) that's just awesome music and has nothing to do with the (completed) story. It was a pretty successful distraction. A couple of friends kept me company that evening for a while.
Monday was uneventful. My first class was Practical. The egocentric professor I mentioned last post amused me. As soon as he saw my note from the health center he practically threw my missed handouts and homework at me. Guess he knows he isn't always in charge. We set up a schedule for me to make up the quizzes I missed (he gives a quiz every class). I met with my building director and Student Life so that they could get my note on file and notify my professors officially. My Course Design class was uneventful. That night was room selection, which was pretty exciting! My group was #29 (there are I think ~40 apartments). We managed to get the second to last room in the building we wanted! It's even on the same floor and side of the building we wanted! We're all pretty excited, and looking forward to moving in in the fall.
Now we get to today, which was also uneventful. I got to ride Twist this morning in my lesson, which was nice. I enjoy riding him, and am glad that my first ride back after everything was on him. After my lesson I spent some extra time pampering him. He even got his legs and tail washed! Farm Facilities was uneventful. We spent the class discussing trucks, trailers, and hitches. Woo. When I got back I knocked out my homeworks for my Practical class. I grabbed dinner with some friends, and one of them informed me that her roommate (they have been arguing lately) flipped shit and moved out this morning without warning. Honestly, that whole situation is like a horrible soap opera and it's highly amusing to watch. Tonight was also Lip It, the school's lip syncing competition! They host it every semester, and it never fails to disappoint. This time around featured "Black-Eyed Peas" (minus Fergie), "Chris Brown" and girlfriend, 3 different "Rhianna"s, and many more. The winner of this competition was a female "Ginuwine" who sang, danced, and thrusted to "Pony".
Not looking forward to tomorrow. I still have a 10 page paper to write, ideally by tomorrow night. Which is not going to happen. I have no idea when I am going to be able to finish it. I might be able to get some work done on it tomorrow between classes, but there is no chance I can have it finished by 6pm. I am going to devote all Thursday afternoon/evening/night to it, though, to try to have it done. Mother is coming into town that evening, though, so I'm not sure how much time I will have. We are going into NYC on Friday for a really col event. I will try to post all about it this weekend! Saturday, the town is hosting a spring festival, complete with a carnival and free M&Ms for everyone, so we will of course be checking that out. She heads back on Sunday, so I can work on it then, too, but I really want to have it done before Mother gets in to town. I really need to be done with it. It's adding so much stress to my every day. I can't wait until May 10, when the semester is over and I am heading home to kick back and relax for two and a half weeks. Just two more weeks... Gotta keep reminding myself of that.
-N.E.
I think in my last post I had just gone home for the weekend. I had a really nice, relaxing weekend. Thursday evening, my parents and I went for a walk around the reservoir in our area. I took them up to see the quarry where I used to sit and write rather frequently. It's one of my favorite places in the world. I miss it all the time.
Friday I had most of the day to myself. I met Mother when she finished work, and we went ot Kohls. I now have a whole new wardrobe for summer! I needed a lot of cheap clothes to get me through summer camp, and I'd say we achieved our goal. Now I just need to find a swimsuit. Why does no one sell board shorts?! I'm not big on bikini bottoms, though I do love the tops, so I usually wear board shorts, too. Unfortunately, my Oakley board shorts don't fit anymore, and apparently nowhere around my house sells any... Hello, I'm from East Coast USA and we don't know what surfing is. So that's still on my to-do list to prep for camp.
Friday night I picked up my cousin Z and we stayed up kind of late playing Undertale. Well, I played Undertale and he watched both me and Dan Vs. I love Dan Vs. I find it to be a really funny show, and I knew he would enjoy it, so I put it on. Now, I feel a little guilty because I had an ulterior motive to inviting him over. Z is like a little brother to me. We grew up pretty close, and he is 2 years younger than me. Back in January he pretty much went off the deep end and dropped out of his final semester of college. Obviously, something big happened, but he won't tell anyone. On top of that, he has a lot of gender identity problems stressing him out all the time, and adding to that stress is the pressure from his parents. I wanted to spend some time with him and see what's been going on. Unfortunately, he dodged all of my questions like a pro. I taught him too well. Anyway, he spent the night.
Saturday was spent enjoying the outdoors. At the end of August last year, my family moved into a huge house on 3.15 acres. Mind you, we came from stereotypical suburbia, so it's amazingly wonderful to have so much space now. The house had 2 owners before us, and the first had a garden plot out back. The second never touched it. We spent the afternoon digging it out and setting it up so that come Mother's Day mother can start planting her vegetables. The garden plot is a short way down a pretty steep slope, so I dug the hill out and made rock steps for her. It's not the first set of rock steps I've ever made, but given the land I'm not sure they will last all summer. I told her and Father that they should look into getting it at least reinforced by summer, if not professionally done. Father seemed way more confident than I felt about my masonry, haha.
On Sunday I returned to campus. I was very hesitant about driving all the way back up here alone. I had other reasons to hesitate, too. Honestly, I would rather have walked barefoot down the entire Appalachian Trail than come back here and deal with this. It's a 4 hour drive and even on a good day I don't do well alone for that long. I don't get along with myself, to put it simply. In order to keep my focus, I listened to Coheed&Cambria's albums, starting from the first one. For those who don't know, their music tells a huge space opera scifi story. I spent 6 years studying every line and every comic book to figure it out. To this day I still am unsure about some parts. But anyway, I made it all the way through three and a half of their albums! I almost finished the main story! They also have a prequel album, 2 spin offs, and one album (their most recent) that's just awesome music and has nothing to do with the (completed) story. It was a pretty successful distraction. A couple of friends kept me company that evening for a while.
Monday was uneventful. My first class was Practical. The egocentric professor I mentioned last post amused me. As soon as he saw my note from the health center he practically threw my missed handouts and homework at me. Guess he knows he isn't always in charge. We set up a schedule for me to make up the quizzes I missed (he gives a quiz every class). I met with my building director and Student Life so that they could get my note on file and notify my professors officially. My Course Design class was uneventful. That night was room selection, which was pretty exciting! My group was #29 (there are I think ~40 apartments). We managed to get the second to last room in the building we wanted! It's even on the same floor and side of the building we wanted! We're all pretty excited, and looking forward to moving in in the fall.
Now we get to today, which was also uneventful. I got to ride Twist this morning in my lesson, which was nice. I enjoy riding him, and am glad that my first ride back after everything was on him. After my lesson I spent some extra time pampering him. He even got his legs and tail washed! Farm Facilities was uneventful. We spent the class discussing trucks, trailers, and hitches. Woo. When I got back I knocked out my homeworks for my Practical class. I grabbed dinner with some friends, and one of them informed me that her roommate (they have been arguing lately) flipped shit and moved out this morning without warning. Honestly, that whole situation is like a horrible soap opera and it's highly amusing to watch. Tonight was also Lip It, the school's lip syncing competition! They host it every semester, and it never fails to disappoint. This time around featured "Black-Eyed Peas" (minus Fergie), "Chris Brown" and girlfriend, 3 different "Rhianna"s, and many more. The winner of this competition was a female "Ginuwine" who sang, danced, and thrusted to "Pony".
Not looking forward to tomorrow. I still have a 10 page paper to write, ideally by tomorrow night. Which is not going to happen. I have no idea when I am going to be able to finish it. I might be able to get some work done on it tomorrow between classes, but there is no chance I can have it finished by 6pm. I am going to devote all Thursday afternoon/evening/night to it, though, to try to have it done. Mother is coming into town that evening, though, so I'm not sure how much time I will have. We are going into NYC on Friday for a really col event. I will try to post all about it this weekend! Saturday, the town is hosting a spring festival, complete with a carnival and free M&Ms for everyone, so we will of course be checking that out. She heads back on Sunday, so I can work on it then, too, but I really want to have it done before Mother gets in to town. I really need to be done with it. It's adding so much stress to my every day. I can't wait until May 10, when the semester is over and I am heading home to kick back and relax for two and a half weeks. Just two more weeks... Gotta keep reminding myself of that.
-N.E.
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