Well we are officially 42 days away from what promises to be that best part of my summer, possibly the best part of college. What exactly have I done to prepare since my last post? Well not much. I did however get a raincoat, a lovely black trench coat style one that I'm pretty excited about. I'm still not sure exactly what all I need for this trip, besides comfy shoes and the raincoat. I need to figure out what clothes to pack and how to possibly pack light enough for a five week trip. So far I've mostly just been enjoying my summer vacation, well and working.
My favorite thing about summer is the weather, I love nothing more than laying on the beach tanning and reading a book. Or wave jumping and attempting to swim out far enough to hit a sand bar. So far in the two-ish weeks I've been home I have managed to make 2 beach trips and about 12 pool trips, both at night and during the day. So my goal of being the tannest person in London is definitley becoming plausible; especially if we continue the weekly beach trips.
I've also been working at Studio Movie Grill again this summer, upside to that is free movies and something to do; downside is dealing with stupid people. There is a man we call the cheese guy who comes into work and orders lots of cheese. He used to walk around yelling "cheese" in the halls and asking people about cheese but one of our managers finally chewed him out for it. This guy and his friend complain every single time they come to the movies, they always yell at the servers and are totally rude all the time. They also barely tip, or only tip if they really like you (they used to never tip but a manager chewed them out about being rude all the time). I personally think they just want free stuff, I mean if you really had issues that many times at a place you just wouldn't come back. I think our managers know this too. People in general are just stupid, they don't understand why it takes time to cook their food in a sold out movie, or why there isn't someone to cater to their every whim. It's a fun job though and it gives me a lot of entertaining stories.
The other fun thing happening this summer is Howl at the Moon, a place we have discovered thanks to my friend Scott. It's a piano bar where these two guys and a girl play requests and make up stupid songs. They also have silly contests to win free drinks, and they are all really talented. It's very entertaining and fun and has become a Wednesday tradition.
May 26, 2010
May 13, 2010
55 Days!
That's it, only 55 more days until I leave for London!!
Can't freaking wait, but I feel like I have so much to do before then. I don't even know what to pack, or how I'm going to pack light when I'm going to be somewhere for five weeks. I'm a terrible over packer, mostly because I like to give myself choices in clothing. So packing for a five week trip to a different country is going to be interesting. I do know that I'm getting a raincoat though so that's kind of awesome. I also already have my textbook, which actually looks really interesting and could be something on my summer reading list for fun haha.
Well it's finally summer vacation, I've been done with the hardest semester ever since Saturday. Still don't have all my grades which is kind of frustrating but mostly I'm just happy the semester is over. Summer means Houston, reading books, and working at Studio again, but only for a month and a half and I get to watch free movies. So it'll be a short summer here in Texas. Really what I would like to do is spend as much time at the beach or pool as possible, and hang out with my friends. So far seeing my friends is working out well. I came home Tuesday, went out to eat that night and hung out with Bethany, Jason, Bobby and a few of Bobby's friends. We also checked out the supposedly haunted Patterson road. Last night we went to a really cool bar downtown called Howl at the Moon. They have a group of guys who play piano, guitar, drums, etc and you can request songs and they make up really entertaining lyrics. They also have a mirrored wall and you can pay to write whatever you want on the wall. It was a lot of fun, and a place I'd go again. It might become a weekly tradition.
As wonderful as summer is saying goodbye to Waco gets harder every year. My house there becomes more like home and my friends there more like family. This year was especially sad because I won't see my graduating friends, like Brooke and Laura, again next year. Hopefully we can all have some reunion visit at some point, maybe in Michigan where Brooke will be. I'm also going to miss my roommates, we will all be in different states (or countries) for most of the summer. So before we all left we had a really fun photo shoot afternoon, with Brooke's dad as the photographer and the pictures turned out really cute.
Can't freaking wait, but I feel like I have so much to do before then. I don't even know what to pack, or how I'm going to pack light when I'm going to be somewhere for five weeks. I'm a terrible over packer, mostly because I like to give myself choices in clothing. So packing for a five week trip to a different country is going to be interesting. I do know that I'm getting a raincoat though so that's kind of awesome. I also already have my textbook, which actually looks really interesting and could be something on my summer reading list for fun haha.
Well it's finally summer vacation, I've been done with the hardest semester ever since Saturday. Still don't have all my grades which is kind of frustrating but mostly I'm just happy the semester is over. Summer means Houston, reading books, and working at Studio again, but only for a month and a half and I get to watch free movies. So it'll be a short summer here in Texas. Really what I would like to do is spend as much time at the beach or pool as possible, and hang out with my friends. So far seeing my friends is working out well. I came home Tuesday, went out to eat that night and hung out with Bethany, Jason, Bobby and a few of Bobby's friends. We also checked out the supposedly haunted Patterson road. Last night we went to a really cool bar downtown called Howl at the Moon. They have a group of guys who play piano, guitar, drums, etc and you can request songs and they make up really entertaining lyrics. They also have a mirrored wall and you can pay to write whatever you want on the wall. It was a lot of fun, and a place I'd go again. It might become a weekly tradition.
As wonderful as summer is saying goodbye to Waco gets harder every year. My house there becomes more like home and my friends there more like family. This year was especially sad because I won't see my graduating friends, like Brooke and Laura, again next year. Hopefully we can all have some reunion visit at some point, maybe in Michigan where Brooke will be. I'm also going to miss my roommates, we will all be in different states (or countries) for most of the summer. So before we all left we had a really fun photo shoot afternoon, with Brooke's dad as the photographer and the pictures turned out really cute.
May 05, 2010
Foster Kittens > Finals
It's finals week here at old BU, which means lots of coffee, staying up late, attempting to memorize an entire semesters worth of material in a few days, and in my house kittens! So no this post will not be about final exams, I'm trying to forget those are even happening. One was today, two tomorrow, and one Saturday. Ughh.
But anyway, yesterday the humane society emailed out pictures of cute little kittens that needed foster homes so i convinced Emily that we really needed some kittens in our lives. So we drove over to the humane society and picked out two little babies from the twelve they had. They are so cute! We named the orange one Lacedarius and the b/w one Bon Qui Qui so they will grow up into little gangstas.
But anyway, yesterday the humane society emailed out pictures of cute little kittens that needed foster homes so i convinced Emily that we really needed some kittens in our lives. So we drove over to the humane society and picked out two little babies from the twelve they had. They are so cute! We named the orange one Lacedarius and the b/w one Bon Qui Qui so they will grow up into little gangstas.
April 27, 2010
A week of firsts and lasts
So this is officially the last week of my junior year here at Baylor. WOW. I can't believe I've been here in Waco for three years already. This time next year I'll be celebrating things like last day of college ever, and last first final exam, scary huh? The end of this year comes with not only excitement for the summer but bittersweet feelings of losing a senior class that I for once have really good friends in. Last night was our last ADPi meeting of the semester and the seniors did their traditional walk out and it was weird. I can't imagine not seeing some of their faces every day, or every week, and I really can't picture myself next year celebrating my last meeting ever. Such a weird feeling.
In a way I really can't wait for this year to be over, this semester has been my hardest by far and the fact that I have 5 papers to write this week (thankfully I've finished 3) and a test plus final next week makes me want to get it all over with. It'll will be a sad ending though with friends leaving, many of whom I won't see again in the fall and the terrifying prospect of the almost end of college. Last night I pulled my first all nighter of my college career. I always hoped I could get away with not pulling one but I really needed to get this paper finished so I can move on to the other papers I have to write. It's going to be a long week. My last days at Waco Center for Youth are also coming up, a place I will miss a lot this summer. It's a weird feeling to think that next year is my last here, it should be blast I have very high expectations for senior year and I'm looking forward to what summer and senior year will bring.
On an awesome note I leave for London in 71 days!! Ballin!
Oh and last week was Diadeloso, the best and most frattastic Baylor holiday ever. It's a random day we get off full of tug-o-war, music festivals, dog shows and for a lot of people celebrating on 10th street. It was a lot of fun (see pics below)!
In a way I really can't wait for this year to be over, this semester has been my hardest by far and the fact that I have 5 papers to write this week (thankfully I've finished 3) and a test plus final next week makes me want to get it all over with. It'll will be a sad ending though with friends leaving, many of whom I won't see again in the fall and the terrifying prospect of the almost end of college. Last night I pulled my first all nighter of my college career. I always hoped I could get away with not pulling one but I really needed to get this paper finished so I can move on to the other papers I have to write. It's going to be a long week. My last days at Waco Center for Youth are also coming up, a place I will miss a lot this summer. It's a weird feeling to think that next year is my last here, it should be blast I have very high expectations for senior year and I'm looking forward to what summer and senior year will bring.
On an awesome note I leave for London in 71 days!! Ballin!
Oh and last week was Diadeloso, the best and most frattastic Baylor holiday ever. It's a random day we get off full of tug-o-war, music festivals, dog shows and for a lot of people celebrating on 10th street. It was a lot of fun (see pics below)!
April 19, 2010
BDF
If the zombie apocalypse happened soon we would have the first half black, half white, all zombie president... Can you still be president if you're a zombie?
This weekend was Black Diamond Formal, and it was fantastic! So much fun, so much dancing and so much photobooth! We had formal at this really pretty house out in China Spring. It was in this building on some peoples property, and even though it was raining it was really pretty. The food was fantastic, and we had a really cool photobooth to take photos in. I also made friends with the police officer who was our security and got to play with the handcuffs and he showed me how the taser and the baton worked!
This weekend was Black Diamond Formal, and it was fantastic! So much fun, so much dancing and so much photobooth! We had formal at this really pretty house out in China Spring. It was in this building on some peoples property, and even though it was raining it was really pretty. The food was fantastic, and we had a really cool photobooth to take photos in. I also made friends with the police officer who was our security and got to play with the handcuffs and he showed me how the taser and the baton worked!
April 13, 2010
White People getting Crunk Should be its own Sport!
No seriously it should! This Friday was stompfest here at Baylor. Stompfest is an event (that was originally called Afro Olympics) put on by a few of the multicultural sororities that is a stomp competition. So there is a coed division and a non coed division and groups from Asian student association, to STUFU, and all the sororities and fraternities participate. This years theme was decades, so each group had a time period to base their act around and everyone gets coaches and attempts to be crunk. Some of the groups are really good, and this year a performing arts high school came and performed at the end. It's so entertaining. ADPi did a future themed act and it was really cute, they had some cool black light effects. And the Asian kids rapped about what else, egg rolls. Haha.
On Saturday I went to the Phi Alpha Theta regional conference in the oh so exciting Sherman Texas. For my Britain in the 20th Century class we could present one of our papers at the conference for our final exam. It was a really long day, but surprisingly fun. We had to meet at school at 4:45am to drive up to Austin College so that was ridiculously early. Some of the other girls in my class and I sat in on a session so we could see how presenting went and then we just hung out the rest of the day. They gave us breakfast and lunch and there were a few speakers and a cool movie this guy made as part of his thesis. I presented at like 1:30 that afternoon, my paper was on The Sex Pistols, I was in a room with another girl I knew named Emily who wrote about woman punk rockers and a third girl who's paper was on Luther and church hymns. It went really well, I was terrified I wouldn't be able to answer any questions but everyone really liked the punk rock papers and we had a fun discussion after our papers were over. It was a good way to get a final exam out of the way!
I also registered for classes this week. Only 4 classes to graduate! So I'm really filling my schedule with random stuff for the next year. I'm taking Learning and Behavior, Theories in Psychotherapy and Counseling, Adolescent Development, Extreme Deviance, and Renaissance and Reformation.
Things You Shouldn't Name your Child
Breezy
She'bree
Funny Sign I saw this weekend
L'Ja$per is too legit to quit
On Saturday I went to the Phi Alpha Theta regional conference in the oh so exciting Sherman Texas. For my Britain in the 20th Century class we could present one of our papers at the conference for our final exam. It was a really long day, but surprisingly fun. We had to meet at school at 4:45am to drive up to Austin College so that was ridiculously early. Some of the other girls in my class and I sat in on a session so we could see how presenting went and then we just hung out the rest of the day. They gave us breakfast and lunch and there were a few speakers and a cool movie this guy made as part of his thesis. I presented at like 1:30 that afternoon, my paper was on The Sex Pistols, I was in a room with another girl I knew named Emily who wrote about woman punk rockers and a third girl who's paper was on Luther and church hymns. It went really well, I was terrified I wouldn't be able to answer any questions but everyone really liked the punk rock papers and we had a fun discussion after our papers were over. It was a good way to get a final exam out of the way!
I also registered for classes this week. Only 4 classes to graduate! So I'm really filling my schedule with random stuff for the next year. I'm taking Learning and Behavior, Theories in Psychotherapy and Counseling, Adolescent Development, Extreme Deviance, and Renaissance and Reformation.
Things You Shouldn't Name your Child
Breezy
She'bree
Funny Sign I saw this weekend
April 05, 2010
Birthday Weekend 2.0
Here is the update on the rest of my birthday weekend!
Friday: Ashley, Emily and I got up and road tripped to Houston with Jasper and Lucy. Along the way Jasper threw up in the car, we now know he can't have milk and ride in cars. We also stopped to take pictures in blue bonnets like last year.
It was a long ride as we also had to drive to Fulshear to drop Ashley's dog off at her parents house. Once we got to my house we ate amazing macaroni with my parents. It was so so good! We also took a trip to both Specs and Houston discount liquor just for fun. That night we went to a club/ bar called Drink Houston with my friends Jason and Bethany. We also went down to Washington and went to Region and met up with our friend Scott. We ended the night at Taco Stand.
Saturday: Ashley, Emily, and I went downtown to the Galleria, the waterwall and to a Specs that covers an entire city block. It was cool, the Specs was huge and has like a coffee shop and a grocery store.
We went to dinner at Outback that night with my parents. Sooo good! I love the blooming onion! That night we went to South Beach to dance because it has a lot of fun music and a really cool fog thing that happens every hour. After SoBe we ended the night at St. Danes with our new friend Scott who we met at SoBe. I had a drink that was on fire there, it was cool.
Sunday: Emily and I went to Brunch with her family, and went to church and had dinner with mine. We also had an Easter Egg hunt!! So all in all it was a good weekend.
Friday: Ashley, Emily and I got up and road tripped to Houston with Jasper and Lucy. Along the way Jasper threw up in the car, we now know he can't have milk and ride in cars. We also stopped to take pictures in blue bonnets like last year.
It was a long ride as we also had to drive to Fulshear to drop Ashley's dog off at her parents house. Once we got to my house we ate amazing macaroni with my parents. It was so so good! We also took a trip to both Specs and Houston discount liquor just for fun. That night we went to a club/ bar called Drink Houston with my friends Jason and Bethany. We also went down to Washington and went to Region and met up with our friend Scott. We ended the night at Taco Stand.
Saturday: Ashley, Emily, and I went downtown to the Galleria, the waterwall and to a Specs that covers an entire city block. It was cool, the Specs was huge and has like a coffee shop and a grocery store.
Sunday: Emily and I went to Brunch with her family, and went to church and had dinner with mine. We also had an Easter Egg hunt!! So all in all it was a good weekend.
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