I thought I had saved that draft...

I wrote out a blog yesterday with intent to finish it last night...but blogger didn't save it??! Grr.

Anyhooo, this is roughly what I wrote about:
Wednesday: Classes went alright as usual. I presented my last project in Modern Art!! I was so excited to get it done!! The Modern Artist I've been researching for this final paper is Stuart Davis, who was a cubist painter. I think I did relatively well, and Professor Kain does like that artist, so hopefully things go well!! I'll know in a couple of weeks.

So now! :
I am currently in the admissions intern office, enjoying a bowl of coco-wheats for breakfast and worrying slightly about the whole swine flu scare...I'm fairly positive things are going to be alright, but it is still scary to look at the global map and see the US highlighted in dark red, indicating more than 40 cases...ahhhhhhh this isn't cool.

But enough on that! What is scarier is the fact that I'm almost halfway done with college. Half way!! Like...how did this happen?? I'll be a junior in college, my brother will be a junior in high school!! MAN! How time flies.

Even scarier though is the work load I am about to take on. I have so much to do before packing up and going home for the summer. Lots and lots of papers and two in class finals....egad!! It will all come down to meticulous planning, eh? And bringing a sleeping bag to the library, that may help as well!!

Research paper for Modern Art, essay for Art History, two research papers for Astronomy, final paper for Contemporary lit...in class exams for Art History and Astronomy, poster project for Astronomy....

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Just gotta keep singing "i will survive!!"

A Truly Manic Monday!!

So oh life. I was up quite late last night trying to finish a paper...so I ended up not getting a lot of sleep, but I did really well on my art history test today!! Yay!! Haha, one good thing.

No, I ended my classes on a low note, as in Contemporary Lit. we're watching "Platoon," so I guess it's going to match well with "The Things They Carried."....Hm. I don't know!! It was really depressing, and Professor Graham evilly kept us to a "certain stopping point," which I KNEW was coming, but was hoping wouldn't come, but did....so Willem Defoe gets shot by one of his own men....ugh. Hate these kinds of movies....

much much later.

just spent EONS in the library. oh my goodness. my back hurts way way way bad.....mawrrrrr

:-(

A FABULOUS FRIDAY!!

Oh man it is LOVELY out. Hot and sunny and windy. I want to be OUTSIDE!!

Perhaps I can make it outside for a wee bit after work....

Tonight Zach plays in the school's Jazz concert, and afterwards I am going out for a late dinner with his parents, aunt, and two cousins. It shall be fun!! Hopefully I can eat well and not have too much of whatever we're getting (pretty sure it'll be pizza!).

Anyhoo, I'm going to head out!! It's too pretty to be in-of-doors!!

--Julia

A Skinny Vanilla Latte

It's only 90 calories and no fat!! Joyful day. However, it is true to its nick-name a Starbucks Barista in Tosa gave--a "no-fun" latte. HA. Very true, but I will have sucess and thus fun in my dieting endeavours!! So there, random Barista of my memories!!

Speaking of dieting and being healthier, my roomie and I are very gung-ho about being healthier for the rest of the school year and beyond, which is exciting!! We were finding all sorts of helpful websites and all of that, so that was lovely, and inspiring! I'm rather excited, and this summer will be really cool too as my sister and I are going to be working pretty hard.

Last night Amanda and Patrick and I met up with Jordan Hill, a sophomore here as well, to go on an extra-credit "Star-gazing Hike" by the President's house. We were able to look through a telescope at Saturn and then Jordan helped us find the constellation we are to be studying--Draco. We finally saw it!! It was really cool finally to see it. We ended up going on a longer hike up into the Prairie, which was fun, but as the night went on it got hazier and cloudier unfortunately. AND Patrick swung me around and I fell and got grass stains all over myself...grrrr. Those better come out....I GOT THOSE JEANS FOR 8$ and...I won't be able to replace them but only for 30$. Sigh.

Hm....mega sigh.

In other news--I'M STRESSED!! Woooohoo! I have a ton of school stuff fast approaching, which is pretty scary actually. I'm basically going to live in the library for the remainder of school, even on the weekends. Sad day!

....Currently am looking up various grass stain removal remedies...apparently plain white toothepaste can help, as can rubbing alcohol....or vinegar...hmmmm....the possibilities are endless!! MOM?? ANY IDEAS??

--Julia

The weekend...

Oh my goodness I am tired!!

I was up ueber late doing project work for my contemporary literature class....but it paid off! The presentation went very well!! I'm so glad. Plus the topic is so cool, and I'm really excited to write my paper for it. My roomie and I got into a really philosophical discussion regarding it last night and I have so many ideas for the paper! MY BRAIN IS A-BUZZ!

It is AWFUL on campus today. It was last night too. The kind of weather that you don't want to leave your room for anything weather.

This week will be fun--tomorrow is Relay for Life!! I'm pretty darn excited. Pizza and movie and philanthropy....

So Zach and I did end up going home Saturday, and though it was a short visit, it was fun. I was able to drop off one application, and though the others couldn't be filled because I was short a reference, I was contacted by the people I used to babysit for last night and she gave me the go-ahead!! I called them while they were on a cruise!! Lucky ducks...Anyway, it was lovely seeing my parents and getting a delicious meal in, and seeing my brother. Ethan has "viral pinkeye" and it is NASTY. He has cold-like symptoms and instead of his eyes being guey and crusted they are just blood-shot. Kinda creepy, really. But yes. We watched the movie "Rainman," which was wonderful, and then Sunday morning my mom made me and Zach an awesome breakfast. Loved it!!

I ran yesterday, to my delight. I got three miles in and I currently feel great. I did finally, FINALLY cave today and got myself a Mocha though. However, I looked up the calories on the Starbucks website and learned it wasn't as bad as I thought, just not great. Oh well!! I have to splurge every now and again, and for not having a Mocha for 2+ years, I think I'm doing okay.

A sunnier mood I could be in...

Oh boys. So easily can they cause you to be a wee bit grumpy. Sigh. I won't delve into details, but apparently they live in completely different time zones.

Sigh.

Ah well. He promises to pick me up from work and then off to dinner, and then an icecream cone to relish outside. I didn't end up getting one yesterday (too much dinner!!).

The One Acts last night were really great, and a number of them were really funny! I'm going again tonight; there are so many that they had to split the shows into separate viewing nights!! Tonight I'll see Leslie's show--huzzah! Last night I saw Sarah Cummings (an ADPi sister who actually has an older sis in the sorority as well) in a great one-act play, where she played the snake as a bartender, and served drinks to Eve and then Adam. Their "apple margeritas" did the trick of them gaining knowledge!! Garrison, one of my good friends on campus, was Adam and was hilarious. Loved it.

I'm still wondering whether or not I'm going home Saturday. Pretty positive I am, but no idea at all how. I need a vehicle....hmm....I've asked around a little bit already, but we'll see what happens....

The week's verdict: pretty darn good. It was long, but the weather these past few days has blown most of my blue moods away.

The only thing bugging me in the back of my mind is that in a few short weeks school will be over and Zach will be leaving for St. Louis and I will be here in Ripon still until I can go home... >_< . And I have a lot of school stuff to have done by then, and I have no idea when I'm seeing Zach this summer and I'm sooooooo scared. There are so many unknowns about this summer I have nooo clue. No clue.

>_<
I guess I should do something else productive with my life....

Ciao ciao for now!!

--Julia

OOps--meant for Wednesday!!

It is Thursday, but I will write as if from yesterday to make up...

SO. The leap from Monday to yesterday was HUGE, it felt like. Monday feels forever ago, really, and it's quite weird. I guess Tuesday was just a really, really, long day. It was fun--we had our "Blind Bash" event, but perhaps all in all it was just a long day, as was Wednesday.

In my contemporary Literature class me, Amanda, and my sisters Kate' and Sarah have a really cool project coming up for Monday--it will be sweet! We are doing a presentation on such things as Found, Post Secret, and other contemporary literatures that we are arguing should be considered literature. I think it's going to be very interesting and fun to present, and should be a good thing to write a paper on!!

IT IS ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL OUTSIDE!!! I know I have this fixation with the weather, but I just neeeeed nice weather! It improves the mood immensely! All that cold weather just puts you in a rut...

If one thing could be improved it would be to not have the construction team right outside my window...what on earth are they doing.....they are scraping up the lawn of the CLC...hm.

Well--it is lovely out and I'm going to enjoy the sun, get an Italian Soda from the starbucks, and just be happy!!

--Julia

::cough:: ::cough:: ::sniffle::...

Blech. Power-walking from place to place will induce a coughing fit from time to time I suppose...

OH WOE IS ME. I cannot find my cell phone. Not that I'm concerned--I know it's in my room, but WHERE is the question. I set two alarms again, as usual (didn't wake me up, however :-/ ) and woke up a bit late this morning. For the life of me I cannot find that Blackberry! It's vanished in my bed or under it or something! How stressful!

Tomorrow I will set THREE alarms. Not sure how I will do it, but...it somehow could be rigged. I should get one of those alarms the detaches itself from the docking station and drives around the room beeping until I finally catch it and turn it off.

But I feel it'd end its life in a nasty, short way involving a leg of our coffee table and my stomping feet.

Which would mean I'd need to sleep in shoes and Amanda would have to be okay with our table being a tripod...

Hm.

This probably won't work.

Anyways, Monday classes (besides those missed and rushed to) went well! The test didn't kill me as much as I thought it would...and Astronomy was interesting and Contemporary Lit. got out MEGA early. I am now at work and just blogging, attempting to figure out how to use the phone so that I may call Lyn...aaannnnnnd slowly getting hungry for dinner. Hm the menu looks a little sparse...I guess it's a rice dinner tonight!!

::several minutes later::
OMG I did well with technology today!! I actually figured out how to use the work phone! Well, only to search and dial her number, I still fail at answering it and transferring calls...I get nervous and press the wrong buttons and consequently hang up...tis bad.

Well--I'm going to do a few teeny duties here and there and head off to food!!

--Julia

The end of the week!!!

Ahhhhh it is so gorgeous outside! The sun is shining and I'm comfortable in jeans, a sweatshirt, and flip flops!! Hooray!

This weekend shall be lovely. We are unfortunately not going home at all to see my Aunt and Uncle and Grandma, but perhaps next weekend we'll head into Milwaukee! I guess this way I'll have more down time and I can sleep a little bit more (yaaay catch up!!). Tonight Zach and I have a pizza/movie date, which should be fun. I'm not sure which film yet, but hopefully it is a comedy! I need a good laugh, even if my throat does hurt.

Tomorrow Zach and I will spend doing homework in the library, and hopefully we'll run in the afternoon. There's a lacrosse game tomorrow around 11 or noon, so we may go to that as well--it could be really fun! I'm not sure yet, I think it depends on how much homework we have!

And then Sunday is Easter! I know the commons is doing a nice Easter brunch. I hope the deviled eggs are going to be tasty--I LOVE deviled eggs. Oh so good.

::sneezes::. Oh gosh. I hate this. I'm doing everything right! Taking vitamins, sleeping, eating oranges like crazy...bahhhhh.

Initiation went well--Congrats to our newest member Sarah Wimmer! Woot woot! It did go pretty late though...so there goes my sleep theory...

WELL. I'm off to my room. Time to clean it! Clothing just accumulates over time....

--Julia

Yesterday...

I went with my modern art history class to the Chicago Art Institute! It was amazing. I have not been to an art museum like that in a long, long time. It was so big!! So many rooms, so many themes, so many countries and mediums and centuries....ah! I was very much blown away. The coolest thing was to see pieces up close and personal that we had actually talked about in class, and then to see other works by those same artists. I hung out with Sarah Cummings all day, and I kept dragging her here and there going "Oh! There's one!"

A wunderbar day. Though the bus driver took the most convoluted route home--it took way longer than it should have, and it was awfully cramped on that bus.

Tonight is initiation for our newest member Sarah Wimmer! She's adorable, and she pranked our floor last night. The bathroom is ENTIRELY covered in sticky notes. The stalls, the doors, the toilets themselves, the sinks, the mirrors...it was a wild sight this morning.

I am rather sick, however. I can't talk too well currently (I sound slightly froggish) and am coughing. I made it to the CLC this morning to open it (it seems all rather hazy now though!!) and needed to rest a bit before coming to admissions....and I slept forever on accident!! I feel bad, but I will be here as long as I can be to make up for lost hours. Oh goodness!
But anyway...I guess the constant eating of oranges and taking of vitamins and such didn't do too much to ward off my cold. Siiiiigh.

::Much later::...Eating an orange! Maybe this is the one to save me from my cold!! I doubt it, though... :-( .

And then some...

Alright!! Good afternoon, all. Almost evening, really. Soon it will be time for dinner! Can't wait for that--I'm starving! I had a very small breakfast and lunch, so I'm just sooo starved right now.

Anyhoo, the weekend was fun! Formal was a great time, and seeing my parents at Adviser Appreciation Brunc, though only for a brief period of time, was great! They brought me the greatest Easter basket I've ever received. Cadbury eggs--mini ones! Oh my favorite!

Classes went by okay today. Slower, it feels like. However, if my last few weeks as a sophomore could slow down I'd have no objection. I cannot BELIEVE how quick the last half of the semester creeps up on you. It's so surprising and scary that I only have a few more weeks...oh goodness I'm going to freak myself out. I'M NOT THINKING ABOUT IT ANYMORE!!! >_<

I think I want to open up a high-end cupcake shop with Amanda and Zach. It would be delicious. We'd have a catalogue of cupcakes people could just look through and order for parties and such. Our employees would have the benefit of testing each new creation, as well as friends and relatives.

Or what about a health restaurant called "Sprout"? Wouldn't that be cute....

More to Come Later!

Me and Zach at his formal! Hooray!

Okay, well I just wanted to upload that quick before class. I'm going to head to Starbucks for some type of coffee drink, then astronomy, then more class...then work....then I will be locked away in the library forever!!!

Later, I believe,

Julia

Oh What a Night

Here is the sophomore class, all of us but two!! We're such a big class!!!

AHHHHHHHHH FORMAL WAS AMAZING!!

I had oh so much fun. Twas a blast. I love dancing! Also, Zach and I got the "cutest couple" award at formal! I was pleased as pink...and in pink, come to think of it!

Here is a "family photo" with our dates. Missy is my big sister, wearing the one shouldered black dress with her boyfriend Ken, I'm in the middle with Zach, and my little, Emily, is to the right of us with her boyfriend Bill. So cute!

Oh yes.

So this weekend is Zach's formal, which will be fantastic! Two fun weekends in a row!! And then more to follow! I'm so excited. Also nervous--how am I going to do my hair???!! I will have to figure that one out Friday evening...

So this week has been going fairly decently. This afternoon was really, really fun though. In contemporary lit again we had an author visit, so the 2 hours flew by! Her name is Susan Power and she is a Native American author, but really spent her life growing up in Chicago. She was SO FUN. I want to be her best friend. She is my favorite visitor, I think! Tonight her reading will be held down in Rodman, so that'll be a fun hike this evening...::grumble::. Ah well. It will be an adventure.

I'm off! My non-stop Wednesday is soooo far from ending!!

--Julia