One Week

One week until this piece of crap Dell is gone, and my new computer will be born. :)

I guess you can tell that I am a TAD excited that I am FINALLY getting a new computer, one that'll work and has spiffy LIGHTS in it. OOOHHHH! I'm excited.

i told Dave I'm taking this one outside after I get the new one and beating it with a baseball bat. Good way to take out my agression and anger. RAR!

Oh, Me and Julie totally just set up the N64 on OUR OWN! We conquered technology people! Sweetness! :) I think I shall be in there later, battling the demons of Mario and folks.

How sad is this.

I am excited over a new computer and Mario Kart.

I am truly, a nerd.

allie

i wish the weekdays would move quicker

and the weekends would move slower

but not for the reasons you think.

A Quick Bunch of Thoughts

I really like all of my classes this semester. All of the topics are interesting, specialized, and worth my time. I finally feel like I am accomplishing something here, and learning things I didn't know before.

I also really like all of my professors, save one. And that would be my history professor, because he is just plain boring. I honestly don't think I need to know what peasants ate in 1432 for breakfast, thank you very much. Not worth my time...at least all the trivial matter isn't.

I really enjoy my TE class. Why? It's on racial diversity and i have a mandatory service learning program I have to do to pass the class. My assignment is to tutor kids in grades 6-12 in math, reading, and writing. I get to talk to the kids and work with them, on more than just their homework. I'm excited to begin, even if it means I have more on my plate.

This semester is going to be a tough one. Eighteen credits plus 2 hours/week of tutoring, the gym 3 days/week and all that lovely reading my professors have pushed on me. But at the same time, I'm excited to dive deeper into my classes and learn what I can. Ecspecially from my English prof, who is rumored to be the hardest prof in the English department. You have to love a guy who brings in his Ben Franklin action figure to class to show us. It made my day.

Besides all of that, i have a guy at my side who loves me, a great family who is going support me, no matter what happens in March, and a great group of core friends. I'm getting closer to my roomie and my suitemates and as each day passes...the more I want to stay at MSU.

Keep your fingers crossed in March and pray that I get in. :) (But I think, even if I don't, I am going to stay at MSU and finish my degrees...Then, after I graduate, go for a post BA in Education...it may just happen).

Anyway, I'm looking towards this semester with optimism and hope that I accomplish everything I aim to, and that something very good appears in my e-mail account in March. But for now, I'm going to chug along, working hard and learning more...

-allie-

*NOTE* I find it amazing how people from high school change as we get older. Not to say I haven't changed, but I am noticing more and more how the people I thought were my friends...shouldn't have been...just a passing thought

*NOTE 2* I mentioned in my previous post I want some comments. And even thought i got 10 hits...no one left me a note...There's a place for you to comment for a reason. If you have a opinion, or whatever, leave it. That's why its there...

The Wedding

Overall, it was a fun weekend. As my grandma put it, "it's a snowball effect now." My cousins and me are all around the same age...about 6 or 7 years apart. I see many more weddings in the near future. Its just sad that the bride was....sick at the reception.

The trip itself was fun. I drove down with mom, torrie, and my grandma...we got my grandma to laugh, a lot...at our stupidness. At least she had fun.

Anyway...my classes are a lot harder than i anticipated. I should have known that the higher up i go, the harder they'll be. But thats my own stupidity. It scary to think I'll have 80 credits at the end of this semester...and I will have only finished my 2nd semester. haha...fun... I am an over-achiever.

With my classes being harder and having to do service learning for crappy TE, i don't think I will have time to write a novel in thirty days. Its just not possible with all the stuff I have to do. So, its a no go, but I still plan on spending an alotted time writing on fridays, to improve and hopefully make progress on my work.

But yeah. There is no exciting news to share with you....I have a boring life.

Priceless moment from the weekend: My grandma dancing to Holidae Inn with her grandkids...*sigh*

leave some comments dudes!

-allie-

Lessons for the New Year

1. Do not try and hold onto friendships that are meaningless. Why put work into them when you get nothing in return?
2. Have faith.
3. Never tell people everything. Some things are better kept tp yourself.
4. Never take a Linguistics class. They are evil.
5. Studying and doing projects with friends is harder than doing the same with strangers.
6. Write.
7. Read.
8. Learn all you can now. When you're old, its proven you learn things. (I want to learn hwo to knit/crochet/sew/quilt this summer).
9. Believe in yourself.
10. Be afraid of eating bad. Who wants to die when they're forty?

Anyways, something else I need to mention. I'm not writing a novel thiw month-I have too much going on. I wasn't actually going to start a new one anyway. I was going to finish Death Catchers, which i think has the potential to be a good read (if I do say so myself). So instead, the goal is to simply write on those lovely days I call Fridays, where I don't have class. :)

Talk to you all at a later date.