This week is going much better than last week. I got my tests back today, both A's. That made me happy. This also proved to me that you can still be a slacker in college and get good grades. Awesome!

So I was at work today, and a mustard fiasco took place. See, we had been serving honey mustard dressing, but today we served regular honey mustard. FIASCO!! One girl got like kind of really upset. I thought it was funny. Anywhoo, the whole thing got sorted out sort of, and it is me and Jamie's duty to tell everyone that works at Stackable's. I'm leaving it mostly up to Jamie, but I'm talking about it in this blog, so I feel I did my part.

Speaking of work, yesterday, Kris and I had a 'that's what she said' contest. I lost because I burned myself and said 'fuck me Freddy' while he was standing right next to me. It was still way fun though.

My mom called me last night, and she's thinking about getting a new dog. It really caught me off guard, like I knew she was going to get another one someday, but not this soon. I thought about it though, and I guess if she's ready, she should go ahead and get one. There will never ever be another Katy, so it doesn't really matter if she waits 20 years. It got me thinking though, and the fact that Katy won't be there make me not quite as excited to go home. It'll be ok though, because I'm thinking I will be super busy, so I won't have much time to just hang out at my house. That's sort of what I'm aiming for anyway.

In my oral comm class today, we watched and episode of 'House', and this chick had a tapeworm in her brain. That is so disgusting, it makes me never want to eat pork ever again. I kind of want to start watching that show, but I'm afraid I will think I have everything they show. Eh.

That's really all I got. Peace.

Happiness is-waking up at 2:30 in the afternoon, eating a oatmeal creampie, and realize (after 5 weeks) that you do in fact have dryer sheets.

I am so ready for this week to be over. Its been a really stupid weird annoying week, and it really just needs to stop.

First of all, I have 2 tests on Friday, which sucks because procrastination and I are like best friends. So I've been reading like a librarian every night. Reading takes a lot of work. I like to think about other things while I read, but that sort of defeats the purpose of reading, just a thought. Then today, one of the classes was cancelled, and we still needed to learn stuff for the test, so I don't even know if that's happening Friday or not. I sort of mostly got caught up for that one though, so I don't really care.

The other test is in Humanities, and there's no way around it-its gonna be a bitch. The end.

I've been having like a crazy bi-polar week too. I wake up and check my e-mail/facebook and listen to Mika, so I always start out in a good mood, but then I do stupid things like read my old Xanga entries from my depressed days, and that kind of kills the happiness. Sidenote-Mika does have amazing mood altering effects though. Seriously, if you're in a shitty mood, just listen to 'Love Today' and you will be happy by the end of the song. No joke, its real.

Other odd things that have happened this week-yesterday I was in the bathroom and a girl came around the corner in a towel (she hadn't showered yet), and I was washing my hands and she goes 'I really like your hair! Its so cute with the curls!!'...and then I was like 'Uhh, thanks (?)' and then she went back around the corner to shower. It was odd. Also today, creepy Lamont from Oral Comm was extra creepy. We were talking about stage fright and things you can do to not get afraid, and someone said picture people in their underwear, and Lamont goes 'I do that all the time anyway.' That guy is fucking creepy-for. serious.

In summary, I'm sick of this week, it should go on vacation and never come back. I'm going to go take a shower now (cause I'm a dirty girl), and then I'm going to dinner. I hope everyone else is having a much better week than me! (goodness, I'm so negative....eh.)

p.s. Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day!!

Today something really cool happened to me. All day, for the first time since I've been here, I felt like I really belonged. To be honest with you, being here has been a lot harder than I expected it to be. I had enough people tell me that college would be easy for me that I believed it would be. So when I got here and it wasn't, I felt like I was doing something wrong. Then I got depressed cause I felt like people had too much faith in me and I was screwing everything up....(I try to keep good vibes on here for the most part, but it hasn't been all good)

But then today, everything felt like it kind of clicked. I'm not going to get too excited, in case its a fluke. I think its all going to be ok though, and I really believe that. I mean, if I've had one really good 'in it' day in 4 weeks, who knows what can happen in the next 4.

I'm making this sound all sad and like I've been depressed the whole time I've been here, and that isn't true at all. I've been having fun, and really things have been fine. I've just felt like an outsider.

I guess that's really all I had for today. I'm happy, I'm pretty much done being sick, and I'm going to be ok.

La La La La La La

So an interesting thing has happened. We heard about a flu going around the dorms last tuesday. Thursday I heard someone on the 2nd floor had it. Friday a girl down the hall had it, and Saturday night...I happened to catch this lovely little virus. I felt very near death yesterday, but today I've been on a pretty steady stream of cough syrup, so while I'm still sick, everything is a lot funnier! I'm hoping I feel better tomorrow, cause I have to go to work, and I don't think I could do work like this (it would be funny, but I would end up burning myself...more than I do usually).

Another gross thing that happened this weekend-my ear got super infected. I got a new piercing a couple weeks before I came here, and sort of stopped cleaning it on a regular basis, and as a result Saturday night (just not a good night...in terms of my general health) there was like a giant infection...bubble kind of thing. Needless to say, I took it out. Its not nearly so gross today.

I had to do a speech today for oral comm, and I'm pretty sure it sucked. I'm not that upset or worried though because the professor knew I was sick, and most of the speech was written under the influence of Tylenol P.M., so not too much can be expected.

Other randomness-today, the crazy lady that doesn't shave and has braids, well today, she wore her hair down. There is so much of it. I'm thinking its been at least 10 years since the woman had a hair cut. I didn't even think humans could grow that much hair. But yes, yes apparently they can.

Life takes an accurate syllabus

tuition, room and board-approximatly $12,000 a year
books-$500ish
sitting in class everyday-50 to 75 minutes of my life
realizing i am now 8 chapters behind (reading wise) in my hardest class-priceless

day i forget

times i have forgotten what day of college i'm at-i forget
parties attended-there are too many technicality issues here, so i'm just going to say i'm still at 1
biodesiel buses ridden in-1
how hot it is here-is the roof on fire? very nearly
times slipped on the floor at work-3

i thought it would be cool to count how many days i'd been here for every post...but i've lost track and i really don't feel like figuring it out. eh. you'll deal.

so i had a good long weekend. i went to my brother's house and we hung out. he's a cool cat. then my mom and jeff came for a little bit on sunday cause they were at some indian thing not too far from here. so that was good. they brought me some stuff i'd forgotten (including another pillow, and no joke, since i've had it, i've been sleeping great. this has led me to conclude that i'm a 2 pillow kind of girl, and 1 pillow just doesn't cut it).

also, i'm getting a social life again, and i'm super excited about it. me and some girls that are 2 doors down and a girl from the other hall have started a movie club kind of thing. basically we watch a movie every night, and now more people are starting to come. it's freaking sweet. they are fun to hang out with, and totally unlike most people i hung out with in winterset. i still don't have any gays...but i'm getting there with the hippies, so i guess that's better than nothing.

funny story-so sarah my roommate has a sinus infection or something, could be the flu (cause i heard that's going around the dorms). anyway, we were at the house dinner last night and she asked if i would pass her the ketchup and i said no (joking around you know) and she's like 'i'm gonna cough on your pillow later'. i thought that was probably the best threat i'd ever heard in my life.

its weird cause i keep seeing people here, or meeting people that totally remind me of w'set people. there is a girl that lives down the hall, and she reminds me so much of katie leners (if katie lener's ran track and was super hyper all the time), she even kind of looks like her. and there is a guy that always seems to be in the dining center when i'm there, and he looks just like chris roberts. its weird, but kind of cool. cause then i think about people that i might not think about otherwise.

in conclusion-i'm pretty much over my homesickness. it sucked pretty bad there for a little while, but now that i'm actually hanging out with people (instead of just meeting a lot of them) its better.

anywhoo kittens, i'ma take a nap, then study for my math test tomorrow that i'm not going to do well on....good times.