15 steps... motivational song for cleaning... ha

So I'm finished with my May intersession course... so glad it is over. It was a great class and great experience for future jobs. Because of this class I'm planning on working for the Mississippi Arts Commission doing field work similar to what I've been doing this past two weeks. I really enjoyed doing everything that I got to do. Went out and met and interviewed people about their lives and how they got involved with music. It was awesome. The individuals I met wanted my co-worker and me to come back anytime for their church services, and I have an open invitation to this juke joint out in the middle of nowhere. I think I have mentioned this before, but if not... I'm looking at graduate schools. The one that I really want to go to is UNC Chapel Hill. I want to do the masters program in Folklore. I've been looking at the program and it looks like a whole lot of fun... well with a lot of work along with it. Who knows, i hope things work out to go. 

So now I'm using this friday to relax and get my mound of dirty clothes washed and put away... It is disgusting how much I have to clean. Obviously I'm putting it off right now since I'm sitting and writing this out. ha I'm currently listening to "15 Steps" by Radiohead... 15 steps is how far away my dirty clothes are. So if I just take those steps to get there I'll be that much closer to getting it over with. ha

Last night I went out with some friends that I haven't hung out with in a long while. It was a lot of fun, and we are planning on doing it more often. But I'm going to go ahead and bite the bullet and go and clean. Joy of my life....

stressing my mind...

So its been a while since I last posted... almost a month since. Well, since then I was rushing to get things done for the end of the semester, then had to cram for finals. Finals week was an interesting week. But I made it out alive my last spring semester as an undergrad. 

Finals week... wow. It was laid out perfectly schedule. My first final was on Tuesday of that week and the last one was Thursday night. Besides the fact that I had 3 finals on Thursday it was a good schedule. I pulled an all nighter on Wednesday night, b/c I had a final @ 8A.M. then Noon, then at 7... well the last one was really at 6 but I miss understood and thought it was at 7. I still got to present my project for the class and I wasn't the only late person, so that was good. One thing that helped me was taking part of Ole Miss's FLASH RAVE! Talk about getting your adrenalin going and getting a good study break. I got everything done that I needed to get done. A guy friend of mine came over and hung out for a bit. It was sad b/c it was his last night in Oxford and he was leaving for home the next morning. He already had his car packed up and everything. Ready to hit the road when he was done with his last final. Lucky duck. 

I hope I am able to stay in contact with my friends that I have made over the years at Ole Miss. I have had some good times while I have been here. Sad that they have to come to an end. But this past week I have participated in graduation ceremonies, and then started an intersession class (2 weeks of intense class to get a semester credit). I'm ready for the weekend b/c I'll be finished with the class. I'm thinking about a road trip. That would be great. Trying to find somebody to come with me. Or maybe just drive up to see the Aiken's in Johnson City, TN. That would be a nice break for me. Go to the lake and relax and get away from everything for a few days.

I have been flirting with the idea of graduate school. I kind of like the idea too. Scary thought that I'm at that age I never thought I would reach... I'm able to apply to grad school. I talked to my mom briefly about it and her eyes lit up, in a good way. She thought it was a great idea. The school I'm thinking a lot about is UNC Chapel Hill. It is one of the toughest to get into, but they have one of the best programs for what I want to study... Folklore. It would be so awesome. It would be about 13 or so hours away from home. I'm still flirting with the idea. If I do it, I would like to live in Chapel Hill for a year so I can establish residency to be able to claim in-state. I have always wanted to live in NC. Could be an adventure moving somewhere where I don't know a soul.

I need to end this now b/c I do have some work to get done. Love school and deadlines for work.

So you know it is crunch time in the semester when you can't remember what day it is and you are on autopilot. That is how I am right now. I go day to day doing assignments, and when it comes time for bed I'm still have the feeling that I'm not getting everything thing done that I have to. I get up early in the mornings to get to work by 6:30 in class pretty much all day and when I'm not I feel like I'm all over town getting stuff in order and pictures taken and so forth. I'm taken pictures around Oxford now because I want to have pictures for later so I can somewhat remember how Oxford was when I graduated from college.

Yes. I said it. I'm graduating from college. Never thought it would happen, but it is. The time has come for me to hang up my kids shoes and put on the grown up ones. I have my resume in circulation, which in itself is scary. A piece of paper being a representative of you. Looking at places to live once I am done. Getting off the parents payroll. But tomorrow is a big day... ha ha. Well, I guess you can call it a big day b/c it is my birthday tomorrow. Turning another year older is great b/c that means you have made it another year. I still have to get through today to get there but regardless; I'll claim that I have made it through another year. I don't have any big plans, that desire to go big on my birthday puttered out long ago. 

Birthdays are big deals but when all your friends are all over the map makes it hard to make it an event. Or even if they are in town and blow off what you had planned doesn't make for a good time. So I try to steer clear of those situations now. Once it has happened to you, makes you not want to do it again. This weekend is also a big weekend... Double Decker and the Ole Miss/ UGA baseball series. I'm really pumped b/c  I'm considering it my birthday weekend. I just hope that we win the baseball series. 

Finals are around the corner, then graduation, then my last few classes this summer in summer school. Kind of nerve racking since that means come the end of July I'll have to have a job. AHHH! An actual 9-5 job! I guess now a 8-5. Well, I have to stop procrastinating and actually do some work/study/school stuff now. Hopefully I won't wait so long to make an update.

Holla!

Gone to California...

so I'm here. Its kind of cool. Not the most easy to get around city. You have to drive everywhere. To get somewhere that is only about 15 miles away could take up to an hour or two to get there! I couldn't get use to that. I mean at least in Chicago you have the subway... that cut out a lot of time of navigating the city. But i did get to meet this HAWTY!! Ha I wish. (Filming in Vancouver)

Seriously though, I got to drive down Rodeo Drive... When I become a famous actress or become really ridiculously wealthy, then I'll shop on Rodeo Drive. 

Today I got to layout at Redondo Beach. Plane on being Malibu's Most Wanted! B-RAD! ha 

I just thought I would give a little update right now. I'll be making another post at a later date. Can't believe it is already Wednesday of my last Spring Break! ahhh... I want to re-start the week please! At least less than 2 months will be graduation!

about dat time...

So it has been some time since my last post. I have my reasons for that... nothing really exciting to post about. School has been crazy busy. Projects left and right, book after book to read,  just all around craziness. 

SPRING BREAK! ahhh haaa... It begins Friday the 13th at 11 A.M. so i guess t-minus 12 hours. I should be continuing to review my English notes and readings for my midterm that I have tomorrow morning @ 10.... I'm not too worried about it but I have been reviewing and doing it again in the morning when I'm a little bit more focused. Back to the topic of SPRING BREAK! Tomorrow I had planned on leaving and heading on down to Jackson, MS to visit the one and only, Mr. Zach Adams. Change of plans... taking my younger sister, Court, dress shopping. Checking her out after her 5th period class and we are heading with my dad to do the shopping. THE ONLY REASON my dad volunteered to go shopping with the two of us is b/c we don't take hours looking... we have a general idea of what we want and we walk through a store to see if anything catches our eyes and if not we move on to the next store. It is a technique that Court has adapted to and is the only way she likes to shop now... So that is why my dad likes shopping with the either one or both of us... we don't piddle around shopping trying on everything we see.If we don't like what we see we don't bother but anyway.

GOING TO LA!!! Yes! I'm so excited b/c I've never been to California. I'm getting there on the 16th and then back home on the 22nd. I can barely contain myself right now.  I will post some photos when I get back b/c I don't plan on posting while out there. I'm just ready to be on the beach and relax and try not to think about school even though,  I know I will...

Somebody has a case of the Monday's...

I really don't like having those kind of weekends when you don't get a lot of down time and then you have a busy week. Yeah... had one of those.

Worked a lot this weekend. There was a swim meet this weekend... 450-500 kids ranging in ages from 6-18... craziness. I worked 15 hours Friday and Saturday alone. 12 of those hours were on Saturday... it was painful. I had to keep reminding myself... you are getting paid for this... you are getting paid for this, not enough, but getting paid none the less. 

I wanted to destroy my phone this morning because of it waking me up... yes I did have to get up and I knew that it was going to go off, but I just don't like getting out of bed in the morning.  Doesn't matter if it is a song I like or just something to scare me out of bed... I don't like alarms going off in the morning. This semester I'm seriously up and down with the sun. Sometimes a handful of hours down after the sun.  You've gotta do what ya gotta do.

I realized how stinking old I am compared to others I work/hang out with. The conversation I was having was about going out on the weekends. I don't do it a whole lot because if I care to have a drink I can buy my own alcohol and enjoy it in the comforts of my own home. Nothing against going out to the bars or anything, I personally don't like paying a $10 cover to get into a place that sells mix drinks at about $8. The places that normally have the covers are the ones that have bands/DJs and usually are 18+... always crowded and you can barely enjoy yourself. But anyway the conversation... I asked a girl I worked with if she would like to come hang out and get some drinks after class... she was like um I'm not 21 yet... I just turned 20... I was like wow, I forget that I'm actually older than the others I work with. I'm not the baby anymore. Lets just say I have to really hunt out people to get drinks with. Now if  Zach was in the same town as me I would definitely would call him up and tell him to meet me somewhere for a few drinks before din din time. There are those days that I have the want for a drink or two after classes. To each his own though.

I guess embracing the dork in me and studying more leaves me little time to really have afternoons of going to get a drink with a friend or going out on the weekends to enjoy myself. Not this past weekend but the one before, I was in Mobile for a Mardi Gras ball... The idea of it was fun (3rd year to go), but being ill while there was not so much fun. The day before leaving to make my way down to Jackson to meet up with Zach, I became really good friends with the porcelain... I was hugging it b/c I was such good friends with it. I rallied and forced myself in the car, had my water and propel beside me and I played freeze out by myself on the ride down to Jackson. I was so stinking cold but it was the only thing keeping me from... well... you know. People driving by were looking at me like I was crazy for having my window down, but if they only knew. Same thing with the car ride from Jackson to Mobile... Thank goodness for duel a/c control. I get hot easily anyway but still... thank you whomever invented that! But I had a great time on the trip down there, I need to get a copy of the photos from that weekend so I can post some on here. But, until then, I hope I have something "blog worthy" of posting.

Rodeo, Yazoo, Bonfire, Vicksburg, umm don’t know you and my truck…

So my schedule this semester leaves me a lot of time to study... so I embrace the dork in me and go to the library. Which isn't a bad thing it gives me no excuse to why I can't have something done on time. Now to the reason why i mention the library in this post... there is a story I can't resist in telling...

So today I'm wearing a baseball cap to cover up the fact that I was unable to shower this morning before I left for work (had to be at work @ 6:15). Of course that isn't all I have on... scrubs and a t-shirt... comfortable clothing choices of the day. So back to the story... I'm buries in a book that I have to read for a class I had this afternoon... it was about 10:30 or so in the library and I'm sitting on a couch/love seat thing head down totally engrossed in the book, highlighting and making notes... I hear a cat call whistle and a girl's name being called. I don't look up b/c that wasn't my name and I don't really go for the cat calls... not really my thing. This guy keeps saying this girls name, and I'm hoping this guy realizes that this girl is probably ignoring him  and that I hope he shuts up soon. The next thing I know is this guy is sitting down next to me.. like almost on top of me and has his arms around (one behind me and the other draped over my book). The guy starts to talk but as I look up he stops and has a look of "oh shit... what now?!" Of course I have this look of W.T.F. and all I could get out was... "Umm hey I don't think we know each other..." all he got out was "Uhh... Ummm.. yeah we don't... Sorry." Gets up and walks (almost sprints) as fast as he could where ever he was going... I was doing all that I cold to not bust out laughing...

But anyway this past weekend for me was a lot of fun. I got make my way down to Jackson to visit Zach. First time in about three weeks since we have seen each other last. Friday night on a very last minute deal, we got to go to the rodeo! Yeee haw! I enjoyed myself I have to admit... probably think of me as a red neck now but so be it. Chad is who we got the tickets from. His brother plays with the group Lady Antebellum, who happened to be playing during the half-time/intermission of the rodeo. We left after they played though... Saturday was the most fun though... Zach and I went Yazooing... Went and saw the Everitts... T-Train (Thomas) has gotten so big! He is almost 2 years old... There is another one on the way... Harris. So excited. It was so much fun hanging out with them catching up and playing with Thomas. It is probably funny hearing a 23 year old say that enjoy hanging out with a married couple that has a kid and another on the way... Don't be fooled... they still know how to have fun!

That night Zach and I made it to a bonfire cookout birthday party... I'd much rather call it a "burning of the green" cook out birthday party since there was a small Christmas tree farm in that bonfire. I promise you that the flames were up to probably 20-30 feet... But we all went old school and made 'smores. Then we all got into a great conversation of how there is an exact science to make the perfect 'smore... "OK, pay attention. First you take the graham. You stick the chocolate on the graham. Then you roast the mallow. When the mallow's flamin', you stick it on the chocolate. Then, you cover it with the other end. Then... you scarf. It's kinda messy, but it's good." (yeah i busted that movie quote out...) SO after the bonfire... Zach, Chuck and I went to the boats in Vicksburg... we definitely didn't leave until 4 or so. It was fun getting to hang out with everybody/seeing pretty much everybody. The drive home on Sunday on the other hand was rather difficult... but the sacrifice of sleep was worth it...

But since it is Monday I should mention the best way to start off a week... getting your vehicle backed into! Wooo weee. ha ha... Yeah, it wasn't that bad of a hit it is just the location of the hit... just behind the drivers door and before the rear wheel well... that whole back end side is one piece... not excited about getting it fixed... The call to the parental figures wasn't enjoyable and then having to go home to show them wasn't a barrel of fun either. But hopefully the week can only get better from here... if it gets worse I just might cry... but I do have a Mardi Gras ball to look forward to this weekend so I'll just think of that when I think about my truck today...