Coarse butt hairs

My life finally stopped sucking today around three o'clock. MAN. For a while there things started to feel more like last semester than this semester. On the bright side, I have nothing whatsoever to do for the next three days except go to class. :D Also, I've come through half of this semester and managed to get A's and B's on everything I've been graded on (minus today's exam/quiz--I have yet to see grades for those). So I'm not quite as psycho as I was during Thanksgiving break last year.

Today I cleaned EVERYTHING. Now my room smells like Lysol and it's wonderful. I also maxed out my meal plan dollars and have since decided that I will never eat at the cafe again. It's just not worth it to put fifty bucks of my own money on a card that I rarely use to eat food that is less healthy and crappier tasting than just about anything I could make myself. Not to mention the ladies there are kinda bitchy. Like it's my fault that they spent eight hours of their day feeding ungrateful college kids. Besides, I heard the food at Center Ice causes cancer anyway. >_<

Mike bought me one of the PostSecret books with his Barnes and Noble giftcard (insert "awww" here), and I love it! Now I need to make sure I buy the other two as well. I also need to pre-order the final Harry P book, because I just can't wait to find out how it ends. :D

I feel like I'm on Spring Break already, just because I don't have to study anymore. If I had cherished spare time this much before grad school, I'd be in a permanent state of vacation-ness.

Bad day, bad night, bad week. God help me if today goes any worse--I just don't think I can deal with it.

You know you're in Michigian...

When 25 degrees feels like a heatwave.

I pretty much have nothing but exams to study for and papers to write for the next week and a half, so many apologies to anyone who may suffer due to my recent lack of a social life. These things happen and they suck... but they don't last forever. In fact, in a mere two weeks, I'll be on SPRING FREAKIN' BREAK MAN and half of the semester will be over.

Holy crap. That's awesome.

One sad, lonely man

Today started off unique at 2 am when several of the boys on my floor came home... "toasted" shall we say? ;) I was sleeping like a normal person of course, and upon rousing briefly in response to the rukus they were causing in the hallway, I promptly went back to sleep. At least until Branden knocked on my door. I remained in bed, unwilling to answer him. I was warm, half-asleep, not interested in anything he might have to say, and slightly scared (ha, that sounds a little out of place...). My lack of response didn't dissuade him however, and he proceeded to lay on his stomach outside my doorway and talk to me through the crack between my door and the carpeting. He tried his best for a period of ten or so minutes to entice me out of my room, part of which included singing made-up country music lyrics to me and declaring that pharmacy was "hot." After a while I realized that he wasn't about to go away out of boredom anytime soon, and I had to get up early and wanted him to leave me the heck alone. So I opened my door. He seemed comically shocked to see that his racket-making had actually disturbed anybody, and went about apologizing profusely for the next several minutes while almost gagging me with his alcohol-smelly... ness. He then discovered that I had dinosaurs on my pajama pants, which apparently frightened him, and he left me alone.

This morning I discovered that after bothering me he targeting my friend Beth, and then he called Taco Bell (Taco Bell has a phone? Who knew?) and harassed them for a while. Then he beat up his own trashcan, and he humped his toilet. All of which Trevor caught on video with his camera phone, and we all got to watch later. :D

The rest of my Valentine's Day proceeded without incident, except for the mild interruption around three or so when I checked my mail and realized I got a package!!! It was from my Mommy and it had a purple stuffed unicorn in it, which I adore and gushed over for quite some time. :D

And I've had way too many sour apple Jolly Ranchers today. Dammit, they're so good.

In the spirit of the "holiday"...

"This is to let you know
That all I feel for you
Can never wholly go.
I love you and miss you,
even two hours away,
With all my heart.
This is to let you know."
--Noel Coward (1899-1973)

Weekend

Shruti: I just bask in your presence!
Me: *flattered* Oh, well then, bask away!

I didn't study at ALL this weekend and it was deeeeeeeelightful! Guess how many weekends I got to do that last semester? Guess! Ooo--ZERO. I made it through my first round of exams and I did good. *gasp!* There are still many opportunities for that to change of course, but this time last semester I was having silent heart attacks and nervous breakdowns every half an hour. Yay for adaptation! :D

This past weekend was the best I've had in a while. Every weekend is nice of course, especially because it usually involves being in Kalamazoo with Mike and not in Big Rapids with school, but this one was extra special. Friday night I hung out with Shruti for hours and we talked so much that our dinners got cold. Man I missed that girl.

Saturday Mike and I did our Valentine's Day thing because I won't get to see him on the actual day this year. We went out to dinner at the Craftsmen Chop Co. in Portage, where we ate what was quite possibly the best food I've ever had in the Kalamazoo area. For two hours we just sat and talked and it was splendid. With me busy here at school and him working through his internship, we just don't get time like that to ourselves anymore, so it was wonderful to have some. He's always so charming and affectionate, but he was especially so that evening, and I just had the greatest time. :D I miss him so much everyday--there are moments when I want to be done with school so bad that it hurts.

Sunday was my Daddy's birthday!! :D So I got to talk with him on the phone for a looong time and it was so nice. We talked about school, moving home for the summer, me buying a car, and other wholesome Life Things. I miss he and Mom a lot too.

It wasn't as gut-wrenching as usual to come back to Ferris on Sunday night. I was sad to leave and didn't want to say goodbye as much as always (of course), but something seemed to shift in me this weekend that just made me a little calmer. I'm not sure what. Perhaps it's the thought of the future, and the knowledge that these are just things I need to do in order to get there.

And as an abrupt end to this journal entry, I leave you with this--Beth just surprised me with Chinese food. STELLAR. :D

:)

"You know, no one remembers how long it took Michaelangelo to paint the Sixteenth Chapel. The only thing people really remember about it is how wonderful it is." -- Mike

Coming Soon in 2007

MAN. There are so many things I'm looking forward to this spring/summer. List time:

• NO SCHOOL FOR THREE MONTHS
• Buying a car
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix movie
• Harry Potter book #7
• 300 (the movie)
• SpiderMan 3
• Transformers (the bound-to-be-awesome movie)
• Hopefully working as a pharmacy intern and getting paid three times more than I ever have before
  
• MY BIRTHDAY WOOOOOO
• 3 years with Mike :D

I'm not sure why I randomly thought about these things today, but there you go. I'm sure the list will expand later. The End.

EffSU

Me: You're full of negative energy today. Maybe you should throw yourself in front of that car and end your misery!
Beth: Naw. With the luck I'm having today, it won't kill me. Instead I'll be paralyzed, which would screw up any future attempts to kill myself.

The temperature this morning when I went to class was -17. That was without windchill, bee tee double you. Apparently every school in Big Rapids and Reed City (neighboring city) closed down due to friggin' cold-ass weather. NOT FSU, because we're obviously a bunch of alcoholics or something like that.

Instead, due to it being the first Tuesday of the month, we get to have a firedrill! Which really only means that they want to force us to go to the cafe to keep warm because the food really isn't enough to entice us.

/rant.

I'm married to pharmacy school

Beth: ...but I frequently cheat on the weekends.

School is busy and full of studying every night again. I don't feel as stressed or overwhelmed about it as I did before, and I can't really pinpoint why that is. Am I smarter? (I'm most doubtful of this theory) Is it because I have more time? Are the classes easier? I prefer to think I've adapted. My situation can even be applied to biology (what fun!): a constant stimulus eventually loses its potent effects, until a stronger stimulus is needed to produce the same response. And no, that's not me begging for more work. I'm content to just be numb to it.

So, western Michigan had a friggin' blizzard this weekend. You know, the kind they only get in other parts of the world, like Alaska or something. Much like cancer, it's one of those things that you think is never going to happen to you--then it DOES and suddenly going outside means putting on 40 layers of clothing and leaving your car unattended for a half an hour means it'll take you a day to dig it out. Walking to class today was like eating a big ice cream cone only minus the ice cream and plus the brain freeze. Ferris has a thing with plowing too. Apparently they only do it on.... well, not Monday.

Truly, I don't really have a whole lot of "news" to report (I'm sure you're all shocked and appauled by this of course). I'm just using this post as an outlet to prevent myself from studying Pharmaeutics for just FIVE MINUTES. Otherwise I may run out of brain.

>_<

Blizzard warning?

I think Mother Nature may be making up for lost time. I don't want to go outside EVER AGAIN.

*shivers*