alexisriddle

Wherein Chrissy goes on an adventure in the winter wonderland that is Kirksville!

( Massive picspam coming up! )

The end!

I think I found my perfect butterbeer recipe!!

http://www.hanshaupt.com/2009/07/31/madam-rosmertas-butterbeer/

It has alcohol, ANNND it's warm. Do you know how difficult it is to find recipes with BOTH of those?

So yeah, the party should be OUTRAGEOUSLY fun on Friday. I'm super stoked. I should probably do some cleaning tonight to get ready. And then on Friday, we're going to go to Walmart to get everything. I might walk to Walgreens on Thursday, since I have the day off, and get some decorations that I don't want to buy in front of Amanda. Because I have a little surprise that I think will be fun. Yay!

I'm so excited. This semester's almost over. I have no finals, and only two tests, and they're both multiple choice. I still have plenty of papers to do, but I figure I can knock those out no problem. And then the MO constitution course, but that's just a silly joke. I'm four quizzes away from finishing it. So, whatevs.

EEEEEEE!

It's freezing cold outside, so some organization was giving away free hot chocolate. Delicious.

Hrmmm.

I think I'm going to read a bit, then head off to YA Lit and Chemistry. My day ends at 5:30, but I don't have class tomorrow! YAY!

Much love!!

So, the last lab of the semester is done! We made soap today with lye and fat, and at the end I played with it to mold it, but I used my hands. Now my hands are kind of itchy and burning. Also, really really dry. So I hope I didn't burn myself, because that would suck.

Anyway!

Work in about an hour. I'll be there until 11, bleh. But hey, it's money. And I don't have to work again until Saturday, so that's awesome. A week without overnights is a week well spent. (Even though I...*cough*...pulled an all-nighter Sunday night...*shifty eyes*)

I got to take a nap today between class and lab, and I don't have class on Thursday. Nor do I have English classes on Friday, which leaves me with just history. Which is a test. BUH. Oh well. It's modern stuff, post-Cold War, so it'll be fun. I like talking about history that I know.

Anywhoooooooooo...yeah, that nap was great. Any time I sleep now, I sleep like a rock. And I've been having some pretty funky dreams. But at least that means I'm getting my REM cycle, right? Ehh, ehh? *nudgenudge*

I have to do a shift cut tonight. I'm almost looking forward to them. Considering the fact that I used to hate them with every fiber of my being, because they were constantly off, I think I've gotten to the point where I actually kind of enjoy doing them. I get to ignore customers for a while, at least. And with EOD shift cuts, whatever mistakes there are aren't likely to be mine, because it's not just me who's been handling the money. With 6 am cuts, it's been me for the entire shift. So if I'm off by, say, 10 dollars, it's like, "Hmmm....where did that 10 dollars go? Let's check Christine's pockets!"

The party on Friday should be awesome. I walked home from KG today (grabbed some lunch) with Jay, which was pretty fun. And not really awkward. Considering what we talked about the other day. It HAS been a week, and he WAS drinking, so who the heck knows if he even remembers.

Anyway.

I haven't talked to Anne in forever!! She seems really busy, and that's sad. Then again, I'm going to be crazy busy for the next two weeks, so I suppose I understand. But my poster project for Linguistics isn't due until two weeks from Thursday! Hooray! But that means I have to stay all of finals week. Boo. But I don't have any finals! Hooray!

Oh man.

Okies.

I need to....get dressed. Into my awesome KG uniform. Which is probably hellaz dirty cause I haven't washed it in a while. Ooooh weeeell...


Love!

Tired tired tired.

I want to take a nap after my class, but I need to take a shower then...and finish lab...so it's gonna be a small nap.

Then lab from 2:30-4:30. And work from 5-11.

Ewwwwwwwwww.

At least it's Tuesday.

It's never really busy on Tuesday.


Looove.

Freakout was, as usual, completely unnecessary.

I will get everything done in time.

5 essays
2 tests
1 quiz
1 poster

Totally doable. I don't even know why I spent the greater part of my day stressing.


My tongue hurts. Like I burned it, or ate too many pringles. Both of which are quite likely.


I want taco bell for dinner.

Maybe.

To Do List

- Historical Fiction project for Dr. Peckosh
- Finish up Usborne Project for Dr. Peckosh
- Write up my argument for my paper for history...hopefully he doesn't take points off, because apparently it was due in October (the argument, not the paper). I had NO idea. I still need to do this, but I talked to him and he's not taking points off. So YAY for that.
- Print off assignment for Linguistics and slip it into her mailbox...pretend I turned it in last Thursday, and she just didn't see it.
- Complete the article review for Linguistics
- Study my ASS off for history test on Friday (He might be pushing the exam to Monday because he wants to talk about the documents reading. However, I doubt he'll actually do that because he wants us to be able to just be working on our essays next week. No final for this class! yay!)
- Study my ASS off for Chemistry test...whenever
- Write up my YA reader project that's technically due today, but she's basically giving EVERYONE an extension I still need to do this, but I need to talk to my cousin first. It's coming off the list because it's not due this week.
- BS and write up a Historical Fiction project for ch. lit
- Complete MO Constitute course...if I can do one quiz per day, I'll finish it in four days. No worries


Later...but still within the next three weeks.

- Sci-Fi/Fantasy project for YA Lit
- Genre/Multi-Cultural project for Ch Lit
- Poster project for Linguistics

Non-school-related to-do list

- buy Secret Santa gift for KG
- clean room for Christmas party
- SLEEP.

I don't know how I'm going to survive today, but I think I just might be able to make it. Somehow. Maybe.

WHO KNOWS.

Buh.

My stomach hurts like the dickens.


Update: This article review is really getting on my nerves. She wants us to pick an article mentioned in the chapter we're studying, but I can't find any of them online for free. I might just pick a related one, because hell, we're just talking about them in small groups. Also, I'm kind of nervous because I turned in my assignment late that was due last week. I figured maybe some more people would turn it in after the break too, since she was out sick the last day before break. But who knows. I really can't afford to miss very many more points. I'm teetering on an 80 percent right now. Arghhhhh.

I think I'll have time to work on my history abstract a bit today, maybe. I'm going to find an article between ch lit and history and print it out. That way, when I get home from class today, I can go to sleep and when I wake up, I'll have my article and I can work on the assignment.

I just hate that I really need to go to chemistry today. Because I won't get out of class until 5:30. And then tomorrow I have to work 5:30-11. Not to mention lab from 2:30 to 4:30.

Arghhhhh.

This is not going to be a good week. I'm FREAKING OUT, because I only have three weeks left. I really need to find a ride home. *sigh*

Catch y'all on the flipside.

Update 2: I need to figure out my exam schedule. I wrote it down at work, since Judy had it printed out, but I don't have it with me.

Thursday
7:00-9:20 (I think this is starting a little later, maybe 8?) Linguistics. NOT A FINAL.

9:30-11:20 Children's Literature. NOT A FINAL.

1:30-3:20 Young Adult Literature NOT A FINAL.

Friday
11:30-1:20 History NOT A FINAL.


The only one that I don't know is Chem. It doesn't really matter when it is, because my Linguistics final is on Thursday. However, all of my finals are not finals. They're papers to turn in. My linguistics final is a poster. About freakin Harry Potter. Boo freakin yeah.

Chemistry, however, I'm worried about. I talked to someone in my class and she said we're going to have one test over the chapters we're studying now, and we're going to have a final. This doesn't make sense. He's not going to have time to go over another two chapters before the final date, because after this week (and we still have Chapter 12 for this next test to go over) we only have two days next week to go over whatever he would want the final to be on. And I think I remember him telling me that I only had one more test to bring my grade up. (I'm at a C now...if I don't do 50% or better on the next test, I'm going to get a D. I think. Fuck chemistry.)

So WHO THE HELL KNOWS. My teacher is insane. But whatever, who cares. That's the only grade that's really bordering on really bad. Linguistics is at an 80% right now, but I think I can bring that up with my poster project and (hopefully) the last quiz. We'll see.

So yeah. No finals this year (except maybe a Chem final) and that's pretty damn amazing. Of course, that means I'll probably wind up working that week, which is eww.

So I'm five essays, one poster, and two (maybe 3) tests away from Christmas break.

How the HELL is all of that going to fit into three weeks? Dear jesus. I might go insane.

p.s. I've been clenching my teeth a lot today. I can tell, because my head feels like it's in a vice. Eff.

p.s.s. I finally found a goddamn article. Did you know, universities charge 40 goddamn dollars just to look at an article for 24 hours???!? I mean, GEEZ! That's just insane. So I found one that's vaguely related on Jstor, and if she doesn't like it, I'm screwed. But oh well.

Hey Joshy!


Woooopsies. =P


You should get on earlier today. I have to work tonight from 10:30 until Sunday. MHLW!

*pinches self*

Awake?

Maybe?

Posting an entry just to be sure.

>.>

I think i've tried posting LJ entries in my dreams, but I always failed. Because it wasn't real.

Wtf, my dreams are so boring.

I was home ALL DAY.

My computer re-started ONCE and I forgot to turn AIM back on.

HOW DO YOU DO THIS?!?!

GET BACK ON NOW.

@#$*@@((!)!!!!!!

p.s. I'm spamming you offline. Bahahahahhaha.

p.s.s. I will be on tonight. So...yeah. Please?

I'm ashamed to say I made a connection with Bella Swan today that I never really felt before.

Edward: "This is the last time you'll ever see me. It'll be like I never existed."

Bella (if she was a well-adjusted teen, and not the character in the books): "Okay. This sucks. But maybe if he really does just go away, I can work on healing myself and becoming a self-reliant person"

Edward: "JUST KIDDING. I'm going to pop in on you when you least expect it! Especially when you're doing stuff to distract yourself! And then I'm gonna turn your whole world upside down again because you think there might actually be a chance of me coming back!"

Bella: ". . . Fuck you, Edward."

Jacob: "Uh...hai?"

Bella: "I'm angsting. But I will nevertheless be your friend and lead you on."

Jacob: "Ilu."

Bella: "WTF THIS IS COMPLETELY UNEXPECTED."

Jacob: "Uhhh..."

I think I just summed up all of New Moon.

Awesome.

I <3 that movie. I saw it again today. It made me swoon. A lot.

I'm not used to being on this end!

It's torturous! AHH!

I can't stop thinking about this.

It makes me really, really happy. But at the same time, I'm so impatient!

I want to be the first to send a message, but I don't want to seem desperate, you know?

I don't know! Ahhh!

This is a first.

A huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge first.

*grins*

I fell asleep with a really good idea in my head for my huge fic.

I woke up and it was still there, and I've made it a GREAT idea.

I'm thinking about just writing it down so I don't have to remember it, WHEREVER I decide to put it, which at the moment, I have no idea.

But it'll be sa-weeeeet.

So, this week is going to be surprisingly fun for being stuck in Kirksville by myself for a week.

Why?

Because I'm not by myself! I don't know how it happened, but I made more friends. I was so distraught about my lack of friends situation, and suddenly it's rectified itself. The sad thing is, I'm leaving them all in May, but that's pretty much been the situation every year.

ANYWAY!

Here's my schedule so far:

Tonight: work from 9-1:30 (possibly I may get out early), then Jake might be having a house party! YAY! Drinking games and Wizard People, Dear Reader!! SO FUN!!!

Tomorrow: Miguel's birthday party at Going Bonkers in Columbia! And it's only a dollar! That amuses me!

Tuesday: work overnight, which if last night is any indication, I will have LOTS of time to hang out/read Twilight books. YAY

Wednesday: New Moon with an ever-growing group! Emily, her roommate, her roommate's friend, my friend Katherine, and Jake! (He agreed to go! I love that boy. He's one of my co-workers, if I haven't talked about him before)

Thursday: This will probably be my big schoolwork day. Then after 9 pm, I'll be heading out to the bars for drinks with Emily's roommate and Katherine! Celebrate the holiday and not being with family(?)!

Saturday: work overnight

And that's about it so far!

Last night was pretty great. Katherine visited and stayed for something like four hours. Freaking awesome. I love my job, I really do. I've made so many friends there.

Anyway, I should probably get back to sleep.

LOVE!

HERE'S what I'm gonna do instead of sleeping.

PICTURE POST.

( Beyond this cut lies a whole new me. )

And that's it!

Time for me to consider going to bed. I have to be back at work in 12 and a half hours. Yay.

Judy (my manager) was an hour late this morning.

So it's now almost 8:30 and I've yet to get some sleep.

I'm going to curl up in bed now with New Moon and do somethin', I dunno.

I'm not really tired enough to sleep, but I'm not awake enough to sit at the computer and do anything remotely resembling productivity.

But if a certain SOMEONE happens to get on AIM, and see my away message...spam the hell out of me. It's probably wishful thinking, because we're playing this agonizing game of IM tag, but...whatever.

I don't know.

'Night, everybody.

"He is like a drug to you, Bella." His voice was still gentle, not at all critical. "I see that you can't live without him now. It's too late. But I would have been healthier for you. Not a drug; I would have been the air, the sun."
The corner of my mouth turned up in a wistful half smile. "I used to think of you that way, you know. Like the sun. My personal sun. You balanced out the clouds nicely for me."
He Sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse."

I'm all in a Twilight fluster now. I want to go back and re-read the books. I might sneak New Moon into my work tonight and see if I can get some reading done in the wee hours of the morning.


Sigh.

I have all next week off, and I really don't have anything to do besides go to work and catch up on school.

I'll probably be hanging around on AIM a bit, maybe.

Research for my Harry Potter poster project


http://www.radosh.net/writing/potter.html

"Translating Harry Potter"

http://www.fanpop.com/spots/harry-potter/articles/4309

A fan's view of the differences between the American and British versions of Harry Potter, and why they should have been the same thing.

Bastard.

Today was...not the best. Not the worst, either.

I got up early for Linguistics. Got my grade back for the presentation, and wound up getting something like an 87. I'm fairly certain I will not make it out of that class with anything higher than a B. If I'm lucky. That was kind of not fun.

After Linguistics, I came home and worked on my lab report for chemistry. Got that done by 11:30 and fell asleep watching Family Guy. (I'm on a really stupid Family Guy trip. It's cutting into my productivity, but I'm going through and watching all the seasons.)

Woke up at 2 and booked it out of the apartment to go print out the lab for this week. Then when I got to lab, all three of my partners were absent. Someone else's partners were gone too, so I got paired with her and we did the experiment which was kind of lame and tedious.

Then I came back here, cooked some dinner, and watched more Family Guy. I fell asleep a bit until my legs jerked for no reason and woke me up. I think I was kind of dreaming, and in my dream I'd tripped or something, so my legs automatically reacted? I don't know.

Read the first six chapters of Hawksong for young adult lit. Watched more Family Guy. And now I'm here.

I don't know how I'm doing right now. It was really great getting to talk to Anne last night, but she's so far away and it's been so long since we've seen each other. I miss her. =/

Emily messaged me on fb today, and apparently she has no idea how mad I am about Halloween. So I sent her back a message explaining everything, and I'm sure she's asleep by now so we'll just see what I have in my inbox tomorrow.

I just don't know.

I've spent the past week and a half virtually by myself, and I mean...I like it, because I used to be like this and get along just fine. But it's really sophomore year all over again, and I don't want to go through that. It's good that Amanda and I aren't having issues anymore, because that was wholly unpleasant. But I just hate that when I pick up my phone and open it, I really have no one to call.

I spent so much of my freetime last semester with Kari and Melissa, and now there's just this huge empty hole in my schedule. I tried filling it with work, but they've been cutting back my hours (thank god...this is a good thing) so I've been spending a lot of my time sitting and thinking.

So I don't know.

I really don't.

I don't know where my life is going. What I'm doing. What I'm even interested in anymore.

I just don't know.

I want things to go back to something. Any time in my life where I was overwhelmingly happy, I want it. Be it roleplaying, hanging out with Anne every other day, spending all of my time with the Snapledores.

I just want one of those things back.

And I don't know that I ever will, and it's kind of distressing. I know I need to look for something new, but I just don't know where to begin. Things always just fell into place. Whether I was introduced to someone new, and they became my really good friend, or I was dragged along and eventually learned to love it...

I don't have that right now.

And it's distressing.

And I'm whining again.

This semester, my LJ has become nothing but a festering cesspool of angst, and I really don't like that.

I want to go back to happy, optimistic me who never had to write in here because I was too busy having so much fun.