January, 2002
January 8th, 2002, 2:04 p.m. - What the--?
AAAAAAAAAAAIEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! Something happened and when I went to make an entry here today I found that all of my entries for the month of January were gone!!! I have no idea what's going on. How in the world did that happen?? The last time I was in here was yesterday morning and everything was fine when I left it. How annoying! Anyway, I can't remember what I said the past week so those entries are completely gone. Sorry, everyone. I hope this doesn't happen again....
January 9th, 2002, 10:08 p.m. - Hooray!
Congratulations to my brother Greg and the aforementioned Rita, who just got engaged. Yay!
January 10th, 2002, 11:42 a.m. - Could I *be* any more like Monica? Yes, yes I could
I just took emode's Friends personality test and found out I have a "little bit of Monica" going on. (Yes, I know that's a line from "Mambo #5".) Beppe took the test, too; she's a Rachel. Friends fans should check it out.
January 13th, 2002, 1:07 p.m. - Ack
In about half an hour or so I'll be on my way back to school (bleh) and tomorrow I'll be in classes pretty much ALL FREAKING DAY. I hate that we have to start out on a Monday because I have four classes. Gahhhhhhhhhhh.
6:13 p.m. - Need I say more?
Bleh.
January 14th, 2002, 12:03 p.m. - It's a new year
I'm writing again from our wonderful computer lab (nice new Dells that are all better than my emachine), having just gotten out of my first class, Advanced Writing: Poetry/Drama. After lunch I have Child Psychology from 1-1:50 and American Literature from 2-2:50. Then I finally get a nice "long" break until my 4:30-7 Educational Psychology class. I may or may not have praise team rehearsal tonight from 9-11. If not, I might actually get to sit down for awhile. Tomorrow I only have one class, Advanced Writing: Feature Articles from 10-11:20. Then I'll have time to do something other than go to classes!
10:15 p.m. - Weirdness
Just got back from my first worship team rehearsal of the new semester. We are down two drummers but are replacing one, fortunately. We were kind of hyper/tired tonight. I think Mary Beth was about ready to fall asleep. Jesse and Paul were just playing everything and Laurie and I kept singing "You Said" (the Lisa Loeb song) because Paul wanted to do a praise song called "You Said" and we thought of the other one and got it stuck in our heads. Laurie and I should be separated during rehearsals. All we do is cause trouble.
January 15th, 2002, 12:19 p.m. - Pro and con
It's so much nicer to only have to get up for a 10 o'clock class instead of an 8:30 class. It's also nice to only have one class today, and to have it with a great teacher. It is not great, however, to have just spent $210 on six books for your classes. Grrrrrr.
7:13 p.m. - SHUT UP!
Note to self: kill suitemates, bury remains, find normal people to live with.
January 17th, 2002, 6:36 p.m. - Yay!
Did you know that professors can assign reading that's actually interesting? I know, I was shocked, too. My feature articles writing professor assigned us Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott, and I'm really enjoying it. I recommend it to anyone interested in writing.
January 18th, 2002, 11:46 p.m. - Yay for Steven Soderbergh
Yay for the end of the first week of the semester! And yay for a three-day weekend! We (Erin, Leanne, Kim, Leanna, Heather, Carissa, and I) celebrated tonight by watching Traffic and making sarcastic comments about the characters' attempts to stop people from using drugs. That was even more fun than the movie.
January 19th, 2002, 12:19 p.m. - Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow
It's schnowing!!! The weatherman was actually right!
Current mood/state: hungry
12:31 a.m. - Wasting time
Spent the evening with Erin, Kim, Leanne, and their friend Paul, making fun of each other, playing cards, and watching SNL. There's nothing to do other than that!
Current mood/state: sleepy
January 21st, 2002, 7:15 p.m. - I need a hobby
Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King, Jr.!
If you have some time to kill, check out the dialectizer. It translates webpages into dialects like redneck, cockney, and moron. Very fun.
Current mood/state: boredom
10:51 p.m. - Shhhh
The noise is back....
Yay because Tim is going to play with us this semester, so we still have our drummer. Applause!
Quote of the day: "The last time Leanne studied was in the second grade when her mom made her!"--Dawn
January 22nd, 2002, 1:56 p.m. - Bizarre
This is really weird: today at lunch at the Breezeway Dawn told me and Erin and Kristen that she had this dream a few nights ago that she was kidnapped. A couple nights ago I also had a dream that I was kidnapped. Okay, it's not like we dream things like that very often, and to have similar dreams just a night apart is really strange. To think that my unconscious has something in common with Dawn's unconscious....
Current mood/state: happy because I have a cool writing partner
January 23rd, 2002, 9:02 a.m. - Sleepy
Off to get ready to sing in chapel! Oye, it's early.
11:57 p.m. - Mmm...coffee
Tonight, Gallup C stands for caffeine high! Erin, Leanne, Kim, Kim (yes, two Kims), Rachel, Dawn, Amy, Andi, Kristen, and I went to Xando's (a coffee place) tonight and five of us had coffee, so five of us are now hyper (and all of us smell like smoke, unfortunately). Only four of the five are on caffeine highs--caffeine doesn't affect me like that; I just get hyper from being around hyper people. On the way back here Kim and Kristen and I couldn't stop laughing about the most random stuff. It was a nice bonding experience, but I don't think we should do it again. Xando's is known for serving s'mores at the tables; they bring you all the ingredients and then put a little fire pot in the middle of the table, so everyone was playing with the fire, which was not incredibly smart. It was a lot of fun, but I doubt we'll be doing that again, at least not any time soon.
Current mood/state: slightly hyper but also tired
January 24th, 2002, 12:26 a.m. - Heh
Should my heart be beating this fast, and should my hand be shaking like this? Heh, just kidding. Told you caffeine doesn't have that effect on me.
12:07 p.m. - I am officially a dork
I have now proven my alleged dorkiness. I just ran into this guy I kinda sorta like, and he was complaining because it's raining outside, and I was talking about how I like the rain but not when I get caught in it without an umbrella, and I said that I'd rather sit in my room and look outside and say, "Hmmm...it's raining", which is possibly the dumbest thing I could have thought of to say right then (except that I don't think that what I was doing can actually qualify as thinking), and I said a couple other stupid things, and then came upstairs and tried not to hit myself over the head with my chair for being such a dork. I feel like I'm back in middle school.
January 26th, 2002, 12:59 p.m. - Mafia!
Last night I watched Memento (I think that's the fourth time I've seen it) with Kim, Leanne, Amy, and Leanne's friend Josh. Towards the end some friends of Leanne and Kim's came over, and then Dawn and Rachel wandered into the room. We started playing Mafia, which I love but hadn't played for about 6 years, and a few hours later, when we moved to the lounge (because visitation hours were over and we had boys in the room; visitation hours are the "joys" of a Christian school) we had a total of 14 people playing. I didn't win at all (I think I helped win one of the games) but I got to be a mafiosa, the cop, the medic, and the proctor at various times. (I think I liked proctoring the most because no one could kill me.) We were up until after 3. It was really interesting the see the group dynamics change because when we started some of the people in the game didn't really know a lot of the other people playing, but by the end everyone could read everyone else fairly well and figure out when they were lying. The really good players emerged very quickly, too; Rachel was "killed off" almost every round because she's extremely logical and the mafia was afraid she was always on to them. I was killed off early on in a few rounds because I was considered a good player, and this guy John was never taken seriously because he lied about his position in every game. (He once said he was the medic and he knew I was the mafia, when in actuality he was nothing and I was the medic.) Anyway, we had a really great time, and it was nice getting to know some more people.
3:12 p.m. - Heh
Hehe, talk about a Freudian slip. I was typing a journal entry for my educational psych. class about "cooperative learning groups" (bleh) and I wanted to type, "I hope to get a lot out of this experience", but instead I typed, "I hope to get out of this experience." Oops!
Current mood/state: refreshed
January 26th, 2002, 12:28 a.m. - Mafia!
We played about three more hours of Mafia (we're so addicted!) and this time I actually won--twice! (It helped that I drew a mafia card three rounds in a row.) The first time Amy and I both lasted to the end of the game and ganged up on the third remaining player. The second time my partner in crime, Trisha, was voted out and I wound up "killing" everyone else by myself, which was fun. Leanne was so mad that she hadn't realized I was lying because she thought she could read me really well. (I wound up getting killed off early on in the rest of the rounds because no one could trust me anymore.) Funny that I've gotten so good at a game that requires you to lie in order to survive....
Current mood/state: contentment
January 28th, 2002, 8:37 p.m. - Bizarre
Someone in one of the apartments (or possibly in another dorm) was playing music this morning while I was still asleep, and the characters in the dream I was having started singing along with it. It was kind of freaky when I woke up and realized the song was actually playing....
Current mood/state: tired
8:52 p.m. - In bed?
Quote of the day:
January 29th, 2002, 11:58 p.m. - Awww
We did this exercise today in my feature articles writing class where we wrote a short description of someone in the class in such a way that you couldn't figure out who the person was from the first line, and this girl Erica wrote a really nice one about me. She said that my shoes peek out from under my jeans like little snails. (I thought that was cute.) She said she thought I was also thoughtful and friendly, and that I was "someone's sister". It's always nice to hear something nice about yourself. :)
Current mood/state: tired and happy
January 30th, 2002, 1:00 p.m. - Nice
Ordinarily I would be in Child Psych. right now, but the prof. is holding a review for a test on Friday and said that we could skip without being marked absent, so that's what I'm doing. Ahhhh.
Temperature outside: probably really freaking cold
Song stuck in head: "Your Song" (Moulin Rouge version)
Temperature outside: dunno
Song stuck in head: "Hornet's Nest" (Tenacious D on SNL)
Temperature outside: not that cold, actually
Song stuck in head: I don't think there's anything in my head
Temperature outside: cold
Listening to: Caedmon's Call, In the Company of Angels
Song stuck in head: "In the End" (Linkin Park); it was on the radio
Temperature outside: nice
Song stuck in head: "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend" (Moulin Rouge version)
Song stuck in head: "About a Girl" (Nirvana)
Temperature outside: nice all day :)
Listening to: "Piano Man" (Billy Joel)--thanks, Erin
"Pleasure awaits your company."--Beppe's fortune cookie
Temperature outside: extremely nice for January
Song stuck in head: ironically, "Can't Get You Out of My Head" (Kylie Minogue)