This weekend is my first attempt at a job interview, to get employed as an ESL teacher in Japan (specifically, at GEOS).

I've got my resume... business suit... sexy black shoes... dress socks... black purse... LET'S SEE HOW IT GOES. No matter what happens, at least I'll know that I looked really hawt for my interview XD.

I am kinda nervous, but not as nervous as I thought I'd be. I think I'm as prepared as I could be, while still being under the constraints of school and work up until now, so I'll be pretty at peace with the situation, no matter what happens. I will post how it goes, though!

Hopefully it'll be my only interview, but if not, at least I'll get a feel for such formal and competitive situations ^o^.

Somehow, it is May 1st all the sudden. I feel a little ill from how fast time whipped by ^^;;;. THE SEMESTER JUST STARTED A FEW DAYS AGO, RIGHT? Now there's only one week + finals week left.

I'll make it, I'll make it, I'll make it... *wants to collapse, but instead, heads off to classes*

For my World Poetry class, I was supposed to write a dialogue between Wisława Szymborska and the person I'm studying for my research paper... and I ended up basically writing a love story between Wisława Szymborska and Pablo Neruda ^_^;;;.

SO WEIRD. Oh well, I'm turning it in anyway XD. *will be mortified later, after it's been read and graded*

Tonight (7-9pm), I took part in an on campus poetry reading, that was in celebration of April being Poetry Month... it was really fun ^__^.

For some reason, even though there was a MICROPHONE (ahhh~h, the thought of my voice ringing around in the coffee shop is so weird XD), I didn't really feel nervous at all. I just... read, because I know there was no one better who could portray these words I'd written to all these people. It was a strange feeling of calmness XD. *is usually a headcase when having to read in front of groups*

There was a really good turnout, actually... at least 30 people, I'd say. Last time I participated in a poetry reading, there were MAYBE 10 people, if not less XD.

At first I read 2 poems by Frank O'Hara ("As Planned" and "Why I Am Not A Painter"), and then I read 2 of my own poems right after that ("Paper Airplanes," "Cologne," "Red," "Grandmother," and an imitation of Frank O'Hara's "Morning" that I wrote). When I was reading "Cologne" I had to stop several times, just because the crowd kept on bursting out into laughter. Especially when I mentioned Laura Bush, for some reason XD. It made me feel really good.

After the show, I got cornered by like 5 or 6 people, and was told how much they enjoyed my poetry. My friend Richard (we are bound by our mutual adoration for Frank O'Hara XD) even told me that I have a Frank O'Hara quality to some of my poems. *stomps on her ego, to keep it from puffing up too much* But it's SO NICE, just to know that this voice inside of me is saying things that people can relate to, and enjoy hearing. I could cry, just knowing that there's an audience for even my crazy ramblings ;~; <3.

It's been awhile since I've made an attempt at writing poetry earnestly, but I feel like I could try again sometime. And this time around, it'll be for myself, and not for some class. Yosh ^_^.

There's nothing like a random adventure to appease the ill-at-rest soul, I suppose...

Dr. Brown asked me to pick up his son from school today (apparently his daughter was at home sick), so after that, I went to the post office... then I wanted to go to Wal-mart in Webb City, so I went off on what I thought was the correct road, and somehow ended up in an even-more-miniscule-than-Webb-City town, called Airport Drive XD.

Whilst driving through this little town I'd never been in before, I happened across a used bookstore that I remembered a few of my Creative Writing classmates talking about: Bob's Books. I decided to drop in, and was quite shocked o.O;. There was a bajillion books crammed into that little building. Before I started looking around, though, I bumped into the owner, Bob. He was so nice-- I think I talked to him for at least half an hour XD. I spent a long time poking around the book aisles too... there were amusing little signs hanging everywhere XD. In the Westerns section, there was a sign on a sale table that said "Look at these amazing $2 books! But don't start any gunplay over the same book!" So weird XD. Also, in the parking lot (which was a big gravel lot, basically), a sign was hanging near the front door that said "NO PARKING... except for Bob." So I guess that general area was his car's spot XD. I dunno, I was just amused. He definitely created his own little world in that book shop. I'll have to go back sometime.

Ooh, and at Bob's Books, I managed to get a copy of E.M. Forester's Maurice! I was excited ^o^. For some reason, I've had trouble finding it anywhere.

After running away from the world (and into the teeny arms of Airport Drive XD) for a little while, I feel better about slaving away on papers tonight ^_^. My heart was feeling heavy at the thought of working on stuff earlier today, but now I feel like I can bear with it for now. YOSH ^o^V!

Despite all my stress (which is compounding as time goes on VERY QUICKLY), here's proof that I smiled today.


_{Just forget that in the next pic, Rebecca and me were snarling at each other XD;.}

I'm proud of that, and will continue to show my nikoniko face to the world as much as possible, despite the blargh'ness! *ganbatte's onward*

So, Saya, one of the Japanese exchange students I tutor, seemed pretty troubled during our tutoring session today, so I asked her what was going on...

Apparently she's in a relationship with an American guy here on campus, whom all the exchange students has dubbed "The Asian Killer" (but she's the only Asian girl he's dated)... and now, a lot of the exchange students are gossiping about her, and laughing at her a lot for dating the supposed "Asian Killer." She's so upset by the whole situation, that she wants to go home as soon as possible (although she has to stick it out for this last month of school).

She said she wished she could be all genki like me (XD), but I told her that since she only has a month left with these people, she should say what she wanted. She nearly collapsed in the middle of the parking lot laughing when I instructed her to puff out her chest and shout FUZAKEN DA YO! at the next person that gossiped about her XD. And then she wanted me to teach her to say something really awful in English, so I taught her how to say FUCK YOU!

Yes, I am a horrible English tutor... but we were out of the tutoring building when we were talking about all this, so I think it's okay XD. I just hope she feels better now... We have a lot in common (we mooned over the new Plastic Tree single and PV for about 10 minutes before tutoring started XD), so I hate to see her so down -.-.

Oh well, the world's evil sometimes. MAN UP, EVERYONE! *shows her guns*

I made it through another workshop this last Monday, in my Creative Writing: Fiction class. I just have to take a deep breath, and remember the purpose of the workshopping process is not to make me want to kill myself XD. I think I'll miss this class once the semester is done, actually. I've never encountered a better place for truly helpful feedback (most of the time, anyway... I can name a couple people in that class that I ignore their comments -.o; ).

Lately, when people ask me how my semester is going... I tell them my semester is like in the movies, when a plane is coming in for a landing, and the wings and wheels snap off, and the plane drags across the landing strip, leaving fire trails. WHETHER I EXPLODE AT THE END IS TBA. *shrugs* Just gotta keep chuggin', or something... Go go go! Almost over, I can maaaake it...

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I got to watch the final episode of the jdrama Life today ^__^. THAT SHOW IS SO PSYCHO. It was a great ending.

I think it'll take me awhile to forget the ultimate freakiness that is Sako-kun, too XD. I never had so much fun hating a character, I think. Just so I'm not the only one who has to have his super cool facial expressions emblazoned into my brain, here's a picture <3.


_{Sako-kun luvz u!}

If that doesn't convince everyone to go watch Life, I don't know what will XD.

So, I stole a bottle of apple juice from my parents' house when I was dog-sitting this weekend, and just a few minutes ago, me and Rebecca decided to drink some of it. So I try to open it, and can't... so I pass it to her, and she tries to open it, and can't... so I try to open it one more time, and we decide it's impossible.

Rebecca thought it would be a good idea to go find a guy to open it for us. I said I would go with her, if she would be the one to ask, while I stood in the background and laughed, AND SO, we had a deal. We went to Blaine Hall, the all-guys dorm on campus, and she plonked the thing of apple juice onto the front desk counter, and said "We need help" XDDD. Of course, the guy that helps us, is a guy I had class with last semester... he strides up all tough'ishly, and... opens the juice in about half a second -.o;;;. I KNOW THAT I'M JUST AS STRONG AS JEREMY, IF NOT STRONGER! We grabbed our apple juice and left, and when the guys at the front counter were looking at us, trying to understand what the heck just happened, Jeremy leans against the counter and says "I'll get you ladies' numbers later! *wink wink*."

So now Rebecca and I are drinking our well-deserved apple juice ^o^. It doesn't take much to create a strange adventure here at college XD;.

THE END! *goes back to doing homework*

I was immensely amused that Golf and Mike appear to have their own drink <3...



Golf and Mike always inspire the best from me <3.

Okay... it's 11:18pm...

I have to have an 8 page fiction story completed by 6:30am tomorrow morning, and I have 3 pages left to write...

I CAN DO THIS! Probably! Hopefully my energy level will stay up, since I took the liberty of making myself a white mocha at Camille's earlier this evening, with 4 shots of espresso in it XD.

Once again I'm staying up late to finish a paper the day before... but all I can say in my defense is, unlike last time I had to write an 8 page story for this class, at least I did not leave the whole 8 pages for myself to write today XD. I had 3 done yesterday, so it's just me actually having time to agonize and edit lots and lots that is making this process a whole lot slower.

And if anyone's curious, here's a random little snippet of what I'm working on...

( Lol, of course it's about Japan... )


I will finish. I will finish. Whether it's good or horrible, I will~~ *goes to finish it*

I have gone through 3 pairs of jeans today -.o;;;. *TIRED OF THE DAMN RAIN*

It has been practically a freaking monsoon here all day today! At about 20 'til 9am this morning, our RA busts into the room, and tells us to go to Dishman dormitory (one of the only dorms with a basement), because there's possibilities of tornadoes touching down sometime soon. So through the worst downpour of the storm, me and Noa and Caroline huddle under a tiny umbrella, walking a quarter of a mile to Dishman. Stomping on worms the whole time, blech -.o;. So after that, I came back and changed clothes.

Then I went to class... went to tutoring... the rain wasn't too bad. BUT AS SOON AS TUTORING WAS OVER, the sky opens up once again. Luckily, Rebecca offered to come pick me up from the Learning Center, or I may have very well drowned on the way back to the dorm ^^;;;. I had to wade through nearly a foot of water to get out of the Learning Center, though -.o;... Hence, I've now changed into my third pair of jeans for the day XD.

The television is forecasting VERY intense storms through the whole night, so yaaay -.o;. *will keep her raincoat handy, in case another trek to Dishman has to be made*

I managed to create an essay for my Advanced Essay class-- BEFORE the morning it was due! Success!

In a non-successful manner, though, I wrote my final presentation for my tutoring class 45 minutes before class started ^^;;;. I got it done, and got full points on it, so it was a success after all, I suppose ^^;. YAY, NO MORE TUTORING CLASS NOW (yay for half-semester classes XD)!

Now off to bed... I still have tutoring to wake up for, even though the tutoring class is over ^^. Bring it on, students!

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Agh, I got frustrated again with stuff I was working on last night... so I left 75% of the paper I was working on to be written this morning.

I NEED CUT-OUT THIS MORNING-BEFORE CRAP. I'm going to kill myself this semester this way ^^;;;. Oh well, for now, I've been succeeding in this stupid homework-frame I've shoved myself in... I could fail SO easily though, if I weren't able to finish in the few hours before class -.o;;;.

From now on, I'll stop it. It's one thing to burn the late-night oils, and a whole other completely more irresponsible thing to only give myself a do-or-die 3 hours before class time slot to finish papers... Ugh, not a good habit to start. *squooshes it now*

My spring break...

My spring breeeeeeeeee~k, it's goooooone -.-!!!

*mourns*

...Oh well. Let's do this! *dives headlong into the semester again XD*

I will not deny, though. It was SO nice.

Yay, new LJ profile overhaul! Not the best overhaul, but there's a prettily colored table to hold all my fanworks now, as well as a happy header for the table XD.

It's tasteful, right?


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Also, why was I the only one who didn't hear about this LJ strike that occurred yesterday? I was so shocked when Helen mentioned it to me o.O;;;. I still don't exactly 100% understand why an LJ strike was needed, but I guess I didn't participate, through accidental ignorance ^^;.

Yesterday, mine and Noa's trip out on the town was fun ^_^. Mainly because I got out of the house XD.

We went to Sakura's, because it's the yummiest Japanese food place in the area, and then puttered around the mall... I bought nothing, and Noa just bought a t-shirt, but it was fun trying to touch everything in the mall XD.

We went a few other places after that... Borders (where we read manga and magazines without buying, like bums)... Best Buy (where we fiddled around with a new Macbook Air that was on display ^o^)... TJ Max (where many a fancy hat was tried on <3)... We even went to Goodwill, and as we were wandering around, I paused at this case that's locked up, and see a purse, which caused me to say "Hey Noa, isn't this ugly brown-printed bag one of those designer bags you love so much?" Noa immediately has a worker take out the bag so she can inspect it-- and that's how Noa got a Luis Vuitton bag (or what looked like a very legit Luis Vuitton bag) for $30 XD. I myself bought a pack of rainbow unicorn party napkins for 50-cents from the Goodwill, just because they were so fancy XD.

So we had fun, and ambled about, and generally just whiled the day away in an entertaining fashion. My ureshi-meter has been recharged now, and I feel like maybe I can survive the rest of the semester XD. Maybe!

Yay, I got a haircut today! It looks very bowl-like at the moment, but that's just because the hair lady blow-dried my hair for 10 minutes, to give it that perfect balloon shape XD. All I have to say is at least it isn't shaggy and in my eyes anymore. The color looks rather gray in this pic o.O;, but it's really washed-out black over brown at the moment (which translates to yuck in pictures, I suppose XD).

Tomorrow I'm heading out to Springfield with Noa, at 10:30am sharp. Japanese food and mall ambling are on our schedule, although we'll probably find something else to occupy ourselves with also. It's the first time I've left my parents' house since spring break started, I do believe ^^;;;. It's a bit sad how at ease I am with being cooped up this week... at long as I have my computer, and don't have to touch homework, I'm happy... (although I really need to get to crackin' on some assignments really soong ^^; ). There very may never be an entire week like this again in my life after graduation, where I just can flomp down and do whatever, so I'm just trying to have fun ^^. A fun, fairly uneventful week, it seems XD;.

Somehow, it seems that Oguri Shun has managed to reach new heights of awesomeness XD.


Being alive really is overrated, after all.

( YOOO~SH! )

This new drama, Binbo Danshi, was actually really good. The first episode warmed my heart, and yet had me cackling quite often throughout it XD. Oguri plays a college kid who has such a big heart, that he tries to solve everyone's problems... he eventually gets into $10,000 worth of debt, and from there, his debt multiplies by 10, but he will solve his problems somehow, because he is so full of LIFE and LOVE! Yosh!

I'll keep watching the drama, just to see more of his ridiculous facial expressions, I think XD. *encourages everyone to watch it too*

Wow, my friends-list is 5000% shorter, now that I've taken off the KAT-TUN, Kanjani8, and NEWS communities off of my comm watch list XDD.

I still like the music, but the fandom is a little too much for me ^^;;;. I'll find out about the new songs and music videos elsewhere ^^;. Maybe I'll not miss so many things I really ought to be commenting on, without my f-list being so clogged up XD.

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Spring break is good so far... I've just been chilling... catching up on movies I've missed... and generally not feeling stressed ^o^. It's a welcome sluggish state of being, for a few days anyway ^_^.

I don't think I've ever been so happy to have Spring Break start... I'm just ready to collapse from the semester, so I will utilize this break to my best sleeping abilities! *slumps over*

I also got an e-mail from GEOS this morning, which invited me to the in-person interview. So yup, I'll be in Dallas in May for that, for a couple days. This is the next hurdle, so I guess I'll just have to see how it goes... *will ganbatte to her fullest power, when the day of the interview finally arrives* I refuse to get uberly nervous about the whole thing yet, though. I'll wait at least a month for that, since it's about 2 months away XD.

I am the most disgusting student ever. The worst kind!

I needed to write a presentation for my Advanced Essay class today, but instead of writing it a few days ago, or ever late last night... I woke up at 8am this morning, came to the library, skipped my World Poetry class, and now, 28 minutes before my Advanced Essay class, I have somehow scraped together a presentation. I AM HORRIBLE, and yet somehow I'm also semi-impressed with myself ^^;;;. It was either spit something out, or sit there and go "duuuur" throughout my presentation time, and die of shame ^^;.

Time to go present, yay... I really don't like this class, but I've got to pass it to graduate, so here goes... *trudges to Advanced Essay*

I applied online to GEOS about a week ago... and then a few days ago, the e-mailed me, asking me for my resume, so I sent it... and just today I got an e-mail from them, which had a phone number for me to call for an interview, so I called it...

ugh, I feel like I could puke -.-;...

The interview didn't go badly-- I just get really anxious when interviewing and such for jobs... I'll get an e-mail in a few days, if they decide to invite me to the in-person interview.

If they invite me, I'll be going to Dallas on May 10th (the weekend before graduation @_@; )...

If they don't, I'll be applying elsewhere...

*heart feels all dokidokiblagh from residual nervousness*

Of COURSE I've gotten sick. It only makes sense, what with all this homework piling up around me. *headdesk*

It's quite disturbing how easily I can fill up 180GB of space (80GB on my comp, 100GB on my external drive)...

but joy! I just figured out how to make data DVD's on Noa's computer, so I'm currently having a burning party XD.

Liar Game has already been whisked onto a disc, and next is Ikebukuro West Gate Park <3. *will have a jdrama marathon later* Oh, the things I do with my free days ^^;.

So... today wasn't horrible, like I thought it would be. Yay!

In preparation for today, yesterday I:
[+] scraped together a poetry analysis presentation for World Poetry
[+] completed my journal for Advanced Essay (80% done yesterday, the other 20% done the day before)
[+] studied my brains out for my Japanese test
[+] studied my brains out some more for my Japanese test

and then, today I:
[+] Delivered my World Poetry presentation well (I even got to say "Sugar Daddy" during it)
[+] handed in my Advanced Essay journal (I actually just handed it in, before skipping class XDD, which is fine with me <3)
[+] didn't flunk my Japanese test somehow
[+] was given a $54.50 check by my boss for picking up his kids
[+] received a call that Tutoring class was canceled, yay!

So yes, I feel fairly good about the day.

Lol, got another amusing e-mail today. These people selling Viagra are getting more and more creative nowadays XD;.



Is it a horrible thing that e-mails from my mother, friends, and male enhancement sellers make me smile <3?

Last Friday, I started my brief employment of picking up the children of my internship boss.

So weird XD.

I'll go to the high school, and pick up Andrew, and for lack of anything better to say, I usually start off with "So, how was school today?" and he says "Oh... ya know..." and then we drive along a bit awkwardly until he starts talking about Star Wars or computer programming or something XDDD. Once we pick up Katherine from the middle school, all I have to ask is "How's your boyfriend?" and she'll talk for the entire rest of the ride XD.

They're both good kids, but sometimes I wonder if they're completely weirded out by the fact that I'm picking them up XD;. I'm sure they are, but TOO BAD! $60 for picking them up 5 times is nice pocket money for me, so I intend to finish despite random awkwardness that occurs ^^;;;.

I just beat the 4th Phoenix Wright game (Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney) a few minutes ago...

...such a fantastic game <3 <3 <3. I feel all happy and at peace now ^o^. *glomps Phoenix*

Phoenix Wright games cannot stand up to my rabid playing XD. It took me a week to beat it (it would have been more soon, but I had so much homework to do) ^^;;;.

This weekend, I decided to come visit my parents...

I just got back from a lady's-day-out type of thing XD. I went to a local greenhouse with my mom and her 2 friends from work, whereupon they bought a large amount of flowers. Flowers aren't my favorite thing, but I always used to help my mom pick out flowers when I was younger, so it was a fairly nostalgic experience. For my Advanced Essay class, I just recently had to write a memoir, so I'm still in childhood-pondering mode ^^;.

I'm having fun, though. Dexter's still cute, and my dad's a dork, and my mom's overbearing. It's nice coming home every now and then.

I feel pretty... umm... awesome at the moment <3.

*is still riding the happy waves from having just drank a pint and a half of Woodchuck Cider not too long ago*

Since last semester didn't turn me into an alcoholic, probably nothing will, but I feel so happy to have the edge of this and last week taken off ^___^. *sits down, and is reduced to grinning and happy thoughts*

I wake up today, and the weather broadcast proclaims icy rain, hail/sleet, and thunderstorms all day today. And MSSU is the only school in the area to not cancel. *headdesk*

So I go to class... nearly everyone was there in my first class, in my second class only half of the students attended, and by my third class (1:00pm), all the buildings on campus are locked up with little signs on the doors saying "FEBRUARY 21: ALL AFTERNOON AND EVENING CLASSES CANCELED."

Classes are canceled on days when we don't really need it (which is awesome), but on days like today when they 100% should have canceled classes, they make us trek to the buildings, only to eventually be locked out (which is not awesome).

This crazy weather is supposed to keep up, so if they have to, hopefully they'll cancel classes from the start, tomorrow ^^;.

BACK TO PLAYING PHOENIX WRIGHT! *cozies up in bed, and tries to get warm*

So, I handed out my fiction story to everyone in my Creative Writing class... It's out of my hands now, regardless of whether everyone loves or hates it, so I feel fairly peaceful about the situation at the moment XD;. I'll see what everyone thinks on Friday...

And yay, I went out and bought the new Phoenix Wright game (Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney) ^^. It's super fun, and Phoenix guest stars as a hobo in the first case XDD. *immensely amused* I've been playing it for several hours today, since I have no homework due tomorrow, hooray ^^.

Anyway, I guess I'll go back to playing Apollo Justice... it's so nice (every now and then, anyway) laying around and playing games for once XD;;.

It is now... *checks watch*... 2:11am, and I have just finished my 8 page creative short story that is due today.

It's about a down-trodden coffee shop worker-- go figure XD;. It's not me 100%, as I tried to make her a bit more ignorant of all the fancy coffee terminology, and even more harassed by customers than I (that's possible?).

I just... want to get this turned in, and get the workshopping over with on Friday. I'm going to get ripped a new one in the class workshop, I just know it, but at the moment I don't really care. BECAUSE I AT LEAST HAVE THE STORY DONE, YAAAA~Y XD;.

I have drank so much coffee though, in order to stay semi-clear headed while writing, sleep is probably beyond me tonight ^^;.

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On a happier note, I found out earlier that the 4th Phoenix Wright (or now Apollo, is it?) game is coming out today, on the 20th ^_^. *will have to go to Gamestop to see if they have it in stock yet, after Creative Writing class*

I feel suspiciously genki, for just having worked 7 hours at Camille's XD.

But, but! I made $9 in tips! And some guy who came up after closing (about 9:15 or so) gave me a whole box of Girl Scout thin mint cookies because I went ahead and made him an Italian Cream Soda *o*. *chomps on them happily*

So good things happened XD. But it was so busy today, that it took BOTH me and Jane until 10pm (an hour later than normal) to get the kiosk closed. A testament to how crazy busy it was ^^;;;.

OH, and the ultimate good thing happened! I was going to have to work tomorrow from 1 - 6pm, but the new worker/trainee Jane hired is going to take my shift ^o^. A whole day to work on my story for my Creative Writing class-- I'm pretty psyched ^__^.

Anyway, yes, while my mind is genki, my body is fairly tired, so I'm going to go flomp down for a while ^o^V.

Happy Valentine's Day <3!

I feel like I've been going none stop all day ^^;;;. *exhausted* Woke up (thankfully) at 6am to finish writing my presentation (because I fell asleep while working on it last night ^^;)... Classes from 9:30am - 2:15pm (gave my 20 minute presentation at 11am)... work from 3-9pm... I've only got one more thing to do before I crash into bed, and thankfully it's just a one-page paper ^o^.

The one good thing about working on holidays, is that people are more generous for some reason XD. *made 7 bucks in tips tonight*

Anyway, I'm tired, so I'm gonna wrap up this day (*quickly writes an incoherent paper*) and flomp into bed. Oyasumi ^o^!

I had a fairly nightmarish experience today @_@;.

I walk into Japanese class, homework to turn in for the day is done and I'm all ready to absorb new information and sentence structures and whatever, and then my teacher says to me "So, are you ready for the quiz?"

...

So, naturally, I say "Quiz? Seriously?"

It was a sad, sad situation ^^;;;. My teacher gave me 10 minutes to study, and then I took the quiz. I... don't want to see how I did on it >.>;;;;;. I fail at life, or at least at checking the syllabus ^^;.

*slinks off to work dejectedly*

Let's see... I'm fairly accomplished today.

I turned in my assignment for Creative Writing and was active in the workshopping discussion.
I put in my two-week notice of resignation at work.
I got a first draft of an essay written up for my Advanced Essay class.
I FELL ON MY ASS.

Yeah, seriously, I almost killed myself on the ice this morning. Not a great thing ^^;.

When walking on a sidewalk near the dormitories while talking to my dad on my cell phone, I stepped on a curb and suddenly my legs went flying out from under me >.>;. Some girl was passing right by me when it happened, and she's all "OHMYGODAREYOUOKAAAAAAAAY?!?!?!" It was fairly amusing XD;. I sat there for a moment, told my dad (who was still connected on my cell phone) to wait a second, and stood up. After taking a deep breath, I told the girl I was okay, and walked on to class whilst resuming my phone conversation with my dad XD;.

Of course, I thought this was a fairly funny incident, so when the secretary at the Learning Center asked me why my jeans were soaked (damn melty ice), I told her about how I fell. She cried out "Oh no!" and then immediately picked up the phone and called campus security o.O;;;. So security came down to the Learning Center, and I had to do a formal report on the how/where of my fall, plus my assessment of if I was okay or not. I was completely mortified that I had to give security a report on my clumsiness, so I just decided screw-it, and I gave them a dramatic reinterpretation of the event, since that seemed possibly amusing ^o^. And it was, as I made the security guards laugh in disbelief XD;.

Anyway, hopefully I won't wake up and not be able to walk or something horrible like that ^^;;;. I'm going to class anyway! *has her assignments done*

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Two of the Japanese exchange students, Sayaka and Chika came over to our dorm to watch some movies. It turns out Sayaka is going to be one of my new students I'll be tutoring at the Learning Center, so I'm excited about that ^_^. The sessions with Aya and Mako are always entertaining, so I'm sure this will be too.

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*flomps off to bed*

Today I put in my 2-week resignation notice at Camille's.

*dances around >^o^>*

That's what I was worrying about yesterday... but it went fine. I went to work, because Jane was scheduled to work 9am-3pm today, but she wasn't there (she had some catering to do, and got Bobbie to come in early for her). She wasn't scheduled to work tomorrow either, so I just decided to call her, even though I didn't want to quit by phone. Oh well, Jane understood my situation, and I feel a lot better now ^_^.

The semester will still be hard, but at least now I will soon have weekends to do my writing projects and other homework too. I might even sleep O.O! *shock*

I've been pondering for a couple weeks on something fairly important, and tomorrow I'm going to DO IT.

Okay, so my boss has me working only on Saturdays and Sundays right now, which is fine since my weekday schedule is fairly hectic. But last Sunday I wasn't able to go to work becaaaa~use-- *drumroll*--

I woke up, and wasn't able to move my head! I thought I was in some sort of paralysis dream at first, but then I was all painpainpain, and I've never had any dreams where real pain occurs. After a few tests (*turns head to the right* ... *turns head to the left* OWWWWWW!!!), I realized that some muscle along the left side of my neck did not want to move. At the end of the day when it was time to go to sleep, I dug out some Hydrocodone from my last hospital trip, and was able to sleep happily/deliriously XD. Now, a few days later, my neck is okay. WTF, BODY??? I HATE YOU TOO.

Anyway, it's freakishly cold outside. This would not be surprising, except it was 60 degrees F out this morning, and now it's under 20 degrees F @_@;. I think some deities are banning against Missouri, and are trying to wipe us out with strange weather ^^;. *WILL SURVIVE!*

It is an age old process, babies hanging from their mother's teat, but in just the past few years, things have changed. Babies are not just solely conceived, adopted, or stolen to carry on names, to be cared for and loved.

Babies are the new hot commodity.

So, from yesterday, not the best day I've had, I have arrived at today, a semi-ludicrous day.

I went to this tutor training class (which is compromised of me and 3 other... interesting? guys)... Dr. Holmes, the head honcho lady at the Learning Center was teaching class. Near the end of the class, when she was wrapping up everything, she said "Oh, and one more thing!" and then went on this weird spiel about not having tutor-tutee romantic relationships. And she looked at me WAY more than the guys when she was saying all of that. And after saying everything on that subject, she turned and looked at me and said "Do you understand?" with a meaningful look in her eye. *NEARLY FELL OUT OF HER CHAIR!* She basically directed all that at me... Oh my god. I am incredibly amused by the fact that Dr. Holmes thinks I want to create such... steamy situations XD. "Tutor Room Tryst"... I can see it now <3.

On a less amusing note-- I went to the mall to grab some dinner at Camille's, and when I came back out, SOMEONE HAD THROWN RANCH DRESSING AT MY CAR. A little cup of it. The cup was sitting upside-down, directly in the middle of the roof of my car, half its contents pooling around it. The other half of its contents were running down my driver's-side window, and ALL OVER THE HANDLE. So gross-- I was pissed. Kids are such punks these days! *waves her cane at them, and shouts irritably*

On a happier note... I got to say "I'm sorry, but rainbow-hopping unicorns would not be appropriate" in response to someone's comment in my World Poetry class this morning XD. THAT'S THE ONLY TIME I'LL TELL SUCH LIES THOUGH, omg, rainbow-hopping unicorns are ALWAYS appropriate <3.

In Japanese class today... EUGENE DID NOT SHOW UP. How do you not show up to a class where there are TWO of you? My god ^^;. So basically I just got Dr. Hou to tell me the answers to my homework, and he spent 10 minutes explaining what a clutch is and how it works on a manual car (the homework had a bunch of car terms in it), because I've only driven automatic cars XD. There was an elaborate diagram drawn on the board, as well as lots of motions of foot-to-clutch action and sound effects made, but I still have no idea how it works really XD;. Oh well, it was quite amusing ^o^.

Now for homework! *hops away to get down to some serious reading*

I managed to get so worked up over things (things being, well, everything) this afternoon, that I sobbed for awhile...

...but tonight I took all my frustrations out on the bike machine in the student center. While my legs feel quite wobbly at the moment, I'm feeling a lot better. Throughout my life, I have averaged about one mental breakdown every year or two, but lately I've apparently upped it to one per semester ^^;;;. *bangs malfunctioning head against wall* Oh well, this is the last semester to go, so maybe I can find it within me to cut back once this is over <3.

I... very well may give myself an ulcer ^^;. *worryworryworries*

Today I had 2 hours of tutoring work... one was a "drop-in" session at 9-10am, where I basically just do random work around the office, while I wait for a student who needs English tutoring to possibly come in. Then at 1-2pm, I had my first tutoring session with Aya and Mako. I had no idea what to fill their session time with-- I worried over it for several hours, actually ^^;. All I could come up with was editing their papers that are due on Friday, but Dr. Brown told me tutors are not really supposed to edit papers... so I helped them to edit their papers anyway XD;. Tutors cannot mark student papers, but I was all pointing at their papers, and saying "Well, why don't we reword/add this/etc here..." My winging-it attempt at tutoring didn't not coincide with the Learning Center's tutoring rules at all >.>;;;. I want to be traaaaaa~ined, I have no idea what I'm doooo~ing >.>;;;;;;... *worries and dies*

Thankfully, there's a tutor-certification class that I'm attending tomorrow (and still pondering on whether or not I'll be actually enrolling in it). That's my training, apparently, so I'm psyched to get a little direction on what I'm supposed to be leading the student to do during a tutoring session ^_^. Maybe I can worry a little less once I actually understand HOW they want us to tutor. Because I have no clue at the moment. *worries some more*

Also, I got tied up with some work for my boss at my 9-10am drop-in this morning, and was about 1 1/2 minutes late to my Creative Writing: Fiction class. Omg, I thought my teacher was going to eat me ;_;. *was terrified* That's never happening again >.>;. *will be super careful to get done with tutoring/work on time from now on*

I haven't posted in a few days, but once again, I have moved. Back to the college dorms. It was a fairly painful process, as I'm becoming quite the mastah of moving earthly possessions from one spot to another XD.

Only in the last few days of my Christmas break did I manage to feel semi-human, and now I have to get geared for another semester. I wasn't psyched at all, and I'm still not exactly pumped, but tomorrow looks like a breeze. My internship and Japanese class haven't been set yet, so all I have to attend tomorrow is my Creative Writing: Fiction class ^_^... at 10 o'clock, baby! Oh yeah, no 8am classes this semester-- I'm psyched about that at least XD. Plus, I'm only working at Camille's on Saturday and Sunday this week. My boss wanted to give me time to figure out my schedule/internship as best I could ^_^. *thankful for that*

Last semester was not fun, to say the least, so here's to hoping I'll get some enjoyment out of Spring '08. Since I don't have to read War and Peace this time around, it's already looking up XD. I'll do my best, yosh!

I drew this... a couple days before last semester, when I was a working fiend. I found it a few days ago, and thought I'd share, since I think it's kinda cute ^^.


_{Club sandwiches are hard to make, ne Kaidoh -.-? *thinks the same thing*}

I'm sorry Kaidoh! I'll never make you take on my job again <3!