All in a Week.

A week can be used for connoting a variety of lengths of times. It can symbolize a short period, that can pass by quick, "oh its just for a week". Or it can feel like it occupies vast amounts of time, making it feel as though half of your life occurred in the past 120 hours. For me, it has definitely been the latter. Even over last weekend, as thinks continuously piled on, i felt the strain of the week already on me. So, i don't want to complain about all that i had to do this week, how many papers, how many midterms, or how many hours i spent on my 2 chem labs and 15 McWeb homeworks, cuz i know, other people have lives that are just as hard as mine, and they really don't want to hear me ramble on about how life is so difficult. And really, it wasn't. Sure i had a lot to do, and i didn't get much sleep, and i was unsure about my confidence in everything i was trying to accomplish. But, i had so many people helping me through things, helping me with all the nitty-gritty of my questions, and even just handing me the answers for ones i didn't have time for. Now...even tho i say all this, and i didn't feel outwardly stressed, i can tell i was bottling up some anxiety on the inside from the amount of sleep talking and walking i did in the past 3 days. 2 Nights in a row i went to bed before my room mate did, and both of those nights, i managed feel the need to sit on the floor and have a heart to heart with her about my humcore paper, while being totally asleep. It was nice that that one centered around school work, because Thursday night, i managed to wake her up because i was in front of a blank computer screen crying, and that was awkward for her i guess...and for me in the morning when she told me. And i guess i deserve this now, for keeping her up, and waking her up for the past 3 days in a row, but today i finally had a chance to sleep in, before the chem midterm i take in 3 hours. But...that didn't happen, when 8:00 hits i guess i got to be up now. I think this is the first time i have actually been kind of seriously perturbed at my room mate. Seriously, did she really have to type so loud, clack her calculator down on the desk so much, or print out so many pages(on the printer that is under my bed). I guess its also my fault that i am such a light sleeper...but seriously, its not something I like, if i could change it, i would. So there is my complaining for the day, which is the real thing i wanted to complain about when i started writing ...haha, tricked you all into thinking i wasn't going to at the beginning, and got you to read all the way to the end!!! Anyways...just a few short hours till the weekend is here. A weekend full of possibilities! I really want to get off campus and do something awesomely amazing! It would be nice to go to the beach, but i think first...lets make it through this chem midterm.

1039 E!!!

My new favorite place!!! This is my soon to be HOME in Campus Village!!! WHOOO HOO!!! This is the most exciting thing EVER! After 5 year, FIVE Long years living in dorms, with like 50 other girls, i am FINALLY GETTING AN APARTMENT. Im sure everyone is excited for their first apartment of their own. To everyone its a great new experience. But this is something more to me. This has been my dream since before i can remember. The day i can organize my own living place, when i have a kitchen to myself (and my other room mates of course too, but they are awesome, so its ok, and easier to keep in line, haha), I will have a place to call my own, a living room! That i can fill with my belongings. I will have a home. Wow, a home, my first one since i was...8? Funny how my home is just a temporary living place for everyone else who lives there, but to me, its my home now. And before i am even moved in, looking at my new, beautiful apartment, i cant even begin to describe the excitement and anticipation of the joys i know are ahead of me there.Thank you God, it was hard to be patient all these years and wait for it. But now i can see why His timing is the best; because it make me appreciate His gifts even more.

One crazy day at the Office.

Oh man! Today was SUCH a crazy day at work. So, let me just tell you, its not so fun when ones boss takes the day off without notice, and everyone else then thinks they have dibs on all you time. At first it was cool, the first person i talked to gave me a stack of...oh 400 papers to be sorted into the files, but im used to doing that. But as soon as she handed them to me, the man in the office next door realized he could use my help! So i had to postpone my first job to make him a binder of these map things....anyway, long story. But while i was doing that, he got a call from a man downstairs who wanted my help too, so off i go to meet my new employer when he hands me a 750 buck GPS system. THIS is why i like my job tho. All Fridays from now until i finish, i spend 3 hours wandering around EVER LAST INCH of this campus plotting all the fire hydrants on this grid(that i made later on that day, instructed to my by a different person). So he took me out for a few min to teach me how to use this expensive, and Oh so pretty piece of equipment. Its pretty easy actually, thank goodness. It reminds me of my old scuba days and underwater navigation. Anyways. After i finish that with him, i come back upstairs to finish putting together this binder when i hear "where is Laura". This made me excited, because i recognized this as the voice of the SUPER HOT man who works there, and i just LOVE talking too. I think he has a thing for me too...;) jk, i wish. Anyway so he rushes into my office and says, "your not busy right now are you?" and being me of course i say no. So he hands me the key that lets me through all the doors warning me of all the hazardous waist products Im encountering while walking to the side yard of our building. I always like going back there tho, it makes me feel sophisticated and special that i have a key to go places others cant. Anyway, he needed me to fill some fire extinguishers asap cuz he ran out of time b4 his class that he was teaching just then. So off i go to fill the fire extinguishers.... i get there and realize.... they are a different kind, and im filling them with a different gas, hence a different machine than normal....uhh ohh. But i CANT dissapoint this guy. So off i go trying to figure out how to make it work! I only messed up once. i pulled some lever that like...started shooting all the pressure out at my face! That was exciting! it took me a few min to figure out how to put it back to the way it was after that. But then i found what i was looking for and it was pretty smooth sailing from there, only a few sprays of unknown gases into my face from the pressurized hose. I finished all that, dropped the key off with him again, and went back upstairs to resume the first job i had been handed for the day. (i had only been at work 45 min by now). So i start sorting through all the papers, and alphabetizing them, and filing them and sorting and all that fun stuff, when the super hot guy comes back up. He came into my office and sat there and we talked for a bit about his life, job etc, and things. Then me. So that took up about an hour of my time, and that was So fun! But then he had to go, cuz he got a call. And i got back to my work, sorted all the papers, and only had to stop once to do a quick favor for this one random lady who i had never met b4. But then i was done, i don't know if any day at work has ever gone by so quickly before. I really enjoyed it.

My life as of now.

So as i was sitting at my desk, i decided it was about time to take a break from my MC Web homework, which, if for me there was one thing that would drive me to suicide, would be these. Oh, and even tho God created the earth, Im pretty sure the devil made chem. But im not writing to complain about school or anything actually, cuz im pretty happy with life. Im liking my classes, even tho im pretty worried about doing well with these 20 units this quarter. I also love my job and boss(and the constant flow of money), but life becoming more and more busy, im not sure how much longer i can keep it. Im SUPER excited for when the summer comes a long, im just so ready to have an apartment and have a super awesome room mate(thats u Jessica!) However, now im worried i might not be able to get back into the summer classes i was enrolled in previous to my mysterious drop of all classes. Which is also frustrating, cuz now that my family is out of America, i have no credit card that is big enough that will hold the price of these classes. Hmmm, what do i do. Well i know God has it All under control. I think that is the best thing, that even tho i freak out a lot about everything that seems to always go wrong in my life, God is always there to make it even better than i wished it was. Maybe my summer classes will be even better than the ones i was previously enrolled in, or maybe now i will have an awesome Lab partner that i wouldn't have had in my first chem lab. I dont know, but im excited to find out... I think i love the unexpectedness and constant change going on in my life. It has been a good teacher, and it shapes me more and more to who i think God wants me to become.

I have a BLOG!!!

I never thought i would ever have a blog sight. My initial fears are naturally the whole computer aspect of it, however, i think i can handle this, its not as tricky as it first looked. Second, i have been an avid journal writer since i was ten, and there are many books full of stories of my life. I hope this doesn't detract me from continuing in this first love. Honestly, who really cares that much about my life, or what i think to actually read this! Hopefully people will. I love to write, i love the feeling of release it gives me from all the thoughts and things going on in my mind, i love that i can take what is in my mind and organize them in to a more understandable form, i love recording the happenings of my life, and dwelling on other thoughts. There is something so substantial about written word, something real and valid about it that draws me to it, and makes me wish i could use it better to create spectacular things. So i guess I'm kind of excited for this new blogger thing. I'm excited to share with others more about me, in hopes that they might understand me better. I'm excited to maybe learn more about others. So thanks Kevin, for helping me set this up! Honestly tho, i really only decided to do this because i thought it was just too pathetic that Jessica only had one friend. Just kidding, I really am super excited for this awesome experience of blogging!