Employment!

Well, I was pretty productive these past week and a half and I've secured a summer job! I will be a camp counselor in Pennsylvania for 7 weeks, teaching cooking. I'm really excited about it. It's one of those parent trap-style camps, which I've never been to. Except the one I'll be at has an ice skating rink...yes, an ice skating rink at a summer camp. If anyone knows of any good recipe websites let me know because I'm sure I'll be on the lookout for good recipes!

Not much other news, I've just been studying like crazy the past couple of weeks. It seems like it will never end. But, I like my classes so I guess that makes it a little easier. Right now I'm taking a break from studying for my American Revolution test that I have next Tuesday. Hopefully I can ace this one!

Little Cars Don't Like Snow

Well, my weekend was ended with an almost-bang. I went into work last night knowing that it was probably going to snow...but not expecting that it was going to cover the highway completely while I was working my 3 1/2 hour shift!! After work I made the journey ever so cautiously as I could back to school. However, I did have a very narrow miss along the way. As I said, the roads were completely covered, and I drive a Honda Civic. The cars in front of me were exiting and they were braking, unfortunately, my car wouldn't stop. I had to swerve to the left in order to avoid rear-ending the car in front of me! Well, when I swerved, my car fish tailed and I started sliding all over. Luckily, one of th connectors was right there between the two dual lanes, so I ended up on that rather than in the ditch! So lucky!

Other than that, I had a nice weekend at home. Watched the Olympics and had some much needed time with family. I also went and saw Valentine's Day with my sisters and we went to McDonald's for sundaes afterwards. It was fun!

Lots of homework this week so wish me luck!

Just Another Wednesday

Well, I've got kind of a long night ahead of me. 3 papers to write, and 2 articles to read. Ugh. Luckily, they are all short papers. I've also got to meet with my psychology group and we have to develop the ethics forms for our group's experiment.

I have to write an response/analysis paper for Northanger Abbey in my Jane Austen class. I liked it a lot better than Emma, thank goodness! I'm not sure what I'm going to write my paper about though.

In other news, I think I've developed a cold. Yucky. It's one of those where you have to blow your nose so much that your poor nose gets chapped. Boo. Oh well. I also stumbled across a recipe last night for cinnamon doughnut muffins. If that doesn't sound good, I don't know what does. Maybe I'll try making them this weekend when I'm home.

Yup, I did decided to head home this weekend. So tomorrow night after my night class gets out I will be heading home. Tomorrow night, I'm hoping to get a little homework done (we'll see how that works out.) Then on Friday morning I have a funeral to go to, and after that I think my sisters and I will be going to see the movie Valentine's Day that night. Then on Saturday I think we'll be going Prom dress shopping for my younger sister. Then on Sunday I have to work that evening and then head back up to school. Hopefully, during all this madness I will find time to study and get ahead on homework!

Have a happy hump day!

Productivity Is Wonderful!!

I am actually ahead on my homework load. Who can believe it?! Not me. I woke up early this morning and worked on homework before my roommates all woke up, so the apartment was still quiet. I also made cinnamon rolls for breakfast and pigs in the blanket for lunch. Yum!

The week ahead doesn't look very busy, thank goodness. I don't have class on Friday, so I'll probably head home Thursday night for the three day weekend. I need a weekend to relax.

Not too much other news, I don't have much time to discover new things or enough money to go shopping or anything like that, since I paid for my Spring Break trip.

A group of about 15 or so of us are driving down to Gulf Shores, AL, for about 5 days. We have a beach house all rented for about $120 a piece. Not too shabby. And we are all splitting the cost of gas and we're buying food in bulk from Sam's before we go and eating cheap. Should be lots of fun!

Ta-ta for now!

Blech

Well, so much has happened since the last post. Hardly any good either. Boo.

Had a huge falling out with a friend...not something easily bounced back from either.

While that seems to have taken up a lot of my thinking this past week, especially the past few days, I have been very productive in school. I wrote 4 papers in 5 hours tonight. Pretty, productive huh?

In my Jane Austen class, we have finished Emma, and are moving on to Northanger Abbey, it's short so I might like it better! Haha. I've actually debated whether I should download an audio version to listen to while I read. I've heard that helps with comprehension.

I should be getting my placement for my Practicum soon too. I may actually get placed in an English class, which I think will be good since I had a methods class in Social Studies, and not English.

Also, I'm going to try to get into contact with a few schools about teaching summer school. Wish me luck!

That's about the end of my news, it's been a rough week. BUT, this morning I found a quote that has inspired a lot of optimism: "When we wish for a life free from difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong under contrary winds and diamonds are made from pressure."