The amount of snow here is nuts.  Over 20 inches in my front yard. I spent about 2 hours shoveling with Stan and only got part of it done,
I barely remember the blizzard of 93, so this astounds me.  

ANYONE WANNA BUILD A IGLOO! 

So in my creative writing class we had to take a simple image, like a tree, and write a poem... This was my result.

Cherry blossoms petals littered the cold cement,
pink on grey.
Its healthy bark easily polluted by the constant flux of traffic.
Where birds once cheerfully laid their nests,
now only the abandoned rot amongst your skeleton limbs.
Once you were thriving,
Now they have devastated you.

In other news, I am going to DC this weekend. Woot.

So my creative writing Professor gave us a prompt, to take a magazine add and use it as inspiration to write a poem. I chose a camera add.  This was the result, and I kinda like it... sorta..

Memories
Moments pass,
Lightning fast and tortoise slow
Forever remembered, forever forgotten. 
A jump, and a shout
Echoed across empty corridors of the mind.
To forever haunt, forever treasure.
Let the music roll, and let drum beats sound..
Even the most stonewalled warrior cannot escape.
Memories.
Let them come, but do not let them depart.
Notice. Attend. Transform.

So I'm pretty sure this creative writing class is going to be good for my soul. I already feel less stressed than last semester. And its great to get back into the swing of writing creatively.  We've already had to write a poem or two, and though I did not like my first poem, I rather enjoyed writing the second one. Maybe I'll eventually post it. :)

In other news, I've taken up yoga. I went to my first yoga class on Wednesday and it was two things: Painful and Wonderful. I plan to go at least twice a week. :) 

So Mike broke up with me tonight(via text message no less, coward. ) and claimed it was because he was working too much for it to be fair for us.  However, apparently, Danny is confirming he apparently met someone a few weeks ago on WoW who lives in California, and he's dumping me for her. Ass.   I'm heartbroken, but growing just mad now that I put so much into a relationship that was apparently so easily expendable to him. 

Oh, and thank you, THANK YOU Danny for being there for me today. It helped more than anything.

Hey all. Guess what! ITS CHRISTMAS! So Merry Christmas too all and a Happy Holidays.

So I had my last final today, and I'm so relieved they are over with. Now just to wait on my grades(my dori isn't letting me check my 2009 fall final grades yet, guess its being slow). I did agree to work Wednesday and Thursday, though, so I'll be down at Duquesne anyways. At least I won't have to deal with finals, just lots of shredding and paper work. :)

OH! And I have frakkin Avril Lavigne stuck in my head, but for the life of me can't figure out why. I haven't listened to her since like 8th grade.

4 finals down, 2 to go! 3 papers down, and NONE TO GO! I am so anxious for break. When does everyone's break start?

Two finals down(My philosophical ethics, and Japanese Oral Final), 4 to go. One paper down, my philosophical ethics paper on prosecution, and 2 to go!

Finals are not fun.

SO my Thanksgiving break has been pretty nice. On Wednesday Adrienne, Emily, Sarah, and Anne(who was in town!) came over for a bit. And then on actual thanksgiving Mike came over and we spent sometime with family. On Friday, my dad took me Christmas shopping where he got me a new coat, gloves, 2 pairs of shoes(gold flats, and black boots), and 3 seasons of Bones for Christmas.... Finally on Saturday, I went over to Andrea's and met up with her, Anne, and Jazz for what was supposed to be Ice Skating. We didn't do that. LOL. Instead we played Scrabble, shopped, and watched a Teenage Mutant Ninja turtle movie from the 90's. I confess I've never seen much of the TMNT stuff until much later in life...

Oh, and I started my Christmas shopping. :) I quickly knocked off Mike, my Dad, Adrienne, Emily, and Sarah from my list but I still have some ways to go for this Christmas. :) Any gift suggestions?

Oh, and today I spent the entire day reading The Seven Story Mountain by Thomas Merton for class tomorrow. I have about 60 pages to go still though. Ick.

I finally finished scheduling today!! So my spring semester is looking pretty good. I ended up deciding not to take Methods this semester, and will take it in the fall. (unless I take a summer class....) I really don't wanna take it at all... but I figured it would be better to take Method I and then Methods II immediately after. Also, the Theology I wanted to take Faith and Atheism was already full up, so I'll try to get into it another semester. Instead I decided to take my creative arts requirement, and my required communications class(which is the only class I'm kinda whatev on)...

So my finalized schedule,,, *drum roll please*

On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays I have Developmental Psychology I at 10 am, and then Interpersonal Communications at 11. On Fridays only I have Japanese.... And on Tuesdays and Thursdays I have Criminology at 10:50 and Multi-Genre Creative Writing (oh I am excited for this!) at 12:15. :)

Most likely I'll be working on a similar schedule so I won't be sleeping in on Tuesdays and Thursdays but that is no big deal. I'd rather go home earlier again. :)

So I just started scheduling for next semester classes. (I don't have a hold on my account this year! OMG YAY!) And so far I registered online for.....

Elementary Japanese II - MLJA 102 - 55 at 3 pm on Fridays.
Developmental Psychology I: Infancy-Adolescence PSYCH 225-01 at 10 am on MWF
Criminology -Soci 213-01 at 10:50 am on Tuesday and Thursday


And I still need to pick 2 more classes. I don't know what I want to take though....

I have the urge to learn the entirety of the Thriller dance by Tekko.  Random idea, I know. Craig and I(who is feverish and still kinda sick) just danced to Thriller randomly in our living room.  I love my brother. 

So this weekend I went out of state Saturday to the cursed Ohio(it never seems to cooperate for people I know), with my ex-roommate Alex and Kennen from Duq.   We first, though, went up to Alex's house(which I swear can fit 3 of my houses in it!!!) in Cranberry on Friday and caught a showing of the silent film Nosferatu.  Oh we had fun with that.

Then on Saturday we left for the main event of the weekend-Cedar Point's Halloween thing.  Overall it was pretty fun, I went on some rollercoasters that scared the crap out of me on the way up but then it was fun.   The haunted houses were really well done too.  In comparision to Kennywood's fright nights, though, Cedar Point's are more family friendly(besides the haunted houses).  I could actually see since it wasn't completely dark and filled with fog! 

Finally Sunday was a bit stressful as we raced home, and just making it back in time to head up to the Zombie Walk.  Best part of that?  Coming home and having my little brother, Craig, tell me flat out he wants to come next year.  And then my mother agreeing to let him.  Awwww.... :) 

Then I didn't sleep all night as a finished a paper.  And now I have to write another one, but I don't wanna. :P 

Does anyone have any?  Any parties occurring this yeaR? 

My grandmother, Helen Fries, has been in the hospital for the last week, and last night they put her back on the ventilator....  It doesn't look good, if she doesn't get better by Tuesday, my mum and her siblings(all 6 of them) plan to take the ventilator out and let her go.  Its not easy, I love my grams.  and as wacky as she was, I loved the fact that I could discuss relatively new music with her and local dance clubs...  I have a feeling this might be hard on me.

So I've been in an odd mood lately... And I can't figure out why. I'm sad or anything, I'm just in a bit of an apathetic mood. Even my classes this semester(the ones I like at least) aren't cutting it for me.  I've also been bone-tired exhausted, and my whole body(expecially my shoulders, back, and wrists) have ached.  Maybe I need to just need a break?  G-20 break, you can't get here soon enough!!

In other news, Mike turned 21 on Saturday and Adrienne turned 19 on Sunday so we had a tiny celebration,  Mainly, since Danny was out of town, Adrienne and Emily came over Mike's and we chilled for a bit. It was pretty nice. 

So I did indeed drop my intercultural comm class because the professor pissed me off too much, plus I did not want to have to devote time to service learning project again. Best decission ever for I now have an hour and a half to breath, and actually eat. 

In other news, this weekend I went to Cinncinatti with Freya and Kathleen, and met up with Laura and Kristen(Whom we met in Boston), for an 80's themed dance party.  It was such a blast. I really rocked the 80's madonna look, and we took some awesome pics before hand of our outfits.  We ended up dancing tge night away till midnight when it was 'officially' over, and then hopped the hotel pool fence and jumped in the pool(in our outfits) to cool off. 

I am still uber tired though.

<3

So today was my first day back to classes, thank goodness. I found that the 4 months of summer, though while nice in terms of seeing people and having a blast, drive me nuts with lack of anything to do.  I start at 10 am, which is pretty reasonable, with my psych class... Now, the professor for this class seems pretty awesome.  He is this tiny little old man, who gets pretty excited about the history behind the brain and plans to have us learning about grave diggers.  Sweet.  My Intercultural Comm class might frustrate me a bit this semester though, not because the class does not look interesting but because he is requiring us to do the service learning aspect of it-when I have l already COMPLETED my service learning requirement and do not want to do it again.  I might smack a bitch.   OH, and finally public speaking should be a funny class at least, as the professor is a woman who is probably 25 at the most, and who kept with the funnies the entire first class.  It'll be a nice break on fridays after my Japanese class.

Oh, and all the while I work up in the Provost Office in between classes.  

I am excited about this new year. :)