Well Happy 2011!!
It seems not so long ago when we just hit 2000 but now it's officially 11 years later. Crazy, I know.
Well, this new year finds me ready to go back to university and leave my job behind until summer. It has been frustrating and I think I know I'm not meant to work retail for the rest of my life. A good thing to know at this point in my life.
However, I'm very anxious about my last semester of Uni. It's probably going to prove to be the most difficult semester of my college career and that is saying something. I thought this past semester was difficult, having to re-adjust to Western like I did. But, I made it through, with decent grades as well!
I'm going to be doing a LOT of reading this semester, not to mention a 15-25 page paper worth 40% of one of my grades. And, a week after we start back, I'm beginning my second stage managing job for the school year. I'm excited, but at the same time it's going to add a bit of stress to the first 6 weeks of the semester. I hope it will be worth it though!!
For the record, I would like to point out that when I say 'a lot of reading' I mean a LOT. I have ordered my books on Amazon this semester because there are 19 of them. I think I saved a lot by shopping on Amazon. But 19. 19!! It's gonna be one helluva semester.
I would also like to put in writing my hopes for the year. They are as follows:
-Write my heart out. (Translation . . . WRITE LOTS AND LOTS)
-Exercise lots
-Get a job in my career field (please, please, please!!)
-Save lots of money for all the different things I need/want very much
Yup. There we are. Goals. It's always nice to have goals. End of. :)
I feel like I should recap this past year, but I think it would be very near to impossible. It's been a strange sort of year really. That's my 2010. Strange. It began in Paris and ended in Illinois. A strange sort of year that I would live over 2010 times again if I could. I saw Barcelona, London, Vegas, and the humble little town of Macomb. It's come full circle, I think.
Here's to 2011 and whatever it may bring to us all!!!
xxx
Perusing
Monday, January 3, 2011
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Oh . . . . yeah, it's December . .. right
Well, time's moving along as always. And yet, somehow I'm not sure I want it to. I feel like its flying ahead and not waiting for me to catch up.
At the same time, its dragging. I'm trying to speed by and it's holding me back. So run the hands of time. . .
BUUUTTT :D it's almost Christmas break. My semester is nearly done with one day of classes and two days of finals remaining. I'm not sure how I'm feeling about having one semester left after this. Graduation seems exciting but at the same time it is going to force me to leave something that I've known, something that has been familiar to me since I was five. I'm going to be 22 by the time this is all done. That's 17 years of my life spent in school. What now?
Hopefully I will be able to get a job. As it stands now, my college job, (retail) is becoming almost unbearable. Granted I am trying to move on with my life and I've been working at the same place doing the same job since 2006. It's been a while and I'm growing bored of the job. The people are great but the job is just . . . yup.
Here at school I've been chugging along. I was the co-stage manager for the mainstage production of Cabaret here at school. Next semester I'm stage managing for the show All My Sons. I'm really excited for the opportunities I've had and am having! I'm really working up quite a resume! :D
Classes are going well. I've been enjoying the feedback from my creative writing class and have successfully stumbled upon a good story that has potential. It has an interesting concept and I think if I keep at it, the story could develop into a good, interesting one!
My other classes have been interesting and boring. A fairly even split I'd say. I've slept through some classes, gone to most. I had one class that I feel like I learned nothing at all. Another where it was a lot of review of things I knew already. I think my favorite class would be my Non-Western Literature class. That I felt, was a class of discovery and I was surprised (I think) to find that Literature across the world is similar in theme and story. The differences occur in style and how each topic or theme is talked about.
So, there's some fun ramblings! HAHA
Oh, and I didn't even start a novel for NaNoWriMo. I just couldn't find the time between classes and Cabaret! Maybe next year!!!!
Montmartre
At the same time, its dragging. I'm trying to speed by and it's holding me back. So run the hands of time. . .
BUUUTTT :D it's almost Christmas break. My semester is nearly done with one day of classes and two days of finals remaining. I'm not sure how I'm feeling about having one semester left after this. Graduation seems exciting but at the same time it is going to force me to leave something that I've known, something that has been familiar to me since I was five. I'm going to be 22 by the time this is all done. That's 17 years of my life spent in school. What now?
Hopefully I will be able to get a job. As it stands now, my college job, (retail) is becoming almost unbearable. Granted I am trying to move on with my life and I've been working at the same place doing the same job since 2006. It's been a while and I'm growing bored of the job. The people are great but the job is just . . . yup.
Here at school I've been chugging along. I was the co-stage manager for the mainstage production of Cabaret here at school. Next semester I'm stage managing for the show All My Sons. I'm really excited for the opportunities I've had and am having! I'm really working up quite a resume! :D
Classes are going well. I've been enjoying the feedback from my creative writing class and have successfully stumbled upon a good story that has potential. It has an interesting concept and I think if I keep at it, the story could develop into a good, interesting one!
My other classes have been interesting and boring. A fairly even split I'd say. I've slept through some classes, gone to most. I had one class that I feel like I learned nothing at all. Another where it was a lot of review of things I knew already. I think my favorite class would be my Non-Western Literature class. That I felt, was a class of discovery and I was surprised (I think) to find that Literature across the world is similar in theme and story. The differences occur in style and how each topic or theme is talked about.
So, there's some fun ramblings! HAHA
Oh, and I didn't even start a novel for NaNoWriMo. I just couldn't find the time between classes and Cabaret! Maybe next year!!!!
Montmartre
Monday, November 1, 2010
NaNoWriMo
Stands for National Novel Writing Month. Yes I mean November. Well, basically, I've signed up to try to write a 50,000 word novel by the end of November. It's a real event. Check it out: NaNoWriMo.org. You'll see. Anyways.
This event has only just begun today. And I'm already behind (so to speak). Technically I'm about 1,000 some odd words behind now because I haven't written at all today. I've still got lots of other stuff on my mind. So, this should be interesting. An added stress on top of my stressful existance. But that's the way the cookie crumbles (yup I said it haha)
Do I have a topic/plotline/character outline/ any clue as to what I'm going to write about?? Of course not. That would be silly. (ish) Actually no. That would be smart. But I'm winging it. So we'll see what sort of nonsense I can come up with in this month of November.
insanity
This event has only just begun today. And I'm already behind (so to speak). Technically I'm about 1,000 some odd words behind now because I haven't written at all today. I've still got lots of other stuff on my mind. So, this should be interesting. An added stress on top of my stressful existance. But that's the way the cookie crumbles (yup I said it haha)
Do I have a topic/plotline/character outline/ any clue as to what I'm going to write about?? Of course not. That would be silly. (ish) Actually no. That would be smart. But I'm winging it. So we'll see what sort of nonsense I can come up with in this month of November.
insanity
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Busy
So, it would seem that I only post once a month. Try as I might, that will probably still be how it goes. And that's all because of one word: busy!
As it all is going down this semester, I am trying to be involved a bit at church, I have classes with projects due a LOT and little homework assignments that I've grown out of (thanks England), I've been working in the Costume Shop whenever I can, and on top of all that, I've picked up a stage managing job for the main stage production of Cabaret here at WIU. Excited about this?? OF COURSE!!!!! It has been entirely too long that I've stage managed and what a fun show to get back into it all with! Our first rehearsal was last night and I thought it went very well. The next six weeks are going to be stressful and yet fun! What a combination. Hopefully I'll make it!
Another point of interest is that I'm on track to graduate in MAY! What an exciting and scary prospect. Oh, WIU kick me out into the world why don't you. I hope I'm prepared.
Futtock (look it up hehe)
As it all is going down this semester, I am trying to be involved a bit at church, I have classes with projects due a LOT and little homework assignments that I've grown out of (thanks England), I've been working in the Costume Shop whenever I can, and on top of all that, I've picked up a stage managing job for the main stage production of Cabaret here at WIU. Excited about this?? OF COURSE!!!!! It has been entirely too long that I've stage managed and what a fun show to get back into it all with! Our first rehearsal was last night and I thought it went very well. The next six weeks are going to be stressful and yet fun! What a combination. Hopefully I'll make it!
Another point of interest is that I'm on track to graduate in MAY! What an exciting and scary prospect. Oh, WIU kick me out into the world why don't you. I hope I'm prepared.
Futtock (look it up hehe)
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Here I am!
Being back at Uni has been . . . well, for lack of a better word: interesting. It's a lot to re-adjust to.
It's time to be lonely for missing my friends, both back at home and back in England which to me now feels almost the same. I miss England. I miss the classes and my friends and the lifestyle.
But this is me we're talking about so's I'm trying to swing back to my old life while trying to make it new and not bore people with talk of England. It's just, as I've changed, so has everyone else. I'm playing constant catch up trying to figure out what everyone was doing this last school year and catching up with the happenings of their lives. I haven't found it all that easy to slip back into all of my groups of friends. But don't get me wrong, some of them it feels like I've never left at all.
I'm experiencing the overwhelming feeling of homework. There's sooo much of it, or so it seems, at Western. Little assignments that add up and make life difficult. It makes me reminisce about classes in England, which ones I liked and which ones I didn't. I've also discovered that the Gen. Ed's that I used to find an interesting distraction are now boring and in the way of my studying of English Lit. (and World lit. and well just Lit in general). I also miss my creative writing classes that I had in England. The structure and content were so much better, the environment more helpful, and even though I was a "stranger" to everyone, I felt accepted and everyone knew me.
I've returned to a "senior class" who doesn't know most of the people in their Major, let alone their class. It's a depressing thought that we aren't as social within our majors as my friends in England are.
Which brings me to another point, nights out. Just. Not. The. Same. That's all I'm going to say. Not that they don't have their moments of fun, but they just aren't the same.
Well, now that this is a thouroughly depressing blog, I think I'll maybe go in another direction.
Yesterday was Mom's Weekend here at WIU. My mum came to visit and I got to spend time with her and my brother. We went out for breakfast/lunch together and then I got to hang out with my mum in my room for a bit. We went and did a bit of shopping and then came back to rest before dinner. BWW's was a good time. Lots of laughing and good (non-cafeteria) food. We ended up taking some funny pictures in the parking lot before Mum left to go home and it was a fun, successful day! :D
Chartreuse
It's time to be lonely for missing my friends, both back at home and back in England which to me now feels almost the same. I miss England. I miss the classes and my friends and the lifestyle.
But this is me we're talking about so's I'm trying to swing back to my old life while trying to make it new and not bore people with talk of England. It's just, as I've changed, so has everyone else. I'm playing constant catch up trying to figure out what everyone was doing this last school year and catching up with the happenings of their lives. I haven't found it all that easy to slip back into all of my groups of friends. But don't get me wrong, some of them it feels like I've never left at all.
I'm experiencing the overwhelming feeling of homework. There's sooo much of it, or so it seems, at Western. Little assignments that add up and make life difficult. It makes me reminisce about classes in England, which ones I liked and which ones I didn't. I've also discovered that the Gen. Ed's that I used to find an interesting distraction are now boring and in the way of my studying of English Lit. (and World lit. and well just Lit in general). I also miss my creative writing classes that I had in England. The structure and content were so much better, the environment more helpful, and even though I was a "stranger" to everyone, I felt accepted and everyone knew me.
I've returned to a "senior class" who doesn't know most of the people in their Major, let alone their class. It's a depressing thought that we aren't as social within our majors as my friends in England are.
Which brings me to another point, nights out. Just. Not. The. Same. That's all I'm going to say. Not that they don't have their moments of fun, but they just aren't the same.
Well, now that this is a thouroughly depressing blog, I think I'll maybe go in another direction.
Yesterday was Mom's Weekend here at WIU. My mum came to visit and I got to spend time with her and my brother. We went out for breakfast/lunch together and then I got to hang out with my mum in my room for a bit. We went and did a bit of shopping and then came back to rest before dinner. BWW's was a good time. Lots of laughing and good (non-cafeteria) food. We ended up taking some funny pictures in the parking lot before Mum left to go home and it was a fun, successful day! :D
Chartreuse
Thursday, August 19, 2010
End-of-Summer Ramblingness
The Blog world seems to be a bit quiet at the moment as students are trying to hold on to the last remains of summer and everyone else is busy and thinking about other things like vacation and what next. I thought I'd make some noise.
I myself have been working on the painful process called 'packing.' I'm headed back to college (aka uni) and I'm not quite sure what to expect this year. It almost feels like I've forgotten how to be a college student from the States. It'll be a lot different. Probably in more than one way and for more than one reason.
It is my last year of college. For my Bachelor's at least. Who knows what will happen later. But, for now it's strange to think that after about 16 ish years of schooling I will be thrown out into the world to see what I can make of it.
Over the summer, I've been reading a lot. Along with this, I've also been writing a fair bit. I'm excited about some of the stuff I've been working on.
As I sit on my bed, surrounded by my packed college stuff, I can't believe summer is over already. Don't get me wrong, I AM ready to go back to college, but it's hard to believe I've been back in the States now for about 3 months. Time goes by in such a strange fashion.
Pandemonium
I myself have been working on the painful process called 'packing.' I'm headed back to college (aka uni) and I'm not quite sure what to expect this year. It almost feels like I've forgotten how to be a college student from the States. It'll be a lot different. Probably in more than one way and for more than one reason.
It is my last year of college. For my Bachelor's at least. Who knows what will happen later. But, for now it's strange to think that after about 16 ish years of schooling I will be thrown out into the world to see what I can make of it.
Over the summer, I've been reading a lot. Along with this, I've also been writing a fair bit. I'm excited about some of the stuff I've been working on.
As I sit on my bed, surrounded by my packed college stuff, I can't believe summer is over already. Don't get me wrong, I AM ready to go back to college, but it's hard to believe I've been back in the States now for about 3 months. Time goes by in such a strange fashion.
Pandemonium
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Raging Sharks
Wo-ow. and can I say wow. I recently picked up a movie from Walmart and I found a Horror Four Pack. In the pack was a a film called Raging Sharks. I've seen some pretty bad sci fi horror films but this one is particularly bad. The sets aren't too bad however and the acting is alright, but ohhh man. The graphics are absolutely terrible. There are lion noises for the sharks. The gore is ridiculously horrible and they keep repeating shots. Oh and the writing is terrible to boot. It's just comical. Not to mention that the man who is supposed to have an Austrailian accent doesn't really have one and his fake one is bad . . . and he says bloody . . . a lot. Too much really. Saying bloody doesn't make you Austrailian mate. Nope.
This film begins in a very alien way. Extraterrestrials crash into the ocean. (see what I did there?) That is the cause of some weird shark activity and bad gore and bad writing. Good thing the actors aren't all terrible because otherwise this movie would be shittier shite than it is. And this is only the review from halfway through the film. haha
Let's go through the bad sci fi horror film check list:
Banana
This film begins in a very alien way. Extraterrestrials crash into the ocean. (see what I did there?) That is the cause of some weird shark activity and bad gore and bad writing. Good thing the actors aren't all terrible because otherwise this movie would be shittier shite than it is. And this is only the review from halfway through the film. haha
Let's go through the bad sci fi horror film check list:
- Shaggy main character-- Check
- Porn star/sexy wife -- Check
- Awful accent -- Check
- Arragant, condescending prick who hopefully gets eaten-- Check
- Baaaaaaad gore-- Double Check
- Bad guy . . . don't even get me started on the sharks
- Filming . . . repeated and recycled-- Check
- Lots of cursing-- Triple Check
- Alien technology/activity???????????????????????????????????????????
Banana
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