Well, so I'm 21 now.

Thus far, I have (legally) drunk...one caramel steamer from Bigby's and a LOT of water. I went with Gavin today to his early mass and we were there till 1:30, rehearsing with the special choir for Pentecost (for which I'll be in London...so, Westminster or St. Paul's! :D that'll be so sweet!).

I am excited to buy booze, though. All those bottles that I almost never wanted to touch.

Anyway...the present roundup thus far (I always do this mentally, I might as well write it down for once):
-money
-a cookbook (from Frankenmuth...it looks pretty tasty)
-a new robe :D
-a new laptop!
-presents from my family haven't arrived yet...that'll probably be books and food and such.

So far, a good birthday, except for the Marian hymn at Mass. More fun to come later tonight!

Kim and I just got back from looking at an apartment. That's right, for those of you who don't know, she and I are looking at apartments for next year. I'm really excited to move off-campus. Hooray for not living with 30 girls!

So, now we have to see how many places we can look at before we leave for London...and I have to look for a job to pay for the apartment.

Speaking of which, does anyone have an extra $1000 they could give me? I'd really appreciate it. The Accounting office screwed me over...again.

I'm just posting to use my new userpic.

It's sweet, and you know it.

School will be busy this semester, but I know I'll get through it. I'm going to be high on English and Russian literature, complaining about Creative Writing, and trying hard to focus on examining Alice and not become distracted by Wonderland's plotline (or lack thereof). History of Christian Thought will make me want to kill myself, but eventually we'll get to the Reformation and I'll have a chance to salvage my grade, which will most likely suffer because I won't want to do the work to make it good.

21st birthday is coming up. I'm excited about it, and I didn't think I would be.

London and Paris are coming up too. I keep getting more excited about them--I wonder if that'll peak in, like, March and I won't recover? I hope not, I want it to keep getting better.

I don't have anything on Wednesdays, so I'm going to try to get to midweek services during Lent again.

And Gavin's moving back in June. Hooray! And we might be going to look at apartments on Friday. Hip Hip Hooray!

me so bored...i've read and watched tv and done random shit on my computer for most of the afternoon. now i want to do something active, but i don't know what. well, there are dishes to do, and the bathroom could use a cleaning, i suppose...

today was good. I made western-style pork ribs more or less the way Grandma taught me...yummy...and there's leftovers for tomorrow...double yummy...then i made cookies and they got slightly burnt :(

Rev. N didn't give me wine today at communion. We were really crowded at the rail because the usher in charge of the left side of the church sent up too many people. Rev. N must've thought I was with that group of people, rather than the right-hand side, so he didn't bring me the common cup (i'd already waved the individual cup tray past). So I stood up at the end of the blessing/dismissal (the real dismissal comes later, but it's hard for me to not think of that blessing as the real one...oh well) and he got a horrified, apologetic expression on his face. So I sorta smiled and tried to mouth "It's ok" at him...hopefully he got the idea. Actually, this has happened to me before, Pastor B at my home church (not the current past, that's Rev. R), didn't realize once that I didn't realize that it was a individual-cup-only Sunday. He didn't even notice that I hadn't gotten my wine.


In one month, I'll be back in school. Maybe I'll have a new, additional, job, too! I hope so, at least...

sweet! i love yoda!!!



You are....YODA

A venerated sage with vast power and knowledge, you gently guide forces around you while serving as a champion of the light.

Judge me by my size, do you? And well you should not - for my ally is the Force. And a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us, and binds us. Luminescent beings are we, not this crude matter! You must feel the Force around you, everywhere.

Yoda is a is a character in the Star Wars universe. More Yoda information is available at the Star Wars Databank.

I'm lonely. I miss Gavin already and I'm really sad that I won't get to spend any weekends with him this month. When I got back here on Wednesday night it was really weird not to have Shannon and Mary around. It still feels weird. That's probably the biggest part of why I'm so lonely right now.

I'm frustrated. I figured out today that I will be able to keep both my jobs, but I didn't ask if I would be able to schedule myself for more than 10 hours/week at the library. If I'm stuck with 10 there and four at the ARC, that means I'll only be making $400/month. Not enough when I want to go to London next May. I called Borders and they're done hiring till the holidays, probably. I doubt I'd do well working in food service.

I have to clean and do laundry this weekend.

My mom's been trying to talk to me again. Fuck her.

I can't wait for August, though. And I have lots of books to read, partly because of mom.

Can this week be over now?

Kevin Robinson wants to take the library's reading room and make it into a coffee shop. He has it well-organized, the floor plan looks good, and I think it's a good idea in general...but that was our space! Not that it's anything new, the library has been steadily losing square footage for the last decade. The ETC and the ARC spaces used to be ours, IT wasn't always in it's current location, and now we've lost our reading space. Granted, there will be access to that area from the library, and students will be able to take books in there. We'll probably put a gate by the outside entrance that he has (it's in one of the existing windows), and so they'll be able to take reference books and magazines in there, too, so long as the barista will actually stop people who walk out with un-checked-out-items. But if you don't like working in an area where you can smell food or hear people talking, sorry, but Conco just fucked you over.

We're moving our microfilm and periodicals out of their long, narrow room and we'll put the three tables and the leather chairs back there, and trying to figure out other places to put tables and chairs, but it's not much. The Religion Department is trying to establish a reading room for it's students in the manor, I might see if I can get in on that, since I, personally, HATE coffee.

Oh, and I just found out that a fucking idiot who had left is coming back to CUAA. Hooray, we just slid a little farther into the gutter of desperation.

I found out today that my brother got Prom king last night, which is nice (our school is small, so the king and queen really does go to nice people). His girlfriend was there, too (they're long-distance, too), so that made it nicer. He was the only person on court wearing a tux, too. :P

Lots of people I know graduated today...two people got engaged (I won't say who in case they want to tell people themselves)...I'm moving into Stephen soon...right now, I have a 4.0 GPA (only two classes have posted grades, though :P)...IT'S SUMMER AND I CAN READ WHATEVER I WANT and i get to make a baby afghan...I get to see Gavin this coming weekend, after three weeks...

life is so good right now.

now i have to clean and pack.

I'm a little disappointed. I do love small monkeys, but I never really pictured myself AS one...oh well.

I got good news today, and it made me happy! And my papers are going well, and spring has sprung!

i have a little more than three hours left as a teenager. i'm pretty happy about it, overall. it's been fun, but i'm ready to be done with it.

nonetheless, i felt like i needed to do something. go out with a bang. my original plan was to go spray-paint something somewhere. :P but then i decided to buy averil lavigne's new CD, since i had a coupon for it because i'm a Border's member. so i got it, and i love it. i've never bought a pop/rock CD before--lots of classical, not much else. at home, i had to listen to pop on the sly, usually on my walkman while i was hanging laundry outside, so that mom wouldn't find out, and if i've ever wanted music for my laptop, i've gotten it from friends. so i thought it was appropriate that i get a CD, and hey, it's avril. if that's not teen, what is?

Karista said she'd buy me a book or two for my birthday while we were at Borders, so i asked for the Norton Critical Edition of William Blake. It has some of his original artwork in it, too. I am, after all, almost twenty. :D