ilbooks_87

I'm not drunk yet!

2008-04-20T18:54:53Z

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!

We're moving

2008-03-27T20:33:12Z

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.

ilbooks_87 @ 2008-01-28T18:18:00

2008-01-28T23:28:47Z

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!

ilbooks_87 @ 2007-07-29T19:50:00

2007-07-30T00:00:44Z

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...

YESSSSSS!!!!

2007-07-13T15:13:01Z

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.

adulthood sucks

2007-07-07T02:06:36Z

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?

I hate idiots.

2007-06-06T19:05:46Z

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.

happiness is...

2007-05-05T23:41:52Z

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.

stolen from sarah

2007-05-03T19:22:42Z

You Are A: Monkey!

Monkeys are intelligent and agile, well-adapted for jungle life as they swing happily from tree to tree. As a monkey, you are a social animal who prefers a warm climate, is quick to learn new things and loves to climb. A monkey's tiny primate features are irresistable, as is her gregarious personality!

You were almost a: Parakeet or a Kitten
You are least like a: Turtle or a Chipmunk Discover What Cute Animal You Are!

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!

my last hours as a teen!

2007-04-20T00:58:14Z

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

i don't wanna!!!

2007-04-10T19:03:33Z

I have a doctors appointment in about 45 minutes. I'm nervous, of course. It's just a yearly checkup, but still...one always expects the worst.

Easter was fun, I had a good time at Gavin's. Lots of singing. It's nice to be back.

I have a paper due tomorrow morning at 10 am. Guess what I'll be doing tonight...oh well, at least I got plenty of sleep last night, since I decided to skip the class I'm auditing this morning.

Of to Snow Health Clinic. Wish me luck! And a pulse that isn't racing from nervousness, since I have a higher-than-average heart rate to start with, and doctors worry about things like that.

darn studio class

2007-02-26T23:24:42Z

late last week i started to develop a tickle in my throat. between thursday and saturday it developed into a full-out cough, and i have a wheezy feeling in my chest sometimes. Singing is not fun, especially not that damn King David. But I know how much i need to rehearse it, so i sang today in choir.

so now i have voice studio in 40 minutes, and i really really really dont' want to sing...i'm so worried that i'll start hacking halfway through the song (a song i'm not especially fond of, by the way).

is it friday yet?

by the way, i created a myspace for myself (actually, my friend helen made it while she was here visiting). anyone who's interested should add me.

damn sylist...

2007-02-19T03:24:15Z

i got my hair cut today. i hate it. i told the stylist just to take off an inch, just enough to get my longest split ends. she definitely took more like 2.5...i could tell that the pieces she was cutting were too long, even with my glasses off. and i asked her to cut in a side bang....it's horrible. and she did a crappy job layering my hair. and spring break is in two weeks....i've been so pissed all afternoon.

i had just gotten my hair to a length that i liked, too. i'm so sick of having short hair, i had it for most of high school. not that mine is really short now, the longest layer is just past shoulder lenght, but still....grrrrrrrr....

:'(

sweet....

2007-01-31T00:59:37Z

You know the Bible 100%!

Wow! You are awesome! You are a true Biblical scholar, not just a hearer but a personal reader! The books, the characters, the events, the verses - you know it all! You are fantastic!

Ultimate Bible Quiz
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hahaha! i've also beat several pastors and pastors to be at bible trivia.

so today, i decided that the word andante is one of my favorites. i simply think it is beautiful. and so is the music.

i'm excited right now because Gavin might just possibly come to Ann Arbor tonight...maybe. It's not certain yet, so i'm not letting my hopes get too high.

time to go to work, thankfully only for an hour.

cute penguin

2007-01-22T01:54:15Z

this is my new pet:

and he doesn't break the three-minutes-under-water-rule, so there!

i should try to keep a real pet penguin in my room....hmmm... ;)

that website has lots of other animals up for adoption, if anyone wants to check it out: http://bunnyherolabs.com/adopt/

why bother, i've never been good at thinking up titles

2007-01-05T16:37:06Z

so...i'm tired and bored. i stayed up late last night reading (and the two nights before that) and now i want to go back to sleep, but i'm too awake. i'm over at gavin's family's house, we came over yesterday to pick up his glasses and his mom made us stay overnight so we wouldn't be driving home in a thunderstorm. it amused me, it's the same sort of thing my grandma would do. :P so now gavin and his mom are over at the doctor's office, in hopes that he might be able to help gavin with the cough he's had for two months. and here i am wasting time on LJ since i don't want to go shower. but i did find some more people to add, and a fun community for readaholics like me (http://community.livejournal.com/50bookchallenge/, check it out)

christmas break in review: lots of fun. loads of time with gavin, good presents (digital camera from him, YAY!), champagne and someone to kiss on new years eve. i saw my family and friends in IL for about 2.5 days. i applied for a credit card to pay for next semester and got a freakin huge credit limit (see, good grades are good for something :P).

i'm excited to go back and start next semester. i'm going to have to make sure i have granola bars and fruit in my room, i know there's no way i'm going to get up early enough to get breakfast before i go to class, but i'll need something in my stomach to energize me for migan and kalmes classes. two lit classes....i keep hearing fred astaire singing "heaven, i'm in heaven" :D. after all, it's what i came to college for, and now i'm finally getting around to it! my schedule is slightly crazy, with 17-19 hours of work per week and random one-hour breaks, but hopefully i'll actually use those breaks to read, and i'm free by 10 at the latest, which is good, because i like reading at night. :D obviously (see above). and i'll be in choir, which i'm looking forward to. i like huge classical works, i absolutely love them, and now i'll get to sing some. hopefully work will go well, we have two new workers at the library and a pretty tight schedule. i don't know what i'm going to do without shannon next year. :(:(:( i'm working wednesday afternoon and evenings from 8-10 in the ARC, and every other week on thursday nights from 8-10. wednesday afternoons could be interesting, dr. k is still in her office at that time...but hey, i'll do a lot of quicktips if i have to. :P

burning...

2006-12-11T03:41:11Z

i totally just lost interest in doing my homeowork. it's been a hard fight to keep my interest on it all evening, because my friends have been in the library with me and i keep talking to them, or doing stuff on facebook, or something. nonetheless, i have my speech pretty much roughed out, and the powerpoint done, and now i really don't want to do anymore on it.

not only that, i've lost interest in doing something with my friends, party because i feel like i've wasted enough of their time tonight, and partly because what i would really like to do is go back to my room and chill.

maybe i just need more caffeine.

i can't wait for friday.

ilbooks_87 @ 2006-12-07T01:39:00

2006-12-07T05:39:32Z

today went better than i thought it would, overall. i knew i'd be horribly stressed about my ren&ref paper, and i was, but i've gotten 6 pages written and taken them to the ARC. it still needs to be pulled together, but most of it is there. now i'm debating if i want to go to bed soon and get up early and work on it or finish riding my caffeine high (which i can already feel diminishing) and work on it more tonight and get up a little tiny bit later tomorrow morning. i'm inclining more to the first option, because, in addition to my caffeine level diminishing, i don't have microsoft word on my laptop, just notebook. which was ok earlier today when i was only outlining...but now i want to work in word.

i also found out today that i made it into choir. i'm happy about it, but not absolutely ecstatic. i will be absolutely ecstatic if i get a good grade on my migan paper. which is why i'm an english major and not a music major. but i am still happy. choir usually does more of the music that i like to sing, and i've missed being in a four-part choir.

the snow that we got on monday and tuesday melted today, but then we got a little dusting of it tonight. yay for pretty snow! :D

ilbooks_87 @ 2006-12-01T10:27:00

2006-12-01T14:27:16Z

at 7:35 this morning our room phone rang. it was becky dees asking me to go in and work for her because she had a migraine and she was supposed to open in 20 minutes. so i threw on some clothes and went to work.

now it's 9:20, i have an 40 minutes before i go back to work my own shift at 10 am, and someone is in the shower. oh, i'll take that back, the water just stopped. but nonetheless, i need to shower and change clothes and do something cute with my hair really fast (gavin's apartment-warming party is tonight or i'd just ponytail it and saw screw it). thank heaven liz falconer works with me, so at least if i'm late the desk won't be abandoned.

i'm really tired, i was up till 2 last night. but i got my earth science homework done. and last night i spent a lot of time in the ARC brainstorming for my Ren&Ref paper. Rachel suggested that I write a hate poem about Louis XIV to get my anger out and perhaps i'd find something good in there when i was done. So i did and i think i might have a thesis. I'm going to show it to Migan today, if i can catch up with him.

Good Lord, I'm tired.

blah

2006-11-18T22:33:01Z

i've decided that spending weekends on-campus depresses me. i'm not sure why, it just does. i know part of it is missing gavin, but i think it's more than that, too...maybe it's just the weather. it's been really gray and cloudy, and i seem to be one of those people that gets depressed when they don't get enough sunshine.

i should stop whining so much. ugh, that sounds like my mother. she was always telling us not to complain. she really did make me bottle up so much. grrrr...

i apologize to those of you who think i complain a lot. i really only do it because once my bad mood has been verbalized, it starts to go away. and mine is sorta going away now...except that jamie has friends over, and they just laughed, and it's just reminding me that i'm alone in my room, and i have been for most of the day, and i want to be with gavin! :'( or at least with some of my friends. but the caf isn't serving dinner tonight, they're having it in the riverside rooms where people are watching the UofM/OSU game (stupid football) and i don't want to go down there. so i'll either eat in my room again tonight, like i did last night, or i'll go off-campus, which i don't really feel like doing. maybe i just won't eat dinner.

HAPPY FEET!!!!

2006-11-18T01:48:18Z

HAPPY FEET IS THE CUTEST MOVIE RELEASED THIS YEAR!!!!! You should DEFINITELY all go see it!!!! :D

Happy Feet was just adorable. :D Not quite always accurate in depicting how penguins actually live, but that's ok. Artistic license is *usually* ok with me.

And after I got back from Happy Feet, I went to the manor to go to a student recital that some of my friends were singing in. They all did a good job.

And now I have nothing to do for the rest of the weekend...except read for my research papers and tell everyone that I run into about how CUTE Happy Feet was.

I want that movie when it comes out on DVD. I wonder what the chances are that it'll be out by April 20 (my bday). Hmmmm....

where did my brain go?

2006-11-12T18:49:55Z

wow...that conference was intense. and i'm totally sick of the topic of "Authority in the Writing Center". i think my brain migrated out of my skull...i hope it comes back soon, i have homework i need to.

so i lost $10...and i'm searching madly to find it, because that's my laundry money, and i want/need to do laundry today.

EDIT: so it was about 4 hours ago that i wrote and posted the above entry...since then I have changed a car battery! well, helped. i feel very empowered now. :P ok...so now i should go do homework...right?

ilbooks_87 @ 2006-11-09T20:41:00

2006-11-10T00:41:18Z

i got my grade for ren&ref today: 91. A-, not bad. oh i also got my grade from my last speech. it was a 92. i don't think i deserved it. so i'm determined that this next speech will be good. and so later tonight i'm going to the library to work on the powerpoint for the speech.

i think one of my wisdom teeth is out now. there's a little tiny hard piece of tooth poking out of back of my gums. at least it didn't hurt. i don't want to get them pulled, but i know they're growing into my existing teeth in a weird angle. however...that angle is responsible for the gaps in my mouth closing after i had teeth pulled and didn't get my braces back on.

gavin's been moving since yesterday, and of course he hasn't been online and i've only talked to him on teh phone for a couple minutes today. i miss him. :( but i'm also excited to see what his new apartment will be like. i hope i don't get lost the first time i drive out there. knowing me, i probably will.

i'm so tired...i just want to sleep all the time this week. and i know why, and it's not fun. oh well.

writing center conference this weekend! i'm not sure if i'm excited for it or not. the topics for the different sessions look interesting and all, but i'd really rather not have to give up all that time to read about Louis XIV. i just realized that i have two big research papers due in less than a month. scary. but i always do that, and they always get As. i just hate crunch time.

happiness is...

2006-11-07T16:07:48Z

So Gavin was able to come over yesterday, after all. YAY!!! It was so wonderful to see him. When I called him after Speech was over to tell him that Philosophy was canceled and he said he was on his way, I actually started jumping up and down. And he liked the gift I'd gotten/made him, which was a relief.

Happy thought: as of today, we have now been together for over a year! :D

And today I registered for classes online! I was going to get up at 7 am, when the registration opened, but that didn't happen. :P As of now, I'm taking Development of the Novel, Advanced Composition (both with Dr. Migan), American Government (a prereq for one of the classes I might do for my philosophy electives, taught by Kalmes), Issues in Western Philosophy (Dr. Parrish-yippee!), Vocal Arts Lab, and Concordia Chorale (I might yet get into Choir...we'll see). Later on today I'll have to stop by the Registrar's office to pick up an add form and then visit Prof. Altevogt so that I can get the level assigned for my voice lessons. And I have a summary due in Ren&Ref. Busy day.

1-year!!!!

2006-11-06T14:15:25Z

Today is mine and Gavin's 1-year anniversary!!!!! :D I can't believe it's been that long already, it seems so short. The best year of my life.

He's been sick since Friday though. He was planning to come over this afternoon, but if he's sick...I hope he gets better, since we wouldn't be able to get together for the rest of the week or over the weekend, if we can't today.