Oktober

omg. Its already the middle of October. Where did all the time go? I'm already finished with two eight week classes and I start two more this week. The first class was pretty good and talked all about Sheltered English Immersion and how to accommodate students who are still learning English. The Second class "Content Area Literacy" was excellent, the teacher was really great and I learned a lot of strategies from him.
I was a bit worried for Monday's class because of getting a new teacher and a new set of books and assignments and whatnot. I am still stressed about it. Hopefully I can learn to tolerate the teacher and complete all of the assignments he has crammed into this next 8 weeks. We have to design a unit plan. For the last 8 weeks, we were required to write one lesson plan. Now we have that same amount of time to create 6 lesson plans. I am kind of worried. And he wants us to write a blog every week that all of our classmates can see. SO I am writing in this neglected blog to try and get back into some semblance of coherent stream of conscience writing. Let me know if its working.

Hopefully Wednesday's class will be much better than Monday's.

Goodbye Summer!

AAH! I can't believe I have school today! It certainly does not feel like summer is over. Work is going really well, I'm learning a lot about cooking and how to run a kitchen, its kind of fun. And without a paycheck I would have not been able to afford textbooks for this semester. They were going to cost over 400 dollars but I decided to rent them instead from BN.com.

Rudy doesn't go back to Flagstaff until next weekend so we have a little time left but it's going to be really sad when he goes. :(

Jubilation!

I finally have a job! I start work on Friday! I will be working at a hospital in the kitchen as a dietary aide. Basically it sounds like I will get to take food orders from patients and cook them and clean up. I so excited to finally have a job! Especially one that will work around my school schedule!

Summer

Well so far I still have 0 jobs for this summer. But I have spent my time wisely completely cleaning out my room that still had too many childhood relics and papers and crap that needed to be thrown away. During the process of removing a corner desk, my dad realized that the 18 year old furniture set was falling apart and at a closer look at the bed realized that I probably needed some new furniture. So we went to IKEA to get me some new furniture and I love it! I got a nice full sized bed and a new desk that fits my computer and sits in front of my window. Now that my room is actually more similar to my apartment perhaps I can convince myself to stay here for a while to save money since it doesn't look like I will have a job any time soon. But yay for summer and getting to spend time with friends and Rudy!

Done!

Well last Saturday was commencement, which means I am officially done and not a senior anymore, which means that I should probably change the title once again. Any suggestions?

Commencement was weird. It doesn't feel like it really meant anything, and I guess in part that could be because I refused to follow directions and sat in the section with all my English major friends instead of with the biology people. But it was fun, I don't regret it, and my parents and friends knew that I was in the English section so they could see me.

And now I am back at home, I just applied to Harkins and talked with Gary the owner of the Gluten Free Country Store and so hopefully I will have two jobs this summer. We shall see. In the mean time, I will attempt to totally clean out my room so that all of my college stuff will fit in here. Plus a new desk that will fit my hopefully functional desktop.

AAAAAAHHHHHH

I want to be done with this paper!! At first I thought it was going to be ok, then I thought it was going to be easy and now I don't think I will ever actually be able to write anything even halfway decent. I just want to be done with school forever, too bad, I'm going to grad school. hah.

Accepted!

Yay! ASU JUST sent an email to me 25 minutes ago saying that I am accepted to the Master's Program! What a relief.

So far today has been a good day. I think I did pretty good on the final physics test, at least I feel pretty confident which is all I really care about. I did my best and if I get a C so be it. I am also getting antibiotics! The doctors office in Mesa said that they called in the prescription so I don't have to feel sick anymore! I feel so happy right now!

All I really have left to do this semester is write my German paper, write my genomics paper, do some reading for genomics and go to graduation!

Wasting time like always....

I am so distracted right now. It is snowing, and I am supposed to be studying for my Physics test. But I get so distracted by cars and people and snow blowing out my window which is right next to my desk. So, I am trying to get rid of all my nervous bored energy by typing this blog, which takes very little of my brain power.

Blah, Last Friday I felt sick so I had Rudy drive me to Phoenix and I seemed to get a little bit better, but now I think I have a sinus infection. It seems like whenever I am stressed or my allergies act up, I get a sinus infection. I called my doctor in Mesa to see if she would prescribe some antibiotics for me, but they probably won't get in until tomorrow evening at the earliest.

I can't can't can't believe next week is reading week. And I still haven't heard back from ASU which is starting to scare me a little. If I haven't heard from them after graduation I will definitely write them an email.

MUSE!

I am going to see MUSE tomorrow! Yay! Not much else has been going on really. It kind of feels like everything is slowly winding down which is kind of nice because I don't have tons of homework and get to spend more time with Rudy. But I also know that as soon as I let my guard down and take time to zone out and totally relax, my capstone teacher will finally give us the prompt to our final research paper and my German Professorin will give us the prompt to the final paper and I will eventually have to muster up some sickly/wimpy/pathetic math/physics understanding brain cells (that don't really exist in actuality) to pull off a decent grade for the last Physics test so that I can graduate.

Also this year was the weirdest Easter ever. Well compared to last year this year wasn't looking very promising because compared to being in Germany, being back in Gilbert with the family wasn't looking to be as epic, but this year everyone was sick. On Friday my brother was shooting film for his movie which was very stressful because there were like 20 people in our house with tons of cameras and lights and gaff tape so I couldn't even really settle in and relax.
And I don't even remember Saturday I remember not feeling well and sleeping for like half of the day. And Sunday we didn't go to church. On Easter. It was so bizarre. And then we didn't have a nice family lunch. We had leftover sloppy joes from the film shoot at like 2pm. So weird. Oh well. Next year will be better.

Procrastination!!!

Another case of senioritis! I really need to be working or studying or writing that is due tomorrow. Oh well, I need a blog break! Jenika, Maddie and I sang in church for Maundy Thursday and I think we sounded very nice. Sometimes it makes me want to give up this sciency life for singing. But I doubt that I would ever be a successful music anything.

Last weekend all of my family except me pretty much met in New Mexico and had a family reunion type thing. Well I guess my aunt who is currently a junior high social studies teacher was telling my mom not to let me become a teacher and so my mom got so frustrated with her that that she called me and made my aunt speak to me.

It was very disheartening. And I can see her point, I guess they refuse to hire teachers with masters degrees in her school district and that they will only hire new teachers for 3 years and fire them before they get tenure. But she lives in a tiny farm town in Minnesota which is waaaaay different from fastest growing city in the nation Gilbert(maybe its not anymore but it used to be). And I do expect that I will run into issues and I am fine with moving around while I am still young, but I am not going to change my mind now. I can't. I feel this is the right thing. And every job has its difficulties. I am sad that my aunt is not supportive of me in this endeavor but I guess I am not as close to her and my uncle so I guess I don't care.

In other news I was inducted into German Honor society woot. I will get to wear shiny gold tassels at graduation. yay!

Terrible day

Today has just been a terrible terrible day. I feel terrible and angry and I don't really know why. Well I had to wake up super early to go to the doctor to get my yearly physical examination and that was awful. The doctor made me wait for what felt like an hour with that stupid non-shirt and sheet,(it was probably more like half an hour) And that was unpleasant to say the least.
And, just before I left for the doctor one of my mom's best friends called the house in a panic, asking me to come over to her house after my appointment to look after her animals because she had fallen and broken her arm. She is like a grandmother to me so I was very worried about her the whole time and I still am because she is still undergoing surgery.
On top of that, people keep nagging me to do things and yelling at me and I am very short tempered right now. The smallest things are setting me off right now, it feels as though I have a huge weight on my chest and I am so worked up. I am trying to calm down but I don't think I can. I just feel so worried and stressed and unnerved I cannot think or do anything. I am useless. I should go sleep.

A spring break miracle!

It is a beautiful day today! No one would ever guess that it had been miserable and snowing just a few days before! It makes me wish I were going somewhere with a beach for spring break. Alas, I will be stuck in good old Gilbert for the next week, where I will most likely be forced into tearing apart my room for when I move back permanently, cooking and doing laundry. Joy.

I guess in other news Rudy and I are officially a couple. So official that it's even on facebook (on a side note I find it somewhat hilarious that Google spell check refuses to admit that Facebook is a real word) but yeah. Things are great. I don't know if I will get to see him a lot over the break, but maybe that will be good, we've only been dating or whatever for two weeks. I get to officially meet his mom on Saturday(tomorrow!) And of course my mom is jealous and wants to meet him, but that is sure to be disastrous and a bit awkward since he and my brother are the same age.

But yes. I am so glad that I don't have to go to classes next week. And hopefully I will hear from ASU sooner than later so I can calm down about this whole future thing.

Snow! Schnee!

I can't believe it is snowing AGAIN! And even more ridiculous, I fell on my butt again because of ice/snow. That brings the count now to 3.

Ridiculous fact of the day.
In my capstone we were talking about restriction enzymes that are derived from bacteria. Apparently there is a restriction enzyme called SexA1. Ah biologists.

Time for an Update

Gah! It's already February! I cannot believe I graduate in May! Time has been going by crazy fast. And I am writing this because I am pointedly not studying for an exam that I have tomorrow in Human Genomics, my capstone. Meh.

I am stricken with senioritis! I have completely stopped caring about my classes. Well, I will still do German homework, but that's also partially because I asked my German teacher for a recommendation for Grad school! But Physics? I despise that awful class(not awful because of the professor, he is nice, but because of the terrible people in that class who ask hundreds of pointless questions and interrupt the professor while he is trying to lecture "What does Q and C and I stand for? I know you just said what it meant 2 minutes ago and another 10 minutes before that but I wasn't paying attention").

Speaking of Grad school I finally finished my application and that silly personal statement. I think I did an adequate job of being honest and very cheesy all at once. Hopefully it will win over the hearts of those education teachers over at ASU. Because if for some horrible unforeseen reason ASU does not accept me, I have no idea what I will do,(other than live at home, like a bum, and work over 40 hours a week at a minimum wage job).

Well as it is now almost 12:30 I should go to sleep.