Oh! I almost forgot! WVU beat Texas Tech last night 65-60, so they move onto the Elite Eight! If they can beat Louisville Saturday, they'll make it to the Final Four! Amazing! I was so excited that I started jumping up and down and screaming all over the hall. I must've been loud cause the RA came out to see what was going on, and he's a creepy Halo-playing, never leaves his room, odd, scary, and all around weird sketchball.

Hahaha, Andrea, it's so funny how you're the only who reads my blog. It's become our own little conversation area. I'm going home today and maybe calling Rachel because she IMed me and told me she'll be home this weekend. We should all hang out, she has a car, so she can drive us.

So I've realized with all my entries about how I have papers due and how I'm always doing homework, it probably sounds like I never do anything fun. Hahaha so not true. Since I stopped writing entries for so long, let me recap. The weekend before spring break was our pledge formal. The new girls created a theme and we had no idea what it was, they just brought us random clothes to wear and we didn't know what the theme was until we got to the house. I was dressed up as a waitress at a cheap truck stop kind of diner, but everyone thought I was a Tee Jaye's waitress. It was pretty funny. I was wearing my own navy blue skirt with a totally clashing coral colored apron, a hideous white button up blouse with ugly lacy stuff down the front (NOT mine), and tennis shoes with socks. Lovely. I also had to wear my hair up in a bun with hair nets and bright blue eyeshadow up to my eyebrows. It was funny. However, there were many people dressed funnier than me. Emily was a taxi, so she had to dress entirely in yellow and wear a cardboard box painted like a taxi all night. Nina was wearing a sheet as the Statue of Liberty, Julie was road kill (they actually ran over the shirt with a painted tire so there would be a big tire mark down the front), Katie and Caitlin were the Hollywood signs, Melissa was a pregnant hick, and Diana was a hobo, among others. So you're probably wondering what these things could possible have in common. The answer........Road Trip! The theme was Road Trippin' and our precious little darlings actually went out on the highway and stole a big orange construction barrel and two cones as decorations! Haha, we know how to pick 'em, lol! The evening was a lot of fun and my little was very nice by not dressing me up too embarrasingly.

The Wednesday before break was the Pot of Gold bar party. I went for a couple of hours, but had to finish a paper. It was fun, but nothing too exciting happened. Thursday night Julie had a floor event that just happened to be Napoleon Dynamite movie night, so Nina, Emily, Jen, and I posed as 3rd floor Shorney residents and watched the movie and ate free quesadillas (quesa-dilla, like dill pickles, get it! Haha.) That was lovely, then it was spring break.

WHOOSH!!!

Spring break is gone. Monday was Nina's birthday, so we went to eat at Texas Roadhouse and surprised her by bringing her a birthday cake. It was fun, we ate food, yum yum, birthday over. Yay my roomie is 20 now. Last night I didn't get much work done because we stayed up late talking and being goofy with (hopefully) our future suitemates for next year who live right across the hall.

So after talking about all of the amazingly FUN and EXCITING things I've been up to recently, proving that I don't just sit in my room and do work all day, what am I going to do now?

Go to class and write a paper that's due tomorrow.

RIP Spring Break 2005

Spring break was nice, but went by way too fast. I was home the whole time, rented a lot of movies, went shopping a couple of days, and watched A LOT of college basketball. My dad loves to watch the NCAA tournaments, especially when WVU is having a good year. This year, they are amazing. They were runner-up of the Big East tournament and in the most amazing game I've ever seen, they knocked Wake Forest out of the Sweet Sixteen in a double overtime game. It was so intense I was screaming at the TV and started jumping up and down when they won. I have a personal grudge against Wake Forest, and that made it so much better. Thursday night they play Texas Tech and if they win, it'll be the farthest they've made it in the tournament since the 1960s or 70s. I can't wait to watch.

Now that I'm back, I'm so unmotivated to do anything. I spent all afternoon and all night last night talking to people, watching TV, and hanging out in various rooms. I have a 5 page semi-research paper due tomorrow that I haven't even started and I seem to not even care. Is it sad that I already wish it was summer? I was getting so much sleep when I was home, and now it's back to 3 hours a night. Sad.

I still don't know what I'm going to do this summer. I have to find something to do at home because I have to do something that will pay me and I can't pay extra money for housing and such. It really sucks that I'm so limited in what I can do because of money. I can't intern in a city somewhere, my parents won't even consider letting me go abroad. I want to do something fun and different, but I have to stay home in the usual routine. As long as I don't have to scan groceries another summer, I think I'll be fine.

I'm glad it's slowly turning into spring. I always feel rejuvenated and renewed, like I could take on the world each spring. I do wish it would get a little wamer though because it's in between when you don't know whether or not to wear a coat outside and either wear it and get too hot or don't wear it and freeze. The housing lottery is coming and I certainly hope it's not as crazy at it was last year. We have 6 people together, but we haven't thought about what to do if we're forced to split up. We're just hoping to get a good number in either the special interest or normal lottery.

I never know how to end these entries. I sometimes feel like stopping, but think it's too abrupt if I just stop. I'm always trying to think of some nice ending or something, but not today. It's just over.

This Week's Goal: Survival

Wow, life has been very crazy recently, this week in particular. I had/have a paper due Monday, a test Wednesday, a midterm paper (meaning it's 20% of my grade) due Thursday, a topic proposal with two sources for a history class due Thursday, an English paper due Friday, and a topic proposal for an English paper due Friday. Ugh. Until Friday is over, I am going to be going crazy. I decided to go home for break and am very happy I did. I need to take that time to find interships, work on an essay for a stipend if go somewhere I could use it, convince my parents to let me study abroad next year, and most importantly relax from all the work I've been doing.

I met with the study abroad guy today. He was very helpful and made me really want to go abroad. The only problem is, I know my parents will be totally against it, mostly because it will cost so much money. I think I'll make some sort of presentation about the benefits of going abroad a semester and beg them to keep an open mind. Right now, it looks like the three places I would most likely be going are England, Ireland, or Scotland. I haven't really looked through the brochures yet, but the study abroad guy circled the universities in those areas with the strongest backgrounds in English lit and history. The more I think about it, the more excited I get. It's been my life goal to go to Europe and I can't think of a better opportunity. But that's so far away and it will take a lot of persuasion. I can use all those lovely techniques I've been learning in my persuasion class (note the sarcasm).

Speaking of persuasion, that's the awful midterm I'm working on now. Picking out, identifying, and giving examples of rhetorical elements of persuasion in a speech about a Catholic governor's perspective on abortion - now that's my idea of fun. I can't wait to get this over with, but all I can think about is how I would much rather be studying for my test tomorrow in East Asian Civ because I actually like that class, but I know if I don't start this paper now, it won't get started/finished until 5 a.m. the day it is due. Also, tomorrow night is the bar party. I think it really sucks that it is on a Wednesday night, especially the Wednesday before spring break. I'll just go on the first bus, hang out for a bit, and come back on the first bus so I can get some work done afterwards.

I really can't wait to go home. My dad wants me to come home so badly he offered to pay me if I would come home instead of go on the Habitat trip. But that's not why I'm going home. Well...not entirely ;) J/K! My mom said she'd take a day or two off work so we could go shopping or hang out and I could rent all the movies I want and basically have control of the house. Ah, the perks of being an only child! Haha, but in reality, I miss them just as much and I can't wait until this week from hell is over! Argh, back to work!