I just wrote a really great blog post and then it disappeared. I don't know where it went...
Probably cyberspace.
I'm sorry.
I tried to update this but blogger failed me.
I guess you could call it a fail blog!
Monday, September 14, 2009
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Is it okay to pray for free chipotle?
I am so tired lately. Its crazy. It is currently 9:30 and I could get in bed and fall asleep immediately right now.
I used to be one of those people that always stayed up until about 1 am during the week. But this year I have been averaging a 10:00 bedtime. What's wrong with me?!
In other news:
In of my classes there is a fun give-away that happens every week (this class only meets on Mondays). There is a giant cardboard 'box', wrapped in foil and shaped like a chipotle burrito that my teacher has. And every week, my teacher draws a name of someone in the class and that person wins the giant 'burrito'. Which means that if you take the burrito into chipotle, then you and a friend each get free burritos!
This past Monday, I unfortunately did not win. A girl from my high school did... BUT I have hope. We have 13 class periods left. I'm bound to win... right?!
If I win, I have to pick a friend to come get free burritos with me.
Feel free to bribe me so that I'll pick you.
I used to be one of those people that always stayed up until about 1 am during the week. But this year I have been averaging a 10:00 bedtime. What's wrong with me?!
In other news:
In of my classes there is a fun give-away that happens every week (this class only meets on Mondays). There is a giant cardboard 'box', wrapped in foil and shaped like a chipotle burrito that my teacher has. And every week, my teacher draws a name of someone in the class and that person wins the giant 'burrito'. Which means that if you take the burrito into chipotle, then you and a friend each get free burritos!
This past Monday, I unfortunately did not win. A girl from my high school did... BUT I have hope. We have 13 class periods left. I'm bound to win... right?!
If I win, I have to pick a friend to come get free burritos with me.
Feel free to bribe me so that I'll pick you.
Friday, August 28, 2009
And so it begins...
ahhh blog... i've been avoiding you.
but I figure its probably time for an update.
well the new school year is upon us and I must admit, i'm not thrilled. This is the first year of college that I really didn't want to start classes. Senior year is very weird and I'm feeling all kinds of emotions... many of which are contradictory to each other.
So how do i cope?
Try not to think about things. Trust in the Lord always. and focus on the here and now. I like to enjoy each day and not allow myself to get bogged down by too many things.
I'm a pretty simple girl... and I'm okay with that.
Here is a list of good things about Senior Year (so far):
1. I started the year off with a return trip to Colorado with my favorite people. and it was wonderful. So hard to come back. but I'm glad we went and can't wait till we all travel together again!
2. My internship. As i have spent more time working for my internship, i've really grown to enjoy it. I like a lot of the people and I genuinely enjoy most of the work. the experience it provides me is going to be awesome when i'm job hunting in the (very) near future.
3. Pulling rank. I love dropping the ole' "i'm a senior" thing when i want to establish rank amongst peers, adults, etc.
4. I really like all of my classes except for one... that being Law of Mass Comm. but I figure 4 out of 5 ain't bad (pardon my use of ain't. it was for literary effect)
Well that's really all I have going on right now. I am relieved to be done with the first week of class and am happy to begin the weekend. I have skillfully avoided having to work at all this weekend so I am a free bird!
Let's play.
but I figure its probably time for an update.
well the new school year is upon us and I must admit, i'm not thrilled. This is the first year of college that I really didn't want to start classes. Senior year is very weird and I'm feeling all kinds of emotions... many of which are contradictory to each other.
So how do i cope?
Try not to think about things. Trust in the Lord always. and focus on the here and now. I like to enjoy each day and not allow myself to get bogged down by too many things.
I'm a pretty simple girl... and I'm okay with that.
Here is a list of good things about Senior Year (so far):
1. I started the year off with a return trip to Colorado with my favorite people. and it was wonderful. So hard to come back. but I'm glad we went and can't wait till we all travel together again!
2. My internship. As i have spent more time working for my internship, i've really grown to enjoy it. I like a lot of the people and I genuinely enjoy most of the work. the experience it provides me is going to be awesome when i'm job hunting in the (very) near future.
3. Pulling rank. I love dropping the ole' "i'm a senior" thing when i want to establish rank amongst peers, adults, etc.
4. I really like all of my classes except for one... that being Law of Mass Comm. but I figure 4 out of 5 ain't bad (pardon my use of ain't. it was for literary effect)
Well that's really all I have going on right now. I am relieved to be done with the first week of class and am happy to begin the weekend. I have skillfully avoided having to work at all this weekend so I am a free bird!
Let's play.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
The Great Pencil Protest of 09'
I'M BAAAACK!! That's right blog fans, I am alive and blogging.
And if you thought I was kidding when I said the only thing I would have to report this summer is about office pens at work.... I was serious. (the following story is pretty long, but if you are bored, you should read it. Its a classic day in the office!):
This summer when I returned to KDOT I went into the supply room to get a pencil. Now, KDOT normally has these maroon mechanical pencils that I absolutely love but I when I went in there to get one... they were no where to be found. They had been replaced by a black mechanical pencil that was, in my opinion, a shotty piece of craftmanship.
So, being the good employee that I am, I took the new black pencil, walked back to my cube and didn't question as to where my old favorite pencils had gone.
A few weeks later we got an email from the receptionist Mike (whom I like to call the manceptionist) explaining that we were allowed to cast a vote as to whether we liked the maroon pencils or the black pencils better. The pencil with the most votes would become the permanent KDOT pencil.
I immediately cast a vote for the maroon pencil and started asking my surrounding cube mates what pencil they were in favor of. A few of us got to talking and I realized that I was not alone in my dislike for the black pencil. There were others out there who also loved the maroon and wanted nothing more than to see its return to KDOT.
Jokingly, my cube mate and I suggested that we must protest the black pencil by staging a sit-in in the supply room until our demands were met.
A lady that sits next to us said, "yea that's a great idea! or we could make maroon arm bands and wear them around the office in support of the maroon pencil".
We all laughed but none of us took the idea as serious.
However, 20 minutes later that lady came into our cube holding maroon strips of paper and said to us, "give me your arm. I've got armbands."
Needless to say, my 2 cube mates and I each grabbed a maroon strip of paper and taped it around our arms to show our support of the maroon pencil. I also saw others in our unit walking around with maroon armbands, as well.
So, that was it. The office had officially been split into two groups:
The maroon supporters... and everyone else. You could feel the tension in the air!
We were all very confident that our display of support for the maroon pencil would persuade others to vote for it and therefore, KDOT would once again supply us with the maroon pencils we so greatly desired!
However, about 2 hours after our whole armband protest began, we received an email from the manceptionist saying, "alright, I just checked with our supplier and looks like the maroon pencil has been discontinued. Black wins by default"
EXCUSE ME?! DISCONTINUED?!
Heartbreaker....
After receiving the email we all ripped off our maroon armbands and tossed them in the trash. It was as if the whole thing had never happened.
But for me, the Great Pencil Protest of 09' will forever be a day I remember.
And if you thought I was kidding when I said the only thing I would have to report this summer is about office pens at work.... I was serious. (the following story is pretty long, but if you are bored, you should read it. Its a classic day in the office!):
This summer when I returned to KDOT I went into the supply room to get a pencil. Now, KDOT normally has these maroon mechanical pencils that I absolutely love but I when I went in there to get one... they were no where to be found. They had been replaced by a black mechanical pencil that was, in my opinion, a shotty piece of craftmanship.
So, being the good employee that I am, I took the new black pencil, walked back to my cube and didn't question as to where my old favorite pencils had gone.
A few weeks later we got an email from the receptionist Mike (whom I like to call the manceptionist) explaining that we were allowed to cast a vote as to whether we liked the maroon pencils or the black pencils better. The pencil with the most votes would become the permanent KDOT pencil.
I immediately cast a vote for the maroon pencil and started asking my surrounding cube mates what pencil they were in favor of. A few of us got to talking and I realized that I was not alone in my dislike for the black pencil. There were others out there who also loved the maroon and wanted nothing more than to see its return to KDOT.
Jokingly, my cube mate and I suggested that we must protest the black pencil by staging a sit-in in the supply room until our demands were met.
A lady that sits next to us said, "yea that's a great idea! or we could make maroon arm bands and wear them around the office in support of the maroon pencil".
We all laughed but none of us took the idea as serious.
However, 20 minutes later that lady came into our cube holding maroon strips of paper and said to us, "give me your arm. I've got armbands."
Needless to say, my 2 cube mates and I each grabbed a maroon strip of paper and taped it around our arms to show our support of the maroon pencil. I also saw others in our unit walking around with maroon armbands, as well.
So, that was it. The office had officially been split into two groups:
The maroon supporters... and everyone else. You could feel the tension in the air!
We were all very confident that our display of support for the maroon pencil would persuade others to vote for it and therefore, KDOT would once again supply us with the maroon pencils we so greatly desired!
However, about 2 hours after our whole armband protest began, we received an email from the manceptionist saying, "alright, I just checked with our supplier and looks like the maroon pencil has been discontinued. Black wins by default"
EXCUSE ME?! DISCONTINUED?!
Heartbreaker....
After receiving the email we all ripped off our maroon armbands and tossed them in the trash. It was as if the whole thing had never happened.
But for me, the Great Pencil Protest of 09' will forever be a day I remember.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
PTL!
Praise the Lord, i just took my last german test EVER! I have had four long semesters with german. Four long classes that equal 19 credit hours of german total.
I just took my german final and it was.... interesting. Our teacher sent us a studyguide online and when i opened it to look at it, it said: you cannot study for this final. either you know the information or you dont.
GREAT.
that's helpful...
So, I have no idea how I did on the final. but hopefully I did average. I'm hoping for the best!
As much as I am relieved to never again have to take a german test, write a german paper, memorize german vocabulary or sit through a class where a teacher asks you a question and all you can do is stare at her because you dont know what she said, I will also greatly miss german. For some strange, I love the german language. That's probably why I took 4 classes of it.
I love knowing how to speak another language. Right now I am at my prime when it comes to speaking german. I have peaked, if you will. I speak, hear and write german quite fluently and I'm sad that everyday I spend away from german class, I'll be losing some of my german skills.
If ya don't use it then ya lose it.
Maybe this means i should travel to germany?!
I just took my german final and it was.... interesting. Our teacher sent us a studyguide online and when i opened it to look at it, it said: you cannot study for this final. either you know the information or you dont.
GREAT.
that's helpful...
So, I have no idea how I did on the final. but hopefully I did average. I'm hoping for the best!
As much as I am relieved to never again have to take a german test, write a german paper, memorize german vocabulary or sit through a class where a teacher asks you a question and all you can do is stare at her because you dont know what she said, I will also greatly miss german. For some strange, I love the german language. That's probably why I took 4 classes of it.
I love knowing how to speak another language. Right now I am at my prime when it comes to speaking german. I have peaked, if you will. I speak, hear and write german quite fluently and I'm sad that everyday I spend away from german class, I'll be losing some of my german skills.
If ya don't use it then ya lose it.
Maybe this means i should travel to germany?!
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Sports, Bread and Shag Carpet
Alright folks, this is the moment you've been waiting for.... i'm updating my blog!!
Hmm. What's new in my life?
a.) I finally got an internship! with kstate athletics! as did Tricia! this is good news for many reasons: the internship is durinng the school year so I can still work at KDOT this summer (yay?). Also, I can go to all the football and basketball games for free so I dont have to buy any tickets this year.
b.) The lady Aardvarks lost their first soccer game the other night. but we're still in the playoffs so no biggie. We duel it out tonight in the first playoff game.
c.) My mom and my Nana are coming to visit me this Friday. Which means I need to clean my room. Gotta keep up appearances for Nana!
d.) I am out of food right now. I have nothing to eat. All I want is some sandwich bread and some chips. I have stuff to put on the bread... just no bread. And i'm out of POP!! Clearly, I'm living in a state of destruction.
e.) I have tons of projects and papers and test to cram in sometime in the next 7 days. and really just not enough time to do it. But i'm sure you can all relate.
f.) my parents are re-doing our basement. my brother used to live in the basement and so things got really weird and smelly down there. but he moved out and so now we are completely re-doing it. New paint, new carpet, new furniture, the whole works. My parents are making it music themed (they would...). I think there is going to be shag carpet. And record covers on the walls. How groovy of them.
Well that's all I've got for now. Don't expect many posts from me this summer. Not because I'll be too busy having fun adventures. But because I'll i have absolutely nothing to write about.
Unless you want to read a post about how we got new pens at work and it was really exciting.
Hmm. What's new in my life?
a.) I finally got an internship! with kstate athletics! as did Tricia! this is good news for many reasons: the internship is durinng the school year so I can still work at KDOT this summer (yay?). Also, I can go to all the football and basketball games for free so I dont have to buy any tickets this year.
b.) The lady Aardvarks lost their first soccer game the other night. but we're still in the playoffs so no biggie. We duel it out tonight in the first playoff game.
c.) My mom and my Nana are coming to visit me this Friday. Which means I need to clean my room. Gotta keep up appearances for Nana!
d.) I am out of food right now. I have nothing to eat. All I want is some sandwich bread and some chips. I have stuff to put on the bread... just no bread. And i'm out of POP!! Clearly, I'm living in a state of destruction.
e.) I have tons of projects and papers and test to cram in sometime in the next 7 days. and really just not enough time to do it. But i'm sure you can all relate.
f.) my parents are re-doing our basement. my brother used to live in the basement and so things got really weird and smelly down there. but he moved out and so now we are completely re-doing it. New paint, new carpet, new furniture, the whole works. My parents are making it music themed (they would...). I think there is going to be shag carpet. And record covers on the walls. How groovy of them.
Well that's all I've got for now. Don't expect many posts from me this summer. Not because I'll be too busy having fun adventures. But because I'll i have absolutely nothing to write about.
Unless you want to read a post about how we got new pens at work and it was really exciting.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Peaceful Easy Feeling
I have been feeling very at peace lately. Everything feels right in my life. And I’m very hopeful about the future. I've always been a pretty content person but these last few weeks I have felt an overwhelming sense of peace like I've never known.
The Lord has placed a feeling of peace within me and it is so satisfying.
I feel open and ready to new possibilities.
I guess what I’m trying to say is… everything’s right.
(yes, that was a Matt Wertz shout out)
And for an extra special treat, here is a little something that I’ve been spending a lot of time with lately. If you know me well then you know that I can spend endless hours, just laying on my bed listening to music. Its one of my favorite things to do and is where I get my best thinking done.
These past few days I have been listening to this on repeat. I always have one song that I listen to constantly for a few weeks because it fits with my mood at the time. And right now, this is it.
So sit back, relax, and enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLwZxcObRT0
The Lord has placed a feeling of peace within me and it is so satisfying.
I feel open and ready to new possibilities.
I guess what I’m trying to say is… everything’s right.
(yes, that was a Matt Wertz shout out)
And for an extra special treat, here is a little something that I’ve been spending a lot of time with lately. If you know me well then you know that I can spend endless hours, just laying on my bed listening to music. Its one of my favorite things to do and is where I get my best thinking done.
These past few days I have been listening to this on repeat. I always have one song that I listen to constantly for a few weeks because it fits with my mood at the time. And right now, this is it.
So sit back, relax, and enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLwZxcObRT0
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