woohoo!

Its 80 in Cuba! I just got way more excited about my trip! I'm going to Cuba! yay! be excited for me!

a slow news day

This time next week I will be in Havana, Cuba. Thats just crazy. but really exciting, because it seems like I'm actually going and I have a ticket to Miami, and a hotel for the night, and I'm actually going. A tad bit scary, but thats okay because its only ten days, and its something different than what I would be doing if I just stayed home.

I wanted to post some random things, like how the news is just ridiculous, I just heard a report about college students and drinking, and the whole time I'm thinking "this is news?" But maybe its just a slow news day.

oh and during this break I realized that my nightmares have changed. Before I used to have nightmares about witches and falling off really high distances but now my nightmares are about having like 30 minutes to finish a giant paper. Thats just weird how my nightmares are now all school related but as andy said probably directly related to my finals.

umm thats all I have. I'm vaguely thinking about changing the format before I leave for Cuba, but right now I'm just thinking about it.

yay!

i got my hair cut today and its super cute, very Mandy Moore. and it makes me happy since the lady didnt straighten my hair, like more hair places do, she just washed it and cut tiny little layers into it and then let me go. and now its super cute and not frizzy and it makes me happy. the perfect thing to make me excited about my Cuba trip, since I was getting scared that I would end up with bad hair in all my vacation pictures. yes I worry about stupid things, but thats good bc it means that nothing awful is happening in my life and I can just worry about my hair. life is good.

i really should get a digital camera. then i could post my mandy moore cute hair online. but then i'd get weid stalkers. and that wouldnt make me happy. since stalkers are never fun.

laziness is an art

so. i'm home. been home for a while now, and I've pretty much just been watching bad tv and sleeping all day. umm. yea this isnt a very interesting post. umm lets see...so andy came to visit for a few days and that was really fun. i had to finish my stupid cuba paper, so i didnt get to spend tons of time with him, but it was still fun. we watched bad tv and went out to eat. and then his mom showed up on friday night, and we went to go eat with them. then the next morning they left. and then a couple of days later my bro showed up, but his bag didnt. umm and then it did. i saw Big Fish last night and it was a really good movie. although we got there late and i had to sit in the very first row and that wasnt so much fun. but it worked out.

i'm leaving for cuba next week, and i'm a little nervous about it. we're having some problems with the travel agency and it seems like we dont have our visas yet... i really hope its not going to be a problem. i hope everything goes well. while i'm in Cuba I wont be able to communicate with anyone since its 3 dollars per minute and internet connections are not easy to find. but i'll take pictures and then post them.

and i'll bring back cool things from cuba, so let me know what you want and i'll see what i can do.

15 hours!

We are down to the final 15 hrs before I begin my journey back to Texas. I have to clean (since I wont be back for a month), pack, and get as much of my Cuba paper done as is humanely possible. The ideal would be for me to finish it, but thats impossible. If my battery worked I might be able to get it finished on the plane, but it doesnt, so I'm just going to sleep.

In the last 5 days I have written over 25 pages and taken a corporate finance final. Thats just insane. What is more insane is the fact that I am still awake and coherrent even though I'm not looking too good since I've been sleeping in 4hrs a night. I think what was key though was recognizing what I could and could not accomplish and taking breaks to go eat food.

now lets see how much I can get done before heading home.

I finished!

I have completly finished my fem and queer paper on the performativity of race! And I actually like it! and that makes me feel super proud that I did it. I hope she likes it, but I think its honestly a good solid paper and I dont mind the fact that it took me a little longer than I had hoped to finish. I'd rather have quality than just finish something that is crap. I now have 34 hrs left to study/take a final and to get as much of my cuba paper done as possible. Hopefully I will be able to get my friends to help me pack and do some laundry and then I'll just finish the Cuba paper at home since it's not due till saturday. yay! Although after this writing marathon I feel more ready to tackle this paper and get it done. Right now its started, with a solid thesis, outline, and the paper has been divided into sections. Most importantly the logic flows. And I know sooooo much about Cuba now after reading like 20+ books and articles on the subject. My works cited page will be insane so he'll have to give me an A in the class. Lets hope.

todays addiction

today's addiction is: http://www.theory.org.uk

My favorite stuff in here are the Judith Butler, bell hooks, and Michael Foucault trading cards and the lego people. This site rocks.

Oh and you know what else rocks? Having 9 pages of my paper done! woohoo!

not writing

this is just too addictive: http://exchangeprogram.org/

accomplishments

I have finished my italian paper.
I have 7 pages of my fem and queer paper (out of the 15 needed)
and I started my massive Cuba paper (I have a plan of attack and the historical section)

tonight I will finish this fem and queer paper. it will be done. I can feel it. Besisdes which I'm not concerned because I have the best intro in the history of intros. the rest of it is questionable, well I have a solid three pages and the rest is just a vague outline with quotes.

fun stuff. I come home on Tuesday. yay!

Finals

Jessica hates finals. She thinks that they are stupid. She also thinks that she needs to be working on her 3 papers. But she is on a break. Breaks are good. Jessica likes breaks. She has 40 pages to write before Tuesday at noon. Jessica will not get much sleep between now and Tuesday, but she will write like theres no tomorrow. Writing is good. Do you want to write Jessica's paper for her? Please say you do. You could just write one paper. Maybe the 25 page one? That one will be fun. Or you can take Jessica's corporate finance final. That will also be fun. People like to have fun.

I'm losing my mind

I just spent the last 30 minutes trying to remember where I knew this woman from that I opened the door for...and it was weird because I remembered the general direction where I knew her from, like I knew I had met her on the side of campus by the gym, career center, and the health center. and then I was like did I meet her this summer? Is she a nurse? I could not for the life of me remember. Then like 30 minutes passed and it just came to me, she was my yoga instructor but I didnt recognize her bc she was wearing normal clothing. Yea. I need sleep.

But instead I will diligently work on my research for my fem and queer paper. must be brilliant. must. thats the problem with having other intelligent oveachievers in your class, you know you can't slack off. Especially since we're posting our papers online...and their going to read my stuff. eeeek! must write.

sleep

this is why i don't go to Galveston

in other news I can't go to sleep. not even when I want to. Like I was going to take a nap from 3-7am but I just couldnt. Like I lay in bed and just stared at the ceiling. not very fun, and it was made even worse by the fact that I really wanted to get some sleep. dammit. oh well. I just ended up going back to bed and sleeping till 10:30. I can't pull all nighters anymore, I'm too old. its probably for the best though.

i hate it when that happens

I had a post but something happened and blogger didnt accept it. i vaguely remember what i wrote about.

i'm going home on the 16th and thats exciting. and I bought the ticket for supercheap and thats also exciting. umm i have finals stuff that i should be doing. i think something like 50+ pages that need to be written by the time i go home. yea. i need to get on that.

also go to andys site and read the 12 sti's of christmas. it'll put you in the holiday spirit

the universe hates me

theres snow everywhere. thus no formal. no andy. no drinking. just the cold and my goddammed work. beautiful.

finals time

Here's a fun exercise for the kids. Go to google type in "miserable failure" and then hit the "I'm feeling lucky button" Its fun, I promise.

Its finals time, this means that I have work that I'm ignoring and not doing. This is also made worse by the fact that my parents havent gotten around to buying my plane ticket to go home, and I need to be home by the 17th. Yay for my parents! Add in the fact that my dad is in San Angelo and doesnt answer his cell phone and loses my phone number and now you're in my world. woohoo!

so what am i doing to fix this situation? I'm going to Boston tomorrow for a formal! yay! drinking and wearing pretty dresses fixes even the worst of problems.

hey hey!

Its Andy's 21st Birthday!

and my seminar was cancelled!

and its december and it snowed today!

today rocks!