grades

I FORGOT! grades came in, and despite partying alot, joining a frat, and discontinuing reading for the last month of school, i scraped myself into Dean's List with a 3.62!!!!!

Spanish: A (duh)
Social Psych: B+
Gender and Society: A- (nice!)
Personality Theory: B+
Philosophy: A- (HOW DID THIS HAPPEN???)

I cant fathom how i pulled an A- in philo when i went into the final paper with a solid B, and the paper was so miserably written and thought-out that I didnt even dare revising it. just crazy. but i guess it makes up for both my psych final exams pulling my grades from A- to B+

oh well, ILL TAKE IT!!!

ROMANIA/LIFE PLAN FOR JUNE

wow. i really dont think i am even going to TRY to sum up Romania. I am still here, but we leave on sunday early morning. i am in an internet cafe, checking mail, etc.

the babies are AWESOME. leaving them tomorrow will be so incredibly sad. i have taken like 10 naps with a baby on my stomach in the past two weeks. seriously, TRY IT. they all need so much help, but almost all of them have improved since we have been here, which is so rewarding. we have stefan, who has the biggest smile and eyes ever. then the twins, larisa and denisa, who are my favs. i love putting them together. poor denisa has club feet. beatrice and daniella are older, but daniella has problems and isnt crawling or talking yet. beatrice is in and out between our group (immobile infants) and the mobile infants. florin is very quiet and well behaved. mihaela is 3 months old, and reminds me of my sister. catalin and florentina are newborns (florentina is a premie), so we dont see them too often. paula has something like fetal alcohol syndrom, and has some issues. finally, we have the biiiiiiig baby, andreea, who cant even walk, she is so big!

romania is beautiful. transylvania (our weekend trip) was phenomenal. the hotel is GORGEOUS. the food is phenomenal. the people are amazing. its just such a good trip.

phew. thats pretty much my Romania update. ask if you have specific questions, though!

i will be home sunday evening, and begin work at the law firm monday morning, depending on jet lag... im only working there for a week, though, as i head to florida (sat, june 9) to babysit my cousins while my uncle works and my aunt flies out to visit her dad while he has surgery. basically, ill be chauffering the kids to and from school/activities and chillin with austin (4 yrs old) during the day by the pooool! im coming back the next saturday (june 16), but i leave for cancun on the 19th (yay!!!) for a wedding. basically, im gonna drink on the beach allllll day every day til i return home AGAIN on the 26th. the next day, im packing up and headed down to the burg!!!!! probably working at olive garden. we shall see how that goes!!!

ok, update. check.

LATA

feeling better...

Sorry about the depressing posts lately. I was not dealing with everyone leaving for summer very well. I just can't get used to the fact that I won't be seeing people that i have seen every day for the past months. I have formed intense bonds with people, and now they are gone. So its really rough, but I just need to deal with it. And I am...it just took a while (and a few depressing entries).

Every once in a while, though, it hits me. Like when I found Joey's socks, and realized that I wouldnt be able to just hand them to him when i saw him later. Or when I was driving and 'Open Toes' came on the radio, and I thought about how much Jake loves that song. I know I will see them each at least once this summer, and I will def be really busy for the next few weeks, but its just a hard adjustment.

In other news:

My exam this morning was FAR harder than i expected it to be. Granted, I did no reading for it, and relied on the notes I took in class with my laptop. But still, it was hard! Whatever, its done. No more exams for the whole summer!!!

I have one paper (almost done) standing between me and summer vacation, but its proving to be one of the most difficult ones. I just am not good at arguing philosophical points about distributive justice, and why Wilt Chamberlain doesn't deserve twenty-five cents from each fan that comes! This is, as I type it, becoming one of the worst papers I have ever written. I don't even think its salvagable at this point, but lord knows im not starting over...

I'm going to the beach tomorrow!!!!!! yay!!!!!

Ok, i need to finish this damn paper so i can be in summer finally. But I shall leave you with a quote (read: further procrastination) from my new fav song (or one of the few fav new songs that Jake showed me by my new fav singer Bonnie McKee):

"Someday I'll go for the glory
I'll conquer everyones fears
And for once the ending of the story won't be tears
I have seen too much betrayal
I have heard too many lies
Someday I'll be purple lightening in the skys

I still see you when my eyes are closed
And tell me why I can't let you go
I still smell you inside of my clothes
Oh, honey... I can't love anybody but you, oh, honey... "
~Bonnie McKee, "Honey"

I am so addicted to her!!!

life is SO depressing right now. i just can't comprehend it.

:-/

for more reasons than i can talk about.

Post of Randomiety

So its exam week. yay!!!

not.


I have taken 2 of my 4 exams (plus a paper...that starts TOMORROW). I am done with Spanish (til 201 next semester) and Gender and Society. I will actually miss G&S. It opened my eyes up to a new way of looking at things. The discussions we had were often entertaining and enlightening. though it got old when we talked about how men and white people are evil, etc. I AGREE, but it just stopped being fun after a while, considering I am both. BUT, when we got to sexuality, it got fun, cuz everything wasn't my fault, finally. Either way, I'll miss the class. Hopefully, I will get to take another Soc class here.

My apartment is the new Joey's Basement. I LOVE IT. i really enjoy people being over all the time. I get NO work done, but i enjoy it.


sometimes i worry though. i feel like sometimes people just use me for my house and my car. i enjoy the fact that these things allow me to attract new friends, but it worries me that sometimes the friendship is based only on me having them. i don't know...

Also, i don't understand something else. its something i've been wrestling with alot lately. i wish i knew how other people see me. what i look like to them. how they perceive me in general. because sometimes i dont understand why i am alone. my crushes are almost always fruitless, and i know that everyone has crushes that will never come to fruition, but i just feel like its becoming my thing. do i subconsciously pick people i know i can't have? or do i have a higher taste level than i should? i don't know. maybe its just the way i act when i like people. i know that it would be a lie to say that no one ever has a crush on me. i just wish that once in a while (more often than is now occurring), my crush would feel the same way.

enough of that. off my chest. done. fin.


everyone around me plays NeoPets. it needs to stop.

i don't want to do my Philosophy paper. like, at all.

My summer is going to be INSANE:
Exams end: May 15
Romania: May 18 - June 3
Home: June 3 - June 9
Orlando (babysitting): June 9 - June 16
Home: June 16 - June 19
CANCUN!!!!!!: June 19-June 26
Back to Williamsburg until at least August to find SOMEWHERE to work.

I am reeeeeeeeeaallly excited about this summer, but it is so stressful right now, what with my service trip and trying to find a job. should be QUITE the summer!


the ants seem to have subsided (finally), but it only cost $175...

there was a brown widow spider living in my outlet. that is SO not ok with me.


I still don't know what I am doing with the rest of my life. i really feel like i should know, but i just dont. maybe the Business Block next semester will help me figure it out.


Oh, I also don't know where i am going to go abroad next spring. I am currently choosing between London or Sydney, but am having the hardest time picking. pros and cons to come at a later date. feel free to suggest in the meantime though!

Ok, enough. I just needed to relieve some of my boredom, as well as get some stuff off of my chest. so thanks for reading!!!

lots of stuff

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_a7jkcMVp5Vg/RjPB9XSyJ6I/AAAAAAAAApk/UomdA-YSzbo/s1600-h/antone.jpg

OH MY GOD.


In other news, we are in our last week of classes. Craziness!!! I have had so much fun the past two weeks. I have done basically no work, and have just enjoyed being in college. Its been great. Two trips to the beach, tons of time at the Grind and many sleepovers. Oh, and one hickey-fest. Goooood times. I hope this keeps up, and that it will be the same next semester ;-).

i <3 my big. he needs to update more. oh, and i'd like to see him more.

what else?

anne's moving out soon. this is very sad news. i will miss her alot, as i fear i won't see her very much next semester. its what she needs to do for herself, and i totally support her. i just wish it wasn't her moving out.

still single. as usual. damn.

oh, and i'm not going home this summer. i'm living in Williamsburg, working at the real estate firm, and probably a restaurant. and enjoying finally being reunited with peter!!! and getting to be with a bunch of my WM friends who are either living here, or visiting. it will definitely be weird not being home, and it will be stressful to not have the parachute of being home and being taken care of for a while. but i'll be home a few times around vacations. i'm going to Orlando and Cancun in June, so i'll be home probably around the weekends of the 10th and 17th. Then I'll be home early August for a bit before heading to Avalon for a week. Other than that, I'll probably be in the Burg for the rest of the time. This will be quite the interesting summer!!!

Exams begin next week. Gross. Schedule as follows:

Monday - Spanish
Tuesday - Gender and Society
Friday - Social Psychology
Monday - Personality Theory
Wednesday - Philosophy Paper due

Not the best exam schedule, but at least none are on the same day. Shrug.

Then I head to Romania on the 18th!!! Oh man!!! Excitement! Its going to be sooooooo emotional, though. Like, I'll probably cry the entire time. But I really am looking forward to it. It will be an amazing experience for me.

Ok, enough.

Adios!