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Sunday, 23 September 2007

  • Drained...

    This last week has left me utterly drained. There's almost no creativity left in this big head of mine, and certainly no energy left in my body. A whole week of going to bed at 3:00AM is enough to drive a person mad. I'm lucky if I get 6 hours of sleep everyday. Let me tell you something. If you're not in college yet, you'll both love and detest it. It makes you think and there are no assholes that are just there because they have to be. Every time you turn around you don't have to hear "Oh my God, did you see what she was wearing?". You couldn't PAY me to go back to high school, and I'm poor. College, however, is a lot more difficult than high school. If you don't write stuff down, like due dates, you're going to be screwed. If you don't learn how to study, you're going to be screwed. Oh, and my favorite part is, if you don't like reading assigned material, you're screwed. Why am I saying this? It's all to help you. But also because I need to vent!

    So here's the low-down. This last week, I've had to put together tons of information, condense it into power point form and present said powerpoint in the time range of 72 hours and about thirty minutes of class time. I must say. I hated my life for about three days.

    Then I had to worry about Wellness. Taking notes, but not getting all of them because she clicks on the next slide before I get the stuff I need copied, tests that she made out to be difficult, but that are really easy. It's ridiculous. Plus I have some projects in that class to take care of before too long. Oh, and my dine analysis told me that for the three days that I recorded what I ate, my diet sucked. Firstly, those were not typical days, and secondly, I've changed my diet already, because I knew that what I was doing wasn't good for me. Besides, I'm in COLLEGE. Since when does any college student eat right all the time?

    I've been falling behind in my reading for my history class because of that horrible power point project that I did. I've had to rely on prior knowledge, pure luck, and thought out guesses to guide me. I have a study session at 7:00PM today, so that I might be able to better prepare myself for the upcoming test. I DO NOT want to fall behind in any class EVER AGAIN!

    In college writing I got my first paper back and the grade was an A. I was pretty pleased, because even when I was in college writing in high school I didn't get A's often. The paper I handed in for our Inquiry seminar was also an A paper that my professor said was well written and very persuasive. I wrote it when I was really tired and used some ....shall we say, creative phrasing? Still, it was the stuff of wonderful writing.

    I knew all of the answers to the test I took in Wellness on Friday, which was good because I thought we were testing on Monday for some reason.

    I pretty much hate English 220 right now. There's a bunch of stuff I have to do for that class that doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. *sigh* Please pray for me. I need to get through this first year.

Sunday, 09 September 2007

  • Huzzah for my first real week!

    Well, my first full week of classes has taken place. I feel so good about my classes right now. I'm staying ahead in assignments thus far, and I'm going to be doing some research and things later today. I started my dine analysis project, which means that I'm going to be recording my food intake for three days. In my case, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. I'm going to be as honest as I possibly can because I really would like to be more healthy than I am now. Maybe I'll lose some weight after I work out my diet plan and my work out plan. Who knows, I might get into shape this year. Oo

    As for the rest of my classes, I've enjoyed them. History has been a blast because I really enjoy learning about the past (especially ancient cultures, which is where we are just now). I LOVE my inquiry seminar about the persecution of women. We're focusing on gender and then, we'll be moving into violence against women. They're such interesting topics and I'm learning more about myself in relation to feminism. English 220 is interesting enough, but it needs to be beaten with a shovel until it dies a terrible death. College writing is cool. I like the professor. She's really nifty and all, but she could be a bit more organized in the way of notes. *nod*

    I haven't had a lot of time during the week to myself, but my roomie's gone for the weekend, so I've been just dandy in her absence. It's getting to look and feel more like autumn, and I'm loving it! Well, I've got work to do, so bai bai!

Saturday, 01 September 2007

  • OMG COLLEGE!

    So classes have officially started for me. Let me tell you, I've already gotten into my assignments. If it kills me I will stay on top of shit. Perhaps that's why I'm not supposed to have a job. Though, I wouldn't mind a weekend job that took place during the morning/noon period on Saturday. As long as I have an evening to myself, I would be fine. Still though, I'm going to be involved in choir and theater if God loves me, so we'll see how tired I am at midterms.

    I've finally gotten to meet all of my professors and my adviser, and I simply adore them. I can't wait to see how that will change, because I can pretty much guarantee that it will. I hope that I do what is expected of me. I really don't want to mess this up. My professors all look pretty cool, and they're generally reasonable. Concordia is a friendly, nice campus with an open sort of feel to it. I can't wait to see how this goes....

    Still it's good to be home for the weekend. I can bring up more clothes with me, some jewelry, and a few other items that need to be brought back to my dorm for all to enjoy. Plus, I get food that I know I'll like, which is a comfort that you'll never know until you go to college and have a meal plan. I only have two meals a day in that place, but I'm beginning to see just how important breakfast is. So from now on, I'll probably be eating lunch in my dorm while I do work from my many classes with their many readings. *sigh*

    Oh well, I've always loved school (the learning aspect), so I should make it out OK. I hope you guys are all living up the college life. Hopefully, I'll make one kick-ass teacher by the time my schooling is done. PEACE!

Thursday, 23 August 2007

  • Hi there everyone! It's been forever since I last posted here. I'm getting lazy in my pre-college, post-summer-job days.

    I can't believe the time has finally come. I'm going to go to college. In fact, I'll be moved into my dorm in about three days. I move into Hoyum Hall of Concordia College, Moorhead, MN on August 26th, and classes start on the 30th. Everything up until then is going to be orientation and I'm so excited about going! You have no idea. The thing that's putting a slight damper on all of this fun time, is my mom. Now don't take that the wrong way. This will not turn into another "I HATE HER" rant. It's natural for mothers to over-worry for their kids, especially if those kids are girls. It's just something they do. But my mom has been trying to act like I don't know what I'm doing or what to pack. It's beginning to wear thin on my nerves. She keeps bringing up things that I won't know until we move into the dorm, and trying to pawn off more stuff, and get me to bring more stuff. And it's great that she loves me and all but, damn. I know it's normal, but that doesn't make it less annoying.

    My roommate is going to be LaRissa after all. We don't have a color theme, and we're okay with that. Some people go crazy. We don't give a damn. I have glowy stars we're going to put up. That's about as far as our decoration goes at this point. I have a futon that we shall use, and I'm not quite sure how that's going to work yet. We may need to be moving some furniture about. My mom's vision for our room seems to be quite a bit different from ours. It's a tiny little room, but we'll make our stuff fit.We can always move stuff around after we unpack some things. The main thing is to get settled in so that the boxes and tubs can get taken out and we have room to move stuff.

    But that's all about the future, and you don't know much about camp at all!

    So at camp, I met a lot of fun and interesting people that I really enjoyed to work with. It was a good experience, and I'd love to work there again. The question of roommates will be something I definitely need to bring up with Brad. As much as I love Ashley, I couldn't live with her. She's got a different idea of what's neat or clean than what I have. And that's fine, it's just not something that we would ever agree about is all. Kathleen's going to be working up there next year too, if her application is accepted, so that throws a whole new aspect into the roomie thing. And I think I'd really like to live with Alyssa again. Jill...the phantom roomie should not be repeated. I don't mind when people come to visit, but when there's more than seven people in a cabin, plus the stuff they bring, it becomes a huge, glaring, NO. We definitely need a set of rules for our tiny cabin. And our cabin was bigger than my dorm, just for the hell of mentioning it.

    As for camp, it was really fun once I got used to teaching my scouties and talking to them. It's great to have a lesson plan and style, and excellent to have learned so much from one experience. I intend to continue working there to help me grow as an individual and as a teacher. Besides, they don't have a lot of people lined up for my position.

    So yeah. Camp was fantastically fun, and I wanna go back.

    And this Halloween I'm going to be an EMO GOTH CHICK. Wish me luck~

    Love ya guys, but I'm out.


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