Jshei's Musings

Can spring break...

...be any bloody shorter???? Seven days. They didnt even have the decency to give us two weekends. Christ. So, I'm back in Davis. I guess I'm happy to be back (mother and I were starting to get... fightey) but damn, it's too soon. I spent the remainder of my spring break going from mall to mall for various reasons, one of which was getting a new keyboard for my comp. And damn does it look good. Hehe, it was hard trying to figure out which key was which when there was no label on them, I never learned how to type correctly :(
Hmm, let's see, what else. Brian got me a NIN poster and a giant microbes plush (mono) and I got him a keyboard (cause his sucks).
Ah, right, we have a picture of our puppy. let me show you!

THAT IS OUR PUPPY!!!!!!
She's a purebred Maltese, six weeks old, 1 lb. 6 oz, and we'll get her in a month! Of course, I'll be at Davis.... but at least I get to play with her all summer!
*frolics*
Picked up my books today for Fairytales and Fables, looks like it's going to be an awesoem class.
Oh, and finally, I worked on my novel for the first time in about 6 months. I am so happy. It may have been just an evening of looking over stuff and writing a few paragraphs, but damn was it worth it. I'm going to try to get back into it if I have enough time this quarter........ which I might not.... regardless, I'll have time over the summer. I applied for two jobs, Mervyn's and Bath & Body Works, I'm pretty sure I'll get one of them. But besides that, I'll be free to work on my novel, yay, and of course play with little Chloe the puppy.
<3<3<3 whee
You all have a lovely week.
<3

P.S. Darwinia is interesting...

Happy Easter!

Much chocolate, cadbury eggs, and glazed ham.
mmmm.

So I'm at the parent's house for spring break, ahh it is great. Relaxing. I got a wireless card for my laptop, oh man is it nice. I'm downstairs, the modem is 45 feet away, hell yes.
Saw The Incredibles, damn is that a fun movie. I quite enjoyed it, and was pleased with how beautiful cg scenery is getting. The water especially was gorgeous.
You guys all have a lovely easter and such.
<3

ahh.

Thank god that's over. Wasn't as bad as I feared, some surprises though.
WHEE NO MORE CLASSES TILL THE 31ST
mmmm.... I think it's time to play some halo. Or marathon.... or or or .... other things...
oooh yeah.

<3 all, have a great spring break.

Woe is calculus...

Final at four. I cant do this crap. :(
Going to spend the rest of the afternoon studying, but I don't even know what to study... I can hardly do some of this stuff without looking at the answer sheets, that ain't going to work too well on the test....
bah, I should shut up and go study. I'm going to be so relieved when this is over. Brian's picking me up tomorrow and I get to go home. And relax. And sleep. And eat good food.
Thank the lord.

I madeses this blog prettiful!

Lookie! Behold! Be gloriously happy!

I am.

<3

But goddamned do I have a headache.

This is a test.

From Prince Gfono's blog... a test thingey... this is what I got.

You Are Not Scary

Everyone loves you. Isn't that sweet?

Whee! I love everyone too.

<3

a bit of free time

Bored + webspace = putting my short story into html.

Comments would be greatly appreciated if you get the time to read it.
Hope you guys are having a lovely day!

<3

finals week

Mmmmm, I got to sleep in today. That was very nice. So the quarter's over, now I just have to finish editing my story and study for finals. Brian picks me up in a week and I get to spend some time home, finally.
Did I tell you guys my family's getting a puppy? A little Maltese, she'll be arriving by plane from Oklahoma some time in May. Her big sister looks like this:

Now is that the cutest fucking thing you've ever seen or what? Holy shit. I get to play with one of those all summer! :D:D:D

In other news, um, something. There is no other news right now.
I wanted to say something deep and thought provoking, but I dont feel good so I wont.

Have a good day folks!

<3

Fun and whee!

Well this weekend I got to hang out with Brian, and spend two nights at his house, and watch movies and snuggle and fun stuff. Saturday was his Eagle court of honor thing, and it was great fun and he has now reached eagle scout status officially and such. We used my trustly laptop here for the presentation, it worked lovely. I'm so proud of Brian. I had no idea he was so devoted to the boyscouts, but he really is. Went to every single meeting and camp out he could. I lurve my Bri <3 he's such a good man. <3<3<3
Finals start this week. :o Better think about starting my homework. :)

Wow.

You know that calc test I mentioned earlier? With the curve, I got an A. And this was actially higher than my roomate's grade. I'm relieved, but surprised I did better than her. I wasnt expecing that. So if I get a solid B on the final, I'll have a B in the class... thank god. I got a C- first quarter in Mat21A. I could definitely use a B. I don't know, it's just odd going from high school to college and having straight A's be an impossible level of obsessive perfection, and straight B's be a great job. It's just odd. True, I didnt get straight A's in high school, i got about half A's and B's, but only because I didnt try. I didnt even study for tests in high school. Not here... Here, I study all day for my calc tests. And for very good reason, they're challenging.
I'm a little worried about Chem though. I've gotten an A on both midterms, but I havent gotten any lab grades back yet, so I have no clue how I did on them, and that COMPLETELY makes or breaks a person's grade. I should possibly getting one back today, I guess I'll find out my chem grade fate....

In other news, I'm listening to Mars Volta's Frances the Mute, and damn is this an interesting album.
Hope you guys are having a good week.

<3

Whee and cardboard box.

So it is a lovely saturday night, and I'm sitting here Skyping with Brian, trying to keep myself from eating more food, and telling myself it's okay I'm not doing homework, because I have several more free days to come. Midterms are over and I can finally relax a bit, catch up on gooball, consider playing more Durandal, and talk to my love <3 It's been nice.

A bit of a tissy hapened today between my roomate and I over a cardboard box. She and her friends are a tad messy, but that's beyond the point, and she got a care package from her folks and hasnt thrown away the box. It's been sitting by the couch as an extended coffee table. A few weeks ago I tossed it over to the trash corner (which is another story altogether that I wont talk about now) But she later moved it back. Today I was taking down her christmas lights that had been burnt out for over a month and decided I really didnt want that goddamned box in the living room. So when she came home, a conversation similar to the following occured:
"Can I ask you a question? Do you really want to keep that box out there?"
(she looks at me funny)"I didnt realise it was that big of a deal..."
"But it's tacky."
(she repeats what she just said, and I say whatever and leave)
So aparently she didnt take it well. I think it's goddamned ridiculous, and embarassing for when my folks visit.
But I am the child of an impulsive cleaner, so that may be influencing my feelings toward this.
She has since draped a blanket over the box, I assume in hopes that I dont complain to her about it anymore. :\

Whatever... I'm trying not to let it upset me too much. I hope you guys are having a lovely weekend.
*squeak*

Umm....

So my calc test was this morning. Areas and volumes and centroids using integrals. I walked out of the classroom completely sure I got 100%.... and upon talking to my roomate, we found that we got several different answers. She's going to major in math, she's damn good at the stuff. So now I'm sitting here going, "I dont feel like I screwed up... Oh please dont tell me I screwed up..." The teacher tells us that there's two versions of the test but so far there hasn't been. I pray that isnt the case this time... I could really use a half-decent grade. :\
In other news, clam.
Or something.

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p.s. oh, that's right. In other news, #ev3 being down is starting to annoy me.

Now to calm my nerves.

So it was my workshop today in creative writing, where i would read a passage from my story and then sit quietly as everyone discussed it's strengths and weaknesses. I've been so nervous just thinking about it, that this morning i couldnt sit still in my chair waiting for my turn. I was fidgeting and bouncing and sick to my stomach.
well, the review went pretty good. Everyone loved the way I wrote, and they liked the main parts of the story, but everyone seemed to be confused at the same little part... all the problems were little technical things. So whee. If any of you want to read the story, I might post it here after some editing. Tis 6.5 pages right now. :)
Of course, with all this WHEE BLORG NERVOUS going on, I'm having heaps of trouble focusing on studying for my calc midterm tomorrow :\
catch ya later, guys.

p.s. thank you, Eric, for making my blog have a constant number of entries at the front. And for suggesting newsfire. I like it a lot. (Brian, I know you suggested it too, Eric just convinced me ;) )