Well I have decided to give up on the paper of death...sometimes I wonder why I stress out so much since all I need to get in my classes is a 'D' to graduate. I think I would have to try really hard to get a 'D.' So...I guess that is good news. lol.

This is my stressful week, after this week I feel like I will be able to make it through the next of the quarter. I have 2 tests tomorrow...One in Math (which is hard to study for...plus we get note cards) and the other test is Organizational Behavior (50 multiple choice questions....so I figure I can BS it...that is what Organizational Behavior is all about really...a bunch of BS). So....that is my day tomorrow. Then on Thursday my paper is due, but I think it is kinda crappy. There isn't much more I can do for it though....

Anyway, I am hoping that after tomorrow I can breathe a little easier...

Can't blog now...must work on the latest Paper of Death.

I should be working on my paper for film class, but I felt the need to delay it a few more minutes. I have no at this point in the weekend done all my other homework, which means I can no longer put it off. Sadness. It is an analytic essay on the movie "Mrs. Soffel." I am not sure if any of you have seen this movie, but it is kinda dumb. It stars Diane Keaton and Mel Gibson and was made in 1984. It is based on the true story from 1901 where a jail wardon's wife falls in love with a prisoner and helps him to escape. Bonnie and I watched it on Friday and both agreed that it was pretty dumb (although Bonnie felt this more strongly than I...we often have different tastes in movies). Anyway, now I have to write a paper on it and I really have no idea how I am going to do that. Grr.

This weekend hasn't been too bad. I didn't end up going to the talent show on Friday, I did homework instead. However, I did go to lunch with Emily and her parents on Saturday...I also went to both basketball games (SPU won both!). Then I spent all of yesterday evening doing homework. So....now I must press on and complete this paper because I will really have no time to do it this week. I think that after these next two weeks my school life might slow down a little. We shall see. I am glad that this week begins February because I am tired of January...

Will it ever end?

I figured I should blog since I know how sad it is when the blogs I go to read aren't new. I don't really have anything new to report though. I feel like I am just keeping my head above water these days. The stress level remains pretty constant because of the way my schedule has worked out this quarter. I am managing it, but it is annoying. I am looking forward to when I don't have all these lame assignments to do. That will be nice. I wish I had more time to just settle and let my allow myself to consider what is going on in my head. However, if I had the time I probably wouldn't spend it analyzing my deep inner thoughts....sad day. I can't believe that tomorrow is Friday already. This week has gone by pretty fast. I feel like the whole month of January has gone by pretty slow though. I don't know...I just feel like I should be farther along in the quarter than I actually am...perhaps that is just wishful thinking though. I'm not sure. I have another busy weekend planned. It is homecoming weekend so there are lots of things to do that would be more fun than homework. I hope to make it to some, but doubt I can make it to all since I need to work on a film paper that is due next week. In case you care to see how busy it could be see below:

Friday:
11-12:20 Math Class
1:00 Lunch
1:30-2:50 Organizational Behavior
3:30-5:00 Work
5:30ish Dinner
7:30 Talent Show (maybe)

Saturday:
-Brunch with Emily and her parents (possibly)
-Homework
-bridesmaid dress measurements with Megan for Andrea's wedding
-Homecoming B-ball games (hopefully)
-Watch the movie for film class that I will be writing a paper on

Sunday:
-finish up all the homework I didn't get done on Saturday
5:45-8ish Evening Church with JonTon

So yeah...that is basically what is stressing me out I guess. It just annoys me that I spend all week trying to make it to the weekend, then the weekend I spend catching up for the week ahead. Bleh. Anyway...I think that is enough of a vent for now. Hope you all enjoy your weekends...

And the week continues

So, has anybody seen the movie "Dead Again"? We watched it today in my film class...and I am now afraid of scissors. Creepy....However, it was a good movie I guess. It is different anyways. :) I would recommend it though...I think. (Quite the recommendation isn't it!) lol.

So, I am currently at work playing the waiting game...waiting for my supervisor to finish what he is doing so that I have something to do. :) That's okay though because it gives me a chance to blog. lol. This work day has been pretty slow....45 minutes left though! heh.

Yesterday was nice at JonTon's. Julie was there too and Jonathan had to work late so it worked out nice to have a girls night! We watched "Mother-in-law" and "Must Love Dogs" both are cute. :) I was also able to buy gas for my car while in Renton (even though it doesn't really have all that much cheaper gas than Seattle...)Also I was able to do 3 loads of laundry! Yay! I heart free laundry. It was nice to get off campus and hang out in the real world...sorta. Plus I got a real dinner...none of that fake stuff Gwinn attempts to pass as food. lol

Anyway, I guess I don't have much else to say. Which means I have to find another way to kill time. lol. Maybe Jonathan has e-mailed me back by now....

Stupid Toilet :(

This weekend has gone by fast, but today was pretty much spent entirely relaxing, so that was nice. Here is what I did this weekend:

Friday:
After classes I went to work for a total of 1.5 hours! Woo Hoo! It bothers me that I have all these random work times because of my class schedule, but oh well....After work in the evening I went to a showing of the documentary "Hoop Dreams" here on campus. The documentary was made in 1994 and follows two kids from the inner city of Chicago as they try to achieve their dream of playing for the NBA. It follows them from their freshman year in high school to their first year at college. It was really good. I would recommend it to all who care about such things. :)

Saturday:
This was my busiest day this weekend. I got up at 8:10 in order to be able to start my homework by 9. lol. I worked on homework until about 2:00 when I went to see another documentary that was showing on campus called "Born into Brothels." This film was about the children born into families where the mom is a prostitute in Calcutta, India. A lady who was working with the children was a photographer and she gave the children camera's and started teaching them about photography. In this way they were able to learn something new and be able to express the way they saw the world around them. The lady then used the photographs they had taken to raise money for them by selling them in galleries in New York, etc. It was definitely a more somber film than "Hoop Dreams," but it was also really good. I would recommend it as well...and for a movie about children of prostitutes it is fairly clean (has some language, etc.)...(p.s. if you want another good movie recommendation from my film face try to get your hands on the 1941 movie "A Woman's Face." I really enjoyed it...but Netflix doesn't have it....)

Then after the movie I did a little more homework before dinner...After dinner most of SPU went to see Ashton Cup. This is an event put on by Ashton Hall where each floor does a skit thing put to music. It is kinda crazy, and usually a bit odd and humorous. Moyer residents were only able to stay for about an hour of it because we had to go to Broomball! Broomball is an annual event played against Robbins Apartments. It is like hockey sorta except that you have no ice skates, you play with ducktaped brooms, and you use a four square ball instead of a puck. It is really fun though. Unfortunately, however we lost which means we are now stuck with the ugly toilet (which we got rid of last year!) until we play them again next year. Also, I was quite proud of myself for not falling on the ice...however, during the last 10 minutes of the game I fell on right side of my body. lol. So I am pretty stiff. Nothing too serious though. :) After Broomball Moyer peeps went to Dick's (a cheap burger place) and hung out for a little bit before coming back and going to bed, since by that time it was past midnight.

Sunday:
Today I spent the morning finishing up my homework, which meant that I had the entire rest of the day to do nothing! Yea! It was very exciting. I didn't really do anything exciting though. I just hung around and was really lazy. lol. This evening I watched the Seahawk's game! At evening church they had a party and were watching the game before the service, so I went to part of that with JonTon. We were all pretty excited that Seattle is going to the superbowl! Fun, fun! :) Now I am back from church and just hanging out. I am going to watch Grey's Anatomy with a couple of my friends in about a half an hour.

So, that has been my weekend. Tomorrow is the beginning of another lame and annoying week. I really do live for the weekends and pray each week that I make it alive to them. lol. Tomorrow I am going to JonTon's in the evening, which should be fun. I have saved up all my laundry just for them. lol. :) Anyway, ttfn. ~Laura

a quick post

Just a quick post so that you all have something to read. lol. I am currently in the midst of a busy week. Even though this school week is shorter because of the holiday it is more stressful I think. Although, it is probably just me making a bigger deal out of things than needs be. In this way I should perhaps try to be more like my roommate…then again. lol. ;) I just have a lot of things due this week which I am slowly getting done. I just completed 2 rough drafts in 3 hours! One 4.5 page and one 2.5 page! Go me! I will hopefully make them final drafts when I get back from my bible study class tonight at 8ish. We shall see. I also have a meeting at 10:00 tonight so that is one more thing I have to do. However, I think I am slowly checking off enough things on my list to cause me to stop stressing out. lol. We shall see. Anyway, ttfn.

yay for long weekends!

So this weekend was really nice. I was able to get things accomplished but still had plenty of time to relax. It was amazing. lol. I basically just hung out all weekend with the girls from the dorm. We watched lots of movies and ran errands. I was able to finish most of my homework on Saturday and only had to finish it up on Sunday. I probably should have started on my paper that is due Friday...but i didn't. Oh well. I didn't have to work today either which was nice....

I went to JonTon's tonight. It was nice to be able to hang out and relax away from campus. I think that campus is sorta a downer for me right now, just because it reminds me of how temporary my time is here and the looming unknown that is to come. Tonia and I were thinking of making Monday night a regular at their place. Tonia and I were able to watch a chick flick before Jonathan got home from work, which was nice. Tonia hasn't seen chick flicks in a while so if we do the Monday night thing we will continue to watch chick flicks. :) It should be good.

I feel like I could have more to say, but really have no words. I guess I will just go to bed. ttfn.

YOU KNOW YOU WERE A 90's KID IF....

1. [x]You've ever ended a sentence with the word "PSYCHE!"

2. []You can sing the rap to "The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air"

3. [x]You've worn skorts and felt stylish.

4. [x]You yearned to be part of the Baby-Sitters club.

5. []You use to love playing with your My Little Pet Shop.

6. []You know that "WOAH" comes from Joey from "Blossom"

7. [x]You know that "How Rude!" comes from Stephanie from "Full House."

8. [x]You remember when it was actually worth getting up early
on a Saturday to watch cartoons.

9. []You wore a ponytail on the side of your head and had fluffed bangs. awesome!

10. [x]You got super excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school.

11. []You wanted to change your name to "JEM" in kindergarten.

12. []You remember reading "Goosebumps."

13. [x]You know the profound meaning of "Wax on, wax off."

14. []You have pondered why Smurfette was the only female smurf.

15. [x]You took plastic cartoon lunch boxes to school.

16. [x]You remember the craze then the banning of slap bracelets and slam books.

17. [x]u still get the urge to say "NOT" after (almost) every sentence... Not...

18. []you knew that Kimberly, the pink ranger, and Tommy, the green ranger, were meant to be together.

19. [x] You remember "I've fallen and I can't get up"

20. []You remember going to the skating rink before there were inline skates

21. [x]You ever got injured on a Slip 'n' Slide.

22. []You wore socks over leggings scrunched down.

23. []" Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack, all dressed in black, black, black, with silver buttons, buttons, buttons, all down her back, back, back" SHE ASKED HER MOTHER MOTHER MOTHER FOR FIFTY CENTS CENTS CENTS TO SEE THE ELEPHANTS ELEPHANTS ELEPHANTS JUMP OVER THE FENCE THE FENCE THE FENCE"
he jumped so high high high he touched the sky sky sky and he didnt come back back back til the forth of july ly ly he jumped so low ow ow he stumbed he's toe oe oe and thats the end end end of the elephants show ow ow

24. [x]You remember boom boxes vs. cd players.

25. []You knew what it meant to say "Care Bear Stare."

26. []You remember Alf, the little brown alien from Melmac and Vicki the Robot from "MY Little Wonder."

27. []You remember New Kids on The Block when they were cool.

28. []You knew all the characters names and their life stories on "Saved By The Bell."

29. [x]You played and or collected "Pogs."

30. []You used to pretend to be a MIGHTY MORPHIN Power Ranger and you owned a Skip It.

31. [x]You had at least one GigaPet or NanoBaby and brought it everywhere.

32. []You watched the original Care Bears, My Little Pony, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

33. [x]All your school supplies were "Lisa Frank" brand. (pencils, notebooks, binders, etc.)

34. []You used to wear those stick on earrings, not only on your ears, but at the corners of your eyes.

35. []You remember a time before the WB.

36. []You've gotten creeped out by "Are You Afraid of the Dark?"

37. []You thought it would be so cool to be Alex Mack.

38. [x]You know the Macarena by heart.

39. [x]"Talk to the hand" ... enough said

40. [x]You thought Brain would finally take over the world.

41. [x]you watched TGIF when it had sabrina the teenage witch

42. [x] you played duck hunt with that way cool gun.

43. [x] you got polly pocket or transformers.

44. [] you watched macguyver

45. [x] you made beautiful pictures with rainbo-bright.

46. [] thought candy ciggarettes were cool

47. [x]drank a whole pack of squeez-its..."squeeze the fun our of them..."

48. [x] watched clarissa explains it all on nickalodeon

49. [x] played foursquare or kickball

50. [x] had the mega blaster SUPERSOAKER!!

Well, this is different....

What an interesting beginning to the quarter. I just feel sorta weird. I am slowly beginning to realize that I actually have to get my act together since I am graduating in June. Ahh! It is causing me to really evaluate myself and I am not sure what to think of my findings.

...Anyway, my classes are going pretty well so far. I am taking Organizational Behavior (kinda dull, and so far not much work....but there is a group project approaching), 1 Corinthians Bible Study (Probably going to be one of my favorite classes), Contemporary mathematics (well, it's math which sucks, but so far not too big of a work load or too difficult of concepts), and The Art of Film (another possible favorite! I get to watch a movie every Tuesday and talk about it every Thursday...oh yeah and do some papers as well...) So far I haven't had a big work load for my classes, which I hope continues because I really have a crappy schedule for doing homework. Most days I only have a few hours to do homework because of classes, work, and evening activities (such as Hall Council, etc.)

I started work on Monday and it is sorta annoying. Because of my class schedule my work schedule is kinda messed up. I only work a few hours a day which is kinda annoying. Life would be a lot easier without my need to work. I would have more time to do homework and stuff. It was nice last week when I wasn't working...Oh well. I am able to take one person to work with me on Tuesday and Thursdays which I didn't think I would be able to do because of my weird schedule, so that is good. Hopefully things will get better, but for now I am kinda annoyed.

The rest of my time is devoted to trying to ignore the fact that I am graduating in June. lol. I really have no idea what I want to do with the rest of my life. It is kinda stressing me out. I don't know where I am gonna live or work....Nor do I know where I want to live of work. lol. I have realized something though. An important revelation that I should remember: I am not my brother. This obvious statement is an important one. My life will not take the same shape as his, nor should I expect it to. I may not end up living in Seattle with a group of friends. I will not find my future spouse in college. I will not make the amount of money he does just out of college...But all that is okay....

Let's sum up my winter break:

A- Azteca with Friends
B- Board games
C- Cookies!
D- Doctor's appointments
E- Eating
F- Friends and Family
G- Good Grades
H- Halo!
I- Ipod
J- Jesus's Birthday
K- Kids (babysitting)
L- Laughing
M- Mystery New Year's Eve Party
N- No homework!
O- Over too quickly
P- Parties!
Q- Quilts...well seeing everyone else work on them
R- Reading
S- Sleeping
T- Television on DVD!
U- Unlimited amounts of free time
V- Very short
W- Working for Longview Surgical
X- relaXing
Y- Yummy food (can you tell I am now eating Gwinn food again?)
Z- Zilch getting accomplished

I don't really have much to say but I was feeling guilty for neglecting my blog. :) JonTon comes down tonight and will be here until early Sunday morning. It should add some excitement to my house. lol. I am excited about Christmas festivities...from now until Sunday is basically one big party. lol.

I have been enjoying my Christmas break and have been relaxing quite a bit. I am working a few hours each day for Longview Surgical group, but nothing stressful. :) I am glad for the $$. I babysat last night for my usual family. Last night was not really one of their shining moments, but they were fine. It is always nice to see them. :) Other than that I haven't been up to much, just chillin' with family and friends. :)

I really don't have much to say to ya'all so I guess I will leave it at that for now...

Happy @ Home

I have now been at home since Friday night and am enjoying my time away from school. It is nice to just be able to relax. :) I have been spending the last couple of day with family and Friends.

Saturday morning Teresa, mom and I went to Susie's house to be crafty. I tagged along to the sewing festival usually put on by Aunt Linda. It was fun to be crafty. This Saturday we are going there again to have a card making party. It should be fun. :)

Saturday evening my family and I went to see The Chronicles of Narnia. It was a really good movie I thought! I would definitely go back to see it in theatres if anyone wants to. lol. It is one I want to own as well...

On Monday I went out to Grandma and Grandad's with my Dad and Aunt Linda. It was nice to be out there again and to eat lunch, which is always good at Grandma's. :) I don't usually go out there with just Dad and Aunt Linda, so that was cool too. :)

Today I did the prep work for my work at Longview Surgical Group. I am helping out for a couple of weeks purging charts. It is nice to be able to make some money while at home. :)

Then later this afternoon Teresa and I went to Grandma and Grandpa's house and was able to have a good visit with them. :) We chatted and then played some cards. Despite the 3 or 4 games of pinochle we played I didn't win any of them. Oh well, I am used to that. lol. :)

I can already tell that this break will go by too quickly, better enjoy it while it lasts....

My Quarter

# of classes taken: 4

# of books "read": 10

# of Papers written: 19 (36 pages total)

# of tests taken: 6

# of hours it will take me to forget everything I learned: 24

Yay for the end of Fall Quarter!!

Can I go home yet? Please?!

So I am almost done with my paper of death (aka my English paper). All my other papers are finished so it is just this last one that is keeping me from enjoying anything tonight. I am giving up pretty soon and calling it good. I have my doubts that I will get a good grade on the paper, but there is only so much I can do. Papers are over rated anyway (although try telling that to an English professor...).

My roommate has left me. Yep, Bonnie was able to escape this stress sooner than I. It is a sad reality. However, my room is clean and I have it all to myself tonight! Yeah! (No offense Bonnie) lol. I was telling Emily earlier today that I will go home and watch TV and it will be weird because I won't have my commentator beside me. lol. :) I heart my roommate.

So tomorrow I am getting up early to take my friend Christine to the airport and then coming back and sleeping. lol. I will get up in time to look over once more all of my papers and then e-mail them out to the professors before my final at 1:00. This final is more of a party than anything else, so at least it won't be stressful. After that, I am done with SPU for the quarter!! I will come back to my room and pack and get ready to go. A couple of my friends and I are going to go out to dinner to celebrate being done for the quarter, so that will be nice. I don't know when I am leaving for home, but sometime tomorrow evening. It will be nice to be home.

Looking forward to seeing all of you soon!

This day has gone from bad to worse. I hope finals don't kill me.
3 papers down, 2.5 papers to go....

Finals Week

So, tomorrow is the official start of finals week. I am excited about it actually because it means the end of the quarter! Tomorrow I have my first and only test of finals week. lol. Unfortunately I have final class periods I have to attend and papers to still write. I have written 3 of the 5 papers I had. I have most of my English paper written and have yet to start on my Theology paper to write though. Oh well. I think I will do fine on my Economics test tomorrow. I have gotten B+'s on my tests so I figure I will do about the same on my final....we shall see. I guess technically I haven't studied very well, but I didn't study all that hard for the other tests in the class so....yeah.

Anyway, I am off to pick up Jonathan from his Seattle office and head to Renton for a night of semirelaxing. lol. We will see how relaxed I get with my thoughts always returning to the test tomorrow and the papers due Friday. heh.

See you all soon!

I am fairly annoyed at the moment. I have been up since 8:30 this morning and haven’t really gotten anything accomplished. I am having such a difficult time with this English paper. I can’t even decide where to start on the 7 page paper! The rough draft is due on Monday and although not all 7 pages need to be completed it would be nice because then I could get more of a critique. It is all just frustrating. I really have no idea why this class is so hard for me to write papers for. It sucks though. I think I could finish all 4 of my other papers this weekend if I wasn’t working on this lame one. Grrr.

Snow?!

Well it pretty much snowed all afternoon up here, however none of it stuck. It is still sorta raining outside right now and I have a feeling that it might snow and stick over night if it gets cold enough. So the two main questions on my mind are: 1)will classes be canceled tomorrow and 2) do I want classes to be canceled tomorrow. lol.

It was my last day at work this quarter today and I went home early because of the snow. hee hee. I probably could have stayed there but I wasn't sure if the snow would start sticking or not. So I figured it was as good an excuse as any to skip out early. lol.

On another note my paper count is up to 5! That is right I have 5 papers to write before next Friday. Ugh. I am only really concerned about one of them though (my English one). So, I will be working on those this weekend. Which will be hard since I have 3 parties and Tradition to go to this weekend. I will probably end up spending late nights working on them this next week. Double Ugh.

Anyway, I guess I should see about dinner soon. Hope you are all enjoying the weather. Hopefully I will actually be able to write about real snow tomorrow. :)
Keep me in your prayers over the next week. I will need them. ttfn

P.S. No Shave November is now over and it makes me sad. All the guys were just getting to look good when they shaved it all off. Sad day.

So, I know in reality that next Friday will be here before I know it and I will be able to go home and relax...however, right now it doesn't feel that way. Right now I am facing the stress of the last week of classes. I am dreading the paper writing. Ugh. This quarter has been pretty hard on the paper writing, I have never had so much trouble writing papers. I usually enjoy it in some sick way, but this quarter has killed me. Although I have gotten good grades on all my lame papers this quarter, except for in my English class. For some reason that teacher just doesn't relate to my writing style or something. Even after I met with her it didn't improve my paper grade any. I got the same grade I got on the first paper I wrote for her. It is really frustrating. Especially since it is her class I have to write my major paper next week. The whole thing is aggravating.

P.S. There is rumor of snow for tomorrow (Tuesday)...I don't think it will actually snow, but I am concerned about ice...