Things To Do

I have some stuff to do for this week, assignments to complete, exams to study for, reading to do, but I don't know where to start.  I'm just sitting here doing nothing because I don't know what to do.  I just feel like reading my book, but I know I should do something for class so I don't have to do it all at one time.

This weekend went by pretty fast it seems like.  Even though I didn't really do much it still went by quick.

The Weekend...

is finally here!  It has been a pretty busy week, and it will continue to be busy weeks throughout February with Black History Month and stuff.  Tomorrow is a concession stand for BSU that will actually be on, and not cancelled and no one tells me like the last one.  I'm just excited to have some free-time this weekend.  Even though I have a lot to do for next week and two exams and papers and assignments to work on, I'm not too stressed which is good I think.  However, I do really need to go to Target.  I need some healthy snacks, ones with no partially hydrogenated, or hydrogenated ingredients.  I'm actually learning a lot in biology, even though we have to do some chemistry, the thing I was trying to avoid.  It isn't too difficult though, its easier than I remember it in high school.  Probably because we did way more in high school because it was an actual chemistry class, haha but oh well.  I guess we will see on my first exam, which is Thursday, along with my accounting exam on the same day.  Things are going well though for the most part.  I got to read a lot of my book, The Mirror Effect, today in Starbucks, I was there for like three hours just reading, I didn't realize time went by so fast!  I didn't/don't have anything else to do today though so its all good.

This is a cool video, I may like it just because it features Nicki Minaj, but it is still worth watching nonetheless.  Mariah's husband also makes an appearance, haha, I thought that was pretty funny.

Common Courtesy

Isn't it common courtesy to remove at least one of your earphones, if not both when you are with someone?  I find it extremely rude when people, you know exactly who I'm talking about, just be listening to music with both earphones in when they are with someone.  That is just rude and anti-social.  "It's not up loud, I can still hear you...I don't feel like taking them out right now," all poor excuses.  I always have my Zune on me when I'm walking to class by myself and stuff, but if I meet up with someone or talk to someone at least I turn it off so they know I care about what they have to say.  Just another pet peeve I guess, but not really, it is something that everyone should just do; unfortunately I guess there are some people who are just rude sometimes.

Irritation

Why are some people extremely irritating all the time, no matter what?  All Stephanie ever does is feel sorry for herself and I've stopped caring, I don't want to deal with it any longer.  She just posts stuff on facebook trying to get attention and other's sympathy...grow up.  She specifically wrote that she wants attention, and that guys walk by her like shes not there and she sees everyone else all happy and shes jealous.  Okay, first off how does she know how others feel?  I guess she just judges them based on how they appear.  She acts like shes the only one who doesn't get attention from guys or whatever, she says "no one compliments me, they only compliment what I wear."  What is wrong with that?!?? It's a compliment, goodness; she is just working on my LAST NERVE.  When really all she has to blame is herself, she claims to make efforts to make friends and talk to people but she really doesn't; she sits in her room with her door shut on facebook 24/8 (KP ;) lol ), how do you expect to meet people like that?  Then she talks about how it would have been if she went to a more diverse school, which is what she talked about ALL last semester, transferring to another school and stuff.  THEN GO, don't talk to me about it, we've had this discussion thousands of times and I tell you the same thing over and over and then you go and post shit on facebook to get people to feel sorry for you.  She should be trying to improve her experience and time here instead of dreaming about going to another school, or if you want to go to a "more diverse" school so bad then why don't you do it?  I don't think she will, if she doesn't come back to NAU shell probably just go live at home.  I guess its just her personality that bugs me to the extreme, I mean sometimes I can hang out with her and we can have fun and stuff, but sometimes I want to see other people too, people she doesn't like because of something from facebook (-_-) so stupid.  She always talks about how she needs to form a group of friends, but she never takes any steps in that direction, sure she talks this girl sometimes and this other girl sometimes but thats basically it.  She never tries to hang out with one of those girls because she always assumes shes busy doing stuff with other people...um, thats not trying.  I just can't deal with her so much all the time, but whatever.  I usually just start being quiet when she pisses me off and say yeah...yeah.  Maybe I'll quit doing that, and I know something I say will hurt her feelings like everything does and I'll be seeing about it on facebook but I don't really care anymore, if she doesn't want to talk to me anymore who is she going to hang out with?  Maybe I should make her mad at me so shell be forced to talk to other people, but I know that wont happen, shell just sit in her room all day.  A week or two ago we were sitting in Starbucks doing literally nothing just sitting and drinking and stuff, and I was saying how I was bored and we should do something and stuff, and then later that night she texts me (because she can't dare say it in person psh) about how that hurt her feelings, me saying I was bored when I was with her.  She feels like shes a boring person, whatever.  That shouldn't hurt your feelings, she takes absolutely everything personally, and blames it on being a girl.  No, that is unacceptable, she can't make that generalization, I have plenty of girl friends, and no one has ever acted like her, I know everyone is different, and that is exactly my point.  My irritation is just building up.  She always asks these questions about how people perceive her, and I tell her she shouldn't care about what other people think.  Apparently she doesn't, she is just a curious person...right, that is total bs.  Why is she so stuck on getting attention from guys, black guys?  In the past she never talked about that, but now all she talks about is how there is so few black people here.  So what?  You knew that before you came here, so don't go complaining about it now, because I will just tell you the same thing over and over and you'll just get upset or your feelings hurt over and over, but I will not feel sorry for you.  She is fun to hang out with sometimes, it depends though.

Tonight is Step Afrika!  I forgot I volunteered to do security but, typical BSU didn't let us know what we had to wear until last night at like 11:30pm so I'm not doing it, I'm just going to watch the show.  And of course she hasn't e-mailed me back letting me know she got my message or answering a question I asked her, I don't exist in that group, I'm just a body in a seat there.  I won't be going to small group tonight since I'm supposed to go to everything I can that we're putting on for Black History Month unless I'm in class or something, and I got my ticket for the show already.  There are like 1000 tickets, free tickets, and not even a third of them have been taken yet, that sucks.  It should be cool though, her and I are going tonight.

I played cards last night with a friend and a bunch of his friends, it was pretty fun.  I really like playing cards, I don't care if I sound like an old person, which I don't, I need to play cards more often.

Week 3

Well this is the third week of classes.  The first day back in a long while due to the weather-caused closures.  My religions class was cancelled this morning, again, so I only had one class today.  It was pretty nice, gave me a chance to get ahead on my work and stuff, but I have not learned a thing in religions, and hes assigning our first paper on Friday; don't know how that will work out but oh well.

The Spike Lee movie last night was cancelled as well, so that was a bummer.  However, I got my tickets for Step Afrika! which is tomorrow, and then Spike Lee on Wednesday; it will be an exciting week.

I just realized, I've had my alarm clock for a very long time.  I remember when I first got it too, I all opened it and tested out the alarms and read the manual and stuff; typical me I know.  It is random, but kind of cool; I know it like the back of my hand now, I can do everything by feel.  Whenever I set my alarms, I still check it like five or six times in a row though, I guess thats just another bit of OCD that I have.

Last night I played a lot of Uno and then a game of Phase 10 (which I won by the way), it was fun.

Back to Reality

The last time I had class was last Wednesday, it feels like I haven't been in forever.  It has been pretty nice though, even though I still have lots of homework and reading to do and stuff, but thats why I'm here in the first place I guess.  I'm trying to get ahead of my work for this week because there is a lot of events going on starting this week and all the way through February, Black History Month.  I was supposed to go see School Daze tonight at Cline, the library, with BSU but it was cancelled due to the weather I guess.  Its good so I have more time to work on homework, but I wanted to see it.

Tuesday is Step Afrika! which is some traditional African dancers and stuff.
Wednesday is when Spike Lee is here.
I still have to get my tickets for those two shows, but at least they are free.  There is a bunch of other stuff we're doing too so it should be cool.  And we are getting shirts for Black History Month that has a calendar on the back with all the events on it, I'm excited to wear it.

Today it is pretty warm and sunny, well not warm warm, but warmer than it has been.  It is extremely bright cause of all the snow and the bright sun though.  People are on the roof outside here at the union/Starbucks shoveling off all the snow so the roof doesn't cave in or anything.  Last night the pedestrian walk-way was so icy, it was fun.  It was shiny and you could see it but there was no way around it, I had to shuffle my feet so I didn't fall, it was seriously just like an ice skating rink.  After I got past it I couldn't hear people screaming and stuff, it was funny, some people were falling and it was just so funny to me I couldn't help myself from cracking up, even though I almost fell a couple times too.

My roommate's TV broke last night, theres no picture, only sound.  He was pretty mad because he wanted to watch the football game today and stuff, so I don't know what hes doing, he probably went somewhere to see if after church.

Hopefully the books I ordered a long time ago will get here this week, I got them from half.com, hopefully I didn't get scammed or anything.  Well I guess I'm not getting an interview for the job at the financial aid office, they don't want me to work here!  Its really annoying, but oh well, gives me more time to focus on my school work and get good grades.

Step Afrika!

Snow Pictures

Here are a few pictures of all the snow around campus.

This was like a dinosaur someone made, I thought it was pretty cool.

The bikes were almost completely buried!

The cars were practically buried, people had to work hard to dig them out and cars were stuck all over the place because of all the ice and stuff.

The snow just almost got to the bottom of the volleyball net, it was really deep.

More buried bicycles.

Where I live.

New Start

After this morning's events, I decided I was going to create a new blog despite the fact that I deleted my old one.  I miss just being able to type out stuff, even though I do the same when I write, but sometimes I don't feel like writing and typing on the laptop is just more convenient most of the time.  Anyways, so this is like a new start to my blogging career and semester and everything.

Well Thursday and Friday the campus was closed due to the snow.  There is still a ton of snow outside, along with the ice which is always fun.  The mayor of Flagstaff declared a State of Emergency, whatever that means.  Bookman's, Coldstone, Quiznos, and many other places I'm sure, had their roofs caved in.  A lot of the buildings have flat roofs and snow when it snowed a lot, and then rained all day, which didn't melt it but just add to the ice and stuff because then it froze, and then more snow came.  It piles up and becomes dangerous, but at least Target survived.  It is pretty funny to see everyone slipping and sliding and sometimes falling, even when I did so myself, I just start laughing.  I have some pictures I will post later when I get home.

Today started out terrible.  I am on the fundraising committee for BSU, so I am responsible for working concession stands at the events here at the skydome and stuff like that.  Well yesterday, on Friday, there was supposed to be a track meet and we were going to meet at 12:30 to work, but due to the campus closure Thursday and Friday it was cancelled and moved to today, Saturday.  I learned this from an e-mail BSU sent to all its members, it said it was cancelled and moved to today and we were supposed to meet at the dome at 10am.  So last night, when I went to sleep at about 3am, I set my alarm.  I got up this morning and walked through all the snow and ice all the way to the dome which is on south campus, I live in central campus, but its closer to north campus.  There are a couple sets of stairs through the woods on my way, and I slipped and fell down the first set of them, so then I had snow all in my shoes and on my bare skin making it extremely cold.  Long story short, I got there and couldn't find anybody, so I texted the girl in charge or whatever and she said it was cancelled.  Did they ever send out another e-mail saying this?  No.  Those people who actually check and read their e-mail just get screwed over I guess.  She apologized and said she was trying to pass new along through word of mouth, but I guess I was the only one who was not aware.  Everyone else on the committee is all buddy buddy, but they still know I was a part of it because I've worked with them many times last semester.  Regardless, I was never told because I never talk to them and they never talk to me because they are so exclusive and make it hard to befriend them, but you would think they could at least let me know.  Makes me feel like chopped liver.  I'm at ALL of the meetings, on time none the less, missed one football game last semester because I was really sick, and then I get treated like this.  Kind of feel like they take advantage of me, but I don't want to say that, but I already did, so whatever.  Its not that big of a deal, its just frustrating, but whatever.  I'm just being a part of it so I can put it on my resumé.

At least now I have the day free to catch up on homework and reading and such.  Currently I am sitting in Starbucks.  I had an americano and then put some of the white chocolate powder that my mother sent me in it.  It was pretty ghetto, I used an airborne container and all whipped it out of my coat and poured this white powder in my drink, but it worked well!

I really don't feel like doing any school work but I know I need to.  Especially for Fragments and Ruins, I hate that class so much, I dread it every Tuesday and Thursday.  This semester seems like it will be a bit harder than last semester.