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My Life with a Comedic Element 2007-11-08 23:28:00 So many things can happen when you live with people in college. I’ve been very lucky to have two of the best roommates…or rather, two roommates who I can live with comfortably (they might not be the best roommates in the world….but they’re the best for me). But wow, do crazy things happen in our room! Naturally, life with them is not always perfect. However, for the most part, we do get along really well. So many funny things happen that I should never forget, but I know I will. Lately, there has been a flood of hilarity, so I’m going to share some of it. Maybe it will brighten your day:
A few nights ago, we had a food fight with jelly filled marshmallows. We don’t know where all of them disappeared to. This morning (unfortunately I was in class), apparently Aly woke up to Kaileigh glaring at her from across the room. Kaileigh had slept on and smushed one of those marshmallows all over her pajamas and on her bed! She has a noticeable red stain o Read more:Element
Schedule-less 2007-11-06 19:32:30 I am a very forgetful person. If I’m going to remember something, it’s necessary for me to write it down. That’s why I have the Lynn University planner. I have everything in it: my homework, when assignments are due, when I have to work, when I have events I need to go to, and various other little things that I need to remember. So when I got to my room today and went to pull it out to find which of my many homework assignments I should start on and couldn’t find it, I almost had a break down. I cannot live without that thing; it’s kind of pathetic: some people can’t live without their phones, their dogs, their other half; I can’t live without my planner. I was really really super duper uber worried. Then I realized that I must have left it in one of my classrooms, probably Poetry or Gender/Multiculturalism. I was going to check after dinner, but something more important came up. So, now I can only pray that it is there when I check tomorrow b Read more:Schedule
Halloween Picture 2007-11-15 14:11:49 I finally got a picture of me from Halloween
!
That’s it: short blog!
Oh yeah, and there’s a basketball game tonight-I’m totally going. I might take pictures and blog about it later.
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I Believe in Santa Claus 2007-11-14 08:42:09 Someone I know told me today how her nine year old son recently realized SantaClaus
wasn’t real. He wanted to see the movie Fred Claus and because he wanted to see it, he wanted to learn about it. So he read a newspaper article. The article was an interview with Vince Vaughn saying how he had learned that Santa didn’t exist. That went over well……
I learned Santa wasn’t real in an odd way, too. I was 8 years old and I was playing with a teddy bear that I distinctly remembered getting from Santa Claus
at Christmas. I looked at the tag for some reason and it said “Made in China.” Now, I was a smart kid, so I knew that Santa made his toys in the North Pole, not in China. So I went to ask my mom why it said “Made in China.” The look on her face told me everything I needed to know. She tried to give me a reasonable explanation, but it wasn’t working; I knew and she knew I knew. I cried so hard! It was even more distressing beca
Lovely…. 2007-11-13 14:59:07 I was walking blithely to my last class of the day, immersed in thoughts of homework, unsuspecting of the disgust looming in my near future. From nowhere, I feel something hit my finger. Thinking it was nothing more disastrous than an acorn or a leaf, I look down. My thumb is covered in a brown, wet substance. It hit me what it was and I froze mid-step: Bird poop. I was halfway between my building and EM Lynn, so I faced a dilemma: go back to my building or forge ahead? I decided to go ahead to EM Lynn and was trying to think if I knew where anyone lives in that building so that I could wash my hands. When I entered the building, I pulled a flyer off of a wall and used it to wipe my hand off, and I eventually was able to wash my hands in a friend’s room. What a lovely way to begin the end of my day…….
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All About Poetry 2007-11-12 11:49:59 I learned a new word today: ghazal. I’m reading The Clerk’s Tale, a volume of poetry by Spencer Reese, who’s coming to campus I believe on December 4, and one of the poems is called “Ghazals for Spring.” I considered just reading it without knowledge of the word, but I eventually felt like I was missing something, so I looked it up. It sounded so foreign and I even wondered whether or not it was a real word. It is. It’s a kind of Oriental lyric, and usually erotic, poem written in recurring rhymes. That definition doesn’t seem to fit the poem, though. It doesn’t have recurring rhymes and it definitely isn’t erotic (either that or my mind is so innocent that I’m just not seeing it). So I don’t know. There are other definitions of it that say it’s a kind of song; I prefer that. It works better.
Oh, and I feel like such a bad vice-president of the poetry club. I didn’t say anything about the poetry coffeehous Read more:Poetry
A Chance to Relax and Help Needed 2007-11-11 13:16:39 I finally got a chance to relax today. I decided to spend it at the pool. Naturally, the water was too cold to swim in and it was too cloudy for me to get much of a tan. I think I had 20 minutes of sun in the entire hour and a half I was there. On the bright side, I only work three days this week, so maybe I can go again. I haven’t been swimming in a long time. It kinda makes me sad.
Also, if anyone reading this could help me: My brakes on my bike have not been working lately. I’ve been using my sneakers to help me stop. Needless to say, it’s not really safe for me to ride my bike to work, but I don’t have much of a choice if I want to get there. So if you know how to fix brakes or know someone who can fix brakes or think you might be able to figure out how to fix them (I tried, it didn’t work), please let me know! I would be so grateful. And it would save me a trip to walmart on my day off.
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They Weren’t Meant For You 2007-11-20 15:02:58 I think one of the great things about this school that I rarely think about is the clothing drive we have each year. There is a box put in every dorm for students to deposit clothes in. Then these clothes are donated to some organization or to people who really need them. It’s really nice to know that there is something productive and useful that I can do with clothes that are lying, unworn, in the back of my closet. I remember last year, someone changed the boxes fairly often because they became full really quickly. Maybe the clothes aren’t given with the most generous intentions; often people put them in the box just to get rid of them. However, it doesn’t make the giving any less important.
It has recently come to my attention that this clothing drive, a vehicle used to give to the needy, has been misused. One of the most generous people I know donated some of his clothes to one of these boxes, nice things that he cherished, yet decided to give up to someone who
Bike Fixed 2007-11-19 12:29:02 Oh, I forgot. If you’ve been reading, you’ll know that the brakes on my bike have been broken. Well, Matt, the guy who brought me home (he has a truck, so he was able to put my bike in the back of it), fixed them!! I was so happy; I feel so much safer riding now. Plus, I didn’t have to ride it all the way to Walmart to get it done! He even said he’s going to bring a wrench so that he can tighten them for me so that hopefully, it won’t happen again. So yay, I’m happy about that.
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Missing 2007-11-19 12:15:51 I woke up this morning, got ready to go to breakfast and the library for work, and I realized I didn’t have my ID card. I spent ten fruitless minutes searching for it around my bed, in my back pack, in the closet, and in the bathroom. I finally gave up and decided to go to the cafeteria to see if anyone had turned it in there. No one had, but fortunately, the lady who swipes the cards let me eat anyway. So I went to work and looked for it in the lost and found there. Nada. Then I went back to the room, had to have Kaileigh open the door for me, and stopped over at Residence Life to see if anyone had turned it in there. Still nothing. So I went to class, then came back to my room and called Matt, the guy who brought me home from work last night. I asked if I had left it in his car; he looked for it, but couldn’t find it. Finally, I decided to go to the Security Shack for one last hope. It was not to be. So I had to walk all the way to SAS to get a new one, but I got a tempo Read more:Missing
Best Roommates Ever 2007-11-18 12:26:25 After work last night, Aly, Kaileigh, and I hung out for a couple of hours. It’s really the first time we’ve done it and it was so much fun! We didn’t really do anything, but we took a lot of pictures. Aly and Kaileigh danced
Aly dressed up in all her jewelry
I held onto Aly for dear life
And Kaileigh
I ripped my pants
Kaileigh fell off a couch, we took pictures with Johnny Depp and Floyd (I haven’t written about him; he’s the light up flamingo in our room).
It was just an all around great night. At about one in the morning, I fell asleep and sometime later, they did too. The wierd thing is that we all woke up around 6:00 for no reason at all. It was synchronized. We went back to sleep pretty quickly, though. Best of all, I was so worn out from having so much fun, that I slept later than I have since I got here: I woke up at 10:48. I really needed that fun night. Life has been a little monotonous lately with work and al the homework I&r
Early Riser 2007-11-17 05:32:54 The beauties of the working life! I’m up at 6:15 this morning (blogging in the closet so that I don’t wake my roommates) for a Barnes and Noble store meeting at 7 am. Wonderful. I haven’t woken up his early in months. I’m tired, by the way. And this meeting is supposed to last for two hours! And it’s not like I can even go back to sleep when I come home (and I don’t know who’s bringing me home) because I have to go to work at the library. And when I get off work at the library, I have to go back to Barnes and Noble for work (on my very unsafe bike). In case you’re wondering, the sunrise isn’t so pretty this early in the morning–maybe it will be later?
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Happy Thanksgiving 2007-11-21 07:51:08 I’m leaving today for Thanksgiving
break! I’m flying up to Tennessee where my grandparents (I call them Mamaw and Papaw) live for their 50th anniversary. There’s going to be a lot of people there; we’re basically having a miniature family reunion. I’m going to get to see my step brothers, one of whom I haven’t seen in a good four years, my sister, my uncle, my dad and step mom, my dad’s best friend, my aunt, and probably a bunch of people who live there and are family. It’s kind of exciting. The best part is: homecooked meals!! I’m so tired of cafeteria food (not that it’s bad) and I cannot wait to have my Mamaw’s green beans and chocolate gravy and cornbread (not all together!). The downside: No internet for a week. Therefore, no blogs. I will, however, try to keep a diary and inform everyone of my amazing week in Tennessee at some point when I get back. Oh yeah, there’s another downside: Mountains of homework. Read more:Happy
Just to Keep Life Interesting… 2007-11-29 23:34:58 Just so you know that despite all of the stress of finals and final papers coming up, there is still funny stuff going on in my room. Kaileigh is watching a “When A Stranger Calls” to do a project, and, after a few minutes of blissful silence, she trys to jump out of her chair (the cords of her headphone were stuck around her neck) and starts screaming! Aly and I are clueless until she says, “That was so scary!” So, picture Kaileigh laying on the floor laughing, Aly and I staring at her laughing, and then Kaileigh looking up and screaming “BAT!!” Aly freaks out, shakes her head back and forth and screams bloody murder, and she didn’t even look at the thing. It took a second for me to register what she had said, but when it did, I asked her, “Are you serious?” I looked out the window and there is something huge flapping against it. I run up to go look at it closer, Aly runs away and yells, “Don’t let it in!” (Like
Busy Two Weeks 2007-11-28 12:39:16 The end of the semester is always so hard!!! I have a 10 page research paper due next week (haven’t really started it), a project on India due next week, and an entrepreneurship group project due the week after. That doesn’t include all of the little in between assignments that I get. So naturally, I have all this work to do, and my boss at Barnes and Noble puts me on the schedule for work for five days!! So I have very little time to do everything. I will be staying up late and getting up pretty early. Very tired Jana for the next two weeks or so. And I might as well kiss my life goodbye because I’m not going to be doing anything fun!
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Day 2 of Thanksgiving Break 2007-11-22 12:23:21 Thanksgiving! I woke up really early on Thursday for some reason. Everyone came over pretty early: my dad, stepmom, two stepbrothers (who I was really happy to see), Uncle Daryl, and Aunt Laura (Aunt Cheryl had stayed overnight). For breakfast, we had my Mamaw’s biscuits and chocolate gravy!! MMMM! (Chocolate gravy is not gravy with chocolate in it–it’s basically homemade chocolate syrup, in case I grossed you out!) We started making Thanksgiving dinner around 11 or 12, not sure which.
The men cooked the turkey in some kind of pot outside.
My stepmom made fudge and sweet potato (casserole?) with pecans in it and the little marshmallows on top (yum to both!). Amber and I made the devilled eggs because that’s what we love best. We raced to see who could peel the most boiled eggs while they were still hot–I think she won. I peeled potatoes for mashed taters.
Amber sliced celery.
Papaw sliced onions for the stuffing.
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Day 3 of Thanksgiving Break 2007-11-23 00:30:04 Black Friday! It was also my grandparents 50th anniversary, but we weren’t celebrating until the next day. This year was the first time I ever went shopping on Black Friday. Aunt Laura drove me and Amber out to Knoxville to one of the malls there. We had to follow Aunt Cheryl because we didn’t know how to get there. The first thing we did was have lunch at a little Mexican place called Margaritas. It was so colorful! There were bright pictures of the sun and moon on the tables and chairs and there were huge fake parrots hanging from the ceiling. We wandered through the mall and I decided that I wanted to get a dress. I tried on about 8 or 9 different dresses at Dillard’s until I found one I wanted. Aunt Laura actually bought it for me. She also bought Amber a skirt at Hot Topic. After shopping for two or three hours (not nearly as long as we wanted to), Uncle Daryl called us because he and Laura were going shopping for the Secret Anniversary supplies that we needed fo Read more:Thanksgiving
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Day 1 of Thanksgiving Break 2007-11-21 12:22:36 Thanksgiving was great! I arrived in Tennessee on Wednesday night after a delayed flight. Mamaw, Papaw, and my Aunt Cheryl picked me up. It’s an hour from the airport in Knoxville to where they live in Tennessee, and Mamaw kept asking if I wanted to stop and get anything to eat. I said no, because I already knew she had green beans in the crockpot waiting for me. When we got home, I saw my sister, my dad, and the new puppy my sister had talked my grandparents into getting: her name’s Casey. So I ate green beans, talked to my sister for a while, and went to bed. Day 1 was pretty uneventful except that I arrived.
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Night at the Hotel 2007-12-03 08:08:36 Last night while I was in the library doing group work, a pipe burst on the second floor of my dorm building. The fire alarms went off, and from the library, we heard sirens coming onto campus. Wideline came to the library and told us that we weren’t allowed in the dorms; the entire first and second floors were soaked. I lucked out on that one; I live on the third, which sustained no damage. When we finally went back over to the dorm, it was around 10:45. The power in the building was shut down, so there was a big black spot where our building should have been. The RA’s and RD and Director of Res Life had ordered pizza for us unfortunate Old Lynn-ers. Then they gathered us all in a group to let us know we’d be able to get a few things quickly, and they were putting all of us into the Holiday Inn for the night. We didn’t know when we would be able to get back into our rooms. I was worried because I have to work today, and I needed to be able to get work cloth Read more:Night
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A Fortunate Crisis 2007-12-15 17:05:20 So the most fortunate thing happened to me yesterday: My computer crashed. You’re probably wondering, how is that fortunate? Well, it didn’t happen over the past two weeks, in which case I would have lost my papers right in the middle of writing them, plus all my research. I mean, I did lose all of my music, my pictures, and my papers, but I’m glad it happened now rather than when classes were still in. Plus, most of my music is on cds (because I’m old fashioned and don’t have an ipod), most of my pictures are on facebook and myspace, and I have hard copies of all of my papers. So fortunately, I didn’t lose anything vital. I’ll have to re-save all of my pictures, re-copy all of my cds onto my computer, and re-type all of my poetry, but that’s better than not having any of it. The same night, my uncle called Dell and was able to get it all fixed, so I’m all good to go for next semester!
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Freedom!! 2007-12-14 20:44:09 Oh wow have these last two weeks been insane!! I have been so busy that I haven’t had time to breathe, much less blog (which is pretty high up on my list of things to do). First of all, I returned to work at Barnes and Noble only to find that my boss had scheduled me to work for as many days as possible….right at the time when I needed the most time off. In addition to so much work, I had a 2,500 word paper due, a 1,500 paper plus presentation due, a written take home final that hadn’t even been assigned yet, and finally, I had to create a hair salon with my group for entrepreneurship group, the hardest of all. I also had finals to study for finals. In the midst of all this, I had to find time to pack for my vacation! Well, my papers are done, even if I did finish only 20 minutes before class, my finals are done, and I presented my hair salon business with my group with barely a hitch (after spending a good 5 hours on it in the library the day before). For the pas Read more:Freedom
Spring Break is Over 2008-03-08 21:05:01 I can’t believe SpringBreak
is almost over! I was surprised to find out that there were still quite a few people on campus over break; I expected many fewer than there were. I actually had an amazing week despite (or maybe because of) the boredom. I did accomplish most of my goals. I cleaned [...]
Clumsiness and Solitude 2008-03-05 08:34:12 So when normal people are riding a bike, if they fall, they are likely to fall off the bike, right? Not me. I’m so awkward that I didn’t fall off the bike. I fell off of a curb while I was walking my bike across the street. I even scraped my knees. I felt very [...] Read more:Solitude
Spring Break 2008-03-01 23:59:25 It’s spring break! I’m spending it here at Lynn rather than spending more money than I have on a plane ticket to go somewhere. Once I firmly decided that I was staying here, I became really excited. Campus is pleasantly deserted. I get my entire room to myself for a whole week and I can [...] Read more:Spring
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Nobel Peace Prize 2008-02-27 18:57:10 Brittany, Alyssa, and I decided tonight while we were in our honors seminar (the subject of which is science this year) that we are going to win the NobelPeace
Prize. At first, we weren’t sure how we were going to do it, but I had a brilliant idea (because only brilliancy can win such [...]
Question… 2008-02-25 08:30:29 I was reading a book and there was something in it about eggs and a thought occurred to me. What happens to an egg when you boil it for too long? I’ve never done it, and I don’t have a stove handy to attempt it at the moment, but I’d really like to know. My [...] Read more:Question
Uber Sleepy 2008-02-19 09:22:23 So for the first time ever, I pulled an all-nighter (nearly). I stayed up until 4 in the morning trying to do homework (which is still not finished). This morning, I woke up at 9:30 (though I meant to wake up at 10-that’s when my alarm was set for). I just noticed that I have [...] Read more:Sleepy
Hangover 2008-02-18 09:34:48 I have a cupcake hangover (which means I had two cupcakes last night: they made me hyper and sleeping has obviously not dispelled the effects) so this is sort of going to be an ADD blog.
Right now, it just started raining so hard!! I wanted to play in it with Brittany, but it’s kind of [...]
Let It Rain 2008-02-18 09:06:11 The one drawback of having to ride a bike to work is that I’m at the mercy of the elements. If it’s blistering hot, I’m going to get really sweaty. If it’s raining, I’m going to get wet. I noticed last night while I was at work that it was raining. I wasn’t thrilled. But then [...]
A Sanctuary 2008-02-13 18:05:32 Recently I’ve realized that the hallway outside of my room has become a sort of sanctuary for me, a place to be alone. It seems like such a public place, but in actuality, very few people pass by. We’re at the very end of one hallway and we aren’t on the way to any major [...] Read more:Sanctuary
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