death

I am officially not contagious for strep as of today. Go me. At least I was fine enough to celebrate my best friends birthday yesterday! We went out to Outback for dinner.  I haven't had Outback in so long and it was so nummy.  They have the best sprite! Weird of me I know.  Like McDonalds has good Coke, Outback has good sprite. Try it, I'm telling you, you will not be disappointed.

As for my life right now though, I have to write my english project still, and write an extra credit paper for my anthropology class. Grweat. -_____- Can someone just come take over my body and finish this semester for me? I really don't think I am going to make it. :(

Off to do more stuff.
Keep it classy.

final proj

yay me for getting strep..

it couldnt come at any worse time.

but final project fun time! woo hoo

all I need to do is get my sources and I want to figure out an outline of how I am writing my own piece.

sorry for the short post but I'm going back to bed yall

keep it classy.

training!

Hey guysssss. I am super excited and figured my blog would be the perfect place to share!

I am officially signed up for a 5k this February (which is farther away than I want it to be), and will be signing up for a half marathon in December (soon) which will take place at the end of April.

I am super excited because this has pushed me to work out and it is competitive enough to work out hard so I will get a good time on my 5k!

There is no better motivation than fear of embarrassment. :)

Not so sure how I will do on the half marathon, I have never ran one of those before, but I have a running plan and am very excited to try and defeat 13 miles of trail in one run! And you get a sweet shirt, who doesn't like that?

I can do it!

I will be back soon to talk about the dreaded final project.
As always,
Keep it classy bloggers.

government papers

I am currently in the Education Library trying to bust out a paper I should have worked on over break.

Whoops. 

It isn't due until Thursday but I am not trying to rush on a big paper worth a lot of point on something I am not very interested in. 

The paper is about the supreme court and if they use their power wisely. 

Not that I really care about it because either way there is really nothing I can do about it.  If they use their power wisely, great.  If they don't, well, sorry about America's luck because there really isn't anything I can individually do about it.

As you all can see, I needed to take a break to get off the topic of it and I needed to also catch up on blogs just in case I needed to post over break.  That obvi didn't happen because my parents don't have their wireless internet hooked up.. They have been paying for it for over 5 months and still don't have it set up.  I have no idea how to do it and my techie boyfriend won't do it either for some unknown reason.. Boys..

Back to my stupid paper I have to finish.
Talk to you soon bloggers.

Keep it classy.

BUR!

oh the joys of the library on a freezing cold monday morning.

can't it just be summer again? walking to class in this cold SUCKS!

anyways, after my zombie like appearance to my 9:00am class I got even more sleepy since we had to watch a movie. which I consider talented because I wasn't sure I could get any more tired today. but the movie in class was alright. it was the third part of a big movie so at least I didn't miss it when I missed this class to go back home early last wednesday.  I'm guessing that I will be okay since so many other people missed that day in class as well. PLUS if you write a paper about all three parts of the movie then you get extra credit and since I was in class for all three days that the movie was shown I am definitely going to jump on that extra credit opportunity. who can pass up ten easy points? especially in a class where you have an unclear idea about how you are going to finish that class grade-wise.

you can tell it is the end of the semester though. the library is jam packed all the time and my plate of assignments couldn't get any fuller:
an english project due 11-29 (thank God I didn't procrastinate on this!)
a 5-7 page government paper due 11-29
2 weeks worth of math assignments due 11-29
an extra credit anthropology paper due 12-5
a research project for FYE due 12-4
an anthropology reader assignment due 11-28
a volunteer project at the YMCA on 12-1
2 more anthropology reader assignments due 12-5
a meeting in the BHC 12-5
a math assignment due 12-6

then BLOODY FINALS (angry british voice)
Monday at 8:00am
Tuesday at 12:30pm
Wednesday at 8:00am
^two 8:00am exams?!?!?! am I being punked?

ugh off to start crossing things off this list.

keep it classy bloggers.
pray for me that I keep my sanity during these last weeks of classes, and I will hopefully talk to you soon.

back to basics

Hey y'all.
I'm back after a long week of no wireless Internet.  I definitely take that for granted back at my apartment here in Kzoo.  Anyways I had a great thanksgiving with family and ate wayyyy too much! It was amazing.

I am not going to lie, the end of the semester is definitely stressing me out.  Like beyond stress I think.  Whatever though.  Just need to stay organized and get through these next couple weeks.  Plus I have to bust out some blog posts because I am not sure if I needed them over break.. Sure hope not!

Off to get set for this upcoming week of classes.

Hope everyone's holiday was as good as mine.
Oh and in case you were wondering, the family drama was non-existent this year! Woohoo!

Talk to you very soon bloggers.  Keep it classy.

MESS

Everyone I am officially a mess.  I almost forgot to email my paper due tomorrow! I feel like I am losing control.  Thanksgiving Break couldn't come at a better time.

Although I am grateful to be away from the stress of school, I am nervous about a new stress I will be experiencing with the family.  But that's enough on all that.  I will just have to let you guys know how it goes next week.

Project 2 has been done, and now it has been lifted off my shoulders.  Now I did work ahead on Project 3 and boy am I glad.  It is going to be very tricky to make the journal.  I will be vital to find the rules to apply to your genre, but with my boring topic of Resumes and Cover Letters, it will be tough.

I am pleasantly surprised with this genre though because I can actually use this project even after I turn it in!  Haha to whoever stole my topic of tattoo's and graffiti, last time I checked that topic is more entertainment than anything.

Off to bed now though, which means scrolling around on Pinterest until my eyes shut on me.
Keep it classy bloggies. Ta ta.

the journey of man

I just watched a video for my anthropology class for extra credit and first off I want to let you all know that that video was seriously two hours long, okay I am exaggerating, it was only one hour and fifty three minutes long.. no big deal though right? besides the fact that my brain feels like mush and I wasted two hours of my life that I will never get back.
But at least I get extra credit! And you never know when you will need extra credit for a class and I know it will be worth it in the end.

I did learn a lot from the movie though, in class I learned that we all evolved from the tropics, and through different clues from genetic studies, this man traced the literal journey from Africa that all of our ancestors took.  It was cool to watch and I just wish it would have been longer but looking back I don't think he would have been able to argue his controversial story and cover all the basics of his argument.

I would recommend it to anyone interested in anthropology, biology, or people that are extremely bored and have two hours to spend increasing knowledge. Haha, yea right. Like that last one would ever happen in America.

writing a fairy tale

this is way harder than it seems, when trying to remain original and not be like every other fairy tale out there, it is so hard!!!
especially with growing up in the disney era?! oh cmon! I will get going on a story, stop to read what I have so far and be like "wow that is way too much like Beauty and the Beast" or "damn that is too much like Cinderella" or "really? this sounds exactly like Hansel and Gretel!" its seriously killing me. I still havent come up with something that has made me happy and I have been typing furiously on and off since yesterday. I will probably end up settling with something that is similar but I will just have to be as creative as I can within the story and be happy with it.

off to delete and re-write some more. talk to you later. keep it classy.

memes

aren't I clever?

http://qkme.me/3ro2oe

Grimm brothers

Such a different story than what I heard growing up!
Disney ain't got shit on them.

Writing my response paragraph about my peer review should be interesting, but hey I am still happy that I will get extra credit for reading and reviewing an extra paper. woop woop! Is that nerdy? Getting excited about extra credit? Well I guess that is what my life is boiling down to.

I am counting down the days until thanksgiving break, and then only like two weeks of classes for the semester after that. Christmas break is way too far away to think about yet, everytime I think about it at this point all I think about is how it's gunna be forever until I get there! :( wah.And then I think about finals.... bigger WAH!

Anyways, quick question if anyone can help me out. Do we have an exam in this class at all? I checked through the syllabus and the grades said only on projects and what not but I just want a definitive answer that there is no final exam in here. The less finals during finals week the better! I think I have three and that is already waayyyy too many for my liking, although better than high school where we had 5.. Kill me. Test anxiety is always at an all time high for midterms and finals.

writing

I must admit, as much as I don't want to, that writing an annotated bibliography helped me bust out my paper.  Along with my outline, it took my way less time you write my paper than it would without the annotated bib.  I think that it helped so much because I had all those sources right next to me, and throughout my outline as I needed more support I just looked at the annotated bib, found something relevant and used it as support to prove the point of the paragraph.

I am also glad I decided to do the movie Bridesmaids, not only do I enjoy the movie enough to watch it 3 times in a row to get the points for my outline, but it really worked out to write this piece about it.

Overall I am happy with my first draft but am also thankful that it will be looked at by my classmates when we have peer review day.  One of my favorite parts of writing is getting feedback on my paper.  Sometimes my paper will make sense to me because I already know in my head what I am writing about, but to others reading it, they don't quite get the full point.

Off to do other homework though.
Ta ta.  Keep it classy.

midterm happiness

seeing as the midterm grades were released i thought i would dedicate this post to celebrating two things, my grades and that we have reached the half way mark of the semester! woo hoo!

i could seriously cry for joy knowing that this semester is almost over! whoodie woop yea!

it has been a long "half semester" so far, and adjusting has been very hard, blowing off my senior year definitely didn't help me, but according to my grades, it hasn't set me back too bad, just didn't make the semester any easier on myself.

also I could seriously cry for joy after seeing my grades! *selfie high five*

in high school, my school used a system called power school were you could literally see every assignment, every day you were marked absent, etc. but  here at WMU that is not the case. most classes do not even tell you your grade until the end of the semester and for control freaks like me, it FREAKS me out to say the least.

but as with all things i cannot control, i must deal with it.

at least for the lower classes, the university "advises" the class instructors to post midterm grades, so at least i can slowly adjust to not knowing my exact grades in classes. and i was more than happy with my grades for the midterm this semester, as were my parents :) yay!

well off to go do some homework to celebrate my good grades.. *sigh* :(

adios bloggeritos. keep it classy.

annotated bibliographies

during the long and draining process of writing a annotated bibliography, I have come to appreciate that we only need bibliographies at the end of papers. annotated ones suck! although I know this will make plotting out my outline and typing up my paper a breeze, it's like the dry boring part of your paper. not so much fun if you ask me.

I do understand the reason behind this but that doesn't make the words and sources appear on my paper unfortunately.  since we need to bring an outline along with our annotated bibliography to the meeting with our teacher, I have decided to finish my annotated bib. first and then from there, chunk apart that into forming my outline. I think once I organize the sources needed into my outline, I will have a breeze writing my paper.  I might even force myself to go through this process when I have to do other big research assignments, so props to Mickey.

evaluating my time spent between how long it would take to write a paper from an outline without a good idea of your sources and how they help you and just taking the time to write an annotated bibliography, I might actually be saving time in the long run.. but who knows, I think it depends more on how much I know about the subject at hand that I am writing about.

I am starting to blabber now folks, so I'll get back to work.

laters bloggers, keep it classy.

lets just say this paper is really starting to bug me.. haha.. get it? alright..

up, down, strange, charmed, beauty, and truth

today at 5 I went to go see this play "up, down, strange, charmed, beauty, and truth" 

it was SUPER dramatic.. holy balls. I was sitting there and I am not hating on the acting at all, but I think the director had them go a little, well actually a lot more dramatic than it needed to be. it distracted me from the story.

I did like the effect of the lighting throughout the whole play though, especially at the end of it. it made the story end in the perfect way.

I did really like the twists throughout, but I wish I would have seen the mother, had some shit hit the fan from the mother and the two kids and also wish I could have some idea of how the uncle and steph ended up, like marley reading a letter from them or even like marley got to go to florida and see them or something.. I don’t know but I really don’t like when plays are just finished at a point, I know you can interpret what you want to happen but I think there should be some direction.

that's all folks. keep it classy bloggers.

monday funday and thesis sentences

got to love Mondays right folks? oh well, today isn't going to be too bad because no homework is ever due today, just have to actually get my butt up and go to class.. *sigh

I have been thinking about my thesis sentence a lot this week and was trying to figure out the best topic that will get me the most information and have decided to go with......... drum roll please....

What jealousy can lead people, women in specific, to do.
Using the movie Bridesmaids to analyze it.

hopefully I can get to going and write an outline out soon.  I also have to write an analysis of the play Sleep Deprivation Chamber but I am really stuck on that because I was really hoping I could read to play to figure it all out. maybe we will get a chance to check it out on Tuesday.

I am also headed out after math class to check out another play so I can receive extra credit. after being so stuck on this Sleep Deprivation Chamber stuff I am thinking I will need all the extra credit I can get.

Im out out here for now though bloggers, but you will be reading a blog later about some mystery play I am going to tonight!

oh and GO BLUE! got to love it when Michigan wins big games and Iowa lost so it is looking good for Michigan winning the Legends Division of the Big Ten. woop whoop.

ta ta for now bloggers, keep it classy.

stress, oh the stress

this week is jam packed to say the least and now I totally appreciate the annoying work of going and working ahead in my school work.
due this week for me was a 3 page paper, a 1 page paper, a 1 page paper, my final draft of my literacy narrative, an exam in Anthropology, an exam in math, math homework, a presentation, a 1 page paper, study for another exam that is next week, coming up with a plan for my next english project
and those are just the ones I remember off the top of my head.
kill.
at least I have a good idea of what I want to do my next english project on, I want to do a movie because I think I can analyze that much easier than a song or a picture. the first movie I thought I could analyze was The Rear View Window by Alfred Hitchcock. other ideas that came into my head was Fight Club, Rainman, and a view others.
any suggestions?

thats all for now, time to go get raped by my math exam.
wish me luck! ttfn bloggers. keep it classy

oh my door nuts

I went to see the sleep deprivation chamber play today at 5:00 at York theatre in Gilmore. What I have to say about it is that it was interesting. The director said it would make us leave thinking and that was definitely the case for me.  It wasn't my favorite production because it didn't tell a story I was familiar to me.  Every play I have seen has been a story that was very familiar to me and I knew what was going to happen next.  I have seen Mary Poppins, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Peter Pan, and many other productions.  I didn’t really understand completely the jumps from her dream state and the actual happenings of the play or maybe it was supposed to be all a dream.  I tried to understand the whole play and maybe I just should’ve sat back and watched the play without thinking too critically.  I hope we will clear up things in class tomorrow.

Ta ta for now bloggies, keep it classy.

deja homecoming

as many of you know, last weekend was Western's Homecoming and I had a blast! my boyfriend ending up coming to my apartment and brought his three buddies along with them. I cooked before they got there, they love my chicken bacon bites, and then I spent most of the day snuggled on the couch since it was way to cold for me to venture outside. Later that night, my boyfriend, my roommates and I went out to a frat house to meet up with Kevin's friends. It was crazy to say the least.

this weekend is my high school's homecoming! talk about deja vu! I am very excited to go home and see some of my favorite teachers and old buddies that I haven't seen since I moved. Also I can take all my laundry and not have to spend money here to do it! College kid problems. But, I worked my butt of this week to get ahead in my school work and now I don't believe I have much to do this weekend besides read over my notes. I do that every night anyways so it isn't too big of a deal.

along with coming home, getting to see my mom and dad, my cat and dog, my teachers from high school, some old younger friends still in high school, and some old friends I graduated with, I get to easily see my boyfriend. two weekends in a row is seriously a great treat!

that's it for now bloggetts. keep it classy and I'll talk/type to you soon!

a picture from my junior year homecoming

I kind of miss getting all dolled up!

second drafting

oh the joys of editing your first draft.

going through all the different views on my paper was definitely helpful with some grammatical errors I skipped over when I read it before printing, but the overall feedback was just that it was good.

although I am happy that people thought my paper was good it made me question myself with having only a few grammatical issues throughout the whole first draft of my literacy narrative. 

with me, questioning myself is never good because I always think too much into things, and being as this is not my only class, I think I spent waaaaaay to much time thinking to much about things that probably were not even wrong.

I went through last week and fixed the errors that were pointed out but today I spent soo much time wondering what other changes might have been missed.

striving for perfection can be really time consuming, especially when you know that your no where close. “sigh”

anyways, I’m out for now, need to get to bed so I can wake up and go to the advising office early tomorrow morning.

keep it classy bloggas, talk, well actually, type to you soon.

A+

being as I haven't seen my boyfriend in what seems like ages, we decided skyping would be a good alternative to just the normal texting and phone calls.

I would definitely say that it really helps.  He was dumb and had some trouble with the law and is now on probation so that makes things even harder because he can't come down and see me as much and I don't have a car here at school so I can't make the drive to go see him either.

any advice on long-distance relationships would always be nice, leave a comment and let me know what works for you guys.

every time he does come those are some of the best times I have had here at college.  Not saying that my experience here so far has been bad but it's always hard to have a completely good time when there is always someone on the back of your mind that you really miss.

I have gotten a little homesick between missing him and especially my mom, but overall I rate my college experience an A+

laters bloggers, keep it classy.

feeling good

I have written a rough draft of my literacy narrative! Yay! Go me! It wasn't as hard as I was expecting because I had a nice outline to work off of.  The hardest part was making all the specific points I had throughout the year flow together.  I'm still not sure that I have gotten that down completely but I will find out in class later today.  Reading other examples of narratives is definitely my best advice to give to anyone else that is writing their own literacy narrative.  I have also finished reading the Henrietta Lacks book.  I thought we were supposed to have it read before school even started so now I have had to go back through and re-read parts to make sure I can remember the specific events for whatever part I need for a certain class.  That's kind of frustrating but at least it will help me engrain elements of the book into my mind in case I get tested on it.

Well that's all for now folks.

Talk to you all soon!  Keep it classy.

writing a literacy narrative

I have finally made up my mind and have decided to write my literacy narrative on my favorite English teacher Mr. Oppenhiem.  Mr. O was my english teacher for my junior year of high school.  I learned more about English in that class than I have in my other three years of high school combined.  I just need to make sure I can make the main events I remembered the most flow.  I think making it flow, and making it to four pages will be my biggest struggle when writing this. 

I am going to attend the poetry reading tonight.  I am actually pretty excited about it too.  Not only will the extra credit be nice but I am excited to hear the emotion the author will put behind it.  Stay tuned to hear about my journey to the poetry reading!

Talk to you later blog frogs.