we got it working!!! yay and whoohoo and such! our direct tv is up and running at last. *stares glassily at screen* just try to pry me away....

they gave us the showtime package free for 6 months. i'm all in awe. i'm sure that i'll rot my brain good and proper in the next two weeks. that's how much time i have left until second semester starts. funny, but i thought i had been home longer than just two weeks, but oh well.

tomorrow's new year's eve! and then nick comes thursday night! should be a fun-filled week all around. don't forget to check the frosty new layout over at sugacookie.com. nice job tiff!

drop me a line, anyone reading. i need to hear from you people. the links are below.

when i'm away from my boyfriend for a couple of weeks, our phone calls start to get bickery and fighting. we call each other every night, say good night and share the day and all. he's in chicago, while i'm here in wv. we count down the days until we see each other again. and then, we start to argue over the stupidest stuff, like mental illness and where he'd like to live and why i don't like it. it's from the stress of being apart, and me being tired, and all sorts of other things, but it still bothers me. i don't even totally believe in the points i'm arguing, but i get caught up. *sad sigh*

plus, our satellite dish is not operational yet either. the receiver refused to receive a signal, which is a problem, so it will be worked on again tomorrow. no mtv here, not in the near future either, i'm afraid.

grr... i think i need to vent some frustration.

has anyone ever noticed that all parents reach a point when they just start to go INSANE????

i don't think i can actually go into it all right now, but i have confirmed that it's not just my parents. this is a universal thing. my older sister got the family a satellite dish for
Christmas. my dad, who's actually a mechanic, is going nuts about setting this thing up. he can't just go do it, because he's going on and on about what has to be done and how hard it's going to be to do. i'll never get my mtv and tlc. *sigh*

there are other nutzy things going on, but i don't want to air all my laundry for you folks. that just wouldn't be fun at all. oh well

christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat...

i just can't get that old carol out of my head today. well, it's christmas eve eve (soon to be chrismas eve, in say, oh, 8 minutes or so). break is going lazily along. i love doing nothing, but i'm starting to get bored. i wish someone would just drag me away to do something *hint hint* haha

well, merry christmas all, and good night!

home....
sleep in, good food, tv and lots of it....

NO BIOLOGY (plants OR salamanders)

and two teachers have emailed me grades so far -- both A's!

not a bad break, if you don't count being away from Nick :_(

tonight i'm taking my brother to see A Christmas Carol at GVT. i used to act there when i was in high school, and he acts there now. should be cool. apparently, i can even get a college discount, something i didn't know before now. if you're in lewisburg tonight and bored, stop in and sit with me. get in the christmas spirit.

5 days and counting until the fat man comes. "Chriiiiist our saaaaaviour is born"

enough of that! home i go and no more school until jan 14 or 15 or so...

merry christmas all!

*wish i knew what my grades are...*

one ... exam... to go...

really though. i am so burned out on school i don't know what to do with myself. my worst exam yet was at 8 o'clock this morning -- animal behavior. it was rough. i won't be able to sit properly for a week, and i think i'm walking kinda bowlegged now. at 8 tomorrow, i have my last exam, exercise and weight control. i'm not worried about that one. it should be cake, but it's just a hassel. then, i'm heading home. call me! we'll do something. you know the number if you're important.

well, dead week is finally over. ironically, dead week is the busiest week of the semester here at good ol' wesley world. i had so much work to do that i didn't go to bed before 1:30 am any night last week, and had to stay up past 4 am two nights. i was so sleepy that i don't even know if anything i turned in was coherent, much less good work. one of the group papers i turned in was 23 pages of text, not counting cover page, works cited, and appendices.

now, i have exams to worry about. luckily, i only have one each day this week, ending on thursday, when i can go home and sleep for a full month. i can't take school work anymore. it's hard.

in honor of christmas (and winter in general) i have put up this lovely snowflake background for my blog. this is pretty much it people. don't expect anything else out of me this week except tears and desperation. yes, that's right, it's dead week, the week before exams, the week that no professor can have a test. it's supposed to be all relaxing and allow you to study early for exams. what they fail to tell you is that every final project, paper, lab report, presentation, and poster will be due this week, and that you will either cry yourself to sleep or laugh hysterically for hours on end. that is all i have to say.

ps -- my new address until friday is the wesleyan library, or julie renner's room. just pick one.