like i mentioned in an earlier post, this is my last fall semester. i hope the semester goes by really fast. that just means spring will be starting and i’ll take the last four classes i need to wrap up my undergraduate degree. to me, this is wonderful fantastic amazing news. sure, i’ve taken a year longer than i might have wished but i’m getting it done! to be this close to the finish line is an incredible feeling that i’m hoping keeps me afloat for the remainder of the year. (more…)

1. the new fall semester is starting in two days! as much as i’d like to use the apothegm, “i can’t believe it!”, i cannot as it’s untrue. i can totally believe. in fact, i am in complete anticipation over it. this will be my last september as an undergrad… i’ll be graduating in may or summer of next year so this is kind of a big deal for me. it’s nothing i’m going to miss terribly because it’s not my fall semester ever. after graduation, i’m still going to be a student, just a graduate. this fall i’ll be taking some really interesting courses this semester and actually reading some really great books. jane eyre, dorian gray, connecticut yankee, cabeza de vaca anyone?? yeah it’s going to be a great semester. since i’m wrapping up the whole undergraduate thing pretty soon, i’m trying to promise to myself that i’m going to do excellently this semester. i never do wholly excellent. i’m an A/B student but i’d really like to get all As this semester. (more…)

1. last night i went out with two of my closest gal friends. we started off the night at a relatively new bar that was pretty chill. more importantly, however, we got there before happy hour had finished and got two-dollar u-call-its for a good while. they had a live band that was playing lots of awesome eighties throwback songs. we were drinking kind of fast so by the time we got to the next bar, the bleu room, we were feeling pretty great. at this bar, the dj was pretty good, but the music was totally different. lots of lady gaga and hip-hop. here we started crazy-dancing and acting pretty silly in general. the bar at this bar was looking pretty good even though the first time i had met him a while back, i had thought it was an average joe. the last bar we went to was this place called old number two which is pretty sucktastic. i mean, it’s chill, you don’t have to worry about getting dressed up, but i don’t know… there’s just something that i don’t like about it. it’s probably the fact that that’s where most people my age would go. most of the other bars i go to on a regular basis, the crowd is generally older. i was with friends, though, and i had a great time nonetheless. the night itself was a success. nothing weird happened that dampened the enjoyment. i got home at a semi-decent hour, and i woke up on time for work! (more…)

i don’t want such a huge lag between posts to happen again, so i’ve had a bit of an idea to get myself to post at least once a day with some creativity involved. today, there was this big writing day on campus with loads of activities students could go to and learn something new. there were fun things, like listening to slam poetry and other more practical ones, like letter writing. i wasn’t able to attend lots of them, but i did make it to haiku writing around noon. it was really neat, and the people who were leading the session were great too. most of the audience, however, seemed to be students of the instructors and they were really shy. the instructors were trying to get the participants to share their haiku and the kids were very hesitant to do so. since the two instructors were kind of grasping, i decided to share all the haiku i’d written. they were stressing how impromptu and not so strict haiku writing should be (the 5-7-5 rule can be bent!) so most of mine were silly. it is fun, though. i’ve always loved haiku writing, even before this thing today. so this is how i’m going to be updating more frequently. one haiku a day on this blog will leave me feeling great and fulfilled. even if i’m running late in the mornings or i just can’t get to a computer, i’ll be able to update from my phone too. so here is today’s poem.

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photos of your back
i know it’s kinda creepy
but you’ll never know

most of my close friends know about my current crushes. i pluralize the word because there are always several, and i use the word “current” because i tend to fall in and out of “love” quite often. however, in the proverbial spinning rolodex that contains all the usually inadequate objects of my attentions, there has been one person whose contact card has not been crumpled up and thrown out. for obvious reasons, i won’t actually name this lucky fellow. i can imagine that if i did, someone who is acquainted with him would take a sudden yet totally innocent interest in this blog, see his name, raise their eyebrows in a somewhat high degree of incredulity, and bring it to this certain person’s attention. (more…)

today is monday and the day is half over.

this semester mondays are definitely my most trying day. i wake my poor self up around nine o’ clock and loaf around my room, occasionally spotting something on the floor or coming out of a dresser drawer that i might consider. i meditate in between wardrobe selections and also play with one or both of my pets. after i finally walk out of my front door for the third time (the first two don’t count since i have to go back anyway for my cellphone, keys, shoe, etc) at ten ’til ten, i speed over to campus, hoping that no law enforcement agents will finally decide that today will be the day i get punished for the calculated recklessness that is my driving. (more…)