Well, since me and God kept performing phone tag, I went to Church this morning and called him direct. He was very busy through the throng and I am pretty sure we made eye contact before He was swamped under a blanket of followers that stole His attention away. Ah well, someday I will be able to get Him alone and see what He has been up to these days.

Eventually I made it home to get my clothes washed, my moms poor washer has seen better days, before me and my brother started coming home to wash clothes.

I think tonight I will either make cookies, banana bread or apple pie...I'll have to flip a coin to see. Oh, I also could make popovers...which reminds me I need to give Janelle a call tomorrow and make sure she is still around.

I notice that when you know people, you know exactly how they are going to react when you are home. Like some people will jump up and greet you and talk, or others will be in a dark room, watching tv or reading with a sad expression on their face and not care either way if you are there or not. It's not as if I expect a huge welcoming, but maybe a smile wouldn't hurt. Maybe I just smile too much and expect too much from others. /shrugs

Most of the homework is done, got some posters up for our hall and am now just goofing off before my mom shows up to bring us to the bar. Yes, that may sound a bit odd, but the whole family is off to a bar tonight to go support my uncle who is playing solo there. I believe it will be fun, even after being drenched in the smell of smoke, rubbing your red eyes against the smoke and eventually hacking up a lung because of the smoke. I doubt they would ever consider a smoker free bar, but until they do, I don't enjoy them at all since I feel like I am fighting for my life, or at least for my lungs.

Somebody was passed out in our hall last night. About 3am I went out of my room to head for the bathroom and there was a man sprawled on the floor, his face covered up by his arm. Feeling odd about going to the bathroom with some unkown wierdo outside was a challenge in itself as I locked the doors behind me and then tried to go back to sleep. I honestly did not have the courage to go face down some drunken man in my pajamas at 3am when everyone else is either in a drunken sleep or gone for the weekend. By the time I got up around 6am and peeked outside again, he was gone. I'd like to thank my Mom and my Dad for never introducing drinking into our family and helping me stay away from it, I feel I am much better off without.

Made it to Hall Council today, I am now the Secretary/Treasurer of Birch/Linden Hall. YAAAY Hopefully we can get together and work at getting a kitchen sink for our floor, the one we have now is actually an utility sink that does nothing except get your knees wet.

Oh, God called me back today, but I was out at Ground Round...

Bought my first sweater of the year, a blue one with a turtle-neck. I always try to envision a poor turtle wearing one of these sweaters, and then wonder at what size a Giant Tortoise would wear. XXXXXXXXXXXL? Is there such a thing? Maybe they would like that better than a shell, since it is so much softer. I wonder if its comfy inside their shells, I suppose if you lived past a hundred, you'd get used to all sorts of inconveniences.

Tried to talk to God today, seemed he wasn't home and I ended up just leaving another message.

I hover about 5 feet from my desk in a fluffy pink bed with a down comforter and tons of pillows, yet the teacher notices nothing and goes on about Aristotle and his thoughts on literature. 2pm is the time when my brain likes to shut down and take a fiver, not think about ancient writers, or how I should phrase the next question or where I should go eat lunch or when I should have read this or that.

I definitely did NOT eat milk today. If I ever find out exactly what it was that guy was having for breakfast, I may never get any sleep, having nightmares of coagulated milk chunks on a plate. *-.Shiver.-*

Moved into the dorms a couple weeks ago. We were able to grab up two double as singles right next to eachother. Now, we have a livingroom and a bedroom.

I get to work tonight, most likely I will end up writing up my Lit. Crit. and Thoery notes. I am hoping I don't have a nervous breakdown soon, I been working non-stop for so long. There is a lot of reading involved in my classes this year. Oh yes, there is some writing, and as it so happens, I need to write a story tonight to hand in tomorrow. This one should prove to be a fun one, all about dragons and what we know about them. I had a lot of help from Jeremy with the ideas, he's very good at finding funny things to say about different things.

I been trying to read A Canticile of Liebowitz and I knew it was to be read within a couple more weeks, well apprently some other students aren't going out and buying the damn book and here I am wracking my brains out and she says, "Oh I suppose we could switch another book with this one." That means I need to put down the Canticile and begin with a different one. WHEEEE COllege life, gotta love it.

Right now, if I had any wish in the world, I would be in a health club being mud-packed and pampered and cleansed. I feel like I need that kind of a break. And, oh yes! A back rub... or a whole god-damned body massage. That would be heaven.

Janelle came over last night and we went out to see 'Master of Disguise'. There were a few good laughs, but all in all, there were a lot of 'borrowed' funnies. Austin Powers came into mind.

After the movie, we ran to Wal-Mart, picked up a few hair dyes for myself and Aspen and went home. Aspens hair looks much the same. Last night, my hair turned a hideous orange, and I mean bright orange! So, on we trekked back to Wal-Mart and we found a dark brown (not permanent this time, 3 week one) and we dyed over the orange. Now I can say my hair is a brown with a cast of pink underneath. *sigh!* Next time we will make sure to read the box and discover the small print of what color you should have before you dye! Blondes don't necessarily have ALL the fun.

Today I start my new job on campus! I have 2 and 1/2 hours until I need to be there.I am planning on bringing a little cleaning kit and a notebook and some post-it-notes. I need to clean up the computer desks, write down the problems I encounter with the computers and Morgan's instructions, and then when I am done with a computer, I will stick a bright yellow flag on the monitor so I don't backtrack. Which reminds me, I need to find my zip disk!

Newspaper job is still up in the air. I haven't heard a thing yet, so I am going to find their number and give them a call. Hopefully everything is OK with my friend.

Sorry it has been so long since I last wrote, life has been busy.
Aspen and I just got back from our vacation trip to Mount Rushmore and Yellowstone. Now that is a long drive!

I start work this Monday in the computer lab. I cannot wait to work with the computers and do something I actually enjoy. I haven't heard from my friend at the BSU newspaper though, so I am not sure what is happening there. She had said she'd e-mail me to get trained in, but time is running out and so far no contact. I will have to run by sometime on Monday and see what is happening.

Also, we got two rooms! Aspen and I had signed up for a suite, but there are never openings, so the lady called and said we could both get a double as a single and we said, "Hell yeah!!" We made sure we were in the same building, which, in fact, is a floor where we are neighbors! But, get this... Were going to put the beds in one room and keep the other as a livingroom. Whoooo, lots of room for everyone!