Feeling Bleh and High School Graduations

I'll be frank. I'm not feeling the greatest. I was hoping that perhaps my snot filled throat and nose would magically be clear of the goop. That really only works if you get sleep if it does work, and I did not get much sleep. Therefore, feeling kind of blah.

Today was my high school's graduation, which meant stopping by a few graduation parties for congrats to a few of the folks I know. Now, I've come back to town since I graduated of course, but I haven't really seen anyone from town since then. It's a weird experience I don't really know how to describe it, but it just feels like you don't fit in as well as you used to. I suppose that should be obvious, but just how much you don't fit it makes it feel so strange.

Since I can't think much, and I'm off again, that's all I have to say for the evening. No questions, I just hope everyone has a lovely night.

Palm Reading and Disappointing Runs

Hmm. Today has certainly been an interesting day of sorts. There have been good things, there have been bad things.

First of all good things! Today was the last day of classes, hooray! Now comes a weekend that is kind of until Wednesday, when my first final is.
Also, there were some fun things that went on at campus tonight, including hanging out with people, games of sorts and a comedian. Also, I got my palm read which was... interesting.
Apparently, I have a lot of FIRE! I'm also going to have to travel for my job, but I'm going to go far. I'm going to be that girl everyone wants to be... so, pretty cool I guess.

Now for the bad. Which has to do with my running. Today was long run day, and it was not good. I felt awful and weak. Plus, I needed water like crazy despite drinking a ton of it. Really, I think the thing is that my body is worn down. I haven't gotten much sleep, and I'm kind of sick. I ended up stopping at the halfway mark to get some water because I needed it, and I never stop during my long runs. I ended up only going 11 miles. Bah. I was going to go 12, but I couldn't even go that. I had to walk the last mile home. It's just so frustrating, but I know that my body just needs rest.

I'm done for the evening. Oof.

For my runners out there: Do you ever stop during your long runs?
Have you ever gotten your palm read?

Not Much Going On, Pictures and Running Situation

Sunday night? Sunday night! It felt like it was just Thursday and we were all thinking, "Wow, it feels like Friday."

Once again, it was a day of mostly sleeping, except with the added studying of Psychology. In which I did a quiz online and did splendidly on.

So today, whenever I took the chance to creep out of my bed, I would see myself in the full length mirror. I looked like one of those kids who you should send a dollar to for food. Geez. My mother agreed.

Oh! Also, I was going to post pictures yesterday, but I totally forgot! So... here you go!



I didn't even know there was an ultimate Frisbee league.

 Also, I'm worried about my running. Since I only ran about a mile yesterday, and didn't run today when I was supposed to run 11 miles on Saturday and 4 today, I don't know how I should run next week. Or this week I guess. I don't usually run on Mondays, but I am going to tomorrow. Then I was thinking maybe I could run my 11 on Tuesday? Or should I just wait until next Saturday for my long run?

Have a nice night!

Orientation and Feeling Sickly

So here's what you missed last time on Glee! what happened yesterday and caused me to basically not be able to write any coherent thoughts.

It all started yesterday at Orientation. I woke up at about 7, believing that the orientation started at 10. You see, they told me that I would be receiving a letter with all of the information for the day. I never received said letter, but when I called the office they told me that it would start at ten. I was still nervous that the time wouldn't be correct, so I checked online... Online it said 7:30. Rushing out the door and hitching a ride, I was terrified that I would miss something.
I arrived at 7:50. Time of actual start? 10. Just... like she told me. Geez. So, ended up waiting for a couple hours just for things to start.

It was weird going around campus by myself. My lack of sense of direction helped me get a lot of walking in. I never realized it before, but the campus is quite pretty.

Not sure if it's as pretty as WOU though.

Speaking of WOU, weird thing happened. At my freshman orientation at WOU, there were PLUS team members that showed us around. I saw my PLUS team member at transfer orientation. Kind of awkward, kind of hilarious.

I had lunch, and that's when I started to get sick.

All I can say is that I felt awful. Even though my sister is sick herself, she helped me out while I was hardcore strugglebusing. I'm thinking that I may have gotten food poisoning, because I got sick. I could hardly move, and the only reason that I managed to type out what I typed out yesterday was because I had just hurled, making me feel slightly better for the moment. (TMI, yes.)

The weird thing that pissed me off the most was that today I was supposed to run my long run today. I ended up running a mile around the local track just so I wouldn't pass out in the middle of nowhere. It just- ARG.

Pretty much all I did today was sleep. I woke up, drove home, slept, woke up, slept again, ran a bit and showered. And here we are.

One of the worst things about getting sick? You feel like you've had the crap kicked out of you.

Probably going to bed soon? I think so. Oh, and huzzah! We all survived the rapture. Pish.

When was the last time you got sick? How did it affect the rest of your life?

Infectious Professors and The Case for the Out of Place Raisins

I'm now starting to believe that it is perfectly acceptable to lip sync to your itunes.

Anywho. Hello everyone! Can you believe that it's already Wednesday evening? Seriously, I'm not sure I can.

On Monday at ten o'clock, my Spanish professor walked into the classroom with a cold. Sitting in the front row as she hacked her head off in my direction, I should have know what was imminent.

For you see, I was greeted at 7:00 AM on Tuesday with a sore throat. Today, it's added the sniffles and drained my energy. It's sufficient to say that I've stocked up on the OJ

And some spray butter that I don't have much use for.

 The peculiar thing about this whole situation came when I entered the classroom for the exam today. When I said that I had gotten sick on Tuesday, the profesora accused me of getting her sick.
...Who was the one coughing on me? Yeah.

They say that students that sit towards the front of classrooms are more likely to get the higher grades. Higher grades or a healthy immune system? What's more important?

Speaking of said exam, I have a question for all y'all out there.

Say you have the option of putting raisins in either fruit salad or rice pudding. Where do you put them? I honestly have no idea, especially since I do not partake in the gag-worthy dessert known as rice pudding. Also, who puts raisins in a fruit salad? Honestly.
If you're completely confused, I had to use the Spanish vocabulary in my exam to put the ingredients with the food. A language test is worrisome enough, now I have to actually analyze the questions?

All this fuss over raisins. My goodness.

The rest of the evening for me includes eating a late dinner with a breakfast theme/pirate theme. And a band. You read that right.

Have you ever gotten sick from a teacher? And where would you put raisins? (Bizarre questions, I know. That's all I've got.)

Breakfast Foods All Day

This week has been going pretty fast, hasn't it? Well, maybe that's just me.

This morning I had a strange encounter in the community kitchen. I suppose I should explain that more. Well sometimes I like to eat breakfast in the dorms, so I go to the community kitchen and eat while getting ready for the day. Usually I am alone, but today there was someone else in there. It was a girl from the next hall over. I had seen her and said hello as she walked by, but I feel like she doesn't speak English as her first language. So, it ended up being awkwardly silent in there. One thing I did notice that she ate so much! She had a mug of granola plus FOUR pieces of toast with Nutella! Where does it all go?!

I went to the writing center today to get help on tweaking my Oedipus essay. The guy didn't feel very helpful, but it always helps having someone go over something with you. He smelled like cigarette smoke, ick.

I've been feeling under the weather today. I felt pressure on my cheek all day, and I'm pretty sure it was my sinuses.

Pretty much all I've eaten today has been Peanut Butter Crunch. Seriously, it's ridiculous. My mom brought it up to me the last time she came up. Tasty cereal like granola and PB crunch is something I go nuts with. I will eat a ton of it. I need to stop getting it.

Enough of the whining! Goodness, it's getting old. I signed up for donating blood in a few weeks! Cool. Also, I'm done with my big essay. Lovely.

Hope everyone has a lovely evening!

What is your pig out food?

Birthday Recap and Today

Ello world! It's Saturday, and I wish it could be Saturday every day. Of course, then it wouldn't be as special. Anyways, here's a recap of my birthday yesterday:

I woke up early in the morning again, no matter how hard I tried to sleep in. My phone actually woke me up when it beeped that I had an email, but my body decided that indeed, 6:45 was a great time to be awake. I opened the letter from my aunt and my friend. I received money from my aunt (yes!) and the most adorable eraser from my friend! I was so surprised that she even sent me a letter. How sweet! I need to send her something special for her birthday in two months now...

Ate some breakfast, chilled out while writing some letters, went to class. We only had to do 3 sets of planks instead of 4 for my birthday in Weight Training. Pretty sweet, eh?
The rest of the day until that evening, I really didn't do much. I wrote letters, and talked to people in the hall. How cool am I? I just was thinking, "It's my birthday, and I'm not in the mood to actually do anything that requires effort right now (ex: homework)." I actually really like writing letters, which may seem weird.

A downer thing that happened was that my hall mate's friend died the night before, and she was really sad about it... I didn't know what to do, but I told her I could be a friend to lean on.
Later that night my parents, sister and another aunt and uncle of mine went to dinner with me. I always forget how I can never get a word in when around my family... I still love 'em.
My mom being the person she is, got me presents. Even though she said my school clothes were my birthday present... She just likes to buy things, that silly goose. I got this dress from modcloth, wireless headphones and a OSU sweatshirt. Yeah. My mom really wants me to love OSU as much as she does.

After dinner I quickly put things back in my room and headed out to the bonfire. I met up with Danyon and her room mate there, and we just hung out for awhile... then it was time for my "date".
Let me explain. Last night, I remembered that the guy I went cosmic bowling with gave me his number to find a time to hang out or play tennis. We started talking, and then he asked,
"Will you be my date to the magician?"
I don't even usually care for magicians, but who cares?! It was awesome!
Back to last night, I used lessons my mother taught me and simply listened. Guys like to talk, and it was cool to hear about his life. He had brain surgery! Wild.
After walking around and talking to him, I was fading like crazy. I konked out afterwards.

Today I ran 5 miles on a treadmill today! Nice! I also went to the football game with some of my hall mates, and they won! Who knew they could? Now I'm up in Canby again, and I'm gonna go to a haunted house with my cousins. Once again, hard to concentrate, so I'm not getting the best info out yet. I feel like there's so many things that I have to say, but I don't know what. I think I got a decent amount out though. Hope everyone has a lovely evening!

What did you do for your 19th birthday? Was it fun?

Friendship Breakthrough and a Plethora of Letters

I am so ready to get over this cold. Unfortunately, my body someone also thinks it’s a good idea to not let me sleep and wake me up at ungodly hours of the night…

Yesterday something I forgot to mention was that Danyon and I had a breakthrough. We both realized that we felt unwanted around the “locals” (Our Hawaiian friends) and it felt bad. It was a bit of a revelation. We also both realized it’s really hard making new friends, and it’s not just hard for you like you think it is. A strange thing to bond over, but bonding nevertheless.

I received so much mail today! I felt so loved. I got my shirt for my Halloween costume plus 4 letters! Wowza!

Since I can’t run with my headphones in during the half marathon, I ran without my iPod today! On a treadmill, which seems crazy. However, it was great! I felt amazing, even though mentally I was not all there. During the last mile or so, I was full on talking to myself in my mind.

“C’mon girl! You can go faster, can’t you? What?! That’s madness! Perhaps I am mad! Hahaa!”

39 minutes for 4 miles. I’m still sick, but I should have tried to go faster. One thing that felt really good was when I was done, and a girl next to me said something about me being skilled. It was pretty cool.
My room mate is going home for the weekend. Why? Just because. Even though she has class tomorrow… Eh, her loss.

My birthday is tomorrow! I wonder what that'll be like... Woo!

Who do you get letters from? Do you send letters?

Birthday Lunch and Study Time

Do you ever have one of those days where you keep thinking it's one day, but it's actually a different day entirely? Today has been one of those days.
Last night I was in half dream/half awake mode, and I said something in a full sentence, then was really confused when I heard,
"What?"
I opened my eyes, and my room mate is looking at me like I'm crazy. Yeah, I'd feel a little creeped out if someone across from me just said a bizarre sentence (I don't remember what I said) when you thought they were asleep.

I went to lunch with my aunt and grandma as I said yesterday. At first deep down I was worried that it was a pity thing (from the Seattle thing I mentioned?), but of course I overthought it. They took me out because they wouldn't be there for my birthday! How sweet are they? My grandma even made me specialty cupcakes! The are sitting in my microwave now, which seems a little weird but there's no where else to put them.

I did some studying in the library today. It was pretty legit. Look at my awesome little organized place:

Tonight I found out about a play thing happening in Salem. I was thinking, "All right, nice! I can get a play done for theatre class!" So one of my classmates, the brother of one of my hall mates, and I drove down to Salem to see it. Turns out, the ticket booth and the theatre are in two completely different places. What?! Oh well.

I sound like a boy going through puberty. Another time of lack of concentration, mainly because everyone in our hall is chilling in the common area, and I cannot think.

Where do you study the best?

Sleeping issues and Quirks

Oooh boy. This was a rocky start to a day.

Last night my room mate came in at 9 to the room with her boyfriend. I was going to try to go to bed at 9:15, but that wasn’t going to happen. I managed to go to “bed” at 9:45 though. The problem was sleeping. Everyone in the hall decided that was the night that they would start making noise like crazy.
After who knows how long, my roomie and her boyfriend came back into the room. Then they started messing around on facebook. (Not on each other, goodness! That would be another story.) The clicking of a mouse pad is not helpful to sleep AT ALL. After what might have been a half hour, I told them, “Okay, if you’re going to be on Facebook all night, can you go outside to do it? It’s really obnoxious.” May seem a little mean, but come ON. They took this as they needed to go to bed, even though I didn’t care. Just as long as they go out in the common area. Not that much of a stress. Whatever.

This morning, my history class was canceled. Would have been nice to know that before waking up for it. Alas, she sent the email AFTER I went to bed. Oh well. The rest of the day was alright though, except I didn’t really do anything.

One of my hall mates might be going home, and it’s really sad. She’s one of the nice ones, and it sucks that she’s having issues. It’s more issues with she wants to get her life together. We’ll see what happens.

Lately I’ve been noticing quirks that my professors have. True, I do this for everyone, but today I was thinking about it a lot more.
My history professor is obsessed with quotations. She will use them for EVERYTHING.
My Weight Training professor calls people by the place they’re from. Today, I officially became Philomath. I think it’s kind of funny, because it reminds me of those ridiculous sports movies where the coach has little names for everyone.
My Theatre professor swears a lot and waves his arms around his head like jazz hands.
My Health/Fitness professor talks at a mile a minute, and she’s the stereotypical athletic nature-y sports person. She’s the one you’d see out with her husband and dog on a walk in freezing weather.
I don’t have quirks for my FYE teachers yet.
My English professor doesn’t really have any quirks, but I noticed that she always wears two certain pieces of jewelry. One is a pearl necklace with a tiny gold pendant in the middle, and the other is a set of golden bangles. I wonder why?

I love noticing little details like that. I wonder if I could use that in a job?

Still sick, should probably think about heading to bed early again. Now I have some Tylenol pm, so hopefully that will help knock me out.

What things do you notice about people? What's your quirk?

Granola and DJ-ing

Oof. I wish I was one of those people who could run on no sleep, but I need at least 7 hours… That will probably have to change with college. I must start enjoying the taste of coffee.
Almost every morning I have one of the most delicious breakfasts ever. I have a mug of granola, milk, and some peanut butter mixed in. It may sound a bit odd, but it is wonderful. I’ve been getting the granola from Valsets since I have early class most of the week and get there before class starts. I must get more granola though…

Mmm, yummy!

I saw my mom and grandma today. We were making sure that my financial aid was all correct for the umpteenth time. I just like to make sure, you know? I worry that I’m doing the thing everyone says not to do which is see your family a lot the first year. My mom reassures me I’m fine. I suppose I over think these things.

My run today was a weak one. I was not feeling it, I was tired, and I didn’t drink enough water. I ran for 32 minutes but my Runkeeper bugged out again. I’ll have to do the drive test and see how far it was, but I think it was only 3 miles. Since we’re on the subject of running…

I am officially registered for 2011 Cascade Half Marathon on January 16th.

This is crazy! The most I’ve ever run I think has been 6 miles, and that was a run/walk. But I can do this. I WILL do this. And it will be awesome.

I’m getting sick. My throat is starting to really hurt. I’ll have some O J tomorrow and get some sleep tonight. I know you should be doing these things before to prevent getting sick, but I’m a college student! I don’t think logically!

My cousin deejay-ed a dance over here! How cool is that? I went for a little bit, but my throat was killing me after awhile.



Rocking the DJ booth

 It's time for me to drink some tea, finish my Shakespeare reading and then it's bedtime for me. Night everyone!
What's your go-to breakfast? What are some things you do when you are starting to get sick to feel better?