So it’s the end of the road for me, this will be my finalblog entry! This semester has been full of so many ups and downs (mostly downs)and its kind of sad that I’m leaving this al behind. But hopefully its going to be all for the best.

I took my art exam this morning it was pretty rough. And I broke the news to my art teacher that I was transferring and got some really great advice from her about what to do and who to talk to. I have to be out by Thursday and I have to find my room key by then to avoid having a fee! I’m really excited about moving out and going to UC, I hope my grades are decent, I’m afraid that because I’ve been so sick that I wont have very good grades, but as long as I have high B’s or low A’s I’m okay.

I’m really going to miss campus life,and I’m really going to miss my friends so much Molly, Alyssa, Sophia,Courtney, Donavon, JB, and everyone else I’m forgetting I’m going to miss your stupid faces! I got all of my stuff at home and I’ll be coming back on Thursday to take my last exam! So I guess that this is it!

Goodbye Mount Saint Joseph! It was fun while it lasted, hopefully everything works out for the best in the future! I love you guys!

So today has been probablythe best day I've had in a very long time! So I fell asleep last night superearly! And finally got some sleep! I woke up early enough to throw all mylaundry in the washing machines and I had A LOT of laundry, so I went to classand had a really easy day, I turned in all of my late work from being sick andI actually drew something worth looking at! After class I went back up to thelaundry room to put my stuff in the dryer to find that someone actually put myclothes in the dryer, and then FOLDED THEM! All 3 loads! And put them back inmy basket! Which is a HUGE deal for the laundry rooms on 3 SE where all thejerks do laundry.

         Todaywas also the last day of PSYCHOLOGY CLASS! Which put a smile on my face, andjust when I thought it couldn’t get any better my friend brought me a wholebunch of Pokemon Cards…. And in case you don’t understand my love for Pokemon,I will take this time to tell you that I freaking love Pokemon, and Dinosaurs.

         Itsonly 2:30! So much good still to come! But hopefully my day keeps gettingbetter! I need to go do my art project that I’ve been putting off for 3 weeksTTYL!

So I’m finally feeling better!Being sick was awful and a lot worse than I had expected, I missed a week and ahalf of classes and have been really busy getting caught back up. H1N1, wasprobably one of the worse things I’ve ever had, and this is coming from thegirl who lives with constant strep throat, and gets bronchitis on a yearlybasis. I had to go home of course and I was there for about a week, which was awelcomed break. I ended up doing nothing but watching Glee episodes on Hulu anda bunch of other weird documentaries, I even got so bored I made a Youtubevideo, haha! At first it wasn’t that bad just a sore throat, then it turnedinto the worst head cold I’d ever had and just as I was starting to recoverfrom that it was like I got a stomach flu from hell. It was ridiculous, I couldn’teat or do anything for that matter aside from sleep, and It couldn’t have comeat a worse time with exams coming up an all, but I’m Finally starting to feelbetter, but I’m still pretty sick, I’m very achy and sore and now I can’t sleepfrom sleeping 16 hours a day the past 2 weeks. But oh well, It could always beworse.

While I was sick I had to manage trying to keep my job I just got hired on to, luckily they were very understanding and they decided to push back my first day until the day after ThanksgivingBLACK FRIDAY! So it ought to be interesting considering that I’ve never workedretail before!

            Speakingof black Friday, Thanksgiving is coming up very soon and I couldn’t be moreexcited! I can’t wait to go home and eat REAL FOOD! And shower in my ownshower, and use my own bathroom and sleep in my own bed, its going to befantastic and short lived but hopefully a refreshing change from rushing aroundcollege trying to get all caught up, which I hope I do by time break rollsaround!

I love the holidays so much! However this weather is killing me! I can’t stand the cold and having to packup all my flip flops and having to put on real shoes and a coat before I go toclass! I am however excited and looking forward to the first snow of they year!Hopefully that hurries up and gets here anytime! Faster it comes the faster itgoes!

So today I saw my roommate for the first time in ages, and she was moving out. It’s kind of sad in a way because the one person who was forced to be my friend is moving on up, and out of my small double in 4 SouthEast and into a very large center suite. I’m not going to lie, I’m pretty jealous. I would kill for a private shower.

But on the bright side I finally cleaned my room! This may not seem like a big deal, but trust me it is. Ha! Ha! I can finally walk to mybed without worrying about slicing my foot open on something, Being an artmajor and having exacto blades everywhere, that is a legit worry.

Speaking of art, I have a lot of art homework to do,everyone thinks being an art major is so easy, but I have to warn you, its not! We may not have to write papers like everyone else, but we have art projects that take in excess of 25 hours to do, which is much longer than I’ve ever spent on a paper. Tonight I have to draw a room. A ROOM. A BOX. I’m so sick of drawing boxes its not even funny. All the other art classes are drawing horses and faces and landscapes, but no not us, we are still drawing boxes! BUT WAIT! We’re shading them now! So that makes it all okay. Next semester I’m not scheduling classes before 9am. I REFUSE. I value my sleep way too much. I nap all the time now that I’m in college. And the more I sleep the more I eat. Hello freshman 15 :D

Thirteen night of Halloween is on tonight! YAY BEETLEJUICE!I’m pretty excited about it. I love Halloween! It sucks I cant go to the Halloweendance! They ran out of spaces! I was so rattled! But its okay I’m going to have my own dance party, and by dance party I mean, sit in my dorm and watch Law and Order. And I’m okay with that. My fish died. I need to buy more. What a way to end my blog on a happy note. haha

Tennis is finally over, and as awful as it may seem, I’m glad. I have so much more time to focus on school and I feel like I’m doingmuch better than before. Before I go on, I want to congratulate the MSJ ladies tennis team on our highest finish in MSJ history! 3^rd place is a lot stronger than 5^th, and next year we’re going to take it home!

Indianapolis was a lot of fun even though I couldn’t play. It was really good to be there for my team and support them as they essentiallybeasted the tournament. :DD

Well anyways things are going really good at The Mount. Ifinally got a schedule in tact to get me to my drawing class on time! EveryTuesday and Thursday my friend comes and gets me and forcingly drags me tobreakfast, I haven’t had breakfast in ages. I haven’t been up for breakfast inages. It was delicious! However no matter how on time I am, I still don’t thinkmy drawing teacher likes me. What can you do?

On to my social life, Sophia and our friend Kelly are goingto get our Halloween costumes. WHY ARE THEY SO EXPENSIVE! I’m so poor! Haha!We’re going to try to create our own for cheap. Go art majors! Go! We’rethinking a gypsy, pirate and where’s Waldo. We’re pretty lame. But I love myfriends!

 So back to mebeing poor! I really need a job. I don’t check my email enough to get on withthe Work Study jobs they have here at the mount so I’m thinking about becominga mall worker. I refuse to work fast food, and with all the seasonal workthat’s going on right now I think it should be fairly easy to find somethingsemi-enjoyable. At least I hope it will be. But I need to get my butt topsychology! So I’ll keep you updated!

College is so stressful, why didn’t anyone tell us it wouldbe so stressful! I swear things keep happening to make life difficult! So thisweekend my keys straight vanished off the face of the earth. Real Talk! Like Iwas at my friend’s house, I drove there, so I know I had them! When I go toleave, they were gone! So after hours of extensive searching I had to bum aride from a friend. I still haven’t found them, So My car sat abandoned on theother side of town for 3 days before my mom found time to bring my spare set.Which would be reasonable, if I didn’t live 20 minutes away, and my mom had alife HAHA! So we go get my car right, and of course I had a flat. YAY! But heyits cool, I got a new tire, and now I have my car back! Which is good, I missedSally Sue! For the record, Sally Sue is my car, she’s red, and she lovesdinosaurs.

And I still can’t stop sleeping through my classes! Itscrazy, like no matter how many alarms I set, I will sleep through them all. Andfor me being a teenager I go to bed at a decent hour, decent meaning midnightor later. My drawing teacher is working with me though, She’s letting me re-doone of my drawings for a reduced grade, which is generous considering as of nowit’s a zero.

As far as family and relationships go, my moms all better!Her birthday was this weekend and I got to go home and see my family. I met upwith all my friends too and we went to a haunted trail, it was a lot of fun. Itwas good to be home even if it was just for a day or two.

ANYWAYS!

Halloween is around the corner! And if anything can turnlife around right now it’s dressing up like fools and buying half priceHalloween candy the day after! I need to find something to wear! I want to besomething wicked sweet, but not completely cliché. I want to go the thriftstore sometime and see what I can find. I may buy some crazy sweet Christmassweaters while I’m there!

Classes are getting really cool, in my Honors IDS classwe’ve been going on field trips and I’ve really had a lot of fun, this weekwe’re going to the museum and next week we get to meet Bobbie Ann Mason, who isthe author of “In Country” I’m really excited for all of it. My 2D studio classhowever, is getting rough. I have a pretty intense project due here soon (Ihave no idea when) I need to work on it here soon, as well as study for mymidterms! AH! I probably wont study though, lets be real. Oh the things uscollege kids do! But tennis practice is here soon! We’re getting ready for ourbig tourney up in Indianapolis! See ya later!

So lately college has been going great for me, I haven’t been having as much homework as my friends do, I’vebeen having fun at tennis, and managing my time so well! Until now that is.

So a lot of things have been going on with me lately that’s really been affecting school. I’ve been so stressed out, I can’t sleep, and when I do sleep I will sleep right through my alarms inthe morning and be late for classes, which knocks my grade down. So I’m alwaysstarting my day off with frustration and anxiety, which in turn causes me moreproblems because I’m always in a bad mood, and BELIEVE ME! That’s not a verypleasant me. I’m also really homesick, even though I live about an hour northof college I’ve only been home once, which was only for an hour or so, becauseI had to get back to school and do homework and stuff. My moms been pretty sicklately and my little cousin has swine flu, and its been in the back of my mindfor awhile now, lots of “what if’s?” and “how come’s?” have been runningthrough my mind and just adding to the stress and anxiety that I’m alreadyfeeling. And with all of this in my head already I can’t seem to make room fortennis. And that’s really affecting my tennis game.

Now don’t get it twisted, I lovetennis with all my heart, I have a passion for sports, but its getting harderand harder not to resent it with everything that’s going on. I have iteveryday, when its just practice, we get done about 5:30 or 6pm, after that youhave to rush to the dining hall and eat, shower, do homework and by that timeits like 10 at night. On weekends we’ve been having Tri matches, which Ipreviously explained in my blog, that we don’t get done with until 7 or 8 thenwe have to drive home, which takes another 3874139084 hours. So I’m staying upon the weekends until 5 in the morning cutting and pasting scrap paper onto amatte boards for 25 hour art projects in my sweaty tennis uniform while all myfriends are out having a good time. I never have time to go home, I never havetime to drive down to Clifton and see my boyfriend, or my other friends. Myboyfriends of which is getting really mad (not really mad, but hurt) that Inever talk to him or text him, because I truly do not have the time.

Tennis is doing more than making ithard to keep a social life, its hurting me physically. I’ve recently beendiagnosed with Costochondritis, after weeks of complaining about my chesthurting, its where all the cartilage between your sternum and ribcage swells,which causes a constant dull throbbing pain, and a sharp stabbing one if I playtennis. That and I have shin splints, and if you’ve ever had shin splints youknow how obnoxious those are. So I now have to take time out of my already busyschedule to go to physical therapy, EVERYDAY.

But I’m hoping that some way, somehow, things will start to look up, especially with midterms just around thecorner, I could sure use a lift

So I’m off to go do rehab, then tryto find time to eat, tennis match today at 4pm if anyone wants to come! But I’mgoing to leave you with a quote my tennis coach told me to consider!

“Everything we do is infused withthe energy in which we do it, if we’re frantic, life will be frantic, if we’repeaceful life will be peaceful” – Marianne Williamson

Hey everyone! College is getting pretty intense lately! Monday I had my first Intramural Volleyball game, with fellow blogger Sondra and friends! We lost! But we did pretty well considering who we were playing! And that we’ve neverplayed volleyball in our lives! It was so much fun, I’m excited for our nextmatch! Yesterday I had my first CAB meeting, which is our Campus ActivitiesBoard. I didn’t initially plan on being in CAB, but I went down to sign up forPowder puff football with my friend Sophia and they were having a meeting so wewent right on in and joined them! It’s a really cool club; they’re in charge ofall kinds of things that are going on on-campus, like the Halloween dance!Which I’m uber excited about!  I’mlooking forward to helping out and getting involved. Since I’ve come to collegeso much has been going on and I’ve been really stressed out. I’m really underestimating the intensity of projects and papers, I’m not giving myself enoughtime for them and I need to start managing my time better. Its really hardtrying to balance school and tennis as well as doing activities and hanging outwith my friends. But so far I’m doing okay! Tennis was cancelled today andsince today is my “easy” day (I only have an art class) Me and My friend Sophiaare supposed to go to the mall and get some cute tops to go out in since I’m acomplete tomboy and don’t have any! HA! We’re all thinking about going to gosee the new movie “9” this weekend. It looks like such a good movie, I justhope I get done with my tennis match in time! On Saturdays I have Tri-matcheswhich is 3 teams that all play against each other, So we’re usually there for7538974 million hours, seriously. Haha! But speaking of tennis matches I haveone in 20 minutes! Time fly’s when your having fun! I’ll be posting again inthe next few days so keep a look out for it!