An update of sorts - if I don't fall asleep....
So, it's 6:06am, and I'm awake. I know, little red flags going up, I'm not up at 6am, unless I haven't gone to sleep. Which is the case .... wheeeeeeeeeeeeee!
It was a fun day today. I'm so fucking tired, but, eh, meh, I can sleep when I'm dead. Okay, so that's going to be a while. I can sleep on May 16th, and not wake up until May 27th, should the summer plans go as they are looking to go. Sleep!!!
Anyway, so I woke up around noon, after going to bed a little after 3, and well, my sleep schedule has been messed up!!! First set of one-acts at 1pm, then shooting the shit with the music geeks until about 3:45, then Liz's recital at 4, then up the hill briefly, then one-acts again at 7:10ish (and super props to emily for driving me, a- because i was tired, b- cause it was raining!). Then after the one-acts, more music geek fun! Our movie plans were not so well-laid, but we (me, Steph, Krysta, Ben, J, Tom, and Elizabeth) made our "We survived Skigee 2005!" shirts...complete with signatures. And the front of my shirt says Lauren on the left boob, and l'oboe on the tummy. I have a shirt that says "We survived Skigee 2005" and "l'oboe"...*sighs*...I need help.
Anyway, we only have 17 minutes of film - but it is 17 minutes of quality film - Ben conducting the CD of star wars (and jason telling me to "sing bitch!"), interpretive dance by me, Steph, Krysta & Elizabeth to Ben & J's drum improv, Tom with the French accent introducing the film, and, the Skigee drinking song!
After burning the popcorn and finding the copier to not be working, after the boys had polished off their six beers each, and at the 4am mark we decided to clean up - and the infamous "i'm buzzing, but I'm definitely awake, so let's go get breakfast!"....we walked back to the dorms, went to our respective rooms, and all met back in J's room so I could be DD (why?!?!?!?!?!) and drive everyone to Perkins in Oshkosh...
After I (foolishly??) suggested that, Tom's reaction: Great, do you drive stick?
Me: Uh, no, I've only driven stick once. And it was for three blocks. And I was being taught by a drunk person. *smirks*
Tom: Uh, three blocks is a little different than 20 miles...we'll take Ben's car.
So, it's now 6:15. I'm beyond tired. I think my body might just shut down. I should probably get to bed, 'cause I have whorealiers at noon, and I have to give consideration as to whether I want to sleep tomorrow afternoon, or force myself to stay awake to write evil paper of doom on Ben Franklin, or stay up late tomorrow night - again. :)
Yay for music geek fun!
And yay for bed.
- posted by L. @ 6:05 AM

 
Recital! Recital! Aguh!!!
So...I just got back from Liz's recital - which was awesome!! Yay for Liz!!!
But now, as I predicted yesterday, mine actually seems real. Like, it's going to be next week! That's soon! AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
*breathe*
Yikes!!!
I'm totally ready for this....it just shouldn't be this soon!!! :)
- posted by L. @ 6:46 PM

 
Yay! Life no longer has that impending feeling of DOOM! No more doom!
...well, no more doom for a while, please.
SEM IS DONE! SEM IS DONE! SEM IS DONE! YAY! SEM IS DONE!!!!
Did I mention I'm excited about this??
Not that my excitement level is a good gauge - I'm also excited about the release of Garfield and Friends: Volume 3 on Tuesday.
And I'm excited about Fanfare!!!!
*blinks*
Well...
I suppose now would be a good time to further promote my musical talent...
Saturday, April 23, 2005 - 3:15pm. Demmer Recital Hall.
My recital! Yay!!!!!!!
*steps off of self-promotion soapbox*
I am never writing another long paper again. Hmm. I guess that means no grad school. Damn. I guess I'm going to have to write long papers again. Maybe by the time I go to grad school, I'll have grown up a little bit and won't have majored in procrastination.
(actually, you can't finish a major in procrastination. we had a good five minute discussion on this while we were supposed to be practicing WAM - Mozart, for you uncultured folks, or just non-music nerds, mwahahaha. it's nice to know i have SUCH a productive group of string players....)
Okay. I am not going to write a long paper for a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very long time.
So, Relay is tonight. I am either going to leave early with Emily and Jen, or bring the Autobiography of Ben Franklin along to read/start outline on, if I stay late.
Sigh. There is no rest for the weary paper-writer ;)
I am going to try and take a quick nap, or at least some R&R before I have to go to work, and then Relay. Damn. I hope I can stay awake this long - I think the caffeine is wearing off. :)
One month till graduation! Hooray!!!!
- posted by L. @ 5:36 PM

 
I hate sem!
I HATE BEING A SENIOR!!! ARGUHHHHH!!! I HATE SEM!!!
Okay. That's out of my system now. It is now about 10:30 on Thursday night - which means I have 18.5 hours to finish my sem! Yay!
Wish me luck. :)
I got an email from my aunt today...it made me so happy! Even though they can't make it to my recital or graduation - it still made my day!
My aunt on my senior sem:
By now, I hope your paper is about complete, but I won't ask. I will make this as short and sweet as possible. (9:44pm, 4/14/05)

Gee. You'd think that we were related or something, that she would know that. :)

Okay. My fridge contents as of 10:30: 2 regular Mountain Dews, 3 Code Red Mountain Dews, and 1 Amp....

BACK TO SEM!!!
- posted by L. @ 10:24 PM

 
And the classical music poll has disappeared....
Which is sad. But that's actually okay, because I came up with a better (and easier to answer) poll question....

Which piece of 'classical' music is most overplayed??
a. Pachelbel - Canon in D
b. Handel - The Messiah
c. Satie - Gymnopedie No. 1
d. Debussy - Clair de Lune
e. Bach - Air on the G string
f. Barber - Adagio for Strings
g. Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata
h. Mozart - Elvira Madigan Piano Concerto
i. Vivaldi - The Four Seasons (specifically "Spring")
j. Bach - Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
k. Clarke - Prince of Denmark's March (aka Trumpet Voluntary)
l. other - please specify

I'm sure there are tons I'm forgetting...I'm just doing a list off the top of my head!! Some of these are great pieces - I just can't stand to hear them anymore (damn being overplayed - seasonal pieces, commercials, etc!)
- posted by L. @ 1:53 PM

 
And my productivity has come to a screeching halt...and that's bad. Very, very bad.
As is typical for me writing papers/doing projects/doing homework in general....I tend to write a blog about things I've done instead of the homework at hand. No matter that my sem is due on FRIDAY and I'm only 9 pages in (and 4 of said pages were written a month ago...and have yet to be incorporated into the actual sem paper as of now)...so I have at least 11 pages to go (insert expletives).
But, despite this ever pressing 20-30 page paper of which I should be increasingly nervous about, I am instead compiling a list of things I've done instead of sem in the last few hours.
And my worst nightmare came true. I fucking missed questions on the oboe test. I'm so mad about that, I could just kick myself. Obviously, my mind was NOT with woodwind techniques, or even the oboe (my primary instrument for the last, uh, eight years...), but rather with sem. Rather, the lack of written pages for sem.
Sigh.
So, that was a downer for my day.
Tomorrow, I have to go grovel to my history professor about getting an extension on my paper, because I'm not going to turn it in on Friday whether he gives me an extension or not. I hate the word grovel, too.
Things I've done instead of sem:
*checked email compulsively.
*checked milwaukeejobs.com compulsively.
*re-read just about every email that was sent to me in the last three days, just because then I look like I'm doing something.
*sort-of read The Ballad Hunter and Last Cavalier: The Life and Times of John Avery Lomax (I guess that counts as sem stuff, though).
*read this week's College Days twice.
*checked email again
*watched the end of The Sound of Music
*took a powernap for 45 minutes
*listened to the Postal Service in my iPod (why I couldn't do this while writing sem, I don't know...)
*debated about replying to some emails that have been sitting in my inbox for anywhere between a few days and a few weeks, but decided against it.
*wrote new away messages
*sent random IMs to people
*looked at imdb.com to see what celebrities had birthdays today, and then found out what movies said celebrities were in.
*took quizzes for no reason
*read my livejournal friends' entries.
*tried to find some funny quizzies to post
*checked email again
*looked at aurorahealthcare.org for potential jobs.
*looked at CP contract and didn't sign it - yet again.
*checked yahoo mail that I never check
*went to yahoo briefcase and read through old AIM conversations that have no relevance to anything.
*fumed about the oboe test more
*debated going to addictinggames.com, but decided against it for the sake of my sem.
*checked the Brewers final score for tonight (haha! they beat Pittsburgh! mwa!)
*lent a black bra to Jen so that she could put it on someone's door.
*put up an away message plea for sprite so I can drink apple pucker and sprite in the hopes that maybe, just maybe, drunken sem writing will do me good. :)
*also will probably check email compulsively again...
*and will also check blog for snide commentary from everyone...the sad thing is that snide commentary will probably make my day. ;)
especially if i get that sprite.
- posted by L. @ 10:15 PM

 
*facepalm* I'm an idiot...
I spent a good 30 minutes tearing my room apart, looking for two of my books for senior sem (two of the out-of-print, hard-to-find, all-the-way-from-Milwaukee books...). I'm freaking out, because, duh, sem is due in THREE days....
Then I remembered. I left them in the Pub yesterday.
Yeah, good move. Luckily they were still there. Otherwise I would have been up chocolate creek without a popsicle stick...
Three days...three days...I HATE SEM!!! :)
(yes, I'm well aware and fully expecting everyone to make fun of me for that...lol, bring it on!!!)
- posted by L. @ 7:37 PM

 
Blah cell phones!!!
Death to cell phones!!!
Okay, not death to cell phones, but death to Cingular!
I'm going to go broke with this damn thing! Sigh. Well. I have a basically useless phone. For which I am paying $29.99 (plus taxes) for. But I had a great conversation just now (can you feel the dripping sarcasm????)...
Actually, the person I talked to was very nice. So no hard feelings towards the people I usually talk to - just Cingular in general (shakes fist and swears).
5:20pm - Call Cingular.
Enter phone number, last 4 digits of Soc. Security, and home billing zipcode. Get a real person, and have to repeat all of the same information (why did I enter it in the first place then?? whatever). So then...(italics in conversations mark things I didn't really say)
L- Hi, my cell phone refuses to make phone calls. It just beeps at me whenever I dial a number. And I can't access my voice mail because that's a phone call. I also don't ever GET my phone calls (so if anyone ever calls me, heh, forget me answering 'cause my phone doesn't ring...#&$@!!!!), AND I don't ever GET my voice mails till days later (swears).
C- Ah, I see. So, your home area is in Milwaukee, WI, but you've moved from Louisiana??
L- dumbfounded. Uh...Louisiana? What? I've never been in Louisiana with this cell phone (or any cell phone, for that matter).
C- Huh, well I don't know where that came from.
L- Right now, I live in northern Wisconsin. The zip code is 54971.
C- Okay, give me a minute to bring up the zip code in the server. Zip code 54971 is in Little Rock, Arkansas
L- (more dumbfounded, if that is possible) Um...no, actually, it's Ripon, Wisconsin.
C- Hmm, I wonder how it came up with Little Rock.
L- bangs head on desk
C- Well, either way, Ripon, WI...hang on, okay. I brought that up in the computer. It just looks like you might not have very good coverage in that area. Did you ever think about migrating over to the new Cingular wireless??
L- (oh dear god...). Yes, I already tried that. It doesn't work.
C- Okay.
finally! someone who didn't try and convince me to switch!
C- So, you said you were having problems getting your voice mail? Is your voice mail in your address book?
L- No, I use key 1 to access voice mail. It just starts beeping. This also happens when I call other people, not just with voice mail.
C- Oh. So, you can't make phone calls?
L- (sighs). No. It beeps at me, says it's redialing, but it's really not, it's just beeping. And continues beeping until I hit the end call key multiple times.
C- Well, I'm afraid there's really not much I can do for you, because of the migration to GSM.
L- (insert multiple expletives here)
L- At one other point, I talked with someone about switching my plan for the duration of my contract to a $19.99 plan because I can't use my phone very much.
C- Oh, that would work. Let me find one for you. Here's one for $19.99. You get 45 anytime minutes, and that's it. It'll be more like a pager.
L- well, as long as I can at least text message people to let them know not to call my cell ever...
L- That should work.
C- Okay. You'll just have to renew your contract for a year...
L- cries
L- Um. I'm going to have to go with a no on that one. Sorry.
C- Yes, I understand. Is there anything else I can help you with today??
L- well, aside from helping me get my contract shortened, or at least can you pay for a Verizon or USCellular or T-Mobile or something that actually works in Ripon and Milwaukee and Appleton for me, that'd be great....
L- No, that'll be all. Thanks.
End call - 5:38pm. Not bad.
So, sigh, I have a useless cell phone until I move back to Milwaukee. I think when I get a real job, I might suffer the losses and get a new phone with another provider even though my contract isn't up until July 31. Unless service in Milwaukee is good. But if I go to Ohio, I might possibly be screwed, since Sandusky service was kind of like Ripon service, except even MORE fluky - and that was BEFORE the GSM migration.
However, in lieu of my craptastic, useless cell phone, I have come up with the following voice mail message:
Hi, you've reached Lauren's cell phone. It's either not with me, not on, or my cell phone provider's craptastic service has prevented my phone from actually ringing even though it's likely in the same general vicinity as I am, and the ringer is turned on. If you feel so inclined, you may leave a voice mail, and the aforementioned craptastic service might decide to notify me about said voice mail, but it could take upwards of a few hours, or even a few days. If you are extremely discouraged by this message, and feel that you will never get in touch with me, please feel free to call my landline at (123)456-7890 (okay, my real number is in the voice mail message, but i'm not posting it on the internet!), or send me a text message, again, which I might not get....and I ask myself, what is the point of owning a cell phone that provides me with no phone calls, voice mails, or text messages?? Have a nice day.
- posted by L. @ 5:42 PM

 
Deputy Dan will find us no matter how far away we go...
And identify that title....goooooooooooooooooo!
Ice cream. I need ice cream. Thank god for Ben & Jerry's...They make this super awesome stuff called Phish Food, that has marshmallow creme, and chocolate fish! And the fish are SO CUTE!! And caramel - and finally, chocolate ice cream. Yay!
I hate my sem, and I haven't even started.
FUCK!
Well, I think I'll be up laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate tonight, and tomorrow night....and every other night until, well, Sunday night. And hell, Sunday, I am spending the entire day in bed.
- posted by L. @ 9:14 PM

 
Reason 54820321753 why I hate Cingular...
I hate Cingular Wireless. Why do I hate Cingular Wireless, you may ask? Well, I'm sure there's not enough room on the internet for me to list all the reasons I hate Cingular...but here's some of the bigger reasons I hate Cingular:
1. They merged with AT&T, which I only signed up for to get away from Cingular.
2. My first bout with Cingular was in the 2002-03 school year where I got terrible reception in the dorms unless I was sitting practically in the window.
3. In April, the Cingular bill got delayed by about three weeks or so, and instead of sending me another bill or anything, they just shut off my service. Without bothering to let me know they were going to.
4. Then, in July of 2003, I paid my Cingular bill for the last time - except I paid it three times because of two computer glitches on Cingular's end.
Computer glitch number one: Did not accept my online check (and made it very clear that it did not accept my online check, and that there was an error so my balance was not paid off. newsflash: it was)...so instead of paying by online check again, I paid by credit card.
Computer glitch number two. Everyone who paid by credit card in the month of July got charged twice. Every single Cingular customer who paid by credit card got charged twice. Ridiculous. So add the $30 check that didn't go through, plus the $60 in credit card charges = $90....$60 more than my phone bill. Took way too much time on the phone with customer service to straighten that out. Luckily that was also the last day of my Cingular contract so I could make the switch to AT&T....or so I thought.
5. Not three months after I switched to AT&T, because their plans were BETTER, that Cingular announced their merger with AT&T (bangs head on desk). Luckily said merger did not take place until like, sometime in 2004...which is when my cell phone problems started again.
Let's just take a minute to outline the difference between Cingular plans and AT&T plans, and one can see why I switched...
$29.99 with Cingular: 250 anytime minutes, 1000 night and weekend minutes.
-can i just say that 1000 night and weekend minutes last about a week and a half when you're trying to maintain a long distance relationship over a summer?
$29.99 with AT&T: 300 anytime minutes, UNLIMITED night and weekend minutes.
Hmm. Seems obvious to me.
So, life is good (even though AT&T gave me a 262 number, but I didn't really have problems with said number until the merger with Cingular...)
Aside from the GSM network not working in Ripon fiasco, and my periodic death threats to AT&T on my blog with the whole GSM fiasco, my cell phone was kosher with AT&T...until the official merger.
6. In January, during an extreme fluke accident, my cell phone shattered. Okay. Totally my fault. I realize this. However, a call to Cingular yielded absolutely nothing but frustration.
(L - me, C - Cingular)
L- Hi, I broke my cell phone. It's on the old AT&T TDMA network. No, I can't switch to GSM. Don't tell me to look into switching to GSM, because I already did, and my coverage sucks. So don't waste my time telling me to switch to GSM.
C- Can you switch to GSM?
L- bangs landline on desk
L- No. I live in the middle of nowhere. Don't bother looking at my home zip code because it says Milwaukee. I don't actually live in Milwaukee most months of the year.
C- Let's see. According to your zip code, you have very good coverage in your area.
L- Did you not just hear me? *bangs phone on desk again* But I need another phone - a TDMA phone - because I have six months left on my contract and I'm not going to pay $30ish a month for no phone.
C- Well, since we have GSM, we don't actually sell any TDMA phones anymore.
L- Then what am I supposed to do? Are you going to let me off my contract early?
C- No. That would be $175. You have only six months left on your contract, and that would equal out to about $180, but you'd still have to pay other cell phone charges. You could switch to our $19.99 plan for the next six months...that would only cost you $120
L- What's the minute usage for that plan?
C- 45 anytime minutes, and that's it.
L- Um, no.
C- Well, that's your only option...
L- So you're telling me there are NO tdma phones at all???
C- Well, let me check with my supervisor. Please hold.
*cue obnoxious Cingular promotion spots*
C- I was able to find two phones for you - the Nokia 2260, your current phone. That one will be free...
L- Great!
C- ...with a two-year extension on your contract
L- *cries*
C- Or it will be $49.99 with a one year extension, or $120 bought flat out.
L- *cries harder*
L- Umm...let me call you back after I think about it. One more question: What if I can get my hands on another old TDMA phone for AT&T?
C- Then we can activate that on the phone.
L- Okay. Thank you.

The above conversation made me dumber because every single god damn time I call there with TDMA problems, they try to get me to switch to GSM. And they don't listen to when I explain how I can't switch to GSM...really a waste of my breath...
Continuing along...
7. Once back in Ripon, my lovely now-Cingular piece of shit phone that wasn't a piece of shit until AT&T merged with Cingular no longer rings. At least half of my phone calls I don't get. I'm sure you're wondering how I know this? Well, said caller either calls my landline in my room, or they leave a voice mail. Which I occasionally get.
Example: Over spring break, my dad called me three times and left three voice mails for me to let me know he was a- leaving milwaukee, b- getting to rosendale, and c- in ripon outside of my door. I got NONE of these calls, and Dad let me know he was there by throwing a snowball at my window.
Example no 2: On formal night, Dana called me to ask if I wanted to go to Miller's after formal. I didn't get the call. Someone called my room as I was on my way back from brushing my teeth, but I missed it by a few seconds. Dana left a voice mail...and I didn't get it till Friday - six days after she left said voice mail. Why did I get it on Friday? Because I left my extended area to the "home" area in Oshkosh...so, sorry Dana & Beth, that's why I didn't call you back!!!
8. Speaking of extended area...that was how AT&T let me know I was bouncing signal off another company's towers but that I wasn't going to get charged roaming charges, which are kind of steep at $0.65/minute (I learned this in Ohio a few times...whoops). I left for spring break on Thursday night and my phone read Extended Area. I then traveled to Appleton which was AT&T, and to the Dells (also AT&T)...and back to Ripon on Wednesday, where my phone now read "Roam." I called AT&T a few days later because I need to make phone calls from said phone. They told me my phone wasn't roaming, they estimated something happened to the tdma tower in/near Ripon, it wasn't going to get fixed ever, but I was still not roaming. But, they warned me, if I go the 6 miles down the road to Green Lake, then I'd be roaming. *bangs head on wall* How the fuck am I supposed to know the difference????
9. My last bill had me worried - I was watching my anytime minutes like a hawk. I had hovered somewhere around 275 or so about a week before my billing time ended, but the online minute viewing was never updating. So I was guessing. And I was paranoid, and making like, 1-2 minute phone calls during the day only in an emergency. So I get my bill. How many minutes do I use? 8 minutes total. WTF??????? 8 minutes - both anytime and night/weekend. ARGUH!! Why did I watch my minutes so closely??? WHY????
10. About two weeks ago, Andy called my room phone and asked why my cell phone had no service. I told him the phone didn't ring. He said it wasn't ringing on his end either. So, I pick up my phone, and dial speed dial 2...and end up at customer care. I turned off my phone (because that does occasionally fix problems), dialed speed dial 2 again - customer care again. *insert swearing* Finally, I call Andy on my phone card (that I use for emergencies). I then tell him I'm going to call AT&T. So I do. And they tell me that they shut my phone off because my last bill had gotten returned to them....EVEN though I PAID that bill, AND received a paper copy of it...and said paper copy definitely had my correct address on it. *bangs head on wall* So they turned my phone off for NO REASON, and didn't bother to tell me about it. Like, no email notification, no mail notification, no VOICE MAIL notification saying 'your bill was returned to us. if you don't call us, we're going to shut off your phone.' Fuckers.
11. I have a theory that something now has happened to that injured tower, and there is no signal at all, at least not where I'm situated...now my phone doesn't get ANY phone calls, and it doesn't make any either. Andy called my cell tonight, and he couldn't hear me the entire time. So he called my room. My room phone died. I told him I'd call him back on my cell. So I did, but he couldn't hear anything I was saying. So then the phone got cut off. I tried to call him back, and it beeped at me. Four phone calls in a row. Then I finally got through, but he was calling me at the same time, so it dropped my call. I called again. More beeping. Luckily, Andy thought to have me plug in the old crappy school phone with a phone cord, which is functional until my other phone charges. So, I have a basically useless cell phone. And who knows. It might be roaming.
You know, I'm thinking I might just take that $20 plan for the next few months, and get a new phone and carrier. It might just be worth it in the long run. DAMN YOU CINGULAR, DAMN YOU!
The moral is, don't get Cingular. Unless you live in a bustling metropolitan area. And then, don't get paper bills. And watch for online checks. And make sure they don't accidentally charge you for two months....
Yikes.
I should be writing sem....
But, what cell carrier should I get instead, should I go with that option? If you're still reading, anyway. :) I'm thinking Verizon, but there's also T-Mobile and Nextel and USCellular in this area...any input??
Addendum- reason 58934275835....(noon, April 11)
Today, I finally get ahold of the Cingular website to check my latest balance...
And...*drumroll*...once again, it's only charging me for phone calls I make in the home area!! RARGH!!! Why do I watch my minutes again???
Because Murphy's Law (or at least my law) states that if I were to, per chance, go over my anytime minutes, they would charge me for them, even though they're not charging me for all of my minutes as is. Damnit! I hate Cingular!!!
- posted by L. @ 1:06 AM

 
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- posted by L. @ 10:13 PM

 
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, DAY OF DOOM...DUN DUN DUN!
Wow, a written post. Get used to the audio posts though, folks, especially if I take another break from reality this summer. Then you won't lose track of me for three months like last summer...I mean, if you want to lose track of me for three months, well, then there might be some issues.
(insert multiple expletives here)
The aforementioned expletives are for the ever impending senior sem of doom....not to mention all the shit I have to do tomorrow (today?...it's past midnight):
*Make cucumber sandwiches for the international dinner that I can't even go to
*Choraliers
*Band concert
*Mozart rehearsal
*Fanfare rehearsal
*Digging futon (sans mattress) out of storage to send home with parents
*Sem, sem, sem, sem, sem, sem, sem, sem, sem, sem, sem, sem, sem....
*Sleep, maybe?

It recently occured to me that my bed is probably going to say "WTF?" on Saturday afternoon when I collapse into it from exhaustion after Relay for Life, not to mention an entire week with minimal sleep. And then, I will only leave my bed on Saturday to go to Liz's recital, then back to bed, then to do filming all night in Rodman...
After which, I will head back to bed, and stay there until Monday.
Oh...
Well, except to write my paper for Blake's class - provided he gives me an extension (must ask for extension on Tuesday).
I have no problems with writing a paper for Blake's class. I mean, think about the essay I wrote on the Puritans after about four hours at the bar? Or the essay on, um, on....uhhh...fuck...what was the topic again?...on...oh right. 17th century Virginia. Not a problem (well, the Puritan one was somewhat problematic, but it got done, which is the important part).
But this one...ohhhhhhhhhh this one...he had to give us the assignment with us writing our own topic! That's going to take me at least a day to figure out - give the lack of reading I've done again for this unit. :) And, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't Blake and McGowan married? Shouldn't they talk about things like, due dates among history classes that include history major seniors??? Merf.
Well...I think I can get an extension. 'Cause if I don't, this paper is going to just be late anyway. Or another flaming pile of cowshit...
Or maybe I can write a paper listing (in sentence form), all of Ben Franklin's accomplishments.
Ahem, ahem:
Ben Franklin was an inventor.
Ben Franklin was a printer.
Ben Franklin was a self-centered asshole.
Ben Franklin lived in, uh, Boston? Or Philadelphia?
(I read the autobiography - I swear! Okay, I lied. Hmmm...)
Ben Franklin flew a kite in a thunderstorm.
Ben Franklin, consequently, invented the lightning rod.
And so on and so forth for at least six pages.
Not unlike my immigrants paper from freshman year...
Immigrants come from many countries. Immigrants come from Mexico. Immigrants come from Canada. Immigrants come from Russia. Immigrants come from Uzbekistan. Immigrants come from Kazakhstan so they can get away from the wooden cathedral that was built in Almaty/Alma-Ata in 1904 with no nails. Immigrants come from Bosnia. Immigrants come from Japan. Immigrants come from China...
You get the point.
Hmmmm...a history major hard at work.
- posted by L. @ 12:38 AM

 
Audio - take two!

- posted by L. @ 1:05 PM

 
Me and Emily on History sem...

Lauren: senior seminar, n: 1- a thesis paper written after a year of research on a very specific topic for history majors at Ripon College. 2- a pain in my ass that isn't going to get done!

Auto response from Emily: dear life:
i give up. you win.
love, emily

Lauren: haha! i quit!
Lauren: okay...i wish
Lauren: damn you sem! damn you!

Emily: yeah, that's how I feel right now too.

Lauren: i'm going to make 4 copies of my paper when i'm done - 1 for mcgowan, 1 for my peer editor, 1 for the library, and 1 to set on fire

Emily: oh, I like that idea
Emily: we'll have a bonfire

Lauren: splendid idea!
Lauren: i wonder if they'd get mad if we did that in the hallway

Emily: we'll roast marshmallows and everything
Emily: maybe
Emily: but who cares

Lauren: O:-)
Lauren: great idea! s'mores and burning sem papers!

Emily: yay!

Lauren: ooh, that almost makes me want to do my sem
Lauren: haha, temporary lapse there
Lauren: i'm back to reality now

Emily: hee hee
Emily: why are we history majors again?

Lauren: 'cause we're overachievers, since we want to get a double major on our diploma *facepalm*
Lauren: bad idea! bad idea!

Emily: yeah, I should have just settled for the history minor when I had the chance.
Emily: damn us for being over acheivers

Lauren: meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee tooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Lauren: yes! what were we thinking!!!
Lauren: it's not like a history major amounts to anything anyway :-)

Emily: yeah, true

Lauren: i wonder if i can get caffeine and/or speed in an IV somehow
Lauren: hmmmm

Emily: oooh, that's a good idea.... no sleep at all!

Lauren: sudafed has the same effects on me as speed....
Lauren: hmmm

Emily: hee hee

Lauren: i wonder if i can block access to websites such as addictinggames.com until april 15 :-)

Emily: hmmm, I don't think so.

Lauren: oh, that could be bad

Emily: I swear I should just block the internet all together, it's going to be so distracting

Lauren: i know!! if i didn't need the library of congress website...
Lauren: how is your sem doing, page-wise?

Emily: yeah. cause I'll just start checking my e-mail compulsively if I'm trying to avoid work.

Lauren: me too!

Emily: since I've started re-writing?

Lauren: yeah

Emily: about 4-5 pages

Lauren: not bad
Lauren: mine's still at 5...gack

Emily: I think we should gang up on joe, he has something like 12 pages done

Lauren: i know!!!
Lauren: but, i guess he has a SEMI-excuse, his other written sem

Emily: yeah, but still
Emily: makes us feel like slackers.

Lauren: true. not good enough of an excuse.

Emily: hee hee

Lauren: 12 pages. bah!

- posted by L. @ 1:46 AM

 
Worst. Senioritis. EVER.
Yup, that's me!!!!!
The good news is, I'm allowed to have my recital (phew). The bad news is, I still have to write my god damn sem! (countdown to sem due date: 10 days. *insert multiple expletives here*). Guess what I'm going to do all day tomorrow! And most of the day on Thursday! And most of the day Friday!!! And part of Sunday. And Monday...and Tuesday, and Wednesday, and Thursday, till I turn the damn thing in next Friday...just in time to stay up all night for Relay For Life (if you see me at relay passed out anyway, don't disturb, unless i run the risk of being trampled). ;)
Downloaded Brigadoon, Hello Dolly!, My Fair Lady, and Damn Yankees on to my iPod at work today...I was so bored. I was out of Rodman by the normal hour of 10:00, made a quick stop at the Terrace with Kali, then headed back here. I am so tired...it's pathetic. I even napped this afternoon - well, for a little while. But I didn't fall asleep till 4:05 (the last time I checked) this morning, and was up and out the door by 8:15. It was a long night. Rargh. But, my hearing is over, and Kirin is dumb. (newsflash)
I slept through class today, but oh well. I just have to read some of Ben Franklin's autobiography for Thursday. Blah. Who wants to do work at this point??? Crap!! I hate having senioritis - and I get it oh-so-frequently. This time it's actually senioritis, though, as opposed to "I have senioritis, but I'm a junior/sophomore/freshman..."
Yay for Fanfare practice on Sunday!
And next Wednesday is free because of the awards convocation (which I don't have to go to this year - *does gleeful dance*)!!
Idealistically, I will get my sem done prior to next Friday (meaning it will be done by the time Friday rolls around, not finishing up frantically on Friday 10 minutes before it is due). Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha...okay, I'm just kidding. :)
Wow, my life is boring. I'm surprised I'm even writing this. I doubt anyone will read it. But if you do, you should leave me a comment, because comments make me happy. Then it will balance out the negativity that is history senior sem. ;)
Incidentally, my shuffle on iTunes just brought up Ice, Ice Baby, and cripes, I can't listen to it. I get a very bizarre mental picture of Mike Alexander driving in a convertible, with a baggy sweater, a gold chain, and tapered jeans. Thank you, butt-face (aka Chris). :)
- posted by L. @ 11:19 PM

 
Gasp...
So...it's now getting to be oh-so-very-close to the hearing time (about nine hours, whee!)...
Wish me luck on my recital hearing! 9am sucks! but it was the only available time all week! Blah! But, the earlier it starts, the earlier it's over, and life can go on as it should. :)
Send happy thoughts in my general direction tomorrow at 9am CST! :)
- posted by L. @ 12:20 AM

 
Yea formal! :)
Okay. I have finally updated my photos page ... but just a warning, a lot of the pictures are fuzzy. I'm not quite sure why, there was a flash, and whatnot, and some turned out better than others. But at least you can't say I never update!
Formal Pictures!
They're under *duh* Spring Formal 2005. :)
(p.s. if anyone else who was there had their digital camera and would like to send me any pictures, feel free, and i will put them on my photos page!)
Anywho, formal was a lot of fun. Granted, I spent much of it sitting at the bar socializing, but hey, whatever makes it fun. My very last formal as a student (we'll see if there are any appearances as an alum - aka the Pink Gang...)
It was good to see all the alums. And we were the "rowdy" table, which was hilarious. Good times, good times.
Anyway, it's a beautiful day, and while I should be reading the Autobiography of Ben Franklin for Tuesday, I have no desire whatsoever to do any reading or homework at all for that matter, so we shall see. Perhaps later I'll go to the library (wait, where's the library?), but, eh, who wants to be ambitious on a Sunday afternoon? A daylight savings time Sunday afternoon, for that matter! Bah homework! :) Yea sunshine!
- posted by L. @ 2:19 PM

 
Waiting till midnight...
It's about 45 minutes till midnight, and I'm sitting here watching an episode of The Pretender but it just recently (as in the last 3 minutes) occured to me that I haven't been paying attention at all for the last 10-15 minute or so, so DAMN...going to have to re-watch this episode. That's the thing that sucks about complex plots and such...can't really miss too much time in them. I'm contemplating turning it off completely, and watching Road to Rhode Island (and now for something completely different...) instead.
I'm sure you all wanted to know my thought progression on this. Heh.
(Should borrow Freakin' Sweet Collection from Schoofs - along with The Sound of Music - because the season two discs don't have Brian & Stewie commentary. Damn.)
Anywho..
Perhaps this continual state of melting is doing something for my weight, as I've taken to walking to and from Rodman via Thorne Street, because it's not quite to the "take off your sandals and walk in the grass" weather yet.
Ah! Walking in the grass with no shoes, so much fun. Like when we were trying to establish an alibi, because if you take the air out of a person's tires, they're going to know exactly when the air was removed, and henceforth if they see you at said time, then they'll know you didn't do it...um. Well, it made sense at the time. *snickers*
Anyway, almost time to hit the bars! Yay!
- posted by L. @ 11:12 PM

 
Gulp...
Okay...
Formal is tomorrow night. Yay! I think I'm going to go casual again...since I'm going to have to dress up for my recital, and I'm not in the mood quite frankly to get into the red and black formal dress, including corset of doom, lots of bobby pins to hide said corset of doom, and a lace up back. I know I'm on a healthier eating kick, but still...
So yesterday, my teacher and I came to the scary realization that I have three lessons before my recital. I'm going to reiterate once again why I'm so relieved that my recital isn't on April 17...
Sem! Sem is due on April 15 (only 14 days according to Emily's sem due date count). There will most likely be no sleeping for that entire week getting sem done. Relay for Life is April 15-16. There will again be no sleep. A recital on April 17 would have meant no Relay. I would have been dead on my feet for the entire week prior to the recital - and that's probably not a good thing.
It was rain/sleet/hailing here earlier. I hope it's stopped, 'cause I have to go down to Rodman to do recital stuff. :)
Tonight (at midnight), Amanda turns 21!!!!!!!!! Score for going out with good friends & good drinks - and yea for Amanda being 21!!! *grins*
Incidentally, the lack of comments has made me sad. *hint, hint* :)
- posted by L. @ 2:22 PM