So I haven't blogged in like a month. Whoops. School got hard, what can I say?!
Things are getting better here in Stilly. I actually hung out with people every day this weekend (meaning Thursday-Sunday) which was so great for my brain, but terrible for my studies. Again, whoops. But I don't care. I had a much better time sitting in a hot tub drinking wine with friends than I ever would have reading about theory or something else that I don't care so much about, so I'm really not even mad that I'm terribly behind now. I may rethink that by the end of the week, but for now, I'm good. And, it's really great to have the worst week of the semester under my belt...however, I get my first grad school test back tomorrow (er, today) and that could completely change my outlook. But again, I'm going to sit in this moment and relish in my awesome weekend.
Speaking of this weekend, I experienced my first two earthquakes here...what the hell? I know Oklahoma is all about tornadoes and heat and I was prepared for that-Nebraska has the same problems-but who the hell associates Oklahoma with earthquakes? Weird. I guess I can say that I've actually been in a tornado AND an earthquake now, I just need a hurricane to complete the trifecta of natural disasters. This weekend I also pretended to be an OSU fan...watched the ENTIRE game, and it was incredible, mostly because of how terribly we were playing. But I watched, I wore orange, and we won, and I had a good time with friends, so chalk one up to school spirit.
As for tonight, I got to spend some good time with my family in the city (also, I think it's lame that people here call Oklahoma City "the city," I wonder if people do that about Omaha...I doubt it) which was incredible. Sometimes, you just need some home cooking and some happy family and baby-smelling babies to make you feel all good inside. Besides that, though, I got to spend 2 hours in the car jamming to music, which is always good for the soul. And I've kicked some serious Suzie Homemaker ass tonight...did 4 loads of laundry, got it ALL folded and put away, which never happens...did a little cleaning, watched Grey's Anatomy...pretty solid Sunday night, except for the fact that it's 2:15 in the morning and there's no sign of me going to bed anytime soon.
My big letdown of the weekend is that someone cracked my bumper on my car. I don't know if it was at school or Walmart, but someone broke my car (more than it's already broken) which blows. I hope it doesn't fall off when I'm driving home in a few weeks. But, to compensate, I got the CD player installed, so for the first time in like 6 years of owning this car, I can actually play a medium of music that was created in the last 20 years, instead of the cassettes I was relying on before the cassette player broke!!! Such a win (thanks, Dad, for finding the unit!) Nothing will come between me and my music anymore....sorry to all drivers that will have to watch me hardcore car dance. And I got a table! No more random table frame sitting in my dining area....my cousin and his wife are letting me borrow a sweet high table and 4 chairs that they aren't using, and I am so excited!
More good news....my upstairs neighbors have finally shut the hell up. It's been so weird not having my walls shake from the bass and being able to sleep at night...I am so excited. Now, the big problem is that the neighbors all around smoke and my apartment smells like a bar all the time, no matter how many smelly things I have around the apartment. There isn't enough febreeze in the world to deal with this. Gross. But, I can sleep, so I'll take what I can get....
Besides all of that, my life is SUPER lame. I feel like all I do is read or write papers, and that blows. I'm really burnt out of this whole "being a student" thing, but I guess I have to keep sucking it up and reminding myself that this is actually what I want to do. I'm forcing myself to do things with people outside of school, because I desperately need that to keep any semblance of sanity. So far it's working for me pretty well :) Probably happier this weekend than I have been in ages, so I'm going to keep it up!
As for the current song I'm obsessed with: Here Comes The Sun Again, by M. Ward. I'm pretty sure I got this from some car commercial, then had to youtube stalk to figure out what it was, but I really like it!
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