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2008 21 December :: 11.46 pm
I did not get to go to Lansing because my one plan and my five backup plans fell through. It was not meant to be.
I am working on Tuesday, Nick's and my parents' celebramatations on Wednesday and Thursday. Nick's parents' again on Saturday. And MAYBE meeting up with the friends I couldn't see in Lansing Saturday night.
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It's the feeling that you're falling
but there's a fine line between falling and flying. |
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2008 19 December :: 3.32 pm
One semester left until I am thrown into the real world without guidance or a job.
I AM SO EXCITED TO NOT HAVE HOMEWORK OR TESTS ANYMORE OMG
In other news, I'm going to Lansing this weekend.
It's the feeling that you're falling
but there's a fine line between falling and flying. |
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2008 12 December :: 10.13 pm
I hate Windows
Me: Hey, I wanna play this game with my 360 controller.
Windows: Oh okay.
Me: This game says it's the coolest with the controller.
Windows: Mmhmm.
Me: It says it does rumble.
Windows: Yes.
Me: So, I'm gonna plug it in...and you should...see it right?
Windows: Sure.
Me: Okay, it's there.
Windows: I'm not seeing it.
Me: Well, it's there.
Windows: Still not seeing it.
Me: Let me unplug it and I'll put it back in.
Windows: Uh no. Nothing.
Me: Um. So. Do you need a driver or something for this?
Windows: I'm not quite sure.
Me: Can you check?
Windows: No.
Me: Well, I'm going to ask Google. He always knows.
Windows: I can wait.
Me: He says you do.
Windows: Okay.
Me: I went to your website and you just wanted me to buy a controller.
Windows: Well, yeah. You need one to play the game.
Me: Yeah, well. I have one right here. Remember? It's plugged in.
Windows: Oh. Yeah. I can't see it though.
Me: Right.
Windows: Right.
Me: So, I'm going to go ask Google again. Maybe he knows a better place.
Windows: Okay.
Me: He told me to go to your website again.
Windows: Yeah, it's probably there.
Me: Well, the link they sent me to? It doesn't work.
Windows: Huh.
Me: So. I'm going to look around a little.
Windows: Okay.
Me: Why isn't it on the page with the controller? You know. Under related topics or links or whatever.
Windows: Shrug.
Me: Huh.
Windows: ...
Me: Oh well I'm going to go to this product download link.
Windows: Mmhmm.
Me: Why do you need to know what I'm downloading it for? I told you on that other page.
Windows: I forgot.
Me: ...
Windows: I can't see it. I forgot.
Me: ...
Windows: ...
Me: Okay, well it's downloading.
Windows: What?
Me: A driver or something. I don't know. It's downloading.
Windows: Okay.
Me: Why is it going to take five minutes?
Windows: I don't know.
Me: Okay.
Windows: ...
Me: Well, it's done.
Windows: Okay.
Me: So, it's installing.
Windows: Okay.
Me: You know, my OS came out after the 360.
Windows: Yeah.
Me: So why didn't you just include the driver with the OS?
Windows: I don't know.
Me: I have a lot of useless stuff from you already. Why didn't you just include it?
Windows: I don't know.
Me: Okay it's done.
Windows: Okay.
Me: Why the hell do you always want me to restart? The light is lit up. Why do I have to restart?
Windows: I don't know.
Me: Bill Gates doesn't even know why I have to restart.
Windows: Well...we don't talk anymore.
Me: Huh. Well, I'm not restarting.
Windows: Okay.
Me: I'm going to go play my game now.
Windows: We'll see...
Me: Wait.
Windows: What?
Me: Why's the program still there?
Windows: Which one?
Me: The one I installed the driver with.
Windows: I don't know.
Me: Why couldn't you just delete it after it installed?
Windows: I don't know.
Me: And what's this Windows Update thing?
Windows: Hm?
Me: You just installed the driver and already you need to fix it.
Windows: Well... This is an update just for you.
Me: You couldn't just put the latest version on your website?
Windows: No.
Me: You asked me what OS I was using.
Windows: Yes. Yes I did.
Me: So. You could have just the latest one for my OS there. On that special page. For me.
Windows: Yeah.
Me: Huh.
Windows: Yeah.
Me: You want me to restart again.
Windows: Yeah.
Me: Fine.
Windows: See you later.
Me: Whatever.
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It's the feeling that you're falling
but there's a fine line between falling and flying. |
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2008 9 December :: 10.40 pm
All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
The cat is both dead and alive.
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It's the feeling that you're falling
but there's a fine line between falling and flying. |
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2008 2 December :: 2.28 am
crossposted
I am very blessed. I have a boyfriend who loves me (and lets me sleep and makes me bagels with cream cheese and turkey (when I don't feel well and when he thinks it sounds disgusting)) and whom I love. I have a family that despite my coming home from a semester in Europe and immediately moving out, still loves me.
I am blessed because I had two Thanksgivings. And I will have two Christmases.
I talked to one of the new student workers today. His father lost his factory job and his mother lost her greenhouse job. Downsizing. He had Spaghetti O's for Thanksgiving. In his dorm room. He says Christmas doesn't look too great either.
I left work crying.
I've always had a Christmas. I've always had a Thanksgiving. No matter how poor my parents said they were that year. I can't imagine not having one. But this kid did. This kid will.
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It's the feeling that you're falling
but there's a fine line between falling and flying. |
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2008 26 November :: 10.14 pm
I feel like I learn more about faith and feel better about faith in my Arabic class than I ever did in my Theology class.
In my Theology class, I was angry and upset that I was supposed to believe what he said I needed to. That I needed to obey the laws he said existed. Laws and rules I didn't think any god cared about.
In my Arabic class, I feel good about this god that I thought was mean and restrictive. I feel good about the world. Every day we have a religious discussion, even inadvertently.
I guess I'm not doing the Catholic thing anymore? I guess I haven't for a while. I like this God guy. I'm feeling things out but I'm a big fan of this non-denominational thing. I just hate religion so much. We'll see where this goes.
It's the feeling that you're falling
but there's a fine line between falling and flying. |
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2008 16 October :: 2.34 pm
:: Music: Sons and Daughters
To everyone who will never see this:
(This isn't about you. If you think it's about you, it's not. It's about a certain vous.)
Not everyone's religion is your religion. You can't just push your views on me and I can't just push my views on you.
I believe in God. But my god seems to be a little nicer than your god. And if that makes me wrong, or a heathen or whatever, I don't care. I'm living in a happy, nice world with a happy, nice God who loves everyone, where free will means free happiness and where people are happy and love each other. If that's not a world you like, that's fine because it's my world. And I'm happy here.
I just don't understand why anyone would want people to not be happy.
I don't understand how what you do makes you happy. Does judging others make you feel better? Does alienating your friends and family make you happy? If it does, then that's fine. I'd only ever want you to be happy. But if it doesn't? Why do you keep doing it?
I love you all.
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It's the feeling that you're falling
but there's a fine line between falling and flying. |
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2008 5 October :: 2.38 pm
Nick's little sister got married last night. She turns 20 in November. As much of a horrible ideas as I thought getting married at that age was, after it all, I am so happy for Jess and Ryan. They obviously love and care for each other quite a bit and share the same ideas and faith. They're both silly and a little ditzy. And besides, people probably think the idea of Nick and I getting married is ridiculous too.
In the end, I had so much fun dancing and dressing up and partying and celebrating with them that none of it mattered. Not waking up at 7 to get my hair sprayed into a fake updo at 8:45. Not getting my makeup done and feeling guilty about Nick's mom spending over 200 dollars. Not the stupid fights we had only weeks before. The only thing that mattered was seeing Jess walk down that aisle yesterday and feeling so happy for her. For everyone.
Congratulations, you two. And good luck.
I love you all.
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It's the feeling that you're falling
but there's a fine line between falling and flying. |
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2008 4 October :: 12.17 am
So Nick's little sister is getting married tomorrow. I'm not sure how I feel about this yet. I am a bridesmaid. I am going to bed now.
It's the feeling that you're falling
but there's a fine line between falling and flying. |
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2008 20 September :: 2.15 am
Things have been crazy. Good, but crazy.
I filled out my app for degree yesterday and Pichot turned it in to the office today. I'm graduating in May. This is the weirdest, scariest feeling I've felt since those four months in France. And I feel bad eating Tums like candy here.
Classes are going okay. Ceramics class sucks because on a scale from one to a lot, I have negative five art skills. And there are art students in class even though the title specifically says FOR NON-MAJORS. GET OUT OF MY CLASS, ART KIDS, YOU'RE MAKING MY BAD ART LOOK WORSE.
French is god-awful. I shouldn't expect a 400 level French class to be not hard but it is terrible. We watched four versions of Madame Bovary and for our test on Monday he expects us to tell all the movies apart by director's name. I cannot tell them apart. There's the French color one, the American black and white one, the French black and white one and the British miniseries. But if you ask me, vrai ou faux, dans la film de Renoir, Léon a cassé la vitre avec son main, I couldn't tell you.
Everything else is okay. Tai Chi is making my legs hurt. 1776 is playing at Civic theatre and I'm planning on seeing it this weekend.
OH! Will.i.am is coming to my school on Sunday. Crazy, right? I am pumped.
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It's the feeling that you're falling
but there's a fine line between falling and flying. |
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2008 4 September :: 11.20 pm
! الحمد لله
I started my last year of college last week. I do not want to talk about how much this is freaking me out.
I am so sorry that I haven't updated lately but things have been crazy. On Mondays and Thursdays, I have class from 9am - 7pm with 5 minutes between classes and work crammed in there too. Otherwise, I have one or two classes.
Here's the rundown:
Mondays/Thursdays
I have Cartography at 9. This class is awesome because I've always wanted to be a useless cartographer and it's taught by Bieneman. Did I ever tell you I had his wife in elementary school? She was my fourth grade teacher. Her mother passed away this week.
At 10:50, I go to work until 1:25.
Don't even get me started on these new kids. They deserve their own post.
At 1:40, I have French Film and Lit. It's only the second week of school and I already am just reading the SparkNotes. The class would be so much less painful with you girls but I'm surviving okay with...the one girl whose name I still don't know after four years and some other girl.
Five minutes after the end of French class, I have Ceramics. It's really just a class to help me calm down but I've already broken two pots and found two very not artistic buddies. I am so not artsy.
Five minutes after the end of feeling dumb, I have Arabic. Which is, quite frankly, awesome. It is difficult but a ton of fun. I feel like such a genius when I get a word right or when I understand what's going on. Also: heritage! I hope I get to talk to my mom's relatives before the kick the bucket because now I know my blood languages (as my mom calls it).
Tuesdays/Fridays
I have a confession to make. Because I couldn't afford the textbook and he stressed homework so much, I dropped my history class. So now I have to take it next semester.
In other news, at 10:50, I have Tai Chi. Which is reaching Folk and Square Dance in awesomeness. The prof learned Tai Chi directly from some famous family who created a form of Tai Chi. He is a hoot. I have a thousand stories from him. He fell off a curb and landed on cement about a year ago and had trouble walking again. His hip hurt when he walked so he couldn't walk across the room until he tried doing Tai Chi. When he walked by doing his Tai Chi moves, his hip didn't hurt any more. Since he is injured, his wife does most of the demonstrations. She also helps him remember how old he is when he adds thirteen years to his age. Both of them are pretty old, 60s and 70s, but they are hilarious. He calls himself Monk and his wife Natalie Teager. Most of the class is taken up by his stories.
On Tuesdays, I have Arabic at 6 (work before that (10:50 to 5) but I have Arabic only Mondays through Thursdays so I just have Tai Chi and work on Fridays.
On Wednesdays, I am not working for the first time in my life. So all I have is Arabic at 6. I sleep, I read, I do homework, I relax.
Overall, this semester is awesome but very stressful. I have a lot of work ahead of me.
I love you all.
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