well it's been WAY too long since i've updated.

summer

it was probably the last summer i'll spend in michigan, which makes me sort of sad. i think i always knew in the back of my mind that the day would come when i'd probably be leaving michigan for some 'grown-up' reason, but i guess i never figured those 'grown-up' days would come. i didn't really ( Read more... )

It's been more than a month since I last wrote in this thing...seems like a lot longer than that though ( Read more... )

so stressed.
so overwhelmed.
cannot write in complete sentences.

to do by thursday..

• thesis presentation (not even close to being done)
• pol 201 group presentation (i'm in charge of the report, and again, not even close to being done)
• south african history paper (i haven't even touched it since he gave us back our first draft)

i am on the verge of going ( Read more... )

so last week was spring break.

i decided that going home and sitting on my ass was not an option this year, so i signed up to go on an alternative break trip to philadelphia, working in classrooms in an inner city school.

one of the best decisions i've made in a long time.

these are the kids that most of society has already written off as 'never ( Read more... )

i found this while i was researching senior profiles for my pol 201...it's like she read my mind...

Type your cut contents here.Hey, Senior Girls: You Deserve More

I’ll admit it, I’m a Sex and the City addict. I have seen every episode at least once, and I regularly watch the chopped up reruns on TBS and the WB. I even got the entire series ( Read more... )

things i don't like lately:
being reminded that graduation is coming up sooner than i am ready, always worrying about what's coming in the mail, watching my grandparents slip away, seeing my mommy so stressed out about it, my senior thesis and the three other major research papers i have to write this semester, and an overall serious lack of funds.

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there's nothing quite like the embarassment/awkwardness that comes from reading an e-mail from your dad recommending that you and all your friends get the HPV vaccine so that we don't get cervical cancer.  gotta love a pops that works for the community health department. 

sooo the beginning of the end has begun....let's recap the first week, shall we? :)

hmmm. my classes. what to say about those.... they're not terrible, but i'm not super excited about any of them.

• hst 122: the topic is pretty interesting, but it's a dumbed down version of con law that i took last year so it is kinda boring not to be learning anything ( Read more... )

going back to alma for the last time...

"so before we end and then begin
we'll drink a toast to how it's been
a few more times that i can say
i've loved these days"

life is wonderful sometimes.

i woke up this morning to our first real snowstorm of the winter. it was beautiful. i love walking outside while it snows. it seems to at least muffle everything and make life quieter.

i took an environmental exam that i felt fairly confident about, minus a question or two that tripped me up.

i laughed a lot with my ( Read more... )