Long ass boring update. Read if you are that bored.
Last week I camped out at my parents' house during the icey weather. I got there Monday and left on Friday. It was so nice to be home during an ice storm. There's just more to look at and do outside than there is at my apartment. Plus, all the kids on my street were running around when it started snowing. It was so cute! After a couple of days, my mom and I ventured out to go look for a couple of school books I needed, then made a trip to my apartment to pick up a couple of extra things. They wanted me to stay Wed night so that one of them could take me to school in a car that has 4 wheel drive. Getting to school took about 1 hr and 15 min. My prof to my first class got there 45min late. She left her house in South Austin at 9am, but ended up having to take lamar to UT to avoid most of the ice. So 2hr 45min later she arrived at her destination. Thursday I got out of class at 7pm, right after the second front moved in so I was frozen. My dad was stuck in traffic trying to get me, so I had to wait inside Dobie for about 45min. I was too tired to do anything so I just sat there and watched all of the skinny tan girls go in and out of Tan it All. It was funny to me. I decided that it was too cold and I was too tired to move back home that night. I pumped enough caffeine in me to keep me awake until midnight, then finally fell asleep around 2am. I've been having some serious sleeping problems again. No fun.
My classes seem alright this semester, but the work load is probably going to kill me. Well at least kill my social life. I have about 25 novels I have to read. Most of them are chapter books for youth, but considering I have to have 1 read for every class day, and on top of that I have to read alot of picture books, I'm going to be reading until my eyes die. I'm in 3 lit classes this semester. I have to take 2 of them, and one I'm in because I needed something in case I didn't get into my waitlisted class. I got into that class, so I'm going to see how this other one goes. At the moment I'm thinking about doing P/F on it. I feel that the prof is making it alot harder than it should be for the given name and level UT assigned it.
My classes:
Children's Lit
Practical Phonetics (spanish)
ESL: Methods of linguistics
Intro into Spanish literature since 1700
Literature and Education
considering I'm a math type person, this schedule sucks. However, I start my PDS sequence next fall and I really can't add any other classes than the ones they give me. I know a couple of girls that did that. They started working 12-14hr in a classroom, then had 5 3hr classes. They were always sick and run down. I don't need that if I want to keep skating. Hopefully by next fall I will only have 1 more skating test I need to do.
Yesterday was a tough long day. At work I was short one coach because she had hurt her back. That alone can cause a bit of chaos. Luckily, there was a mom who could kind of skate that helped out her normal class, because I'm needed to help teach another one. Then I taught her class during the second sessionl. Next week is evaluations for the whole skating school, and I'm in charge of that, plus i have to evalute some kiddos for one of the coaches. This means I have to find a sub for the girl whose back is hurt. She should really do this herself, but she's not that reliable of a person, and I really want someone there. After classes some of the coaches noticed that they needed copies of evaluation forms for next week. I was happy to stay and do them so that I didn't have to worry about it next week. Then I met the copier. Piece of shit! I've never had problems with it before, but nothing was seeming to work correctly. After about an hour everything was done, and the copier was lucky to get away with no skate damage done to it.
Then I went to target and bought a couple of things. I saw all of these cute bikinis, and wanted to try them on. However, since I'm not at the weight I need to be at, I just decided not to try any of them on. I knew I would hate the way I looked in them right now, and then I would be sad. I'll just go get some in a couple of months when hopefully alot of this weight is gone. (I just gotta get back into the rink! damn ice storm). After that I went and ate with Sheri and her friend Brittany at Hula Hut. I barely ate anything, not really sure why. I think I just waited way too long to eat and wasn't really hungry any more. After that Sheri and I struggled through 3 half price book stores trying to find books for our classes. So excited to find out that Sheri is in my Kid Lit class. I didn't even know she was trying to get in, so this will be class number 5 that we'll be in together since we've been at UT. Today we're going to the store near my parents' house to pick up her last few books then heading off to borders to get the rest.
Last night I met up with a couple of girl friends. We tried to go bowling, but there was too long of a wait everywhere. We ended up going to Slick Willie's and playing some pool. We all sucked. I had a couple of really nice shots that made me look good, that was nice. I had one drink the entire night cuz my stomach had been messed up after Hula Hut. sucky. One of the girl's apparently turned 21 a week ago, and she drank a shit load. Pretty funny though. After we got bored with playing pool, we walked down to Common Interest and watched the drunks sing kareoke. There was one creepy guy there. He was like a creppy Fonz the way he stood and watched the girls. Totally dressed up in a 50s kind of look. Then there was this other guy that 2 of the girls had met at the bar. I couldn't figure out if he was gay or not, but I'm pretty sure he was the way he was interacting with everyone. He was soo funny, a little annoying, but really funny. Very similar to the guy that entertained us iwth his drunkeness in San Antonio. Eventually the drunk girl from my group and his drunkass were talking just the 2 of them, leaving the rest of us to sing along with the music. Fun night. Got in around 12, so that was nice even though I didn't go to bed until 3. Hopefully, those girls and I are going to go back to CI next month. yay!
Long ass update. Sorry, I just get to ramblin' on. I'll blame it on the cabin fever =). Have a great week y'all.
My classes seem alright this semester, but the work load is probably going to kill me. Well at least kill my social life. I have about 25 novels I have to read. Most of them are chapter books for youth, but considering I have to have 1 read for every class day, and on top of that I have to read alot of picture books, I'm going to be reading until my eyes die. I'm in 3 lit classes this semester. I have to take 2 of them, and one I'm in because I needed something in case I didn't get into my waitlisted class. I got into that class, so I'm going to see how this other one goes. At the moment I'm thinking about doing P/F on it. I feel that the prof is making it alot harder than it should be for the given name and level UT assigned it.
My classes:
Children's Lit
Practical Phonetics (spanish)
ESL: Methods of linguistics
Intro into Spanish literature since 1700
Literature and Education
considering I'm a math type person, this schedule sucks. However, I start my PDS sequence next fall and I really can't add any other classes than the ones they give me. I know a couple of girls that did that. They started working 12-14hr in a classroom, then had 5 3hr classes. They were always sick and run down. I don't need that if I want to keep skating. Hopefully by next fall I will only have 1 more skating test I need to do.
Yesterday was a tough long day. At work I was short one coach because she had hurt her back. That alone can cause a bit of chaos. Luckily, there was a mom who could kind of skate that helped out her normal class, because I'm needed to help teach another one. Then I taught her class during the second sessionl. Next week is evaluations for the whole skating school, and I'm in charge of that, plus i have to evalute some kiddos for one of the coaches. This means I have to find a sub for the girl whose back is hurt. She should really do this herself, but she's not that reliable of a person, and I really want someone there. After classes some of the coaches noticed that they needed copies of evaluation forms for next week. I was happy to stay and do them so that I didn't have to worry about it next week. Then I met the copier. Piece of shit! I've never had problems with it before, but nothing was seeming to work correctly. After about an hour everything was done, and the copier was lucky to get away with no skate damage done to it.
Then I went to target and bought a couple of things. I saw all of these cute bikinis, and wanted to try them on. However, since I'm not at the weight I need to be at, I just decided not to try any of them on. I knew I would hate the way I looked in them right now, and then I would be sad. I'll just go get some in a couple of months when hopefully alot of this weight is gone. (I just gotta get back into the rink! damn ice storm). After that I went and ate with Sheri and her friend Brittany at Hula Hut. I barely ate anything, not really sure why. I think I just waited way too long to eat and wasn't really hungry any more. After that Sheri and I struggled through 3 half price book stores trying to find books for our classes. So excited to find out that Sheri is in my Kid Lit class. I didn't even know she was trying to get in, so this will be class number 5 that we'll be in together since we've been at UT. Today we're going to the store near my parents' house to pick up her last few books then heading off to borders to get the rest.
Last night I met up with a couple of girl friends. We tried to go bowling, but there was too long of a wait everywhere. We ended up going to Slick Willie's and playing some pool. We all sucked. I had a couple of really nice shots that made me look good, that was nice. I had one drink the entire night cuz my stomach had been messed up after Hula Hut. sucky. One of the girl's apparently turned 21 a week ago, and she drank a shit load. Pretty funny though. After we got bored with playing pool, we walked down to Common Interest and watched the drunks sing kareoke. There was one creepy guy there. He was like a creppy Fonz the way he stood and watched the girls. Totally dressed up in a 50s kind of look. Then there was this other guy that 2 of the girls had met at the bar. I couldn't figure out if he was gay or not, but I'm pretty sure he was the way he was interacting with everyone. He was soo funny, a little annoying, but really funny. Very similar to the guy that entertained us iwth his drunkeness in San Antonio. Eventually the drunk girl from my group and his drunkass were talking just the 2 of them, leaving the rest of us to sing along with the music. Fun night. Got in around 12, so that was nice even though I didn't go to bed until 3. Hopefully, those girls and I are going to go back to CI next month. yay!
Long ass update. Sorry, I just get to ramblin' on. I'll blame it on the cabin fever =). Have a great week y'all.