The Power of Procrastination
Thursday was a good day. I went to class (got to them on time!) and i had a counceling season. I had fun talking to seth (my therapist), but i had a hard time talking about things from being in such a good mood from seeing nin the night before, but i was able to talk after talking about the concert. we discussed my problems with skipping classes and procrastination. he gave me an assignment, well 2 assignments. one is to get a work study job (still haven't got a new one since i was dismissed from the writing center over a month ago) and the second is to have a pretty solid schedule put together. I need to relearn self-disciplin, which is going to be difficult, but it's a must so i can get through college. I'm a smart kid, but I stall around way too much and don't do my work like i know i should. After my history discussion group, i thought that the english department would have posted who all got into the creative writing poetry program, but turns out, it isn't until the 9th!!! so i walked all the way down there for nothing, but to feel a little more uneasy in my guts. (i know something good is bound to happen though!) thursday afternoon, i went to this awesome lecture called "The Power of Procrastination." it was brillant. Jorge Cham was the speaker. He spoke about how procrastination is a good thing. He has a funny comic strip called "Piled Higher and Deeper," which is about the woes and hell of academia and grad school. funny thing is, is that the comic is very true for many undergrads such as your's truly. i bought the first volume of his comics.
Friday was spent oddly. I didn't go to any of my classes (again) and i spent the day getting my stuff together to go home. I found out that my best friend (meridith) is doing something simular to a shotgun wedding. she's got back with her ex and they're getting married this wednesday. when i found out, i thought it was some terrible joke, but hopefully things will work out for the better. anyways, I went to get some lunch and my mom arrived here at umd like way before schedule. So i quickly ate my burrito and met up with her. We packed the car and proceeded to head home. while packing up, these black guys walked past me and i over heard this one say "is that a girl or a guy?" i looked up and said," I'm a girl." he was embarassed and apologized but his friend was like "dude you aren't sorry." i know why he thought i was a guy, because my hair wasn't done up and i was wearing my tech shorts. still, it kinda hurt my esteem. so i'm going to make changes in my life. anyways, going home, traffic wasn't too bad until we hit I-70! on the way home, we got dinner at this little resturaunt in hancock,md. we got home around 8 pm or so. I spent the evening watching vh1 classic with my dad and mom. at first there was a morrissey concert on, which was around 9 pm. the thing was called "Morrissey: Who Put the M in Manchester." it was a lovely program. my mother serious thinks morrissey is gay and that he's a drama queen. haha. she said "his songs say either 2 things: I'm so alone or Get away from me, leave me alone." she left out one "The world is a retched place and it's against me". after the concert they plaed classic videos up against current ones by the same artist and i saw depeche mode and nin videos! (yesss) my friend melonie (we've been friends since freshman year of college. we both went to fsu for 2 years together and she now is going to towson) came up to frostburg and spent the night. actually she spent saturday night too.
saturday was pretty rad. i got my hair cut and went out for lunch with my mom and melonie. we also went grocery shopping haha. after dinner saturday night, we watched i love the 80's 3-D. well a few episodes. at 945 pm, melonie and i went to fsu (which is down the street haha) and met up with some friends of ours. seeing courtney, jessica, jr and joesph was the awesome. we all went to jessica's apartment and did virgin strawberry daquairis. we all hung out and watched tv and stuff. didn't get home until 1 am. it was quite a pleasant evening. first time i felt good about being home for once! (well aside from seeing my parents because seeing them is always great)i went to bed like at 2 am or something. it was funny because melonie and i stayed up and had girl talk!!! which was super awesome (much thanks to her!)
this morning, i went to church with my mom. i was a bit sleepy but being there was good. having communion was also great. after church, my mom and i went to walmart for some shopping. i got some food for the apartment, a couple new bras, and some other supplies. (damn it i forgot to get index cards again...errrr...this just hits me) after walmart, i got home in time to catch depeche mode hosting an hour of the alternative on vh1 classic. seeing a lot of old school dm videos made me a very happy girl. the interview was good too. it was cool having melonie see all these dm videos too. i love sharing my favorite music with friends. i think it lets them see who i am to a certain extent. (there's a reason why i connect so deeply to depeche mode and i know it has to do with who i am) my parents, melonie and i had lunch together at the house. i forgot how awesome blt sandwhiches are, especially with turkey bacon!!! after lunch, mel had to head back to towson univeristy. after she left, i layed down for an hour. my dad woke me up and said that it was time for me to head back to school.
the way back to school was an alright ride. i slept the first hour of it. woke up outside of hagerstown and wanted a dq dily bar so we did a stop at dairy queen. the rest of the ride, i talked to my parents about stuff. the whole time i had these songs stuck in my head. in particular this one song by client! (i need to burn a copy of their cd...we have it at the station)so i arrived here at university of maryland about 7 pm. my mom helped me unpack stuff and get things together. while this was going on, these guys came into the apartment (scared me at first). apparently, they're friends of my roomate and they put plastic wrap all over her stuff hahahaha. childish but funny.
i'm proud of myself that when my parents left, i didn't cry. i use to cry when they would leave, which doesn't make much sense, but i suppose it does. i have been spending the rest of the evening trying to get motivation to do my homework. (procrastination is addictive and it kills) i have some projects coming up for this coming week. tonight it's an academic skills report (on my own progress) for my edcp class. next tuesday, i have to do an informative briefing on a topic of my choice. it has to be between 4 to 6 minutes and use atleat 5 sorces of research. i'm thinking about doing something on depeche mode, gothic culture, synth pop, or something music related or with a stigma that most people don't know much about. but i can't decide! tomorrow, i have to do research for my journalism paper and study for my exam for that class. it looks like this week is going to be crazy. for the next 2 weekends, i'm not going home, just to let everyone know. i think that is it from me for a while. one more thing, keep your fingers crossed for me, i am going to find out this wednesday whether or not if i got into the creative writing poetry program. ah the stress is killing me about that!
ps- only 32 days until depeche mode!!!
Friday was spent oddly. I didn't go to any of my classes (again) and i spent the day getting my stuff together to go home. I found out that my best friend (meridith) is doing something simular to a shotgun wedding. she's got back with her ex and they're getting married this wednesday. when i found out, i thought it was some terrible joke, but hopefully things will work out for the better. anyways, I went to get some lunch and my mom arrived here at umd like way before schedule. So i quickly ate my burrito and met up with her. We packed the car and proceeded to head home. while packing up, these black guys walked past me and i over heard this one say "is that a girl or a guy?" i looked up and said," I'm a girl." he was embarassed and apologized but his friend was like "dude you aren't sorry." i know why he thought i was a guy, because my hair wasn't done up and i was wearing my tech shorts. still, it kinda hurt my esteem. so i'm going to make changes in my life. anyways, going home, traffic wasn't too bad until we hit I-70! on the way home, we got dinner at this little resturaunt in hancock,md. we got home around 8 pm or so. I spent the evening watching vh1 classic with my dad and mom. at first there was a morrissey concert on, which was around 9 pm. the thing was called "Morrissey: Who Put the M in Manchester." it was a lovely program. my mother serious thinks morrissey is gay and that he's a drama queen. haha. she said "his songs say either 2 things: I'm so alone or Get away from me, leave me alone." she left out one "The world is a retched place and it's against me". after the concert they plaed classic videos up against current ones by the same artist and i saw depeche mode and nin videos! (yesss) my friend melonie (we've been friends since freshman year of college. we both went to fsu for 2 years together and she now is going to towson) came up to frostburg and spent the night. actually she spent saturday night too.
saturday was pretty rad. i got my hair cut and went out for lunch with my mom and melonie. we also went grocery shopping haha. after dinner saturday night, we watched i love the 80's 3-D. well a few episodes. at 945 pm, melonie and i went to fsu (which is down the street haha) and met up with some friends of ours. seeing courtney, jessica, jr and joesph was the awesome. we all went to jessica's apartment and did virgin strawberry daquairis. we all hung out and watched tv and stuff. didn't get home until 1 am. it was quite a pleasant evening. first time i felt good about being home for once! (well aside from seeing my parents because seeing them is always great)i went to bed like at 2 am or something. it was funny because melonie and i stayed up and had girl talk!!! which was super awesome (much thanks to her!)
this morning, i went to church with my mom. i was a bit sleepy but being there was good. having communion was also great. after church, my mom and i went to walmart for some shopping. i got some food for the apartment, a couple new bras, and some other supplies. (damn it i forgot to get index cards again...errrr...this just hits me) after walmart, i got home in time to catch depeche mode hosting an hour of the alternative on vh1 classic. seeing a lot of old school dm videos made me a very happy girl. the interview was good too. it was cool having melonie see all these dm videos too. i love sharing my favorite music with friends. i think it lets them see who i am to a certain extent. (there's a reason why i connect so deeply to depeche mode and i know it has to do with who i am) my parents, melonie and i had lunch together at the house. i forgot how awesome blt sandwhiches are, especially with turkey bacon!!! after lunch, mel had to head back to towson univeristy. after she left, i layed down for an hour. my dad woke me up and said that it was time for me to head back to school.
the way back to school was an alright ride. i slept the first hour of it. woke up outside of hagerstown and wanted a dq dily bar so we did a stop at dairy queen. the rest of the ride, i talked to my parents about stuff. the whole time i had these songs stuck in my head. in particular this one song by client! (i need to burn a copy of their cd...we have it at the station)so i arrived here at university of maryland about 7 pm. my mom helped me unpack stuff and get things together. while this was going on, these guys came into the apartment (scared me at first). apparently, they're friends of my roomate and they put plastic wrap all over her stuff hahahaha. childish but funny.
i'm proud of myself that when my parents left, i didn't cry. i use to cry when they would leave, which doesn't make much sense, but i suppose it does. i have been spending the rest of the evening trying to get motivation to do my homework. (procrastination is addictive and it kills) i have some projects coming up for this coming week. tonight it's an academic skills report (on my own progress) for my edcp class. next tuesday, i have to do an informative briefing on a topic of my choice. it has to be between 4 to 6 minutes and use atleat 5 sorces of research. i'm thinking about doing something on depeche mode, gothic culture, synth pop, or something music related or with a stigma that most people don't know much about. but i can't decide! tomorrow, i have to do research for my journalism paper and study for my exam for that class. it looks like this week is going to be crazy. for the next 2 weekends, i'm not going home, just to let everyone know. i think that is it from me for a while. one more thing, keep your fingers crossed for me, i am going to find out this wednesday whether or not if i got into the creative writing poetry program. ah the stress is killing me about that!
ps- only 32 days until depeche mode!!!