Curry and girl talk

Today was wonderful. It was sad because this morning I said goodbye to Rebba. She will be heading off to Paris for Spring Quarter. But it was also freeing.

I went to breakfast with Rebba and Deborah at Toast...so yummy. Then turned in my Sophomore Seminar final paper, walked around, enjoyed the sun. Came home and napped for a little then met Megan at Moody for a run. Shower then a lot of relaxing at Lauren Yoho's apartment. Then Urban...I bought some clearanced shoes. Then off to Judy's house for some curry! Yumms. Then girly girl talk and some of the most wonderful news about roommates for this summer/year. Lauren and I are in some early stages of thinking about living together. It does fit the criteria....good friend, respectful, but we don't hang out often at all. I don't fully know how I feel but I just am so happy. I mean I've got a number of different people as options now and I just have a renewed sense of hope.

I'm thinking Old Town. Outside of Lincoln Park but ridiculously close and just as safe. :))

We shall see. If I get a hold of some pictures from tonight I'll post them later on. I really did have an amazing day, to say the least.

Midnight in the Library

My brain is fried. And although I've finished my literary proposal of a feminist critique of Lorrie Moore's short story "People Like That Are the Only People Here" I still have to write a six-something page paper tomorrow for Friday.

Then Saturday and Sunday need to be devoted to writing my Medieval Philosophy final paper. Then Monday and Tuesday are to be devoted to my outlining of my Hard-boiled Fiction and Film Noir written, in-class final at 8:45-11am on Wednesday.

But then I'll be done for the quarter. Then Spring Break.....


Then Spring Quarter. :)) haha.


I've realized I really like our library. Not only is it beautiful, it really is quiet.

Oh and disclaimer to those two people that I deliberately got a new blog in order to get away from. If you read this fine, but don't be insulted by what I say because I'm writing this with the assumption that you don't read it. I'm not being a creep by reading your new, private blog....because I understand it's private. You think you can't wait to move out, trust me, I am dying to.


Oh and you really don't piss me off when you shake the ice cube bucket around at 2am, because honestly I rest assured that I have a better quality of life than you. I don't get my kicks out of being rude and obnoxious, it's a maturity thing really.


I really do have a lot to be thankful for that so many people don't have. A wonderful, loving family. Friends that honestly care for me and aren't in it for some (sexual?) advantage of their own. A understanding of what I want in life and no reservations about living to the fullest extent...not ordering out food and staying in the apartment all day. Thus I'm healthy! And most important of all, a foundation of love and truth that will never fail me.

So ha! You really think I'm stupid and rude and that I don't clean the bathroom enough. Well frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.

Yummies

Can you just taste the wonderfulness of my creativity:


nutella mini marshmallow chocochip brownies.


Wow. And now I have to run. :))


And only one more day of class. Thank the maker.

Embarrass, e-m-b-a-r-r-a-s-s, embarrass

Making a fool of myself is slowly becoming my new hobby. I never facebook stalk people (fb stalking includes asking someone you only kind of know to be your friend) except this once. And it totally blows up all in my face!

Lesson learned: don't drink coffee if your initials are kmb and you really don't need the coffee or else you will be up at midnight blogging.

Real lesson learned about facebook stalking, even just the one time when you don't expect anything to come of it and you only just ask the kid (kid as in twenty year old) to be your friend! : Don't friend request boys just because they say they are Christians....they will think you are creepy and they will write on your comment wall something along the lines of "Do I know you?" even though you've had two classes with him and he sat right by you the day he asked the question.

Really real lesson learned: Boys are stupid. Seriously, this kid is either an idiot or he pretended he didn't know me. Maybe his eyesight is impaired. Maybe I just need to stop dwelling on how embarrassed I am.

Side note. In texting/facebooking the girls (shout out to Rebba and Deborah!) about my embarrassing situation I learned how to spell embarrass. If you know me intimately, shout out to my mom :), you know I can't spell for the life of me. So when I am forced under stressful situations such as this to spell a word, I first off go to dictionary.com, and then spell and respell it, usually out of necessity, and then I know it for real.

So end of story about some boy asking me on facebook after I asked him to be my friend if I knew him. I feel at times facebook can be like some twisted form of hierarchical playground mechanics....No you can't be my friend, you didn't give me Malibu barbie at my birthday party last week, you only gave me barbie. I don't even know you. Eww.

On another side note, Emily told me today at dinner I should write a book about my roommate experiences. She said I always have such entertaining stories about them and they are so complex/intriguing in a sad/disturbing way. I thought about it. Truly a good idea....I would entitle the novel...Dante's Ninth Circle of Hell Disguised as 2120 N Sheffield. Clearly omitting the real address. Oh and I would honestly have to write under a pseudonym. Kevin Bricksmith. If ever I did need a pseudonym it would be Kevin Bricksmith. I'm ever so tickled by that. Hehe.

I keep forgetting the title of my blog: Bread and Bunnies. Considering I haven't the time to make bread, I'll just put up another cutesy photo of Alfie.

Almost spring days are tough

I finally made chili. White bean, sausage, corn, mushroom, onion and vegetable stock chili. But when you say it like that it's not as appealing. It's yummy though...I just had some leftovers for lunch! Along with Safeway brand classic baked snack crackers....which when you think about it taste just as good as Ritz crackers do and they (when both are on sale at Dominicks) are 50 cents cheaper! I had to resist the urge for some reason to say fiddy cent.

I think I'm allergic to Berts Bee's chapstick. I lost the one thing of chapstick I had left (of the many that I own but do not really like) and searched through all my other random chapsticks only to settle for BB's. I woke up this morning and my lips were swollen and red...not a good sign. So I thought it could have been the jalapeno in the chili, but I've had jalapeno before and it hasn't made me swell up. I went through all I'd eaten yesterday, any odd or out of the ordinary happenstances yesterday...nope, nothing....except the chapstick. So my conclusion is, I need to get some more normal plain moisturizing chapstick before my lips get all red and irritated like last summer. Yuck.

I'm in official countdown mode: 2 more T/H classes, 2 more M/W classes, and 4 more MWF classes.....then on March 12th at 5pm I'll be done with my Spring Quarter 08 classes for good and will only have to endure finals....hmm. But at least the end is in sight.

And Spring is almost in sight. But almost spring days make the real winter days tough. Like Sunday....gorgeous, warm, beautiful, wonderful. Because of Sunday, the past two days have been hell, like the Dante's Inferno hell where Satan is frozen at his midsection and hell is cold. That kind of hell.

I feel as though this is a good time to include another one of my pretty bunny pictures. Oh he's just too cute. I love him.

Success!

I got my new jacket and it fits! Success.

Oh and it's Marc New York by Andrew Marc....not Marc Jacobs. Misinformation on my part...but Baker Liz told me that Marc New York is a very good brand! So I'm happy. I have to read The Grifters tonight.....uck, although it seems like a good book, so it's not worth complaining that much. I'm off.

:))

Updates

I sent the jacket back. Megan and I had a DTR (defining the relationship) about our friendship. I ordered a new jacket. And I am ready for spring and a new apartment.

I should just leave the blog at that. Succinct, blunt.....but I'm not like that. Haha. I'm at Mercury Cafe. My new favorite homework cafe...and the place were Megan works. I'm supposed to be doing homework right now. I will, just after this.

I did send the nice, warm, pretty Lands' End jacket back. The sleeves were way to short. And although I wanted to keep it, it would have been an unwise decision. So I returned it.

Megan and I have not really talked lately, well lately as in the two weeks before this past week. This past week we were inseparable. I was sick and busy and she was busy, but I guess she was frustrated with me. So we talked and realized how much we both cherish our friendship and figured out what we need to do to keep supporting the other. Thus our DTR.

As soon as I realized I did not want the Lands' End jacket I went searching for another jacket. And found one on BlueFly.com. It's Marc New York by Marc Jacobs and was on uber sale. Let me see if I can find a picture of it. Ok that worked. It's brown and obviously not as long but hopefully the sleeves aren't too short on this one because I am sick of this whole looking for a jacket thing. And I just want to be warm. Hopefully Spring will fix that.

And now for apartments. I still have no idea where or with whom I am going to live with, but let's all just pray God takes care of this whole situation....because I obviously can't handle it. One option I've been thinking about is getting a July 1st lease and just commuting in for the last week of class in June and the couple finals I'll have that next week. Because after that I'll be in West Virginia for Alexis's wedding. Then the next week I can stay at home and then go to Meg's wedding. Then find an apartment?


I don't know. But I don't think I'm supposed to know. This is going to be a well learned lesson of trusting God.

Okays, time for some stream of consciousness reading. Frank Chin's short stories. :))

No class.

Well I do have one class today, but my Literary Critique class got cancelled! I actually really enjoy that class, and mostly the professor, but a cancelled class is a cancelled class! So I'm just going to relax, make myself some coffee and do nothing in the hour and a half slot where I would be peer editing psychological critiques of Poe's "The Black Cat," which I might say is a great short story. Read it if you have not. That and Lorrie Moore's "People Like That Are The Only People Here."

Movies you should watch: L.A. Confidential, The Professional (the remake, not the french one, this one has natalie portman in her first role at age 13), and The Maltese Falcon. Can you tell I'm in a film noir class? The Professional is kinda bloody, but if you don't look, like me, then the rest of the movie is great! And to offset all those noir/neo-noir films...catch up on some fun...That Thing You Do!

I'm currently listening to Iron and Wine and it's so funny. It's almost like deja vu. I still feel bad for Sam Beam in that Wheaton told him to edit his songs for the concert. Ew.

I just got an email from Lands' End....my package is already in Chicago. I'm impressed. I will be even more impressed if I get it by the end of today, especially because I work today. And I want it for tomorrow when Megan and I adventure out to the Shedd Aquarium because admission is free through tomorrow! Then I'm going to her Urban Major class and then we are going out to dinner with Judy Blumhofer....whom I love and miss dearly. She is in her last "year" at Rush before she spends two years as an intern...if it's like Grey's Anatomy I sort of understand the process. Well I'll just remember to ask and then explain here later. :))

I've decided to be extra good with my money. I have been lately, I'm actually pretty proud....(the coat purchase was much needed and from saved Christmas money). But I figure because I got a dollar raise and because I'll be working more hours next quarter (as long as I'm not too stressed out) I'll be able to save a little more for a potential vacation to the Czech once I graduate in 2010.

Well seeing as it's not that early, I'd better get around to calling some special people (Mimi and Grandpa) to wish them Happy [& Belated] Birthdays! Then I might nap. :))

Warmth is on the Way

No longer will I be cold. I hope so at least. Yesterday I bought a Lands' End 'Women's Chalet Long Down Coat.' I really want it now though, especially because it's so incredibly chilly! It's temperature rating tells me it (the coat) will keep me warm in -40 to -25 degrees Fahrenheit...I'm excited.

I went out to the Mercury Cafe yesterday to do some homework and visit Megan Yoho....she just got a job there. It's in West Town so I took the Brown Line to Chicago and then took the #66 Chicago Bus to Mercury. It didn't take me as long as I had anticipated. I didn't even have to wait for a bus! The worst part was the walk home from the Armitage stop, it's not far, but it the temp had dropped and the wind was in my face.

For once in a handful of weeks, I feel like I have some downtime/a grasp of what needs to be done and the time with which to do it. I'm hoping that this is what gets me well. I guess because I don't really have an immune system right now I got a pretty nasty cold and it still has not gone away, and the shingles are scabbing over, but they still itch/hurt.

Despite all that, I will be warm come next week when I get a package delivered to the Bakery!

I was going to upload a photo of the image, but blogger is being stupid and even though I've hit the picture button it doesn't do anything. The spell check button doesn't work either...I'm slightly annoyed.....oops, I just got it to work. Disregard the previous rant.

I've got to watch L.A. Confidential now....and maybe nap :))

Stress, Valentines Day, and Shingles!

I have been running around like a half-dead chicken for the past two weeks and what's the pay off you ask? Good grades? Self-discipline?

N0.

Shingles. That's the payoff. Yup....I have what mostly old folks get with compromised immune systems. My body is the equivilant of an old crochety woman who doesn't get enough sleep. I don't have the energy to explain the details of shingles but it hurts, not horribly but it's uncomfortable. I worked a 9 hour day today but I don't have to work again til Thursday.

Lesson learned...don't pick up extra shifts during midterms week or the week of Valentine's Day for that matter. Well to be precise I first noticed the symptoms a week ago so it's more like the week before Valentine's but whatever.

I just want a day to sleep. I think I'll go to church tomorrow and then sleep afterwards for a while. Sounds good to me. I've been so busy I think the bunny is sad. He just needs a better apartment....this one isn't suiting him. :))

I went to the Iron and Wine concert yesterday....amazing! I had such a great time, shingles and Wheaton and all! But it's time for a mini nap before I head out for a movie night with some folks from the Well. I love those people...they're just amazing!



Smiles :))

Spring Quarter line-up

Tuesdays and Thursdays:

10:10-11:40 Restoration/18th Century English Lit

1:30-3:00 Shakespeare

3:10-4:40 Topics of Comparative Literature: Sappho to Shakespeare

Tuesdays:

5:45-9pm Philosophical Themes in Literature: Heidegger on literature and poetry



Not exactly what I was hoping for. But what worked out best. Classes filled up extra quickly this quarter. But I'm excited....all these professors are supposed to be amazing! I'm just going to be uber busy. :))

But the best part is I have a four day weekend. Except it can't really be a real weekend because I'll have work and lots of homework! I'm happy nonetheless.

Birth Control and Fur-Lined Panties

"It's been too long," said in a Lizzy kiddy accent. It has been too long. I've missed blogging...ok, too mushy but I have missed the free time with which I used to blog.

Hehe, the bunny is running around. I love it when everyone is gone and I can bring the bunny into the living room so he can run and hop and play on the rug. He's so happy and that makes me happy. And sad at the same time because this rarely happens and a bunny need more running around time. He's doing a little bunny dance where he hops sideways and sniffs everything.

Midterms are almost over. I'm putting off writing a 1 page paper for my soph sem class till after I'm done blogging. Then it's still going to be a busy week, but it'll go by quickly. I love the quarter system.

Last night I went to DePaul's Homecoming....super fun! My feet kill, but the 3 inch sexy sexy heels look was worth it. I had a blast and totally want to go next year. I also will be going to see Iron and Wine this friday....so excited!

But the ultimate point of this blog is.......how amazing hilarious my aunt Irene is. Wow. Today Mommy, Daddy, Meredith and me go to her house and get Chinese food. To set the scene: Daddy and Meredith are out picking the food up and Irene and Mommy and I are talking in the living room. Irene is talking about her last trip to the doctor and how she writes up a list to go through of questions for her doctor. She told us that the last question she asked him, in a hushed voice, was....did he have any sample birth control pills?!

Haha, the doctor asked what she thought she needed those for. Her reply was, "I have a sick plant in need of some estrogen." :)) He gave her some too!

Then later at dinner we were talking about how our (Carol Stream) house is always set at 64 (mind you, Irene's thermostat was at the moment around 75). Once Irene found out we keep it that low she said we're gonna need fur-lined panties to get through this winter. :))


I love it. :))

I'm worried about my bunny. He hasn't jumped out of his cage in a while and I think he's peeing a little bit more than normal. Errrr, it's super aggravating. He's acting normal, so I think I'm overreacting.

I had a wonderful popcorn party! Two girls from the Well came over last night and we made kettle corn and salty popcorn and some cookies and had grapefruit and tangerine Italian soda and watched Funny Face. I had to be careful to not sing through the whole movie. :)) It was super last minute because my roommates were out of town and so I figured considering I don't feel comfortable having people over when my roommates are home (let's not even start with how sad and messed up that situation is), why not throw a party when they aren't!! It was great for being last minute. I only wish I could do it more often. It felt so wonderful to actually sit on the couch!

And now reality sets back in as my roommates return. It had to end sometime.

If only this weather would stay nice...and not when I'm sick so I can go out for a few runs. I'm confident that I'll be fine for the Shamrock Shuffle because I at least have been going to my Spin class. Melissa and I are going to find sometime this week to go to Crunch class and get in some hardcore ab work outs done.

But in the meantime, the countdown to May 31 is 125 days...or approximately four months. It doesn't seem that bad? I mean I've already made it through one month of utter crap, and seven of some good times and some really bad news. It's really going to come sooner than I think....I hope.

Praise: Safe trips from FL and IN
Prayer: That I get over this silly cold!

Go number two for the 6:15am Spin class. I am not nearly as sore as last time, though I will admit because Paula was not there it was not as difficult. She had a sub, who was good...and I got a great workout, but just wasn't Paula.

I just love how I couldn't wait to get out of high school. I even left the country right after graduation and it was the best thing for me. I just wanted out. Out of the drama, immaturity, and cussing. Life really can move in circles can't it.

I'm a special one, there was a blog specifically devoted to me! All about how I'm incapable of seeing past certain situations...the whole cold-hearted notion. Haha, too bad I'm on my way to apathy at this point.

But besides all the sarcasm, I really am pushing myself. I didn't know I could be so socially busy...yet also leaving time for school and work. It's a beautiful thing to not be held down by others.

I started this blog and deleted my last one (I'm still sad I had to change the name and all, it was too cute....Wondrous accounts of Cupcakes and Class) because I wanted to be able to freely write my feelings without the possibilities of knowingly hurting others...specifically my roommates. It occurred to me a few weeks ago when I first started this blog that my roommates could possibly have found this site. I pray they haven't because my whole reasoning behind this was to not hurt them in the process of expressing myself. But because I started this without their knowledge I am just going to assume and hope they never find it. And if they do, I apologize if they are hurt but know that was not my intention.

All in all, clearly I need someone to live with next year. I have a few people in mind, one very specifically with whom I've already discussed the possibilities with her current roomie....I'm just praying God provides me with who He thinks is the best. Although I would love to live with the specific person. There are others that I am getting to know through the Well, but I just have to wait and see.

In closing, as my friend Courtney would say "In life God doesn't give you the people you want, instead he gives you the people you need. To teach you, to hurt you, to love you, and to make you exactly the way you should be."

I've definitely been in the "to hurt you" stage. But it's all for the best. :))

Hugs, God, and divine utter dependence

Who but me can manage to cut themselves bowling but me? It takes a special person to cut their thumb at the Diversey Bowl. I don't even know how it happened but it happened the first bowl I rolled. I obviously have this thing about getting cut up, first my palm at the bakery now my thumb at the bowling alley.

I think I've just been a bundle of accidents this past week. Monday my back started to hurt and evolved into massive pain Tuesday and some of Wednesday. It felt awkward bowling but not that bad. And now this cut. Cuts are fine and normal but I feel so weird wearing a band aid at work, I feel like everyone is looking at the band aid and thinking it's so disgusting because I might come in contact with their food.

Speaking of food....I went and met with an admissions councilor at The Art Institute about their baking certificate program. It's a year program and would cost around 17,000 give/take a little...although more like give. It sounds great and I could do it taking one class a quarter and finish in two years, but I would be really stressed. So even though I would love to complete it by the time I'm out of college it's just not probable. I want to keep it in mind for once I graduate DePaul, but it's just not for now.

I'm back at square one. I don't really want to do anything with what I'm getting a degree in, I don't have the experience to get hired at a place like Red Hen as a baker and even though I love SMB's....it's getting too dramatic. What with people threatening me they are going to quit and this new girl who kind of took my position.....I'm just restless.

And the Czech. Oh this is a touchy subject. I want to go back to the Czech...it's going to cost a fortune to get there this summer and I don't know what God wants for me. I have been praying about it but not as diligently as I need to be. I just don't know. There is still the idea of going there for two years-ish after I graduate to work for Fishnet. But I don't know if I should go this summer to keep in contact or if I can still work with them even if I don't make it back this summer. It's an even summer (2008) so that means I'm due back, but clearly that is not going to be my final push. I just don't know.

But the good news is I've gotten connected with The Well, a faith-based group on campus. That is who I went bowling with this evening. It's just a great group of people and I really enjoy it. I didn't have any idea that once I stepped outside of my apartment I would be able to make so many friends that really care about me. It's an odd feeling....and sad to realize what I've been missing since I moved into this apartment and all that's come with it.

I called my friend Jim when I got home because I felt lonely, which is so odd because I just got home from hanging out with a bunch of people. I tried to explain it to him, but there were others present and I couldn't. But I went into my room, which is my sanctuary in this house, yet it feels like my prison, and just felt utterly alone. So I called Jim and felt somewhat better, but still I can't shake the feeling.

For some reason Chris Rice always calms me down. I think it's because he's all I would listen to when I was younger. When I didn't have roommates. Didn't have stress-related backaches. Didn't have divorce-like separation of assets conversations hanging over my head. Didn't care that I didn't have anyone to hug me on a regular basis.

I think everyone needs to be touched. Hugs are especially vital. I used to make Matt hug me, but that obviously doesn't happen anymore. I would make Levi hug me too, but he has a show and won't be back at work til February. I made Pat hug me on Tuesday and afterwards he said he was just glad I didn't cry this time....I had forgotten that the last time he hugged me I burst into tears. I just like to be hugged. Like a big old grandpa-bear hug.


This is my cure. Along with prayer and God. Hugs, God, and divine utter dependence. That's all you really need.

I went to Spin-60 Wednesday morning. Wow. I know the instructor from the good old days of opening at the Ray. Her name is Paula and she is just wonderful. She's taught me, as she phrased it "fake it till you make it." Except she doesn't mean to be fake and live an illusion. No, she means that a lot of the time life sucks (I will personally agree at the present moment) but you have the choice to take what you have and make the most of it. Anyway, she's great and she teaches the Wednesday Spin class from 6:15am to 7:15am and she's intense. I was able to do the whole thing but I slowed considerably towards the end. I think I am going to make it a regular thing. I'm super sore though.

Over the course of the past couple days, Tuesday evening being the climax, my life has deteriorated. Now deteriorated is a very strong word and does not exactly capture the essence of what's happened but for the sake of poetics, we'll overlook that detail.

(Ugh, tangent....I keep finding course dark hairs on my head, it's all downhill from here.)

Now, facebook is a rather silly thing. But we all take it seriously, except for those things that ought not to be taken seriously, ie marriage statuses between friends, poke wars, etc. Point being, when someone de-friends you, it's a big deal, especially when you live with cet de-friender.

Lesson learned: become a nun....just kidding I felt the need for some comic relief, it was getting too stuffy in here.

Real lesson learned: prayer is my lifeline, fellowship is my pair of crutches, the Word is my conductor...and God can't be a metaphor. He's something I can't describe but everything I know to be true. Every emotion I can't describe. Every tear I've cried. Every tear I'm crying. Every reason why I am the little ball of bubbles when I'm happy and every reason why I am the soaked shirt sleeve at the movies.

And I don't deserve an ounce of it. And I realize I am a letdown. A broken letdown who would be nothing were it not for Christ's sacrifice. And that's what I have to walk away with.

But that's better than nothing and better than what most have to live for. So that translates to: I'll keep going to Spin, I'm going to stay involved at The Well, and I need to keep grasping hold of the indescribable.

Lysergic acid diethlamide

Oh the joys of reminiscing. I just got off the phone with an old friend of mine, Jim. I haven't seen or talked to him since last winter break and we spent an hour (which is a huge amount of time for me) talking on the phone about randoms, like his dog Virtue, and how he is a chef and how we are going to make bread together when he comes to visit. His call made me think of Spring Break and what I want to do with mine. It only made me think about break because he lives in Colorado and it would be amazing to go there for break. It'd be cold still there but still, it's gorgeous.

Sour Patch kids are so yummy but they make my teeth hurt. They were a part of the goodie bags from the shower.

Did you know LSD also known as acid is one of the cheapest drugs available? I did. But only after I was putting off my homework and decided to research it. Lysergic acid diethlamide...LSD. Supposedly there are no known side effects other than heightened blood pressure, heart rate increase and uterine contractions. Scary. It's only about ten dollars a hit and the trip lasts 6 to 12 hours. The majority of people who have bad trips have them because they are not in a secure environment (like a party) and the illusions become too much to handle. But if you are in a safe and calm environment and are aware of the possible effects of acid then most users have those psychedelic, colorful trips most people know about.

The above picture is a form of LSD that is ingested. The blotter paper is soaked and dried in LSD and then usually decorated and then distributed.

It's all so interesting in a very 60's druggie way.


:))

So much to do.

This weekend was very eventful and wonderful because of it. I'm convinced I'm much happier than, say a month ago. I've made a distinct effort to occupy myself and it's paid off. This weekend I visited the Chicago Diner with old friends, bought a sexy (clearanced) little black dress, went to a baby shower at the Hopleaf in Andersonville, and walked home from cet bar in Andersonville. Very eventful!

Hopleaf is a great bar/restaurant. The head baker at SMB's set up a baby shower for our manager Lisa at Hopleaf. It was buffet style with wonderful sandwiches and muscles and salad and fries and of course....cake! I ended up having a great time and learning a lot about the people I work with, especially the new girls that work there. I had a ton of wonderful conversations, like why Johanna decided to major in Geography, and how much the bill was and who was going to pay it. Liz ended charging $800 to her credit card, with the sincere hope that Cindy was going to pay her back. I assume Cindy is, if not we all have told Liz we will donate to the cause. I met Gale Gand, she seems normal I guess. She thought she recognized me from somewhere, that made me laugh.

I also made a bumbling idiot of myself at the Gap. I was doing a little shopping with a thirty dollar limit (a visa gift card) and found myself in the Gap trying on a little black dress. I wanted to look at myself in a bigger mirror outside and felt slightly naked and silly seeing as I was covered in frosting and grease stains and my orange work bandanna. But the man who was working the fitting rooms was lovely and I had to ask him if the dress came in a 6 in the gray color. He said he would look and at that time I'd decided I needed to buy the dress because I'd sweated through it in the presence of this darling man with green eyes. Needless to say I bought the dress and feel as though I need to frequent the Gap/stalk this man. :))

I woke up fairly easily this morning for my 9:40 class and am going to make myself stay awake till my 3:30 class. I need to make myself get back on a normal sleep schedule. I've become slightly more habituated to Alfie at night, he'll wake me up every once in a while but I fall right back asleep.

Time to do some homework for tomorrow!

Second Day of Class

I get to go to the Chicago Diner tonight! I've only heard about it and some old friends from home are coming into the city and that's where they want to eat. I guess it's all vegetarian/vegan dishes. I have no idea when they are coming in but I know it's in the afternoon.

My second day of class was normal. I only have one class on Friday. It's my sophomore seminar: multicultural literature, 9:40 to 10:40 am. I like morning classes. The prof is very energetic and dramatic. I'm excited.

Sadly, this was also the second night in a row where I got next to no sleep. For some reason I am not capable of falling asleep or staying asleep for more than half an hour. So after my one class today I came back and showered and ate my leftover pad thai and slept. Except I couldn't even really sleep then either. I had a diet coke at dinner last night (at 6:30) so maybe that was too much caffeine too late at night? I don't know, I just know that if I can't fall asleep tonight I'm going to be screwed at work tomorrow.

I moved the bunny into my room yesterday, but I actually did ask Matthew if it was alright before I did. He said alright so Alfie now lives with me. I will admit he also kept me up because he seems to be nocturnal. But it was my intent to work out in some capacity this morning and visit my friend Jen at the Ray; however, I figured if I was to make it through the day I best stay in bed and at least try to sleep.

I got a paycheck! I guess Cindy wanted to get us back on schedule with the pay period and so now I am super happy because I'll have money to pay for the amazon order I placed yesterday.

I got a little too excited and bought a movie for my film noir class that I have to watch in two weeks. But it doesn't exist on Netflix and he said it was super super hard to find so I found it on amazon for 12 dollars and decided to just get it and not stress about it anymore. But in order to get the Amazon Super Saving Shipping deal I had to spend a total of 30 dollars so I just went ahead and got two other Over the Rhine Cd's that I've been wanting. So this just means I don't get to randomly spend money outside of rent/utilities/school/food for a while. But the paycheck will at least get me ahead.

Well I think it's time for me to crawl out of bed and get some homework done before I have to leave. Au revoir!

Bonjour my friends to my second blog.

Take two, picking up right where I left off at Cupcakes and Class. A wise decision that twas. I am listening to The Trumpet Child by Over the Rhine, and it is wonderful. My bunny is all moved in to my room, equipped with a rug so he can come out of his cage and play. He is also out of the way of all electrical cords.

Today was the first day of class here at DPU. I've always thought class should never go the whole allotted time the first day. However, my two English classes today went the whole hour and a half. It's alright though because I liked both an awful lot. My film noir class is going to be awesome. And despite it's topic my Literary Research and Writing class doesn't seem to be too intense. Our final for the class is only a research proposal, which will be a good deal of work, but no paper!

I'm waiting for a phone call from a friend to go out for dinner. I'm hoping she agrees to go to Noodles in the Pod because I've been wanting Pad Thai for a long long time now.

Lizzy got a blog too! This means she and I can know what is going on in each others lives again. That makes it seem as though we never talk.

I'm a very busy girl I must say. I have plans for almost every evening for the next couple of days. Which I assume for any normal person would be, well normal. But as for me, it's not. And I'm excited! I have to keep in mind I have homework though. I think after I get back from dinner I'll get started on some so I wont have much for over the weekend.

Time to change into normal clothes so Emily doesn't think I'm a bum. :))


I think I am going to like this blog. Who doesn't like bread and bunnies anyway!