move along.

Cancer sucks.



that is all.

mmm whatcha sayyyyy?

What an exhausting and disappointing weekend. Friday night was great, with an exception. The game was cold AND the Huskers lost. Then I worked 16 hours straight. Just kidding, but really. I left work Saturday at 11:30p and was right back at work at 5a. What a blast right? THEN I worked til 1:30p and didnt get out til 2. I headed to flag football where the other team didn't show up and forfeited. I was bummed. I went home and had a crazy urge to run. I ran 1.5 miles, watched a bit of Top Chef and went to Dance Marathon. Got home from that and then went to dinner with Jared and Dave. What a fragtastic ending to my weekend.

The week has started and I'm sitting on the backroom floor writing in my blog on my lunch break. I thankfully got into all of my classes for spring semester, but I'm afraid I won't know (or like) anyone in my lit block. Just Tovado, even though he is all I really need to stay sane.

Now I'm just watching the clock tick as I wait to get back to work. I don't exactly want to go back. I'd rather go home and sleep. Which I will be doing at 130p. Oh so I got a $5 tip today. It was AMAZING. The guy who gave it, his name is Winston. He gets a grande black eye every morning. ( a brewed coffee with 2 shots of espresso) but this morning, he ordered a triple white mocha. I gave him some crap for changing his order and VOILA! "Keep the five." Woot.

Alright, lunch is over. Later gators.

Babiez.

Nope, not prego.

Just had a lot of baby talk lately. My sister is due in December with our one and only Baby Boy Applegate. He will be a spoiled little prince. I think they have names picked, but they won't enlighten us. I'm going to be the greatest aunt ever. Hopefully I can see this baby by January and before I go back to finish my second to last semester of college!!!

The other baby news is that my 18 year old cousin is pregz. Schweet. Not much to say about that topic.

Still on the baby topic, I think my mealworms had a baby. Weird and gross, but cool. This worm just popped up out of the oatmeal habitat I have given it. Hopefully Dr. Spaceman (my prof) can give me some answers...

Hmm.. other baby news.. I don't have any!

Off to entomology, SLYB.

gradu- WHAT?

I had my first real scary moment of senior year: a VERY conflicting schedule for the spring semester.

AHH!

I was literally in tears last night planning it all out. I checked Amber's (my advisor) schedule and saw she had walk-ins all day. I set my alarm for 7:30a to walk-in around 8a.

So what happened is that I need to take SPED 401a, but it conflicts with my ATHC 318 (coaching volleyball) and I need ATHC 318 to graduate with my coaching minor. For a few hours it looked as if coaching would have to wait. What a shitty feeling. So I went to bed and had dreams that I went to grad school. Uh WHAT? EXCUSE ME? GRAD SCHOOL? I woke up and thought, well that's a possibility...

So I rolled out of bed and into Amber's office and just laid it all out there.

She always has a plan.

And that she did. "Well what about taking SPED 401b in the summer? It's middle level, but we can make it work." Yup, Amber is a life saver. So I think that is what I'm going to do. It's my only hope in graduating with my major AND minor. Then I asked about post-graduation. The dreaded grad school. I don't know shit about graduate school. She said something about applying to the college, applying for the endorsement (or whatever) and then taking the GRE. I hate paper work.

So now I have my nose in an Undergrad Bulletin trying to figure out what I want to do. Yeah, I have a little under a year to decide, but HELLO it's going to go fast as fuck. A few choices: media specialist.. reading specialist... administration... or i could just go straight into substitute teaching. I don't even know where I want to teach yet!

Something that I really need to be thinking about it student teaching. I was thinking Gretna or Papillion, but perhaps Millard or an OPS school... Westside? I don't know. I need to do some research pronto! My application is due March 1st and I don't even have my application (they haven't given them out yet).

I wish I wasn't a stressful person.

Oh well, Kelcey and I are going to talk about grad school to see what my options are and I can always come back after a year or 2 of teaching (its a prereq).

I'm off to figuring out my schedule with work and hopefully I'll know something about volleyball soon. I work at 3 and thankfully get to lounge for a bit/attempt to clean my room.

SLYB.

Wait... it's snowing?

Yes, in October. It is snowing in Nebraska.
I don't want to talk about it, everyone dislikes it.
I don't have much to say except that I wish it was snowing big flakes and it was real pretty, but it's not. Oh well, I'll save that dream for December.

Anyways.. I had a significant Senior moment this week, but I don't remember it.

I'm slowly losing my train of thought right now too, sipping a peppermint hot chocolate from a mix my mom had in her cupboard while trying to write a letter. Not working.


SLYB.
(this is sorry love you bye. long story ill tell another day)

StuCo/Leadership

So about over a week ago, my dad's friend Jeff (the principal at Plattsmouth High School) asked me to help him talk about student council and leadership to some international teachers. I immediately said yes, I LOVE student council.

Jeff and I have a long history of student council. He used to be the executive director of NASC, the volunteer organization I am a member of. He used to be the advisor at PHS too.

ANYWAYS.

We showed up and I was nervous as hell. I had no idea what to expect. We got there and Jeff introduced me to Dr. Joekel. Hmm.. where have I heard that before? THE NASC HISTORY INFORMATION AREA IN THE LEADERSHIP GUIDES!!!!! holy cow, I felt as if I was in the presence of a celebrity. So slightly in awe after the fact I had already met him THEN realized who he was, I was like I can't screw up this presentation.

Eh, I got a bit nervous, but I felt I did ok. I just didn't know what to talk about. The international teachers were super nice and obviously showed their love for teaching. They all taught either English as a language or Social Studies. They were from South America, Central Europe and India. Talk about cool.

So yeah, that's what I did today.


Don't let the bed bugs bite!
(You should come kill the spider who had set up shop in the corner)

This is going to be super quick and I'l elaborate later.

Abortion signs on O street.
Conflicting religious views.
My religious views.
Loss of religion.
How I feel about abortion.


Sums it up.
Talk to ya later.

chai, music, and blankets.

Do you have any music that you could listen to on any day and it make you feel betta?
I do.
Wicked Musical soundtrack is just perfect. Not exactly for the weather today {absolutely freezing for October in Nebraska} I'm supposed to be cleaning my room before work, but you know how that goes. Fbook sucks you in and you keep clicking and clicking and clicking. It's unfortunetly addicting.

Back to the music. I love to sing sometimes and thankfully the rooms aren't home so I can have my own opera in my room. Audience of one. Recently I've switched to super chill music {take note that I hate that word. chill.} but I can't sing to it because I only like to listen to it. City and Colour, Bon Iver, Wilco and Monsters of Folk = <3. So musical music is the best to sing to, obvs. RENT, Wicked, Moulin Rouge and Avenue Q. WOOT!

Well, I should at least get some cleaning done before work. Ew.

p.s. I found a spider in my room. He/she will be dead before the weekend is over.

au revoir.

wedding bells are ringing...

Yeah yeah.. it's almost 4am.

I just got done chatting with an old friend. Crazy how things never change. He was my first boyfriend. We caught up on what our lives have been up to (neither of ours very exciting) and reminisced on old times. Very recently he got engaged. Talk about an eye opener! I mean, it's not like I didn't think they were going to get married, but just that fact that it is about our genrations turn to get married. Hell, I don't even have a boyfriend!

Anyone want a single, white (I'm actually very tan) female who is going through her senior year of college and pursuing a job as a teacher? Didn't think so.

Oh well.

Anyways! Since last spring, I have a total of 4 weddings to attend within the next 2 summers. 4. Are you kidding me? Dave and Abbie were a given. Jon and Tracy were a little surprising, but again, knew they would marry eventually. Wes and Sarah were also an eventual marraige. Max and Steph were a given too, but didn't think the engagement would come until Steph was a senior!

Re-reading this, I sound bitter. I'm not bitter or jealous. Sure I'd love to be engaged, but I don't have the time. (obviously.) I am overly excited, ecstatic and whatever synonyms go with happy.

Off to further procrastinating.
SLYB.