Thanksgiving

My dog is the biggest baby ever.

We are currently en route home from Iowa where we spent t-givs with family and everytime my mom hits one of those bump things on the side of the road, he jumps and climbs even further into my lap. This would be fine if he were a little dog and could fit into my lap. But he is not. My baby is a four year old Chow-German Shepard-Lab-Golden Retriever mix.


I personally think he is the most beautiful dog ever, but the fact remains--he is huge. But he thinks he is lap dog size and therefore I've had to share the army cot I slept on for the last week with him. But love will do just about anything :)

I meant to write about thanksgiving and my whole break but we just hit another bump and now I can barely move my arms and I'm typing this on my phone anyway. More when I get home. In like 12 hours.
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Waiting for my real life to begin...

And you say, be still my love
Open up your heart
Let the light shine in
But don't you understand
I already have a plan
I'm waiting for my real life to begin


-- Colin Hay.



These are the things I want to do over the next year or two of my life & how I plan to accomplish them. Hopefully all my wildest dreams will come true.<3

I am a History Education major with a minor in Spanish and LJ is a friend of mine that lives a long way a way :(
Colonial Williamsburg is a place I fell in love with last summer and I am really really excited to go back. I would like to work there and that way I would get some hands on training in historical education because that is what they are all about.
Spain is a place in Europe :) My school does this amazing study abroad there, and I want to go Summer of 2012. But I need money to get there. Hence the job in Williamsburg. If that doesn't pan out, I'm planning on working somewhere in Memphis for the summer to make the monies.
LJ is wonderful and I miss her and I want to see her. The end.


1.COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG
a.Check periodically for job listings
b.Talk to Janet
c.How the hell am I going to get to work?
d.Vehicle
2.SPAIN
a.Need source of income to pay for it
b.Classes – that classification thing
c.Spanish classes
3.SEE LJ
a.President’s Day weekend?
b.monies


So, yeah. Those are some things I want to do with my life. I am starting to get really REALLY excited about my future and I can't wait for it to arrive :)


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IT'S THURSDAY:)

I love Thursdays :) Thursdays are the days I get to spend with my best cousin friend and just chit chat about everything:) and it's absolutely wonderful. HAPPY HOUR. but not the kind with alcohol. Because I don't drink, buy if I do, I'll be 21. *fingergun* (LAMEST STAY DRY COMMERCIAL EVER.)

:))))

In other news, I slept through shower time again today. I am so gross. Shower after happy hour DEFINITELY.
(sorry for all the caps today--I'm tired and hyper, which is so not a good combination.)

ANYWAY- I should probably start paying attention in this class. But I won't because I could never come to class and still pass because it's that easy. Oh, college. You are SO challenging. Not.


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Days til HP: 7
Days til I go home: 12
Color of the day: yellow.

Something I should mention..

I love Harry Potter.
Like a lot.
Like a lot, a lot.
And I am beyond FREAKING EXCITED for next Thursday, at midnight.
I am going as Ginny Weasley. BECAUSE I AM GINNY WEASLEY. I love her; I've always loved her. I sort of wish she had a much larger role in the novels, but I know that she needed to be that way. I also absolutely ADORE the way she is developed throughout the novels, because she reminds me so much of myself as I was developing into myself. I was this shy little thing that suddenly "bloomed into a beautiful flower" as Daddy Royce said once. (lulz).
Oh, my friends and I are currently watching Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azakaban (henceforth to be referred as PoA because everyone, EVERYONE, should know HP abbreviations. Because HP is pretty much the most boss thing ever.

Well-- except for British student protests. Which is a thing that happened today. Apparently, students in the UK don't have to pay much, if any, for higher education (SO JEALOUS--by the time I graduate, I'll be SWIMMING in debt.. I digress..) and the gov't has decided that CHEAP EDUCATION IS FOR COMMIES. Actually, I made that up. In reality, from what I've read, the UK has one of the highest budget deficits and the gov't is attempting to rectify that by deciding that students will have to pay out the ass for university and whanot.
To quote Eddplant "On your feet, lads, and let’s show them they can’t hold us down."


Sometimes I wish I was British. The tuition costs here in America are RIDICULOUS, and a lot of my friends from high school aren't in college because they can't afford it OR they aren't where they need to be to obtain the degree they want because of lack of funds. For most people--not all--but for most people, to get a stable job, it requires AT LEAST a BA or BS which you can't get if you can't afford to go to school, which means your family will be raised on less funds, giving them less options when your children grow up, possibly making THEM unable to attend post-secondary. It's a vicious cycle, my friends. AND IT IS TOTALLY UNFAIR.
Where are the protests in America? Where are the people calling for change? I saw them two years ago--but what happened to that fire? Don't even get me started on the mid-term elections that just passed. OR THE TEA PARTY. Bleg.

Don't get me wrong--I love being an American. I am damn proud to be one. I fully support President Obama, I just wish he would do some of the things he promised me as a young 16 year, awash in hope and change.


What a lovely little post--Harry Potter and politics.

EDIT: http://m.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/nov/10/student-fees-protest-conservative-hq?cat=education&type=article


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Haha I suck at this & other things.

Since my last writing, I've since moved to college! It's going great, and Iim doing all those collegy things--dressing like a revolutionary, critically considering the world, late nights, fast food, etc. Without the binge drinking.
I am not, nor will I ever be, a binge drinker.
That isn't to say I am one of those non-drinkers who are OMG WUT ALCOHOL SUX. YOU SUCK FOR DRINKING.
I have no problem with drinking, I even firmly believe the American drinking age should be lowered to 18. I'm just not that into and I don't have the access to it that you would assume one would have on a college campus. I mean, I'm sure I could find it if I went looking for it, but why would I want to do that, when I can sit around, goofing off with my friends. That's the glory in college, is it not? Finding people you truly connect with and care about and waste nights in their company?
That's what I am getting out of college and so far, that's really all I want out of college.
I mean, I am also learning things. Don't get me wrong--I love the learning. I am one of those people who love to learn for the sake of learning. I find learning fascinating and have been known to spend hours on Wikipedia, just learning things. That obvious though, if you know me. I am here for an education-but I'm also here for the experience of it all.
Also-- the football. My God, do I love football. And having SEC football right on my campus is wonderful. Yes, I could have gone to school up North, but why one Earth would I want to do that when I have SEC football in my backyard? (Don't answer that--there are lots of legitimate reasons, I am sure. I considered them, don't worry.)
Anyway--off to bed.


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(that is an English thing I have picked up from my recent discovery of English YouTubers. I like it.)