Call Me A Dreamer

I won't lie, this year has been really hard for me when it comes to character building. I used to think I was a wonderfully patient individual who had her stuff together, all her ducks in a row. I could calmly handle situations and know what to do in each instance, but I think this year it really put me to the test. There are several instances in which I've really been challenged. The first being my relationship (in a good way of course) and secondly through my job as an RA. In my relationship, I've gotten to know a lot about Karl and his family and friends. How he interacts with others and what his pet peeves are about people in general. He appreciates it when other people try and hang out with him, converse about intellectual things, or just converse period. He likes it when time is spent well rather than sitting in silence, but at the same time he needs to go on his evening walks and needs space to just be by himself from time to time. Doesn't like to watch episode...

Hi there. So I am currently on duty and just finished my midnight set of rounds and am not able to sleep. (It's a good thing I don't have class til 2pm tomorrow.) So I thought to myself, what should I do to make myself tired? Blog. That is the answer. I truly want to blog more or just get the opportunity to write what I'm feeling. I think that may help and feelings I'm harboring or letting grow when I don't let it out in some capacity. I mean, I can talk to Karl, but I don't feel like it's really getting out there if I only tell him. But, that's not what this note is about. This is about Spring Break! So let me begin where Winter Term ended. I had finished up finals and we had finished closing the building and doing all the room checks. Prior to room checks I had packed my bags and unloaded the back of my car (I keep all of my storage/moving boxes back there instead of in my room to conserve space.) and prepped it for our travel. Karl was done waay befor...

I've been really bad about regularly posting on here this year. I think Pro-School really gets to ya and takes up all of your time. I suppose that and having a significant other and spending time with family and travels takes up a lot of what little 'free time' there is. I keep saying I'll try and do better, but it's only the beginning of the term, and I know I will get bogged down; however for the time being, I'll try and be better. I will also try and write about LIFE and not just how I'm doing in classes. That is something I realized happened last term. I didn't really have a 'life'. My 'life' was school, work, boyfriend and family. My close friends I hardly talked to, I went to church most Sundays, hadn't attended my bible study all year (I don't even know whose house it is at anymore or who is still involved), the only people I did talk to were those in classes with me when we were doing homework or my co-workers. I was goo...

Hey there, Sorry it's been forever since I've written. I have really not been good about writing regularly; if it makes you feel better the same is true for my reading life, and generally my reading and writing life go hand in hand. I think the last time I read for fun was during winter break when I was reading the Hobbit before it came out so I could stay true to reading books before I see their movie counterpart. I honestly just woke up from what was about a 5 1/2 hr nap. I'd also like to point out on Wednesday I napped for 2-3 hrs that evening, and still managed to go to sleep around midnight and slept solidly til around 10am. I think I have been having really poor sleeping, or just haven't been getting enough sleep regularly because I will stay up late doing homework, and then wake up early again to finish it. I feel like the regular amount of sleep I get is about 6 1/2 to 7 1/2 hrs of sleep. I usually wake up at 6:30am or 7:30am depending upon if i...

I'm really struggling with finding time to write this term/year. I'm finding that I don't really have much time to myself a lot lately. If it is time to myself it is quickly taken up by doing homework when I can focus in my alone time. I don't get much time to sort out my thoughts, let alone write them here. This last week, though I know it should've been easy, I stressed out a lot. Homework was relatively difficult getting completed by myself and I feel bad having to ask others or rely on them for an explanation of how to do things. I started to visit with professors this week for getting some clarification on topics (which I should've started doing sooner, but better late than never). I don't know if I wrote about this last time, but I applied for a Co-op Director position here on campus and we were supposed to get emails sometime this last week.. but I didn't get one today, and it is past the 5pm Friday of week 5, which was when I had anticipated ...

Good Morning! (or Afternoon or Evening, whatever it is for you.) I woke up this morning and decided to sleep in an extra hour. Even though that probably wasn't the wisest decision and neither is choosing to blog when there are so many things going on this week, I decided that since I woke up an hour later, it means I would only have an hour at the library before I had to go to a 1 on 1 with one of the Hall Council Execs, which wouldn't provide me with enough time to get into the zone of studying. So I decided to blog. This last 3 day weekend was mostly spent studying. I have 3 midterms this week. 1 is today in Heat Transfer, 1 is Thursday for Physical Chemistry (in which my professor had a family emergency and will be out for the next 2 weeks), and lastly is Thermodynamics on Friday. (Yes, I'm still taking thermo. It is a 3 term class...) This term I've been trying to study on my own. A lot of the time I will always get together with others to talk about how to approa...

Happy New Year! I feel really bad that I finally am posting about stuff that has happened weeks ago, but amidst all of the traveling and surprise keeping, there was a lot that I could not post until Karl came back from his trip to Asia and some of the countries within. I had to refresh on what I had last posted about. As far as my grades went, I ended up getting a B- in Thermodynamics, so praise the Lord for that one! Also, during winter break duty, I made hats. Lots of hats. Here is a picture of the stuff that I made while I was stuck in the building. From right to left and up to down: Brown Owl Hat for Kyle (Karl's brother), Grey Owl hat for me, teal scarf for me, Brown Monkey Hat for Karl, and Pink/variegated Owl for Christine (the RD). This is only what I did while on duty. A resident/friend of mine showed me how to make the monkey hat, and from various pictures on google, I figured out how to make an owl hat combined with the basic earflap beanie and adding to it. I...