Wow! Things are so great and yet not so great! Yesterday Jeff had a meningitis scare, but he's fine now. I had Mom cut off my awful hair and now it doesn't look bad. The funny thing is, Matt and I met for lunch downtown at Rowdy's Loco Amigoes, and I hadn't told him about the cut. When I pulled up, I saw that he had cut his as well! I was kind of disappointed because A. I wanted to cut his hair (he said that I could), and B. He always looks like an army boy after he cuts his hair. Any...

Phew, final exams are over! I am now doing much better, my laryngitis is gone. Matt and I have re-evaluated our relationship several times on account of me going on a date tomorrow. Apparently while we were talking things out yesterday, my mom eavesdropped, because last night she was practically interviewing me and it really annoyed me. Anyway, my earthquakes and volcanoes exam took an hour today and it was murder. I know that I should have studied more, but I felt like it was useless si...

In general, I would just like to say that these past few weeks have been stressful, probably leading to the illness I have now! Working at the new job is interesting. The modified Dewey Decimal system was confusing at first, but I finally have it down, but looking at all the numbers in passing and turning around trying to reshelve these over-classified books makes me dizzy at times. I do get to learn the other stuff soon though. It's getting annoying that I have no ID badge yet - I have t...

Matt took me to get my allergy shots yesterday, and then we drove down State Street looking for cars, and I told him to pull over to look at a red jetta (I have my heart set on a Jetta, but I don't really want red!). I looked inside, and it was an automatic. BLECH! I don't like or want an automatic. So, I turned around, and there, in the midst of many other cars, was a black one in good shape! It was a manual! The guy came out and told us about it and we started it up and it had a sun r...

Okay, two things: First, the bad news: I just did something SO STUPID! You know how I just freeze up when confronted or on the phone or whatever? I was sitting in the Social Behavioral Science building in the level that only has elevators (so that I could be alone and have some quiet), and this dude came down (probably a graduate student or professor) and went outside and smoked. I thought, EEEW! Why do people think it's okay to stink up other people's air? I should go out there ...

Matt drove me through some used car places yesterday, and you know how salespeople are, sticking to you like glue. This guy flagged us down as we were leaving, asked about Matt's car and for what we were looking and said that if I left my name and number he would find it and contact me. I told him a jetta as new as possible, because the loan interest rate gets higher if the car is older than 1997! Yeah, right! How am I supposed to find a car newer than that for less than 5000? Duh! An...

So, I got this email from some dude with Church Curriculum. He said that they liked my writing style and thought it would be good for the New Era, and that I should do a service mission with them. If I can't do that, he said, I should apply next year for sure. They like graduate students. I wrote back, but I think it will have to depend on how flexible they are and how many hours a week it would be. They are really flexible with the service missionaries at the FHL. Saturday would have be...

I went to the dentist, and the assistant asked me if I ate a lot of chocolate, then scraped all of that gross goober off. Ron said I might want to go to a periodontist to check on my lower gums. Then I talked to him the whole time in German and he talked about Mom and we tried to get her to figure out just one phrase, but she couldn't. Don't you hate when you're mad at yourself because you're mad about something that you shouldn't be mad about? Yeah, well, Charla has these little things i...

So I just got an email that I'm not getting the chance to have an interview for the Ensign. That's disappointing in ways (of course, hard on the worth of writing samples in a portfolio), but in other ways it's very relieving. Now I will have time to take classes and hang out with my family, while only working three days a week! Sweet. Anyway, I just saw my high school English teacher here at the library. She has a baby now. Whoa. She's a cute baby, too. I was glad that I was able to h...

I've been stressing because my counselor let me know that I could not graduate and go to Boston in the same semester. I tried to figure out ways, but it was just too close to call, because of a residency requirement. So I think that the plan now is to graduate in the summer and either work there with an internship, or find one here, or start grad school there. Then I can go on a mission in the spring! Wahoo! On Thanksgiving, Mom took me to Shopko and bought me a coat that was on sale f...

Is it just me or do coffee drinkers smell from the coffee? Eeeeew! So, I need to work harder on school. Help me! I think I need to get my grade up in several classes (from a B or B+, but still). One of my teachers says he doesn't give As. I've worked really hard in that class, and he has to cancel it all the time. I don't think that's fair that he can't dedicate his time when we do, and he still can't give us the grades we deserve. On Saturday, I left the FHL to drive to Clay's hou...

There are so many things that I think about doing if I had more time in which to do them. I've been thinking of quitting one of my jobs early (it ends in December anyway) so that I can have more time to dedicate to the things that matter, but I love the people there! It seems so much more worth it, but my mom reminds me that I owe Dad money. Yikes! Last night, I asked him if I could pay it back slowly as a loan. He said, "Only if you stop bugging me about my zits". Hee hee. Then he stu...

Lena expressed her concerns to me at Cousin’s Day about Amy deciding to change her dress. I told Mom and she talked to Lena about it, and so now she needs to resew the parts she unpicked (luckily she hadn’t cut yet), AND . . . find a dress for Amy before pictures on Monday! However, Amy is in CANADA until Saturday night. Hmmmm . . . So, Mom took me wedding dress shopping with her for AMY, since I am about the same size. I tried on so many. Sadly, the first three or more stores we went to...

So much has happened lately that I absolutely have to write about it. I guess I will just put them in little stories. I helped Matt choose a paint color to go with the circus red carpet he chose for the home theater he was building where the climbing room used to be. When I first saw the carpet, I seriously doubted that anything would go well with it. We grabbed paint samples that looked like the color of the couch and the carpet he chose, and held them up to all sorts of colors. His m...

So I leave for study abroad in Germany in 13 days! YIIIIKES! It kind of gives me butterflies in my stomach when I think about it. I sent my host family a letter this week, so I hope they will get it soon and email me, because I do not have their email address and I would like to be more sure about how to get to their home once I arrive in Kiel (if I can find the bus at the airport in Hamburg). I think the main thing that scares me is awkwardness which goes hand in hand with making a fool ...