Yesterday Matt and I transplanted the pumpkins seedlings into his garden. There were a lot of ants around and so he sprayed them. I hope they won't come back and bug the plants. Today we tried to transplant the carrots, but realized it was a bad idea to start them in a planter first. There are too many and they are too small to transplant, so they just ended up in a big mess. Matt replanted some seeds and we hope some of the seedlings will revive themselves. This morning I turned in my ...
Today is the day that Matt and I would have been married, if we had continued our engagement. During class this morning at 8:55, he said, "Five minutes". We would have been married at 9 AM. At nine, he flashed the "I love you" sign at me. It's sad to think that we could be together forever as of today, but maybe there's more out there for us. Maybe we have more to learn. Maybe some day we'll be together or maybe some day we'll have someone else. I'm glad that we're fairly open about it...
I have been working my tail off, and getting spoiled by Matt. Last week he wouldn't let me help him while he grilled pork chops and potatoes, prepared olive oil dip for toasted French bread, and made spaghetti. Wow, it was so good. Then we went and played tennis with two kids who were already at the court and then alone and it showed me how long it's been since I last played. Then we went to Mulligan's and hit golf balls. His friends were there playing miniature golf and so we joined the...
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...
Yesterday I killed a spider and today I saved a potato bug. What makes us despise spiders so much, and yet we see a potato bug and instantly we want to hold it in our hands? I think it has to do with the timidity of the potato bug as compared to that of the spider. A spider is not afraid to make a sudden move or to jump on you and the thought of not knowing to where it has gone, hiding somewhere in the depths of the corners of your room, makes it painfully scary. It is that lack of kn...
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...
I broke up with Matt on Monday. It was so hard to do. I love him so much, and don't ever want to lose him, but I just know that it's not right for now! He cried on my shoulder, and we hugged for about an hour and he kept asking me why, but I have no better reason to tell him than what I mentioned previously. I'm glad he did cry, though, because it shows me that he cares as much as I do. He's got so many great things about him, and I just hope that things work out. He wants to be friends...
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...
I skipped my Latin class today so that I could do a better job finishing my project, and I DID write a little note explaining why some days were missing. It seems like so long ago now that I was engaged and I had a RING and yeah. So I was walking today with Matt and I was eating those handisnack things and not paying attention to where I was walking and suddenly I practically fell (I don't know how that works when I was just walking, don't ask) into this HUGE puddle in the middle of the sid...
I'm starting to think like a linguist with all the things I'm learning from my Linguistics classes - I heard this little kid talking to his mom, and I thought, "Wow, he's got his auxiliaries already. Is he that old?" I'm also noticing a lot of backchanneling - it's pretty interesting, but making it a lot different for me when responding to people in conversations. I've noticed that I get really sick of giving backchannels to one of my friends because she talks sooo much at the end of the s...
Matt told me on the phone that I needed to read my email - he obviously didn't want to tell me over the phone. I finally got around to reading it (I was at work) and it said that he had read my BLOG and thought the articles were interesting. I had never even told him the address or anything, so he must have found it. All I did was talk about posting something now and then. I could tell he didn't really know what a blog was, but he never asked. Yesterday while he was talking to his friend...
Today, our pilates work out was tough! Man, I was groaning and huffing and finally she let us stop - yay for the abs and obliques! During creative writing, we got an assignment to watch people and write down their weird quirks, so when we went to do that, I translated the paragraph for the test in Latin, and it turned out to be pretty easy. Then during Latin, I charted earthquakes for my term project and found out that I was supposed to be writing down what tectonic setting each one was! ...