time?

i seem to have misplaced most of my study time this week, so if someone could find it for me i would appreciate it very much.

my to do list:

email 4300 teacher discussion questions/answers (2, two pages each)
3072: read ch.7 and do discussion questions for tomorrow
finish hist 4300 book (210 pages) by next wed
read 2 coursepack articles for 4300 (30 pages)
3072: find paper topic and present proposal with bibliography (10 books and 5 journal articles) by mon.
swim meet saturday morning (9:30-noon?)
bow ball satruday (4-??)
swim mmet sunday (all day. 9:30-noon, 4:30-??)
RA seminar wed
sped exam fri, march 4th

so...yea. that doesn't include practice, eating, or sleeping. OR reading for all my other classes. most of that stuff is just history.

never will i ever take two histories on one day.

i haven't been sleeping well for about a week or so. i keep waking up at the weirdest hours. i need to just hole myself up in bed one day and not move, but (as we can see by my to-do list) that's not going to happen.

i got some girl scout cookies, which reminds me of my sister. maybe i'll call her after i write this. i miss her.

i really want to go to the movies, i haven't been in so long. i should find out what's playing at the dollar theater. oh! mystery science theather 3000 is playing at tate tomorrow at midnight. definitely going to that.

looking over this i realize that i write in very fragmented sentences, but that's how it is in my head. i'm sure there's a name for this type of writing style, because i've read it in several books. i wouldn't say it's steam of consciousness (even though i do like that). i would say it's more like a concise, word-conscious writing style. knowing what to leave in and what to leave out while still getting the point across.

but i'm a liar. i'm trying to steal susanna kaysen's writing style. she writes the way i wish everyone would.

back to describing the racial climate of 1919 america.

ooh. cold thin mints. no! i've already had my cookie quota for the day.

but...one wouldn't hurt.

would it?

home

i'm sitting in the family room watching a movie with my mom and dad, with indiana crawling on the laptop every now and again trying to get my attention.

in a word, bliss.

this is exactly what i needed. i forgot how much i missed my parents and their little sayings like 'that's sharp' or 'what the hoo-ha?'

got my dress for bow ball. two, actually. i need to decide which one to wear.

also found the dress. the dress that embodies everything a girl could want in an article of clothing. i want to ask cheryl if it can be the bridesmaids dresses, but i doubt it. it's semi-expensive and i don't know if it's the color blue she wants. either way, i'm breaking into the mall sometime soon, so if anyone wants to cause some trouble just ask.

holy crap, toy story 2 just got really sad. almost makes me want to find all my old toys and play with them.

BUT, i can't. i gave them all away, just like the girl in the movie. i'm a bad person.

reading

i am constantly reading. or at least, i should be.

i just finished girl, interrupted and i really liked it. more than i thought i would. i think it's mainly due to the writing style that kaysen used. i love the way she writes. the book only took my 2 days to read, but now i've got to work on history.

history shouldn't take me too long, but i can't seem to get into it right now. got up way to early for, what turned out to be, no reason at all. too much fog to practice this morning.

valentine's day was yesterday, but it was just another day to me (except that everywhere i went people were selling flowers). i've heard people call it 'single awareness day,' and i think that's very fitting. i don't really like how people are completely against the holiday. granted, it's a hallmark holiday and has no real purpose other than to give flowers and candy to your other, but i still like it. i sent a card to my parents telling them i love them, called my sister to wish her and eric a happy day (they're going to celebrate on thursday because they both had work) and by saying 'happy valentine's day' to my friends i was telling them how happy i am that they are in my life (at least, i hope that's what they got out of it).

all in all, it wasn't a bad day. i watched part of 'the notebook,' ate junk food, and got my bow ball items for crew (have i mentioned that target rocks my world yet?).

things i need to do by friday:
read through ch.5 for 3072
call mom and dad (going home this weekend?)
email program director about study abroad
RA seminar on tomorrow (going to have to skip class)
EFND exam thursday
read london lunatic asylum articles for 4300 (question due friday)
erg workouts

i'm sure there's more. i should really get a planner. my head has way too many thoughts jumping around right now to make sense of anything really.

what would i do without music?

if i had to chose between being deaf or blind i have no idea which one i would pick. granted, most of the time i would chose to be deaf because it's my dream to see the world, but sometimes i get in situations where i feel i would go crazy if i didn't have music.

just...i don't know. i need it, i guess. tonight was a good example. just sit back with my eyes closed and listen to my favorite songs. it's probably the most calming thing i do-- some people write, some read. i just sit there and zone out to whatever.

God, i have too much to do. i should have read today, but it just didn't fit in anywhere. i'm just glad i got my erg workout in-- gives me one less thing to worry about. still need to get my bow ball items by tuesday, along with $75 in sponserships/ads. so if anyone wants to donate money for crew they are more than welcome.

i'm going to lay in bed now and stare at the ceiling.

and listen to my music, of course.



ps.- go listen to 'soundtrack of your life' by a girl called eddy. it's my song of the day.

this week is catching up with me

definitely should have worked more on monday and tuesday, because now i'm being crushed under all the reading i have to do. i finally finished microhistory (all 75 pages), so now i have to come up with the discussion question. 3072 shouldn't be too bad (note to self: buy bluebook).

this weekend is going to be even more reading. i haven't even opened my geography book and the exam is monday. at least i'm doing better than the people who have yet to buy it.

in other news:
practice was cancelled today (high winds), which equals more study time for me.

i keep seeing this girl who has the same jacket as i do everywhere i go. creepy? i think so.

i had a dream last night about gloves. i was trying to buy a new pair and i remember being really rushed and i couldn't pick which ones i wanted. the weird part was that every pair had the fingers cut off (exactly like the gloves i just bought) and were really long, almost all the way to my elbow. anyway, i looked it up in my dream dictionary and this is what it says: "generally gloves worn in a dream signify emotional security, and brand new gloves portend financial security...blah blah blah...long or gaunt-type gloves pertain to love matters, and if they were in good conditions, so will be your love affairs." umm...

weirdly enough, my EFND teacher had a dream about me last night (in which i was attacking him with a pitchfork crying hysterically and screaming at him 'how dare you'). i asked him what he did to make me mad and he didn't know-- only that he never wants to be on my bad side. i agreed. (consequently, the dream book says that pitchforks portends to financial headaches due to overindulgence).

i feel like more people are getting in accidents. while i was walking around campus today i noticed a lot of people in crutches-- 5 at least. and that's not even counting the people who need crutches already. and why do i feel like that statement is going to send me to hell?

oh! speaking of hell, i think i figured out what to give up for Lent. i'm going to (try) give up the word 'like.' as in, "ashley told me she, like, couldn't believe that she had actually gotten crabs from her one night stand last week. i was, like, hello? duh."

so, yea. it should prove to be interesting. enough with this though, i need to read. o.c. is on tonight and i don't want this test hanging over my head.

today was crew day

blah. i'm so tired. i had practice this morning and then again this afternoon, but this means that i don't have to do the erg workout later this week.

caitlin and i made it to phase III of the RA application process. seminars start in a week, so that's even more to add to the list of things i need to do.

read 4300 coursepack/do questions
buy 3072 books
deposit checks
get bow ball items (downtown?)
pay for bow ball
get ad money for S.E.R.C.S.
3072 test friday. print off notes.
1101 test monday (READ), map quiz 21st.
turn in credit approval form to study abroad office

i should have gone to sleep a while ago (damn you, gilmore girls) and now i have to read some more. if i get in before 12 then i'll call it a day. God, have a really been up since 5:30?

speaking of which, Lent starts tomorrow. i need to figure out what to give up and actually do it. i was thinking desserts and such, but i doubt i could stick with that.

come to think of it, who says i need to give something up? maybe i could do something instead. hmm...

my half-assed first post

this first post isn't going to be that great because 1) it's late and 2) i'm waking up at 5:30 tomorrow for crew practice.

i decided to get a blog because there's a lot of little things i want to share (observations, thoughts, whathaveyou). my livejournal, which is private and will forever remain that way, is useful but it's not what i want right now.

some quick things you might want to know about me:
my name is karen.
i'm a 2nd year at uga.
i like ketchup.
i'm on crew (aka rowing team, not crew team).
i'm going to italy this summer.
i'm applying to be an RA for next year.
i have a stuffed rabbit named flops.
i'm studying to be a history teacher.
people that don't use their blinkers really make me mad.

that's all i'm coming up with now, but the rest is easy to figure out. i'll add some more again tomorrow-- i just wanted to get this done to see what it would look like.