i’m excited to go back to school. how sick is that?

visiting home is nice because i get to see everyone (my family) again, and do laundry for free, and sleep in my bed, and eat my mom’s cooking. but besides that i dont really do anything else. well, today i did a lot of shopping.

i bought some awesome old man pants today. as well as a bunch of other clothes and a velvet underground & nico album and a best of t rex album. so i’ve mostly been listening to t rex today because T REX IS LOVE.

is it bad that i was not homesick at all? i dont think it is, i think it’s probably a good thing. living in a new place has been a very good experience (for a week so far, ha!) and i’m very very happy right now. it’s refreshing, however cheesy it is of me to say that. i can’t really get over the fact that some people actually like me.

i’d probably look forward to coming home more if i had friends who were excited to see me, you know. but oh well. i’m not going to be sad. i really think i’ll develop some great friendships in the next year. and i honestly can’t wait. it’s about time, really, is what i think.

this girl told me that i look like a punk. how funny is that. while we’re on the subject, today i went to sonic and saw someone in the car across from me with a MOHAWK. i literally gasped because seeing a mohawk in my town is a very rare thing. it was so great because it was a huge mohawk. i wasn’t able to tell if it was colored or not, but man.

in other news i think i’m going to get my eyebrow pierced sometime.

the end.

so yesterday i ate an entire pint of ben & jerry’s ice cream and man it was GOOD.

have i mentioned how i bought one of those strap things that people put on their keys so they can put it around their neck or often have hanging out of their pant pockets? anyway, i found one that says, “HIP HOP” and it’s hilarious, so that’s why i got it.

today i took these girls to wal mart and it was cool. i also met some other cool kids. there’s so many cool people, i’ve never been so close to so many. it’s funny. i love it. people actually like me, how insane is THAT.

so yeah, this morning we woke up and there was no water at all. to go to the bathroom i had to walk across campus to one of two buildings that had flushable toilets.

it was pretty insane. the “crisis” is kind of cleared up. we can shower in the “contaminated” water but we cant drink it or brush our teeth with it. or do laundry. which sucks because my pants smell and i’m running out of pairs to wear. my room mate got out her febreze, so i might just use that. funny.

classes aren’t too bad. they arent exactly superexciting.

i’m kind of nervous about my broadcast operations class though because we’re going to be doing a lot of hands on stuff. it sounds awesome but i’m not sure how good i’d be at it.

we’ll even do some directing and such. however i think it will definitely be worth it.

we rented movies again tonight. we rule.

so, last night we had this pep rally and our mascot “bobby bearcat” gave away t-shirts and pizzas. and then we had this awesome motivational speaker and it was worth going to.

then we had this improv group, which was really cool. it was a lot like whose line is it anyway. at the beginning some members of the organization that sponsored it were throwing frisbees out into the crowd, so i finally have a frisbee. my room mate says she will play frisbee with me sometime.

what’s so great about the whole tossing frisbees out into the crowd, is that i really hate when things are tossed into a crowd because you never know which direction it’s going to go. so we were dodging the frisbees and laughing uncontrollably. i caught one by putting my hand in the air to prevent getting hit in the forehead. score.

after the improv i went to a party with two girls, and it was really cool. it was nothing like lame high school parties i went to (and then avoided). in high school people were always like, “what are YOU doing here?” but now everyone’s like, “hey, i dont know you but you’re here that’s awesome.” or not exactly that, but whatever.

everyone is pretty nice, it’s really surprising. the upperclassmen arrived yesterday and it’s kind of intimidating for some reason. because they know where everything is and they already have friends and what not. i dont know. no one has been mean or anything though.

yesterday this band just kind of randomly set up their stuff in the tundra (which is right outside my residence hall) and started playing. it was cool, not that they were any good. haha. there was a band at the party too, but mostly it was random guys who knew how to play so they did. i dont know.

i havent called my parents at all since thursday. i probably should do that now.

college isn’t that bad yet. of course i havent started classes or anything, but i actually think that will be good.

i’ve met a lot of nice people and my room mate is surprisingly pretty cool. i was so afraid of something different.

we hung out a lot last night…we went into the town and just kind of walked around. and rented movies.

there was this dinner thing that had this band, four shadows. they were so horrible and we kept laughing at them, because really. it was like lounge singing, sort of, but they sang some songs that were not meant for lounge singing. man, it was so funny. example of one of the songs, “every morning” by sugar ray. just an example.

i think i’m going to go kill time now.

you know, i’m not minding this college thing at all yet. though i do have this worksheet i have to do. so what i guess i mean is that everything is going good enough, i just dont want to do any schoolwork.

it’s easy to meet people because you can just randomly say hi to anyone and engage in conversation. some people are really great.

my room mate and i made our beds into bunk beds yesterday. actually, we just bought the extenders for it and we found two guys visiting two girls in our dorm and had them lift the bed up for us.

on the first night here when my room mate and i were just walking to town there was a bunch of yellow caution tape laying around this ditchthing so i took some and now it’s hanging on my wall. i’m such a rebel.

what a nice story.

the union here is really nice, it’s almost like a foodcourt. and we can pay for everything with this “bearcat card” which is kind of like a debit card. it’s really convenient. yesterday i was just wandering around aimlessly and these girls i kind of know from my floor asked me to go with them. it’s just nice not really knowing anyone and making new friends and acquaintances.

i had my schedule changed yesterday because my advisor didn’t like one of my teachers. she told me about things he did and man, i’m glad she switched me. but i’m also glad that i was switched because i was going to have math at 8am, and now i have it at 2pm. score.

i have no 8 am classes. my earliest is 10. that makes me superhappy.

this is superboring but i felt like just typing this up. i’m pretty happy.

my last day in town. i didn’t do anything very special.

i slept until 11, like usual. talked a little to my mom, she went out for lunch with my father.

it felt like any other day. and then i started cleaning my room a little and piling everything that i planned to bring. so then i made side a of a mixtape. i guess it will remain undone until i come home on the 30th or the 31st.

i visited my sister, nephew and niece a lot in the last two days. it’s been nice.

i saw my trendy friend in wal mart today (she works there) and we talked a lot. well, mostly she talked and i listened. i’m not sure why she thought i was interested in hearing about her ex boyfriend, or her current boyfriend. but it was alright i suppose. i dont think i really said anything besides reactions to what she said. and i dont think she noticed.

i didn’t hang out with her all summer. and i dont mind because when i am with her she mostly talks about things she has done (which makes me feel very boring) and i just listen and laugh. she is also liked by many boys and gets hit on a lot. i’m definitely the “ugly friend” when i’m around her and that’s a nice feeling as anyone can imagine.

but today was decent. there weren’t really any special goodbyes at all. i didn’t expect any, although i wish there were some. i’m not good at this sort of thing. i dont tell people how i feel about them because i’m afraid of making a complete ass of myself. it’s really easy to convince yourself that no one feels the way about you, the way you feel about them. in any way.

in other news, i still have a little bit of packing to do. last night i had a hard time falling asleep. i’m really worn out today, i did a lot of running around. tomorrow is going to be extremely exhausting, physically and mentally.

today i was with my father in a parking lot and a man in a truck parked in front of movie gallery. his back window was completely decorated with stickers and it says, “mr. homie”. i took a picture from far away but my father offered to take a better one. he went right up to the truck to get a picture for me. this is why i love my father. he takes pictures of trucks for me. (we found out that mr homie’s name is herman. which is extremely awesome).  

i think it’s okay for me to be scared. and sad. and frustrated and angry. i hate being overwhelmed.

oh well.

last night was my last night of work at kfc as a regular part time employee.

here are some stories:

so this lady comes up to me and asks if she can have a bag to put the chicken she didn’t eat in it. she’s pretty rude, but i get it for her. but before handing it to her i ask if she had the buffet, because in that case i am not allowed to give her the bag to take food home in. this pissed her off, as it pisses most senior citizens off. i think the fact that someone younger than them, telling them that they are not allowed to do something bothers them. anyway, the lady didn’t have the buffet and told me so in quite a “matter of fact” way. she was awesome.

so later this group of missouri thugs comes in and are super annoying. i wasn’t in a super great mood so i wasn’t going to laugh at their jokes. one guy takes this plate of food that was sitting on the counter (it was a lady’s who was getting her drink. and i give him a look of “excuse me?” oh man, it was so great because i guess i looked really “threatening” because they kept talking about how i looked at them and one of them said, “you get killed around here for doing that.”

so that story wasn’t very fun. i like when the “thugs” come in, they always look at the girls up and down like we are “fine pieces of ass” in our uniforms. man, priceless.

but the best story of the night is this man. he was an obvious farming/hunting loving man. he orders the buffet and sits and eats it for like two hours in the store. it’s not that he ate a ton, it’s just that he kept talking to everyone. i was out in the lobby cleaning tables and he said to me, “you know my wife is a veterinarian at Tyson’s and says that kfc is really picky about the chicken they use. the uniformity, the temperature, you know it’s really good to know that.” i said, “yeah?” and “oh?” but i was wondering since when did tyson’s have veterinarians working there.

he spent a lot of time talking to this man who was with his wife. i think the lady was really annoyed, she just sat there and looked really bored. anyway, i overheard this that the talking man said, “the other day i was in wal mart and saw this lady with her kid and i said to her, ‘you got a fine lookin’ boy there’ and the kid got mad and kicked me and said, ‘i’m a girl!’ hahaha.”

he also talked about deer and turkey.

then later, when the man he spent most of the time talking to left, i was out cleaning tables again. “you got a vote from that guy!” he told me. (no clue what he was talking about). then he just says, “iowa.”

classic.

there are a lot of lasts going on. i’m kind of concerned about how unconcerned i am.

tonight is my last night of work, tomorrow will be my last piano lesson. wednesday will be my last day actually living here, not visiting home.

i’m scared again but also excited still, nothing has changed. it’s just so incredibly odd knowing that in a few days everything is going to be different and i just want it to be good. i want nice memories.

in other news, every time i go downstairs a commercial for yeast infection medication is on tv.

work was so awesome today.

i was taking this lady’s drive thru order and was having a really hard time hearing her, so i had to ask her to repeat something three times. by the third time she was really really pissed off and literally screamed what she said at me and then added “DAMN!!!” to the end of it, and it was just so incredibly hilarious.

even better though, was when she was at the window and i totally told her to have a great night.

also, this lady came in who apparently used to be the manager there before i started. and i guess policies have changed since she has been there, and when i told her that i couldn’t do something she got really pissed off and just left. it was so awesome.

when i first started, things like this would really piss me off, but now it’s just so great. people like that honestly make my night and i love it. seriously it’s so incredifunny.

man, this shy pale and scrawny guy came through tonight and i really made him uncomfortable by undressing him with my eyes. poor guy.

work was awesome tonight.

tomorrow maurine and i are going to the anniversary and modest mouse show. i’m going to call weezah boy and see if he wants to come as well. i’m not sure how that will work out but it doesn’t matter. what’s important is that i’m actually going to ask.

man. tonight’s quote:

“I SAID I WOULD WAIT FOR THE BISCUIT!!!! DAMN!!!” –annoyed lady in kfc drive thru.