It's snowing.

Oh hai, its snowing, and i'm cold and the tops of my feet are bare. Oh where oh were is my winter coat? I'm hungry and I hate group projects. The End.

10 days later...

I went to Summerhill elementary school today and painted colorful pictures in the courtyard of the school. I painted a flamingo!! Right on the brick wall, I kind of feel like I left a piece of me at the school for all the children to enjoy. I also painted a bunny, a giraffe and a pig. It was an amazing experience, despite getting stuck in hours of traffic to and from the school because of the STUPID marathon (who decides to have a marathon in the middle of a big city?). Every single road was blocked off and I spent countless minutes going around in circles just looking for a way to get home. I ended up being 45 minutes late for work but theres no one here anyway so I guess thats okay.

Last night was interesting. Went to David's house, played some beerpong, walked all the way to Wallace Street to a slightly lame dance party and went home and slept restlessly to awake at 8:30am.

I never understood why the K-Mart symbol is a blue light? That's really weird.

I just witnessed a historical moment

Here I am, a 19 year old sophomore at VCU and i just witnessed one of the most significant moments in American history. Last night around 11:30 Obama was elected president, being apathetic towards this election and politics in general, I wasnt as excited as most people. Right as he was elected fireworks went off, people screamed and celebrated and ran around like crazy My room mates and I were on our way to a party when we saw something so epic we just all were speechless. Thousands of VCU students holding Obama signs were marching in celebration down broad street. There were cars but no one cared, they eventually had to close down Broad st, Richmond was just one big celebration, everyone came together to rejoice. Students marched up and down Broad st (and other streets too) into the wee hours of the night screaming and yelling and jumping on cars and just having the best time of their life. This will be a night i'll never forget. The one thing that brought the entire VCU population together. I'm still astounded at what I saw last night/this morning, I wish I had pictures.

Election Day

History in the making

Haloween weekend is over

I had a great Halloween and am truly sad its over.

Thursday I had my two exams that I'd been stressing over all last week. I think I did pretty decent on them, they werent too bad. Melanie arrived in Richmond around 12:30 and we lied around and talked until we went to get some Shafer with K'shonda and Jane. She came to work with me at 4 and we played Yahtzee with some Break pointians and just hung out. After work it was time to get ready for the party, we made the punch and began getting ready. The punch turned out really good and the whole house looked really eerie. We had blacklights, fog and lots of silly decorations. People came around 10:30-11, not as many people showed up as I predicted but it was still a really good crowd. Jackie and Caleb came first, Caleb's costume was hilarious. All he wore was a pizza box with little boxers underneath. LJ, Andy and their friend Steven came next. Andrew and his room mate came and the Mikes came and stayed for a little bit. Brendan and John were there of course along with Jessica and jane's friend Kelsey.

As the night progressed I noticed there were different levels of intoxication. At the top level there was LJ, Kelsey and John who began dancing and singing very loudly to the Backstreet boys. In the middle level was Me, Brendan, Jessica, Melanie and Jane who were all pretty drunk but not crazy drunk. There were a few people that didnt seem drunk at all, but who knows. Everyone had fun (especially K'shonda and Thomas who went upstairs really early ;)) And Melanie and the Gyno too. :-*

It was a good night. Nobody wanted to leave, we ended up having to tell people to leave around 4:30. Melanie and I watched Sex and the City and fell asleep at 5:30. Brendan slept curled up on the floor.

MELANIE woke me up the next morning at 9 (less then 5 hours of sleep, always enjoyable) Brendan made us pancakes then we hung around til 1 when we decided to go to the Halloweenfest at the commons. It sucked, they were out of pizza and out of street signs, We walked around for a little and decided to go to Chipotle with Cameron for free burrito day, we put foil on ourselves and received the delicious item. It was better then ever (maybe because it was free) We felt a little sick so we went home and layed around for a little while and napped til it was time to get up and get ready. We really wanted to go to this halloween party/show but we didnt have time to before 534 so we just pregamed at the house.

534 ended up being a little lame. We waited in line for 45 minutes (even though we were in the RSVP line) and once we FINALLY got in, our buzz was basically worn off. I dont need to drink to have fun but dancing is a whole lot more fun when your drunk. I saw Jake Parocki in line with Brenane Smith, i went up and said hi. I miss him. Once inside, I waited in line for the bathroom for 20 minutes before Kelsey and I decided to go to the men's bathroom. It felt good. We FINALLY got upstairs to the dance floor and danced a bit. Jessica and Christy still werent in because they were in a different line. THey finally got in like 20 minutes later and we all were kind of discouraged by this time. We stayed til about 1:30 before heading home, getting some coAts and heading to a party on Floyd. They had a little beer so we drank it but Christy and Jessica were miserable so Brendan met up with me and walked Jessica home.

We stayed at the party til like 3 and headed home. I was a little drunk at this point. We passed out around 5.

SATURRRDAY. Woke up and went to Empire for breakfast. Met up with Dave and his friend. Melnaie dropped me off at work at 3, and then left. Im sad, i miss her. WOrked til 8. Ate with Brendan at five guys and went back. Made a sexy secretary outfit before going to Pi lam. Went to Pi Lam with Kshonda and Brendan, stood in the corner for 20 minutes and left. It sucked, that place sucks.

Fell asleep at 12:30
Gained an hour.

Woke up at 11. Slept really restlessly last night. Got sweaty and couldnt breathe.
Went to work
Went to 4 places before work looking for food with brendan
Unsuccessful
had a bad morning until i found that missed connection on craigslist (see previous post)

Brendan brought me food
Beat brendan at Tetris

My day got better
I need to go to the library now to do SPSS homework
Then do laundry
then clean my room

then relax and go to bed early

<3

I CAN NOT STOP LAUGHING

http://richmond.craigslist.org/mis/901280223.html

Winter

So Richmond completely skipped the entire fall season. It went from summer directly to winter. I have NO winter clothes. I think I own like 3 long sleeve shirts and 2 sweaters, no jacket, socks or anything. I am SO cold. I need a coat, sweater, ear muffs, hat, scarf, etc, etc, etc.... and I cant go buy any of this til Sunday, so freezing I will be.

This past weekend was awesome. Melanie came down and we threw her a party on Saturday night, it was really fun. Drake came and it was nice seeing him for the first time in like a year. Friday I worked then went to a 3 kegger on Cherry st followed by a delightful dance party on Leigh. My friend Phil decided it was necessary to beat up a skinny drunk obnoxious dude, it sucked but was funny. The guy ripped Phil's fresh new polo so Phil stole his Giant's hoodie, it was a sweet trade.

I'm in English class. I havent done any work for this class in weeks. I have two midterms on Thursday and i'm a little overwhelemed.

I'm boycotting the saying "i guess" because I don't understand. What are you "guessing" when you respond with that answer? I think its stupid.


http://www.cutethingsfallingasleep.org/ its basically short little youtube videos of cute animals falling asleep (wow who would've thought)

I'm not voting next week. Don't hurt me.

John Calhoun is creepy looking.

A small addition

P.S. KFC Biscuits bowls are really good minus the corn

Compliment each other like colors

"the fact that you are one of the most individualistic people that i've ever met
you always do your own thing, think for yourself, act how you want to act, don't appear to be dependent on anybody else, work hard, and in general are just like "here's who i am. take it or leave it and i like that. you know how you meet somebody for the first time? and you're like "hey, they remind me of ______" i've never met somebody and been like "you remind me of shayla"
nobody has ever reminded me of you"

My friend Drake said this, I think its one of the best compliments I've ever received.

I'm at work and everyone here smells really bad, i don't understand how boys can muster up such a sweat just by playing pool, it really boggles me.

I bought a pumpkin today for 3.50 its really dirty and lopsided but i felt it call to me. I'm going to carve the crap out of it next week and display it for all to see.

My life is so complicated right now that i cant even blog about it because it doesnt even make sense in real life.

Last night I played poker and drank PBR light, it was fun, I almost won.
I'm going to a dance party tonight.
Melanie is coming tomorrow.

This week sucked.
I have two midterms next week.

Happy Halloween!

Autumnober

It finally feels like October, i don't know how I feel about it. I like the leaves on the ground though but I'm too cold right now.

My fall break was as follows:

Thursday: Left Richmond around noon with Brendan and Jane, we had an eventful ride back playing the ABC game and the animal game (Jane sucks at this game) I dropped Jane off in Manassas and Brendan and I went to my house. We hung out there until Mealworms came over. We decided to take a trip down memory lane and go to my old house and then to my high school. It was 6pm so no one was there except a random volleyball game was going on, we decided it would be a good idea to sit and watch the game for 5 minutes then leave so we did just that. We went home and played half a game of Balderdash before brendan left. Melanie, my mom and I watched the Notebook (WHY do I keep watching that, it makes me really depressed) then I went over to Melanies to have a sleepover. We dug through her basement and found old journals and stuff she wrote which turned out to be really entertaining.

Friday: Melanie woke me up at a very early hour as usual and we watched Ratatouille then went to my house and got locked out. After finally getting in we decided to paint and it turned out very unsuccessful. We went to Fuddruckers then the mall and did silly things. We left and my mom and I went to Bingo, we didn't win and it sucked. I met up with Brendan and we went and hung out with Christy and her friends. Christy is funny.

Saturday: Brendan and I went to the Zoo and it was so much fun. We saw flamingos! And sloth bears and prarie dogs and naked mole rats and gorillas in hammocks.

Today: I'm at work watching Scary Movie 2 and reading the Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America's First Miltary Victory. I have to pee.


THE ENDS.

Good Day

I had a nice day. I went to my psychology lab today and it ran really short so I spent the remainder of my time completing a good portion of my homework due next Monday. This means that I pretty much don't have anything important to do over Fall break. I went to Health services to get my throat checked and I don't have strep or mono so I guess its just a cold...I went to the gym afterwards for 45 minutes, did a little this and a little that. Went home hungry, Long asked me to eat with him. He took me to a Korean place called Mama's Kitchen, ordered something for me (that turned out to be surprisingly good) and we talked for a good while. I'm glad we are friends again, hes a nice dude.

Ok so now i'm in class, last class before break, NO ONE is here and I'm thinking about bailing. just thinking about it though because I'm def not going to (whats the point I'm already here)

I'm going over to Jessica's later to drink Pina Coladas then getting some beer and partying it up my last night here. I might go to Godfreys, who knows. I cant wait to go home. I'm going to bingo, zoo, pumpkin patch, dinner with my gf, etc etc

Already slacking...

With this blog. Uhhh been doing a lot of schoolin' and Break Pointin'
I love my job. A lot. I drew a picture of a flamingo cooking eggs for his girlfriend to celebrate them moving in together, his girlfriend is a whale. They were playing scrabble and drinking wine too. Also drew a cat hula hooping and a manatee in a rocking chair with coffee reading to two cats, one cat had a sheep on his head that was trembling. I ate some scooby do fruit snacks too

Not sleeping much, not doing much homework... I need to read a whole bunch this weekend.
Helping out with a Soup kitchen tomorrow with Jane for Church. I'm really excited :)

I'm obsessed with the first five tracks on the new JM CD and I cannot stop listening to them for the life of me.

Brendan just made me dinner :)

MUCH MUCH MORE LATER. SO MUCH MORE.

Monkey Bread

First off: I know this blog is lacking anything useful, and I am not apologizing for it.
Today I did laundry. And then went and took an exam. I hate math, thats all I'm saying.
I discovered that the exams that I THOUGHT I did mediocre on last week I actually aced, thats encouraging.

I'm jealous that Jane always writes such interesting entries and I write tributes to sock monkeys.
In response to your entry Jane: I think everyone looks funny running, not just white people. Although in 8th grade a classmate of mine was nice enough to tell me I run like a handicapped platypus.

I've been taking trips down memory lane lately. I think its mostly because I've been hanging out with my brother a lot recently. Even though are visits usually entail some form of argument (all his fault of course, I'm always right and everyone that knows me knows this), we unknowingly reminisce a lot about growing up. It makes me really happy. Sometimes I feel like if I dont take the time to actually remember my childhood I'll forget things, small things or maybe even big things. I don't want to forget anything.


I'm craving monkey bread and a root beer float after watching this food network episode of Unwrapped. Everything I see on T.V. being advertised I want. Thats probably why I'm stuck with a pancake puff and a magic bullet which I've used twice maybe. I'm not saying these weren't important purchases because they were, but commercials really suck me in.


I realize how stuck up I come across sometimes, it sucks because I'm really not stuck up at all.

Break Point

I'm at work watching Not Another Teen Movie and eating biscuits and gravy. I'm tired and still a little sad. Why did I watch Titanic and the Notebook consecutively last night? Because I basically was crying my eyes out for hours. The movies just emphasized some of the emotions that I've been feeling lately so I guess thats why they made me cry more than usual.

A friend of mine told me that I had a missed connection on craigslist, I thought it was awesome because Melanie and I browse those all the time and think how cute it would be if we ever got one. http://richmond.craigslist.org/mis/864825535.html

I e-mailed the person back saying "you're welcome"


I'm really thirsty and this gravy is way too peppery.

Sock Monkeys

I was just at Barnes and Nobles and they had a huge section of Sock Monkey stuff.
They had a few books with pictures of various Sock monkeys, a calendar, actual sock monkeys, a planner, etc etc
It made me realized how much I really like Sock Monkeys. I already knew I liked them, but I like them a lot!!

Whenever I'm bored I google "baby animals"

So my week of hell is over. I'm done with classes and basically done with midterms (I have one on Monday but its open note so I'm not too worried about)
I still have a lot of work to do but that dog is me right now.

I'm in class right now and all I can think about is chocolate pudding.

HUMAN SOCIETIES AND GLOBALIZATION

I find this class really uninteresting. I feel really guilty whenever I'm in this class. I never listen, all I do is go online and usually go to www.bored.com and find a random site to keep me busy. I feel like I'm wasting my time and money when I'm not listening although I've tried in the past to get into the discussions but just simply couldn't.

I have an exam tomorrow in Literature, another class I don't particularly enjoy. I really love reading and usually don't have any problems reading text books, so I'm surprised that this class has been so hard for me. I find the way the stories are written terribly confusing. I had to re-read the Odyssey twice, I finally got the storyline with the help of SparkNotes and I actually found it remotely interesting. The Aeneid, on the other hand, pretty much sucks.

I finally got the new Jack's Mannequin CD from Plan 9 today, it is amazing (as far as I know, I've only listened to 4 songs but I suspect it's only going to get better)

On the news today, really important stuff like...
Heather locklear getting arrested (and I think thats funny)
A baby formula in China killing babies (says my nail technician at least)
A 6-year old kid getting a speeding ticket for driving a go-kart on his street (the cop later revoked the ticket because he realized he was a little stupid)
and a chihuahua getting attacked by a hungry shark

The End.