My fall classes

1. Charles Dickens Novels (Bicentennial edition!!!)
2. Jane Austen
3. Environmental Regulations Compliance
4. Creative Writing: Fiction
5. Accounting 1 (pass/fail, just so I can learn a thing or two that I should probs know anyway)
6. Shakespeare early plays


Should be fun!!!

I sign up for classes today!!!!!!!!!!!!

SO EXCITED. FALL SEMESTER SHOULD BE AWESOME.

that is, i can sign up if the internet doesn't explode again. School internet isn't supposed to be slow!!
Ironic: it works just fine when i want to be wasting time and am on facebook/pandora, ect. But as soon as i need to use it for work, IT DIES. I think the school just wants me to fail.

Also, I really want ot re-read the Harry Potter series RIGHT NOW. Like, so badly. I can't explain it.

They used to be so cute!!!!! ahhhhhhhhh the good ol' days

Swamped with stuff to do

super busy, like always, and I feel super gross. I think its from drinking about 20 cups of coffee on Sunday. I was home, it was my day off, and lets just say I waited an hour or so between shaking spells before I got another cup. Also, that whole not doing things in moderation thing.

Anyway, I'm at the library. Just finished a take home exam, now onto a paper for soil science. I got my last one back, and I got a 90!! one of the highest grades in the class again!! I also have about 100 pages of assigned reading to do for an English class, and I'm just going to leave Mrs. Dalloway for sparknotes, because I'll finish it over the summer when I have time anyway.

I hate my Linguistics class. Today, my teacher was discussing how our textbook is full of applicable texts that apply to our everyday life, like the section on pay-per-minute-phone sex.
"So, if any of you guys do that sort of thing, Im sure youll relate really well to that study.." Like, I looked around the room and only a few people were really concerned, so either the teacher assuming were all having sex over the phone is normal, or they were totally not paying any attention at all. Also, I'm just going to add that my teacher was being super serious when she said all of this. She also enjoys mentioning random studies that have NOTHING to do with what we are tlaking about, or name dropping some famous linguists as if we knew who she was talking about or like it was impressive .. or something. Also, my teacher looks like Trelawney.

"Labov, Holmes, Abrasoma, Goddard, Warf, theiwjebnw, akjsd, ihlag, asjdbkajbgjagsdhsjafblajsdkgn"

These needed to go somewhere..

So, over winter break, like, three months ago, I celebrated Tolkien's birthday!! Cause thats not a nerdy thing to do AT ALL.
Anyway, pictures were taken that have just been sitting on my computer for exaggerated ages, so here they are for everyone's amusement:

Dwarf blue-beard Christine (Dwarf ladies do exist, Mr. Beans), Elven Kyle, Robin of Bag-End, Elven Danny, Gandlaf Christian.
The cupcakes spelled out "HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOLKIEN". It was great. We had themed food (like lembas bread (and look! more lembas bread), berries, and trailmix foods. Fun fun fun fun.

I too wore a beard, which matched my furry-armor.


I can not wait for the Hobbit release!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hate not training for a marathon

Last year at this time, I was so pumped for the Marine Corps Marathon, but I had time before my training would officially start, so I just ran what I liked, which was a 5 mile out-and-back almost every day. This was before I became hard core and found all the awesome paths that are currently covered in beautiful wildflowers (including the breath-taking bluebells). And now that the marathon has been over and I really have any marathons I'm signed up for, I really miss running for a purpose. Also, I'm afraid of burning out.

I went for a nine mile run yesterday, and had to reign myself back to campus or else I would have just kept going. The weather is so perfect, the trail is at its peak beauty, and I really need a break form work, so I just want to run and run and run. But I don't want to have to replace my knees at age 40.

So, I'm looking for a new running schedule, but all the "off season" schedules are too short (I wouldn't even make it to the path!)So I don't know what to do. Maybe it's time I get a new hobby.

I guess once you do distance running you cant go back.

I've been told that I never do anything in moderation.

I start drinking coffee, and I'm drinking 10 cups a day. I start drawing, and I sit in my room for two years and draw crappy manga. I drink tea, and I go through a box a week. I start a project, and I do nothing else for days. I hear a song that I like and I just play it on repeat for days and days. And then I get sick of all these things and move on to something else.

And that's one of the reasons that I do run-- because I've been running since I was in sixth grade, and I do it almost every single day, and I'm good at it and it keeps me sane. So that's why its so hard for me to try to accept that I need time off before my legs fall apart.

Anyways, I know this isnt as upbeat as a post as normal, it's just that I've come to an important realization about myself and I wonder how it affects other aspects of my life.

Not good for a Monday.

Epic Cake

So, instead of posting to Facebook, I'm going to just post my pictures on this blog so that I have the power to delete them if I want. Sorry if you don't care to see random pictures.

But here's the epic cake I made!!!

I got no pictures on my digital camera of the full thing (because It was too tasty to wait!!), but heres an ugly slice:

And it was so pink! It had maraschino cherry juice mixed into the base, along with cherry bits. I made the entire cake from scratch, which was very satisfying and not all that time consuming (surprisingly). The icing was cream cheese, but then I dyed it turquoise to compliment the pink. Altogether, I think it was one of the most attractive things I have ever baked!!!

Here's the original recipe and pictures (which really put mine to shame).

Alpaca Farm!!

Over break I went to an alpaca farm in Pennsylvania!! You can click on the pictures to make them bigger if you want.

Family times!!

They're so fluffy!!

Mom feeding some of them. They really ticked!! Also, the farm owner, who was super friendly.

Uncle Van feeding alpacas and one alpaca who is sure that behind Uncle Jon's camera is a handful of food...

This once's name is Lacey! She was pretty adorable. She kept walking up to me thinking I had food.

Fun fact

So, because my Nike + needed charging, and when it gets plugged into the computer the webpage pops up, I always get distracted and look at my stats which is what I'm doing now. Anyway, cool news:

In October of last year, I ran 162.65 miles. In one month. Thats the distance between Levittown, Pennsylvania, and Washington DC.

Not that I know where Levittown is... but it's in Pennsylvania, so you know thats pretty far.

Guess I'm awesome, huh? <--- (that wasn't serious)

Cool things of this week

Heres some nifty stuff I've been doing:
1. Spring breaking, which was amazing. The best time I've had at home since back in the days when I played in the creek all day....
2. Saw Christine and got to hear all about her epic trip to Equator!
3. Started school again. Got back some excellent grades and now I'm all pumped to be that one kid in class who sets the grading bar high (except everyone hates that kid when the teacher grades on a curve).
4. Signed up for my summer classes! I'm taking oceanography and fairy tale literature. Quite the combination, I know. I'm so excited!!!!!!!!!!!! (my excitement is exponentially equated to the amount of exclamation points!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
5. Its been sunny and in the summer-time ranges of weather, so of course I've been lounging on ball circle with my best friends all week, which has been great for my social life, not so much for my productivity. However, my arms are a bit darker now (which helps to enunciate the fact that I have no arm muscle).
6. Yesterday, I went to a cook-out with some friends. We grilled some veggie ka-bobs ( I hace no idea how that is spelled) and discussed gardening and summer plans. Once again, CANNOT WAIT FOR SUMMER!!!

Expect pictures of my break soon!!

Pippin Posts! ALL WEEK. feel free to stop reading... now.

Pippin loves to snoop.
I was unloading the dishwasher and he was SO FASCINATED by the space behind the drawers that I actually had to pull him back form climbing in three times. Silly kitty, there's nothing back there... or is there?

So, great idea for a mystery novel: There is a mystery (death??!!?) and the only one who solves it is the cat, because he's a snoop and he likes to get stuck in closets and cabinets and is also super nosy (literally rubbing his nose all over the place) and hes also super adorable so in the end the criminals all like, d'awwww fine I did it you cute kitty you, and then he purrs and its all over.
wow, what a great idea.

Only one class! Then I'm FREE

I have a lot of work I want to get done of the break, not to mention projects and gardening and cat-playing. I'm really glad I have so much time off though. It is a much needed break from the craziness that is school life.

What I'm most looking forward to: eating appealing food.

I don't have anything interesting to say.

I picked up some mothballs some idiot had scattered around the street and in his yard (although I didn't go in his yard, cause I might have pissed off more of the town, which apparently has some serious issues with UMW students (cause they've been peeing in their yards?)) Mothballs are carcinogens, more specifically neurotoxins, which means that it causes nerve damages that can lead to cancer. And this idiot left them hanging around, for them to be eaten by whatever poor dog or child thinks they look particularly tasty. Sigh.

Also, yesterday Mike and I had been dating for 6 months. We watched Up, the cutest movie ever. I always forget how adorable that movie is.