What a Wednesday

So today I felt loved, smart, engaging, proud, shitty, stupid, ignorant, sleepy, exhausted, overwhelmed, stressed out, hysterical, depressed, and borderline suicidal all within a matter of three hours. If that isn't grad school, I don't know what is.

I love a good tuba!

So, after about a month here in Greenville it's time for me to introduce you to the kids that I go to school with.

Cammie: my closest friend here, we watch Bones together and usually eat lunch together and hang out outside of class. We've already started finishing each other's sentences and she's lots of fun at tailgating! She's also a bio anth gal like myself.

Will: Is very quiet but not shy at all. He's usually very funny and we both park in the same lot so we often ride the bus together. He also lives near me. He's really nice and we have a lot of the same interests as he swims and we also make faces at each other during arch.

Dawn: VERY interesting, she's a BIG Auburn fan and is quite violent when watching football games. She says some of the funniest things and is probably one of the funniest people I've ever met.

Lauren: very opinionated. I haven't gotten to spend a lot of time with her but she's very witty.

Ash: Is the oldest of us all (I think). He used to be in the Air Force. He's married and is really smart. He used to be a psych major so it's kind of weird talking to him though he's really funny and easy to talk to. He likes to tease me about living "near" a "bad area"

Robert: There's not much to say about Robert except that he tries really hard to prove himself and prove that he knows something about EVERYTHING. Usually his friend relationships with us take steps backward...quite often.

Joey: He's really quiet and doesn't really hang out with us so I'm not really sure what I think about him. He's kinda cute.

Greg: Same as Joey. But he's married.

Prudy: He's from Puerto Rico and has very strong opinions about things and sometimes it seems like he wants everyone to think the way that he does. He's really nice and we speak Spanish to each other sometime.

Eichii: He's really quiet, from Japan.

Jessica: She's married and is taking classes part-time. She's very nice and says lots of funny things about her husband. I wish I could get to know her better but we don't see her often as she works a LOT (more than me).


Well, that's it! Now you know everybody!!

The East Carolinian vs. The Daily Tar Heel

What I'm about to describe actually happened. Names have not been changed to protect the "innocent." These are actual events and yes, people really are *that* stupid.

Whilst walking to my Forensics class I passed by a University paper stand. Usually I just glance at it, see if the front page has anything of value and move on. I have yet to actually take a paper and read it. But today something happened that made me stop, drop my mouth, and stare. It was the front page title of the East Carolinian (ECU's University paper). Now, my alma mater's university paper was not all that great. The writing sucked, what was written about was usually boring and of no importance, and it seemed like NO ONE proofread. But today The East Carolinian beat out the DTH for most blatant errors.

As you all know today was Septembe 11th, 2008; the seventh year anniversary of those tragic and terrible events that happened in 2001. So of course the East Carolinian, as I'm sure all campus papers nationwide, did a large piece on remembering what happened, etc, etc. Except the front page FRONT PAGE title was

SEPTEMBER 11TH
...Five years later we remember

Five. FIVE??!!! Five years later. That would mean that September 11th happened in 2003 or that it is only 2006 and I have been writing my dates wrong for the last two years. But seriously. How can a WHOLE newspaper not catch that? It's not like they got the chancellor's birthday or even the stupid president's birthday wrong. They got something wrong that people know about WORLD WIDE.

So, the point is: my paper is stupid-er than yours!

Hanna, Oh Hanna Part III

Hanna arrived around 5 this morning but didn't actually wake me up until 6. Not much rain, which is good because that means the Tar River won't flood, but there's a LOT of wind. Not continuous, more like raaaaain, WIND, raaaain, still, raaaiinnn, WIND! The wind chimes ring when it's really windy and so far nothing has flown about and no trees have fallen (to my knowledge). Hanna passed through NC early this morning and now, according to the radar, is in southern VA. Hopefully this is all we'll hear from Hanna. But Ike...I REALLY hope he doesn't come our way. If he does I am LEAVING. No questions asked. But we'll see.

Hanna, Oh Hanna Part II

Still no rain; still no wind. It was actually sunny earlier. But apparently it's rainy and windy and flooding in Goldsboro.

Hanna, Oh Hanna

So far all the hoopla about Hanna has not added up to much. It's rained for maybe thirty minutes total and it was slightly windy for maybe ten minutes. Hopefully that's all it will amount to, but the way the meteorologists were talking I expected to be somewhat scared.

Training Day, Working Day

Today was my first day of real work; I had three training days and only the last one did I actually do hand-on-hand stuff. But today I proved myself. I was able to do things that I didn't know I could do (such as keeping a squirmy 55 pound boy halfway out of the water so he didn't stick his face in the water at the pool) and also pretty much take care of him. I learned that if I really wanted to, I could have a kid and take care of it. If I really wanted to. Right now I'm fine with eight hours a day three days a week. Today though, unlike the other days, I felt like I really got to spend time with him. We got to cuddle and I sang to him and though he loved chewing on my shoulder (which is still rather sore and sporting an awesome looking bruise) I think I'm falling in love! After this job I'm going to have some awesome back muscles from lifting this little bug around.

On another note, I'm getting some really dry skin in some very uncomfortable places. Such as my elbows. I never thought my elbow would be itchy but it is. And it looks and feels like the skin is about to split open any moment. I put some extra moisturizer on it and it seems to be working somewhat.

And yet another note; my forensics professor has excellent resources. I'm definitely going to go talk to him and ask him to hook me up with some job prospects. Cool ones, at that.

And finally, I had another breakdown. This is quite unusual. Usually, I don't completely shut down like I have been nor do I cry as much and as often and as uncontrollably as I have been doing recently. I wish it would stop, though. It's getting bloody annoying having feelings.

I went hunting with Bug on Monday and had a great time. It was really nice being out of the city and in nature (especially since I wasn't having allergies!). Plus it was really nice to spend time with him. He got his limit and then we came back and barbequed them. They were quite tasty; kind of like chicken wings, but not really.