Wow, has it been a while
It feels like it has been years since I've been able to write on my blog. It always amazes me how time flies when you do nothing. Actually, I haven't been doing nothing. I've been quite busy. In fact, this last week alone, I went to Tulsa three times, all for different reasons. Reason No. 1: Take Molly, Madison, and Austin to Rooney concert at Cain's Ballroom. Dance all night and meet band afterward. (Great picture taken of Molly with Ned and Taylor from the band.) Reason No. 2: Do some "Day After Thanksgiving Day" shopping. Buy all Christmas presents for people on list except for, of course, the friend who is with me at the time (Steph). Come home and try and stay up as late as possible, but pass out at 8:30 due to only receiving 30 minutes of sleep the night before. Reason No. 3: See "Pride & Prejudice" at AMC Theater in Tulsa. Love the movie, especially sexy Mr. Darcy played by Matthew MacFadyen (sorry Austin, know you don't like to hear me refer to men as "sexy"). Also do some more shopping and buy really neat trunk for pool house.
Even though I have been busy, it seems like I'm having a really hard time dealing with school. I am defintely going through an end-of-the-semester slump right now. I find it extremely difficult to go to class. It's much easier to go to work, even though work always lasts longer than class does. I dropped one of my classes today. It's okay, though, because I still have a total of 12 hours for the semester, keeping me at full-time status. I realized that I didn't really need the class, and since I had missed more classes than I would presently like to admit, I felt it best just to let it go. When I informed some of the newspaper staff today, they laughed at me and said that I had to be the first person ever to drop a blow-off class.
Austin is such a good studier. He makes me jealous. I wish that I could show that much dedication to my schoolwork. However, ever since my "incident" at TU, I just don't care that much. Sure, I want to get a degree and probably will end up being in school for the rest of my life, but I don't have the desire I once did to conquer the world through my education. I still value it as something inexplicably important, but I just don't have the burning desire to learn everything placed in front of me like I did when I was in high school. Maybe this is because I always wanted to be challenged in high school, probably because there really wasn't a lot of great opportunity for this. When I finally was challenged in college (at TU), I didn't really want what I thought I'd wanted for so many years because that's all that was layed out for me. Now, I'm totally confused by all of this and am left somewhere in the middle, not knowing if I need to challenge myself to feel like I'm doing something worthwhile with my mind or just relax and let the time come when I will be adequately challenged but not challenged.
Anyway, I really didn't mean to vent about that. I'm trying to finish up all my stuff on the computer here at work so that I can go home and mope around the house with my sick sister. She caught the sinus infection that my mother had. Now, I'm nervous that I will catch it just in time for finals week (blah!). Hope to publish some reviews sometime soon. Look for the upcoming reviews on "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," "Rent," "Walk the Line," "Pride and Prejudice," and any other movie I manage to see between now and then.
Even though I have been busy, it seems like I'm having a really hard time dealing with school. I am defintely going through an end-of-the-semester slump right now. I find it extremely difficult to go to class. It's much easier to go to work, even though work always lasts longer than class does. I dropped one of my classes today. It's okay, though, because I still have a total of 12 hours for the semester, keeping me at full-time status. I realized that I didn't really need the class, and since I had missed more classes than I would presently like to admit, I felt it best just to let it go. When I informed some of the newspaper staff today, they laughed at me and said that I had to be the first person ever to drop a blow-off class.
Austin is such a good studier. He makes me jealous. I wish that I could show that much dedication to my schoolwork. However, ever since my "incident" at TU, I just don't care that much. Sure, I want to get a degree and probably will end up being in school for the rest of my life, but I don't have the desire I once did to conquer the world through my education. I still value it as something inexplicably important, but I just don't have the burning desire to learn everything placed in front of me like I did when I was in high school. Maybe this is because I always wanted to be challenged in high school, probably because there really wasn't a lot of great opportunity for this. When I finally was challenged in college (at TU), I didn't really want what I thought I'd wanted for so many years because that's all that was layed out for me. Now, I'm totally confused by all of this and am left somewhere in the middle, not knowing if I need to challenge myself to feel like I'm doing something worthwhile with my mind or just relax and let the time come when I will be adequately challenged but not challenged.
Anyway, I really didn't mean to vent about that. I'm trying to finish up all my stuff on the computer here at work so that I can go home and mope around the house with my sick sister. She caught the sinus infection that my mother had. Now, I'm nervous that I will catch it just in time for finals week (blah!). Hope to publish some reviews sometime soon. Look for the upcoming reviews on "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," "Rent," "Walk the Line," "Pride and Prejudice," and any other movie I manage to see between now and then.
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