She's a suicide blonde

Formal on Friday was pretty fun. I enjoyed it. Brian was a surprisingly good date (kidding - of course he was a fabulous date). He was also very handsome!

I think it might be 70 degrees in the arctic tundra tonight. Am I still allowed to refer to it as the arctic tundra?

I have 4 interviews this week with different people for my beat: nonprofit work with the elderly. My huge story for Dr. Owens is due on Dec. 2. I'm a little stressed out about that la la la.

I'm going to stop complaining now. Life is good. Really, it is. It's almost Thanksgiving and I have a couple of fun things planned for the break. There is a concert at Guadalupe River Club that I want to go see and I also want to go to Enchanted Rock - FINALLY. Brian has never been there and I think it would be a fun way to spend the day. I'm also excited to see the fam and the pups.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

And so begins a 6 hour shift at work... 6pm to midnight. In the arctic tundra. What could be better? Oh, I know. Maybe if I had 27billion hours of homework to complete.

Back to happy times in Waco, I'm so excited about this weekend! Friday is Theta Formal and Brian is my hot date. Kate is coming into town to grace us with her presence and staying for the Baylor/Texas game .. and hopefully I'm going to Austin Saturday night with some of my girlfriends to celebrate .. er, mourn .. the loss of the bears.

Sunday night I pulled an all-nighter. As in I was still awake when Jennifer woke up Monday morning. It was quite funny. I was still sitting in the same spot too. I ended up getting a ONE HUNDRED on one of my tests that I stayed up for (not sure how that happened) and a 95 on the other and a 92 on the other. LEGIT. I was pretty excited. Still am pretty excited actually.

So I treated myself to groceries and a dress and some bday presents for Brian! I spent more on the groceries than I spent on the other items - that was kind of sad. But it's okay because I was recently donated a nice sum of $250 by the parentals. I guess they love me or something, I'm really not sure (Thanks Mom and Dad).

Oh and our neighbors are still harassing us. I'm convinced they have a crush on Jennifer and the dang cat, because all of the fiascos happen when I'm gone...but Jennifer is always home when the chaos occurs. Such as today: A plastic bottle was thrown onto our porch and, as Jennifer described it, "A metal tube was sticking out of the bottle."

Hm, so I'm really not sure what to make of that, except that our redneck neighbors are sending mating calls via homemade contraptions that fly through the air, but cannot be identified. She begs to differ, but oh well.

I will post pictures from formal :) this is the first formal I have been to - I went to semi last year, but never FORMAL. haha. SOPHISTOCATION.

Quote by Henry David Thoreau.

Look what I found

“Just remember, the same as a spectacular Vogue magazine, remember that no matter how close you follow the jumps: Continued on page whatever. No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice. None of this matters. We're just warming up.”
- Chuck Palahniuk

The Arctic Tundra

I really cannot comprehend the temperature in the lab right now. I am wearing a blanket and a fleece and my legs still have goose bumps.

I just looked at the temperature. 58 degrees. Okay, it's warmer outside and I consider it cold outside right now. This is ridiculous.

I just spent 5.5 hours working on chapters for my marketing class. I have a quiz on Monday. Wow, talk about working ahead. I never do this.

I started planning for Brian's 21st birthday today. And I bought a couple of presents for him. I get really into the whole birthday season thing. I like shopping and buying for people. I just realized that I will need to get him a Christmas present too.