Jimmy Paige

I procrastinate Physics, as I loath it so much. Physics 2 that is. Every other class is going well, geology is very interesting/easy, mythology-easy, art history-easy, geograhpy(maps)-pretty good...Physics-NOT. Very hard class. I hate electrcity after this class.

I'm so sick of ppl in the computer lab. sick. Well, some. People freak if the printer did not print out their print job and they have to be somewhere in 5 min. Sorry. I'm not the one who is running late. You got to fucking log back on and print again. yes. again. Sorry. Sometimes I feel like an office space rendition with the god forsaken late 90's printer that jams, and constantly needs something fixed.

But enough bitching.

This summer, I am going to Montana for a "dinosaur dig" or excavation! It's in Eklaka Montana (eastern Montana). I can't wait. A week of camping and digging in the dirt. hell yes. I wish I could have started my geology career earlier in college, so I could have gotten an internship out west. most require you to have higher level classes. Maybe I'll get my masters? we'll see. I'm very excited to see what the future holds.

GAH! fuck you electromagnets.

Ahh. A new semester. Fresh slate. Fresh year. to fuck everything up. ha, just kidding.
Working right now, pretty pleased with 13hrs a week. Don't have to work thu/fri. Nice.
Classes start today. I'm really excited to start geology classes! I can't wait.

Winter break was amazing. Consisted of:
-of course, partying
-not working
-sleeping
-eating
-going on a cruise to Belize, Honduras, Cayman Islands and Cozumel. AMAZING. beautiful. i finally have a little bit of color. I'm not totally white! ha. 24 hr buffet, AWESOME. (I will have pictures on facebook/myspace soon.)
-catching up with friends, seeing people I haven't seen since high school...crazy.

This year will be the greatest:
-seeing Incubus in one month and possibly MEETING them in the summer
-TURNING 21 FINALLY.
-Las Vegas in the summer wee!
-new major
-and eating.

I have a problem thinking about the future way too much. I always think, where will I get a job? how? will Noah and i still be together? do I need to consider this if I want to move..blah blah. and it causes a lot of stress. After pondering and some advice from friends, I figure just live for right now. It's hard, but it will save me some major stress issues. I'm having fun right now, why ruin it?

It snowed, which I'm extremely happy about. I can finally go skiing with my new skis! :D Don't know when, but I want to.

I love flannel.

Ahh it's the time of year again for a summary of the year. eee. In this case, we have 2006.

So, if I can remember I will summarize what has happened...

at the beginning of the year I changed my major, AGAIN, from mechanical engineering. whew. Fuck, I can't remember anything.

The summer was fun, I went to Michigan with SQUARE! and some other friends, I also visited Montana with Noah. Visiting made me miss Montana even more. I really want to be out west someday.

School started,fun. Have my own apartment. Found out what paying bills is like. not fun. Found out having even less money than before is not fun. My roomies are awesome though and extremely nice. I hope to party with them more, especially when I turn 21, but that's not till May. :(

This semester has gone well. I find myself going out even more than the previous semesters..but it's college and I have to get this out of my system! Met some cool people and made some great friendships. :)

So, now we are reaching the point of finals...I should be studying and I'm writing this entry during my break(procrastination) of studying.

I thought this was clever, I got it from a facebook group, thou shall read:

Student was searching for divine inspiration. Student walked high on the mountain of knowledge and came across God. Student asked God how to live life as a college kid should. And God said unto him, follow these Ten Commandments and you shall be all a college kid is. And Student thanked God and it was good. And Student spread the Ten Commandments of College to all.

I- Thou Shalt Nap
And God gave unto Student a great gift, the gift of napping. God said to him, You shall spend half your day napping. You shall nap in class, in your room and in your friend’s room. And God said, if you don’t nap, you will not be able to stay up all night drinking. And Student said, Nap I shall, and it was good.

II- Thou Shalt Get Sick All the Time
Now God said to Student, you must be sick all of the time. And student said why. And God said unto him, you shall share drinks, stay up too late, drink too much and make out with people you don’t know. Therefore, God said, you shall be sick all year round. But God said, blessed are the sick for they have partied the hardest. And it was good.

III- Thou Shalt Write Witty Away Messages
Student asked, but God, how will I show everyone that I am funny? And God said unto him, thou shall write witty away messages. God said to student, you shall never just say you are in the shower, you shall say you are getting wet and wild…in the shower. You shall never say you are at class, you shall say you are sleeping…in class. God said, if you do not write witty away messages, I shall smite you. Blessed are the funny, for they will get many girls to be their friends but never hook up with them. And it was good.

IV- Thou Shalt Wear a Hoodie
And then Student asked God, God how do I look like a college kid. And God said unto student, you must wear a hoodie, for it is a useful garment. And you shall never wash it either. Student asked God what kind of Hoodie should it be and God said, you shall own one with your school’s logo on it and you shall own many others of varying colors and creeds. And Student was pleased and God was pleased.

V- Thou Shalt Shit a Lot
And Student asked of his bathroom habit and God told him, Student, you shall eat in the Cafeteria and you shall shit a lot. And it will not be good shit, it will be the shit of the devil for your ass shall burn for hours. Your school shall put laxatives in their food and you shall feel their pain. And Student began to weep, and God said unto him, Student, fear not the shit, for all your fellow students will be experiencing the same. And Student dried his eyes and thanked God and God told him to use wet naps to ease the pain.

VI- Thou Shalt Eat EasyMac
Student asked unto God if there was any alternatives to the cafeteria, and God said to him, you shall eat a lot of EasyMac. It is easy to make and you don’t need milk or a stove. And student said microwaves were forbidden by the RA. And God said to him, you shall hide the microwave under your bed with a towel on top. And Student asked, what if it is discovered. And God told him to stop being such a pussy, and it was good.

VII- Thou Shalt Hook Up
Student then asked of sex. And God said, Student, you shall hook up and be happy. You shall go home with random people every weekend and forget about them the next day. You shall see them at class and be awkward amongst their company. You shall exchange saliva at bars and parties and it will be good. And Student became gleeful and God told Student to wrap it up because He knows where she has been, but Student does not.

VIII- Thou Shalt Join a Club and Never Go to Meetings
Student inquired of his spare time and God reminded him that he should be napping. But Student said he wanted to do other things. So God said unto him, you shall join a club at the beginning of the semester, but then never go to meetings. And Student asked why he should not go to meetings, and God told him, because the glee club is gay. And Student understood His wisdom.

IX- Thou Shalt Wake Up Confused
God said to Student, there will come many a day when you shall wake up in the bed of another and not know where you are. You will not remember what you did last night and you shall be confused. You will see that you have nipple rings and a tattoo now and are covered in Sharpie. And Student was disturbed by this, but God said, you shall tell great stories about it to your friends someday. And Student understood and God took a sip of a beer.

And God gave Student the final Commandment

X- Thou Shalt Gain Weight
And Student wished to hear the final commandment and God said he would not like it. But Student insisted, so God said unto him, you shall gain weight. However, God said, you will not buy new clothes, so you will wear sweat pants a lot. God said, Student, you will watch a lot of TV and become fat to which Student wept profusely. But God comforted Student saying, you will still get ass even if you cannot tie your shoes anymore. Student felt better and God pointed to Student’s chest saying, those will soon be bitch tits. And it was good.

This is the word of God, follow the Ten Commandments of College or you will be smote!

Oh my god. Has anyone seen the video on youtube.com called "shoes"?
If not, I highly recommend it. It will lift your spirits.

Anyways. I'm procrastinating reading electronics. It's the most god damn boring thing to read. I don't care about the inductance in the circuit or how that affects the induced voltage. Because I want to study rocks and the earth...not wires and electricty...boo.

I'm really excited to take my geology class next semester. I have a pretty full load with 17 hours. I'm taking:

GEOL 120 & 121(LAB)- intro to geology
FLCL 271-Mythology (should be interesting...)
ARTH 291-Art history survey to 1150 ( I enjoy looking at slides for an 1hr and a half..relaxing)
PHYS 211 & 211S(LAB)- general physics 2 (Lord help me)
GEOG 256 & 256S(LAB)- Maps and Mapping (*shiver*)

Also, with geology I'm doing a GIS (geographic information analysis) certificate. GIS is a copmuter hardware and software system used to store information about land, maps, etc... Which will be useful for my major obviously.

I'll have 3 LABS. wee. Hopefully, I wont have a heart attack next semester.

Only 3 weeks left!! This semester has FLOWN by. I can't believe it. But I'm excited. Because over break I'm going on a cruise with Noah, his family and a group of their friends to Mexico! I've never been there, I mean I have by the border in Cali, but that's not the same as Belize! And possibly fit a few skiing trips in over break, as well.

Oh yeah, and Jeff's parents are going on the cruise. (my ex-boyfriend)...that will be extremely awkward. extremely...

In other news...not much. School just sucks. as usual. The normal bitching. I'm just typing because I feel like it. Shoes, lets get some shoes. I'm gonna betch slap you shetbag.

Wow its been long since I've updated.
Changed my major to geology! yay.
I'm really excited, I feel like I'm going in the right direction.
I didn't want to end up making steel parts for the rest of my life! boring. No offense to MET majors though. I'll definitely miss my MET friends though.
Midterms are done, I think I'm doing alright in my classes.
All for now. I can't think of anything interesting to write about.

There are a few things I've learned about living on my own:
-Turn off the lights. ALWAYS. Even if you have to live in a cave like atmosphere. It saves on the electric bill.
-Save money? Go to Aldi. Good food? Go to jewel(?). I choose Aldi.
-You actually have to clean sometimes. :/ Now I know what my mom is talking about.
-If you don't do dishes the sink starts to smell.
-Don't buy a white batyhroom rug, it gets dirty too easily. (agh).
-Microwavable food is the thing ever.
-Too lazy to cook.
-Lock the doors! when you're in the apartment. Even the patio door. If you live on the 2nd floor ppl can get up by using the railings. (trust me, it happened to me at 3am one saturday night..ek!) Living on a college campus, you never know what drunks are going to wander in.

Right now I'm working! muahahahaha.
Pretty nice job, I have to clean computers sometimes, and "batch" them, but it's awesome. YAY.
School started.
Got to see people I haven't seen in a while, obviously,
it's been golden.
The apartment's great, except for the poop brown carpet, but i can deal. It's definitely a college apartment, all those brew dogs.
I miss Noah though, but I've been keeping busy with school and such.
Just thought I would give an update for those who still read

Finally, the basement in our soon-to-be log cabin home by the rock river is done!
I've been organizing and moving in my new room downstairs, it's pretty sweet and cold.

Other than that, I think I'm not going to work at Nedrebo's during the school year on breaks. It's just not a job you can take a long break from and come back to. When I first got hired there was extensive training, memorizing coats, etc.. and I know I would forget everything...plus I'm kind of getting sick of it. What's new?
I think I am going to work at Happy Joe's during breaks. I still remember most things and it's only been about a year since I quit. Plus, Adam (my manager) said I was always welcome back.

Going to Montana on Friday! So excited :D

I need to take some new pictures for LJ and myspace, etc...

I had somewhat of an epiphany. I don't know if I'm just tricking myself, but anyways...Noah brought up the fact that Dean, Jake Beachler, him and some other ppl might be going to the strip club because Dean is getting married.
I just sighed and thought agggghhhhh, but Noah said, I don't care if you go to male amatuer(sp?) night, it means nothing, you know? Then I thought, well, if he thinks it means nothing for me to go to a guys stip club, then it must mean nothing for him, as well. Which made me feel at ease for some reason. Not that I expected him to fall in love with a stripper or something, but you know what I mean?...But I can't help but feel the little twist in my stomach...am I the only one who feels this way?

In two weeks I will be heading back to the homeland.
Montana.
It will be a week journey.
Noah is coming with and I'm so excited :)! He will finally get to meet ALL of my crazy, loud family. We're staying with my grandma by Great Falls...ahh i love it there, it's my favorite place to be.
Also, we are going up to Glacier (National Park) and white water rafting. I love Glacier, it's so beautiful. I can't wait!

Michigan with square was crazily fun. Tubing was my favorite. I hadn't done it in an extremely long time, so I forgot what it was like. I love it when you fall off, it feels like you're just a little pebble skipping across the water. It was awesome.

Work today. Been workin a lot. People quitting and ppl bein sick and family emergencies. I don't mind. More hours for me. It's an easy job anyway, well, when I dont have to deal with bridezillas.

I should probably shower, there are some good sales today at the mall that I want to hit up before I go to work.

You Should Spend Your Summer at the Beach

You're a free spirit who is always thinking of new ways to have fun. And you don't just love summer... you live for it. So, you really should blow off your responsibilities and head to the beach!

well, if you say so, quiz blogthingy...

Noah comes back tonight :)
I got to Michigan on TUESDAY with SQUARE!!! :D :D

Recap on Summer Camp
Location : Chillicothe, IL <----sweet name
3 Days of bands such as: moe., Keller Williams, Umphrey's, Andrew Bird, Yonder Mountain Stringband, etc, you get the idea.
It was HOTTER THAN HELL. But so much fun at night when it cooled down. There was about 10,000 ppl there and everyone's tents were extremely close.
Oh and no showers, well actually, showers were 3 bucks, I took one the whole time we were there, the line was enormous.
We camped in the middle of this field...needless to say the tent was a sauna when I woke up. Pretty much everyone from Geneseo was there...(camp geneseo).
The bands were awesome, I especially enjoyed Yonder. I like the bluegrass.
Oh yeah and there were extreme amounts of drugs.
Such as: acid, X, pot (of course), shrooms and probably anything else you could think of.
I didn't take any, except for the couple hits from Noah's piece. Noah took some shrooms and tripped bad.
I get too freaked to take any hard drugs, the most I would ever do/done is weed. I guess I just dont have the right mindset to take X, acid and shrooms, etc..
I dont have anything against ppl that do the harder drugs, but I just dont understand why? It freaks me the fuck out, I wouldnt be able to handle the "trip" of being in such an extreme different state of mind. But I guess other people like being in a different state of mind and experimenting, but whatever floats their boat I suppose.

Oh and me and noah were NOT prepared..ha. You have to park you car and then head to your camp site, well, you park your car about 2 miles away... We had to carry all our shit, we should have brought a wagon. And food was falling out of the bags everywhere, by the time we got to our site it was all smashed and I think our meat went bad and we forgot a flashlight and chairs...among other things..next year we will be prepared!

Needless to say it was a blast. These ppl tripping out thought they were the Mud People, they were rolling around in the mud, it was hilarious.

So Summer is here and it being so I haven't written in my LJ often.
Work has kept me busy! I'm so DAMN GLAD PROM SEASON IS OVER. I'm sorry, but some of those kids were the brattiest little bastards. Now just weddings and some bridezillas.

This weekend should be awesome! Summer Camp - pretty much a music festival for the weekend. bands and camping. YES, but no showers...eek. Smelly.

So far this summer-just been hangin around with friends and Noah.

Dammit, I start writing in this LJ thing and I can never think of anything worth writing about.

Almost done!
Tomorrow, One final at noon and I am DONE. DONE. for Summer, anyway.
I don't know why I'm watching MTV. Sweet Sixteen is really annoying. I just want to punch some of the girls in the face, although the last episode, the girl was decent and not crazy. Anyways. I'm getting tired of MTV.

This year has been fantastic. Made some awesome friends, learned a lot of things, had a damn good time. That's really all there is too it.

So the main reason I'm writing this is because:
A) I'm somewhat procrastinating, even though I have studied all day...somewhat.
B) Bored
C) ?

I'm glad to go home, but yet sad. I'm going to miss everyone at Northern, but at the same time, I can't wait to go home and spend time with friends back in geneseo/cleveland/QC and Noah. I can't wait to see him more than just weekends. The long distance relationship wasn't that bad at all, actually. We saw each other pretty much every weekend, whether it be me going to visit, or him visiting. It worked out pretty well, and I'm really glad it did :).

Workin for the Summer, as well. At good old Nedrebo's. Speakin of which, I was sitting at work one day at the table out front, doing some Nedrebo's stuff, minding my own business, when this black woman with another one of friends walk by and say, "Look at that white bitch".

wtf.

DAMN that pisses me off. And another time me and Megan were working and a couple teenagers came in and of course, we always greet our customers. So, we greet them with, "Hello, how are you?" They reply,"O damn we better get out of here they think we're gonna steal somethin" (they were black and assumed we were racist, i guess).

What the hell is going on here? whatever.

YESSS, this is the last week of school!!! Finals next week, 2 on Monday, 1 on Thursday. Going to go home in between to bring the majority of my stuff home.
This semester/year has gone by incredibly fast!
It seems like it would take forever to pass. Overall, good semester, I think. Hopefully my grades will be, too.
Busy busy, finishing projects and wrapping up everything.
Why are the alarms going off in DeKalb? holy shit that's loud. Tornado sirens are crazy. They bring such a feeling of panic.
I just finished The Rise and Fall Of Hitler . It was pretty interesting, and no I'm not a skin head/neo nazi. It's hard for me to get into a book. I like to read, but I'm a picky reader.
If anyone knows of any good books, lemme know.

17 Days till I'm 20. A useless age. I'm 2 decades old, and I'm not a teenager any more.

Just felt like writing something.

I need to get my ass in gear, I feel like I've been slacking lately. well, I have been.
Took a two hour nap today, didn't mean to do that...I always feel so groggy..aghh
>Dammit. I didn't do as well as I thought I did on my dynamics quiz. :( I mean I had the right steps!! and the equations set up right, I know how to do it... I think I just forgot to divide some force....AGH
>I'm behind on my projects in my metals production shop class.... :S
>I dont think I did so hot on my last art history quiz... I didn't go to 2 of the 4 sessions of that section for the lecture...that's probably why.
>Upside, had a relaxing weekend. Work went by so fast, prom season is here, busyness. Don't really mind, a high schooler bought Sara and me Whitey's milkshakes at work, because we did such a good job altering his pants
>Main point: NEED TO STOP SLACKING!

I also need to stop worrying about everything, especially stuff with my health. I'm always worried about getting another migraine, even though I haven't had one since nov. and before that I hadn't had one in 4 or 5 years. It was prolly just a fluke, I was really stressed out and it was the you-know-what-time-of-month thingy. I feel lucky that I don't have them everyday though, there are some people that do and that would be so awful. Agh. I hate getting them, well I'm sure everyone does, but they scare the shit out of me.
I mean wouldn't you be scared if your vision got blurry, your arm goes numb, you get nauseated and have a headache that blows for a day? Ekk. I hate them.

Oh well, guess that's part of my anxiety.

****EDIT*****
OH yeah in your face Art history, didn't go to most of the classes for this section and I got 13 out of 15 on the quiz. YES.

My question is: When are the trees going to bloom?
The weather is nice and the grass is green, it's time for the trees to bloom, isn't it?
Anyways...

I hope I get the classes I want, I register on Thursday!!
Here's my tentative list of classes:

TECH 175 & 175A- ELECTRONICS AND ELECTRICITY FUNDAMENTALS and LAB
ANTH 101- ANTHROPOLOGY
TECH 295- MANUFACTURING COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
TECH 369- STRENGTH OF MATERIALS
STAT 301-BASIC STATISTICS

total of 17 credits, sounds like a lot but it shouldn't be too bad.

With that schedule I will have one class on Friday, at 10. That's not too bad, but I know I won't be going that much...

I'm going home on Wednesday, my grandma is coming in from Montana for Easter. Can't wait to see her, and I don't have to work this weekend, so that will be a nice break.
I haven't been around NIU too much in the past couple of weekends because of work...I miss partyin, but I will be here next thursday so hopefully I can catch up.
No drama or excitement to report...just doin the same ol same ol.
Just felt like writing.

I GOT THE LAB ATTENDANT JOB!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!

Yeah Summeritis has kicked in full effect.
The sun is out longer
And it's getting just a bit warmer. I HATE CLASS.
I woke up about 805 this morning realizing I am a little late for my 8am 262 shop class...the class I am behind in with all my projects...so I make the wise deicion not to go, even though it wouldn't have mattered if I was a little late...Oh well, I'm getting sick of that class and redoing projects ! It's not like a CAD project where you can just go in and Delete and start over again. Nope, cut the piece or metal needed, shape it down to size, knurl, cut keyseat....thread....it takes about 2 days...enough bitching
I know I will be hating myself later for not going today..
But I didn't hate myself when I got to sleep a little extra. :) Although I do feel bad about missing class/shop time, actually, I don't care, I'm tired of it anyway.

What's something positive about today? Well, sleeping was very positive. And I think my interview for the Computer Lab attendent position went well. I hope I get that job, it would be extremely easy and very nice for school. I hate being all phony at interviews..you know..like your phone voice when its someone professional..but I want that job!

I want to build a stairway to heaven(summer). Actually an escalader. that goes 100 mph to get there faster.

What? It's 630?? It's still sunny out? It makes it feel like its 400. oh, the tease of spring, eluding to summer!

Is it bad that my favorite class isn't in my major? I hope I'm not the only one that questions their major once in a while, I mean are you supposed to love it all the time? I dont know.

[ >_< O_o *_* #_# ] <-----faces

33 Days until SUMMMERRR
I need summer to be here I can't take anymore classes!

Especially my shop class...
I really like the shop class, but agh..the teacher is just..intimidating
It always seems like he calls on me, I'm in the front row, accessable to calling on, but why not call on some of the slackers in the back of class? Why me? And then he hovers over you in the shop when you are working. That is one of my BIGGEST PET PEEVES. It makes me all nervous. Just back the fuck off. "what are you doing?" "You're cline milling" "How do you switch the RPM?" "What do you need to do after knurling?" I mean I've heard him say some pretty rough stuff to some ppl. "HOw many times do I have to tell you this step? Didn't you get it the first time?" YOU'RE THE TEACHER. I dont know, I'm just really frustrated.

I don't even know if I want to do this major. I would really like to do CAD stuff, I love designing things and I really enjoy that class. But they don't offer any majors focusing on CAD things, like designing and such. I know Hamilton Tech has some stuff like that, but I might as well get my college degree and after that do the CAD thing.

But on to my Summer plans!!

-Summer camp. 3 days of bands and camping. What else could you want?
-Montana. I haven't been there in a while to see my family, and Noah is coming with, I'm really excited!
-Seattle. Where I lived until I was in 5th grade. When I'm in Montana I'm going to drive out there, only about a days drive and visit a childhood friend, Bryant! I can't wait, I haven't been there in forever!
-Redondo Beach, Cali-Going to visit Nick and Nathan with Noah. I want to go to the beach soo bad!

All for now, I'm tired of typing.

I was just thinking about this today
and it makes me kinda annoyed
When I go to parties and such I have a good time and I like to meet new people, etc...
I'm hangin out with people having fun and somone asks, "Do you have a boyfriend" Ok, that's fine, I say yes, whatever.
But, then it seems like sometimes they totally ignore you after that and it makes it seem like they only were interested in knowing you if you were single.
You know what I mean??
Agh, that's kind of aggravating. Maybe I don't know want to know them if they are like that.