Down to the Wire

Oh hai. Long time no see.

So it's down to the end of the semester. I have three pretty large papers to write. Not Fun. Good thing I'm in a working mood tonight (although that probably means I won't get too much work done in the end).

I'm down to the wire on my Jr. IS. I've got a whopping two participants, and therefore not much data. The good thing is that my adviser decided to have me shorten my IS to 4 chapters instead of 6! Yay! I hate writing the Literature Review. It's the hardest thing that I've ever done in my life. They really need to have an entire class about writing just lit. reviews. I also apparently still haven't done very well on my plagiarism project. I'll just be so happy when I'm done with Jr. IS. Next semester will be so much easier for me.

Oh, so I didn't go to the ASHA convention. I was getting behind on my Jr. IS, I still am for that matter, but I decided it would be a good idea not to go. Oh well, there's always next time.

I have an 8 page Spanish poetry analysis that I need to edit and finish. That's paper number 2.

Paper number 3 is my progress report for my clinic kid. He's doing pretty well, and he's become more motivated because now we're doing crafts and not just playing games. I'll miss his sass.

So the showcase is actually coming together really well. I'm choreographing Candyman (working on it over Christmas break alone will be difficult). I'm also potentially in 3 songs, possibly leading blango in one of them. Speaking of, the blango lessons went swimmingly. It was really great and The Let's Dance! Society is making really good connections :)

Speaking of dancing, Candice wants Katie and I to come down to Dayton to visit/go to their annual swing dance. I'm interested, but again, down to the wire. I guess it all depends on how much work I get done before the weekend. But as a plus, Tristan will be there (presumably) ;) haha.

Apparently there is a rave happening at our house on Saturday. I'm excited, but not. It's going to be hectic. And Alyse and Alex want to come. I'd love to have them, but I feel like they'd either fight or I'd have to babysit. I don't want either of those, so I might just be like "don't come." Plus again, homework.

My job at Victoria's Secret still exists and I'm so thankful for that. I feel like I'm going to work there until I get my SLP job, or maybe even still when I'm an SLP haha.

I'm making puppy chow tonight, it's about time. I think I'll throw on some Frankie S Christmas :)

Okay, off to dinner, then to work work work so I can maybe go to Dayton on Friday.

Picking up the slack

Wow, I haven't written in a month! A lot has gone on, and a lot hasn't gone on. I have to leave in a half hour, so I'll try to make this quick, while remembering everything.

As of late, the school year has been dragging me down a little bit. My Jr. IS isn't really going as well as I thought it would. I can't find a pool of kids to study. I'm going to try to find some at the local church today or tomorrow. I also need to design my analysis methods. I have an 8-10 page Spanish research paper due at the end of the month. I'm not too excited about it, but the poet I chose (Delmira Agustini) is really good. I'm a little discouraged by my lack of fluency/research skills, but hopefully I'll get through it. I think I'm supposed to have more done on it than I currently do. I'll work on it tomorrow because all of my classes are cancelled :)

The ASHA Convention is coming up in a couple of weeks. I'm not gonna lie, I'm not too excited about it. I'm going to miss 3 days of classes, and I'm just going to be doing homework like a mother. I'm also going to be working alone on Friday, since the other two girls are scheduled to work Saturday. Lame. I'm going to miss the Flash Mob in Cleveland, a possible rave at my house, and I'm going to be getting back just in time for our last session of blango. I'm going to be so tired. The things we do for advancement in our careers.

As far as personal relationships go, Gordon and I have a really good understanding of each other, and we're still able to talk really well, which makes me happy. On the other hand, I think Katie is starting to grow sick of me or something. It's making me sad. The other day she brought up how we don't have any real thing in common. I guess opposites attract, but it was a bit discouraging. She's also been pointing out all of the things that she doesn't like about me, or just ragging on me. I want to talk about it with her, but I'm afraid to, and I don't know why.

Swing has been going pretty well. I had some encounters (we'll keep it at that) with a swing friend, haha. Strengthening our inter-swing relationships I guess. We've been doing a lot of travelling to different swing/dancing events, and really spending our money. We had Matt and Jen come teach us a crash course of lindy hop, which went swimmingly. This weekend we're hosting Blues/Tango fusion with Heriberto Perez! I'm really excited, I hope we have a great turn out. Saturday we're going to BW for their Lindy Bombers workshop. I'm really pumped for that too, but we have to miss the first half because of the dumb football game.

My Lincoln Way Reads kid has gotten kind of discouraged with reading. I keep trying to help him want to do it. He keeps wanting to quit. But, because of clinic, I have experience with that, so I'm going to make him flashcards of his sight words that he needs to know. He'll be a much more fluent reader once he gets them all down. Clinic has been going pretty well. We're working on /s/ in syllables. He's having trouble producing the /s/ when his mouth is slightly open, so it's becoming difficult.

I'm really trying to enhance my study habits, and just do well. I'm starting to realize that I need to get my grades up for grad school. I don't know what I'm going to do, but I'd better do it fast.

The lack of 3 flights of stairs to climb has really gotten to me. I know, I know "Katie if you think you're fat, just go work out." I don't think I'm fat, just a little flabby. Therefore, I'm not so insecure about myself that I feel I need to go work out every day or whatever. I just go when Gordon does, after Lincoln Way. I think us girls are going to try Zumba this weekend though.

We're also going to have a girls day at Cutters Hair Salon, where they'll do our makeup for free :)

I want a kitten for Stadium House. Like really badly. I'm craving some kitty.

I miss purrs and cuddles and silly playfulness....

Oh, I missed a family vacation. Kelley missed it too, but apparently is was the most fun yet. I'm a little sad, and I wish they could have planned it during a break.

That's about all for now, per usual, I'll update if need be.

Avoiding Jr. IS

So, Jr. IS is becoming really difficult. It's really hard to try to narrow down my topic to what exactly it will be identifying. It's also really hard to find subjects. The darn preschool won't e-mail me back, which means I need to call them. I also have to fill out a human subjects approval form so I can be ridiculed by a board. I'm really afraid that I'm not going to get this done. But hey, I've still got a while....well, really only a month and half....ugh! I just really need to read my sources thoroughly (or mostly) and try to figure shtuff out.

Last weekend we had Gordon's birthday party. It was AWESOME!! I got more tipsy than I have ever been. I was a bit embarrassed, but I had fun all the same.

Lately I've been feeling a little lonely. I've decided that I don't have feelings for Gordon, I still love him, very much, but it's more of a fondness. I also decided that because of that fondness I just like being around him. It's not because I want to be with him, like others would suspect, and apparently we've been confusing a lot of people. I'm just happy that we can be comfortable with each other and our post-relationship relationship.

I don't really have much to talk about, I'm just excited for this month's dancing activities. I'm basically driving to Cleveland every single weekend this month, whether it be for dancing, or taking Paul to and from the airport (since he's here).

I was featured in Wooster's newspaper, The Daily Record! A woman interviewed a few of us about where we like to go downtown. It was pretty cool. I kind of want to write a viewpoints article for our paper, The Wooster Voice, but I'm not really sure what to write about.

The only thing I SHOULD be writing is Jr. IS!

I just realized how much I miss those 3 flights of stairs that I had to climb for the past two years. I get so much less of a work out now, and I can tell. I really want to try to eat healthier and work out, but my motivation is at about one and a half, and my sweet tooth is always going.

That's all for now I guess, if I think of more, per usual I will update.


p.s. I really wanted a Mounds bar today, and the C-Store doesn't sell them :(

I'm starting to get bad at this!

I guess it's about time I blogged again.

My life hasn't been too entirely exciting. Jr. IS is catching up to me. It's becoming more and more real, and I'm realizing how kind of unprepared I am. My absolute final topic is "Characteristics of English narratives produced by Spanish/English Bilingual Children." I'm really excited to get working on it, and so is my adviser, since she's bilingual in Spanish :)

My clinic client is a little Korean boy. We're working on his "s" sound. He's a pistol and really sassy, which is good because I like a little bit of personality in a kid. Plus, I can throw the sassy right back :)

Oh yeah, I turned 20 this month. It's so weird. I feel more grown up...ish. I'm also spending more time partying too. It's actually a lot of fun. I don't know why I never went out and socialized this much the past two years. I have a lot of fun hanging out at "Slavery" house, where John McGovern lives. The guys there are really fun!

As far as things go, Gordon and I have fallen into quite the awesome friendship. He and I are very compatible, personality-wise, and it's just great. Katie says that we're confusing people (they think we are/will get back together), but we're just close. I think we're starting to really find our niche with each other, and it's flowing out quite well. Today's his birthday, but I haven't seen him yet.

This past weekend, Wooster was the guest band at the Parma High Band Spectacular. Aka all of my school peeps got to see me doing what I do with my adult life. It was really cool to have so many old teachers compliment us. This led to me staying at home and going to the Bohemian! I was so in need of swing dancing, you don't even know. It was a great relief, and I got in some pretty good dances (even if I was aching). Nick and I were very sad that there was no blues late night. I'm due for a good night of blues. But this will be remedied soon because The Let's Dance Society is hosting "Blues/Tango Fusion" lessons! We're really excited. Hopefully the teacher will e-mail me back soon. We're hoping to start this Saturday! I just want to bluuuuuuuuuues!

Today we went to the Indian's game :) It was fun. We won, and I had some of my favorite people with me. Oh, and Andrew was raped by Ketchup!

I'm still swinging the single life, very well I think. I also feel like some people are thinking things of me that are untrue. I won't talk about them, but it's just kind of bugging me. I hope it blows over.

I should probably blog more often. I feel like I'm leaving a lot of stuff out. I'll try to get back in the groove. My window in front of my desk just rattled and scared the crap out of me. It needs to stop. Time to get back to working on my JR. IS. I need to really put some effort into my work if I'm going to get my GPA up!

It's been far too long

It has been far too long since I've blogged. I'm in the middle of my second week of classes this school year. I'm pretty happy with all of my classes. The Spanish one is going to be difficult, but hey, I need it! I also got my client for clinic. He's a little Asian boy, yay! Everything with Gordon is going very well. We've had a couple of ups and downs, but everything has basically settled itself to where it will probably be for the rest of our friendship. My housemates are pretty great, floormates are even better. We really click on this floor, it's pretty great. I'm a little sad though, because there's a teeny sense of division between the floors. Upstairs doesn't really come to visit downstairs. I try to go up there a few times a day, but I just run into people playing video games, and it's not really inviting. There have been a few get-togethers and parties lately, so that's always good. I've been eating horribly since I got here, and I need to slow it down. I need to eat healthier and maybe try to start working out. Geez there's so much to talk about! I need to get back into the flow of updating.

Let's Dance is starting up again this week. I'm really excited. I feel like this year is going to be a great one. I'm trying to go to a lindy exchange, but I'm not quite sure if it's going to work out.

As far as boys go, I'm trying to slow it down. I found myself wanting to find someone, but then realized how good it felt to be single. I've had a couple of kisses with this guy Chris, and he seems really into me, but I don't know what I want yet. He's really sweet and funny, but there are many other guys out there that have potential, and I kind of want to give them a chance too. Adam beat me at a game of memory last night. It was really fun. I hope he and I get to hang out a lot more this year. There's also this guy Tristan from Dayton. He's really cute and a spectacular dancer, but I probably won't see him for a while, so that is just a dream haha.

I'm going to try to get my GPA up nice and high this year! I'm finally figuring out my study strategies, as well as my learning strategies. Hopefully everything works out.

I thought I had more to say, but it's late and I have a paper to finish. I'll probably update a bit more later on this week.

Junior IS is starting to scare me, but I think I have a topic. It's "Bilingual children's reading proficiencies based on the language of the text" (in this case, Spanish and English). It should be interesting.

Next time: Neighbors, named inanimate objects in the house.