A bone to pick.

As you all know, I am NOT a stressed person. This week I have been more stressed, and all around bothered, than ever. I don't like it one bit.



First off, our showcase is this coming Tuesday. I'd say we're pretty ready, but this weekend is going to be our make-it-or-break-it time. Candyman has turned out pretty well and I'm really happy with it. I have a little bit to shine up, but otherwise I'm confident we'll do well. The only problem is that Gordon's going home with his girlfriend this weekend for Easter. The moment he told me this, my heart sank because I started to worry that we wouldn't be ready. Not that the whole showcase relies on him, but he's the president, he has a huge part, and he should be here. I understand why he would want to go home with Sam. He's only got so much time with her, he wants to meet her parents, and what's not to like about her. I mean, I wouldn't have picked anyone else for him. But really, priorities. I told him that I wouldn't bug him about it anymore, and no matter how angry or bothered at him I seemed, I still love him, and it's true. I just want everything to go well. We're down to the wire.

Another dancing thing that I added to my plate was the Wooster Jam Session. It's basically a two day extravaganza where we get to show off. Let's Dance is performing for an hour and we're most likely going to spotlight all of the dances we know, then teach a lesson. I need to finish figuring out who's going and put together a medley song that we can dance to. I'm excited for it to be over so I can just focus on the showcase, and that will be one thing checked off of my list. I'm also excited to show the community what we do. I also hope a lot of people show up, I don't want to have like seven people, two of them leads. This is also the weekend that Gordon will be gone. My favorite dance partner :(

The CSD department hosted a grad-school meeting for us rising seniors. It freaked me out a little because I don't think my GPA is that good, so I'm afraid I won't get into any of the schools that I want to. I'm not sure if I'll be able to hop my GPA up .3 this semester to get a 3.0....

The final thing, the straw that breaks the camels back, is my clinic adviser. My clinic partner and I had to write a rough draft progress report for our client. We wrote one, both writing different parts of it, and we thought it was pretty good. We turned it in and she sends us the edits. There are A MILLION OF THEM. "Okay," I think, I'll edit it and fix it. I go see her today and she wants to talk about it. She shows me the rubric with my grade of 54%. Based on the edits, I guess I understand, but the content in there seems pretty good enough to at least give me a solid 70%. Mind you, I'm not freaking out because this is a "rough draft," where the grades USUALLY don't count. I ask her how big of a chunk the rough draft will be of the final progress report grade, and she says it IS the grade. *Record scratch* WHAT?! The point of a draft is to be able to improve my work with her guidance. First she tried to say that I have "bad grammar and sentence structure." If you know who I am, you'll know I'm a grammar freak. All I do is critique grammar. I ask her for examples, she comes up with ones that my PARTNER wrote and I point this out to her. She then says that I should have edited better myself. I figured that at a college level, sentence grammar shouldn't be that big of a problem, but I don't know my clinic partner's writing style, so I guess it is a part my fault. I ask if when I edit it, if it would improve my grade, she says, "If I give you my own edits, then grade it, it's like I'm grading my own work..." Not in normal people world! My Jr. IS adviser gave me SO MANY EDITS, and I worked off of them. I didn't write hers word for word, and I wouldn't write yours either. She also told another student that it would not be a graded draft. She's always inconsistent when she tells us things. I refuse to get a bad grade on this, so I'm going to try to take it to the head of the department.

I just need a really good blues dance to make me feel beautiful and take me away from all of these dumb worries. DUMB worries.

Time to watch Community. Donald Glover instantly makes my days better. Ugh.

The loneliest feeling....

...is seeing your ex-boyfriend being happy with his new girlfriend. Holding hands, hugging, looking at each other that way, when you're left on your own, with no one.







I'm definitely ready for another boyfriend, but I don't want to "search" for him, because that's not really how it's supposed to go. I just feel like this extreme loneliness that I'm feeling right now will push me to it.



I had hoped I wouldn't get like this.

The usual...you know.

Hello blogging world! I've realized that this isn't a true blog. It's a diary blog! I think a true blog is one which people talk about things that are relevant to others. Almost every single thing in my blog is not relevant to anyone else but me. Oh well :)

I've been on spring break for the past week and a half, and it's been really nice! The first week I was on band tour and it was really fun. Tiring, but fun. We ended up in Chicago and the day that we were there was beautiful! I really enjoyed going to the art museum, walking around Millennium Park and the Magnificent Mile. The weather was beautiful, and I was sometimes able to take my coat off! We caught up with Lindsay which was nice. She took us out to a Romanian restaurant where there was supposed to be live jazz, but the dude ditched. It was still fun either way. Katie and Joe bought their first drinks, and we swing bombed the Hilton for the last half hour. It was a really fun experience, and much more relaxed than NYC, that's for sure.

This second week of break has been full of dancing, chilling, and homework. The first day, I brought Aaron home with me and we went to a small dance at BW. Nick was there and he said he missed seeing me. Suuuuuuure he does....haha. He probably does, just in a hoe-ish way. Then, on Saturday, we drove to Columbus to visit Sean for his birthday. It was a ton of fun! I really need to visit more often. It's just pretty far away. Kind of. I also haven't worked out in about 3 weeks. I'm probably going to die at Super Fit next week. Hopefully I can get back into shape really fast, so I can wear my sexy new bikini outside :)

I've been working on my homework and editing parts of Gordon's IS. I've actually been pretty productive! I'm also trying to work on some fiction and non-fiction for a writing contest being held by the English department. I was really getting into it last week, but this week I just don't have the flow and drive. I hope I'll be able to finish them. I'd love some cash and prizes if I won. I also pretty much finished my choreography. It's about time! I'm not too worried about my dance, but I just hope the showcase can come together.

The week before spring break, a few of us had an intervention with Gordon. We told him how he needed to get his priorities straight and such. I think he really listened, and it helped me to understand him a bit better. He's about to get into another relationship, and I'm pretty okay with it. I really like Sam and I'm very comfortable with both of them. I'm just afraid that he's going to completely forget about me and not spend time with me during these last few months that I'll probably ever see him again. Hopefully that won't be the case.

Boy-wise. Hmm...I'm really confused. I think I'm ready for another relationship, or to just be with one guy, but there are a few guys who have shown some sort of interest, and I'm really not sure what to do. I don't just want to whore around from guy to guy, that would really hurt everyone and just be a bad situation. I wouldn't mind flirting around with a few though....I just don't want people to be led on/get hurt. I've already almost done that with Chris. I'm going to just live the single and mingle life and see where it gets me. As a quote goes, that I posted on my Facebook, "The road to finding 'the one' is paved with a bit of promiscuity." I kind of feel like the bachelorette.

Oh, I made a Twitter. I gave in. It's not all that exciting, not gonna lie. But whatever. My name is @Lindy_Katie16 if you're interested.

Alright. I'm going to watch iCarly, and Community, then go to Andrew's for TNBP! Speaking of my dear Andrew, I went to a hockey game with him and a few of his friends on Tuesday. It was fun, and I'm really glad he invited me. I love being the only girl who goes, idk why haha. I also hung out with Nick and Tory yesterday. I miss them both, I never get to see them enough.

I think that's all for now. I never have anything to talk about, but I'm going to make the rest of this semester super fun, so watch out!

P.S. I bought the cutest dress for Bohemian! It's an all white eyelet and it's fitted and longer and a-line and I love it! I'm going to wear it all spring and summer haha.

Short, sweet, and a long time coming.

I figure it's about time that I write again. I'm bored, doing laundry, and trying to get some homework in before I go work out. Yes, you heard right, work out! I've been going to Super Fit aerobics weekly since I've gotten back to school. I've only missed a few classes. I can already see the results and I'm very happy and proud of myself. It's kind of addictive, not gonna lie.

This semester is going very well, or so I think. My work load isn't too bad, and I'm confident that I can get at least a 3.0 this semester *side note, my cursor keeps skipping to other places in the document and it's really pissing me off.* My Mondays are packed as hell. I don't get a break until I watch House at 8 pm. But a good thing about having all my classes MWF is that my TTH are pretty much free besides work. Speaking of work, I'm getting 8+ hours this semester. Yessssssss!

My clinic client is 4 years old and he's ADORABLE. He never wants to leave the session. He's got some pre-vocalic voicing, and can't say his /k/ or /g/. But he works really well and he just steals my heart. I'm excited that he's my final client. Ever!

Boys are interesting. I've been getting along very well with Gordon, which is great. My townie friend Chris has really shown some interest in me. He brought me flowers, chocolate, a poem, and a drawing for Valentine's day. It was really sweet, but I just don't want anything right now, and I don't know how to tell him that without hurting him. I've also been eating lunch with Adam and Krasnor, which has been awesome :) I really enjoy those guys. They're great.

On Valentine's Day, we had a "Sexy Single Ladies and Katie" dinner. It started out with Merry Kuween of Skots coming to our house to sing us "Enormous Penis," which was hilarious. We then made dinner which consisted of lobster tail, garlic mashed potatoes, and almond green beans. That lobster was DELICIOUS! We then proceeded to watch Penelope and make fun drinks. It was so much fun. We decided that in our house next year, we're going to have a monthly homemade dinner, where one person gets to be the head chef. It will be awesome.

Our house has been put together for next year, seeing as I just turned the paperwork in today. We'll have a group interview next week, so hopefully we'll get the house. I'm pumped for next year. There are 10 of us!

The other night, Aaron told me that I'm one of the best swing dancers that we have. Given, he was drunk, but this wasn't the first time he told me, and I was very flattered. It felt good to know how far I've come. Speaking of, I went to SparX a couple of weekends ago, and it was great :)

There probably is a lot more I could write, and I should probably write more often, so I'll try to do that. But actually.

CUTEST KITTY EVER!!!!

Tomorrow, I shall be rich.

I figured it's time I blog again. It's been quite a while and I feel like I just need to keep tabs with whats going on.

This break has been going fairly well. I've been getting a lot of hours in at work which is really good for my car insurance, but bad for my idea of how much I can put back into the company by buying bras ;) I really like my job, and I plan on holding it all through grad school!

My grades for this semester were okay. I passed Jr. IS with a B- and that's all I really care about! I didn't get the best grade in clinic, and I was a little discouraged because the teacher just isn't clear about what she expects. This semester I'm really really really going to try my hardest to study, put in at least 90% effort in every class, and spend time with everyone I care about.

I'm starting to finally get a grip on the single life. I'm losing that attachment to Gordon that I've had for the past semester, and I'm starting to feel more independent. I'm kind of looking for a new guy, but I'm not searching. I'm just hoping he's a dancer because that would be great. It's actually a quality that has become pretty important to me. I want to start going to jazz clubs or something and meet new people! Speaking of which, I went to visit my friend Tristan, in Columbus. Turns out, he's got a girlfriend, but he's great to talk to, and a really great (and tall) dancer :) I had a lot of fun with him. We went to a karaoke bar and watched old people sing really horribly. We danced there, and in his living room, and had an all out fun time. He's moving to South Carolina in June, so hopefully I'll get to see him a few more times before then.

Bron's coming to visit on Sunday! I'm really excited! I wanted to do some fun dancing or something, but there's none available, so we'll either hang out with BW friends, or just stay home and play my new Dicecapades game.

This break has been full of so many ups and downs and it's only been about 2 weeks. I just can't wait to get back to school and dancing. Sparx is coming up in February. I have to register for it still! I'm also choreographing Candyman right now, and let me say that it is ever so difficult to choreograph a lindy piece by oneself. I have some parts, but I still have a lot to cover. Let's just hope it comes together by the deadline.....

I thought I'd have more to talk about, but I don't. I really just spend a lot of time in my room watching tv. I need to get out more, and actually read the books that I got out from the library.

I didn't make any new years resolutions because they're always the same. "Stop biting my nails (which I kind of have)," " Eat better," "Stretch," "Do better in school." Yeah, it will all happen by itself, in good time. I just won't resolve to do so.

Oh, by the way. I'm going to win the Mega Millions tonight :)

Good morrow my children.

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.