The Run that Cleared My Head

Good evening kids. This is a very strange blog to write as I really don't know what it is about. All I can say is thank god I have Jenna who lives across the hall from me. Last night I was in a particularly bad mood, not pissed off like I was on monday, just in a bad mood. One of those where I'm super bored and feel as though my life sucks. Upon returning from my SI, I walked into Jenna's room and began to tell her why I was so bored. The thing of it is, I don't know why I'm so bored, just bored in general, bored with my life I guess. Upon seeing a lot of people last weekend, it seemed as though everyone was having way more fun at college than I was. I can't believe I said this, but last night the only thing that sounded good was to get drunk and forget about my life for a few minutes. THIS IS BAD! If any of you know me, you know that I'm not a heavy drinker, in fact I wouldn't say I drank at all and I tell people I don't drink. Sure I've had a few sips here and there since I've been here, but never been to a party and I certainly have not been drunk. So I was talking to Jenna about what I should do about this. Becuase I had the means to get drunk last night, and it seemed like a good idea, but really it wasn't. I have always been a firm believer in the fact that you don't need to drink to have a good time. Even more so you don't need to drink to forget about life because that is the worst thing to do, forget about your life. It's stupid to drink solely because you have nothing else better to do. It is like eatting because you are bored, in the end, it really doesn't benefit you at all.

So anyway, Jenna started listing things to do and for some reason the one that sounded best was go for a run. My tummy kind of hurt so I was like ehh...not to mention the fact that I haven't actually run since basketball my junior year. Yeah, you could say I'm severly out of shape. So finally she was like, go change your clothes, we're going for a run. Dear lord! I told her that I would only be good for about 10 minutes and she said that she didn't think she could do that. OH DEAR GOD....I forgot that she ran cross country last year! We started running, ran for about half an hour, about two miles. Only walked a little, just to give ourselves a break. The dam was rushing becuase they had opened another section of it. Kind of made me sick to look at it.

Again, anyway, we talked about life, boys, drinking, sex, school, and roommates while we ran. It really did clear my head. I felt so much better after that, and I was so happy that I didn't get wasted just to forget about life. Not only did I feel better about my life, I was so energized. So we came back, popped some corn, turned on the notebook and watched it in my room. I took my laptop up to my loft so she could use my grounded line and we talked online, to eachother! and other people, and watched the movie. Then Adam and Steve came up. It was actually a lot of fun. I worked on my profile on facebook so those of you reading this who can access that, do. And if you want to be quoted let me know.

So I guess the moral of the story is, I still don't need to have a drink in my hand to have a good time. And I don't think I will have a drink in my hand for quite awhile. Thanks so much Jenna for all that you do for me. Like you said earlier, I don't know what I would do if you didn't live across the hall from me! To the rest of you out there reading this...this is really random, but it is how I feel. And to the adults reading this becaue I am going to post the same blog on myspace and blogger, this is me, this is what I have been up to, so here you go. Thanks for listening....

GRANDE

Procrastination at it's Finest

Well, the time has come for me to write about how college life truly is. At first everything seemed good, and everything still is good, but jesus...it is so stressful. Granted, I do bring some of this stress on myself but it's hard to balance creating a new life and going to school. In high school stress was there, but it was different. In high school I already had a life, I wasn't trying to make friends or a name for myself, I had already established those things years before. Now I'm in this new place, a new world actually, and am being forced to make friends the hard way, I actually have to talk to people I don't know. Now, this really isn't much of an issue for me and I do have quite a bit of "friends" but I just met these people a few weeks ago.

I do primarily hang out with Kate and Jessi. And now Zach, but otherwise, I don't really know who I would consider a friend and who I would consider a classmate. I talk to so many people throughout the day, sometimes it is hard to keep all their stories straight. But you know me, I don't forget very easily and I am pretty good with names. Ha, last night I hung out with the most random people. Jon Smith, the kids true name, Brian, and AJ. I had met AJ at SOAR in June and Brian at playfair or something. Just met Jon last night. I was having a really crappy night, due of course because of a boy, and then I hung out with three pretty cool ones. We watched Legally Blonde and Nemo, then we walked to the Kwik Star at like 2:30 in the morning. And don't worry, this is completely safe as 1) I was with three boys and they shielded me everytime we passed someone else, 2) two were baseball players and one played soccer, and 3) It's WAVERY for Pete's sake. BTW, who is Pete?

Anyway, it was a pretty long night, nothing happened, if that is what you are thinking. But it cheered me up and I had so much fun! Getting back to my point, I am to the point of exhaustion. I'm so tired, and sick of homework. Everone asks each other if we are done with our homework and the popular response is, "I'm never done with my homework." And likewise, I don't think I'll be done with my homework until I graduate. And then I will be well-rounded and penniless. But nonetheless, educated. Sara Konrad I don't know how you could possibly love school so much. I got your thank you, it was awesome! Made me fell all warm and fuzzy inside. Speaking of warm and fuzzy...I'm going to kill the male species!

So I totally got played over the last three weeks. If my MSN name is any indication, I was slighly pissed off at the male gender last night. Funny that I ended up hanging out with three of them. But they were decent and I had just met them. Found out one of them uses Facebook to meet people by looking up their room numbers and then going over and making out with them. Hmm...interesting....then he looked at me and was like lets go watch a movie. OK! I did, it was fun, nice guy. Again, nothing happened. Damn....

This is sort of depressing, I'm not depressed or anything, kind of stressed, super excited about the student senate thing though. Should be fun. School is going really well. I do like my classes, and I have a few interests, mostly just guys I flirt with a lot though. But that is sort of become a common theme for me. I guess I like to flirt right now. But hey, I've made a few friends that way, so I don't think I'm going to stop any time soon. Unless of course I meet the guy that I want to flirt with. Which hasn't happened really, thought I was interested in Dumb ass but he had a girlfriend and didn't tell me, then whatever, lead me on for ever, player, smooth game, damn it! I felt like an idiot last night. I super big idiot because, I, ALYSSA, let someone get to me. And it wasn't like I let him get to me, I just wanted to believe that he was interested because everything I heard from him and other people told me that he was. Whatever, boys are dumm!

Today I had lunch with Cronin at UNI. Wow, what a shock it was to eat in their dining center. It was so big compared to ours. Oh, and dad, if you take the cable to Radio Shack, they simply point you in the direction of the end, they wont actually put it on for you. So that was an experience, I thought I was going to screw it up but it turned out fine. We now have a TV with TV channels to watch! Zach came over to watch Nip/Tuck, really strange show by the way, and he hooked it up for us. Now I just need to hang the cable so it isn't on the floor. Which I think I will go do. This blog is really just a random compilation of my thoughts. Basically I am procrastinating....sweet dreams all!

I Pet a COW!!!!!

Ok, so I know all of you out there that read this blog avidly know that I am not much of a country girl. Upon arriving at college, my friends learned of this and knew just what needed to be done. So, they took me to Lamont, which Kate swore was a small town, and it was BIGGER than Washburn, the town in the 218 ditch as Tony puts it. Now, I know most of you have heard about my experiences, but for the rest of you, here is my first hand account of country life...PETTING A COW!!!

We call this step one.....Entering the barn


This is step two....scared shitless of the cow!

Step three...Kate calls this repulsion...

Step four...slowly pet the cow


And here she is ladies and gentlemen, my cow number 536, we named her Petunia!

I hope you all thouroughly enjoyed my tales of this encounter. I have to say, it was a first, and it was HILARIOUS!!! You are all just jealous you didn't pet a cow with me!

A few pictures from Orientation

This is Jessica, Jessi, Myself, and Kate before heading off to the dance last Saturday night!

This is myself, Carl, Kate, and Adam after the Hypnotist whish was HILARIOUS.

This is Melissa and Kate. Melissa is our Orientation leader. She was pretty sweet!

Jessi, Myself, and Kate one day. Obviously after a meal because I have an apple. I also stole a set of silverware. GO ME!

Kate and our ADORABLY cute student body pres, he is scared of us!

COLLEGE

Hey all! Just thought I would drop a blog, that sounds pretty funny, to let you all know how I was doing. I know that quite a few of you are anxious to learn all about my new life and I know my mom is nervous to know just exactly how well I am doing on my own. Well, for starters, these are my new friends Kate and Jessi. Kate is the short one in the middle. I think I may have found Tony's match. She is hilarious and she has a witty retort for everything! Jessi is the other girl. She is a lot like me in we both played a lot of sports in high school and we have a very similar sense of humor. Kate is the one who makes us laugh with what she says and Jessi and I just provide the blonde moments.

Move in went well. Not too many things went horribly. Thanks to Uncle Tony I will never, and I mean NEVER worry about my loft falling down on me. That and it was a pain in the ass to move it up, luckily I'm only on the second floor. I have decided that since the loft is white, I have some sharpies and whenever something funny happens, it will be written on the loft. I will apologize now for anything that may not be rated for the units. Thus far we have written two quotes, and I am sure there will be plenty more. Food is alright, it sort of sucks that we are on a regimened(is that a word??) eating schedule becuase I'm not really used to that. Like we at breakfast at 9:00 today and then lunch at noon and dinner starts at 5:oo. Owell, once classes start I will be able to make my own schedule. I mean, I haven't even broken the seal on any of the food I brought. With the exception of the peanut butter and I only did that because I wanted something sweet and I didn't have anything else. Which is a good thing becuase otherwise it would be gone by now. So, thats pretty much all I have about move in.

My roomie is pretty quiet. We don't have to same orientation group so I hardly see her. Only when we both happen to stop in to sleep or get something we forgot. I think we will see even less of each other once classes start as she has class every day and I only go Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Otherwise, there really isn't much to tell. She is pretty nice, loves horses so there are cool pictures on her side of the room. I have pictures of my friends, sorry no family yet but I'm getting there.

Hmm, books, well what is there to tell you about my books. They were really freakin' expensive and I have a lot of them! I have four classes and I had to buy fourteen books! My english book is called Elements of Argument, something is telling me Tony may have read this more than one time, he seems to be so good at it. It is almost a craft to him. Anyway, orientation is alright, well, what I've gone to has been alright. Currently skipping the Security meeting. Don't worry mom, I talked to Tara Price in the office earlier and she told me that all I needed to know about the security meeting was where to put my parking tag and to register my bike. Well, I already did the parking tag thing and I don't have a bike! Looks like I'm set. Oh, we ran into Timmy, the kid who set up my internet, like 12 times yesterday and he hooked me up with wireless so I guess the ethernet cable we bought is null and void. Owell, I'm sure I'll need it sooner or later and he told me it wasn't a bad idea to keep it incase the wireless he tapped for me goes down. Just means I can sit anywhere in my room and be online. Which I really, REALLY like!

I have been trying to eat semi healthy since I have been here. I really don't want to gain wait after I lost a lot this summer. Thus far I have stolen two pieces of fruit from the caf, AKA Mensa. Kate did a wonderful job of announcing the fact that I "stole" from Mensa the last night in one of our group meeting things. They all just looked at me. And if you will notice please, the first article of evidence is actually located in my left hand in the above picture. There is another one of us from last night and I am holding the second piece, an apple. I have also met quite a few people. Saturday night after move in and dinner and floor meetings we did this thing called Playfair. It is really hard to describe but it was pretty fun. Basically we did a lot of random, crazy things and met a lot of random people. I only really remember a few orientation staff members and a kid names Steve, oh Steve, beautiful blue eyes and very pretty. Last night we, us girls, and a kid from our group Carl, hung out in Kates room because 1)she got a doctors note and she has air conditioning, and 2)her roomie is hardly ever there because her boyfriend of four years who is a senior football player has a house and thus far has not spent one night in their room. Owell, makes more room for us.

Well, I think that is all I have for now. Still have some organizational things to take care of but otherwise pretty much all moved in. We all went our separate ways right now because we had two hours to kill with nothing to do. I think both of them are sleeping but I decided to take this opportunity to inform all my faithful readers about what I have been up to the last few days. Look for more updates about classes after Wednesday because that is when they start! See you all later!