Oh, what a day

to start out the day we watched "How to speak Minnesotan" for the last day of classes before our presentations are due. I talked to Dr. Ball after class and he said that I could do some extra credit or something to up my grade. I am a little worried about that class. it's a tuff one and i have to pass it to get me AA degree.
When I was in Sunquist I talked to another proffesor: Dr. Sutter. He teaches my english class, the poet that I mentioned in another blog. I talked to him about the next essay due on monday, i'm having trouble with the comparrison. We ended up talking about what I am going to college for. He said that I am a good writer and that I should minor in English because I have potential. That was great to hear, really encouraging, especially from a great professor and writer.

And last, the promethean got nominated for Outstanding Student Organization Award and the Distinguished Student Organization Event Award. I am going to the communication arts dept. awards get together next friday.

my mind is getting very foggy and dissasterous, like a dirty desk... i need a mind cleaning.

oh cold sunshine, why?

*sigh* another day has gone by and i have nothing for it. that's just sad. i got the test i took on monday back; the crazy one that i had to study for on the plane. i got a B, not bad, should have done better though. other than that, i took some pics of the play for paper and that is all i have done all day. oh, another thing about the parking lot, whenever jon and i are looking for a parking spot and we get our eye on a great one we drive a bit closer and there is this white geo. stupid geo, its so small that you can never see, and it always gets good spots.

on the other hand. last weekend was great. i was in florida with jon for his uncles beach wedding. it was gorgeous, and i got a bit of a sun burn so no my back itches tremendously because of the dead skin (ick). it was also good because i had some good conversations with some of his relatives and get to know them better. you can totally tell who are the inlaws and who are the totusheks. it was severe caos at some points, at least in my point of view. it was so beautiful down there. i enjoyed lying in bed waiting for sleep to take over my body and listening to the waves crash onto the white beach.

another thing... i believe 5 years ago this week was when i found out i had a brain tumor. thats good stuff.

good day to you

oh happy day; one more day of the semester is done, one less paper is due, and spring-time has peeked its way into superior. I got one of my papers back today, another A :) another thing to share is that there is this man that always comes out of hawkes hall next to jon and i's hall, and he is always singing. The man has to be in his 80s and he has a cane to walk with but his tune always gets my attention. It's so cute, an old man singing as he walks down the street. always the same tune too.

other than that, i'm getting excited to be going down to florida on thursday morning. the flight leaves at 6:30am so jon and I are leaving after he is done working on saturday night at 10pm. we will probably have to get some energy drinks and stay up all night.

the promethean

here are a few pics that i have taken for the promethean, the school paper. Through this years experience and other experiences, i have decided (for the time being) that i want to be a sports photographer as a job and then keep the other photography as a hobby. i really, really like sports photography, i get a lot of satisfaction out of it; especially hockey and other fast sports. i'm going to be mean and say that girls sports arent half as entertaining as guys. guys can keep things up-beat and going, then again like hockey girls isnt as interesting because they cant check oneanother. anyways, here you are...

The Office

oh sunny days!

a sunny day finally, and the snow that was said to come here from the lake affect drifted south of us.

dad should be proud, i have been driving stick shift lately and been doing it quite well! my cars wind shield wipers arent working so we left my car at jon's parents house so that hopefully jake, jon's brother, could fix them for us.

alright, going going... gone

another perfect day

ok, so the day wasnt perfect. actually it wasnt even close; but it was a good day. i accomplished a few things.
i have been meaning to write for a week or so but i have been prety lazy and havent. not too much has been happening around here. yesterday jon and i went and saw our friend jake play the piano at the open microphone night at amazing grace cafe. he did a great job, but was prety nervous. there was another guy there that was good on his electric guitar and we went with him to perkins after and sat around and talked until about 1:30am (and i wasnt even tired today in my class, crazy). but back to the open mike night. there was a chick that had her friend play the guitar and she made up a thing from the Duluth news Tribune, it was about frogs and how they need people to do frog surveys up here in the north land.

other than that, not much. i just finished some stuff for some of my class, wrote a personal narrative for english (on how i didnt have the plane ticket in Beijing), had two test on monday and am still not even half way through the week. i am so ready to be done with school! or at least done with the gen-eds. i need to have a class that interests me and where i am acually learning something that interests me. alright, i should stop wrighting, i was just zoning out staring at the door. im ganna go do my comic for next weeks paper. peace

Lily

In the vast valley, amongst the high mountains
In a foreign land across the sea
Where grass waves with the wind
God planted a seed for me
Daily He waters the delicate seed
She slowly develops within the earth
Soon He will allow her soil to become dry
And uproot her and send her across the sea to me
Here I wait to plant her roots in my soil
To water her in my own fields
With my apricot blossom she will grow
I will watch her grow and flower
Waiting, I pray for my precious lily blossom

poetry

so i have been thinking about poetry a lot lately so i went into my poems and read them over again. did you know, i have writen over 80 poems. that gets me too.

here are a few that i like and thought i would share again on my blog,

FADING
To wither away
Under the moon’s strong light
Slowly eroding
Until no longer in sight

Color dissolving
Beneath the dark sky’s gloom
Flowers wilting
Before the old man’s tomb

THE DEFEATED
She is a disappearing body
Withering away with the wind
Swooped into the spell of society
She’s falling further behind

Caught in the world’s tribulations
Feeling the hindrance of life
In the hold of hazardous emotions
Only bringing more strife

A hand reaches out
She shyly pulls away
Yet He still waits for her grasp
Patiently waiting for her to pray

His arms hold securely
Cradling her like His own child
Comforting in all His glory
He looked at her mistakes and smiled

new pics

I was bored between classes...

just an average day

so here i am, living out another friday morning sitting in mccaskil hall waiting for my lit class. jon doesnt have phisics today because his teacher is sick. we were going to hang out for the first time during school (this semester) today but as i went into the math lab where he tutors during the day he said he had to help some people out with diff. equations. thats cool, i guess; we can hang out after classes today. maybe we will play some lego star wars together :) but anyways, after lit today i have a two hour break until my english class, i dont have chem on fridays, thank God. i think i'm ganna walk the few blocks back to ross hall and hang out there until my last class.

other than being really excited that it is friday, not too much is happenin as you can see. it's just another friday morning. ok... i am ready for the semester to be over. I want to get out of this state (wisconsin, still got that grudge). my heart is longing for colorado (ok, maybe not longing but i am prety darn excited to get out there) I am so ready to start my actuall major and be hangin around the beautiful mountains! only 150 some odd days until jon and i move, and joe and rachel too. alright, enough time waisted writing, i should maybe get some reading done for monday so i dont have to do it this weekend. peace

mama should be proud

this comic is the one i made for tomorrows paper. it totally fits all the snow we had this last weekend. also, some kids cars looked just like this!

mom sould be proud: I made good banana bread. i've been kinda a baker lately, i have made jon's b-day cake, banana bread, and bars. i do have to say, all were prety good. also, i attempted grandma-v's frosting recipe. the frosting didnt turn out as good as hers, but it was still prety good. other than that i got a b+ on my first paper for english. that is to be proud of, the proff. is a good poet and the head of the english department. ok, so i am proud of it, especially because it is only the first essay and we get to do revisions on it for a second grade.

today i had two tests: chem and sociology. i will have to wait and see what i get on those, i dont even know what to guess for the soc one. for the chem i should at least get an a. it was prety easy stuff since it is a lower level class than i have already taken. now its time to do my truck-load of reading for the week, start some other stuff, and hopefully have game night with zach and jaimie tonight.

minnesota point

the top photo is of catlin ave. the street through our UWS campus.




had crazy 15 foot drifts. here are some cool pics. some of the houses were prety much drowning under the drifts but i didnt get any pics of.

another snow day

today was another snow day! zach and jaimie came over last night and we partied on with movies and popcorn. today we had breakfast burritoes and played some games and now they have left. it was a good time. the days already feel long and its as if the weekend will never end. craziness. i have no idea what jon and i are going to do tonight or the rest of the weekend. spirit mountain is closed because of the blizzard warning until 6 o'clock tonight. that means no skiing on the fresh powder. (hey did i tell you i had the time of my life skiing a few weekends ago. i got a massive bruise on my knee; it was awesome! i had a smile on my face the whole time.) and here comes the boredness... unless we could get some sleds or something.

wowzers, a blizzard

snow bananas...
pics from before he ran out to the car and after. also some pics out the windows of our of the window.