You Want to Know What's Exciting?

Graduation. Graduation is extremely exciting.

Why? Because when I met with one of my French teachers to talk about my courses in the summer, she was able to make it work out that I'd have all my courses to graduate without having to take any in the fall or spring. The French Education major is a lot stricter when it comes to actual classes that you take, and there are two that are required that are only offered once every four semesters. So what is awesome is this professor took the classes that I'm taking in France and MADE THEM COUNT for those classes that aren't being offered until Spring 2013.

Now, with those in tact I'll have completed every single French class I needed to complete. I'm absolutely so stoked! I was afraid that I'd have to take an independent study or something to get a final one, but everything worked out!

Now I just have to find a way to get back onto the honors thesis group. I completely screwed myself over last year because I had too many things going on at once and I didn't mean to drop the honors thesis, but I ended up skipping too much and it looked badly in the eyes of the professor heading it. Which I completely understand--it was unprofessional and I should have put in more effort.

But I'm deciding that it is something I want to finish and I don't have very much left for it. I just have to e-mail him and make sure he's still fine with me being on the project.

Here's hoping!

Oh, and if I do and I finish it, then I'll graduate with honors cords, NRHH cords, and MLC cords! EXCITEMENT!

Blog Archiving?

Is there a way for a blog to have been archived before it was deleted? Back when I was in high school I had a blogger blog where I let a lot of steam blow...and definitely not in a politically correct way, either. I mean, come on, I was an adolescent! I probably couldn't even spell adolescent without a spellchecker back then!

I'm just so dang curious about what I could have written! I want to be able to put in my old e-mail address and find that the blog is archived but not published. I know it's not possible but man how it would just make my life...

Bandwagon

Never in my life did I think I would join the leggings bandwagon.

I definitely thought I'd get into the hair feathers before this.

My defense? It's 80+ degrees in March where I still have all of my winter clothes here at school and it is uncomfortable to wear those all day in the heat. And I only wear them in Stu after classes (aka not in public) or at work because I plan to sleep directly after.

So I'm not completely on the bandwagon...I mean I'm not going to class in them yet.

It was just a relief to be able to wear something without melting from the heat.

So there. Meh.

Question:

Does anyone else know what a "devil strip" is?

Translating

So we're talking about translations in my foreign language education class and my professor talked about someone talking for five minutes and the listener derive "oh, he's talking about how cold it is". Five minutes of speaking translated into a simple phrase.

Jacob sprang lightly to his feet, his agility at odds with his sheer mass, and trotted over to where Edward and I stood on the fringe of things.

“Jacob,” Edward greeted him politely.

Jacob ignored him, his dark eyes on me. He put his head down to my level, as he had yesterday, cocking it to one side. A low whimper escaped his muzzle.

“I’m fine,” I answered, not needing the translation that Edward was about to give. “Just worried, you know.”

Jacob continued to stare at me.

“He wants to know why,” Edward murmured.

Jacob growled — not a threatening sound, an annoyed sound — and Edward’s lips twitched.

“What?” I asked.

“He thinks my translations leave something to be desired. What he actually thought was, ‘That’s really stupid. What is there to be worried about?’ I edited, because I thought it was rude.”

...not that I'd bring that example up in my class considering that it's full of 30 other 20-23 year olds who would probably make fun of me for such an allusion, considering I've already blushed profusely because of being pointed out for knowing what a "devil strip" is and that I was on the new course request system.

So I think I'm good =P

I Don't Want To Deal With This

For someone to basically say that she doesn't want a roommate, tell her current roommate that she's leaving even after they said that they would finish the semester as roommates, and THEN find out that she lied, she's not leaving, and now they have to live together under this tension of knowing that she doesn't want to be there...

I'd be pretty pissed if that were me.

I mean, I'd probably try and be as apathetic as possible towards her, that way she could get the silence she obviously wanted. Why should I give her respect when she obviously chose to disrespect me?

But that's just me.

Sophisticated Party Rock Anthem

By: Emma Dennis

Rocking that soiree in the place of residency this evening,
All the attendees will enjoy themselves tonight.
Our minds will have been lost,
But the enjoyment we experience will be enough for everyone.

...Each day I dance the SHUFFLE!