Cabaret

I saw Cabaret today at the Singleton Center and I have to say that it was well worth the eight dollars that I didn’t have.  I have seen the movie with Liza Minelli so I knew what the plot was.  However, when you see a performance of it so close up, it’s amazing.  I went to go see it because my friend Katie needed to do something for an on-campus credit for her Focused Inquiry class.  The costumes were great and the dancing made it fun to watch.  The lead actors voices were really amazing too! The man who played Cliff, the lead male role, was also in Dracula as a doctor.  I liked him as the lead in Cabaret though.  One guy who played a German soldier I know on Facebook but have never talked to him.  That was kinda weird, but he was a good actor and singer.

Now I am back in my dorm drinking a Spike.  It makes you really energized because it has 300 mg of caffeine.  So……I will probably be wide awake for awhile now.

Belle Isle

I’m pretty disappointed in myself that I haven’t been to Belle Isle yet.  I don’t know why but every time my friends go I always have something else to do or like I need to take a nap or something.  I heard that it was pretty, especially at sunset.  Now that the weather is nice I kinda want to go swimming there too.  And now I only have one weekend left to enjoy it.  So I guess I really need to go!

Blog

WOW. So I’m upset that this blog is probably gonna bring my grade down. I don’t see how this blog is necessary anyways.  We only read certain student’s blogs and I hardly know what to comment on them anyways. We never talk about them in class either.  I would have rather done what we did last semester and posted stuff on blackboard.  So now I’m just writing this to bring my grade up.

Now I’m gonna go watch Grey’s Anatomy online because I missed it last night.

Home and Work

So I’ve spent yesterday and today at home and it has been well worth it.  I always enjoy going home for a weekend once in awhile.  I feel so comfortable in my own room in my bed and with the door shut. I’ve been writing this focused inquiry paper all weekend though.  That’s the only downside of this weekend.  I have been constantly doing homework.

I at least wish I had picked a topic that I really liked.  I thought I would like doing a topic on Macs since I have one, but it hasn’t been fun at all.  I like doing the research because it made me see the actual differences in a mac and a pc.  Let me tell you….they’re both computers that do the same thing.  So basically it’s a personal choice. And I could care less what someone picks.  I picked a Mac because the people at orientation told me that’s what I needed for the art program, and that’s about it.  If they hadn’t told me that, I probably wouldn’t have gotten one.  So now I have to pick a side for the stupid topic I chose to do. Go me.

Tired

This week has been tough and draining.  I had a major exam to take for my religions class on thursday- which I didn’t do too well on.  I’m mad too because I really love that class and I studied so hard for the test but there was some stuff I just didn’t know how to answer.  The questions are really philosophical so you have to really understand a topic to explain and write an essay about it.  Another thing is that I have been going out a lot this week and getting no sleep.  So I am dead tired.

But today is my birthday at least.  I get to go home tomorrow and visit my family.  It’s not gonna be that easy though because my mom, dad, sister, and brother all live in different places within 40 minutes away from each other. Soooo I guess I wil be driving a lot.  Or hopefully my siblings can meet at either parents house. Whatever. And on top of that I have to write a paper, outline, and cover letter for focused inquiry by monday. I’m gonna have to write it during my time at home which upsets a lot.  I guess I’ll just stay up late on sunday and finish it.

Sorry I sound negative. I’m mad.

Young Death

I hardly ever read the emails that vcu sends out. The ones that say Telegram or vcu alert.  So today I decided to read one and to my surprise it was a letter from the dean explaining a student’s death last night at 1am.  I immediately read it and found that it was a 19 year old guy who was walking with a girl when two people robbed him of his keys to his car.  I kept reading and saw that as the guy was walking away, the robbers shot him in the back anyway.

This kind of stuff scares me to death.  I have walked around the campus in the early morning countless times, sometimes by myself.  So hearing this happen to a guy who was even walking with someone else really makes me nervous.  And he was only 19!  From now on I’ll take my friends with me everywhere. Everyone at this school, me included, should count their blessings.

summer stresses

Well. I think I want to go back home this weekend.  I miss sleeping in my bed and taking baths.  I always feel like this though, especially when I’m alone in my dorm room with nothing to do except homework.  Then when I do go home all I want to do is come back to school. I hate it.  I know it’s really gonna suck when I finally do go home for summer and I won’t be able to go back at all.  I guess I’ll just work a lot so that I won’t be bored all summer long. I think I want to work at The Limited.  Or Express.  Or bath and  body works, in that order.  The only thing is is that if I work at either of those two clothing stores, they’ll probably make me wear all their clothes. And I certainly don’t want to have to buy 2 or 3 pairs of pants for $60 a pair.  So……I was thinking about working at my sister’s apartment complex again as a lifeguard.  Except it’s so boring and working outside everyday all summer is soo tiring. So I don’t know what I’ll do for a job over the summer.  All I know is that I will need one.

yay for field hockey

Today was a great day to be outside. It was cool but not cold and the wind made the humidity tolerable.  It never rained either, which is always good.  I decided to go outside with my roommate and pass around the field hockey ball since we both brought our sticks back from break.  It was so fun just passing and playing around like it was no big deal. I miss field hockey so much that I am thinking about joining the intramural team next year.  I definitely don’t want, and probably couldn’t be able to, join the actual team here.  They’re division 1 and have recruited girls from the Netherlands, Holland, and England.  So…..I doubt I am skill-worthy.  That’s ok because I had just as good as time today in the park!

Break

Goodness gracious I need to staple a tag to my clothes to remind myself to do this thing!  I have been totally in a different mind set all spring break.  It’s almost over now and I’m sort of happy because I miss being up at school with my friends.  The only thing is is that I have to go back to classes and I also have a make-up exam on Monday night.  Sooo, I have mixed feelings.  I actually need to start going to my classes more.  I always miss physics.  I don’t know why but it’s so boring and I never want to go.  The actual class isn’t hard but I need the clicker points.  Jeez. I hate blogging when I have to do it.

Toe Issues

Today has not been so good for me.  My toe has been in extreme pain.  Let me explain:  So I got my big toe infected while getting a pedicure right before winter break ended.  The salon was one I had never been to before so I was skeptical to begin with.  They were really mean there and when the woman was giving me a pedicure, she was really rough and even hurtful. I went home kinda disappointed in the service of the salon, but at least my nails looked good!

So I finally came back to school and during that first week back I noticed that my toe was getting swollen and turning colors on the edge, like right next to the nail.  I went ahead and made an appointment with health services and when I went in to get it checked out, they looked at it once and wrote me a prescription to get antibiotics for what they said was an in-grown toenail.  So,  maybe like a month later, my toe was still swollen and red.  I went back to health services and this time they said it was some sort of bacterial infection.  I get even more antibiotics. YES.  Fortunately, this time they set me up to see a podiatrist, who was just downstairs from health services.   yesterday was my appointment to see the foot doctor.  I was going in hoping that he would give me some more medicine and I could be on my way in like 15 minutes. Wrong.  He said it was indeed an in-grown toenail and that he would need to remove it, as in with like a scalpel.  I felt great.

I tried to relax but it was not easy, especially when they went ahead and told me that it would for sure hurt. I mean…I didn’t even ask if it would hurt, they just went ahead and told me!! Those jerks. So I agreed to the procedure, signed the little waiver, and laid back with a list of after-surgery dos and don’ts covering my eyes.  The pain I felt was extremely horrible.  And that was just from the shots to numb my toe.  While flinching in pain, I was getting furious with the doctor, who was trying to ask me questions about my major and school so that I could take my mind off the shots.  Talking was the last thing I could do, however.

When I could finally sit up, the doctor was gone.  I remembered him saying that it would take about ten minutes for the numbness to take full effect.  I looked over at my toe and saw three streams of blood from the three shots I just had.  I felt like I was going to throw up.  The nurse finally came back in to check on me and gave me a cold towel to put on my forehead.  I then used it to cover my eyes for the actual procedure.  Surprisingly I felt nothing.  It was over in less than 5 minutes.  I was still in pain however, from the shots.  They wrapped it up and gave me a boot to wear.  I then left to go get my 3 prescriptions.

Today, it hurts ten times worse.  I am limping around and the pain killers are just making me drowsy.  It sucks.  So now I am in my bed resting my toe, thinking about how much it will hurt tomorrow.

ps. I am missing 311 right now