Assorted Thoughts

Yesterday I went shopping at the Sherwood Park mall and I could have spontatneously combusted from Christmas overload. It was wonderful. Now I'm almost done shopping for my family, and I "may" have picked up "a few other things" that I "can't mention" at this time. Bwahahahahaha.
Is there a better time of year than Christmas? Sure, it may be cold, but there's just so much joy floating around and waiting to be had. Also, Mom has recently bought a book on Christmas crafts and I wanted to make just about everything in there. Now I'm kinda hyped up on Christmas cheer. I want to start decorating already. Must resist. Alas, if only I had more time!!! I should really start preparation for the holidays in, like, August. Must look into this next year.

Well now! It's been an interesting week so far. I have managed to miss my bus on Monday, almost miss my bus on Tuesday, and burn myself on a hotplate on Thursday. Note to self: just because the hotplate is on the shelf does not mean it was not on recently. And also I should pick up hotplates by the base, NOT the part that gets hot. Owie.
Despite all that, things are going fairly decently. Dad seems to have accepted the fact that chemistry is not my homeboy, though he certainly doesn't like it. I may still get some of that Dow scholarship, which, quite frankly, would be extra marvelous. I had an awesome time last night at Mrs. Janes' house with the girls from the Pentecostal youth group, even though I spent a large chunk of the night explaining photographs and answering questions about Stef, Amanda, and Luke. I may be going out with the youth group this Friday for pizza, and next Friday for bowling. And I may be going to my first party in about nine billion years at Heather-from-organic-lab's apartment. She really is quite cool.
And so time flies by. It amazes me that, while one chem class can seem to take a week, one week can seem to take an hour. Christmas is fast approaching on the horizon. Must go shopping.

Well, folks, it looks like my dreams of not being a chemist are going to come true. I saw the student advisor and she told me I can go ahead and register for anthro courses and other such delights for January any time now!!!!! She said I should focus on my core requirements, and that I have to stay in English because it's some sort of, you know, thing I need. So now all I have to do is figure out exactly what direction I want this to take. I'm thinking classics minor. I'm thinking courses in Italian. I'm thinking I'm going to like semester two a whole lot more than the first one. I've got to be honest, it's been a while since I've been this excited about anything school-related. The only minor setback is that I have to maintain some sort of decent GPA (read: 2.7), which means I still have to put in some amount of effort and studying. It's probably a good thing I found out about that when I did, cuz lately I've been figurin', "Well, I won't need organic in the long run, let's skip this last melting point determination and completely flub the results and the conclusion." Alas, that will not work.
AARRRRRGGGG, Dad just came in and was all, "Oh, there are no jobs in that field, blah blah blah." Sigh. I just can't win 'em all, can I?
But in two months, I could be learning Italian. Sweet.
And to top it all off, I pulled off an A- on my English essay. There's hope for me in that class yet.

I keep waffling on what I should take next year. One minute I think, "well, maybe something in computers," and then I think, "what am I saying? I don't want to spend the rest of my life at a computer." Although that would be an improvement from spending the rest of my life in a lab. And then I think, "Well, what about something in the arts, like ancient greek." But then what on earth could I use that for? Sooner or later I'm just going to have to sit down and say, "My future is anthropology."
OK, so, the bottom line is...chem sucks.

So this is the first weekend I've had in a long, long time that doesn't involve prelabs, lab reports, or a buttload of studying (that doesn't actually get done). Although I'm still doing homework this weekend anyway, because I'd rather not leave it all til next weekend, and I'm babysitting tonight which shall cut into my relaxation time. But at least I'll spend some of tomorrow with Bevin and Sabi. At least I have some life left.
You know, quite frankly, I really disappointed with the way things are turning out at university. How can some people have made so many new friends already? I can't comprehend how some people have already managed to have a breakup when I haven't even met anyone new. It's really quite sad, you know.