things to be happy about ( Read more... )

i officially write for a real newspaper

http://www.winonadailynews.com/articles/2008/10/26/college/01wsu.txt

:)

remember when i used to absolutely hate running ( Read more... )

whenever we're upset about something, the last thing we seem to want is for someone to relate to it and say they know how we feel...... but whenever someone else is upset the best thing we ever seem to think of is to try to relate to them so they don't feel alone in their sorrow ( Read more... )

today at work i did more observing, but i also got to putz around with the templates on the computer and get used to them a bit. and if you pick up tomorrow's winona daily news and flip to the sports section, you should know that those lovely lame bowling scores were typed in by yours truly :) haha. thursday i get to start taking volleyball calls ( Read more... )

i wish i were an artist. the bluffs and the trees on campus look so amazing with all their colors and i really want to paint them. maybe i'll go up to the rock this weekend and take some pictures ( Read more... )

so i was snooping in my parents' room (for a legit reason that's not important), and i found something interesting in my mom's drawer right next to my checkbooks. there were two pieces of paper that she must have taken from my room when she was "cleaning" it (i swear she just wanted an excuse to snoop). when i worked at moneygram, i got very bored ( Read more... )

thank goodness for october break. it came at the perfect time too :) yay for actually getting to sleep! and double yay for being responsible and ACTUALLY doing some homework over break no matter how much i wanted to avoid it!! (and triple yay for shopping and finding a nice, warm vest in the prettiest shade of green ( Read more... )

i'm back to being annoyed with coming home. i love my family, and i love breaks, but i hate that i have to go from having so much control over my life to having very little control at all. at least i feel caught up on sleep ( Read more... )

sometimes i worry that i'm going to be a total control freak by senior year. i already get frustrated when i don't have enough control with the things i'm most involved in, and i've only been here a year. i'm going to be really busy by the time senior year comes... i was talking to molly about it before lunch. it's going to be even crazier than it ( Read more... )