College textbooks are THE most overpriced items on the face of the planet. Call it a shock when I bought two books (paperback mind you) for $200. The fun part is I get to go back tomorrow and buy another one for another $100. FUN!

Life without financial aid BLOWS.
GOATS.
In the trunk of Ron's car.

South Dakota-August 2003 ( Read more... )

*to pratt on thursday afternoon ( Read more... )

Gettin ready to take off for the weekend-out to Pratt again. This time its for one of my best friends' wedding. She's 19. I can grasp the concept of her getting married, you know, white dress wedding and all (lets hope so, i'm a bridesmaid), but the concept of kristi as a married woman is almost too much. I've known her since 4th grade! We've grown ( Read more... )

So we spent the day in Detroit...searching..searching ( Read more... )

Lesson Learned: Everything in moderation. Examples: Too much sun and you will Fry...and peel and be in Pain. Too much beef jerkey when you're a child and you will never eat it again. Be warned ( Read more... )

"When Congress approved the President’s authorization to go to war in Iraq - no matter how well-intentioned - it was giving the green light to the President to set his Doctrine of preemptive war in motion. It now appears that Iraq was just the first step. Already, the Bush Administration is apparently eyeing Syria and Iran as the next countries on ( Read more... )

So life hasn't turned out like I thought it would. I didn't finish AmeriCorps, which I now wonder if I regret. But I quit for a reason, several in fact. Bouts of boredom and depression sometimes make that easy to forget. But I realized, the love I have now, and have had throughout the summer is worth it. Worth the doubt, because our love is the one ( Read more... )

Tomorrow morning we leave bright and early for Washington, DC. 4 1/2 hours later we'll pick up Jenni. 6 1/2 hours later we'll be in DC. Hopefully somehow getting into the Fighting Gravity concert, but its not looking that way. There's still a whole WORLD of DC though. So many clubs...so much fun ( Read more... )

A lot of mysteries were solved last night. Why my Mom was acting the way she was all weekend, why she was so incredibly depressed when I called her about a month ago, and why she seems to be losing so much weight. She is depressed. Because her and my dad are getting a divorce. Or separating, I guess. They don't want to waste the money on making it ( Read more... )