Hot Like Ebola!!!: January 2004

Well, there are two days left of Jan Term. I will feel much relief at 2:30 on Tuesday afternoon. Right now, I just got back from leading a study session with Lacey for some of the international students for their "huco" test on Tuesday. Huco is the cool amalgam of human ecology that Lacey and Matt made up. Now I have a lottalotta homework, and I need to finish posting the quiz grades for huco. Sad. I wish I could get some sleep.
In better news, I talked to Mary today! Yippee!!! She is spending her last few days in London before she leaves for Sevilla on Wednesday. She says life is well, Greece and Rome were awesome, etc. Boy, I miss her.
Alright, I had better go finish (and start) the rest of stuff I need to do before my head can be engulfed in pillow for the night.

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22 January 2004

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So, Amy has joined the blogging world. For those of you who don't know her, she's a friend of mine from LA, as well as the current Jr. High director as my home church. Today was a good day, especially since I got a miraculously good grade on my Stats exam, despite being late and everything! Yippee for God's mercy! Right now I really need to do some homework, but I am more than a little burnt out and i wish that I didn't have to do it, so I'm pretending like I don't. Wow, that was a nice long sentence.
AJ is coming up to visit Spokane at the end of Jan term! Cool, huh? I like it when people visit, and even though I know he's actually coming up to visit, Matt, Matt and I spend enough time together that it will almost feel like AJ is visiting me. Kayla visited me at the beginning of January, which was a lot of fun. I felt loved. Still do, in fact! Unfortunately, she has been really stressed out lately, so flying several hundred miles in one weekend probably didn't help her very much. At least we got to go get milkshakes from a restaurant shaped like a giant milk bottle (can you guess its name?) and eat them in the snow. We also had a snowball fight and went to see the partially frozen Little Spokane river. Yay! When AJ comes, there will probably be less snow fun and more driving to Seattle or Canada or such. It'll still be fun, though.
Our ballroom dance final is on Friday. There is a schoolwide dance in the HUB, and our class is going to give a "public performance." With our level of skill, I don't know if performance is the right word to describe it. We learned West Coast Swing today, which Matt likes more than the two-step, but I really don't. It's a lot like East Coast Swing or Lindy Hop, except that it's a lot slower and more boring. Oh well.

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21 January 2004

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Well, AJ has posted my blog as a link from his website. It is under the pseudonym "I eat too much stuffing". I would just like to state that i haven't eaten ANY stuffing since two days after Christmas. sheesh. A girl merely states that dry stove top is a cheap and tasty way to satisfy the salt craving, and look what persecution it brings!
Anyway, I think i may have actually cracked. No, really. I mouthed of to the TA professor today, which is definitely not something i would do under my normal amount of social restraint. But Lacey and I had worked our collective butt off for him during the weekend, then got to school over an hour early to do more work for him, then I was late to another midterm so I could set up the video he wanted to use in class that day. So after class I go to pick up the video, and he starts griping about how the video wasn't set up the way he wanted it to be, and how he had to waste precious class time to push the, oh, two extra buttons to get it to work. So i just kinda snapped.

Jeni: You know what? It all worked out fine, your class still got out early, and everything is okay. I'm so sorry that I had to go take a midterm, but unfortunately, that's just the way it is. So if you don't mind, I would appreciate if you were a little more understanding."

I then came home and listened to angry chick music and ate two cold chicken nuggets and a shortbread cookie. Does that sound like the work of a sane person? I didn't think so. The Jan term workload is killing me. The upside is that, working 40 hours a pay period for 2 pay periods will bring in... like... almost 500 dollars for Jan term. But i don't think that it's worth the sacrifice of now having been late to two midterms. Yeah, well.
In other news, ballroom dancing is still mighty fun. We're working on the waltz right now, which i like, except the other person is REALLY close to you, and i don't know how i feel about 5 or 6 guys invading that personal space bubble in one class. But we also learned the two-step today. Matt doesn't really like it, but i do. It is slow and romantic and good for country dancing. I am such a girl.

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15 January 2004

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Well, here's the first blog of the new year. I guess it has started out okay, except the "6 hour a week" job lacey and I took has turned out to be an "over 20 hour a week" job of doom. That, on top of taking Stat analysis and ballroom dancing, has made me a sadly busy girl. Right now, I am forgoing homework and grading papers to spend a few minutes relaxing, writing this, and talking to AJ on IM. Christmas was a lot better than I thought it would be. Everyone was pretty laid back, there was very little trauma, I got to spend more time with matt's family than mine (a wise decision), and I got to spend time with my VERY cute nephews. Sebastian, the younger one, was laying on me on Christmas day, and he pointed up at the tinsel and Christmas lights on the second floor banister and said, "Auntie Jeni! There's merry Christmas all over the house!" If that ain't cute, I don't know what is. I was pretty lame on the Christmas gifts this year, due to a lack of finances and creativity. I did get my sister and her husband Spiderman monopoly, and I got my brother a guitar strap. Oh, and I got kayla a capo for her guitar. I recieved some cool gifts, though. Kayla made me a scrapbook of best friend type stuff (yay!), and My mom got me a bunch of "Nightmare before Christmas" apparel. And Cranium! Oh, and AJ got me the tightest card game ever, fluxx. Matt and I are now officially addicted. Alright, that's enough blogging

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