Busy Days

I believe that list I had is still incomplete. I haven't really had time to breathe. Yes, I have a job where I can update this and stalk people via Facebook, but I do end up doing a lot of work at work, too. For instance, today I worked on an event flier for the News/Ed program, and I completed my degree program. Yay for degree programs. It means I'm this (__) much closer to graduating in May 2010. This time next year, I will need to have my "intent to graduate" form already filled out and turned in. It's getting scary. You may ask why, and I give you these reasons:
1) The economy is obviously in a downward spiral, and the next thing for it is a complete crash. (There's really no pulling out of this tailspin; we're too close to bottom.)
2) Graduating means that I have to start working for a living, which is a crazy thought because I don't know how I will do in my field and all that. You know, the usual stuff that people worry about.
3) I don't know where I want to go after I graduate. I have ideas, of course (Nashville, Chicago, Seattle) but I don't know which would be best for me. I guess I will have to consider the cost of living and the rate of pay I would get wherever I go. It's a lot to think about in my opinion.

Anyway...
I had a fun weekend, with very little sleep. But the weekend also reminded me that I do not want children any time soon. Little 10-year-old girls are hard to deal with, especially when they have the "I can do everything" mentality. Ugh.
I had to drive back to Bowling Green after being in a car for 3.5 hours yesterday. Not fun. I was tired and cranky. I also hate driving at night, and I had to do that. I'm just glad that I made it back and was able to get around seven or eight hours of sleep last night. Hooray for sleep!

Now, it is time for me to go get some food. Popeye's is on the radar. Yum.

Until next time...

Expected Graduation Date: May 2010

Everything online for school says that my "anticipated graduation date" is December 2010. I tell you here and now: there's no way!
I went and looked up the credit hours I need, and I only need 44 more hours after I complete this semester in which I am earning 16 hours. I even went through and worked out the schedule I would need for the next three semesters. And here it is:
Spring 2009
JOUR 300....3 hours
GEOG 110....3
MGT 305....3
MUS 340....1
ENG 304....3
ENG 305....3
(Total=16 hours)

Fall 2009
JOUR 454....3
ENG 391....3
ENG 303....3
SPAN 102....3
MUS 340....1
Humanities....3
(Total=16 hours)

Spring 2010
JOUR 456....3
ENG 392....3
ENG 358....3
MUS 340....1
Intern....1
Elective....3
(Total=14 hours)


I even had trouble thinking of something to take that last semester in 2010. There is definitely enough room to move things around if necessary. I've got this all put together, and I know that I will graduate in May 2010. Adam said he finds it hard to believe. He thinks that all my semesters have been "light" and that he would have thought I'd need more hours, or another semester on The Hill. He doesn't know what I've done to get this far...I honestly don't think he can get his head around the fact that I do work hard to achieve everything that I have done.
Now, before I go on another rant about him and how fickle and arrogant he can be, I shall move on to another subject...

Eh...I'm tired as hell. I don't think I'll get to another subject tonight. Other than the fact that my creative writing class seemed to like my "found poem" which I obtained from one of my little sister's Facebook notes. Yay me for actually understanding the assignment, unlike the majority of the class. Sometimes, I think I'm surrounded my idiots...or I could just be a genius.
Anyway...
It's time for work to end, and for me to go get some food.

Thanks for reading.

Until next time...

This May Sound Like a Teen-aged Ramble:

I should cross out those things on my list that I've done already...(the things I've done are in italics and the things I haven't done yet are in bold)
1) Study for nutrition test (which is tomorrow morning) DONE!
2) Go to Lone Star for the diplomats meeting tonight DONE! (It was quite delicious)
3) Start studying for international PR test (which is Wednesday)
4) Start studying for marketing test (which is Thursday)
5) Don't forget hair appointment next Tuesday at 4pm DONE! (I got it done last Wednesday)
6) Write poem for creative writing (due Thursday) DONE and done, b/c I did the one due Tuesday as well.
7) PRSSA meeting Monday
8) Get laundry done sometime over the weekend, or next week
9) Maybe get a new pair of shoes that will keep my feet relatively dry when it rains
10) Breathe!
11) Call home...maybe they have power back DONE! (They got the power back on Thursday.)

I am glad that this weekend went so well. I made it home Friday evening, was initiated into Eastern Star (longest damn meeting of my life) and watched some Supernatural. Then, on Saturday morning, I drove back to BG with my mom and sister following. They both came for the Murray State game (which we won 50-9), but my sister also came down for Focus on WKU, and wanted to talk to the people in the Journalism department, but it was Paula Quinn, and she didn't have the folders that I had put together for the event. I told Mac in a text, and he called and whatnot, and we figured out that Paula was giving people the wrong curriculum. So I have to get my sister a folder and everything with the correct curriculum and give it to her on Friday when I go home. We also decided that Paula must be on crack. Anyway...


I'm kind of frustrated with my boyfriend right now. I mean, while things appear to be going fairly well, he just angers me sometimes. Like the other night, when I looked at him, told him I loved him, and he said "No...no...quit with the 'I love yous.'" So I asked why, and it basically came down to him wanting to make May easier. Because we both know that he graduates in May, and that is probably going to be the last we see of each other, but in the meantime, we both know that we have feelings for one another. At least, I know I love him. I'm not exactly sure right now how he feels towards me, but I can assume that it's positive because he still wants me around, and he'll still hold me and kiss me. I know that after May, we probably won't talk to each other, we definitely won't see each other, and we may never do either one of those ever again. I just wish he weren't trying to distance himself emotionally like this. It will be tough, yes, but that's just something we'll have to go through....both of us. I know that he loves me...if he didn't, we wouldn't have been together for nearly two years already, and he wouldn't be trying to "make it easier" for us in May.
I just hope he misses me...even years later. It may be selfish, but I want him to finally realize that I've always been there for him, and that I love him in a way that no one else can come close to. Unfortunately, I'm quite sure that he will end up married to some trophy-wife slut in his early 30s, have kids in his mid-30s, and be divorced and lonely by the time he's 45. I just have this feeling that his life will indeed end up that way; I can tell by his personality.
I, on the other hand, may never marry, but will be planning weddings, I hope. Maybe I'll find someone that I will let myself love just as much, but I don't know it that will ever happen. I dream of getting married some day, yes, but I can't really imagine that ever coming to fruition for me. It's just one of those things that I honestly cannot picture myself doing, and I don't know why. I just take it as a sign that I just am not meant to get married, even if I want to. Okay, I'm rambling now...

I just filled this page with random, worthless babble, and I apologize to anyone who actually read any of it. I need to study some. I'll write more worthless crap later, I'm sure.

Bye.

It finally feels like September

So the temperature is finally down to the mid-70's and it feels like September. I mean, autumn officially starts in six days and up until yesterday, we've had temperatures in the mid-90's. I finally busted out with the hoodie yesterday.

So today, I was walking up the stairs to Grise Hall and I just kind of tripped up some of the stairs. Luckily, no one was around to witness my clumsy moment. But then, as I was going into Cherry Hall for creative writing, I tripped over the threshold, and this time, the guy holding the door was there to see the whole thing. I think my flip-flops are against me; they're trying to kill me. I need to get a new pair of shoes, I think. While the shoes I have are still in good shape, they just let in way too much water when it rains. With those shoes, I may as well just wear flip-flops outside when it rains because I end up with soaked feet anyway.

I have a list of stuff I need to do, but I don't think I'll get to it all. But here's the (out-of-order) list to remind myself:
1) Study for nutrition test (which is tomorrow morning)
2) Go to Lone Star for the diplomats meeting tonight
3) Start studying for international PR test (which is next Wednesday)
4) Start studying for marketing test (which is next Thursday)
5) Don't forget hair appointment next Tuesday at 4pm
6) Write poem for creative writing (due Thursday)
7) PRSSA meeting Monday
8) Get laundry done sometime over the weekend, or next week
9) Maybe get a new pair of shoes that will keep my feet relatively dry when it rains
10) Breathe!
11) Call home...maybe they have power back

That pretty much covers all of it.
But a hurricane basically went through the state this past weekend, and as far as I know, my family still doesn't have power back. My sister was off school for at least Monday, I know. I don't know if she went today. I need to text her to find out...if her phone hasn't died yet.

Oh, there is a circus in town right now and they have the tigers and the elephants out in one of the parking lots in front of Diddle Arena. The poor tigers are all cooped up in small cages. They're white tigers and they're really pretty...but the male tiger just seemed very agitated when I saw him today. The elephants just stand in place and eat and stand and eat. That's about all they have room to do. People like to stop by on their way to class because it is rather rare to see tigers and elephants in the parking lot of an arena in a small town such as Bowling Green, Kentucky.

I can't go to the circus tonight anyway because I have to go to a dinner/meeting with my fellow School of Journalism and Broadcasting diplomats. It's being paid for and everything. Yay me!

I think I should probably end this rambling post about now. I should find something to work on.

-Rachel-

Background

So I’ve decided to create this blog because I’ve had a LiveJournal for way too many years and I never update that, and I just need to start blogging stuff.

Hanna, you can probably disregard this entry since you know everything I’m about to write. So here it goes:

Right now, I’m 20 years old (I’ll be 21 in five months) and I am in my junior year at Western Kentucky University. Public relations is my major and writing is my minor. I should graduate in May 2010, but that is yet to be determined, really. But I’m pretty sure it will be done.

I have a boyfriend, who can be quite fickle — like right now — and yet, I still love him. But he graduates in May and that may, and probably will be the end of us. I’m getting myself ready for that, so I don’t think it will be as emotionally hard on me as it should be. I just know what’s up, and I’m prepared for it.

My family consists of my parents, who will be celebrating their 25th anniversary in October, and my little sister who is in her senior year of high school. We also have the cutest old dog named Dot…she’s 13 years old and the vet has called her geriatric, which makes me really sad. I love dogs. In fact, I love dogs so much that I sometimes prefer them to people. Dogs can’t talk back to you, they can’t be critical of you, and they provide unconditional love. Seriously, when I feel down, I go searching for pictures of puppies because they make me smile.

My roommate Hanna is a bit ADD, which can be hard to follow, but I have learned. We love the same colors (blues and lime green…with dashes of pink and purple) so our dorm room is coordinated quite well. We also both love Johnny Depp, so our dorm is covered in posters of him. It’s amazing; we’re so alike and everything works out so well that we have few problems. The only real problems are when we’re trying to sleep; I prefer complete darkness and silence — aside from “white noise” from a fan — and Hanna could sleep with the TV on and lights on. I’m just very sensitive when trying to sleep. Otherwise, we both like football and watching NFL games on Sunday, which is what we are currently doing.

A little more about me: I’m currently working in the Journalism department at WKU as a student worker for the news/editorial coordinator. I’m also interning with Athletic Media Relations where I’m doing a lot of design work and helping out wherever I can, really. I like it. I’m taking 13 hours not including the three intern credit hours I get. And I’m pretty busy all the time. I like being busy because that means I don’t have time to think about anything else.

Anyway…I think that’s enough rambling about myself. I think the groundwork has been put down. I will update with random entries later.