Friend inspiration

Readers, if there are any of you, I have something to tell you.

My pal Averyl is an inspiration. She challenged herself to make 100 new friends in 100 days, and she DID IT! She also challenged herself to make 100 friends in 1 day, and she DID THAT TOO! Here are the names of some of the friends she made.

Please, go check out the blog that tells how she did it. You won't regret it!

CLICK HERE! literatureninja.blogspot.com

Teeny Tiny Room

Here are some pictures of my new room.... I'm sorry if the edges are kind of cut off. The room is so small that I couldn't back up far enough to get a good pic. :) It's a good thing Averyl and I are great friends. Otherwise, this room would be unbearable.

This is most of our room. Please take note of the shelves that will kill us quickly and (not) painlessly in the event of an earthquake.

My side (messy!)
Our clothes are touching!!! Eew! :)

The unacceptably small (but tastefully decorated) desk area we share.

New semester, new place, new poverty

It is now the second day of classes for Spring term. So far, I'm lovin' it! This is the first time I've attended school for Spring. Campus is super peaceful and quiet, and my classes are pretty small, which is great. I'm taking adolescent developmental psych and social psych. Hopefully I won't come out of this semester acting like an anti-social juvenile delinquent. We'll see.

I've also moved into a new apartment. Moving is such a hassle... I'm glad I have my family close by to help me. Special thanks to my mom, who can lift heavy boxes like a champion. My new apartment is considerably smaller than the place I moved from. It has been an adventure fitting all of my stuff into my bedroom, which is about half the size of my old room. Eek. My roommate and I have had to get kinda cozy with storage. The clothes in her closet are touching the clothes in my closet.... cuz we share a closet. Eep.

Despite the cramped living conditions, I think the next four months will be fun. I have two new roommates--Kara and Kelsey--and I'll meet my new ward this week.

The only thorn in my side right now is the U-word. Unemployment. My teaching assistant job is over for now, since the class is only taught Fall/Winter. I've applied for 9 different positions. I've been rejected from 5 so far. Such is life. Wish me luck on my job search!

(pictures of the apartment will come soon)

What makes you a good candidate for this position?

Well, I finished my paper and turned it in yesterday. It was even in a whole 45 minutes before it was due! If my parents are reading this, their jaws are probably hitting the floor right about now. I'm notorious for being so nitpicky about a paper that I edit and fuss over it until the absolute last second before it's due. Perhaps that disease is being replaced by apathy.... We'll see.

I interviewed for a job today. They asked me what I consider to be my greatest strength and my greatest weakness. The aforementioned nitpickiness was what I said my greatest weakness was. It's pretty much true. I said that my greatest strength was that I can leave projects and come back to them with better ideas. I think that's true as well, but I'd never thought of it as a strength before. Random! I really wonder why I gave that answer.

For some reason I hate preparing ahead of time for interviews. I knew they would ask me the strengths/weaknesses question, but I avoided preparing an answer because it's an awkward question and I don't like thinking about it more than I have to. ALL interview questions are awkward.

Q: "Would you say you are a self-starter?" Of course I'm going say yes! What, do they expect someone to say, "Umm, no, actually, I need someone to hold my hand every step of the way and I have NO initiative whatsoever."

Q:"Where do you see yourself in five years?"
A:"Hmm, that's a toughie. I'd like to think that I'll be sitting in a cardboard box, reading the five-month-old issue of The New York Times that I use as a blanket on the cold nights."

Avoidance

I find it very strange that during finals week, the week that is supposed to be the most hectic and crammed with studying, I have blogged more times than I have on any other week in the past couple months. It's not like I don't have anything to be doing at the moment... I have many things I could/should be doing. Psssh. Those things can wait.

I'm two finals down, two to go, and one giant paper left before I'm done.

I'm having serious issues writing this paper. It's for my women's studies class, which I quite enjoy. However, for some reason, I am completely stuck on this paper. I'm supposed to be writing about the feminization of poverty, but instead of doing that, I'm writing about how I should be writing about the feminization of poverty.

Urgh.

You know what I need? I need something hilarious and fuzzy and cute. Like this!

Deep breath #2

Earlier today, after walking out of a final exam, I took a deep breath.

*sssssssssssssnnnnnnnnnfffffff*

It smelled like blossoms. How pleasant!


That's the thing about springtime in Utah--there are so many false alarms for the beginning of spring that when the real deal comes around, it's marvelous.

Deep breath

Let's all take a deep breath.

*ssssnnnnnnnfffffffff*

Aaah. The air smells of finals week and summer unemployment.

NAY.

It smells like opportunity. Here goes nothin!

In a nutshell

Here's what I've been doing for the past little while. Take the pictures as a sign of my busy-ness/laziness/unwillingness to actually write.