MIA: where i've been because i've been ill for almost two weeks. bleh.

i'm figuring out that going to a prof's office hours counts for a lot. it shows effort and possibly a commitment to really learn the subject, whatever it may be. too bad i'm learning this so close to finishing college. eh. better late than never, right? i stopped by my prof from last quarter's office to get my essays back, and i just as i thought, i'm not as bad as a writer as i thought, in spanish anyway. i did quite well on my essays and my grammer and syntactical mistakes were kept to a minimum. well, it's that or she just got tired of correcting the mistakes. :)

it's funny, i'm so much more diligent [which really isn't all that diligent at all] this year than the sum of the last three years. maybe it's the whole finishing out college strong, on a high note. or maybe i got tired of getting by and putting in mediocre effort, and not just in school. i've yet to figure it all out. the wonderful thing about my impending graduation is that it brings up a lot of things to ponder. what am i doing to do after? where will i be? better yet, where does God want to send me? [and please don't say kansas city, missouri] i'm starting to get a small taste of what all the college grads talk about...that scary place after graduation and in between the "rest of your life." wonderful - heavy on the sarcasm with a hint of wry humor.

i just finished my essay for my spanish drama class. if when i get it back next week, the grade is just as poor as my first essay, i'm going to go postal on my prof...seriously. i worked pretty diligently on this paper, painstakingly choosing the right words too. i mean, how am i supposed to improve when he doesn't even give any helpful insights?

oi...i just need to make it to thursday afternoon and i'm off for portland!!! wahoo...relaxing with my fam! and mike's coming back from uo too and andy has districts this weekend so i'll get to see him wrestle for the first time. good ol' family bonding time; i miss it a lot more these days, especially with the whole graduating college thing and not knowing if i'll end up close to home or far, far away.

how to lose a guy in 10 days is one funny movie. it takes the whole romantic comedy/chick flick genre and puts a new spin on it, sort of. the audience was practically rolling on the floor with laughter during the majority of the movie. i got to see it with melissa and after the movie, we pigged out on korean food. yay!

i'm slowly accumulating this long list of movies that i have to see eventually. as well as books to read too. i think i might start a list, like those "50 things to do before i get old...or die" lists. but first i have to finish my homework :)

following a fairly good week, was a week of academic disaster. midterms did not go well. it was actually really hectic and i was all off kilter...entirely no good. but hooray for the weekend. and i'm still thinking...what is there in kansas city? i'm sure people say that about portland too, but at least portland's close to the water and in a state on a major coast. bah.

oooh, and i got a postcard from cora in spain! so that was a nice surprise to find in the mail and so awesome! and i've been browsing her photos from her travels around various parts of spain - way cool.

o how the mighty hath fallen...

so...i got my paper back from my spanish drama class and it was a total massacre, with me on the receiving end of the afore mentioned massacre. it was a dark day in class. :) but i can see the prof's points about my essay it had promise, but poor development, which essentially turned good ideas into crap. ah well. what goes up, must come back down.

but to balance out the bad, i bought sweet home alabama and got an interview for cerner...some health IS company on campus next week. the only thing about the job is that it requires moving to kansas city, missouri for like two years. i'm thinking that location will be a major determining factor.

this week has been, by far, one of the more interesting weeks of the quarter. like i mentioned, academic triumph, which is always good and just having tons of fun, which is good too. and i have to say, my favorite quote of the week "you were right all along." doesn't that have a nice ring to it? i don't think anyone gets sick of hearing that...unless it's being right about something horrible. i basked in the glow of being right. and it is so much fun to gloat!!!

the weekend in review:


• friday: worked. and then i was given the idea that i might have been able to take saturday off, meaning that i had a chance to go home for chinese new year and surprise my fam...but then my hopes were crushed because i did have to go to work on saturday.
  
  
• saturday: worked. :( hung out at home and went to target with abe and shiv. later, people came over to play apples to apples! word(s) association courtesy of ryan ko: helen keller : crazed. it was a barrel full of laughs - the whole game, not ryan's inappropriate association.
  
  
• sunday: church! old navy spree. went to see abe and dennis play basketball in some league with visiting from CA friends angel and her friend micah. us girls had tons of fun making our own commentary. i think we might have embarrassed abe a little when we clapped giddily every time he made a basket. :D then once again, people came over to play and watch ALIAS...the bestest show - among all my other bestest shows