Ok, it's been a long time since I last blogged. I was going to eventually get some pictures of my new house in here. That didn't happen.

Lots of stuff has gone on since I last posted here. Life is becoming crazier and crazier as the school year winds down. There are only 11 days of classes left. Yikes!

So, quick recap of the last month's events.

1. Moved into house. Officially moved in on the 15th of March. Ides of March, I know, but so far nothing bad has happened. My roommates are all nuts, but they're all super cool. Paying rent and utilities and stuff sucks big time.

2. I got a cell phone. That was a good thing for sure. At least now when I go to California for a couple weeks this summer I'll still be able to talk to people without paying an arm and a leg.

3. I got a tatoo. Yes, me, a tatoo. It rocks, and I'll eventually get some pics of that too. It is a treble clef wrapped around a cross. Awesomeness itself.

4. I'm going to get a guitar sometime this summer, and hopefully will be able to get lesson from Eric. Or, if not from him then someone else. Also I'll be taking piano lessons from Missy and then also be keeping up on my vocal stuff with Dr. Woods hopefully.

5. Planned next semester. It's going to be a bitch. 22 credit hours and then 20 hours of work a week. Nuts.

6. Going to California with Greg and some friends for two weeks. That will be a blast. He'll finally be back in the states on May 12 ish.

Anyway, that's a recap of my past month and a little bit of insight into the future. Hope it was fun, I gotta go. Chow

Kris

So, spring break starts after classes are done today. Unfortunately for us working class folk we get to stay behind and enjoy a week of sitting in our dorm bored off our ass and then going to work on our one week of vacation.

So you're probably saying to yourself, quit whining, if you didn't want a job, you wouldn't have to have one.

Not the case with me. I'm official a home renter, along with four friends, and am now in dire NEED of the job. It is no longer an option to sit back and relax while my loans pay for everything except the things I want.

Also I will now be paying insurance and gas for a car, which I was given. When I say given I mean no money exchanged hands. I paid five dollars to have the title switched over. That's it. Nice, huh? Then add to that the fact that I'm actually saving up to buy and new one and still paying off my credit card, you can see why I should stop whining about the job and having to work about spring break.

In other words, I shouldn't be whining, but what other purpose does a weblog serve except to express how you're feeling and to tell people what is going on in your life.

Besides the no spring break trip things aren't VERY exciting. I have lots of relatives coming up tomorrow to visit and on Sunday too. Obviously this is the weekend of the family attack. AHHHH. Actually, it won't be so bad. I'm buying a digital camera from my aunt, which doubles as a webcam, so that kicks some serious ass. Even though that means I will now have three webcams, one which works, but doesn't take photos, one that doesn't work with my computer and now one that doubles as a camera. Cool.

Other than that I've decided that men really suck. Yes, they suck. Men. Suck. That's it. I could go into a lenghthy explanation of why, but what would the point be. All you need to know is that I think men suck. Period. Actually, maybe more than suck it is that they are very fond of confusing me. Why do men say things to lead you on and then for some reason turn around the next day and make it seem like they never said that in the first place. Damn them. *Sigh* They suck. Really.

On that high note. Ha. I will have to say adieu. I have a class coming up in about twenty minutes, that I actually am prepared for. Then I have choir and then I have a midterm test, fondly known as the "second little quiz" to the professor, which I MUST ace to raise my grade in that class. It would probably help if I would stop skipping, huh?

Well, thus ends another long post, whose purpose it was to rant to the world about how wonderful, confusing and wound up my world is at this point. Yippie. I'll write again sometime when I remember that I have a blog, which no one probably reads, but which might entertain some poor sod who happened across it randomly. If you are the poor sod reading this I apologize for calling you name.

Kris

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Ok, so I wasn't actually on drugs, although I probably should have/could have been. This week and the subsequent week really flew by.

So anyway, last week was the first week of classes, starting January 11th we broke into what is my fourth semester here at NSU. I can't believe it. It feels way to short of a time to have gone through a year and a half of college already. Time flies, as they say, when you're having fun. Of course I haven't only been having fun.

So anyway, last week was just filled with class and work and hanging out. Then on Thursday I bought my new computer, which I'm currently typing on right now. I turned it into the computer center so I could get hooked up to the internet. That was nice, because now I never have to leave the comfort of my room to talk to anyone I know. I can just instant message or call them. It's nice.

So anyway this last week all the band members went to DC. I had to work, so I stayed here and the dorms were pretty boring, mostly because a lot of people were gone, but partly because I spent the holed up in my room except for when I emerged for class and work.

I never did write about my St. Louis trip in much detail, and since I have an hour right now, I think I'll remedy that.

So anyway, Kendall and I left from campus at about 3:30 on Friday night. We went and filled up gas here in town and then we headed out. We drove to Webster and then took 22 down to Yankton. At Yankton we refilled the tank, then we called my mom so we could get directions to her house. We got there by like 8:00 pm. She made us spaghetti and garlic bread for supper. Then we played Mario Kart on N64 for a while, then when it got a little later we decided that we should get back to sleep since we wanted to be up at 7, so we could be on the road at 8. So we woke up the next morning at 8:00 and we each showered and had breakfast, then we said goodbye and left for St. Louis.

We travelled into Sioux City, and then continued on through Omaha, and then stopped in Mound City to fill up gas and eat something. That was about noon. We travelled past Kansas City and into Missouri. We called Kim to let her know we made it to Missouri, and then we went through St. Joe's, I think we stopped for gas once more, but I can't remember where, then we got into St. Louis at about five o'clock. Pulled up to Kim's house a little after five. Her mom had made homemade vegetable beef soup, so we ate soup and then went to a concert there were having there in town. Then we hung out with some of Kim's friends afterwards. We decided to go bowling, so we bowled until about 1:00 in the morning. After that we went to Old Town Donut and then back to Kim's and went to sleep.

The next day, Sunday, we woke up at about 9:30 and got dressed to go our for the day. Kim's friend Luke came and picked us up. We drove to the Metrolink station, and took the metrolink down to the Arch. We went up for a ride in the arch and got some cool pictures from up in there. Then we went back to the Metrolink, only to find out that it wasn't running back to Union station, so we ended up walking from the Arch to Union Station. It was pretty chilly that day, but we found some steam vents in the sidewalks to sit on and warm us up.

We got to Union Station and decided to eat at Krieger's, and then we stopped at the Fudgery where we participated in a show and got some free fudge. We stopped at several of the shops along the way. Kendall got his Hard Rock shot glass and a St. Louis shot glass and a t-shirt for his sister.

Then we hopped back on the Metrolink and got back to Luke's van, then we went over to Josh's house and watched "Lord of the Rings: Return of the King", which in the middle we decided to go to Stake and Shake, then we went back to finish the movie, which I fell asleep in the middle of, then we went back to Kim's to sleep before our trip to Semo and Siekston the next day.

So we woke up about 9 the next morning and got showered and ready for our car ride. We went to Cape Gerardo to visit a couple of friends Kendall had met over the summer he spent in Germany. We met up with them and decided to go to Siekston to the Lambert's there. Lamberts is an awesome restaurant, known as the home of the throwed rolls. This is because while you're eating a person actually comes out with a tray of fresh rolls and tosses them across the room to people who want them. Also if you eat everything you get free seconds. Kim, Kendall and I got matching sweatshirts that says "Lamberts Athletic Dept: Roll Throwing Team". The coolest thing is that they match Northern's school colors.

Anyway, we went back to Kendall's friends' apartment and hung out for a while later. Then we drove the couple hours back to St. Louis and went to sleep.

The next day we went into University City to tour the loop. We picked up Kim's friend Margaret and she took us on tour of it. We ate at Fitz after we did some shopping, and then we went to the History Museum. We got to see Miles Davis' trumpet. That was kickass.

Then we went back to Florissant (where Kim lives) and went to her sisters house and played dance dance. Josh, Dan and Luke all came over and played, then we played the original Nintendo for a while, before it was time to leave. Then we went back to Kims to get some sleep for the drive home the next day.

So we got up early and started the drive back to Aberdeen. We stopped for gas, and then headed out on the road. We stopped again in some off-the-path city outside of Kansas City and refilled and had lunch. We made it into Sioux City before we had to fill up. The gas was way expensive there. Then we got into Sioux Falls, met up with Ryan, Craig and Jamie and ate at a wing's place I can't remember the name off. We also stopped off at the mall. Then we headed back to Aberdeen. Kendall dropped me off in Bristol, and then went the rest of the way home. The rest of the week was spent celebrating Christmas and then I went back to Aberdeen that Sunday because I had to work on Monday.

Anyway, so that was my trip, sorry that it took so long to get it written and posted, but I've been a slacker, which isn't much of a surprise to tell the truth. So I'm done posting now. I'll write more if life get's more interesting. HA

Peace,
Kris

Well cripes, I haven't written in forever.

My trip to St. Louis was awesome. We went up in the arch, we went to the loop, we went to Fitz's and we also went to Lamberts, Home of the Throwed Rolls. We did a lot more stuff than that too. So much stuff I can't name it all in any short amount of time, and since I don't feel like writing a long post right now I'm not going to go into detail.

It was back to work on Monday. Work is going good. I think I'm almost done with my training and I'm pretty sure they're going to put me on the phones by myself really quick here, even thought I got shorted four more days than the other girls, but that was my own fault. I caught up quick anyway, so it's not that big of a deal.

Anyway, I'm back in the dorms and it's boring because I'm the ONLY one here. The reason I started the post was because I wanted to post something up here. It was quiz I took on quizilla and my results.

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Anyway that's all for today. I'll write some more some other time.
Ta,
Kris

Well somedays look so promising and then just go down the toilet. But, I've made myself a promise that I won't let anything get me down because I'm going to St. Louis to see Kim and that's all that's important at this point.

Unfortunately I do have to get through finals first. I'm not worried at all about my juries though. I have all my music memorized and my piano piece is actually going quite well, thank God. I was a little worried about that at first, but now I have plenty of anger to put into the piece and I'm sure its going to go great.

Oh, speaking of great things. I start work on Monday. Two days away. I'm really excited because I need the money.

Anyway, that's just a little speel...not really a whole lot to say other than some people really tick me off...and that I'm going to finish preparing for this job!

Ta,
Kris

Break out the trumpets and start playing taps...tonight is the night I end my Masquers' career and being my new one at ACS. Yes, it is official. I have been hired at ACS and begin working on Monday, December 13th, a week for all of you who don't know what day it is.

This is also the last meeting of the semester for Masquers. We'll be voting for a new secretary. I'm really not going to miss the job a whole lot. It was a lot of work, and at least with ACS I'll be getting paid to do work. Also, I wasn't having any fun with it anyway and I have a few issues with people who will remain unnamed. Some of them know who they are, some of them don't.

Anyway, its our Masquers party and I'll be saying goodbye to everyone, because I'm almost 100% positive that I'm not coming back, ever. Sad, maybe, but meh, I'm not a theatre major, or minor, so I don't need to be in Masquers.

Alright, so on to what the rest of this week looks like. Since I am starting that new job I will HAVE to get all my homework and papers due for next week done this week. I'll need to be packing in my free time over next week, so that if we leave on Friday I'll be ready. If we leave on Saturday, it won't be so busy, because all have all morning Friday to pack. If we leave on Friday, I'll probably end up working all day on Thursday, so I won't have time to pack. Blast....that requires doing laundry on Wednesday night. Yep. Wednesday night is laundry day next week. Poop.

Alright. Next week is finals. That Friday or Saturday it is trip. Then I come back and go right to work again. Fun? I hope so. I'll work all over break, have lots of cash for next semester, and then it'll all work out from there. Woot. It's going to be a great semester! I need to run and do some stuff though, so I'll write later. Ta,

Kris

Wow..I can't believe it, there are only six days of classes left in the semester before we have finals week, and one of those days is choir tour.

I only have one more TTH class and only two more woodwind methods classes. I can't believe how fast the semester went by. I'm actually really glad that it did. The fast the time goes the quicker it comes for the trip to St. Louis to visit Kim. There are only 16 days left until the trip.

Oh yeh, I'm still not sure whether or not I got the job at ACS. They called me again on Wednesday and I had to go in today and give them a copy of my transcript and then I had to fill out a form allowing them to do a background check on me.

So the weather here has been insanely nice. It is already December 2nd and we've only had snow once, and it didn't even stick to the ground long enough to count as snow. Absolutely insane. I hope that it stays this way until after we've been to St. Louis in back. Nice traveling conditions would be greatly appreciated.

Anyway to recap my Thanksgiving break, since I haven't done that yet. I went home at about twoish on Wednesday night and then I spent the afternoon organizing stuff and watching television and crocheting. Then my dad got home from work and we had supper. He baked some pies and then we went to sleep.
On Thursday we went to by Great-Aunt Mary's house for dinner, at noon. There was a lot of food and a lot of people. She sent me home a jar of homemade refrigerator pickles, which I have in my fridge. They are so good!
Friday was a day of relaxation and reading. I did a lot more work on my blanket (which I got done by the way). Then dad got back from shopping, we ate, and we watched Van Helsing.
Saturday we watched the Scarlett Letter and I worked on my music history take home test. Then Sunday we went to church, I did some laundry and packed and then I came back to the dorms.

So basically I was lazy over the holidays. Go figure.

Anyway I need to go work on my music history term paper. Write later, ta peeps.

Kris

I can't believe that Thanksgiving is already here. It seems like just a month ago that school started, when it's actually been nearly three. How insane is that?

Classes have been going ok, they could go better, but I'm so sick of them. Oh, and since it's the end of the semester there is a LOT of extra work to get done before I can call it quits completely. I have two papers to write. A lab handbook to finish. Oh yeh, and I have three more newspaper articles to finish by tomorrow, well tonight, because I don't have that much free time tomorrow. I actually don't have all that much free time today. But I have two hours before my next class, so I'll probably be able to get them done. Depending on if Kendall still wanted to go out for lunch or not. Hmm...I should talk to him.

Anyway, I'm almost 100% sure I want to quit Masquers. Not to mention that if I get this job, I'll probably end up working Monday nights, since I'm going to have to take Thursdays off for concerts. Since going to concerts is part of the requirement for a music major that is more important. Besides the fact that I don't even like being in Masquers anymore.

*Sigh* Oh well...life moves on. Speaking of moving on, I should probably move on to my newpaper articles before I become completely unmotivated. I despise myself for how easily I become unmotivated. That is the reason I'm not doing so hot in Chem right now. I just can't muster any enthusiasm for it. I definitely need a vacation.

Talk to you later peeps! Won't be writing for at least 5 days I'm sure, maybe longer. Ta,

Kris

In truth I despise Thursdays, because I have a 7:00 class, but this Thursday has been pretty good.

I had a job interview today with ACS. It went really well, I wasn't the least bit nervous, although I was a bit tired. I'm no longer "mad" at a friend of mine. I'm still a little quiet around him, but that'll probably be like that for a while.

You probably don't know that story. Anyway the other day a friend of mine insulted my piano skills and then my saxophone skills (even though I'd only been playing the sax for a day) and then when I asked him not to insult my musical ability he's like "what musical ability". Well that's when I waged the silent war. All this happened on Tuesday night. I didn't talk to him all day Wednesday until last night he acted so pathetic I had to start talking to him, even if I haven't completely forgiven him. The tragic part of this is that I LIKE the guy. I just don't know what it is about me liking guys who insult me every time they see me. It was the same way with the last guy I like, who I still like I might add.

An even stranger occurance was that my RA, Raquel, asked me that same night if I was going out with Kendall, who is a really good friend of mine. It kind of threw me for a loop because I didn't know that people had noticed that we hung out so much this semester. What threw me off even more was that Nicole Wentz (a girl from band) asked me the exact same thing the next day. It's weird because I don't think Kendall even thinks of me that way. I sometimes wonder what it would be like to go out with him, but I know that friendship is the best thing. If he asked me out I wouldn't say no, but I wouldn't ask him out, you know?

Anyway, as far as my interview went I think I have a good shot. The job starts out at $9.15 an hour, with many opportunities for bonuses. I'll be working about 25 hours a week, which is like $200, which means about $800 a month. That is a butt load of money. I will be able to buy a car and pay for college. Also, they have a tuition reimbursement program. You have to meet certain goals at the job and maintain a good grade, but I shouldn't have a problem with that. I'm actually really excited. I hope I get it. The hours are 5-10 four days a week and 9-2 two Saturdays a month. Or you can work every Saturday and work 5-10 three days a week, which would be a better option for me, it just means my Saturdays will be a little limited, but not to awfully bad.

Anyway other than that nothing too exciting has happened. Life is pretty much the same. Oh, except I've been thinking alot of quitting Masquers, the organization that I'm secretary of. It just hasn't been fun. The president has been having trouble organizing and running the meetings and I'm having an all out war with one of the members in the group. This makes the meetings seem quite pointless to me. Everybody was telling me it would be a shame if I quit, and maybe it would be, but I wonder how much more of a shame it would be if I didn't quit and hated every second of it. It's weird. I used to love it and I just don't anymore. That sucks.

Ok, so now that I have that done I think I'm going to post this and do something productive, maybe. Layta taytas.

Kris

So I was looking through some of my old poetry files. Which are kind of hard to find now since my website got shut down. Damn state of South Dakota.

Anyway I wanted to post this poem because it has relevance for me today. Which is kind of weird, I haven't been in a mood like this in a while, and today it isn't so bad, but when I think about something specific. Anyway here it is:

Introspection

Have you ever felt
like you’ve been running
and just cannot reach the end

Have you ever felt
like you’ve been screaming
and found you have no friend

Have you ever felt
like you’ve tried so hard
only to fail once more

Have you ever felt
like you know the story
but you just don’t know the score

Have you ever felt
like you’re reaching out
only to reach back in

Have you ever felt
you’re close to the end
but you just never can win

Have you ever felt
like you did your best
but you just never get by

Have you ever felt
like life’s going fine
but inside you want to die

September 19, 2004
1:10 pm

Later peeps,
Kris

So today ACS-Wells Fargo was putting on a little drive for people to sign up for a job. If you submitted an application your name was put in a drawing for an I-pod Mini. To win the gift though you had to be present at the drawing. It was really nice, because I won it. Cool huh? Oh yeh and I might get a job that isn't very far away and pays good money. Very nice! I'm actually quite excited because this job works around your schedule pretty well too!

I can't wait to find out if I get a job! I already won a prize, so the job isn't very neccessary at all at this point. Mr. Hemke offered to buy it from me for like $70. I don't even know if that's a fair price or not. Probably, but I think I'll ask Kim, she's probably know.

Anyway, marching band banquet is in about 25 minutes. I'm writing a newpaper article on it and taking pictures, so that should be loads of fun.

Anyway that's all I have to say for today. I'm going to get offline now and get ready to go snap some pictures. Later taters!

Kris

Well, the band trip is over. YAY! I mean really YAY. Don't get me wrong, the ride up there was ok. The hotel room was ok. The pool kind of sucked, but I got to swim so that was good. The ride to the dome was cool. Seeing and playing the dome was great. The marching band rocked and the team won 44-9. All in all an amazing first 24 hours.

And then the horror started. What had begun as a great day molded into something that could only be described as seven hours of torture. Ok, I can't say that. I think I enjoyed a total of two of the seven hours I spent in the mall.

I found a great hat for $2 in Old Navy, I bought a gift for Kim, and I went on one of the rides at Camp Snoopy. Those were the good thing. The food was expensive (no surprise there) but it was good. Those were the only good things about the mall. I could have done all of that in an hour...but no, we spent 7 hours there. Way to much, and we didn't get home until 2:30 am. Then I was up at 9:15 so I could be ready for church.

Today I'm planning on doing as little as possible. I have to clean my dorm, because it is in a state of messiness after the trip. Oh yeh, I have to do laundry yet too. Ick. I guess I better get going on that. I'll write some more tomorrow, or maybe later today. Ta.

Kris

Ok, so maybe we're not going by greyhound exactly, but we are going by bus to the cities tomorrow. And when you live in South Dakota the only place you call the cities is the Twin Cities in MN. Yes folks we leave tomorrow for the Metrodome Trip. (Applause). But seriously, this is the end of the marching band season. Unless we end up playing for the Presidential Inauguration in January. Which would be cool cuz we'd get to go to D.C., but which would suck because I do not like the president that we will be inaugurating.

I guess there is a good and an evil to everything. Tonight we had free BINGO at the student center. My friend Jen won two prizes, the rest of our table won nothing. How weird is that. Quite sucky I will have to say.

Other than that nothing has happened that has been noteworthy in the past 24 hours. I did a lot of practicing today. It was kind of weird, because I almost never practice. Meh, oh well.

I've decided to bring along my crocheting stuff on the band trip because I'm almost done with one blanket and need to start another if I want them done by Christmas. After this one I still have at least two, if not three more to make. I'm going to go nuts, I guarantee it.

Anyway, I have nothing else to say. I'll catch you all up to speed after I get back from the trip on Sunday. Night peeps!

Kris

Well to all Bush lovers out there. I hope you're happy.

That was said in the most sarcastic way possible. I seriously believe that our country is going to be in big trouble. Especially since the republicans now have countrol of all three branches of our government. You know that thing called checks and balances...it doesn't work when one party runs the entire government. There will be no need to check each other when they're all in agreement.

Most disappointing is that South Dakota elected Thune into office, taking about our senator who is the minority leader in Senate. From now on South Dakota will have the say that it deserves, nothing. I'm so glad that I live in a state where we can shit on ourselves like that. I knew I should have gotten out of South Dakota while I had the chance. Hopefully I can make it through the next few years. Hopefully our country can make it through the next four.

Sadly enough I hate politics and I think all politicians are corrupt and that now matter who we have as President our country isn't going to get better. It's just that with a different president we might have taken longer to get to the level that I'm sure Bush will take us to right quickly.

Enough said about that.

I'm pretty sure I mentioned in a previous post that one of the professors here on campus was killed on Monday. It was a strange chain of events. I guess he apparently was shot in the neck. The gun was supposedly found in the trash can behind Seymour Hall, where he was found. As a direct result campus now has more police and an escort system that operates from 7 am until 11 pm. From 11 to 7 there are more patrol, but they want us to make sure that we either stay in our dorms or have someone with us at all times. I say they're being a little overcautious, but better to be prepared than to have something like this happen to one of the students, or anyone else for that matter.

So Bush was reelected, there is a murder mystery on campus, and we have out dumb band trip to the cities this weekend, which, I might add, I'm dreading as much as I'd dread having myself soaked in a vat of gasoline and then started on fire. In other words, it's going to suck.

I'm calling this post quits. Stay safe people. Live through the next four years and we might prosper. Rawk on!

Kris

Ok, so today has to be one of the weirdest days ever in my life. I get to class right, and everything is going ok, except for the rain, which is always a downer. I get through my first class and then find out that something weird had happened over at Seymour Hall. They said it was swarming with police and that the entire area was closed off with crime scene tape. Scary huh?

Supposedly, from what I've heard, the German professor (unsure of his name) was killed on campus this morning sometime between 4 am and 6am, when he was found by Dr. Dias and a janitor. Someone has said that his wallet was missing and it appeared that he'd drug himself into the hall, looking for help maybe. Ok, from what I know this guy was only 40 years old. I had never met him, but it is hitting some people really hard because for all accounts and purposes he was a really cool guy.

So campus is overrun with police. Seymour Hall is closed off until further notice and we all have mandatory hall meetings tonight, I'm sure to properly explain to and/or question the students about events of the day.

Other than that weird occurance nothing else has been abnormal. Chemistry sucked as usual. The lab only took me 50 minutes. Talk about boring. I bombed the test like I thought, but I guess I did better than Alan, who had actually studied, unlike me. Which is weird. Maybe I just know the material better, or he didn't study the right stuff. Anyway, I'm going to have to retake that test.

We're getting into Italian, German and French chords in theory. I thought it was going to be difficult, but so far it is the easiest thing we've had all semester. Woot! Of course I'm sure it's not going to last long.

I finally decided that the flute isn't that bad. As a matter of fact I don't mind it much at all. I can actually play an entire song without sounding completely like crap. Which is a nice change from when I first got it.

There is a Masquer's meeting tonight. That should be fun, maybe. I've decided that I don't like Masquer's as much as I used to, which is really sad. I mean last year I lived for it. But I think that it's because Sam and I were both really enthused and now I think we're both kind of sick of it. Or maybe it's not that were sick so much as tired. We both work our butts off and don't seem to get any recognition, although we do get some. I don't know I can't explain it. It just seems that we're kind of being ignored now that we can't really go anywhere since we're officers. I've been thinking of quitting actually. Which scares me alot. Normally I don't give up something I enjoy. Which might actually be it exactly, I wouldn't think about quitting if I still enjoyed it. I get the sense that it's turning back into the party thing. Not completely, but enough so that you could notice it.

Anyway, not a whole lot more news on this end. The day was actually pretty uneventful. I got my paper that is due tomorrow done. But I have to think of a topic for a music history paper. Eeeww. I'll do that pretty soon here.

Chat at ya lata,
Kris

So last night was definitely interesting. The improv gig was quite fun, and then Sam and I went out to the Starlite to meet some friends. Tony, Kendall, Amber, Erin, Heather and Steve were all out there when we got there. We ordered drinks and food and were there for about an hour. Then Sam and I got bored and decided to leave. She dropped me at my dorm and then she went to find Ray and all them. I checked my messages and my white board (exciting news there, I'll get to it in a minute) and then went upstairs to watch LOTR with Amanda, Carissa and Alan.

I crocheted while I watched the movie and after about an hour I couldn't stand it anymore and went downstairs and went to bed. I think it was about 1 o'clock at this point.

Anyway I forgot to set my clock back and hour. Stupid me, so I inadvertantly woke up at 8:15 so I could be at church on time. Normally I have to be there at 10, so I was there about 9 and just kind of sat around for an hour because I didn't realize until about 9:40 that I'd forgotten to change my clock. OOpps. Oh well. Church went great. I had lunch with Carissa and Alan. After lunch I found out that Carissa and Alan had blurted the secret I'd told them the night before to Alan. Making me very mad in the process. Oh well, I suppose I'll get over, but for now I'm going to let them stew in my displeasure so they know that I don't appreciate that kind of stuff. I would have eventually told Alan myself, but to have them go behind my back and do that is a little too much for me.

Anyway, about the whiteboard message thing. There is a certain freshman that I kind of have an interest in beyond the realm of friendship. Not knowing what this freshman thinks is driving me insane. Normally I only see him in a few certain classes and then when I'm on the computer upstairs. Anyway...I got home from the Starlite last night and said freshman had written the following message on my white board:

Hi Kris,
I (heart) U
~said freshman

As you may have noticed I left out said freshman's name for the purpose of this post. I doubt many people read my blog, but those that do know me and do read this and don't know his name, come up to me personally and ask me and I may tell you. If said freshman happens by some miracle to run across this post I will die from embarrassment.

Anyway, I'm not taking this message to literally basically because said freshman says silly stuff like that all the time. It's just the first time he's written on my white board. So anyway I freaked out about it, even though I have no idea why. To tell the truth it shouldn't even be a teeny tiny deal, but it is. Damn my sappiness. I hate having crushes.

Which reminds me, said freshman still has no idea that I sent him a certain letter a few weeks ago. :D hahahah...I'm not going into detail about that one, sorry.

Anyway, I think there is something going on tonight, but I'm not quite sure what it is, but I'm going to stop typing now and finish rewriting a paper that is due on Tuesday. Ta peeps!

Kris

I love Saturdays, don't you? They're so peaceful, restful, and sometimes plain boring. I'm thanking God that we don't have a football game this weekend. I got some much needed rest, even though I was out until about 4 this morning. Crazy, I know, but I was DD'ing at Kendall's party. That was a good samaritan job right there. Of course, trying to keep people from drinking at all would have been better, but hey, you only live life once.

So I got sick on Wednesday. Head cold. Draining sinuses. Not fun. What can I say, the exhaustion and the elements finally caught up with me and brought me down. I slept 6 hours Thursday afternoon and then 12 hours that night. I skipped my Chemistry class on Friday because it was the only class I had and I just didn't want to go. Then we had the movie night last night and I was feeling so much better, so I went to that and then to Kendall's party.

Then after I dropped Andy and his car off at his house I ended up walking 5 blocks back to my dorm in the rain. It was so cold that by the time I got back to the dorm room my legs were bright red. I crashed almost immediately when I laid down, which was weird considering I wasn't even tired when I laid down.

Today I haven't done anything noteworthy. I got up, got dressed, got lunch. Then I cleaned my room (making my bed and everything), then I crocheted some more on the blanket I'm making for my brother. Now I'm up here typing this post.

Tonight I have a gig with the ACT Improv Troupe out at the Ramkota. That should last about 45 minutes and then I guess a group of people are going out to the Starlite at about 10:00. I hope I can join them, but I'm getting pretty sick of the Starlite. It's so smoky out there that you come back after an hour and you smell like smoke. Quite irritating to tell the truth, and when this group gets together we're there for much longer than an hour usually.

You can tell that it's going to start snowing soon. The weather is bleak and cold. Quite depressing to tell the truth. It makes me want to cry. If I was the type to cry about stuff like that I'd be bawling my head off right now. I hate winter! Anyway, my nose is still stuffed and I'm kind of having trouble breathing, damn colds anyway. Since the weather is getting worse that means my cold isn't going to be getting any better any time soon.

Next weekend is the trip to the cities. Yay! Or not! I don't want to go. It's going to be colder than you know what. Thank God for the down jackets the band supplies for us. Those are nice, and it's been good luck that we haven't had to use them yet this year. Maybe I'm just being pessimistic. But better to plan for the worst and be prepared than to hope for the best and be frozen like a human popsicle.

Anyway I think this is about the longest post I've had in forever, so I'm going to call it quits there. Mainly because my hand hurts from typing ( I have no idea why) and partly because I have nothing intelligent left to say.

Check ya lata peeps,
Kris

"Blessed are those that can give without remembering and take without forgetting."

"Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue."

"Never frown...even when you're sad 'cause you never know when someone's falling in love with your smile."

"Life is like a penis. When it gets hard, fuck it."

"I believe you should live each day as if it is your last, which is why I don't have any clean laundry, because, come on, who wants to wash clothes on the last day of their life?"

Love teaches even asses to dance."
-French proverb

"If at first you do succeed—try to hide your astonishment."
-from the Los Angeles Times syndicate

"A friend walks in when the rest of the world walks out."

"Live life so completely that when death comes to you like a thief in the night, there will be nothing left for him to steal."

"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better."

"I haven't lost my mind—it's backed up on disk somewhere."

"A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails."

"Of course I don't look as busy as the men; I did it right the first time."

"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice!"
-proverb

"A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away."
-Arabian proverb

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so i took this test and found out i'm a freaking rainbow....all i got to say is YOU DON"T KNOW ME! Hhahahaha

I can't believe it, but the show is finally done. It's kind of weird thinking that I'll actually have some time to study or get a job or something normal you know?

Last night was closing night, and the cast party. I got supremely drunk and then I didn't get back to my dorm until about 5:45. Got to bed around 6 and was up at 9:20 for church. I of course took a nap after church..it was about a 5 hour nap...I definitely needed the sleep though.

So I have a test in Chemistry tomorrow that I haven't studied for. As long as he doesn't put any questions from the book in there tomorrow I'll be ok, because I haven't even read one sentence in that book since the beginning of the semester. Then I have a music history test on Tuesday, which won't be too bad, since we get a page of notes. But still, its going to suck because I don't want to take a test so soon after production week. I haven't had any time to catch up in my classes, and I'm quite behind to tell the truth.

Marching band will be done in a couple weeks. Yesterday was our last home game, but the band is going to the Metrodome to play for the team there on November 5th. That should be fun. Except I heard that we have to spend like all day at the mall. Something that I'm not looking forward to, but that's just because I hate shopping. If you don't know what mall I'm talking about I mean the "Mall of America" in the twin cities. I had heard that someone I know wants someone to pick her up a few things while we're there, so I might volunteer for that...That way I have something to do while I'm there.

Anyway, I know its been forever since I've written in my blog, but besides the show I haven't had much of a life at all. My focus has been the show for the last three or so weeks. So with that I'm going to say adios!

Ta,
Kris

Actually, its less than three weeks when the show goes on. It's only 16 days. Freak out! Tomorrow we're having out first run of the entire show and then next week we start dress rehearsals. In case you haven't caught it yet I'm in NSU's production of "Rocky Horror Show" it's going to be fantabalastic! That's my new word!

It's actually a lot of work being a background singer in this show. Out of the like eleven total scenes or whatever were only not in like three of them. And all the scenes we're in we're doing some serious dancing. While singing! Drive me nuts and call me sane!

The show opens on the 21st at 7:30. I believe we have a six o clock call, but since my hair is going to take forever we have to be there an hour or so early. Meaning like five o' clock. Insano! Especially when we have a football game on Saturday afternoon, the 23rd, which is the closing night. It's not going to be good, especially if it's cold. No screaming or cheering that night sports fans.

As you may have notice, I have discontinued the word and quote of the day. I'm just too plain lazy to find one. Oh well, maybe I'll reinstate it some other time!

Anyway thats it for now. Peace out chili dogs, catch you on the greener side of the dung pile! Ok, the cheese has gone to far. I apologize for the idiocy of this post. I'm in a weird half-sleeping hyper mode that isn't breaking.

TTFN,
Kris

Quote of the Day: How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness?  One man must not kill.  If he does, it is murder.... But a state or nation may kill as many as they please, and it is not murder.  It is just, necessary, commendable, and right.  Only get people enough to agree to it, and the butchery of myriads of human beings is perfectly innocent.  But how many does it take?   --Adin Ballou, The Non-Resistant, 5 February 1845

So anyway, its been a busy week, and I don't have time to type out a big long thing, because I should be typing minutes or something, but I'm going to go with a short forward I got from my friend Ray. It's funny, I'm sure a lot of you have seen it, but I liked it! Here Goes:

One day, in line at the company cafeteria, Joe says to
Mike behind him,  My elbow hurts like hell. I guess I better
see a doctor."

"Listen, you don't have to spend that kind of money," Mike replies.
"There's a diagnostic computer down at Wal-Mart. Just give it a
urine sample and the computer will tell you what's wrong
and what to do about it. It takes ten seconds and costs ten dollars..
a lot cheaper than a doctor."

So Joe deposits a urine sample in a small jar and takes it to
Wal-Mart. He deposits ten dollars, and the computer lights up
and asks for the urine sample He pours the sample into the slot
and waits. Ten seconds later, the computer ejects a printout:

"You have tennis elbow.  Soak your arm in warm water and
avoid heavy activity. It will improve in two weeks."

Thank you for shopping @ Wal-Mart.

That evening while thinking how amazing this new technology was,
Joe began wondering if the computer could be fooled He mixed
some tap water, a stool sample from his dog, urine samples from
his wife and daughter, and a sperm sample for good measure.  

Joe hurries back to Wal-Mart, eager to check the results.  He deposits
ten dollars, pours in his concoction, and awaits the results.
The computer prints the following:
1. Your tap water is too hard. Get a water softener. (Aisle 9)
2. Your dog has ringworm. Bathe him with anti-fungal shampoo.(Aisle 7)
3. Your daughter has a cocaine habit. Get her into rehab.
4. Your wife is pregnant. Twins. They aren't yours. Get a lawyer.
5. If you don't stop playing with yourself, your elbow will never
get better.
 Thank you for shopping @ Walmart

Well, the weeks go by anyway. I'm not really getting lost in anything buy my own inane, although quite busy, life. Up for class, to class, eat, class, rehearse, rehearse some more, practice and sleep. That is my entire existence. Although Kellyanne is trying her best to keep me out of that not-so-groovy funk.

This week has been insanely busy. I swear I'll be dead by the end of the semester. I added something else to my already over-crowded schedule. I'm now the secretary of my hall council. Rocky rehearsals have been stepped up even more and this weekend is going to be a long one.

We have our marching band trip to Pierre...oh yeah and I have three articles due to the paper by the 22nd, which is under a week away. Thank God that I can write and send off an article in under a half an hour if I need to. Oh and thank God that my alarm clock actually works. Hah!

So I've been seriously thinking about quitting marching band, but I won't. I wish I could just do it, you know? Like say, "ah, fuck it" and quit. I guess something about that just rubs me the wrong way, like the heel of our new marching band shoes that left me with a blister more painful than slamming a door on your hand.

Rocky is a lot of fun, sort of. I love the music and the dancing isn't so bad, but there is one person in particular that I just want to kill and trying to sing and dance at the same time is a little difficult.

Oh crap, got to run, I promised to finish writing a letter to my friend. (promised myself) I completely forgot about it. Bye!

Kris

Ugggh, its been a long ass week. Thank God we didn't have classes on Monday. I love labor day.

We FINALLY got our free school planners this week. I've just about died without mine, so I was ready to build it a shrine when I got it yesterday. I'm not completely useless without the thing but it sure is nice to have one for those days you're totally out of it. Which for me is nearly every day.

I think my routine is finally falling together. Kind of. I joined the newspaper staff and I'm also running for Secretary/treasurer of my dorm's hall council. Yay me, adding more stuff to my already long list of responsibilities. I'll probably drop dead from exhaustion by the end of the semester. But, you reap what you sow and I'm the one piling myself up. Am I insane, or just a glutton for punishment?

You know how you sometimes wish you could fall of the face of the Earth and not have to return for like a year or so? Yeh, I kind of feel that way right now. If I could just take a vacation I would. Sad thing is we've only had a total of 8 days of class and I haven't even been here a full 2 weeks.*Sigh* its going to be a long year, or at least a long semester.

On the bright side I'm getting out of the dorm more and making new friends. Marching band is going pretty well, although its adding to my exhaustion. Oh, and the musical is turning out to be lots of fun, if not time and energy consuming.

Anyway, I should be practicing, but I'm going to lunch with Alan, a friend of mine, before choir...in like half an hour actually. I'm going to jet off tblog and get some homework done in the meantime. Talk at you all later!

Kris