Random Spelunking

Just yesterday I got back from a spelunking trip. It was pretty much the most awesome thing I have ever done! Well the trip there was a couple of hours long, and we rented out a van with three rows of seating in the back plus the driver seat row, there were two to three people in each row. I sat in the very last row, which was far more bumpy than any ride I have ever been on. Sitting in the back I was able to hear the conversations of all my friends, and let me just say it was pretty random, these are just some quotes I over heard. I don’t actually know what the conversation was, which made it funny.

Driver row: “No, you have to squeeze it hard or you won’t get anything from it.”

1st row: “See the river turned sharply and that is how Iowa came.”

2nd row: “You’re hearing is going to die if you keep blasting your music.”

3rd row (my row): “The Amish are like the diamond in the coal, a rare find, but when you find one it is very surprising.”

Driver row: “You won’t fit through some parts of the cave, so you are going to have to stay near the opening.”

1st row: “You live in Minnesota, right? Then you must know what the best kind of cheese is.”

2nd row: “Oh, you’re reading that book? I cried at the end. You might too.”

3rd row: “Ya, I actually do work in my major… it’s actually pretty hard.”

-J.M.

Published in: on May 19, 2012 at 9:28 pm  Leave a Comment  
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Summer Bummers

I love summer, the semester has FINALLY ended, and to pay to dues to it I have decided to enroll in summer school. I am pretty sure I just want to torture myself. I didn’t want to sleep in anyway. Waking up at 6 is what I was meant to do (sarcasm). I am taking Earth Science. It is pretty easy… if only we did not have a freaking exam every single day. I am no test taker, i prefer doing nothing. I must say, I am keeping a positive attitude these days. There is always a smile on my face, even at 6 in the morning (on some days). There are only two things that are disappointing to me at the moment.

Men. Men with egos the size of a state. There is this one guy from Brazil at my school and he works at the gym. Well for some reason I keep running in to him every day. Not my favorite moment of the day to be honest. Just because he is foreign and has an accent does not make him the sexiest thing alive, and who cares if he is a tennis player. That does not make you a big shot! Well today I was working out and here her comes and stands about three feet from me as I am running in place. AWKWARD, first off. I don’t like people being close to me when I am sweaty and my face lights up like a tomato… not attractive. Secondly he does not need to speak so LOUD when his friend is in ear shot of him. He is totally flaunting his accent to tell people, “I’m sexy.” then he wears ankle weights EVERYWHERE! Let me just say that Dr. Oz says that it is bad for your back because it strains it! So HA! Sucks for you Brazilian man.

The second thing is those people on the TV show, “My Strange Addiction.” Should I go on? Snorting baby powder? Really? Is that what America has come to??? Or the girl who eats toilet paper? What other skeletons are people hiding in their closet?? The only “strange addiction” I have is probably biting my nails, but sadly, it is not so uncommon. Should I even mention the guy who has an affair with his car?? Yuck, he needs a real girl… or a guy, whatever, his car is a boy, I believe. weird, and very strange

-J.M.

Published in: on May 10, 2012 at 3:40 am  Comments (2)  
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The End That Never Came

I have the beginning of my last two finals in an hour. They are both in class essays and all about Mark Twain, and the cultures around the world. I cannot tell you how excited I am to FINALLY be done with this semester. It seems like it would never come, and it still has not! I wanted to semester to end since January 25, and I had to endure all the time to finally say, “thank you.” I will not miss this school year, and am ready for the new one. It will be fabulous! No more drama, not more pretending, and weed out the fake people. I know we have all had our fair share of “fake” people, am I right?

There is one thing I am proud of for this semester. I had the pleasure of presenting one of my papers at a science and science fiction conference! That was the highlight, and I am very proud of it! I thought it would be mainly fiction… I was wrong.

It was a two-day conference: Thursday and Friday, and a banquet on Thursday night. I went to the banquet, alone, but I did manage to force my way into a table with two guys. I asked if anyone was sitting with them and they said I was. So we got to talking and I was telling them about my paper and what time my session was about and all that. Well they were true nerds. It was a nerd conference! they knew every theme song to all the sci-fi movies out there, and we all realized we were trekies!! What do you get with a table of two teacher, a student, and a lesbian?? A group of TREKIES!!! It was awesome. I enjoyed myself.

The next day my session was pretty empty, not a large crowd, but guess who filled the seats? My nerd herd! Yup, they came to see me. I felt honored to present in front of them. It was a great experience, in my opinion

-J.M.

Published in: on May 1, 2012 at 4:25 pm  Leave a Comment  
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Here Comes The Boogie Man

From the moment I walked up to my school, and people started to give me weird looks, I knew that something was up.  Never in all my years of existence did I think I would scare someone so bad. Here is what happened:

It was just a normal day. The sun was shinning, and it was beautiful. I went through all my classes like normal, and was even having a pretty good day. That is…. until I walked back from the gym.

I did not shower after this workout, well… I never shower. I always wait until I am in the comforts of my own home to clean off the sweat and nastiness of sweat… SO! I thought I looked good, or maybe the smell was so overwhelming that when I got to the school, I was about to pass an elderly lady. Well the lady saw me, stopped dead in her tracks, and BACKTRACKED all the way to a pillar to hide…. Now you can imagine my surprise as to what exactly could have caused this reaction.

Even to this day, I still have no idea what I did to scare the living daylights out of that woman.

Then I concluded… I turned into the Boogie Man.

-J.M.

Published in: on April 18, 2012 at 6:02 pm  Leave a Comment  
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The Moment of Truth

There is always that pivotal moment in your life where you stand objective to it and realize, nothing will ever be the same again. We go through life having these “moments” and never know why. This entire thing happened to me this week. I had to stand and examine my life realizing it was all changing.I never thought my life would take a turn in THAT direction, but it did.

Everyone has a crush… let’s face it, girls are always crushing on some guy. Even when we are in the most single moments of our life, we always have that one crush that we KNOW is not realistic, but we still like him so we have something to do. That is just how we are unless there are certain girls who are not interested in men….. (awkward).

Anyways, There is this one guy who works at this one place that is pretty attractive, I consider him my safe crush, as in I am safe to like him because nothing will ever happen between us.

My friend is crazy, she does stuff that no human should ever do. She also likes to play matchmaker, you know, get the awkwardness out of a couple by being VERY blunt. Well I ignore this “crush” of mine, the reason is because if nothing is ever going to happen then I am not going to MAKE something happen…. I have my morals. A guy should be a man, and make the first move.

Well one day, my friend and I were talking about him and she wanted to know his name (neither of us knew it) so what she does is CALLS the place where he works describing this “crush” saying that he left an item of his in her possession. Well…. we got his name, and she found his facebook.

A couple of days later he says something about a girl who is a creeper… what I think he meant is that the girl who told us his name, told him the story, and he got creeped out…. so now  FOR SURE nothing will EVER happen! And that is how I like it. ha!

-J.M.

Published in: on April 9, 2012 at 4:18 pm  Leave a Comment  
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The Best Day of My Life

Today was the best day of my life. There is no day that can ever top the events that have passed in the space of this day. Let me begin with my morning.

Every morning I have to get up at 6:50 because I have to get a ride in to school (commuter). Well the ride there is about 20 minutes or so. My alarm clock goes off, but like every other American, I hit the snooze button. So I end up waking up at 7:30 (I leave at 7:50 from my house to get to school on time). I run to get ready and am on the way there, late, of course, when I realize I brought all the wrong books, and forgot all my study guides for my exams for the day. Thank God I remembered to bring the paper that was due today. I get to my first class late and really tired because I have not sleep this entire week, due to writing papers until three in the morning, and beyond, every night.

Moving on to the afternoon, for my exam I forgot to bring scantrons and a pencil so I had to go to the bookstore to buy some. That is when I realized I could no longer aford Scantrons… or a lousy pencil. Now this things are the cheapest things in the store, totalling, two dollars. That is just sad. How can you not afford that?! It is so freakin cheap. So, unfortunatly I had to leave my items behind and make do. No one ever carries extra scantrons… So by some miricle I found a bit of money in my black hole of a bag. So I was able to take the test… even though it would have been better if I did’nt. Due to not have anything to study with, I failed the test. So I walk somberly back to the lounge only to be bugged (literally) by a giant mosquito…. How you ask? How does it get into the lounge (which is in underground). I don’t know. But from all the events of the day, I got so mad at that stupid fly. I was ENRAGED! I was so mad that I grabed an Oracle and rolled it up ready to smack that thing to pieces (violent). I was about to jump at it when my friend asks if I was bored….. well, far from it. I was mad and emotion (like all girls apparently). Well, I told him about my anger toward a bug, so he gets up, grabs a magazine, and goes to kill it….  but misses!!!! So he goes for it again, and misses again!! I started to laugh so hard, he was running around the room with a magazine trying to kill that thing, and FINALLY he stuns it and is about to pick it up… when it fly away!!!!!!!!!! What are the odds. My sides felt like they would break from all the laughter… Well, he gave up, and the fly still lives on….

-J.M.

Published in: on April 4, 2012 at 10:50 pm  Leave a Comment  
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Death Week… Dun Dun Duuunnn

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I knew the second I signed up for three literature classes for the spring that I would probably die. I never thought my brain could handle so much readings and writings. I have learned about hundreds of dead authors that I will most likely not remember tomorrow! How can this be educational? I passed “dead week” The week where, somehow, everything became due on that particular day. All these months preparing for that one week. I said good bye to my social life and buried myself in my work and my research. All for the love of literature… I tell myself, “it will pay off in the end… you just wait and see” Well… STILL WAITING!

I do enjoy my major though, and ya, sure… the teachers may be a little dry and boring, but I am starting to see their sense of humor poke out from their philosophical thoughts and lectures. I recently got on the good list of one of my teacher by giving him a thumbs up when he asked the class if we could hear the movie he was playing. He thought that was brilliant and gave me the thumbs up randomly throughout that day. Well, whatever puts me on the good side I guess, who knew something as simple as a thumbs up would make someones day? Guess I got a lot of thumbs up coming along the way.

One attribute to my death week that I will never miss was giving three speeches in the space of one, tiny week. Never thought I could do all the research and make my power points rock with awesome visual aids, but I did. My brain pleasantly surprised me that week. That is until it crashed the last day of “death week” I found myself crying for no reason and getting very bitter at people, also, for no good reason. I then realized that all the weight of “overwhelming(ness)” caught up to me, and THAT is how I decided to deal with it… pretty wimpy if you ask me. But I guess it seems acceptable after 12 papers and 3 speeches… Not to brag or anything, but that is a pretty epic accomplishment.

Some random facts from the last time I have written to you all….

-Reunited with the guy who told me that the “spirit” told him to talk to me.. That was interesting. He is in my government class (what a small world…)

-Found out that some guys tend to be dishonest, and rude. Not really happy with that though, so I just ignore it

-Bought a new friend (fake pigeon) My cousin came down and it is tradition to buy some useless piece of crap, just for fun… last time it was a ring that says, “One day my prince will come.” Yup, and still waiting for that to come true! Ha! But don’t worry, I promise you that is the least of my worries. I plan on thinking of finding someone after college.

-Took up disk golf

-Watched “The Vow” and became depressed for a couple days

-Wish I had an Avatar (like from the movie)

-Had a dream I was on Star Trek being awesome

-Went to a battle of the bands and screamed until I lost my voice

-Got lost in an art room… Don’t ask me how that happened…

-Bought a plane ticket… and then went broke due to being a poor college student… I WILL break that stereotype.. one day!

-J.M. (FYI that is not me in the picture.. Thank you Google)

Published in: on March 23, 2012 at 1:13 am  Leave a Comment  
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Death Week… Dun Dun Duuunnn

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I knew the second I signed up for three literature classes for the spring that I would probably die. I never thought my brain could handle so much readings and writings. I have learned about hundreds of dead authors that I will most likely not remember tomorrow! How can this be educational? I passed “dead week” The week where, somehow, everything became due on that particular day. All these months preparing for that one week. I said good bye to my social life and buried myself in my work and my research. All for the love of literature… I tell myself, “it will pay off in the end… you just wait and see” Well… STILL WAITING!

I do enjoy my major though, and ya, sure… the teachers may be a little dry and boring, but I am starting to see their sense of humor poke out from their philosophical thoughts and lectures. I recently got on the good list of one of my teacher by giving him a thumbs up when he asked the class if we could hear the movie he was playing. He thought that was brilliant and gave me the thumbs up randomly throughout that day. Well, whatever puts me on the good side I guess, who knew something as simple as a thumbs up would make someones day? Guess I got a lot of thumbs up coming along the way.

One attribute to my death week that I will never miss was giving three speeches in the space of one, tiny week. Never thought I could do all the research and make my power points rock with awesome visual aids, but I did. My brain pleasantly surprised me that week. That is until it crashed the last day of “death week” I found myself crying for no reason and getting very bitter at people, also, for no good reason. I then realized that all the weight of “overwhelming(ness)” caught up to me, and THAT is how I decided to deal with it… pretty wimpy if you ask me. But I guess it seems acceptable after 12 papers and 3 speeches… Not to brag or anything, but that is a pretty epic accomplishment.

Some random facts from the last time I have written to you all….

-Reunited with the guy who told me that the “spirit” told him to talk to me.. That was interesting. He is in my government class (what a small world…)

-Found out that some guys tend to be dishonest, and rude. Not really happy with that though, so I just ignore it

-Bought a new friend (fake pigeon) My cousin came down and it is tradition to buy some useless piece of crap, just for fun… last time it was a ring that says, “One day my prince will come.” Yup, and still waiting for that to come true! Ha! But don’t worry, I promise you that is the least of my worries. I plan on thinking of finding someone after college.

-Took up disk golf

-Watched “The Vow” and became depressed for a couple days

-Wish I had an Avatar (like from the movie)

-Had a dream I was on Star Trek being awesome

-Went to a battle of the bands and screamed until I lost my voice

-Got lost in an art room… Don’t ask me how that happened…

-Bought a plane ticket… and then went broke due to being a poor college student… I WILL break that stereotype.. one day!

-J.M. (FYI that is not me in the picture.. Thank you Google)

Published in: on March 23, 2012 at 1:09 am  Leave a Comment  

College and Its Men

I was once told that every university has a different set of guys. Well this university is the same way, we have such interesting men, both the good and the bad. I would like to give a list of them. (of course with different names… just in case).

Earl Pitt: A tall, brown haired, brown eyed man. Sometimes viewed as the “campus stalker.” This guy is very friendly and he is into drama and all that stuff. He is loud and laughs more at his own jokes then anyone would at them. He thinks he is the hot shot on campus and struts around with girls thinking he is “all that” When he likes you he wont stop until you put a restraining order on him. Though, he believes he is at no fault because as I said… He is all that and then some. He will give you advice on guys that anyone else would never give, but if it works for him with girls then hey! It works for everyone.

Tommy Hillfigure: The campus dream. Business major. Knows exactly where he is going in life. Has a smile that will light up the world, and is clean cut and always smelling fresh. He sits behind you in chapel, and as you sit there, you are always making sure all your best angles are showing. Just in case he happens to glance your way with those crystal blue eyes… However, he is taken… (aren’t they all?) but that doesn’t stop you from crushing on him anyway.

Buck Brawly: Commonly referred to as the “lumberjack” or “woodsman” because he is always wearing plaid and is continually telling you about his latest adventures with bears and snakes and what not. This man has done EVERYTHING, and been everywhere. This man can make his own rope and eat cold soup straight from the can. He always smells likes pines and is clean cut and pretty much sexy with muscles that can do anything. Every girl’s dream AND single. Has a laugh that bellows from deep within and has different types of laughs so as to make everyone laugh with the randomness of them.

Lewis Jerry: The class clown, blond hair, blue eyes. Former athlete. Makes everyone laugh and keeps the party going when it dies. leave it to this guy to make you feel better when your heart is sad. will never leave you or treat you bad, he will always treat you with the respect you deserve and will always be loyal to you. Seems like you are the only girl he pays attention to… until you see his friend list and realize every girl likes the “funny” guy. He has his pick of the women here, but never chooses one because he is not ready to commit to anyone just yet.

Henry Bookworm: This man is tall and mysterious. But his head is always behind a book. He spends most of his time in the library, and is devoted and married to school work. Single. He has muscles that no bookworm should have and he is running marathons as a hobby, definitely in-shape. When he gets to talking, you find out that he is very funny and social. But occasionally doesn’t know when his jokes become a serious matter. Pushes the limit most of the time.

Tim Tubbs: This guys is tall and round. He is funny and nice and makes for a great friend. Stays with the same set of friends since middle school and is always finding ways to make someone smile. He is reserved and always sits on the couch watching TV. Would never want to play football. But would jump at the chance to play chess. Works at a super center working with the cameras… and loves it, but gets lonely so he invites everyone to visit him. Loves to explain and rate movies and values his hair, which curls around his baby face.

Derek Dreamer: Tall, single, marketing major. Smart as ever, but CLUELESS when it comes to women. Never gets a girl friend because he does not know how to treat one, and when it comes to dating he is never “ready” Mostly just nerves though. He will tease you like crazy and sometimes goes too far and does not know when to stop. When you accuse him of something he just blankly stares into the darkened abyss. He is the one who is not an ounce bit shy, but may come across as “awkward” however, you need him to break the ice in social settings.

Sam Rocketer: the engineer. Very smart and sounds like a talking dictionary. If you ever have a question he is sure to have the answer. Always jumps into all types of conversations with his opinions and thoughts. Will start political debates just by saying the word, “government” Always out to test the law of physics by doing random experiments in the lounge kitchen. Only owns one sweater and one pair of cargo pants, but they are always clean every day. This one is single too, but most girls don’t go for the “homeschool” look. Though this man is very attractive.

Rico Smooth: This smooth talker is tall with Latin flare. Exotic and very easy to get along with. Knows how to treat a woman good. Always up to date on compliments and is always surrounded by women. Flirts like crazy and sometimes looks way below the eyes. Always up to do something wild and crazy, anything to get the juices pumping. Smooth talker as well as smooth dancer. Will take you on an adventure on the dance floor. But amidst all his perfections he has an ego the size of China! Tends to act too macho, and will get jealous with rage, then threaten to beat up the guy who glanced your way. He expects to be treated as well as he treats you. and of course single.

-J.M.

Published in: on February 8, 2012 at 4:43 am  Leave a Comment  
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Single-dom

Things we most likely rejoice in when we are single:

-You dont have to be married to your phone. As in non-stop texting or daily phone calls.. having no phone is much better then being subjected to radiation.

-You can check out other men when they are working out, although we all do it anyway.. committed or not (of course secretly).

-You can make “new” first impressions because the first one is the most important and we got to get it right or risk looking like a complete idiot or fool!

-You can focus on work/school work, besides, school is much more fun then being distracted!

-You can even achieve that 4.0! enough said.

-You don’t have to include your significant other in outing plans… because we all know that is annoying

-You can feel empowed when you see PDA because you don’t need that in your life at this moment! … that… or just shoot them.

-You can make a dream man in your mind then when you look for him in reality… ya… we can all be depressed together, because that guy doesn’t exist (Mr. Perfect).

-You can hate Valentine’s Day, heck make an “I hate Valentine’s Day” party and smash a pinata! I’ll smash it with you…

-You can go to Homecoming by yourself…..

J.M.

 

Published in: on February 3, 2012 at 2:15 am  Leave a Comment  
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