Confuscious say, "When cruising murkey roads at night, beware of squishy frogs. Emily doesn't like frog-killers."

What's the perfect way to end a long weekend? For me, it's definately been curling up on the window seat to read Jane Eyre and watch the thunderstorm.

When I was little, my mom used to make me brush my teeth with Ajax once a month. I wonder if that explains some things...

Thankfully, finals are over. However, sadly, the year is over. When they told you that college would be the greatest four years of your life, they forgot to mention the torn feeling you'd have leading a double life. So I said goodbye to my "home" and "family" and left Grove City around 1:30 yesterday. Of course, secretly, PA is the largest state in the whole WORLD and we didn't actually leave it until 8pm. But I was "home" by 1am with a pretty uneventful trip. I even got to drive the first 3 hours (and I have decided that I hate driving the van, especially on a highway full of trucks).

Life never seems to want to stop. I have doctor's appointments this week, and then next week I will be observing all week for my field experience class. Then it's a bunch of weddings to attend, and hopefully I'll be working after that while taking Calc 1 at night. Plus I have about 4,000 pages to read for my 19th Century Novel class...it's gonna be a busy summer!

Last bit of exciting news: I was asked to sub for my favorite 4th grade class tomorrow! Now that I've taken Ed Psyc, I can start applying those classroom management and motivation techniques I learned. lol...I am such a nerd! Until next time kids, happy almost-summer!

What on earth has our country come to?!

"The Appalachian Mountain Trail is a natural reminder of the wilderness which defined America's First Frontier. There you will discover crisp, clean air and springs from which flow some of the coolest, most refreshing water around. This is the heritage of Deer Park Spring Water, since 1873. Deer Park...that's good water!"

When I buy bottled water, I don't want to read all this fluff! I mean, what good is it to know that it's the coolest water around? By the time it's delivered to your house, it's probably pretty warm. I don't need to know about the crispness of the air or get a condensed history lesson. Tell me you care enough to purify the parasites and bugs out of the "spring water" and that's good enough for me! I mean, the concept of selling water is rather riddiculous to begin with, don't you think?

There's nothing like walking a mile or so to Dairy Queen at 8:30 at night to make the day seem perfect! =)

"But each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed. Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death" (James 1:14-15).

It always starts out simple enough. It's really important that I email my mom about setting up that doctor's appointment for next break. And I have to wash my dishes before I turn my shelves into biology labs. This friend really could use an encouraging note and I just have to find out what happened to that friend today in lunch. But when the innocent excuses run out, I am left sitting numbly at my desk. The computer screen begins to fuzz in and out and I begin to wonder if my body is moving into an epileptic state. Finding that this isn't the case, I stare out the window. Watching a squirrel run up and down a tree becomes first class entertainment. I let my vision fuzz again and examine the imperfections of the window pane. Soon I am brought back to reality with the reminder of what is truly important: my IM dings. I chat about nothing for 45 minutes or so, then check the away messages of the 17 people who are away. I chuckle at the lame one-liners that fill profiles and away messages, and then start checking to see how long everyone has been online and/or idle. Eventually I work up the motivation to open Word. I play around with the fonts and get my heading just right. Then I save it to an A disk. I notice that the other files on that disk are ambiguously labeled, so I go through and rename all the files. Having accomplished much, I decide to reward myself with a study break. I walk down to the water fountain to get a drink, pausing two or three times along the way to chat with whoever happens to be traveling the hall at that time. Once back, I stare mindlessly around the room as if I have forgotten to do something of extreme importance. Finally surrendering to my absentmindedness, I return to my computer. I re-check the IMs to see if any of the away messages have changed. I check all of my friends' blogs, webjournals, websites, x-profiles, extended profiles, and any other website saved on my favorites list. I glance around the network and download a couple of songs before realizing that 5 hours have past and it's now time for dinner. An hour later, I'm back and decide that maybe it's time to get serious about this paper. I type a paragraph, read through it, delete the second half since it repeats the first half in slightly different wording, and then rewrite the paragraph. This goes on for several hours, interrupted every 5 minutes or so with other various distractions. Soon, my roommate begins to get ready for bed. I reluctantly unplug from my connection to the outside world and move out into the floor in the hall. Emily is already there studying Trihexi-something-or-other which has more syllables than a run-on sentence. We pull out the Mountain Dew and swap the usual insults before promising each other that we really have to get started now. The silence lasts for 2 minutes tops before one of us feels as if she will burst if she does not make the extremely witty and/or sarcastic comment she has brilliantly created. Usually we end up laughing hysterically and there are always several threats of tickling or attacking. Soon 12 and 1 roll around and we halfheartedly finish whatever it was that we were trying not to do all day. In the end, we crawl into bed and collapse exhausted and half-dead. But when it comes down to it, I wouldn't have it any other way!