OK, bad thing, I'll probably be pulling an all-nighter tonight.
But good things!
-John has Microsoft Access, so I don't have to go back downtown to the library tonight! Silly software problems...
-I got a 92 on my Fish and Wildlife Ecology exam on Monday,
-I'm pretty sure I did really well on my Environmental Studies 113 exam, especially on the question that I completely guessed at random and got right, according to the professor,
-Friday I'm going to wrap caramels and make chocolate-covered pretzels at my aunt Jeanell's place,
-Saturday is Manske family Christmas! My grandma and grandpa go south every winter, so we have Christmas before they go. Which means ridiculous amounts of yummy food and general good times,
-Bob started the 'm' word conversation, and is in complete agreement with me that living together only means that we're living together!

Woo, other good stuff, but I need to start this project. I just felt like I had good news to share. :)

So Bob, after over a week of being sick, finally managed to infect me this weekend. I'm sniffly and groggy, but my sore throat is already gone, which is nice. So now I just need to go to work from 8:55 until 1pm, then discussion, then meet with my adviser (carrying my bag with rubber boots and hauling my laptop in addition to my already heavy backpack), then spend a few hours in a dank swamp collecting data until 7pm, 'cause THAT'S going to help. I'll need more tissues. :(

But I should cheer myself up. October 4 my mom, Mike, and all my bruvvers came to see me and wish me happy birthday! We went out to eat and got way too full, then came back to the apartment and ate cheesecake. Mmmm. And, Bob got me a massaging Shiatsu chair (at first I was like, way to be romantic there, Bob, but after sitting in this thing for a minute I LOVELOVELOVED it!) and John and Todd got me Spore! Because they want me to fail at life, presumeably. :P
Then on my actual birthday we had lunch at the Nitty Gritty so I could get my mug of root beer. The only alcohol I consumed that day was a shot Allison bought me called a Dirty Girl Scout, which tasted minty and burny.

AND! I got an A (one of the few out of the class, apparently) on the 113 paper Todd helped me with and I got above 100% on my first 349 exam. Two As this semester, since my first Bio exam was crappy. Ah well. Off to work!

It's Phaze again, so there shall be pictures at some point. Um. Class has started and such. Oh well. More on my super-exciting life laterz.

John lies. Moving could have been worse, but I was thoroughly broken for a bit afterward.

MUCH love to everyone that helped us, though. I do agree with that completely. :)

Okay, sorry.
I realize that this'll matter to no one else but me, but it freaked me out this morning.
Before I came home, I had no idea when I'd be back in Madison so I told the people I interviewed with for jobs that I'd be back the day after Memorial Day. I hadn't actually asked Mom when she'd take me back, but I figured that she'd have Memorial Day off and could take me back. Turns out that she'd been planning on me staying until this Saturday, when my cousin Desi is having her baby shower (yay for soon-to-be Jack DeJong!) in Racine, then I'd be dropped off in Madison on Mom's way back home.
So...
Emails come! I have a job! I should come in on Tuesday!
...
Yeah.
So I asked them really nicely to extend my starting date to next Monday. They replied that it was fine, but the email seemed kind of...terse.
And then my mentor for my research project asked me to meet him, along with another professor and his intern for a meeting today. And I wasn't in Madison at all, and felt terrible because these people had to rearrange their schedules on my account. It just made me feel like I'd lied to these people about when I was available, and had changed my plans and been unprofessional.
A few hours after the first post, I see I've over-reacted as usual. It's not a huge deal, but it just makes me feel that I've started out with these people on the wrong foot, which kind of sucks because letters of recommendation from these people would be fantastic.
Ah well.
On a happier note, Mom took me shopping today since nothing I own is girlie enough for a baby shower, apparently. No skirt, sorry John, but I actually do look sort of feminine and such. Maybe I'll post pics later. :P

SHITSHITSHIT.

I've messed up, and now I'm a liar.

So, currently I'm unemployed, and wish to rectify this.
I've been spamming my resume to likely looking jobs on the UW Job Center for over a week, and I've had a bunch of rejections, three interviews, and another one today. But the thing is, I've completely forgotten which job this interview is for, which might be a problem...
Weeeeell, it's in Russel Labs, so it's probably one of the generic lab/research jobs I applied for...we shall see!

So, my finals are oddly arranged. I have four classes, and two of them had in-class finals on their last day of class. So I'm already half-way done, woooo! And I must say that Geog 339, environmental conservation, was a big of a joke. I started it, workin' through, truckin' along, when I see that I've finished. I look at the clock. A whole ten minutes have passed. I recheck my answers, which takes another five minutes. I shrug, turn it in, and grab smoothies with Jacqui and Greg, my fellow BAC majors. My Geog 305 was pretty nice too, but not that freaking easy.

Anyway, during actual finals week I have a Bio 151 exam on Sunday. Who schedules an exam on Mother's Day?! I'm very bitter about this, as I could have gone to BRF for the weekend and seen my family, but nooooo. I shouldn't complain too much though, I suppose, since mine is at 12:25 and Bob has one the same day at 7:45...in the AM, mind you. And I was getting kind of worried about this exam, since the professor has had to cram all of taxonomy into less time than is reasonable (for example, we took two days to cover protists and fungi, two days to cover invertebrates, and then one class period to cover ALL vertebrates...Class Mammalia was squeezed in four minutes before the bell rang). But since all the current grades for that class are on Learn@UW, I decided to check out where I'm standing. I'm at a B right now. If I got 100% on this exam, I wouldn't be guaranteed an AB. As long as I got above a 36%, I'd still get a B. Motivation to continue studying: 0%. Which is why I'm on Livejournal, yay!

For ILS/Hist of Sci 202, I have a paper that's due by next Saturday, the 17th. Instead of turning it in early and going home, I'm going to chill out here, work a bunch more shifts to get moneys, and generally laze about and enjoy myself. I'm also not motivated to write this paper promptly. The class is graded nearly entirely on three papers: first one, I did the night before and got an A. Second one, I turned in a week late, also done the night before, and got an AB. And the TA is not an easy grader, either. :P

And then...I don't really know. I have a research project that's a two-credit independent study over the summer. I'll be wandering around in the woods with a GPS backpack identifying trees for credit, which will be nice. And I have a summer course that starts in July...but as of yet no job. I've sent out applications, but haven't heard anything back yet. I'm getting kind of tempted to just be a drug guinea pig at Covance like my brother did. He got to sit around on his ass reading and playing video games for two weeks, and made more than I would make working like a dog the entire summer. Hmmm.

Anyways...I should probably be studying a bit more for my exam, for all the good it'll do me.

Aww, I like that Tick...tick...Boom! song. And it lets me copy Ben and use lyrics as entry titles! It looks like someone has a case of the clevers...

Anyway, I had to return a few overdue books, so I walked down to College Library. I'll miss being this close next year (ONLY thing I'll miss about this apartment), because it was absolutely lovely. This afternoon was wonderfully warm and sunny, and right now it's just slightly cool with a delicious breeze. I got a cookies and cream sugar cone at the Union, and just stood outside in the dark watching people and smelling all the flowers that are coming up. Glorious. It made me think of the word sensual, and what a shame it is that that word is so sexualized, because that was exactly how I felt. Just feeling and tasting and smelling absolute summer-ness. So, so very happy I'll be spending the summer in Madison. The only thing that would would make it perfect would be if the city wasn't bright enough to block out most of the stars. Black River Falls is nice that way.

Anyway, now I'm rambling when I should be studying. Ah well. Just three tests and a paper to go of the semester!

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I've posted about this song before:


I've decided to use this as my skydiving song. Because I'm skydiving. Tomorrow.

AHHHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAYAYAYAYAYYAYAYAYAYAY!

Hee, sorry, I like bragging about this. :) I'm also getting re-obsessed with that song - I've played it more times than I care to admit today.
I need to finish laundry/pack, work, get dinner with Bob, and leave tomorrow from the Union at 8 am. It's supposed to be rainy tomorrow, but nice on Sunday. Hmm. Anyways. I'm just feeling nervous and SQUEEEEEEE hyper and excited. XD

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