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Name: Amanda
Age: 24 (4-2-85)
Sign: Aries, Ox
Location: Florida, USA
School: Florida State University
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Saturday, June 27th, 2009

Love and peace!!!

  1:56 pm

  Work has been pretty cool lately 'cause I'm only working 17-20 hours a week. Good for my mental health and homework, bad for money. Now that I'm moving out, I kinda need that money... so I was actually pleased that I got about 30 hours to work this week! Although it left me little time to pack (still haven't started yet D: ) or work on Sociology stuff (2 hours Sociology work = about 4 Staples work, and I can do it in my PJs, AND everyone is super sweet to me -- I heart my Sociology job), about $100 extra this week will be nice and help me out paying all those new bills I will suddenly find myself with!

  I've usually been working 4-9:30 on those days I do work, so things are chill, and people are chill, and we are all just chill. However, I worked 8-4 on Tuesday and 1-9:30 yesterday and it blew. So that's where all the mean people have been hiding! And last night everyone and their mom decided they needed stuff done ASAP TOMORROW MORNING HOMG and I forgot that tomorrow (today) was SATURDAY which means we open at 9 and not 8, so I was like "lol sure 9:30 we can do that lol." I left 5 jobs for Maria. Gah. Then proceeded to have bad dreams about customers continuing to submit jobs, so I woke up, looked at the clock, wondered "I wonder how Maria is doing with those," and then realized "OH FUH STORE DOESN'T OPEN TILL 9 AND OMG LEFT TWO JOBS DUE BETWEEN 9-9:30 OMG." *head desk*

  The worst thing about closing and leaving tons for someone else is the epic amounts of guilt for making that person start their day all crazy. I called her ahead of time and told her there was a lot, but at the time I didn't realize I had scheduled stuff to be due AT OPENING. Thankfully one only need to be comb bound (I had already done the printing), but another needed to be completely reproduced. Gah.

  Besides yesterday's crazy times, I also got yelled at on the phone (twice, same person), which is always nice... oh and then accidentally caused Maria to get an annoying/mean customer this morning, apparently (she told me when I called her)... so now I feel extra bad...

  I am like, so done with customer service. I actually like my copy center job; I love doing projects for people, I just dislike dealing with the meanies. Especially when I try my hardest to be all nice and smiley to everyone, no matter how craptacular I am feeling. OMG BE NICE EVERYBODY.

Mood: blah
Music: Samurai Champloo

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Fail

  2:46 pm

  I'm having one of those days where I've compiled such a huge list of stuff I need to do that I don't know where to start and end up doing nothing all day long. Sigh. Gotta go to work in about an hour so at least that solves that problem. :P

  One week till we can start moving in. I just want to get it over with. I have so much to do... :(

Mood: listless

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Things: looking up

  8:50 pm

  Things are, for once, going amazing here. We've been spending our last few weeks looking at different houses, and at first it seemed like kinda a bust, having to always choose between having a washer/dryer or having a garage, or between lots of space or a remodeled interior, and finally we just got lucky and found a house that had... everything. We had lunch with the lady today, and though even after initially telling Keith she wasn't really down to renting to a bunch of 20-something roommates, I guess we were able to convince her that we weren't partying crazy folk.

  Went to see the house tonight and it's... beautiful. More than I could have ever asked for. I was trying to be very open-minded with these houses, realizing that we can't really ask for too much and probably won't get too much, but this house is beyond anything I would have ever imagined. Better than my house or any of my friends' houses, honestly. It's a huge, 2005, 2000+ sq. ft. home, four bedrooms, two bathrooms, tons of closet space, huge kitchen with brand new appliances, plus a washer and dryer, also pretty much brand new, whirlpool garden tub omg, and cat-friendly. And it's only had one tenant before us.

  And we get to move in July 1! I can't believe it's only two weeks away!

Mood: chipper

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

hearts!

  3:17 pm

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMANDA N!!!

Mood: okay

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

Watchu tryin' to say about Iowa

  12:03 pm

  A friend showed me this and it is AMAZING. There's also one of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, but I actually like this one the best. It's by the same people who do "Auto-Tune the News."

Mood: busy
Music: Auto-Tune the News

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Dear Self: STOP IT

  11:40 pm

I dislike myself so much sometimes... I believe my friends when they say I'm fun to be around, but my personality flaws are so glaring and obvious that I don't know how they put up with the bad long enough to get to the good.

I hate that I talk so much sometimes, and I often interrupt people even though I don't mean to. I also tend to complain a lot about every little thing I think instead of keeping it to myself. I realize I'm doing it but it's like I can't stop myself. I hate that I have absolutely no control over my own behavior. I try but all this crap still comes out of my mouth. Stuff people don't care about, complain, complain, complain. It's like all I know how to do to make conversation is just to complain about things that irritate me, and it's like I love doing it, but I hate it. Why is complaining so satisfying? Why can't I control myself?

It's one thing with my friends, who are kind of just used to it, but I feel really bad when I meet new people and I'm like "Hi! Nice to meet you! Here's a list of things I hate!" or when Keith brings me along to hang out with his friends and I'm like "Hi! I'm cold! I'm hungry! I'm stressed out from school! Sometimes I feel like my life is a complete failure! :D How are you!?" Man, I don't want to be that girlfriend that everyone has to put up with.

The worst part is, I'm always so self-conscious about this that when someone, no matter how nicely, points out to me that I'm kinda acting not my greatest, I get super butthurt and embarrassed and then either turn into a giant bitch or start crying, or both in any particular order. (This entry prompted by Keith, as nicely as possible, admitting that he was pretty tired of hearing me griping about ____, and me... getting all butthurt, clamping up for the rest of the time I was there, and then crying all the way home about how much I suck... then realizing that this was like the fourth time I've done this to him, sending him stupid text message apologies and being a big dumb girl in general... it was a mess. Thankfully hormones are always there for me to blame.)

I need to pretend that I am Victorian lady and if I don't behave there will be a scandal and everyone will give me the stink eye the next time I go into the teahouse.

Mood: embarrassed

Sunday, May 24th, 2009

Oh yes, I missed this.

  9:46 am

  School stress is already weighing down heavily upon me. I have three assignments due tomorrow (which is a holiday for everyone else, btw! But I get to work -- which I don't mind 'cause the store's quiet on holidays and cha-ching -- and turn in three assignments. One of which I turned in last night, one of which will take me like thirty minutes, and one of which is like one of the most evil not-a-term-paper assignments I've ever done.

  Honestly, it's my fault for being in this situation, for not investigating the assignment ahead of time and trying to start it, but this professor, as nice as she is, is one of those who doesn't post the reading assignments until the week before, which really frustrates me. So I took a look at the assignment, saw "based on the reading," and thought "well, fuck it, I can't do this until I know what the reading IS," and I just finished the readings yesterday. o___o Which put me in a shitty situation 'cause it turns out I need to run to the library now! Thank god they're open on Sundays 'cause they certainly won't be open on Memorial Day.

  PLUS my second job sent me THIRTY emails while I was on vacation, which I haven't even got to yet. I need to get THAT done by Memorial Day so that when they come back on Tuesday it'll all be done and they can't be like "WTF was she doing on HER three-day weekened?" (which you know, I don't get 'cause I work weekends but that's besides the point)

  I was so stressed that I went to bed early, only to lie there for two hours crying and then ranting at mom when she came in to check on me, and now I'm gonna have to cancel lunch with a friend and push our WOW playdate back till this evening. If I can even finish this stupid assignment, which makes my head want to explode.

  Hate school, ready for this to be over, etc etc etc.

  Sometimes I just wanna give up and quit, but that's not me, you know? I know I can make it. I've felt like this for the last two semesters and I've always made it. I'm confident about that. What I'm worried about is that all this constant stress is gonna give me an ulcer / heart attack / early death / whatever.

Mood: working

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

holy crap batman

  7:26 pm

  I'm a little bit behind on what's happenin' in fandom, due to the vacation and all, but am just now getting caught up. My thoughts on:

Star Trek: SO GOOD. SO, SO GOOD. I thought it would be weird and lulzy seeing these other people, some of whom had already settled in my brain as OTHER characters, try and be TOS characters, but wow. WOW. I was most impressed by Eomer Karl Urban, who played the hell out of Dr McCoy.

I'm going again to see it tonight after class. <3

Dollhouse: WOAH. WOAH. WOAH. D: D: D: D: D: "Oh hey it's Wash awesome lol!" quickly became HOLY SNAP WHAT A TWEEST.

ANTM: Frakkin' setup, as usual. We all (meaning the internets) saw that one coming from like episode 2. It's all good, we all know that the winner goes on to be a CoverGirl for a year and then NOTHING, while the runners-up go on to actually have jobs and do things with their lives. Fo, you will always be one of my favorite contestants even though you cried about your hair and everything else.

Mood: excited
Music: class

Friday, May 15th, 2009

Moisty McMoisterson

  11:55 am

  Yay, my class situation got fixed. Phew! I was really worried, especially when I was looking into drop/add this morning and found out that drop/add ended last night at midnight. *headdesk*

  I can tell I'm back in Florida. Went outside for about 5 minutes to dust/vacuum my car (it was at the shop while I was gone and now looks like new again!!) and am now completely soaked through. Super gross. I hate this place. So glad that we were all in love with Oregon. Titusville is slowly, person by person, relocating to Corvallis Oregon. Hopefully we will be there soon within two years. That's the plan, Stan.

  List for myself of stuff I need to do today:

- Dust & vacuum car
- Go to CVS to pick up delicious Aleve Cold & Sinus
- Laundry
- Tidy room
- Finish unpacking bathroom stuff & clean bathroom
- Clean out dresser drawer
- Balance checkbook
- Move stuff from flash
- Resize pics
- Make Oregon post
- Watch Netflix
- Catch up on TV Shows
- Nails
- Change BJD clothes
- Finish Akhenaten and the Religion of Light
- Read Chapter 1 of Isis in the Ancient World
- Sociology work
- Make school schedule
- Schoolwork:
    - YA Lit discussion board
    - Mgmt discussion board #1
    - Mgmt discussion board #2
    - YA Lit online reading
    - Mgmt online reading
    - YA Lit makeup assn.

Mood: hot

Oh you just did not.

  1:41 am

  So... back in April, I emailed both my instructors about the fact that I would not be there the first day of class and was given the all clear by both. One told me just to email her and let her know what was up, the other just to sign in to attendance and let the TA know what was up. I did both. Just signed in and discovered that I was dropped from the latter. (FSU has a first day attendance policy -- if you don't show up for the first day you're kicked out of the class... which is why I emailed back in APRIL to see if I could wiggle out of it.)

  It was very, very hard not to send a snarky email. Honestly, it may have somehow been my fault, but it may have been the TA's fault. Who knows. Um, either way, I have no idea how I'm going to get back into this class... aaaand... that would push my graduation back another semester to December 2010, which makes me very, very, very angry. Oh so angry.

Mood: pissed off