no me gusta Mondays

I am not a fan of Mondays.

They are horrible. I have been at school for 8 hours, and I feel like I've been hit by a semi truck. I am so exhausted, and it isn't even 4 o'clock. (3:54, in case you were wondering).

I will be so so so happy when my philosophy class is over with...only five more weeks!!!
I just hate talking about stupid philosophical arguments at eight in the freakin' morning. Just not my cup of tea.

I have nothing to look forward to on Mondays. Nada. Zip. Goose egg... I think you get the point.

What to blog, what to blog...

I kind of want to cry when I think how many papers I have to write within the next 5 weeks of this semester.

I have to write:

1. 2 page escrito analitico. (Spanish)
2. Another 2 page escrito analitico. (Spanish)
3. A 4 page essay about the evolution of war throughout Spanish History for my final exam.
5. A 10 page paper, aka informe escrito, about one time period in Spanish history, where I just show all the shit I know.
6. A 10 page college writing paper.

Too much!! It's ridiculous...

All right, I am done complaining. I have to get to my professor's office hours.

And some kid just burped really loud. Gross.

RG

Damn you facebook.

Today is the 27th day of March.
Pretty exciting huh?

Well what to blog about...

ONLY SIX WEEKS LEFT OF THIS SEMESTER.
That makes me pretty happy!

So in six weeks, summer will be here.

And to think I only have two years left here at UMD.
And then 5+ years with grad school.. yeah... not going to think about that.

Anywhoo...

I feel like all my blog posts are so pointless and meaningless.

All of my posts are about complaining about everything and anything.

So here's a complaint. I tried to live a facebook free life. And I survived for 48 hours.

I have had that stupid thing for 4 straight years come this May. And really what have I accomplished? Not much, other than staring at a blank computer screen. Well I've probably ruined my eyes in the process. win.

Unfortunately it seems that at least for me, facebook is like oxygen, and how interconnected my life is to it. I would want to get a hold of someone, but I don't have their phone number, so what I would normally do? write on their wall.

If I have something really cool/interesting/lame that I'd like to show people.. I post it on facebook to share to the virtual world.

If I want to find someone? Search on Facebook.

Support a cause? Facebook.

Facebook, Facebook, Facebook.

10 years ago, facebook, twitter, and myspace didn't even exist. But today, can we imagine a life without them?

Unfortunately no. Every website seems to have a facebook link. At American Eagle if you "check in" you can get 10% off your purchase.

While I do agree that the easy exchange of ideas, causes, thoughts, and everything in between is great, and all the revolutions going on in the middle east is partly due to the fact that my, our, generation is living in the social network age, where dictators can't easily control what information they want their people to see. That is absolutely fantastic and great.

But I don't live in the middle east. I live here, in a small city in the US.

Facebook has the incredible force in my life. I find myself thinking "Oh! What a great status," or wonder why people didn't "like" that status.

When you deactivate your account, they show pictures of your "friends" and say that they will miss you?
Really? People will miss me on facebook? I have 614 "friends" but when is the last time I have talked to 600 of those friends? Never. I really don't think they will be missing me...

Seems to me, that Facebook is a necessary evil. While I complain about it daily, it has its benefits, as more and more people join everyday.

Ok, I'm done.

And you know what? Ironically, I will be posting this blog, on my facebook.

RG.

It's been awhile...

...Since I've blogged.

So now I blog.

I am currently sitting in my lecture hall, waiting for class to begin-my marriages class. I like it, but it is two hours long, and until 4 o'clock. AKA WORST TIME EVER TO HAVE A CLASS.

Seriously, who decides to have a class from 2-4. I guess there could be worse, but this one is pretty high up there.

Anyway...
It's only Tuesday of this week, but it feels like it should be Friday of this week.
I guess the week back from spring break just is a struggle week...

And my ta has a picture of Darth Vader with sunglasses on...

interesting... And no. Google does not have the picture in case you were wondering...

What would we do without google? Seriously...

It's one of those things that I can't imagine not having. Not being able to google something and not know the answer right away would really piss me off.

I'm glad I don't live in the middle ages where it took months to communicate...or years. Scary

I love google. And I love how our English language now has the word "google" as a verb.

yay 21st century technology.
Ok...I'm done about my love for google...

Moving on....
No glee on tonight, at least new episodes. make me sad : (

Tomorrow is a wednesday! Happy hump day.

Well class is about to start...

All for now.

RG

Time to spare

I finally have time that isn't devoted to reading, writing, or researching for class. So I blog.

Spring break is so damn close.
One. Week. Left.
5 Days.
A little over 100 hundred hours.
I'm too lazy to count minutes...

This spring break I plan on being an absolute bum.
Where I do ABSOLUTELY nothing. Except eat, sleep, watch tv, and lounge. And love every minute.

I'll need that time to take a breather, relax, and finally stop going at lightning speed.
This semester has been so flippin' busy. And I have a feeling it's only going to get worse from here on out.
I don't mind being so busy-most of the time. But some days where I get home at like 11 o'clock, I have to ask myself, ok what just happened today. I tend to run on auto-pilot. And just do what I need to do before I can think of even complaining or not doing it.

I just have to get past a Marriages Test (Thursday) and a Spanish Presentation (Thursday). And then I am ON THE HOME STRETCH.

Random things that are bothersome at the moment:
Snow/Cold Weather
My space button still doesn't freakin' work on this blog. UGH
Long days.
It's only March, and I really want it to be May, or summer.

Well I think this is all I have time for.
Until next time.

RG

Yeah I have to analyze this piece of art for my presentation.

Pretty interesting right?

Right....

A late night rant (typical)

Forewarning: This blog will most likely be incoherent, so I applaud those who still read this blog.
I have a lot on my mind tonight, and I need to blog in order to clear my mind, and actually get some sleep tonight.

UPDATE OF MY LIFE THIS SEMESTER

Starting time 11:59.

So, lately my life has been crazy, hectic, and incredibly busy. School this semester has definitely been more of a challenge- academic wise. A couple more credits this semester and the classes are harder- though I really like them.

Spanish class is really a struggle, almost every day. But I really like my professor. The class has really taught me to organize my notes obsessively and being really anal about certain dates and people in Spanish history. I really like the general ideas we talk about in class. Overall a good class.

My philosophy class is hard, but at the same time very interesting. Our last unit was explaining and defending the arguments for the existence of God (the theistic western definition of God). We went through a lot of the arguments and critiqued them and showed "what was wrong" with them. And ironically I think this has helped my faith in a sense. Yes I'll grant you that this argument fails here or there, but that's where faith comes in- we don't know either way. We can't disprove or prove the existence of God. Anywhoo...this is not a religious blog, so I'll end there.

My marriages class is really interesting and we learn practical information. Plus I love my professor. Like today we learned that couples that took five minutes before going to bed each night to ask each other how were they doing, reported in higher satisfaction and less chance of a divorce. So it's really important information to know, and also fascinating at the same time.

I have a one credit psych seminar- pretty boring, but required for my major.

My last class is my college writing class. Although boring, I feel its already helping my writing skills. For those who are still reading this (again, I applaud you) you can probably tell my writing style is sketchy at points.

Overall I feel I'm having a really good semester class wise. But most importantly I feel everything is starting to fall into place. I'm almost done with the process of becoming an "actual" mentor to my kid (well not really "mine"... I don't need to give my mom an illegitimate grandchild at the moment...) and we can start doing activities with each other and build more of a relationship.

Work is going well, as well as work can go. Hopefully will be serving during the summer, HOPEFULLY by next school year, or I might die a little.

All of my classes are finding a way to enhance each other. Like my college writing research paper is about the effects of early childhood education and all the research I've done so far has solidified what I learned in developmental psychology last semester.

But most importantly what I'm beginning to realize that I am so glad and happy with my choice of staying at UMD for college. I'll admit it was hard the first couple of weeks of the school year when people were posting literally hundreds of pictures on facebook of the dorm room and such. And I was wondering if I should have left home and have gotten your "typical college experience." People were always saying, "well you're not getting the real college experience" if you stay at home. And yes my experience is different than most because I chose a college in town AND stay at home. But reflecting on it, I'm so glad I did and I feel I've made the right decision for me. I just look how things are working out this semester- with mentoring, with my classes, with the opportunities that have arisen such as the Bahrain trip, really show me that I made the right decision.

I'll move out soon enough- I plan on going to grad school somewhere other than Duluth, and preferably out of Minnesota.

So the overall message I've learned? That things will always fall in place as they should, and that we shouldn't question it while we are in the middle of the process, but rather just have faith that things are happening for a reason. Just need a little patience, something I will continually need and learn how to develop.


Whew...what a blog. My head feels clearer and I might actually be able to get some sleep....probably not.

I think that's all.
Until next time (folks)

RG