Mikey and Soda!

Don’t have much to write tonight since Michael is here for a limited amount of time and I want to spend it with him. Just have a few key highlights of the day.

• Yay for it being so warm that I barely needed my sweatshirt today
• My Web Development class is going to be so boring that I can’t even fathom how I’m  going to make it through the quarter
• IHOP is as good as ever, just don’t let Michael order all you can eat pancakes if you’d like to leave at a reasonable time
• My soda maker still works!!!!!

Mike and I decided to test out all the flavors that I bought. I got Lemonade, Diet Lemon Lime, Ginger Ale, and Diet Orange. They’re all good, but Diet Lemon Lime is still my favorite. I love the soda maker and I cant believe I went for so long without using it. But now I’m going to use it all the time!

Getting Better

Today was much better than the past few days have been. It wasn’t great but it was definitely better.

I think it’s because the day started off on a much better foot than the rest of them have. I had class first thing, but it was with a teacher who I adore and it’s a class that I’ve really been excited to take (Typography). I was like a giddy little kid as I looked through the book at all the examples and typographic art. I’m going to LOVE this class.

My teacher even mentioned one of my all-time favorite designers during class too: David Carson who is touted as “one of the world’s most distinctive typographic voices — much imitated, never matched.” It was him that really got me interested in typography to begin with. Now I can only hope that since I’m taking this class I’ll get better at it! Wish me luck!

I’ve already started working on my first project! (Gasp! Whitters isn’t waiting until the last minute? She must be sick!) We had to pick a single letter from one of the typefaces that is featured in our book. Of course I wanted to pick a letter from my name, and while browsing through the different fonts I fell in love with the “g” from Baskerville Regular (the new version, not the old) so I decided to use that. We have to take the letter and use it to demonstrate a variety of concepts. In the picture is the first concept: Scale. The others are Figure/Ground, Continuation, Pattern and Space. I’ve already got ideas for Continuation and Pattern, so I’ll probably get them done tonight before I go to bed.

So yes, I’m feeling much better. And to top it all off: MIKE IS COMING TOMORROW! He called tonight and asked if it was alright if he came down. It couldn’t have come at a better time because I really need to see him. Needless to say, tomorrow is going to be a great day! I proclaim it and so it shall be so! I’ve only got one class (Web Development … lol) and then its Mike-time! I’m so excited!

Another One Bites the Dust

I actually had to really sit down and think about whether or not I was going to blog today. Originally I wasn’t going to, but I decided that in order to keep up the streak I’ve been on I might as well at least throw something up.

Today has been yet another horrible day to the point where I just want to crawl into bed, snuggle up with Mandy, and die. It just seems like everything that could possibly go wrong is going wrong and I’d much prefer just to pack it all in right now.

I’ve had Mandy for as long as I can remember, and she goes everywhere with me. When I have a bad day she usually gets squished to stuffy-death when I crawl into bed. And I do believe that may be happening tonight.

But I’ve made a to do list for tomorrow and promised myself that I’d get it all done. Since one of the things that has been upsetting me lately is the fact that I have absolutely no motivation, I figure that if I can start getting things on my bigger to do list done, then maybe I won’t feel so overwhelmed.

Day From Hell

So remember yesterday when I said I was going to do something to cheer myself up? Well that didn’t happen. In fact, my day has been anything but cheerful.

Last night I could not, for the life of me, fall asleep. So my day began with zombie Whitters rolling out of bed at 7:15 a.m. so that I could head to my 8:00 class. I got ready and trudged over to the school in the cold only to get to my room and just sit there…

By 8:15 I realized something was very, very wrong. I was about to go out and look around in the hall when the registrar stopped into the room and informed me that a) my class had been changed to Thursday morning and b) my entire schedule had to be rearranged as a result (and because I picked up my schedule yesterday morning like we were supposed to, I was thus not informed of item a).

My new, new, new schedule

So now, ladies and gentlemen, my schedule has changed 3 times in a 48-hour period and I am pissed. And on top of that I am being forced to deal with Internet access from hell, so my patience and mental stability are basically on a downward spiral at the moment. (more…)

Down and Out

I’ve decided that York drains people’s souls until there’s nothing left. I’ve felt like absolute shit ever since I arrived here, but I’m not sick. It’s just this funk I get in whenever I’m here, and it only happens in York. If I leave, even if its just to go to Kyle’s in Harrisburg, my mood improves drastically. But then on the way home the funk sinks back in. I really like this place, but it seems to be draining every last bit of happiness out of me.

This is about 1/2 of my current To Do list, and no matter how hard I try I just seem to have absolutely no motivation to get any of the things on it done. It upsets me because I know if I don’t start doing some of them I’m going to end up scrambling around last-minute, but right now I just cannot for the life of me make myself care.

Right now I’m watching Bridget Jones’ Diary: the Edge of Reason to try and cheer myself up. I think I’m going to do something tomorrow after class just to jump start my migration back to Happy Whitters Land. Hopefully it works.

Long Day

Today was an extremely long day.

Up at 8:00 a.m. after not getting that much sleep and the first thing I had to do was go out in the cold to pack my car. Thankfully Michael was around to help out or it would have taken much longer than it did. But thanks to him and his super packing abilities everything was in the car and ready to go by about 9:30. Then mom made us breakfast and we just puttered around for a little while. I knew I had to get going but I really wasn’t looking forward to the goodbyes.

I always hate saying goodbye to Mike because I’m still so used to seeing him every single day. Even though he spent most of winter break at my house (out of the 24 days I was home he was probably there for 3/4 of it) it wasn’t enough time. On January 18th we’ll have been together for 7 years and every time I remember that it about blows my mind. But it’s a good thing, and now that I’m back down here I’m going to miss him so much.

I left home around 11 and pulled into the condo about 2. It’s a three-hour trip, if there’s no traffic, so I made good time today. Walked inside to find out that it was 52 degrees (or below, since the thermostat doesn’t read below 52 so I have no way of knowing how cold it was) inside. Our furnace was broken… again. Called our Residential Life coordinator and she got the maintenance guy to come out for emergency repairs. He left and assured us that the heat would come on soon.

Meanwhile I was still freezing and needed to get out of the house so Kyle and I went to see a movie. We were going to go see Avatar but traffic made us late so we ended up going to see Youth in Revolt instead (extremely funny movie by the way). When we got back from the movies the condo was warm and I was happy. Kyle hung out a little longer before heading home and I finished up cleaning my room.

Now I’m going to go to bed because I’m exhausted and I’ve got class at 8 a.m.

Escape

I’m sitting here packing and thinking that I’d pay to be far far away where I don’t have to worry about this crap. I really hate having to get ready to move back and forth from school to home or the other way. I’m not sure what about packing makes me so stressed out, but something sure does. So I’ve decided to cut this blog a bit short tonight and get everything finished so I can do a bit of de-stressing.

I’m guessing its the general nonsense attitude of the book, but this little baby never fails to make me feel better when I’m down. So I do believe that I’ll read a few chapters tonight and hopefully that will get me good to go for tomorrow.