Domesication at Its Finest

Last night felt more like Halloween than most nights...hell, this feels like it's been Halloween week. So much shopping and spending time with friends who I haven't had the time to hang out with since the spring....it's been  roller coaster ride. But anyway, back to the past 48 hours.

Friday I worked 10am-2pm, rather than my normal 12-2 schedule. Nikki the staff assistant had a doctor's appointment to go to, so I got to cover for her. It was certainly fun, even though no one really stuck around long for any length of time. Except for the janitors, because the janitors are awesome! Shelley, the one who takes care of 3rd & 4th Beede, was running around in a witch's outfit with feathers and everything handing out candy. Then there's another janitor guy that comes by and talks with me all the time, but I can't remember his name...he comes to fix the vacuums every Friday. And this day we complained to each other about our jobs. He hates how little they pay him, and well....I've been tempted to not come back. It's going to absolutely suck not having HCB has a hall director, because he really was one of the best we've got. I'm all right with Kristi, but she doesn't do nearly as good a job. Even more amusing was when the hall directors came to the front desk and Dave was bitching about the charge cards for programming stuff. Apparently if we use up $100 of the $150 allotted to our floor, we have to go through four different approvals to use the card for that remaining $50. And Dave was pissed. But not surprisingly, HCB wasn't saying anything....which is understandable, he's going to be gone soon. Honestly, what sort of place is it if no one is satisfied?

After work I went over to Jean's place to hang out and have some fun. We had to wait a while for the two Sams to show up, so we made a Walmart run and get some food to make cookies and stuff. The most amusing part of going to Walmart now is that Chris is working there. First time I saw him in there I couldn't stop laughing for a good two minutes. But anyway, when we went back to her apartment and started making the cookies, one of her roommate's brothers came to visit. The roommate wasn't there, though, so he spent a good half hour or so hanging out with us talking. He was actually really sweet! And very easy to talk to, so that was also a plus.

Then around the time he left, Sam showed up. We decided to call Freshman Sam Frodo so we could tell the difference, lol. We hung out and played some music, ate a few cookies, Frodo came over, we had pizza, watched a cheesy movie that was just a little bit weird...sigh. There we go. Now to when we got ready for the Monster Bash over at Julian/Brookman. It took us a little while to get ready, so we didn't get there till about 10 when it started at 9, but it was probably a good thing. I'm glad I had Sam around to help with curling my hair and applying the makeup, she did really good! And thankfully the dress fit me perfectly, considering I ordered it online, lol.

Had some interesting reactions at the dance, though. One group thought it looked a little German, so I had to have my picture taken with one of the German exchange students. And that wasn't the only time that someone randomly wanted their picture taken with me.... o.o Probably the most interesting moment was when I had Captain Jack Sparrow pick me up and carry me toward the exit. Thankfully I knew the guy (Toast, one of the desk workers), but he said he'd been swapping hats with everyone that night. Because swapping hats with strangers was a lot better than picking up a stranger and carrying them out of the exit. XD

I'm glad that I don't wear skirts or dresses ever. And thankfully it was Halloween, to remind me why I don't wear skirts or dresses. But that's the nice part of Halloween--as Michelle put it, Halloween's the one time when you can dress like a slut and it's totally okay!

I have to admit, some of the outfits were awesome. My friend Walker was dressed as Rick Astley, Adam G. was dressed as Cristiano Ronaldo (brilliant), Adam F. was dressed as Britney Spears (only he could pull that off and fool people), Michelle was dressed as Juno, Kristi was Sue Sylvester, and many of the CAs were dressed as other CAs, as in they swapped name tags. Funniest one had to be Andrew's outfit though. He needed to go cheap, so he went with a robot. Tin foil all on a box with cardboard wings and everything. The funniest part was that on the front it said "Ju-Bot" (short for Julian) and on the back was binary, saying "Have a nice day". Amg, it was brilliant! And it was certainly interesting with Trapper acting as the DJ...but yeah. Pretty awesome. :3

Then at one point near the end I somehow ended up talking to Sures. To be more specific than before, I had made the comment earlier that HCB really should've been there for the dance. That one comment apparently spurred Sures to ask right away toward the end there whether I liked HCB. Well that threw me for a loop....so I went with the "What do you want to know?"

At least he laughed and went "Well that answer's obvious enough..." Which was then when he had to ask whether I'd asked HCB out. Nope.

"Why not? You two aren't in the same hall." o.O Well I know we aren't, but it still doesn't really change the fact that I work closer with him than I do my own hall director...and since I didn't really have the nerve to say part of it was because of job integrity, I told him my reasoning was because I 1) didn't think HCB really liked me all that much, and 2) I'm really freaking shy. Especially when it comes to any sort of commitment. And I really do in a way....I say no so much more than I say yes, partially because I very rarely like multiple guys. I might have options from time to time, but they're all theoretical. So I'm prone to having one interest and one alone. So when asked if I have anyone that may be option #2, I had to say no, not really. :/

Then later that night we went back to Jean's to watch How to Train Your Dragon. Woo!

Now on to Saturday. I got plenty of sleep, even though I pretty much just chilled in bed till 1pm, because I had to work the desk from 2 to 6. I think it was about 2:15, 2:30 when Hot Canadian Bacon crawled out--and it was very close to literal. He looked like he was only half awake, and the clothes were even worse...or better. The button-down shirt was only buttoned in one spot, and he was wearing a pair of women's athletic shorts that he got from his little brother at Christmastime. I'm not gonna lie, it was a nice sight....even though he kinda had to button up when a resident's parents and grandparents walked by, lol! XD

But it was pretty obvious he was extremely hungover, if anything still a bit drunk. He still smelled like alcohol and could only remember bits and pieces of last night, all of it sounding pretty hilarious. The stories came as he was trying to hand-stitch together two pieces of scarf together for the costume. And even that was difficult for him, because he dropped the needle twice. The first time I asked if he needed me to get it for him, and he said "No, this is going to be a test..." and he couldn't do it. So I had to get it for him both times anyway. :P

Then once Michelle and Alex came to the front desk, he was at least ready to get the makeup on. That was when I got to play with his freaking huge $3,000 camera and take pictures as they worked. Amg, it was fun...too much fun. I now kinda miss my photography days. D:

And I have to say, holy shit did he really look like the Mad Hatter once he had everything on. Seriously.

Then once I was done working, I went to Dairy Queen with Terrance and had dinner. It was pretty fun, and I got to nerd out just a little bit, too. Although I didn't realize until then that I had spent a whole minute talking about Doctor Who. You know how much information you can fit into a whole minute? Lots. So that was kinda surprising. :P

One Week & Counting

There's about a week left before Hot Canadian Bacon is done. He doesn't seem to be doing much better, since I know he went out to smoke Thursday night, and has been doing it sporadically for the past week, even though he hates it. Stress is not his friend on most occasions. :P

On the downside, it's Halloween weekend. Starting last night was the parties with TKE, and since then it's been loud kids and drinking all night. I'm so glad this isn't my duty weekend...

And now I'm waiting for the next shoe to drop. To begin, I was talking with Sures a couple times during the Julian/Brookman Hall Monster Bash dance, and Sures (technically a nickname, but we can't pronounce the actual thing) is what we consider the other immigrant. He's from Malaysia, and he's pretty awesome. Annnnd then he had to ask me if I liked HCB.

Ohh fuck.

So then we had a conversation about why I haven't asked him out yet. And what I thought of Kristi. But considering how close him and HCB are, I'm starting to wonder if Sures is going to say anything about that matter.... o.o

Bah, it's past 3:30 and I can't keep my eyes open. Plus there's a lull in the noise and I wanna shower before I crash. D:

...

.....HCB told me he's going to quit today.

Fuck. :/

Pot and Failure

Today was a lot better than I anticipated. To start, I skipped my 9am French class Monday. I never skip classes. And this was the first time that I'd skipped out on a 9am class, too. So I was pretty much obligated to go this morning. However, I was not expecting the phone call from assistant director Lindsay at 8:20 asking about if someone threw up on the floor near the back exit or in the stairwell. Wellllll no, no one had. And while I should be pissed that you woke me up, you woke me up. Very nice, since I was afraid I'd end up sleeping in again. :P

So I got there, still knew most of what was going on, explained to the crazy professor why I slept through class (amazing how understanding they are about fire alarms at 3:30am and wakeup calls this very morning, even though he said "You need to move" :/ ), then came back to the dorms for about 45 minutes. Did a bunch of crazy work during that 45 minutes, then went to my 11am journalism class. I got to wander to the MUC with Bobbi and just people watch, it was the greatest assignment evar!!! And I knew about half the people walking around, so it just made the assignment better. Then after class I found Hot Canadian Bacon and Chris while they were getting food, so I chilled with them for a little bit. HCB was talking with Stephen (one of the hockey players), and now HCB knows firsthand how much work lies ahead for our team. Losing 18-2 isn't even the start of it.

XDIS wasn't that great as usual. Psych of Sex was not that noteworthy, either. Yote Floats were nice though, Jessie and I just crashed on a couple of couches in the Pit Lounge and people watched again. Longest 45 minute wait for 4pm...gah. At least things picked up when we had our CARS meeting, but that was just putting fliers in the napkin holders promoting CA recruitment.

THEN the real fun began after all this. I went over to McFadden to hang with Jean and Freshman Sam (totally different from simply Sam, who's my other half from last year :P ) and we made a Walmart run to pick up cake mix and other random stuff to make cupcakes! I think Freshman Sam will be a favorite of mine soon, because when we were walking into Walmart I made the comment that "The wind is blowing me into submission," and she actually responded with "Just like a man!" I swear, the two of us couldn't stop laughing for a good 5 minutes....We then gorged on other random food...and maybe Facebook creeped on HCB because neither had seen pictures of him...then I had to go over to 4th Richardson at 7 to have some fun.

Some fun you say? Oh yes. We were burning pot. Woo! Long story short, because they missed a step or two in CA training, DPS came to burn stuff like pot and sweetgrass so that we could tell the difference between them if we come across anything strange-smelling in the hallways or something. Fuuuuuun times that was! Except that Sam the DPS officer doesn't have quite the experience to burn pot well....so it took a few tries. By the end of it, we all vaguely smelled like pot, and it was amazing! Bahaha...which was the cause of the title. I had  asked Sam check my sweatshirt and asked her "What do I smell like?" Her response was "Pot and FAILURE!" which made me burst out laughing, but she would know coming from West River...just sayin'. The Native Americans and rebels like their pot, and you get to know the culture even when you're not involved. :P

So I went straight back to McFadden and watched Glee with Jean, Sam and Freshman Sam. It was really pretty sweet, and since everyone wanted to procrastinate on homework, we played with makeup instead. I now know who to turn to for my Alice makeup! :3

I then worked the desk at 10-12am. Yay late night shifts! Except most of the people I saw were large groups coming back from tunnel tours....oops, was that tonight? :3  In my defense, I not only didn't want to give tours in the first place, but no one asked if I was going to give tours or anything. And as I really don't appreciate people just assuming that I'm willing to do tours, I didn't go. I worked the front desk instead.

Although, I did see HCB once at the very beginning of my shift, and again at the very end. Certainly not long enough, though. Almost like he's off in his own little world at the moment...and in a way, neither of us have really been around since about Friday. Saturday I was gone for most of the day, Sunday I was gone, Sunday night and most of Monday HCB was gone, and now Tuesday I was gone again. Sunday/Monday HCB went up to Mitchell because him and Chris had a funeral to go to in Kimball, which was a drive as it was from Mitchell...so the one time that I've actually had a chance to chat with him was Monday in the MUC when I saw him after class. It was only for 15 minutes or so, but still...it was mostly him pissed off that the directors had called him at 2:30am Monday morning because the duty keys from Ritchie/Olson was missing. And if the AA keys were on it, then that'd mean shit was going down....but again, he had a long drive in the morning for a funeral, and he didn't appreciate being called period. Sooo yeah. :P

He also asked if I was on crack because I suggested that Cabela's just might sell hockey shit, because duh they sell winter sports stuff. I didn't want to burst his bubble by saying I've got jewelry from Cabela's...lulz.

So yeah. He's going to get bothered by me soon. Because I'm pretty sure he's starting to worry a few of the other CAs, and he's definitely worrying me now. I know he gets stressed out by the homework load on top of the workload on top of the random shitload, but the shutting himself in his room or in the 'library' is worse than usual. And if this is what happens when he hasn't had sex in 6 months.....dayum.

I'm concerned this may be those 99 problems becoming 100....or 150. And that's the last thing he needs, a woman taking up his time. But if it is indeed Brandie, then good luck to him. Anyone who sends that many cryptic messages on Facebook to and about him is no good....take it from one who was guilty of that in high school. And when a 22-year-old is exhibiting the antics of high schoolers...well, she is from California. But still. All I can hope is that he's not responding to the immature tactics. :/

Now I have French review to work on, and hopefully get some sort of start on my observation paper for astronomy that's due tomorrow.  I'm assuming an attempt at talking to HCB is a lost cause tonight.

It's 5:30 in the Fucking Morning.

And I can't sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep! And I get up at 8am to not only return the master key to its rightful place at the front desk, but I also will be on the road by 9 to run errands in Sioux Falls.

So what am I doing now? Eating Jello, creeping on absolutely no one on Facebook, and not sleeping. It's 5 AM, after all.

Ohhhh oh oh! Let me tell you why I'm awake!! :D WELL, I had gone to bed at about 2:40 I'm going to say, it wasn't long after I had finished taking my shower. So what happens at 3:30? The fire alarm goes off. AMG AMG AMG.

Pretty much it was like this in warp speed: "Is that the fire alarm? Fuuuuuck I don't wanna...kk, I'm hopping out of bed. Grab phone, got meh keys, door open--oh shit should put on my tennis shoes not sandals--now RUN DOWN DA STAIRS and to the front desk to get mah key!"

I then run back up the stairs and start our task of locking up doors and making sure no one is still sleeping in their rooms. I'd already done about four doors on the girls' side before I finally looked down the hallway and realized OH SHIT I can't see the other side real well through all the smoke. Now, two things I must point out. 1) I had not grabbed my glasses, so I was rather in the moment about most of what was happening. No idea where HCB was at this time, no idea that there was anything in the air when I left my room, nothing. Literally, I didn't notice anything in the air till I was opening and closing doors, and by then I was like "What the FUCK do I do, just keep on going or see if anything's burning?!"

I just kept on going. I was almost done with the girls side by the time Kristi came up the stairs to help, because where the fuck was my co? He had the night off. Fucking lucky bastard.... :/

Based on what we could determine, there was no actual fire, just some assholes who decided to play with the fire extinguisher on the guys' side. The supposed smoke was really just particles from the extinguisher, but still, that was a LOT of particles. For some reason, they thought it would be funny to drag a chair out of the study and into the hallway, then proceed to spray the chair with the extinguisher. Yeeeeah, real funneh. You've now got an entire floor pissed off at you and they want to see you PAY. No really, literally. :3

And of course, who gets to clean up after it? Kristi and I! So at 4 in the morning, we're vacuuming up the pretty yellow particles. I finished up at around 4:30, so that wasn't too bad. I had gone back to the front desk in hopes of getting my keys back, but nuuuu, the master key doesn't work on the mailroom. :P So now I've got the master until then. This would be a moment that would be a lot easier to come up with an excuse as to why I still had it, though. Kids still knocking to get into their room, door locked after everyone left, yeah...ha.

However, because I hauled ass so well going down 4 flights of stairs and back up those 4 flights, all after being asleep as of 30 seconds prior, I had finally gone outside and couldn't stop coughing. Yeah, one of those 'amg I think meh throat is bleedin' type of deals. I'm still kinda fighting it, which doesn't help with the insomnia, so I'm hoping the Jello does.

That means, after a bottle of Mountain Dew, a big can of Rockstar energy drink, the adrenaline from running up and down 4 flights of stairs, coughing up blood and an extra lung, and trying to sleep in a hot room...this whole sleeping thing isn't really happening. :(

Kill Me Nowwwwww

XDIS homework marathon night.

Started at 4pm.

Ended at 11:57pm.

1 Rockstar and 1 Mountain Dew consumed.

3 papers due.

3 turned in on time.

Holy. Shit. I don't think I should try that again....it'll probably happen, but oh well.

And amg, I feel like my stomach's about to punch its way out of my body....I still can't tell whether it was from the caffeine, the stress of the homework, or the massive amounts of food that I consumed. I don't know why Hot Canadian Bacon has to be such a kickass cook, but he made potatoes, steak, and carrots, then proceeded to describe everything he did to them to the point that all I could think was foooooooood.... :9

It was effin' delicious. So much so, he gave me seconds. Which was more than he gave me the first time. But the second time was when it set in, and ohhh hell....I'm still feeling the effects. D:

I'm still feeling that Rockstar and Mountain Dew, too. I've been shaking since 11pm, and now it's just past 1am...holy crap. And I have to be up by 9 to go to Sioux Falls with the family to get my replacement lens, then probably do whatever...oh yeah, I need to fix the choker for my Alice outfit. :3

Sad thing is I have to be back by the night, but oh well. I can get things done pretty quickly. Apparently I was able to write three papers in about 8 hours...which was actually a lot short than that, considering the amount of procrastination and multitasking I was doing. :P

And since I was here at the front desk the whole time...yeah, HCB didn't help matters. Mostly with the food. But as I think between the studying and exhaustion, he's getting that semi-irritatedness that he had the other night again. You can tell that he gets frustrated when he has to work...and if that's a reaction to when he's got 100 problems, bitch included...well then. o.o

....aha, he's now going to bed. Supposedly. Lulz. And I'm still hyped up on sugar! Which will probably mean shower time before I go to sleep, then home. :3

Losing My Muchness

Productivity isn't in my vocabulary today...I've had pretty much the entire evening to work on it, but do I? Of course not. Haaa...

Last night wasn't too bad at the front desk. I at least had Michelle and Terrance to keep me company through most of it. I did have one interesting experience though, I had one of 3rd Beede's residents named Danny say that he needed to ask me a question. It went something like this:

Danny: I have a ? for you
Me: Yesssss?
Danny: Will you be my gf?
Danny: lol
Danny: jk
Me: Bahahaha!
Danny: but really
(Pause that went much longer than expected)
Danny: do you know any notary of the publics?

It was a very funny joke, but if he weren't....I'd have no effin' clue what I'd do. Other than say no. Because honestly, I'm not lowering my standards again. And one of those standards is that the guy is older than me. :/

I was totally gonna tell Hot Canadian Bacon about it that night, too, but he never came back to the front desk. Apparently he had spent the rest of the night cursing out managerial finance, as he hates anything involving numbers. Ironic, since he's getting a master's in business. :P

Speaking of which, HCB was in a bad mood tonight. I'd been at the front desk when he finally came back from the library (or where I assumed he had been), only to be promptly attacked from all sides by Kati, Bobbi and Alex about receipts and charge cards for programming crap. He looked tired as it was, but damn...I rolled on over to him in meh chair, and was there for all of three seconds when he said "I don't wanna talk about it" and walked off. So I sat there and stared after him with the look of o.o

Although, I wasn't going to bother him about it. Didn't send a text or follow after him. If he wants to talk, he knows he can...and he sort of did. About ten, fifteen minutes later after I went back to my room, I got a text from him actually apologizing for being so short with me earlier. I guess I was more surprised than anything else that he'd been willing to apologize right then, much less realize that he really kinda was. I just told him that it was cool, and that I'd either expected it a little or just knew that he was being worked too hard. But I made sure he knew that if he needed anything, I had his back. :P Even though I do kinda know that he would've sent that text to anyone, because he does have his guilty moments. There's been times that he'd say he won't go and keep Michelle company while she smokes outside because he has homework, and he'd go and do it anyway because he'd feel guilty. But it's better than nothing.....mostly because for a short time I'd wondered if he was actually mad at me about something. :/

Then later we went to Dairy Queen with Michelle and Jessie. And yes, it was a glorious trip filled with way too much food for 10 pm. :P

And just because I can point it out, sometimes I feel like I take one step forward and two steps back. Just sayin'. Freaking blondes...

Fuck, I'm watching Alice in Wonderland and I'm having a hard time staying awake. Moreso because I still have homework to finish up, or at least some of it. D:

Double fuck, it's almost 3:30 and I still want to shower. Do I dare put off the paper portion again so that I can actually get some sleep? Gah.... :/

I'm Most Productive at 2 AM...

I don't know if I'm going to blog about Monday. I admit, I fucked up Sunday night, and I think I paid for it all of Monday. So to cover the past couple of hours....

I've been surprisingly studious tonight, getting things done! I managed to type up the stories for the Honors Association tunnel tours and email them to Katie, then find and edit the rules to Beede's Quidditch match they're going to hold on Halloween....oh yes, fun story there. We thought up of having a Quidditch match. Those who were most interested were Laurel and the rest of Beede staff (of course not Mick, we can't get shit done most of the time :P ), and Hot Canadian Bacon was totally on board with it. What was I able to bring to the table? Oh yeah, Sioux Falls Quidditch League. So I found the rules on the Facebook page and let Laurel & HCB edit the rules so that it fit their match. I then edited it in Word and emailed/printed a copy for HCB. Oh yesssssss.

The rest of the night has been a study session. HCB and I took residence in the HD office, where he's working on his notes for tomorrow's test and I'm working on French and, well, everything else. :P

Granted, we're on totally opposite sides of the room. Which is how I'm able to get away with this whole blogging biz. But hey, at least he doesn't have his headphones in this time...

Today Is a Good Day

Hmmm, how to sum up today.....it was pretty much amazing, despite this headache that decided to form now. To start, I went to bed at 3am (as per usual pretty much). Woke up at 9am. Stayed in bed till 9:30. Finally rolled out of bed to prep for my adventure to Sioux Falls with Sam and Jean. Found out that Sam didn't wake up till 10, wait for her to come pick me up, and we hit the road at 10:45. Our blessed road adventures then involved many Canada jokes, singing badly to Sam's iPod, and rocking out to cheesy pop and hip hop music. Oh yes!

Our first and main stop was at the mall. Had to wander around the entire thing so we could make all the stops, which included visiting Sam's friend John as he worked at Hollister and wandering through Abercrombie & Fitch. It was so amusing, we walked into Abercrombie and Sam & Jean start coughing up a storm from the cologne. I apparently just stop breathing to ignore it. :P We also did some Halloween shopping at the Halloween Boutique and Spencer's. Lots of debating about what to get for Sam and Jean, but it was worth it!

Best shopping of the day: Victoria's Secret. Oh yesss. I'd told myself that I'm going to walk out with SOMETHING from the store, and indeed I did. Three pairs of underwear and a bra to match one of them. Bright red. Holy crap. :3

We then went over to Last Stop CD Shop to see if I could find a cheap copy of Alice in Wonderland. Sad thing was they didn't have a standard copy available, but they checked the Blue-ray copies...and whadya know, they had a Blue-ray/standard/digital copy disc available. $15. I snagged that shit up so fast... :D

However, now Sam likes to call Hot Canadian Bacon my boytoy. I don't know what to think about that...I told them that he doesn't like me that way, as far as I can tell at least. And he still believes that he can't date any of the other staff, much less students. But if he were....amg. :3

Speaking of which, still on the fence. He's still on the belief that of the women he's attracted to, it's the psychotic/bitchy women. Or at least the ones where you don't know they're psychotic till much later. I figured why not try and threw out there "Vicious?" And he nodded slowly staring off into space. The amusing part? He said the reason I'm his #2 on his desperate-measures-to-get-American-citizenship-CA-marriage list was all because of the viciousness, right behind Sarah. He's yet to update that list lately, so hmm. >.>

Sarah is so very accident prone, too....with her sleepwalking and anxiety medications to help her sleep, she had a nice large scrape just below her eye when she showed up for CA class today. Our running joke since then was that I punched her in the eye, and that's how she got it. I'm quite proud of my work then, lol! And yes, it's a joke I'll take pride in, considering I've actually never punched anyone in the face...plus I'm not exactly built for it. Too damn small to throw a decent punch. :P

Also, random fact: Apparently Thursday night was a lot crazier than I knew. Could we say...HCB's staff member Dillon may want to duck quicker the next time HCB goes in to kiss him on the cheek. Bahaha!

Not Meh Problem

Freshmen: The most....ah hell, screw sarcasm. They're the worst problem solvers I know. You were looking for me tonight? Yo, you left that note at 1:30 AM at the earliest. 3 AM at the latest. Why the eff are you looking for me at that time?

How about this.... 1) If I'm not in my room and you're too lazy to go check the front desk, GO ASK TAIT. He doesn't bite, even if he is quiet. But I'm not your only CA.

And 2) You know, all of you girls use Facebook to contact your friends. Yet only one of you has voluntarily added me on Facebook. Hmm....ever thought of contacting me through there? Or is that too difficult for you? Now have I made myself clear? :)

Meh, I don't feel much pity for people searching for me that late at night. This is college. I can be at any number of places: At the library, at home, on vacation, with a friend on another floor, blah blah blah....and considering how often I've had problems trying to find residents during normal waking hours, I don't feel much pity.

For some reason, I have a bad feeling that the note might've had something to do with a resident puking in their room. No confirmation of that, but considering how the residents were tonight...it is possible. And for that, I say they can handle it anyway. It's in their private residence, and we're not their maids. However, I'd be able to help just as a friend, but uh-uh, I'm not the person to ask if you want it cleaned up by someone else. >:/

Entertaining Myself....GO

This is the time where I come up with useless crap to say to entertain myself while working at the front desk from 2 to 6, while everyone else mills is coming and going to tailgating and the football game. Which starts at 4. Gahhhhh....

2:18 - I had just realized that I let Hot Canadian Bacon's real name slip in one of these posts. Good luck finding it, though, because it comes up multiple times, yet I wasn't speaking of the same person. Frigging luck there, right? :P

Amp is an all right replacement for when I can't get my Dr Pepper fix. But only all right, but not quite satisfactory or excellent. I also just noticed the reason that I've always thought Amp tasted like a hyped-up Mountain Dew.....Mountain Dew's on the can. Huh.

Last night in our cologne conversation, HCB let it slip that he was wearing Drakkar Noir at the time. I freaked out a little bit. Mostly because when I was younger, that was my favorite of all favorite colognes. For a pretty obvious reason...

Oh yeah. :D

Speaking of which, I'm thinking of making another Harvey Prince purchase. Before I absolutely had to get the Eau Flirt scent that had come out, just a little bit of it, which was my splurged present to myself last year. Now apparently they came out with a body lotion with the scent or something, which I'd be able to use whenever/wherever etc etc....I'm tempted to buy some. Even if it is wayyy beyond what I would spend at Bath & Body Works. It's so good though... D:

3:02 - Dr Horrible's Sing-Along is epic. For it being such a tragedy, it's so freaking awesome...yeah. And just now, a student and her parents walked by right as Captain Hammer said "The hammer is my penis." AMGGGGG I'm both appalled and can't stop giggling. :D

5:22 - I've got 40 minutes left. Yay! But I had to check in a couple residents because both of their new CAs were gone, and then on top of it I couldn't find the RCC for their room. Grawrrrr...so I had to make a new RCC for them.

5:29 - HCB now knows that I have a blog. Not this blog. But a blog. And holy shit did he pull out of the parking lot fast just now..... o.o Also, we're up 7-6 against UNI. Haaaaa.

6:21 - Umm, where the fuck is my co? He's supposed to work 6 to 8. I'M STILL HERE.

Meh, I'd be here anyway, but at least I'd be at the front desk eating something. Most likely Burger King, since it's right there across the street...fuck I'm hungry, too. :/ My problem is he forgets shit all the time. And I'm so torn.....I want to tell him to get his ass down here now, but at the same time, I wouldn't mind making another two hours' pay. Even though I've got a bit too many hours as it is. :/

Fuck it, I'm going to remind him. I'm done with the move-in guys and I even finished organizing HCB's programming shit already. Speaking of which, I think I'm allergic to programming. It made my eyes physically hurt to look at all the proposals and evaluations...oww.

6:33 - We're now losing 19-7. Ahh well.

11:13 pm - Ahh yeah, so rather than writing a new post, I'm editing. Woo! Well we lost, 19-16 or something like that. Meh, I was stuck at the desk the whole time anyway.

HCB told me he owed me one for helping with organizing his programming crap. I told him he owed me lots of ones. He knew that already though, lulz. This may mean he'll feed me sometime, yuss! He started asking if I like sushi or not, apparently my answer of "Never had it" didn't cut it. Saying yes to fish did, though? I dunno.

Also, Sam and Jean and I have ironed out the details to our Sioux Falls trip tomorrow. 10am we're hitting the road to the mall! Must remember that I also want to do shoe shopping and Last Stop CD Shop...but mostly this trip is for Victoria's Secret. We made a point of it about a week ago. Yay for planning!

Is This Real Life.....

Gawd, my head hurts and I don't know what it's from. Had it since before noon, so who knows what. :/

This morning Jordan and I went soda shopping for the Honors Lounge again. She's finally had it with the soda stocking, more so because she's heard freshmen bitch and whine about the selection of soda in the fridge. Like we care when it's college and all you want is the caffeine intake. So when we were shopping, we were trying to remember the list of what went over well usually....then I saw the Canada Dry. Annnnd it was instantly AMG WE MUST :3

We bought the Canada Dry, along with a bunch of other random soda brands that we don't normally get. They're either going to be pissed, or happy as can be. I'm trying to imagine the reactions of the freshmen if the see the Canada Dry, absolute hilarity because HCB is the hall director to the Honors floor, or hatred because it reminds them of HCB, after he ruined their dance parties in the lounge. :D

With Canada Dry in hand, I was dropped off at the front desk and prepared for my noon to 2pm shift. I prepared by getting myself an Amp. So at 11am I'd had a Canada Dry, finished off by noon when I had an Amp. Finished that off by 1pm. Had part of a Dr Pepper at 3pm, and finished it off at 10. Oww.

During my desk shift, we also just had to have a fire alarm. Stupid freshmen trying to fry tortillas in an inch of oil. An INCH. On 1st Beede, no less, so I could smell it at the front desk when I came back from our door-locking. It wasn't too bad though, thank gawd it was at 1 in the afternoon as opposed to say, now. I swear, if there's an alarm at 3am, we're all going to murder someone...

Then I went out to eat with Jordan at Chea's, which was awesome. Nice time to catch up with her before she goes back home to see her new baby sister, and I got amazing Chinese food! :D I'd told HCB about it beforehand, which made him want Chinese too. I told him he should come along, but nuuuu he wanted to go to Silk Road just two doors down and have whatever to go so that he could eat and work at the same time. And afterward he said the yellow curry he had wasn't that great anyway, so serves him right for turning us down. :3

After that was Despicable Me, which was adorableeee! Probably would've been funnier if I wasn't so tired already, but ah well. It was still so very fluffy. <3

I then held down the desk for Laurel as she worked on a paper. Gawd, I'm resenting the time that I have to write my memo and annotated bibliography for my class....she managed to write her memo in about an hour and a half though, which was pretty impressive. So I edited it while HCB looked at my Cosmo magazine and talked about cologne. /facepalm

Lots of people around tonight, though. The mass of freshmen band geeks that would take over the front desk whenever they came by, Brandie and her friend Patrice coming to practice lighting her baton with HCB for tomorrow's tailgating, the same mass that followed them out there to watch....holy crap, so much estrogen that I'm a little overwhelmed. :/

Laurel's afraid that Brandie just might like HCB after all. And when Laurel's afraid....whoa boy. But she had that extremely wary look on her face, I just gave her the tired look, he got the headshake from me at one point....my head hurts just thinking about it. Long story short, all but three balloons remain out of some 12 or 15 from this morning (they were out for Family Weekend, must make it look all pretty for what few parents we had come and visit!) thanks to HCB inhaling the helium, I'm debating about going to tailgating tomorrow to see more HCB and Brandie or try to sleep in, and HCB realized tonight that he gets at least one friend request on facebook a day, and it's always girls adding him. No surprise there, huh?

Tidbit of the night: HCB said something tonight about how for work, he's going to be spending winter break by going back to modeling. I know he's done it in the past, but I'm starting to wonder if it was just for the benefit of Patrice and Brandie. Because he would, and he always does. :P

High School Is So Over, Kthxbai!

For being about what, two days behind, I've got a bit to cover....so to start.

Wednesday

After my French class, I went back to the dorms to make a call to the attorney general's office. The main problem has been that since September 29, I've been getting random phone numbers calling me, all of them from different states. I always ignored them because I just assumed they were looking for the real Mr. Schlagel again, but then I started wondering.....so I googled the numbers, and turned out that five of them were all connected to this Portfolio Recovery Associates business in Norfolk VA. Great, I had a fraudulent debt collection agency calling my number. I had about three other numbers calling, but those were other suspicious spam calls, so I put my phone on the Do Not Call list Sunday night. Anyway, the attorney's office was very friendly to me on the phone, but they just ended up directing me to the complaint form online. Ugh. So I filled that out when I got back to my room, no big deal.

Not much else really happened until around 4pm, when I was at the front desk enjoying my downtime. No soccer tonight for some reason, instead it was now Thursday night. Which was probably a good thing, because around that time I suddenly had Holly (yes, THAT 401 room again) and Anna (bitchy one who doesn't know where her headphones jack is on her computer) coming to me at the front desk about switching roommates. Well apparently Anna didn't know her roommate Rachel had just gotten the OK to move into her new room. Gah, big mistake telling them that she was moving out anyway, because suddenly Holly was all on the ball about moving her stuff out of 401 and into Anna & Rachel's room, 403. Fuck, Rachel hadn't even gotten her new key yet and they were already trying to infiltrate. Of course they'd at least waited until Holly had finished filling out the room change request, but ahem.....you're supposed to wait till the hall director AND assistant director Lindsay had approved it. So technically, it was an illegal move-in. Ah well. The funny part was that then Sami (vacuum-fail 401) came to the desk saying she just didn't want to live on the same floor as Holly period, so I gave her a form to fill out, also. She was lucky, however, because who had just showed up? Lindsay. So Lindsay was nice enough to fill out the rest of it with her and approve it right there on the spot. Holy crap, now that was generous considering how fucking crazy all these girls have been....

On the upside, today I got an email from Rachel's mom thanking us for the swift room change. Wish it could've been quicker since she'd put in the request two weeks ago and they hadn't gotten to it till then, but ah well. Glad to be of service! :P

I'm still surprised that Lindsay and Kristi approved of Holly's room change, but ah well. Not going to question their logic every time. Meh.

6pm was my astronomy lab, which was all right. More fun was the Walmart trip afterward with Jean to do some shopping. Mostly because I owed Jordan a pair of earbuds. So I also threw in a 24-pack box of fruit snacks and a chicken rice 2-pack to make it up to her. For myself, I got string cheese, Jello cups that were actually the ORIGINAL kind, and a small pumpkin! Quite a successful trip, actually. :3

Thursday

Ahhh, Thursdays are always a bitch because I end up having to work the front desk from midnight to 3am, then get up at 8 for my French class. I was at least semi-conscious this time. Barely. I was trying my hardest to stay awake in Newswriting while listening to our guest speaker (he worked for the Washington Post, it was pretty sweet). XDIS was a special waste of time today because they made it a group work day.....yeah, when we have nothing to work on as a group. Fantastic! So we got as much done as possible, then left to go to the Honors lounge. I love the lounge, it's always fun in there!

Actually, my day didn't really pick up until 6 when I went to the Commons to eat with Kacee and a couple of her residents. After we ate, HCB came up not long after dressed in his soccer gear. Apparently the other team didn't show up, so our team won by forfeit, but that at least made me feel better for not being there. He was also on a mission to get started on a calendar he wanted to put up on the bulletin board next to the Bump (convenience store peoples), but apparently my Co is not a person to ask when you want to get things cut out....and since no one was really jumping at the bit to go to the programming room and help, I decided I might as well. I also added in the fact that I didn't have anything pressing to do since I don't have classes Friday, so I enjoyed listening to HCB bitch a little about that. :3

So I went on an adventure to the programming room with him. It involved a lot of bitching about how crappy the diecut choices were, but how they're so freaking expensive, etc etc....he also had to include Canadian Thanksgiving into the calendar, which made me giggle. It was also a lot of him singing, particularly the same three/four lines over and over that was stuck in his head but he couldn't place what movie it was from.....thanks to him, I now can't listen to Total Eclipse of the Heart without laughing. :P It wasn't a particularly long adventure, only a half hour or so, but it was still fun!

Then of course, he had to get his flirtatious side out when Brandie came to the front desk. It's bad enough when some of the female residents walk by, primarily the ones involved in volleyball or some other sport. Brandie's our twirler for marching band and is a good friend of Laurel's, so I've known her for a little while--but he's also not very subtle when she's around. Which doesn't really seem to help the fact that she found him creepy the first time she met him....I'm almost certain that creepy feeling is still around, just to a tolerable level. She does have the whole athletic, blonde, and over 21 things going for her, however.

I have to admit, I am surprised that I've spent as much time as I have with him the past few days--alone for that matter. Of course, nothing ever happens 'cause he's technically my boss. But to wander around campus & Slagle Hall with him, and now work on bulletin board stuff, that's pretty cool. I still don't know why he felt the need to share that he gained about 12 lbs in the past week because of his shitty gluten-filled diet, but I'm not taking for granted the fact that he was willing to share that with me. And it's always little stuff that I pick up, too--like how today I learned that one of his favorite bands is Led Zeppelin. Random things like that.

I'm starting to wonder if I've done too good of a job hiding the fact that I like him. It's not a bad thing because I don't have to worry about what the other CAs would think or what repercussions would happen, but at the same time, it may take some work to dig out of that hole when May comes around....but at the same time, I'm not one to say "You have to wait for the next 7 months until you can start dating again" because wtf? Meh... oh well.

All right, two things to accomplish before I go to bed: Put up posters, and take a shower. Now go!

French Homework Can Wait

Holy craaaaap has this been a busy few days. To sum up the weekend, I did indeed get to go home! Friday night was getting to go out to eat and do some Kohl's and Target shopping, and Saturday was yet more Kohl's shopping with some Kmart and Walmart stuff thrown in. Then I suddenly learned that my parents broke down and bought a new desktop computer a couple weeks ago! Of course, they ended up waiting till I came home to set up the computer, which was fine with me. That meant not only did I pretty much do it all, but I got first dibs on turning on our new 6 GB RAM and 1 terabyte hard drive space computer with a 20" monitor...amg. I had a small nerdgasm playing with it all that night.

Of course, it's now relatively small compared to the some 6 terabytes and 4 GB of RAM all on a 42" screen that Hot Canadian Bacon used when he had his multimedia business....wtf. But hey, someone to talk awesome gadgets with.

Then Monday I had a relatively busy day. I had a dentist appointment at 11am, followed by lunch at the Olive Garden with my parents, my uncle and my aunt. It was quite enjoyable, even though I wasn't very talkative compared to other times. After lunch we then made an impromptu stop at the eye doctor's so that they could take a look at my frames. I know one frame is slightly thicker than the other, but I didn't remember it sticking out past the frame just a little bit...also, the cracks on the side weren't a good sign. I gave the guy my glasses and he said that they were just stress cracks, but that they'd like to see the lens replaced. All I can hope is that it's still under warranty, because then it'd be no problem.

Good news from Monday was that I got my costume in! So now that I have it, I can contemplate getting a petticoat skirt and a pair of shoes for it....but I'm not sure. I was also surprisingly productive since I didn't have class and a crapton of homework to do.

Then there was today. Had  a quiz in my French class, which went pretty well considering I was prepared for it. Plus the crazy Moroccan professor (who officially has no problems with pointing out he's Arab and makes racist jokes) didn't critique me on my pronunciation today, even though he had me read out loud the most difficult of the new French words...at least in my opinion they were. And I'm one of the more experienced in the class. :P

Afterward I went to the Honors lounge to put up our Soda: 50 cents sign. No biggie. Then I chilled at the lounge with Jordan, basically taking advantage of my nothingness time. Went to my 11am class after that, but I feel like shit at the moment because I had borrowed Jordan's pair of earbuds for the class, and forgot it in the classroom. Fuck me..... :/

Then it was on to XDIS. Ohhh XDIS, how horribly we hate you....according to Jordan, they can't even find professors willing to teach the class, now. And for having an annotated bibliography and memo due on the same day, it's a pain in the ass. We also have to do consultation appointments with a "writing fellow" aka the freshmen English professor grading our individual assignments, and a research librarian. A librarian who no one can get ahold of, and when we try to come and see him when he's working, he's nowhere to be found. Ugh. The professors were smart at least and postponed it for next week Friday for them to be due, but my consultation with the English prof is tomorrow, and all I've gotten done is finding sources. Fuck me twice....

Psych of Sex was all right, though. It was a rather depressing topic, with a little bit of contraception followed by overpopulation. The cool part was that one of my residents sat in on my class. Aggie had to do it for her First Year Experience deal, where she had to sit in on a 300 or 400-level class, and what do you know, I have two....XDIS and Psych of Sex. Which one is the more appealing of the two? Oh yes....I just hope that the topic didn't deter her from considering the class later, because there are good days and there are bad days in the class...meh.

After that was Yote Floats at the MUC. Yussssss! Now the day was finally getting interesting. I got my float and hung out with Skye and Andrew, got to ask Kristi and Lindsay about online room change requests (ohhh we'll get to that later), and pretty much had an awesome time. Once I was done and contemplated going back to the dorms, here comes Hot Canadian Bacon walking by. So with my questions answered, I ran over and started walking with him wherever he was going. I had nothing to do for the next half hour anyway, might as well make it useful. So I walked across campus with him from the MUC to Slagle Hall to go search for the laminating center. Ahhh, so carefully hidden in the basement....how entertaining. I kept running into Jordan though, so while HCB went into the laminating center the two of us stood in the hallway and chatted it up.

HCB was finally done with some ten minutes to spare before my 4pm meeting, so he ended up walking back to the MUC with me. That was when we had our multimedia conversation. It's always entertaining in some way or another when talking with him, though.....he also has no problems sharing his weight. Such as the fact that his gluten intake was wayyy too high this past week, which throws the whole weight thing out of whack.... Yet he's so very self-conscious of his image that it's almost ridiculous. What is this I don't even..... D:

But anyways. Went to my 4pm meeting with Jeff and some fellow CAs for our selection and recruitment stuff, conveniently and adorably called CARS. We got about 5 or 10 minutes of work done in what was a 40 minute meeting, which was quite hilarious. The majority of that time was spent talking about Gatorade athletes and pancakes. LOTS of pancakes.

After that was some sporadic work done, dinner with Kacee and Rachel and friend, and a little bit of hanging at the front desk. Next was Glee, then a little bit more productive work time aka putting up posters, then it was back to the front desk to bother meh co-CA about programming stuff. I made sure to thank him for helping out with it all because I hate it with a passion...he doesn't like it too much either, but I made sure to thank him extra. :P

I would've totally made it back up there earlier if it hadn't been for constant distractions. Then at about 11 my resident Rachel came down asking for some assistance....aka backup. Her and her roommate haven't been getting along for the past few weeks, and Rachel's put in a room change request, but she did it the online way...meaning not only does Kristi NOT have it so she could get it done ASAP, but no one has approved online requests up until about a week ago. They're just now starting on that shit. And what happens? Twice in a week I've had Rachel coming to me because she's scared of what her roommate might do. And yes, Anna is a very angry one....sometimes I wonder if she's capable of throwing things, but I wouldn't put it past her. So finally I had to listen to both sides individually tonight, along with a good chunk of time putting them in the same room and have them talk it out between each other. Hey, don't shoot the mediator.

Basically, best choice I had was to email Lindsay and ask what I could do and/or if they could expedite this like NOW. Problem was, I'd no idea if it'd even be worth the time. Then was HCB gonna be any help? Of course not. For one thing, Rachel was standing right next to him at the entrance to Beede because she was going to spend the night with a couple friends--I refused to be the bitchy one to say "Hey, could I ask about a room change request Lindsay's got, can I get her to do it like now?" when Rachel's right there. However, the "Hey, I need to talk to you in your office right now" didn't work either, which pissed me off a little more than it should've. Thank gawd I had his cell number so I could text it, but I was getting seriously frustrated...

I took my anger out by listening to Cee Lo Green, though. Of course, HCB absolutely loves 'Fuck You', and I'm using the song against him to release some stress....how ironic.

Then to top it off, I have to call the attorney general tomorrow after French class. Now, my phone's gotten strange phonecalls as it is for a guy Jon Schlagel (which is eerily pronounced like Slagle). I just ignore any of the numbers I don't recognize and/or don't have the South Dakota area code, but these were coming pretty regularly. Googled the numbers, and it turned out that five of them were known numbers of a fraudulent debt collection company. What was on the news just Sunday night when I was home and actually there to watch the news? A story on fraud debt collectors using scare tactics. They also conveniently provided a phone number and link on contacting the attorney general so that we could make them stop calling. Even though the link wasn't much help because I couldn't quite pin what my problem was on the site, I'm just going to call tomorrow and see what they could do to help. I also have three other numbers who never left voicemails and are possible spam calls, so we'll see if they can take care of that too.

I wonder if I should even bother trying to dash out an annotated bibliography for tomorrow's little XDIS chat....nahhh.

I'm also hoping that there's soccer tomorrow. I could use the wind-down time. :P

Evolution of Soccer

I never appreciated soccer growing up, because it was always the youngsters who were (and still are) recruited the most for summer soccer teams. I was one of the few who didn't want to be on a kiddie soccer team.

I then learned to appreciate soccer from international teams. I particularly like Brazil and Portugal on the world scene, but Manchester United's pretty good, too. I also have a poster of Cristiano Ronaldo in my dorm room. But I'm never going to choose the US over another team....meh, just don't see them as a threat to be reckoned with when it comes to soccer.

I think I may go to soccer games more often, now. :P

I have other shots, but they're much angrier, lol.

Karma's a Bitch...Or Is That Me? :P

It's official, Hot Canadian Bacon went drinking last night. He also thought he went to McDonald's for food, but he couldn't remember that part when I saw him earlier this morning. Combining the alcohol with greasy extra doses of gluten, and he felt like shit the entire day. He looked fine by the nighttime, mostly because the hangover part had subsided, but his stomach was hell. But considering I was in the basement and could hear him talking at the front desk, which is pretty damn loud, I think he's fine.

Also considering the shit pulled last night, I didn't feel too bad when I talked extra loud for him while walking to class. He most definitely had the sensitivity to light and sound deal going. All he had to do was walk out of the dorms to the front desk and it was instantly "Owww bright lights..." :P

For some reason, sometimes I wonder if I shouldn't give him so much crap....then I remember that being excessively nice is just as annoying as being, well, excessively annoying, so I'm trying to maintain that balance. Be nice one night and put everyone's schedules on Excel sheets, make his hangover feel like hell the next. Makes it a lot less obvious that I find him ridiculously hotttt......grawr.

In other news, one of my residents wants to sit in on one of my 300 level classes for her FYE class. Hmmm, have her witness the shitty XDIS class, or have her witness porn in Psych of Sex. If she joined in on XDIS, she'd certainly make the class a whole lot more interesting! As for Psych of Sex, I think she'd do just fine handling the class. And most all of the videos are voluntary, so she doesn't have to watch anything she doesn't want to watch. But hey, now I can say I hung out/studied with one of my residents this week! :D

The other highlight of the day was hanging out with a ton of my fellow high school friends. It was pretty damn awesome! Primarily because it was two or three hours of hanging out with Libby, Greg and Jake from SDSU, who we rarely get to see because USD & SDSU is two hours apart. Libby wants to transfer down here so badly, it's...well, awesome. They're quality people overall! And while SDSU has it's finer points, it's just not the same if someone doesn't click with the campus. And USD has done a fantastic job with the clicking. But I wouldn't be so quick to give the credit to student services.....the sheer fact that student services wants us to make an effort is big in itself. I'm still frustrated by their insistence on us spending every moment of our lives with residents, but that's cool. :/

There's lots of whispering going around. With Dillon, with Teresa, with Michelle, always with Matt....dayum. And I never get in on this gossip. Partially voluntary, partially involuntary. Hmmm.

Payday, or Gossip? Gahhh!

This has been a Twilight Zone night. I swear. From midnight to 1:30, it has been dead at the front desk. The most entertainment for me was watching Glee, which was actually kind of depressing. Get done with that, and I start working on French homework. I did have to call in a noise complaint because a couple girls said that they could hear someone's bass from second floor, so I had to call the CAs on duty to go check it out.

1:30 rolls around, and who's standing at the little window looking out from Beede? Hot Canadian Bacon. Both him and Chris had come out from his apartment, so I'm assuming they had some time off tonight. Which I'm not going to lie, HCB really needed some time away from school and work.

Speaking of that noise complaint, when Brookney and Jessie went up to investigate 2nd floor, there was no noise whatsoever. Can't pinpoint it at all, go back to first floor, and guess who it was really coming from....HCB's apartment. WTF?

Then after HCB came out of his apartment, he was standing by the pop machines chatting it up with some kids. Of course, I couldn't see who they were, but I knew when not only Brookney and Jessie left Beede, but Kacee and Sarah were also in on the social hour.....well that was weird.

And in an even stranger twist of events, when Chris left HCB's apartment, who was following behind him trying to hide? Michelle. Which meant that either she went out drinking tonight, orrrr....hmm. She was doing pretty good at nonchalant when she came back in though, so I'll have to see what I can get out of Sarah when they get back from their smoking break. >.>

Aha, she did indeed go out drinking. :P

Just to add to the messed up night, I was looking at pictures from my high school variety show rehearsals. Holy crap, they had some 10 teachers having a sword fight on the stage for a skit, the pictures alone were absolutely awesome!

Holy crap, will there be questions tomorrow, lol.

Heh

It didn't dawn on me until this morning. My supplier of Mexican Coke is the Canadian. Borders anyone? :3

I'm now debating about watching some soccer this afternoon before going to lab. Hmmm.

Venting is Goooooood....

You know, I thought I'd start off with saying that I'm not usually one to complain, but I think I probably do. A lot more than I would admit to. But there is a couple things I want to get off my chest.

It's sad to admit, but at this time, I'm pretty sure everyone hates their job. I know I hate some parts of being a CA, I know many others are feeling stressed by it in some aspect or another, and Hot Canadian Bacon is so stressed to the max that people are rumoring that he's quitting. Which I know for a fact isn't true, because he can't afford it and has nowhere to go basically. Strange/harsh to put it that way, but it's true in a sense. The dorms are the hall directors' homes, and if they want or need a night off, it's nonexistent. Seriously. And I'm not going to lie, but in my opinion, HCB's got the shitty job of trying to juggle shit programming while managing graduate classes, tests, etc etc...and since he's in the graduate business program, it's double the pain. He's got to get either a B or higher in every class or he's out. Arguably, it's just as difficult as law school, if not more difficult. But what do I hear from Kristi about? How hard it is to last through two three-hour classes in a row. Yeah, it's annoying, but let's see you handle HCB's schedule. It's becoming apparent that grad school for adult and higher education isn't nearly as difficult as the business school is turning out to be. Oh yeah, you're also supervising desk work. Easiest job in the world to manage, considering how she doesn't spend half the time that HCB does out here at the desk.

Speaking of which, I turned in an effing time away request Monday night. It's now Wednesday morning, and I've yet to have her sign it. Where the hell was Kristi all of today that she couldn't check her mailbox and sign a tiny piece of paper?! >:/  If you're not going to check your mail regularly, don't give us crap about not getting posters up in a timely fashion...grawr.

My main qualm is the fact that the higher-ups, aka the directors of Student Services just don't know how crazy our schedules are as students as it is. I can gladly show them just how effin' busy my schedule is. I'm just about to believe that my schedule has finally settled down, and BAM we're informed by Kristi that they want us to have weekly dinners with our residents. BULLSHIT. I'm seriously getting sick of the emphasis on having a 'relationship' with our residents, when what they really want is for us to be every resident's best friend. As of now, I've done a pretty effective job of nearly cutting off all my friends from last year, save for when I spontaneously run into them somewhere. I just don't have the time to plan a date with my own friends, much less my residents. Let me put it this way.....

Honors Association is just as shitty as ever. I'm starting to believe no one has even considered tunnel tours this year, which has always been a moneymaker for us. Where's fundraising planning all this? Oh wait, it's not them, right now it's me that's brought up tunnel tours, and reminding them of exec elections, and everything else.......you know, I think that may be a program. Taking kids to tunnel tours. I think that released a small programming bug I've been having....phew. But that still doesn't help entirely, because this is HONORS Association.

There's my second point. I honestly spend a ridiculous amount of time with residents--it's just that not all of them live on MY floor. Because I'm in Honors, I'm friends and/or are familiar with many of Laurel's residents on 2nd Beede. Because I'm an Honors mentor, I've got mentees that not only live on 2nd Beede, but Kayla lives on 1st Mickelson. I've got friends that live on 4th Beede, 1st Olson, 1st Richardson, 3rd Beede...Essentially, I've met and befriended a ton of residents. But they don't technically live on my floor. And even though my residents say they love me, and I chat with them whenever I can, I feel like shit because I'm not able to say that I went to have dinner with them, or that I've done all these events with them, blah blah blah.

Shall I also mention that students are getting busier as the year goes on? To put it simply, even my friend Sarah in 1st Richie has noticed that kids are just so busy that even programs don't look as appealing. And when residents are noticing this, it's just a little bit ridiculous. But are they going to slack off on the programming requirements? Oh hell no. But they should.

Then to top it off, Jeff is leaving by the end of the month reportedly. He's most definitely leaving because of his wife's new job, but as to when, we're only speculating. HCB doesn't know the exact time of when, but I've heard the end of the month. Who knows. Then again, rumors are going effin' nuts this year, it seems. Particularly around HCB, which isn't fair to him. Basically, girls are having just a little too much fun trying to claim they've had a chance at HCB. Which is frustrating for him, because not only is he getting zero action, but he's discovered that his job puts him somewhere between the gray zone of student and staff. He's a staff member, so he can't go out and drink with students. But because he's a student, he can't do the same with staff. Supposedly. And supposedly, that also applies to dating. And simply put, that'd mean he wouldn't be able to date anyone affiliated with USD period. Which is why I say supposedly, because I find that extremely unlikely. Especially when another hall director Dan just now is in a relationship with another grad student, and it's no big deal. Other rumors included him deciding to quit. And even I'm getting tired of hearing the rumors, just because he doesn't deserve all the crap.

If any of them involved me, fuck me now. :/

Mehhh....HCB fed us Totino's again tonight. He also gave me and Dillon a couple bottles of Mexican Coke, because it's epic. Plus I mentioned that I loved the stuff, but can only ever find it at Ace Hardware. So he and hall director Trapper went to Sam's Club and bought a ton. :3

I had a test today, which went well I think. I got an 84 on my Astronomy test, which probably could've gone better. But oh well. I had a lovely conversation with Jeff in the university center about journalism, SDSU, his time at KELO and his experience with multimedia, etc etc. I'm also going to order my Alice costume as soon as I'm done with this post.

Which shall be now. :P

Dakota Days Recap Continued

Today's homemade food of the day: Twice baked potatoes with bacon. See? I ask for bacon, and I shall receive. It might've taken almost a day to deliver, but it did! :D

Also, I think I have a migraine today. But earlier no amount of closing my eyes and putting pressure on my forehead was making the pain go away. Owww....so I put in my contacts and have been wearing my sunglasses. Indoors. Because I'm fucking awesome like that, of course! ;)

Today was nice, I went to bed at 5am and woke up close to 1pm. I almost took a nap at 3, but the shit room 401 who can't take out their garbage had a lightbulb shatter. It was pretty crazy, mostly because it had broken a glass of orange juice too, so there was orange juice and glass everywhere.  :/ I'd like to know where Tait was at this time, because seriously, I'm not good with cleaning up liquids and glass mixed together. Mehhh....

However, my floor likes to tell me I'm the greatest CA ever. I'm just too fucking lazy to tell them to shut up nonstop, particularly when no one has complained yet. If they start the running and bouncing balls again then I'll crack their ass, but since they're just naturally loud, I'm not going to rail on them constantly. They're not loud at 2 or 3 in the morning, so I'm content.


I can't think of anything else to say.....other than that I've yet to put up my door decs and bulletin board. The door decs are all right, I got the ok from Kristi to hold off on them until after Dakota Days since my floor has had issues with people writing GABE on them all and now setting them on fire.....oh I didn't mention that earlier? Oh yeah. They decided it'll be better to roast a door dec than a mashmallow. Fucking hell.....they really need to learn about who they bring around if they're bringing arsonists around. Damn.

Good thing Dakota Days is officially over, because this is the craziest weekend ever...It was hilarious and all, what with Sarah's brother visiting the front desk because he can't remember where he is, then chasing a cop car for three blocks only to trip and roll, followed by the cop coming out and yelling "Safe!", then the two kids from 3rd Beede dressed as Captain America and a strange variation of Batman running down the breezeway, then playing Uno with Hot Canadian Bacon and the rest of the kids, then the 24-year-old who had wandered in looking for a friend and was totally blacked out because he couldn't remember what he said 15 seconds ago, and his friends came down with one of my residents--oh that's an interesting story. This girl's name is Emily, and she was dating this guy Zach on 3rd Beede. She was most definitely with Zach that night. She then proceeded to stand at the front entrance of the complex and made out with this totally stranger dude. And I'm just watching going Holy shiiiiiiiiiit! Yeah, they're over with. :/

We also had epic conversations with Sam the DPS guy. He came in with his bike and hung out with us, and Kacee randomly asked him "Hey, do you have a beating stick?" So he takes it out and shows it to her, and she asked "Can I touch your beating stick?"

He not only said "It even extends," but he added "That was a really dirty question." And yes, he showed it extended and everything for us. We were laughing so hard that night, it was AMAZING.

I'm still waiting on ordering my Alice costume. If I get too impatient, I'm just ordering it from Amazon. :/

Duty Night in a Nutshell

1) Drunk people are amusing, but so fucking hard to understand. Either what they're saying doesn't make sense, or you can't understand because they're mumbling everything. Mostly it's that I don't understand what they're saying. Uhhh, why are you asking about how to get to the other dorm? What 'other dorm' are you asking about? The one that's attached by a hallway.....like, on the other side of the front desk? Or across the breezeway? Ohh, you want across from the front desk.....well you're fucked if you don't have a key or ID, because you can't backtrack through 1st floor, your only way out is through the back entrance right there, and only way back through the front doors and into the residence halls are if you have an ID....oops. Not our problem, man.

2) Being on duty with Brett isn't half bad, even if he doesn't really do anything. Watching season five of The Office with him is pretty damn epic! Even though we were watching the Winnipeg episode when we got the text saying we could pack it up and go back to our floors. I think it was the mixture of Canada references and three diet Dr Peppers that was causing me to giggle nonstop near the end. The line "Now get out of my nook! 'That's what she said that's what she said'!!!" moment had me giggling for at least five minutes there.

I take that back. Being on duty with Brett was actually really hilarious. On our first nonstop rounds hour, I had misstepped going up the stairs in Beede, and Brett wondered what I had taken to make me do that. I told him diet Dr Pepper, which was provided by Hot Canadian Bacon, so we joked that HCB had laced the drinks with something.

Then we were promised pizza at 10pm by HCB, which sounded so amazing. 10:30 comes, and no pizza. So we started texting him saying that we wanted food. After about 10 or 15 minutes of deliberation and giggling, our text came out like this:

Us: We'd like some pizza please sir! & bacon. Emphasis on bacon. & Brett wants a canadian stripper. But not you. But mostly bacon. :)

The rest of the conversation went in a similar fashion.

HCB: Ok putting it in right now but I'm the only cdn stripper I know :D
Us: Bahaha! Brett says you don't know enough canadian strippers apparently
HCB: Lol well there's only 7 of us lol
Us: I think that's the wrong kind of stripper you're talking about lol...& we think you laced the drinks with something, I tripped going up stairs on rounds
HCB: Lol sucks to be you!
Us: Bahaha!! Much rather be me with my giggling fits the past two nights & my awesomeness, pfft! & we're waiting on the bacon. :P

It kept on going from there, but no lie, it was Brett insisting on the bacon and strippers. There was also a Canadian bacon reference on The Office that had me giggling far too long, also. As for the number 7, I'm 98% positive that's a reference to his allergy to water or to gluten, it's one of the two. Or maybe he's one out of 11....meh, it'll come up again in conversation at some point. :/

Also, when he came to deliver the pizza to us, he suddenly remembered that he went to high school with a girl who became a stripper. Oh snap.

It's now closer to 5am than I'd like it to be. I was hoping I'd be able to fit in a shower by now, but that's not going to happen now. Mehhh...I've been at that point all night where I find everything giggle-worthy, or I'm so quiet it feels like I could just curl up somewhere and crash hardcore.

Speaking of which, someone decided they'd try and roast door decorations instead of marshmallows on my floor. Door decs. It was just the one, but one was enough for someone to catch him doing it, report it, and get it taken care of. The dude was booted from the dorms, nuff said. But I'm only mildly disappointed I didn't get to see it happen. Only mildly though, because I'd be scared to death if I'd had to have dealt with that on my own. :/

I'm still waiting on my chance to order my Alice costume. It's been sold out for a couple 2-3 days now for the small sizes, it should be available any day now... :(

Annnnd now the sleep has hit me hard. I'm going to go brush my teeth and crawl into bed. Yay for 5am! Gah.

Amg.

I'm officially doomed.

Not only did Hot Canadian Bacon feed me shrimp, asparagus, and white rice.....but I ate it.

And I avoid those foods with a passion.

And I LOVED IT. D:

Fuck. It's official, I'll eat anything HCB feeds me. Anything. But now my hands smell like shrimp, butter and garlic....damn you, awesome cooking skills!

CopyPasta

As of these past two days, I've not had a solid break time to just do nothing....gah. To put it in perspective, my Wednesday went something like this:

9-10am - Class
10-1 - Finally have some time to sleep
1-2 - Eat
2-3 - Class
3-4 - Door decorations due the next day
4-6 - Watch soccer game
6-7 - Lab
7-8 - Tom Brokaw
12-3am - Front desk

Then today went:
9-10 - Class
10-11 - Eat
11-3:15 - Class
3:15-4:30 - Do my part and get soda for the Honors Lounge
5-6:30 - Neuharth reception dinner
6:30-8:30 - Neuharth awards
8:30-11 - Doing more CA work because kids don't know basic manners...
12-3am - Front desk

Although, lots of these really do need to be explained. For instance, the soccer game. Totally didn't have to go, but Hot Canadian Bacon was playing, and it's kinda expected of him to do well....he actually did a lot better than I expected. It was really funny, for a while it was tied 2-2 and HCB thought that the game shouldn't have been that close. But there was one moment where they finally passed the ball to HCB, he's nearly tripped by another guy, and still manages to score. Whistle blows directly after to end the game. Coincidence much? I've no clue....but it was pretty awesome to watch! And plus we had three other CA staff members there, so it was nice just to watch them all play.

Then directly after my lab I went over to the MUC to listen to Tom Brokaw. I had just kinda wandered in, no clue really where to sit, so I just picked the very end of a row near the front. Turned out I was technically in the fifth row from the front, aka last row of reserved seating,  and I didn't even have a ticket....but the lady standing right there let me stay, so it was pretty cool. And yes, Tom Brokaw was AMAZING to listen to!

Part of the reason why I had to say that I did my part with the soda was because I honestly don't know what else is actually getting done with Honors Association. They give me crap for not being able to respond to every damn email during the summer, but the past couple times I sent something to our HA president, she hasn't responded either. Not to mention I finally talked to her today face-to-face, and from the sounds of it they still have no idea what they're trying to organize. Seriously, I ask for them to make lists of who's in what committee, and they haven't bothered yet. I ask about elections and tunnel tours for Halloween that they did last year, and they haven't even thought about it. They can barely send out emails because we aren't using the actual HA email, we're going through Honors Program. So what have I done? Stocked the soda, and am now trying to get ahold of last year's president to ask about how to get tunnel tours started back up. Grrrrrrrr!

Not to mention someone decided to suggest Christina, Honors Association treasurer, to join our student advisory group with Dean Moen. I'm excited for advisory group to start back up, not so much with her, though. Speaking of people who won't keep up with HA goings-on, she said she'd take up on the lounge soda. Guess who isn't! Yayyyyyy... :/ Then on top of that, the meeting's on Monday at 4pm. Same day that I have staff meetings at 7. There's a Welcome Table dinner thing we're putting on at the community center. And Christina's got basically the same schedule between our meeting and sorority meetings. Knowing her, she'll try to fit in Welcome Table, and I just can't do that. So if anyone tries to give me crap about how she could do it, well I'm not going to make the mistake of pushing myself.

Once that was done I had to go to the reception dinner for the Neuharth award. A lot different from when they had Katie Couric, but most definitely for the better. I even got to shake Al Neuharth's hand! :D And I'd barely made it in too, I had to have Mr. Baldwin help get me in because I was a little past the sign-up deadline....but I can't help it that they've got Volante meetings the same time as my lab on Wednesdays, so I'm bound to miss out on some things. And I'm now assistant opinion editor, even though the job's not quite necessary. But our editor's Frank DePaula, and I don't know of many people who thought he'd be amazing at the job, lol. At least I'm there to help.

After that was the Neuharth award presentation deal, which was also very interesting. There was one row a couple rows up that had names on all the seats, the most reserved of the reserved seating. Well behind them was just more general reserved seating, so a couple friends from the Volante and such and I sat in the row right behind the names....so I was one row behind President Abbott and his wife on one side of  me, and the other side Frank Vega's two sons. Vega was one of the award recipients. And the event was televised.....again. Soooo I'm pretty sure I ended up on SDPB tonight. I know they're repeating it Sunday at 1pm, so I'm going to talk myself into watching...but I'm scared. D:

Annnnd now on top of that, I've got new frustrations with trying to send emails about how I can't take on the Volante assignment for D-Days they gave me because I'm on duty every hour that's available, save for maybe two shifts that I'd have to fit in somewhere in my schedule. Not gonna happen sadly. :(

I'm not even going to try and get into the kids on my floor, I'd rather just forget about them sometimes....too much stress on top of everything else. :/

^ All of that was what I emailed to my mom (sans the use of HCB). The parents are getting pissed that I haven't been able to come back on the weekends, much less have the time for them to come down and visit me. But with everything that's going on, it's just too much sometimes. Then last night before I wrote the email, HCB was there for me to vent to about HA stuff. Which was nice of him to stand there and at least semi-pay attention, since he's got his own busy schedules. But as I told him, I'm starting to see how busy his schedule is and why he gets in a bad mood from it all. Grawr.

I really should go do work. Bulletin boards are due tonight and I haven't really started. I have an annotated bibliography due at midnight. HCB went Walmart shopping with Brookney about an hour ago for food, but as I'm about 95% sure that he seriously left at noon to make a quick stop at the bar before his duty officially starts.....well then. lol. But I really should work on the bulletin boards before it gets too late, plus I think Nikki's still working the Ritchie/O desk so I may not have to check out the programming room key. Yussssss....