I have had a stressful first two days of classes. I needed to get pink slipped (meaning get permission to attend already filled up class). As of right now I am in Art 110, career planning class, and now pink slipped in sociology. But unfortunately my stress is not going to go away until after Thursday. I want to be creative and draw and keep drawing. It is something I like to do and something I need to do to be happy and fulfilled. As of right now I am waiting to be allowed into a descriptive drawing class if I am not going to be able to be in the class then I will have stress of monstrous proportions. I will only have 12 credits of which I have right now but I need more credits about 16 so I need to find a class ASAP. As of right now I am just in a inbetween period and hopefully after this week I will be settled, calm, and get in the right pace to finish my last quarter of my first year here. Well I have to go and do some things so I will inform any one who cares about my classes if I got into art. Bye.
- posted by Katie @ 9:18 PM

 
Still processing new classes so it might be a few days before I let you all know about them....we will see how it ends up...
- posted by Katie @ 12:02 AM

 
first day of spring classes...hmmmm...
- posted by Katie @ 8:54 AM

 
Ok so back from a week fun-filled spring break week. Most people spend their spring break in Florida, cancun, Bahamas, or/and down south somewhere or home with family. I spent my spring break in Athens, oh and let me tell you it was fun. I was sick pretty much all week, I went swimming with my cousin who couldn't go into to Ping because of his age, cleaned out my grandmother's car, by the end of the week I got better so I took my grandmother out for a birthday dinner at damon's. The rest of the time I was relaxing, taking naps, and watching television. Maybe next year will be better *wink* *wink*(dad). Just kidding :) well I am trying to settle in the dorm room before Jaime my roommate comes. She might come tomorrow because her earliest class on Monday is 3pm.
it is spring let me tell you...I was born in the spring but I hate it because I get sweaty and hot and red faced and it is just embarrassing to have those side effects. I love winter and fall because if you are cold and freezing you can slowly layer and unlayer if necessary but in spring it is just muggy and sticky and sweaty.
well only 10 more weeks before I get to see my parents after 4 months of not seeing them, getting a job for over the summer and finishing my first year at college. What a accomplishment that is (if you knew my history you would understand). I guess I will change the title of my blog after that because it is not a new experience anymore.
bye.
- posted by Katie @ 1:56 PM

 
If anyone out there has been in finals week at college then you probably know what I mean here: It's Finals week....Enough said there...Finals week. Well have to go study...Well not exactly I am relaxing because tomorrow I am going to be reading and lots of it.
- posted by Katie @ 10:42 PM

 
I am not going to be writing for a long time because this is the last week of classes then finals. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH FINALS :( don't think about. Nothing is going to be exciting on my blog for about three weeks because after finals I will not be in the mood to walk over to the library to write. I also wanted to go home for spring break but that isn't going to happen so I just have to deal with Athens, OH :(....I won't see my parents for another 2 months and I haven't seen them in 2 months...So it will be 4 months until I really see them. ahhhhhhhhhhhh I have to looking down at thing. It is just one day closer to seeing them and finding a job. Well I know I will have freebirds to look forward to also. Well have to go and do mucho homework. Bye. Katie
- posted by Katie @ 2:46 PM

 
I have had a tough and long exhausting weekend. This is what happened to me:

I watched a car crash about 25 to 50 yards away from me. I was walking back to my dorm (Jeff) from Baker center. As I reached the top of Jeff hill which is closed off to any vehicle with three white poles about 3 to 4 feet tall. I saw a vehicle coming down the street between Jeff and McCracken (we call the straight away) going about 30 miles per hour (the normal speed limit). Then about three-quarters of the way down this vehicles starts speeding up and thinking to myself they are going to turn sharply into the side street right before the white poles. Instead this vehicle rammed through the white poles at a speed of about 45 to 50 miles per hour. As the car rested a girl and I came running down to see if everyone was okay in the vehicle. As I came closer I saw it was two young men. As the girl and I arrived upon the red truck the driver was getting out and the passenger just sat there with his seat belt on. I asked if they were alright. Was anyone hurt? They said no and shook their head. I told them they should get out of the car because it might be leaking. The driver laid down on his stomach and looked under the car near the blown out front left tire and said it looked fine. Then the girl said that if there was stuff in the car like alcohol, anything that is illegal to get it out. He said he had nothing. Also she said something about getting out away from this situation. He said how could I my truck has no wheels. I can’t drive it. He started picking up pieces of his car and putting in the bed of the truck. He picked up the tail gate and the guarder around the wheel (not the hubcap). He was coherently talking so I decided to walk down the hill and left the girl there with them. When I was in the middle of the side street between Lincoln (a dorm) and the house thing (for utilities) a girl stuck her head out her window of Lincoln. She said she had the police on the phone was this an emergency. I told her that no one was hurt, injured or bleeding, nothing is leaking. Only that someone went through the white poles. As I was walking back to my dorm I saw three cop cars coming. All this approximately took place in a 10-20 minute time period. Now you might think gosh well why was that a big deal. I was at baker center and finally motivated to swing dancing. I arrived back to baker shaking and my friend’s thought I was attacked by a stranger. With all the adrenaline in my system I was shaking and crying and frightened. I could not stand being there and trying to enjoy myself. I was thinking what if this or that? I finally decided to go back Jeff (my dorm) and talk to my mom. When I called her said three words and fell to pieces. She was worried I was attacked by someone but later found out I was full of adrenaline and realizing the severity of what happened to me. By Sunday morning I was doing alright, although I had to go give a written statement to the police of that I saw to them.

Also as sunday arrived I had to go write a statement between 3 to 11 at the police station but before that this is what happened:

I was talking to my brother (who is 2 years older than I am) when a friend of mind came in the room completely balling her eyes out. She told me that she had taken 15 to 20 pill of ibforcin (600mg), horse pills. As I heard this I told my brother I had to go because this is an emergency. She was completely falling apart so I decided to take her down to my friend Kim’s room forgetting that she was in the shower. As I was walking down I waved to my RA to come down. As I was talking to my friend and asking her why she did this? As about 30 minutes went by, finally she was taken to the hospital by out RA. As she went and was at the hospital I went to do my written statement. Later on about an hour or so after we (her friends) find out that she got her stomach pump which only recovered 7 pills so about 13 dissolved. Her kidneys were failing and her liver also. As of right now she is getting help by talking to a pscharitrist (therapist kind of) and trying to find medication for her depression. She is doing well and hopefully with continuous help she will slowly recover and become a better, healthy person.

As of right now I feel under pressure because of these two things because I couldn't function with them this weekend. I was indirectly affected but it still is close to home. I am slowly dealing with it but I am in a slump but after Friday I will be happy. I am going to be cooking lots and lots of cooking for a great friend of mine. He has been gracious over this first year so my grandmother didn't have to be forced to change her schedule or risk too much driving just for me to do errands. I am working on trying to catch up on homework but it seems to not be happening. At least I am trying to instead of using my stinky weekend to its advantage. Well got to go to sleep, wake up early, and work on homework before class hopefully I can do it. Bye.

I would also like to add for my brother who was listening to me today(3/2) is to say "Thanks." It means a lot to have a brother like you. Also with your new experiences with talking to people about problems was very helpful and needed. It made me understand what I am feeling about this weekend. It opened my eyes to opportunities I have here if i need help at college. Love you bunches your sis.

- posted by Katie @ 12:16 AM

 
I haven't written in awhile...I am really busy and on top of that, I had a hard weekend to handle and fell behind a little. I am getting back on track and slowly catching up but I am push through tiredness. Well I haven't worked out since that one time because the next day I went to defense course (that I am taking at ping(the rec)) and twisted my knee. It has been sore for about a week now. Well have to go write a paper, study for a quiz, do some objectives and sleep sometime. Bye.
- posted by Katie @ 8:37 AM