Living Life Day By Day

I'm graduating with honors!!!

Summa Cum Laude: 3.80 - 4.00 Cumulative GPA

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I'm taking a page from Emily's book and making a to-do list of all the things I will hope to do over Spring Break:

-application for DBT
-application for SAR internship (cover letter, writing sample, resume)
-email my aunt about this summer
-look up Smithsonian internships
-Anthro Club budget for 2009
-anthro readings
-Japanese homework
-start Japanese composition
-start Art History annotated bibliography
-RLST readings?


I'm still in NY so I can't do most of this stuff. Other good things I did before break include:
-Anthro club bake sale
-ordered more "Message from Home" cards from the print shop
-ordered mailing labels for finalgrams
-had orientation for the Humane Society
-finished putting up labels for the Big/Small exhibit

This might be the first time I've had an actual resolution.

Resolution for 2009:
Drop down to 24% body fat because the desirable range for women is 17-24%.

I never really look at weight because who knows if its from muscle or fat. Weight-wise I'm super decent, weighing in at only 123 lbs. However, my % body fat is at 27.8%.

It just means making sure I schedule workouts into my daily routine. And I think my goal is completely feasible. I just need to make sure I don't overstress myself this semester with all my activities and I will be just fine.

Semester GPA: 3.933

Anth375 - Forensic Anthropology: A
Anth380 - Senior Seminar: A-
Japn200 - Third-Year Japanese: A!!!! :D
Must390 - Museum Studies Special Project (aka Native American Awareness Month): A
Musi018 - Guitar: A
Musi051 - Masterworks Chorus: A

Cumulative GPA: 3.852

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I. can't. function.

I am attempting to crank out three papers. Two are due tomorrow. One is due on Tuesday. Ideally I would like to hand them all in tomorrow but that simply won't happen.

:(

Is happiness a feeling or a choice? And does it come from within or with the help of others?

I'd like your input.

OBAMA!!!

It hit me today. We're ending this chapter of our lives.

When Rachel graduates in December, she'll leave and I'll be the last one left from my close group of friends from freshmen year. Jenny and Lana both graduated last spring while I was abroad. I feel so...lonely.

I've made so many friends here and I feel a great heaviness thinking that we won't see each other every week and laugh and talk and smile about the stupidest things. I remember feeling scared that I would lose touch with my close friends from high school after graduation. But now feels different. Now seems so much scarier.

I'm grasping and trying to hold onto the people I love dearly. I'm incredibly scared of losing ties and growing distant. I care about so many more people here than I did in high school. And I think that's why I'm the most scared. This time around, I have so much more to lose.

Freaking apes. Sometimes I wish I could just be a book character so my life can have a happily ever after. Most specifically, right now I want to be Tohru Honda so I could have my Kyo Sohma. I think I'm having these thoughts because of the fanfiction I'm currently working on. :/

My fishy (Jasper) isn't eating. Or if he starts to, he waits a moment and then spits the pellet back out. What should I do? :(

Gah!

( Angry rant in Japanese )

If your computer can't read Asian languages then it will just show up as question marks.

I'm taking a little break right now to unwind before I work hardcore on my school work.

This week was pretty busy. I find myself involved in more things than I really have time for, but it's all stuff that I find worthwhile doing. I've already cut back on a lot of activities that I would like to partake in so I really am down to what matters to me the most.

I'm cutting back on the sorority stuff. I have sent in so many excuses for so many events. I already told everyone I was going to be kind of MIA this semester, and for good reason. My Special Project for Museum Studies is organizing Native American Awareness month again. That will take place in November. I'm working 7.5hrs/week at the Logan Museum in the Collections Department. I am also now the co-president of Anthropology Club which means that I really do have to attend the majority of Anthro Club meetings now as well as go to the Anthro Departmental faculty/staff meeting.

Other little things add up too like my honor society meetings for Order of Omega and Rho Lambda. I've also been going home to work on the weekends sometimes. But...I feel like I'm going to have a really amazing resume by the time I finish school, which is a good thing.

This weekend I went to Indian Summer on Saturday. It's a HUGE pow-wow in Milwaukee. My friend Lia went with me and we scoped out hot fancy dancers. Mmm. I also ate massive quantities of good Native foods (buffalo blanket dogs, frybread pie, sweet corn) and visited with my cousins and my mom. I also went to the farmer's market in Beloit that morning and got LOTS of delicious, yummy cheap produce! Tomatoes, zucchini, sweet corn, apples, honey...

I salivate thinking of it.

Ok, time for homework again! Ciao-ness.

I got my hair cut and now I look like my freakin sister! This sucks!

"Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars - points of light and reason. ...And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was a brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn't see the stars anymore. And there was no reason for anything."

-Edward Cullen, New Moon by Stephenie Meyer

Woot. I actually did alright gradewise my semester in New Zealand.

Anth103 - Musics of the World A
Anth207 - Coming of the Maori A-
Maori190 - Kapa Haka I A-
Biosci104 - New Zealand Ecology B+

I'm back home once again. Ah, back to the mundane.

I'm still severely jetlagged. I suppose it didn't help that my family let me sleep until just past noon today. They're throwing me a big party tomorrow which should be fun. I also opened the refrigerator today and to my great joy there was SOY YOGURT inside. When did Mom start buying that?

Things I need to do this summer:
-turn 21
-clean the house
-fix the house...seriously how do they let it fall apart so much in my absence?
-clean out the garage
-lose the 10lbs I gained in NZ
-fix my knee...that I somehow messed up in Australia

My family has no motivation to clean and they are such pack rats. I swear I'm just going to throw everything away. And they let the house fall apart even more! Now our ceiling is sagging and looks like its just going to come crashing down into the living room at any second. *heavy sigh* I can't do anything about the ceiling, our sinking floor, or the lack of tiles on our roof (which is still being covered in a tarp...ugh), but I'm going to at least look at getting new blinds and curtains for the windows and maybe take some time to repaint the bathroom. I'm hoping that if I scrub down everything and at least consolidate the overwhelming amount of crap piling up freaking everywhere that the house will look...more presentable.

My biggest goal will be tackling the "green room." Once I clean that entire room out, I'm just going to have it knocked down or something. The eastern wall is completely covered in mold and we haven't used it in years. It used to be me and my sister's room until the mold problem that wouldn't even go away after vigorous scrubbing and disinfecting. It's probably the reason I developed asthma in high school because as soon as I moved out it got better.

Honestly, no one should be living in a house like ours. It's a disaster zone.

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For all your old school nintendo needs. They even have ninja turtles. I'm slightly addicted.

Dear Kendall:
We just had honor's day celebration and you were awarded the John W. Bennett, '37 Prize in Anthropology. This prize is awarded to a student or students whose work has most advanced the use of anthropology to address real world issues. We give this award to you for the work you did to increase awareness of Native American issues on campus. I have a copy of the Honor's Day Booklet, an award's scroll, and a modest monetary prize award.
On behalf of the dept,
Congratulation,
Nancy A. Krusko, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair of Anthropology
Beloit College

Forensics (MWF) - 1 unit
Senior Seminar (MWF) - 1 unit
Third-Year Japanese (MWF) - 1 unit
Masterworks Chorus (M) - 0.25 unit
Guitar Lessons (TBA) - 0.25 unit

Total: 3.5 units


I HAVE NO CLASSES ON TUESDAYS OR THURSDAYS!!!



However, I will be (hopefully) working in collections at the Logan Museum. They also didn't add one class to my schedule and I don't know why because I had it approved by Bill Green and everything. But it is Museum Studies Special Project (1 unit). Basically I will just be organizing Native American Awareness Month again but this time for credit.

So I'm working, organizing NAAM again, CAL & Fundraising for AST, and supposedly going to be Anthro club co-President for next semester. What the crap? So much for a nice, leisurely senior year. It shouldn't be too bad though. It's really only my fall semester that is so packed. And really I think it's packed because of NAAM and because I remembered how much work it was. But if I get started on it over the summer, everything should be a piece of cake. Sweet. As.

I've been in New Zealand for two months. Time's going by too fast!!!