What the hell? How come everytime I post something it gets deleted? I posted a really sweet one on Becca's birthday. Including many funny anecdotes and a sweet-ass picture. So now all you get is my picture.

Oh, and also, Stephanie, your post reminded me to watch Grey's Anatomy just in time, thanks for being the coolest girl I know.

Along with Becca and Laura...?

Here goes nothing.

you know that show best week ever?

this week would NOT be featured. i've come to the conclusion that all of my teachers got together and said, alright what student can we make life hell for? i know! laura! (i thought about putting my last name but then i thought, what if random creepers are somehow reading this?) anywho i basically have tests everyday monday to thursday and they're all in classes that my grades are very very borderline. so basically this week either makes or breaks me.

luckily i watched gladiator yesterday bc i just finished a test and i needed a break before studying for the other one and i had forgotten how amazing that movie is.

now darlings, i must be off to work, being the best damn library this side of the mississippi.

ciao bellas

Laura: Come bike ride to me and we can pedal off into the distance on a tandem bicycle.

I think I've been bored with college for a while now. It's high time I got myself a major and worked out the kinks so that I actually have something to do with my life, now and in the future.


BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Yeah right. I'm convinced that will never happen. I suck.

Plus, I already know what to do with my life. This picture is proof...





...Aaaaaaaand for some reason it won't post. Well, that's next on my agenda. see you!

love always, AJ

I know...where are stephanie and horndog?

Psshaw.

Totally not my fault.

Ok, now we really ARE sucking at this...

boo.

Tornadoes

Ok, so for those of you not in Iowa City (aka everyone) let me inform you about a crazy night last night.

So we were having a "Happy Night" on our floor with relaxation exercises and stuff and the sirens went off. It was 88 degrees all day and i was laying out by the river that very afternoon.

So we all had to go to the basement of Daum and sat around for about 2 hours. My friend Kim who is from Iowa City was on the phone with her mom who saw the tornado outside her window (her house was fine, it was still pretty far off). My friend Rachel saw it and ran inside. Supposedly two tornadoes touched down in the downtown area. Stephanie, remember when we went to the Old Capital Mall? and where we went for Lunch? A block further south, the tornado hit. It was so scary. Classes were canceled today which was pretty sweet but so many people are without homes and power.

Here are some pictures.

St. Pat's Church:

A row of Houses

The Alpha Chi Omega sorority house :o(

i've developed a new addiction...

and that addiction is cheese-its. now don't get me wrong, i've always appreciated a good cheese it, however i have recently begun eating dinners that consist of only cheese-its. probably not the best idea for someone that is going to a be a dietician. oh well, do as i say, not as i do.

lately i've basically had time to do 3 things: go to class, do homework, and play tennis.

if you've noticed that list does not include sleeping. its not going so well for me. but i'm obsessed with tennis again and i'm not going to give that up. who needs sleep right?

i'm pretty sick of my classes right now. well not so much the classes, more just the fact that i have no free time. oh well, theres only 4 weeks or something crazy like that left in the year.

this weekend was mom's weekend so the majah came down and we had oodles of fun. unlike most people i decided it was not worth standing in line for an hour, then paying an arm and a leg for cover, just to see deb in a bar. so we went to dinner with my friends and their moms, walked around a lot, had coldstone (it just opened...fab). good times were had by all.

this weekend i head home to g-izzle. i know aj you said you'd be home but if you other kids are going to be, phone moi and we'll get together.

now i think i'm going to go to sleep becasue i can't see straight i'm so tired.

this was a pretty pointless post but its the best i can muster at this junction. something better will come later.

much love to my peeps,
l hizzle

"the greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it" - william james

We are losing touch...

someone needs to update...and I don't have time to right now.

STEPHANIE IS 19!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEPHANIE!!!

I just realized I am the youngest one of the four of us and you know the say "youth is beauty" so I guess I'm the prettiest too. haha. just kidding.

Well there isn't much going on in Iowa City except tests, tests, papers, and more tests. I haven't read like ANYTHING for my Religion and Society class and we have a quiz on Tuesday and a paper due the following Tuesday. Friday is my Linear Algebra midterm...umm what? I haven't learned anything in that class. And next week we have a Calc III midterm. The ridiculous thing is that our midterms in Calc are usually worth 20-25 points (we've had two of them and this will be our third so they aren't really MID-terms) and on Thursdays we always have a quiz that is worth between 5 and 10 points. Today we have one worth 18 pts.What!???Why not just call it another freaking midterm!

Ok, sorry for that rant.

Big Sis revealing was last Thursday and I guessed mine right :o) Her name is Stephanie and she is pretty much awesome. Here is a pic of us at revealing. Every new girl gets a teddy bear (it is our mascot). Mine is SOOOO soft and adorable.

Initiation is tomorrow nigth and i am way excited. I am going out to dinner with my Alpha Xi "family" but because I have band until 5, I'm getting picked up straight from there. Which means I have to be in full black dress and heels all during my woodwind sectional. great.



I think I have my life planned out.

It involves 3 more spanish classes so as to obtain a minor. Finishing those damn Gen Eds by taking General Chem (non-lab) and Basic Physics (lab) along with two other random courses. Possibly studying abroad the spring of my Junior year (London perhaps.) and 4 complete years of marching band. It should be pretty good although also really busy because my spring semseter senior year, I am student teaching.

I think that is all I have. Yesterday I woke up at 9:06 and had class at 9:30 across campus. Today I was up at 8 and my class is at 9:30 like two buildings down...weird.

This is really long, but I like the font that it types in.

Goodbye, I love you,

-Becca

Hello, my lovelies.

Well, you know, just hanging out here in Normal. My roommate, Mandy (for those of you less aqcuainted with her), is watching a terrible "Big Momma's House" knockoff PLAY (as in "not even a real movie")on video for the FOURTH TIME THIS WEEK and quoting it.

I've had my share of college, I'll tell you that much.

My dearest Jessica Barkwill came to visit on Friday so that we could see Annie Rix's play, called Necessary Targets. It's about Bosnian refugees, it makes you cry a little, and Annie has talent up the wah-zoo. Plus, she's got killer Bosnian accent skills, and she's cute. We went to the play with Vanessa, oh and Jeff Derrico and Nicole Boccard who came to visit. Then Vanessa took Jess and I to some party with her floor but while we were all getting ready in her room, she left and took three shots. So basically she was already drunk-ish when we went out, which, needless to say, didn't make Jessi or I very excited. So Vanessa got trashed at this party, while Jessi and I felt very out-of-place (and relatively sober) among dirty dancing girls in revealing tops.
I'm getting frustrated with Vanessa. And I think she's getting irritated with me.

That was Friday. Come Saturday, and Molly Hart came to visit (a junior at West, blonde, dated Will Robinson for a while, is in That One Group? Anyway...) and we went and saw Annie's show on Saturday night. Her best performance, she later said.

Then Molly and I left Annie, who was losing her voice (eek!), and we went to a Theatre party with Caitlin Boylan and some other kool kats we know. It was enjoyable. And Molly and I ended up chit-chatting 'til 6 in the morning. Oh, but it was really like 5, because we were awake during the time change. Don't be confused.

So then on Sunday, nothing happened, and, um, I guess that's it.

It was mozzarella stick day in the cafeteria today. My favorite holiday.

To leave you with a new song for this post, I will also give you a link so that you can listen to it. It's by my love, Regina Spektor, called "Samson." Give it a listen.

Oh, and let's remember that there are like, negative weeks until summer.
Ok, but really there's 37 days, 13 hours, and 49 minutes. Whew.

I love you all.

We need a new title.

fruit salads diet coke and other ways to procrastinate

darlings.

i sort of keep forgetting that we have this. well, not forgetting, but thinking i'm going to get emails then realizing that i should be posting on this/reading this. it takes me a while to catch on to technological things.

so this weekend was my formal for pi phi and i brought my prom dress from last year down after spring break and forced j wo to borrow a shirt and tie, got all dolled up and went to my house to catch the bus. after waiting in line to get on, the bus driver states that he will allow no more people on the bus because he is over capacity right as i am placing my freshly painted toesies onto the steps. so they tell the six of us that cant get on that they'll order us taxis but at this point i've lost interest in the whole thing. my only real friends in the house (not the ones that its still pretty fake when i talk to) werent even going to be there and a mutual friend of j wizzles and myself was having a party so we decided to screw formal and go there instead. best. decision. ever. not only was the night an absolute blast, when laura fairbank got to the party after having been at formal (she was required to go) she told me that it was unbelievably boring and stupid. so....moral of the story:

there isnt really one, but that was a really long description that i realized had no real purpose whatsoever.

in other news, i survived my first tornado yesterday. i was at work when they told us to all evacuate to the basement where we stayed for about 45 minutes. needless to say i was unbelievably scared but i think i probably didnt show it too much.

i have tests tomorrow and wednesday and i am completely unprepared for them. luckily i have discovered that i dont really dislike coffee as much as i used to and if i put soy milk in it, i almost enjoy the taste. so looks like i'll be making full use of this.

this weekend is mom's weekend so the majah is coming down and we're going to go out to dinner with my friends and their moms and then out to the bars. thats right, you read correctly, deb hornell will be going to a bar...with me. i honestly have no idea how this is going to end up but you can be sure i'll be regailing you all with the stories as soon as she leaves.

now i must register for next years classes, then get all dressed up for stupid chapter, then begin my night of endless studies.

much love to all.

ps stephanie i cannot even describe how jealous i am that you are living in beacon hill next year. when i was in boston last summer i spent half a day just walking around there looking at houses with my sister and picking out ones we want to live in

i'm going to start signing off with a quote (we'll see how long that actually lasts):

"think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was i had such friends" - william butler yeats

I can't afford to lose an hour of sleep.

Did you set your clocks ahead?