Home?

I was packing my things and getting ready to go home for the weekend, when it hit me that I don't really want to go. Don't get me wrong, I'm excited to be going apple picking with the family and seeing friends and all that, but I'll be home until Tuesday. In my mind that is far too long. I love it here in Oneonta and it seems that just as I'm getting comfortable, I'm leaving. This is a huge change from last year when I dreaded going back to school. It's a good thing I come back on Tuesday though, that's Nip/Tuck night next door lol. (Yes, I've become addicted and I'm not ashamed to say it.)
I have a call in at the mall until noon on Tuesday, then I have to wait around for Peterson to get out of class at 2:30 so we can go take over APHS again. Actually, I have to pick up a dress I let them use in a play last year. We also need to catch up with Keebs, Lauren, and possibly B if she's there on that day. She decided she didn't like retirement so she now teaches the freshman english honors class every other day. Hopefully we catch her on a day when she's there so I can yell at her for not keeping in touch.
Mom just called, she'll be here in an hour. I have absolutely nothing to do, so I'm blogging about nothing. My last class was cancelled today so that threw my schedule wayyy off. I had it all planned out. Fencing goes until 5, mom was going to get here at 5:30. I would have time to shower and get dressed and then just go home. But no. No one showed up for class so Phil told the two of us to just leave. So I had nothing to do from 3:30-5:30. I took a shower. I got dressed. I danced around like an idiot. All this only took like 45 minutes. I'm so ridiculously bored. Almost everyone has already gone home already, so I can't even make people entertain me. GAH! I already did homework too...so I'm just going to sit and stare at the wall now.
Mata! <--- That's Japanese for something. Ryan always says it when we end conversations, so let's pretend it means "later".

Second Weekend at O-State

This weekend has been just as awesome as last weekend! Friday was pretty uneventful, I just hung out with the guys next door and a bunch of other random people stopped by for a while. It was a good time, we randomly sang along to Andrew playing keyboard (he has an amazing voice!) Dane Cook was blasting for a while and we all shared really random stories about road trips and college experiences lol. Nothing really special or exciting, but it was still a good time.
Last night I stayed in again and hung out with a couple of the guys that live next door. Pete, Mike, Troy, Matt and i played beerpong in their suite, though we didn't have any beer. Everytime someone made a shot we just took a big gulp of whatever we happened to be drinking at the time. It was a crazy time! Lots of inappropriateness and sexual inuendoes were flying around, but all in good fun. At one point I ended up getting thrown over Pete's shoulder and almost going head first into the floor but I still couldn't stop laughing. After about 12-15 games of pong we just sat and chilled on the couches and such and around 4am we decided it would be a good idea to go to the diner. So we did. I was so tired, but it was definately fun.
This morning, or rather, this afternoon Troy punched in the code to get into our suite and just walked in, scaring the crap out of one of my other suitemates. Pam had given Troy the code on friday so he could get her a water bottle so she didn't have to get up and get it. My door was only half open and I heard him go "Um, sorry. I'm your neighbor....is Nikki here?" lol it was great, exceot for the fact that I was still in bed and completely disheveled! ANy way he came over to let me know that he got tickets for me him and I think Matt to go see Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley next month!!!! 8TH ROW!!!! Ahh! I'm so excited, I can't wait!!!! He offered to drive and everything so I just have to give him money for the ticket! :-D It's going to be so awesome!!!!
Well, as usual, I left all my homework for Sunday, so I have to go do some of that now :-(

Randomness

I'm kind of slacking with the blogging lately, but oh well it jsut shows I actually have a life here in Oneonta as opposed to sitting in my room in Buffalo all the time. I still love it here. I met a lot more of the theatre people last weekend and at the Mask & Hammer meeting on Monday. They're a fun bunch. Two members were initiated as voting meembers of the club and to do that they leave the room and people tell funny stories about them and then they put some of them together and make the person perform something in front of the whole group. It was hilarious, one kid basically had to do a tribal dance and sing (not in English) the story of how he got his nickname. I've never laughed so hard! The other kid had to hit on every guy in the room while singing in harmony and the only way he could move around was by dancing ballet. Oh and he has a thing for no clothes so he had to do it shirtless...and he was wearing a cowboy hat too and that made it that much better! lol it was great!
As sad as it is, I've already solidified my spot as "one of the guys" in the suite next door by playing Halo. Yeah, I'm cool like that lol. I'm absolutely terrible at the game but I had fun anyway (even if people were always stealing my kills)
Classes are still going well for the most part. I hate my math class. We had our first test today and I'm pretty sure I passed, though just barely. I hate math. All my other classes are great though. I love my lit classes now that we're actually discussing good books (FRANKENSTEIN and THE AWAKENING- both of which I hated in high school but really enojoy now). Fencing is difficult, but fun. The instructor likes to hit me in the face with his foil (don't worry I have a mask on) if I don't do what he tells me to lol. It's ok though because I think I'm actually improving but I'm still hesitating. Stagecraft is still awesome. I had to sand a coffeee table down this week so it can be refinished, but I really didn't mind doing it...until I couldn't use the palm sander anymore and had to sand the legs manually.
And on a completely random note, I have even more reason to support my dislike of most girls. The latest trend for them seems to be to burn my friends. A few guys I know have recently been lead on by a girl who had no intention of following through but still continued to make the guy beleive something was there. So basically these really sweet guys are eating out of the palms of monsters and it pissed me off. It's one thing to flirt and a completely different thing to make someone beleive a lie. What's worse is that they all come to me either asking how to get the girl or else they just complain. Obviously I don't mind helping a friend out in this kind of situation, but seriously, girls really piss me off! UGH! Why can't we all just get along? Why do people thrive on drama???

Life...

Nothing ridiculously exciting has happened in the past few days but I felt the need to comment anyway. Classes are fine, though I'm slacking off already and we're only a month into the semester lol. I get my work done though, I just put it off until the last minute. The only class I actually look forward to going to anymore is stagecraft. The two guys that are in the lab with me are fun, but the chick gets on my nerves sometimes. Eh, oh well. The lectures aren't bad either since John, the professor, is hilarious. It's nice when they keep it interesting, especially when it's a two hour lecture! My roommate and I are still late for math everyday. Today we woke up at 8:45...class is at 9. It's funny though, we both run around not knowing what to do lol. She's starting to open up a bit more and we talk more often. Last night Troy and Pete came over and the four of us sat talking for a while and I actually got some more of her story. We're supposed to be going out with the guys tonight. I have no idea where, but I suppose it should be a good time. I really need to get a fake ID though :-/ guess I've gotta keep working on Sara for that one though. My friend Nikki also wants to go see "The Lake House" tonight. They're playing it up in the union around 8 tonight so I think I might go to that too. I'm so tired though, I'm definately going to have to take a nap before tonight! This will be my first weekend staying in Oneonta...so let's hope it's a good one!


I went back to being crafty and made a collage when I got bored yesterday. I was sick of people telling us that our room is too plain. It's a bunch of pictures from this summer, mostly QC but Jen, Ryan, Britt, and Seanny make special appearances ;-) I've also got the glove from our trip to the ER on there HAHAHA! Oh, good times...

So Long, Sweet Summer

In about 7 or 8 hours Jay will be on a plane on his way to Missouri for the next 21 weeks. It was probably one of the most difficult goodbyes I've ever had to say. He's become more than a friend and more than a brother to me. We had an amazing connection that no one seems to understand and I don't really care. He's one of the best friends I've ever known and I'm so proud of him. When I met him this summer he was near rock bottom but he managed to pull himself up and now he's fulfilling one of his biggest dreams. I'm so excited for him, I know he's going to do really well and he's going to love being an MP. I try to stay positive and think about being happy for him but it gets hard at times and I miss him already. I'm so greatful to the friends that I have for helping me with this, Dan and RA Josh especially. Dan is experienceing the same thing and Josh, well he's just an awesome person and an amazing friend.

In a completely unrelated subject...I'm considering a completely different career path. After talking to Jay's dad the other night I am seriously thinking about going to the police academy and becoming a police officer. I would definately finish school so in case I decide agaist it or if I don't make it through I'll have a degree to fall back on. I just don't think that teaching is for me anymore. I still have 3 years though, so who knows what will happen in that time.

I'd be a badass cop though ;-)

Labor Day Weekend

This weekend was definately crazy...although ocnsidering who I was with it could probably be labelled normal. Jay came and got me on friday evening after my last class and nothing really exciting happened. Until dinner that is. After arguing over where we were going to go we ended up at a chinese buffet. By we I mean Me, Jay, Shawny, Dan, and Jimmy James. The boys, being boys, decided to play with the crawdads, putting on a puppet show and even played a little football. (7 crawdads vs. two strawberries and a peice of jello) The strawberries and Jell-o won that game. It was ridiculous and crazy and I loved it. Then we ran around in the parking lot like idiots. Fast forward a bit...we all chill at Jay's, Q finally shows up. Dan, Q, Jay, and I end up wrestling in an empty room for no reason. I end up on my head...literally. Q was holding my foot. No one knows what part of Q hit Jay's back, but it caused pain. Fast forward a bit more...it's now 5:30 am and we are on way to the ER because Q passed out...twice. We're there until 11:30am. We finally crash after a giggle-fest. Sleep, sleep, sleep. We get Dan a tattoo!!!! AMAZING!!! Get Q, have dinner, all four of us end up on the pull-out watching Tron. Yes, Tron. Fun stuff. Fast forward some more. We go up to Sacandaga Lake for the Ring of Fire and have an amazing time! Fire + food + friends + family + t-shirts + blow up dolls + s'mores + beer + the lake + rain. AWESOME!!! I have the best friends in hte world!!!


Yes this is very very abbreviated but I honestly don't feel like typing it all out and I'm sure you don't want to be reading for three hours.