Juniper

So…things in my life are HECTIC.

Things going on this week:

1. Sterling House photo project
2. Dr. Appointment tomorrow at the oh so exciting TB Clinic, 1pm
3. Introduction for 331 paper due tomorrow (as of now….haven’t started)
4. 304 Test Wednesday, 9am
5. 299 Paper due Wednesday 12pm
6. 311 Experiment meeting thingy, Wednesday 1-2pm
7. Method for 331 paper due Thursday 2pm
8. Write abstract for Georgia Undergraduate Research in Psych Conference due Thursday
9. Read a RIDICULOUS amount of research, make poster presentation (G.U.R.P. April 5th)
10. FINALLY FINISH PIERRE (stupid Melville)
11. Finish the Confidence Man (see above parenthetical remark)
12. Start research on Latin for Engl345 (paper due April 7th)
13. Work, sleep, and eat sometime

Woo, giant posts about my to-do lists are boring! So here is a picture of Corey…[click him to biggersize]

Today is his birthday. Buy him presents. Green Presents!….ya know ’cause it’s St. Patty’s Day…yeah.

BYE

Hey kids!

So, I was pretty tardy and left my camera connecty cord thingy at school, so I’m just now uploading all the pics/videos I took over Spring Break.

My bad.

The first half of the break was pretty hip. Work on Saturday, then a night at Gypsy’s for pool and copious amounts of alcohol.  [Click on pictures for BIGNESS]

TJ has a pretty purse

Bobbi talks shit

Krystal gets into it

TJ is attractive

Random rapper with Hilary Clinton mask

Then home for some Jenga and cheap beer,…

…Nicole’s gangsta face,…

…and budding romance. *Cue the “awws”*

I had to work first shift Monday morning at the ‘bucks. Nothing too exciting there. After work I went home and finished up my craptacular display for the Behavioral Psych Conference, met with Katrina, (after mass confusion) and headed to her house.

I have no idea why kids find me so appealing. It’s a mystery to me, but I know that Katrina’s kids were on me like white on rice on a paper plate in a snowstorm. Anyway, long story short, we got next to no sleep before waking up (at 4:15am) to get ready and get on the road to Athens. We got there ridiculously early thanks to Katrina’s driving skillz, met with Dr. B., and started the fun-filled, joyous day full of smart-assery, jelly beans, starbursts, and bad directions (my fault).

Dr. B. acts like he is doing something important

The drive home sucked, due to the tornado warnings, but the sky looked pretty amazing.

I worked Wednesday at Chick-fil-a. It’s not as fun as it used to be. The new people are bleh.

Hung out with Krys and the gang Wednesday night. While stopping for ice I spotted this gem in Piedmont:

If you don’t laugh at that you are dead inside. DEAD.

…but seriously, that sandwich is not really huge. It’s just a burger and a slice of cheese on what looks like two top-buns. Sesame seeds on both sides bitches!

Anyway, thats when things started to go downhill. I felt really out of it all night, like my head was underwater. Thursday after work I felt like shit, and Friday I woke up wishing for death. Managed to make it through work, but by the end of the day I had no voice and it hurt to swallow. Nothing beats getting sick on Spring break.

Didn’t make it to Matt’s wedding on Saturday because my bed was my home. I’m still feeling shitty, and I’m hoping that this theraflu nighttime severe cold stuff will kick in soon so I can get some sleep.

Oh and I didn’t do anything remotely school related over the break. I was planning on reading Pierre over the weekend, but that obviously didn’t happen. I hope Dr. Willis doesn’t decide to give us a quiz tomorrow today ’cause I’m gonna be screwed if he does.

Anywho, I’m probably leaving out tons of stuff, but recapping a week in one post sucks, especially when I’m pretty out of it.  Note for future: don’t do that!

Night!

Juniper

So to all of my devoted fans the few people that read this, sorry about the huge break in my updates. Things have been seriously crazy and with Spring break coming up I don’t see things slowing down, but I will do my best to update periodically.

I’ve come to the conclusion that updating every day may have been a stretch.

1) I do about the same thing every week, with only a few changes here and there

2) Attempting to pass my classes this semester means that time I should be studying is usually spent worrying about where my camera is, wondering whether or not the batteries are charged, and attempting to have some glimmer of humor in my writing.

SO here’s the new plan:

New Year’s Resolutions be damned, I’ll update whenever I’m good and ready!

That being said, here’s whats been going on lately:

Last week was ridiculous. School was stressing me out (still is) and the death of my uncle didn’t help things. Although I did blow off some steam when Brandon came to town Friday night, which was fun. We all went up to Gypsy’s to get some drinks and play some pool. I rode with Glen, who, after we finally made it there, lost her ID somewhere in her car. After searching through all the random piles of crap in her car, we finally found it, locked up the car, and started towards the door….

Glen: “Did I just lock my keys in my car?”

Me: “Damn it, Glen!”

Luckily this really sketchy old dude that works there (who happened to look like some kind of backwoods mountain man) knew how to jimmy a lock. Sweet.

After Glen and I scrubbed the big black X’s off our hands (along with a good portion of skin) we began the long decent into drunkenness.

The three worst pool players (Drew, Brandon, and I)formed a team, aptly named “Team Self Esteem” because we sucked but still had a good time. Thanks to Glen we ended up winning every game, though. Awesome.

I left my camera at school so my incredibly low quality random camera phone pics will have to do [Click for bigness]:

So it was a pretty hip evening. Brandon and I had fun at least haha.

For those of you not equipped with miraculous vision here’s a reference picture of Brandon:

Also, I’m still wondering what the hell “tampoons” are

This week has been a bit more calm. It’s midterm week so I’m stressing out about my grades. I’m gonna have to step it up a notch to pull of A’s this semester. I still have to finish up my 331 homework so I’ll leave you guys with this:

I was syncing up the iPod, and I noticed this little gem

Really? Someone named their shared library “I want to fuck your mouth?” I’ve lost faith in this building this week. First the fire alarms go of TWICE in one night within 20 minutes of each other (the latter lasting past 1:30), then this? *sigh*

Goodnight kids,
Juniper

02-15-08 – 02-17-08

Friday was pretty uneventful. My alarm didn’t go off so I completely missed my 9 o’clock class.

Someone apparently ran around Greenwood and pissed in all of my professor’s cornflakes because everyone seems to be on edge lately. Dr. Willis got mad because almost no one in the class had read what we were supposed to for Friday’s class, so he retaliated by making us write a paper on Moby Dick (which I *still* haven’t finished). I just can’t seem to get motivated to finish this damn book.

After class I went to help Parsons and Tim on some extremely fun data entry for the research team (which Dr. Edwards never seems to let me know anything about).

Then it was home to clean up and head home.

Photo of the Day:

washing dishes, 1:31pm

Saturday was pretty much like every other day at Starbucks. We were incredibly slow and I was being incredibly OCD. So everything got scrubbed down, organized, and labeled.

It was Durley’s 21st birthday! Yay!

Birthday Girl

For some reason my signs for work always look crappy

Saturdays are so freaking slow. A lot of our time was spent staring blankly into the cafeteria…

Photo of the Day:

OBEY, 1:08pm

Sunday was boring. I didn’t take any pictures today, sorry folks. I’ve been slowly (very slowly) hacking away at my to do list….and I’m not even remotely finished yet. So I’m gonna get back to work and stop procrastinating.

See you tomorrow,

Juniper

02-14-08 [click all photos for larger size]

Sweet nibblets! It’s a post before midnight! *gasp*

Happy Valentine’s Day!

My piece of Dove chocolate said this:

um..k?

So, I ended up not going to the Sterling House today because Katrina’s son was sick (kinda), so I actually got to sleep in today! It’s been so long! *single rolling tear*

Trina and I ended up going to lunch at Pizza Inn for copious amounts of pizza in and around my mouth.

Pizza Inn: The place where the lunch buffet starts at 11:00 and continues on UNTIL THE POWER IN PRAYER.

Oh Greenwood, I think I lose more respect for you each and every day.

Speaking of Pizza Inn’s general awesomeness…

Everyone one has seen a handicapped parking space marker at one point in time or another. They are pretty much all exactly the same, right?

As a refresher, here is what a normal one looks like:

Head, body, arms and legs….with a wheel…seems logical enough.

Check out Pizza Inn’s version:

OK, lets try to figure this out. Head…with a neck…connected to a body that goes diagonally inside of a wheel…arms(?) that are going backwards out of the torso/buttocks area.

Whoever drew these should win an award. CHAMPION.

Photo(s) of the Day:

Some of the lovely ladies of Psych 331, 1:50pm
(Jessica, Ashley, Andrea, Nicole)

That’s all for today. I have a ton of stuff to do before tomorrow so I better get to it.

I leave you with some pictures that Ashley took of the ladies…

And I can’t look at this one without laughing:

Yeah, I’m going to hell for that.

Juniper

02-14-08

So after staying up until 3ish and waking up every few hours last night, today was interesting.

I did not want to get out of bed this morning, and my plans to wake up at 6 and head to the library to get some reading done didn’t exactly pan out. Instead, I hit the snooze about 40 times and finally got out of bed around 8. I somehow made it to my 9 o’clock class, showered and clothed, on time.

Dr. Acorn’s wonderful new attendance policy didn’t exactly work out like she had planned. Since there was about 6 people in class every day and the test averages were horrible, she decided to start taking attendance….today wasn’t that much different than any other day. Way to go, Deb.

So by the time I finished my 2nd iced soy chai tea, I was officially delirious, along with the majority of my English 406 class. After a wonderful rendition of the Michael Jackson song from Free Willy [you know that will be stuck in your head for hours], we went to class where we creeped out the ever-cynical Dr. Willis with our general happiness. Willis did take my side on the never ending Starbuck’s debate with Mike by making a new class rule: DO NOT CRITICIZE STARBUCK’S.

Went to psych 299. Nothing exciting there…Grace seems to present a project EVERY EFFIN DAY. Half of the class would rather jump off the roof than hear her talk (you know you would Lauren, Ashley, Nicole, and Jessica).

So there’s no photo of the day today because I was asleep between 1 and 2, and until they invent something to photograph dreams….I’ll be without photos.

Jen and I went out to The Alcoves, Ruby Tuesday, and Walmart. I bought Brother Bear….awesome movie. It definitely makes the top 10 list of Disney movies simply because of the moose…

I also bought the most kick-ass cookies imaginable.

mmmmm

Well, Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! I’m off to read.

Juniper

02-12-08

Today’s lesson: sittercise is no joke.

For those of you not familiar with the exercise regimens of the elderly, allow me to elaborate.

Sittercise features an elderly woman praising the benefits of exercise, even while sitting! So yeah, we exercised with the residents today, thinking that it would be a piece of cake…we were horribly mistaken. If I did sittercise every morning, I might just be buff.

We left early because we didn’t have much to do since Sherry wasn’t there and we needed to study for our 331 test anyway (more about which later).

On the way back to school I noticed this gem: [click photos for bigger size]

Looks like Miss Ann’s had a batch of that gold-plated chicken delivered. 10 pieces, only $985. What a steal compared to KFC! Oh and don’t worry, you can put that on your debit card. Miss Ann knows what’s up.

And one more, just for kicks:

3 for $1098? Hells yes.

>>Random Photo<<

So we got back to school ridiculously early, time which should have been used for studying…

Who says frequency polygons can’t be fun?! (Thanks to Katrina for the pretzel for scale)

….but instead was used for antics at the smoking section.

So our lack of studying showed I guess, because that test was ridiculous. Not looking forward to that grade…

After class I had the bright idea to, instead of going to the library to actually get something productive accomplished, come back home. As per usual, I fell asleep and completely missed my 6:30 class. Yeah, I know, I’m a champion.

Thanks Lauren for calling me out…haha.

Photo of the day:

Blue, 1:24pm

Well, that’s pretty much it. I’ve gotta go spend some quality time with Moby Dick before bed.

Until tomorrow,
Juniper

I’m back bitches!

02-11-08

So, obviously, I took a week off. I had so much stuff going on with school that I didn’t even pick up my camera. My sleeping schedule was…off…to say the least. I was pretty much getting a couple hours every night and napping whenever I could find the time. But! I have returned to bore enthrall you with my daily ramblings about nothing.

ENGLISH STUFF

So I pretty much love my Melville class now…yeah I know, it’s hard to admit. I started out thinking that it would be on the very bottom of my decent classes pile, but it’s growing on me. I actually highly recommend that everyone read Moby-Dick at least once in their lives. Although some of it is long, drawn out, and anti-climactic, when you get into the deeper meaning of the story, it starts to suck you in.

It doesn’t hurt that I can apparently do no wrong in any class I take with Dr. Willis. He makes me feel like I’m a genius. Maybe I am. Who knows?

The plan for double-majoring is out, because I would have to spend an extra semester here and although I don’t mind Lander in general….I’m not gonna sign up for another semester of financial aid problems just to get a degree I won’t make much use of. Although I’m kind of upset that my resume isn’t going to be as fantabulous as I had hoped it would be, I’ll survive (and hopefully get into UGA without issue).

PSYCH STUFF

Katrina and I were recruited to present with Dr. Bassett (Wolf Man) for Psi Chi at a behavioral psychology conference at UGA over spring break and I am still attempting to work with Dr. Edwards and his research study, but considering the fact he is the most unorganized person ever, it makes it difficult.

…Research Experience? YES

My 331 group kicks major ass, so much so that the class is pretty much doing our proposal without change. Go us!

Dr. Acorn still makes me want to die a little. I’ve been doing…not so well….on her 304 tests, so I’ve got to kick it up a notch in that class and actually study more than an hour for each test.

Internship/fieldwork with Trina is going….um…alright. Sherry is way beyond getting on our nerves with her lack of anything remotely resembling a plan/organization for, well, anything. Hopefully she we will get her stuff organized soon and we can do some more fun stuff.

um…what else?

Got a haircut on Saturday.

There is some sort of funky substance in Greenwood’s water….this I have decided! 1) It tastes pretty horrible 2) It makes my face attack itself (same with my roommates).

Photo of the Day:

Ew, look at my chin, 1:41pm

>>Random<<

Since Katrina and I started looking the stupid signs around Greenwood (Link) I’ve noticed a trend:

Other than the general stupidity of the wording on most of them, there is another whole group of businesses who are generally frightened of decimals. They’re scary…I know. The lack of decimals results in the price of an everyday object to skyrocket into something outrageous.

For example:

Unless that chicken is made of gold, diamonds, or jewels, I refuse to pay $1699 for 10 pieces of it!

Now, don’t get me wrong, I understand that it means $16.99 (I’m not quite that dense yet) but really….I’m almost certain that they make decimals for those types of signs. I’ve seen them! They exist!

Anyway, leave it up to me to notice stupid things like that.

My camera is charged and ready, and I’ll be taking my regular load of pictures again. So look forward (or don’t, see if I care) to more of these daily posts.

Yeah, you know you love it.

Night kids,

Juniper

02-01-08 — 02-03-08

Happy February!

I didn’t take any pictures the entire weekend because I was slowly hacking away at the To-Do List that just seems to be getting longer. So, sorry if you were disappointed, but that’s how it goes.

Short Summary of Friday-
woke up 7:00am, classes, lunch, homework, packing, home, homework, dinner, homework, sleep.

Short Summary of Saturday-
woke up 5:20am, work, lunch, work, reading Moby-Dick at work, closing, home, homework, dinner, homework.

Short Summary of Sunday -
sleep around 3am, woke up 11:30am, homework, lunch, homework, pack, back to Greenwood, purchase of massive amounts of energy drinks, unpack, shower, homework, ——present.

EXCITING!

Tonight is gonna be an all-nighter so look forward to sleep deprived posts the rest of the week (it’s not gonna get any easier as the week progresses).

To-Do List:

*For Monday
Finish 2 presentations Update: Done at 2:55am!
Read Moby-Dick
Write abstract
Print handouts and articles
*For Tuesday
Write 3-4 page article summary for 331
Homework problems for 331
*For Wednesday
Study for 304 exam
Online 299 assignment
Read through chapter 54 of Moby-Dick

See what I mean?

Cya ’round
Juniper

01-31-08

Typical Thursday. The Sterling House 9:15am, Lunch, Psych 331 2pm.

Sherry was sick today so we sat in her office and did paperwork the entire time we were there. My psychology field work officially has nothing to do with psychology. Katrina and I are free labor. Awesome.

Photo of the day [click for bigness]:

Easily amused, 1:28pm

I have got to get motivated. I have to read 10 chapters of Moby Dick before tomorrow….haven’t started yet [well, unless you include my drunken ramblings to Ben].

My weekend to-do list is getting longer and longer.

1. Write abstract for UGA presentation
2. 3-4 page article summary for psych 331
3. Moby Dick presentation for Engl 406
4. Study for psych 304 exam
5. Chapter 4 presentation for Engl 345
6. Online assignment for psych 299
7. Read to at least chapter 41 in Moby Dick for Monday

Urgh.
I’m off to read. See you kids tomorrow

Juniper