Jenni's Journal

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Stacie! *mwah*

I cleared about 2/3 of my friends list. If I've mistakenly deleted you/you want to be re-added/you got a new LJ and i didn't catch it let me know by commenting.

However, now that my friends list is significantly downsized, the 'friends view' on my LJ works soo much better. Sometimes it would leave posts out, etc. Crazy thing.

Does this LJ Spring Cleaning warrant a new layout? perhaps.. It'll be so hard to get rid of the Corgi pup though.. isn't he adorable? I just melt every time I look at him. I went to the local animal shelter and turned in a volunteer app on Tuesday between classes and the supervisor let me walk around inside the kennel area where all the dogs were and there were TWO pembroke welsh corgis! they were being boarded there while the owners were out of town. so cute! one of these days.. im gonna get one.

Anyway.. gotta finish up some math homework. stay on top of things like the good student i am.. (riiight)

I'm updating my friends list. Some people post entirely too much about entirely too little.

On a more positive note, my Equine Care class is going to be pretty interesting, I think. Most of it I already know/have heard before, but it'll be nice to actually take a formal course centered around horses. There are a lot of people from the polo club in there, along with Maggie (girl I used to show with) and Adam, a guy that works at the vet clinic that I interned at last Spring.

Calc is gonna kick my ass, but hey.. I pulled a B in math last semester. Maybe history really does repeat itself. Ento is going to be boring, but hey.. it's bugs. What can you expect? Animal Science is going to be awesome. We have about a million extra credit opps.. like going to the horse center and helping to feed the horses, go to different livestock shows, going and visiting breeding farms and ranches, etc.

This semester will be *so* much better because I'm actually taking classes that I signed up for, instead of being thrown into classes cold turkey. This will be good.

Gotta keep telling myself that. ;\

woo! i havent been very good about updating, have i? not that you care. lol. i miss talking to you guys nonetheless.

i am now an *official* bike-rider at A&M. For Christmas, my dad bought me a bike (haven't had one of those since about.. 6th grade!) and now I can cycle to class! I feel special. The main reason for the wheels is I have a class on West Campus (aka the ends of the earth) and there's only 20 minutes between that and a class on the central campus, sooo I have to pedal like mad to get there on time. Will take picture when possible.

Showers have been an issue again. The "pipes are cold" (according to the RA) so we have to run the shower for an HOUR (?!?!?) before we actually plan on getting in. At first I refused to do it because it wastes SO much water, but after taking a freezing cold shower 2 days in a row.. I decided that the water goes to the physical plant and ends up back here anyways, so what the hell. So the water's running right now.. and it has been since 8:55. It's still cold. I have class at 11:10. It better hurry the F up and get hot.

I have Equine Care and Calc today. Easiest day of the week. I hate math. Such a bore.
Not much else going on as we speak, gonna go attempt to take a shower before I have to pedal off to class!

Well, I hadn't updated in a while so I figured now's better than never.

Right now I'm on vacation with my family in Illinois (more family, wee!) like every year.. It wasn't until I'd been stuck to them for a full 2 weeks that I realized going back to school won't be such a bad thing. Once you gain that little inkling of independence, it's a bit harder to go back to curfews and living in someone else's house.

I made out fairly well in my first semester of college. I didn't jump off the top of Rudder Tower AND they didn't have to commit me to the looney bin.. Not as well as I would have liked (still more than decent by many standards).. but I know this coming semester's going to ba lot better. I'm taking classes that I actually picked (schedule following) and Cam is coming down to stay with me. I found a boarding barn down the road from the University, so I decided I wanted to keep him for a while and whip him into shape. ;) A good friend of mine that I used to show horses with (she events now) is going to board her mare there this semester as well. If I can, I'll take Cam around to some shows and advertise him. He'll be for sale by summer I bet.

Here's what I'm taking this coming Spring semester..
Animal Science w/ lab - 3 hours
Chemistry w/ lab - 4 hours
Veterinary Entomology w/ lab - 3 hours
Calculus II - 3 hours
Intro to Equine Care - 3 hours

So Christmas is over and New Year's is close [ thank God ] .. I'm ready to go back to school.

Too bad we don't go back 'til the 20th...

Geography and math down.. two to go.. math and anthro..

If I don't die tomorrow.. i will certainly go crazy,

About to go take my first college final.

Human Geography, here I come.

Today is the last day before the madness. Geography test tomorrow, Math on Tuesday and Chemistry/Anthropology on Wednesday.. I'd appreciate any well-wishes/prayers/buddha belly rubs that i can get.. Gonna need 'em.

I would like to thank the A/C gods for making me SICK the WEEK BEFORE FINALS.

does anyone know of a site that will host images? i am putting together a blog and need a site to link to..

Okay. I'm motivated today. Here's my game plan:
* Read anthro in the dorm until noon, when Evans [library] opens.
* Go to Evans and study math. lots of math. work on being able to take the test early this Friday so that I don't have to keep Keith waiting in Mesquite.
* wait for Lauren and Shawn to call while studying (you guessed it...) math.
* go out to dinner at Roadhouse with Lauren & Shawn.
* come back to the dorm and work on Chem Lab and worksheet.

oh yeah.. i took some quizzes.. the results rather excite me. ;)


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Creative Destruction

... is the topic of my post this afternoon. I should be reading Anthropology right now, or working on my Math homework, or completing a post-lab for Chemistry, or the Chemistry worksheet that's due on Monday that will get me extra points on the test next Friday.
Alas, no.

I have subconciously chosen to take a back seat in my ride toward total academic demise. (or am i in the front seat... hmm anyways) Not only am I in the back seat, but there is *no one* at the wheel ( as i am the only one that can help myself out of this mess ) and i don't have a seat belt on. Never did care much for the things, but that's beside the point.

Here I sit, typing a journal entry (to whom? no one and everyone in particular) for no imminent reason.. because who really reads these things or cares anyways? not you.. come on don't deny it. i just need some kind of outlet, and i'm too lazy to get a write-in journal to take out my frustrations on.. i'd feel sorry for the thing, anyways. my handwriting sucks. i've always had this mental image of a journal being something pleasing to the eye, even if the content isn't so pretty (as it so often rarely is).

in summation, i'm sitting here (and have been for a while) listening to Christmas music on a full stomach being completely useless. trying to ignore the fact that my grades are in the crapper.. i mean after all, who can put things off 'til the last minute like me? no one. it's a rare gift to have the balls to say "I can do that later" when in fact 9 times out of 10 I can't. Because something else jumps up and hits me in the face.

On the other hand, I took my math module on-line today and got maximum points.
Thus further prolonging my failure out of college.

as a sidenote (im not really as bitter as i sound..) i watched Anastasia today in the dorm. Love that movie. Going to try and find the soundtrack. One day. Tomorrow..

i settled with him. it's okay now. i guess.

this weekend i went with the polo team to Foxworth's, which is a polo place about 10 minutes down the road from A&M. I helped change tack between chukkers and hot-walk the horses.. wish i could have rode, but can't have everything, i suppose.

i went to tack-cleaning on monday, but didn't go to riding yesterday nor am i going today. why, you ask? i don't feel like it. no ill feelings involved, i'm just too tired.. and i have math homework, a chemistry worksheet/tutoring, and anthro (of course!) to read.

my grades are currently in the dumpster. gotta work on extricating them. i have to redeem myself. the dean of admissions at the vet school came and spoke in my BIMS101 class this week and i need a 3.6+ GPA total and a 3.7 science GPA. Ironic how my *worst* grade currently is CHEM101. Damnit. Maybe I'm not cut out for this like I thought. Maybe I'm fooling myself into believing that I could make it into Vet School. I just don't know if I have the drive anymore. I've lost that motivation that I've had all my life.

Having serious doubts, here.

I haven't had time to really type up a post, but i did get the Texas Renaissance Festival pictures scanned. You can check out the webshots album here.

I also took some pictures of the dorm a couple months ago. It looks pretty much the same if you'd like to take a look.

It's finally cold! So exciting. I took a shower before math today, forgetting that it was 50 degrees outside. So i walked about half a mile with wet hair. nice. given my luck, i'll be sick by monday.

I got to play polo last night!! It was only one chukker, but it was still FUN. I suck so bad. My wrists are so weak that the mallet pretty much has control of me. Hopefully I'll get better?

Last night sucked. for reasons that i can't really talk about, but let's just say a person that i thought was cool isn't so much.. and he made me feel pretty crappy. and i don't know what to say to him about it. i don't even think he knows/cares that it affected me the way it did.

some things just never change.

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okay. it's official. i have no life.

i have some catching up to do on friends' journals. :) stay tuned. heh.

The Texas Renaissance Festival was SO AWESOME.
KP and I left for Plantersville at about 1:00 and arrived around 2:00. What we mainly did all day was walk around and visit the 300-frickin shops and watch some of the side-shows. I got a henna tattoo on my back [!!!] and bought one of those cute flower-crown things (i never had one when i was little, making up for lost time).. We watched a joust, a comedy show that was frickin hilarious (go to their website).. we went to 2 of their shows (one of which was called "Testaclese & the Sack of Rome" -- high-brow comedy for all ages, assuredly!) and at the end of the day they have a HUGE fireworks display over a pond behind the jousting arena. Quite possibly the best fireworks display I've *ever* seen. If any of you live in Texas and have a chance to go to the Renaissance Festival in Plantersville, there's definitely nothing else like it. :D

I will have pictures tomorrow! Hopefully I'll have time to scan them soon. stay tuned!

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So last night was okay. We ended up not going to TJ's because KP was feelin bad, but we did go to On the Border with Rugby for a drink and some food. After we got back to the dorm, we watched The Shining. Kinda creepy. I wasn't that impressed with it, although Stephen King does try so hard to get into one's head.

YAY! We're going to the Renaissance Festival in about an hour. :D Then we get to come back and study. ;\

Hope everyone had a safe and fun Halloween. :)

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!

i'm copying from Riley and Kelly.. :)

Jenni's Happy Halloween Happenings:
(since you care)
* Friday: go to the polo party or to TJ's w/ KP and watch people get drunk off their costumed asses. Inevitably will end up a) driving to the liquor store bc i'm the only sober one or b) helping people not end up in the ER.
* Saturday: go to Houston for the Texas Renaissance Festival! Whoop!
* Sunday: go to Reveille VI's funeral at Kyle Field. RIP Rev!! :*(
* Sunday (PM): continue love affair with anthro and perhaps hook up with a little bit of chemistry lab as well. jenni's a playa.. :\

anyways, i just got back from chukkers. as i said earlier i didn't get to ride b/c i didn't email bella and i haven't been able to go out much in the past two weeks.. so i helped people tack up/change tack and watched. i'm getting really behind the other new members, but since i dont know whether i'll be playing next semester i figure it doesn't matter that much.

i'm sick of classes. i wouldn't mind college if it weren't for the classes. (im sure my views are shared by many) I CANNOT WAIT FOR TURKEY BREAK.

can i get an amen?

yes, i'm a 'tard. i misspelled (?) "senoritas" last night. *cough* no i haven't taken spanish for the past 6 years of my life.. but i can justify [sort of] my spelling.. i don't know how to make a tilde. yeah.

annnyways. some old guy came and lectured in geography today. he was one of the founders of the green revolution. you know, when a bunch of scientists got together in the 60's and came up with different high-yielding varieties of corn and rice and beans and such in order to "decimate world hunger!".. everyone knows that...

except for me. obviously. as i was completely lost for the first 10 minutes of the lecture.

i must remember to read up on these things before they happen..

polo chukkers tonight. can't ride because i forgot to email the coordinator.. but watching people play is fun, too.... *blink*

A short story based on true (recent, as in a couple hours ago) events...

Jenni comes back to the dorm from polo, says a short "howdy" to her roommate KP as she's leaving for rugby practice, and settles in for some light anthro reading.. She quickly becomes bored with the material (despite its merits in content, spelling, and grammar.. more on that later). Jenni decides to take a shower. Due to the fact that she takes cold showers (not by choice) 3 to 4 times a week, it didn't surprise her that the water, despite being turned on full heat, was running like ice. She takes a deep breath and steps in cautiously.

However, before she can even get her hair wet (she's still trying to catch her breath from the cold shock) the lights in the bathroom go out. Jenni is standing there. in the shower. in the dark. about to die of a heart attack and hypothermia simultaneously.

after standing for a good 10 seconds in disbelief, she feels her way out of the bathroom, notices it's completely dead in the dorm as well, and fumbles in the pitch blackness for a towel. wondering what the hell is going on, she stumbles to the door, almost taking her toe off on the corner of the wall in the process. the hall is dark except for the emergency lights, and everyone's peering curiously out of their rooms...

Kala, Jenni's neighbor across the hall, helps Jenni find her flashlight in the dark recesses of her closet. with the dorm insufficiently illuminated, she dons her night-clothes and wanders into the hall to congregate with her other unfortunate dormies.

After about half an hour of small talk and hearing the entire break-up story of a girl she'd never set eyes on before, jenni decides to be anti-social and shuts herself up in her pitch-black room and read anthro (her current love-interest) by flashlight (how romantic, yes?).. after about 20 minutes of that, the electricity returns and all returns to normal just as KP walks in and partakes of the HOTNESS of the damn shower. jenni recognizes her rotten luck and turns on the television in utter defeat.

the good thing about today: jenni is getting a new cell phone because hers is completely defunct.! [happy day]

and now.. jenni will stop referring to herself in the third person.

buenas noches, senioritas. :)