peace

so i've decided what i want to do with my life. well, at least my college career. i am going to be an english major (duh) and an art minor (or major if i find the time). i am absolutely in love with photography, and i want to get better at it. i want to actually take badass film pictures instead of pointing and shooting at something pretty. yes, i love my awesome digital camera, but it's pretty self explanatory. i want to learn about lighting and shutter speeds and such. i want to be good!
so excited!
so there are only two photo classes her at gustavus. there's a film on and a digital one. the digital one would be awesome, because then i could take it and not have to buy a new camera since i already have a digital one. but it's also from 1:30 to 4:20, which doesn't exactly float my boat. i would like to be done with classes earlier than that. but hey, if it comes down to that or buying a new camera for the film class, i'll probably sacrifice some of my day 2 days a week. not a big deal.

i'm excited about this. i've always wanted to become an art major, but i never thought i was good enough. i can paint and draw and such, but i'm not drop dead amazing. it's fun, but i'm not satisfied with most of the stuff i do. but with photography, i can get better and better and i'm actually pretty decent now, so it wouldn't be such a struggle to learn more about it.
AAAAH!
that is my thought process.
also, i am loving swing club. we learned blues dancing last night (like norml swing dancing but super close and slow) and it was so much fun. awkward, but fun. it's so much easier to follow what your partner's doing if you're closer, but that also opens up the awkward moments box. but i learned a lot and can now dance swing dancing to a slow song! score.
ALSO
spring break is tomorrow. i could not be more excited.
TATA!

a better monday than usual

well i woke up late today. like, really late. like, 10 minutes before i had to leave for class. but i made it. go me.
my orchestra director had his second child on friday, so we don't have orchestra tonight. score! he sent us pictures via e-mail and his kid is super cute. i'm jealous. i want a kid to dress up and walk around and hold hands with and then drop them off when they poop.
i have lots of things to do this week. midterms are great, ya know. i have a project for my lit class that i really need to get crackin on. and i have an essay due on friday. and a midterm on friday. and then it's home! i'm so excited. i haven't been home since january. i miss my cat and my bed and everything. i can't remember if i wrote about this last time i wrote a blog, but too bad. i wanna go home. i love school and everything, but home is delightful and i want to see my friends and just chill.

 

pball was on saturday. i have missed school dances so much! i love getting dressed up and dancing around, especially to oldies music. i had a lot of fun with meh friend beka and my sister. my cousin melissa also came to pball with us. i miss her! it was really fun to have her, my aunt and uncle and my grandma. they almost never come to minnesota! i showed them my room and the campus. so much fuuuuun.
anyway, that is good for now i suppose. i don't anticipate anything really exciting between now and the end of the day. but if it does, i will let you know!
tata!

for starters

my name is laura. i am a freshman in college.
fantastic, isn't it?
now i know not many people (if any) will actually sit down and read this thing, but i'm putting it out there. not necessarily for the public eye, but for me.
i wrote in a journal at least every week at the beginning of the school year, and it was really interesting to look back on. i was going through a hard time with the whole "adjusting to life without your parents and cushy bed and cat" thing, and so i thought it would be cool to write down my thoughts and look back on them and see how far i've come. well i did, and it was really cool. except i stopped writing once i felt better. which has been this whole j-term and first semester.
i need to get caught up.

my life is good. i would say my best friend here is mariecus. she and i watch bones a lot and talk and eat dinner together. she might transfer next year (she's leaning on staying here though) so that bums me out a little. i got over it once i decided to room with elizabeth.
elizabeth is a dazzling person. she's short, blonde and super energetic. she reminds me a little of my high school bestie hailey. she didn't have a person to live with sophomore year either (since i was planning on rooming with mariecus but she wouldn't make up her mind about the school she wanted to attend) so i offered my awesome roommate services. yay!
we're planning on living in sorensen next year, which is one of the main sophomore dorms. i'm super excited.
mallory, my current roommate, is bugging the hell out of me.
but that's just because i haven't had a break in a while. i'm just going a little stir crazy and all her stupid ways are starting to dawn on me again like they did before the last break.
she's really insensitive, and criticizes me when i get offended at something. something like her eating a clementine and me not wanting her to and her getting mad because i wouldn't let her eat one. she also needs to get over herself. she's all upset because not a lot of people in the section like her. but that's mainly because SHE'S NEVER HERE. she complains that no one wants to hang out with her, but she also never makes herself available. if she stayed here once in a while, she would most definitely get invited to dinner or a hockey game or something.
whatever.
i need to stop ranting and go read my book.
(mockingjay)
FOR PLEASURE.
so excited.
talk to you sometime next week,
laura badorara