Merry Christmas to all!!

Yeah Hurrah

Well ladies and gentlemen it is offically the end of the semester. This is awesome. I have officially completed my first semester of college and completed it sucessful. I have to admit it was harder than I expected. This is perhaps because I was fairly lazy in high school and it was quite shocking when I realized I had to work and work hard to get good grades. That was a really depressing realization. Laugh if you will but it was quite tramatic for me.
Well allow me to tell you what I have decided.
1. I have decided to get my masters degree in library science with an emphasis in archives. Yes, I realize this sounds boring but it really suites my type A personality.
2. My job at the archives is amazing and I love it.
3. I definitlty have a superiorty complex but I am not the smartest person on Earth or anywhere close. One of the greatest things about this semester is that I have had my beliefs and my logic challanged and that has been good for me. I have never thought so much in my whole life. This means that college is so good for me.
4. Semester breaks are awesome.

Ode to Fall Break

I am so excited. My Fall Break will start in 2 hours and 38 minutes. I am so excited. I want ot go home so badly. I never thought I would say that and I am sure my post Fall Break post will basically consists of six paragraphs how my home life could be the basis of a soap opera but at the moment all I want to do is go home. I miss my bed and my dog. I miss my chinese resturant. It is amazing the little things that you miss so much when you move away from home. I was doing really good until I saw my sisters Saturday and then I wanted to go home. I really miss them. I miss my Mom braiding my hair. I quess what I really miss is being a kid. I feel like childhood is over and while it is exciting to be moving on I get a feeling of nostolga when I think of it. It seemed to fly by now that I look back just as I am sure college will have seemed to fly by when I look back on it in 15 years. Well I have to run-- real life calls and I have to go to work.

Lost

One of my best friend's grandmother died this weekend. It almost broke my heart. I hung at this friend's house all the time and after awhile it was like her grandparents were my grandparents. Her grandparents certainly cared more for me than my Grandfather and his wife ever did.Her grandparents always asked how I was, when I was coming over,a dn what cute boys I had met. So here is to you Grandma.

Dreams by Carl Sandburg

DREAMS in the dusk,
Only dreams closing the day
And with the day's close going back
To the gray things, the dark things,
The far, deep things of dreamland.

Dreams, only dreams in the dusk,
Only the old remembered pictures
Of lost days when the day's loss
Wrote in tears the heart's loss.

Tears and loss and broken dreams
May find your heart at dusk.

Top 5 Reasons College totally Kicks Ass

Hands down college is way better than high school. Here are several reasons why:

1. Dorm Life- now I have had several complaints about dorm life but just be honest I kinda like it. You can have people over any time you want- nobody says anything. You can stay up as late as you like- nobody says anything. It is like your own apartment but there is food downstairs and it is easier to clean.
2. You can read whatever you want- there are no restrictions in college about what is decent reading or what is correct. You can study whatever you want without parents gripping about how "unacceptable" it is.
3. Boys, boys, boys. Having come from the most man deprived area of the nation all the guys are great. And it doesn't have to be romantic- you can just have guy friends and lots of them.
4. Shoes- I wear size 7 1/2-8. That means I have access to about 27 other closets of shoes and several other peoples wardrobes. Score!
5. Being away from home. I feel bad about saying this because I love my family but it is so great to be Anna- not someone's sister, friend, or daughter. There is so much less drama and well to honest I love being independent. I didn't go wild or crazy but being independent is great and I love it.

Towers East- Firefighter Summer Camp

I live in Towers east which is where they herd all freshman that just aren't special and extra-ordinary. Appearntly I am none of these things. So they place me in the basic crappy freshman dorm. In all actuality it really isn't that bad. I like the friendliness and social scene and I have enough quiet to do my work. But then there are those darn fire alarms. Already we are three alarms away from beating the record for the past year. Yesterday alone we had three fire alarms. THREE!! WHY THE HELL DO WE NEED THREE ALARMS?!?!?! Let me tell you why we have three alarms. They all come from the people who can't cook popcorn. Actually last night was the idiot cooking bacon at midnight. Bacon. Why do you even need to be cooking bacon in a dorm anyway? I dunno.
So the fire alarm goes off, the whole dorm goes out the side stairs and sits in the parking lot until the fire trucks get here about 15 minutes later. It is like a firefighting summer camp. No real danger but all the fun.

Week One

Well ladies and gentleman I have sucessfully completed my first week of college and let me tell you that hands down it is better than high school. I love it. I started my new job as a library assistant in the archive department of the library. Woo hoo. Remember people that I wanted this job since I plan on specializing in rare book collection in graduate school. Secondly I am now the book reviewer for the Capaha Arrow newspaper, which is the offical Semo newspaper. i am so pumped about that. Hands down the greatest job ever. All you do is read and then tell everybody what you thought about the book. Can life be any better?
My first review is on Away Laughing on a Fast Camel which you can read at www.appowell.blogspot.com. I decided I might as well use my old blog for something.
My teachers are pretty good too, except my Biology teacher who is a complete ass and I really don't like. But I have a hot preofessor and most of my teaachers are pretty funny whioch is nice. The one thing that will take getting use to though is all the reading you do in college. Massive amounts of reading. Which is ok unless you are reading about making a speech and that is kinda blah.
The only downside to college is the lack of guys. There is like no cute guys here which seems to be an uncommon problem as Hannah has already lander her a man, and a pretty good one it sounds like, and Bob is close. Which is cool since I would totally date either one of them if I was a dude but still here I am with no one cute to look at except my porfessors. Sigh. But I quess it really doesn't matter since I really don't want a man now anyway but still... I would like a cute one to look at.