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2038-01-19T03:14:07Z

I am officially cured of the flu, thank God.

I am currently listening to two old skewl Carly Simon albums I rediscovered during my quest for legal music. I also found my old Steve Miller Band album, a James Taylor album, and a Police album.

Friday was absolutely beautiful. I honestly think I may have that stupid, fake sounding, "S.A.D." thing that Michiganders are apparently prone to. I really do get fairly depressed and devoid of energy in the winter months.. But once the sun reappears, look out, because I will suddenly be filled with the fervor of an eight year old on Christmas morning.

So Friday I worked, went to the Credit Union, had my mom's car washed, and cleaned the whole thing out. Then I went birthday shopping for Paul and bought him four books. Saturday it rained, and all that energy evaporated. I cleaned my room, went to Penney's to buy Red Wings apparel on sale, did laundry, and wrapped presents for Pauliewog. My family Jessica went out to dinner at J. Alexander’s, which was delicious, and then Paul opened his gifts. My mom got him a Zetterberg jersey and he couldn't have been more thrilled. After that I decided to go buy a cd sleeve case for all my newly purchased albums, but of course Target was closed. I went to Meijer and Walmart, neither of which had ANY cd cases. And then I came home and watched the Wings' game that we had recorded. The game was horrible.. The defense was atrocious and completely left Ozzie out to dry, which I'm sure forced his confidence to plummet once again. We only have 16 games left, and we'd better seriously get it in gear if we want to snag first from San Jose...

By the way, I'm really into the Red Wings now. Hah. It's one of the things I've decided to be interested in during my lack of higher educating.

I've also decided to be interested in music for real. I've always kind of half-assed my music interests because so many people were "SO INTO" music. But I've realized that I like different music than most of the people I interact with now days, so I can be fully interested in it.

Lately my late nights have been consumed with college planning. I think it's because I am so bored and displeased with my current situation. I really didn't think I would MISS learning things.. I have realized that Schoolcraft has the potential of being far too easy, which may cause me to cease doing any work whatsoever. That means that I have to put forth extra effort just to stay motivated. I have an especially hard time when I feel that a class is pointless or beneath me (arrogant, I know). That was my issue with CORE (a.k.a. the most pointless class ever forced upon a freshman). I've been looking at how credits transfer from Scraft to MSU; because I have finally realized that I enjoy being challenged at least a little, and that the lack of a challenge is probably what has kept me so against school for the past few years. Aside from that, I hear that State is not as difficult as I thought it was for some reason, and I really did fall in love with the campus at first sight. Side note - I'm really excited to check out East Lansing for my birthday. Only one of State's gen ed requirements isn't offered at Scraft, along with two upper level requirements that "must be taken at MSU." I think I've decided to major in Communication, because it's general enough for me to do a lot of things. I may minor in art, but as much "natural talent" as I may have, I just don't want to study art. Maybe one day I will, but for now, it's just not something I want to do. I can take four of the required Communication Major classes at Schoolcraft before I transfer, which is a pretty good deal. If all goes as planned, by the time I get to State, I'll have three gen eds left along with the rest of my comm major. It may take me more than four years to graduate, but to be honest, I'd be kind of surprised if it did. I'm okay with a heavy course load, and it actually bothers me that there aren't more classes for me to take at Scraft. Right now I'm looking at 16 credits over the Summer and 28 during Fall and Winter. I know I can handle more than that, especially at Scraft, and I wish there were more transferable classes... But what can ya do. You know, I almost applied to MSU my senior year, but I didn't want to write an essay.. Hah.

This week I plan on working as much as I can. I missed out on a lot of hours last week because of the flu, so I want to make up for that this week. I also desperately need a haircut from Christy, and I want to finally get all my stuff up on my walls. I am supposed to go visit Casey sometime this week, which I'm looking forward to, and I may stop and see Neal Shah as well (since I have been avoiding him for months...). Hopefully I'll be able to hang out with Ron sometime, but who knows. I need to have my high school transcripts sent to Scraft this week and I need to make an appointment to see an academic counselor (which is a requirement for new students?!).

This summer I want to go places. I am supposed to go to Dallas with my grandma to see my aunts, uncles, and cousins, I am hopefully going to make it to Seattle with my aunt, and I am supposedly going to Chicago with Jessica. So many people have told me, "oh, we'll go to Chicago sometime!" that I've stopped believing them, but we'll see what happens. I'd better get there with someone at least. I was naively entertaining the idea of an east coast road trip for a while, but I have a feeling it'll be a while before that turns into a reality. I did ask for road trip guidebooks for my birthday though. Hah. I want to make an effort to visit my dad for a while this summer, and hopefully I'll get to go to at least one more place. I don't know where, but somewhere.. Hah. Maybe I'll go to Houston again..

I also have more college visits to make before summer even hits. I want to visit Megan at Western, Priya and Danielle at IU, Carolyn at Purdue, Rebecca at Eastern, and I will hopefully be making more trips to State, Spring Arbor, and Central. Once the weather perks up, college visit road trips will be far more enjoyable though. I can't wait for Spring.

I'm going to East Lansing for my birthday with a group of friends. Casey, Whitney, Kayla, Sean, Kyle, hopefully Jake, possibly Stephen, and possibly Josiah are coming. Stephen says he isn't coming, but knowing Stephen, I don't want to count him as 100% either way as of yet. Jessica can't make it, which is a bummer, but I'm sure we'll have fun anyway. I really didn't want to go there. I wanted to go to Grand Rapids.. But the hotels were expensive and there was literally nothing going on there.. Then I looked in Kzoo but no one wanted to go there, and there weren't any events or anything.. Kayla suggested Lansing and when I looked into that, there were actually activities and ridiculously cheap hotels, so there ya have it. There is a film festival Friday night that we're going to go to, and a free art gallery that we're going to check out on Saturday along with a bunch of shops and restaurants. I'm pretty excited. I booked two hotel rooms and I felt like such a grown up.. It was so exciting.

I don't know how I manage to have so much to say in these entries. I always ramble. Forgive me.

Last note, I just got a text from Will Selander that read, "How do I wash coats?"
It's quarter to two.. Isn't that humorous?

Monica

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