Thanksgiving Break
Alrighty, so I guess last I wrote was Sunday during the day, and this is perfect, because I really feel like procrastinating right now, and I want to keep up with this thing because the whole idea is to have a record of what I’m up to for me. And for all of you to be able to keep up with what’s going on, if you so wish. So… Last weekend I decided not to do any homework because I figured I needed a break. Bad idea. I should have just gotten it DONE because now the fact that I still have to do it is making me really sad. But my weekend was good because of it. At least I got that much out of it.
My internet is down, of course, so I can’t post this until later. I really need to figure out a way to make sure it’s p all the time because this just isn’t working. Sometimes I really need to do research and man, what a pain to have to go out somewhere else when I have a computer right here and SHOULD have internet. But anyways…
Monday I skipped Film and English because I wanted to hang out with my family. We went to 5th Ave and walked around to a bunch of stores and it was fun. It was so great to see them! It made me super happy. But these past 3 and a half months have gone by so quickly that it didn’t even seem like I hadn’t seen them in a while, you know? Uber fast, that’s how fast the time has gone. It’s like it wasn’t even there. But yea, of course, we had to go to the bagel shop so that everyone else could try it. We went a few times during their stay. Then on Tuesday I went to the morning of LCD but then packed up and we left around 2, so I didn’t go to the afternoon. As of right now, I still don’t know what the homework is. That’s partially because I can’t get online to ask people. Annoying, yes. I hope hope hope it’s just to finish what we were already doing, because that would make my like so much simpler! I wonder how many people actually went back for the afternoon, and I hope that it was only a few and that would mean that he didn’t really assign any homework. Please? But anyway, I just need to figure it out by tomorrow so I can get it done tomorrow. That’s all.
I also have drawing homework and an essay on propaganda for English class and my film project that’s barely started but due in a week, all along side LCD to get done this weekend. And it’s not a weekend any more. It’s a Sunday. And my drawing teacher is making us all go to an open model session this week, so I have to go on Tuesday, which is LAME because that could be homeworking time, and I really don’t want to go. I haven’t been in a while. But I’ve been about 7 times, so technically, I’m ok. Gar. I’m so fed up with all this.
Moving on to happy things… We drove for 6 hours to get to Ithaca. It was a good thing we left when we did. we were planning for me to go to the afternoon and then leave, but then we wouldn’t have made it until midnight or later! We got in at around 8:30 and ate dinner at the Moosewood Restaurant, which was right by our hotel! It was pretty good, but they have daily menus so you don’t really have much of a choice. It was slightly disappointing, to be honest, but I know it’s still an awesome place, the choices they had that night just weren’t the most awesome they could be. Then we slept.
Wednesday I slept while my family went to visit Ithaca College. I think Tommy liked it, he just doesn’t have an accurate realization of just how good he is with the theater and lighting stuff. The college has a theater and lighting program that apparently only accepts about 20 students, which of course he’d get into with all his experience and knowledge! How many schools have a program like Skyline’s? Very few. And how many people would actually be applying to the college? Same deal. He’d get in no problem with how good he is! He’s a good student and very driven. He’s like me though, he just doesn’t realized how good he actually is.
Then what did we do? We drove up to Uncle Joe’s cabin that he built. It was really nice I liked it a lot! And then we drove to see the summer house he and Elizabeth were going to buy which was right by Lake Catayuga (sp?) and going to fix up and stuff. And we visited bunches of waterfalls because they all drain down into the lake. Then we ate dinner at Joe’s Restaurant, which is where Dad ate every Friday forever with his advisor and the other people in the group. It was essentially an Olive Garden, so it wasn’t super classy, but it was tasty none the less. We ate the leftovers for breakfast, there was TONS of food!
Thursday we went to visit Cornell, where mom and dad went to graduate school. It was HUGE oh man it had so much space! If we had thought about it sooner, we could have stayed in the hotel school’s hotel there, that would have been fun! It was cool to see. More waterfalls, too. Hehe. Then, what did we do? We went back to the hotel because people were hungry at around 5, and we ate Thanksgiving dinner in this restaurant attached to the hotel. It was actually really good. Tommy will attest, the apple pie was the best apple pie I’ve ever had. Mom didn’t want to admit it because she thinks ours is the best, but nope, this was better =) it was really tasty as was all the food. And we were trying to figure out what as win it. We think it was honey, maple syrup, or nutmeg. Or something… That made it so good. Again, we ate the leftovers for breakfast. Then we played 5 crowns with everyone, which is a fun game. I lost by far. I’d lost by far the night before too. I don’t know why! =)
Also, me and Molly watch season 1 of Project Runway like crazy! It was good fun. That’s our show, we like to watch it together. I bought her it for her birthday. We’re going to finish season 1 and watch season 3 when I get home for winter break. We also went in the hot tub a few times. Well, I went once, and they went twice. Yay for hot tubs!
There was also the NEATEST little gift shop in Ithaca Commons, which as just this area of little stores. I bought 5 people’s Christmas presents there, and would have gotten EVERYONE’S there, but it was a tad expensive and I had to convince mom and dad that the presents I was getting would be from a couple of people, You get me? Like, if we all bought cheaper things, it would add up to one big thing from everyone. I can’t say what I got because then people would be able to read what I bought them! I also bought some belated birthday presents for my friends at another little store. And some cute cards. I love Christmas! It’s my favorite time of year, it really is. I love having everyone get together and getting people presents! I LOVE getting people presents! Man, it’s so much fun! I really wanted to get Molly this one thing, but me and mom knew that it was just too expensive. I thought maybe Grama could go in on it with us, but I don’t know if I could have convinced mom of that, so I just didn’t bother. It was really cute though! I can’t wait to come home and finish up my shopping! I’m going to have to do it all in the last few days before Christmas and super rush! But that’s okay. So far I have 6 presents down, around at least 12 to go. It shouldn’t be a problem, especially since I love getting them!
So Friday we drove home. It was faster getting home because there wasn’t the traffic we hit leaving New York City. We left at 12 and got home at 5. Home. Blah. Re-phrase. We got back to my jail cell. Haha. Just kidding. Somewhere in between… we got back to my school. There. Anyway, so mom helped me clean my room up and then they gave me my birthday presents! Yea, it’s a bit early, but obviously I can’t celebrate it at home. It’s in about 10 days. When I get home, I want to throw a birthday party really badly =) that should be tons of fun and then I can get everyone I want to see together in my house! Yay. So they gave me FOUR awesome things! Molly gave me a cd I wanted. The group is called the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. It’s their new cd, and I really really like it! It’s good. And she also convinced mom to buy me an advent calendar from the starbucks that was right in to hotel we were staying in that I told her I really wanted. Advent calendars are my favorite! We had a few when I was a kid and I remember that I always really loved them! But they weren’t as much fun without candy inside of them. So this one is little drawers shaped to look like a Christmas tree and there are 24 boxes, of course, counting up to Christmas day. You pull out a drawer each day, they’re labeled, and eat the little chocolate inside, and then you reverse the drawer and there’s part of a picture on the back and once you’ve reversed all of the drawers it makes a really pretty Christmas scene on the other side! It’s really neat, not to mention a good way to only allow me one chocolate a day. Haha. =) But I can’t start until Friday on the first! Tommy with his awesome self got me a set of colored Christmas lights to put up in my window and he put them up for me and they look awesome! Speaking of which, I need to turn them on. Yay! I loves them. They wanted to get me blinking ones and looked all over but couldn’t find any. But I don’t mind =) they make me happy no matter what because it reminds me of home and all of our awesome lights at Christmas time =) And the last present was this beautiful bracelet that mom and dad got me. I pointed it out like 4 months ago when I was still home. It’s silver… or maybe actually gold, and it’s a cuff bracelet that looks like 4 film negatives! It’s so neat! I’ll take a picture of it when I get a chance. But I know how expensive it was and I’m afraid to wear it because I don’t want to mess it up or break it or anything =( But it’s really nice. I feel spoiled.
We had Bagels for dinner YAY and then Dad helped me try and get moving on my film project. I have this awful anxiety about it and just really don’t want to do it at this point, and that’s why it’s not getting done. Tudor said he’d help me with it, but I haven’t even called him yet, and I really really should. Of course, I should be doing all sorts of homework right now, but that’s just it, I ALWAYS should be doing homework, and that’s just not okay with me because I’m not even really that interested. I don’t really want to write about it right now, but I don’t really want to be here any more. I just want to go home. And I don’t know if I want to come back. I just don’t see the point or what sort of progress is supposed to be happening. Everyone’s telling me that Freshman year is just bad, but really, it shouldn’t be! I should be having a really good time. I came here so positive and with an open mind ready to do anything and I’ve been working my damn ass off and I’m just not interested in what I’m doing and I really think it’s BS the whole Freshman year is bad thing, it should be good, there’s no excuse. And I’m not enjoying myself here. The problem is that, if I transfer, where too? How do I know it wont just be the same crap? And how do I know it wont get better next year? Grama thinks that I shouldn’t wait around because it’s just not a risk I should take, seeing if it gets better. I know what she means. But everyone seems to say it’ll get better later… but everyone also seems to hate this year, which just doesn’t seem right to me. So… I need to talk to mom more about it, but I don’t really see myself staying here, not if I have a choice, and not for this amount of money. It’s just not right that I’m so excited to go home and get away from here and that I’m dreading all of my work and coming back here after break. I shouldn’t be dreading it. That’s just not right. And I don’t see the point in taking a semester off. That’s not the issue. I’ll still be dreading starting up again. Something needs to change. This just isn’t working. They’re weeding out the wrong person with their bullshit.
So today I was really upset because I just want to go home. But, I gotta do my homework. Yup. So I’ve gotten one drawing done, and this was the procrastination for the other one. It’s supposed to be bigger than 18x24, but it’s not going to be because that’s a pain in my butt. Oh well if he’s rude to me about it. Gawd. And then mom or dad is going to help me with my propaganda essay because I don’t have internet. So goal for tonight: other drawing and essay. Tomorrow: Film and LCD. Blah. I need to call Tudor and I need to figure out what the hell my LCD homework is, anyway.
And now I leave you, not too happy. Remember how excited I was when I first got here? They drained it away from me. Leave me your thoughts. I wont be able to post this until hopefully, tomorrow. Akk, I hope I don’t forget about my SDS meeting tomorrow! And I want to practice piano soon, too. I even got a fever blister, most likely because of all this stupid stress. And I’m over sleeping because I just feel tired all the time. And I tried to go to the gym today but it was closed, which is discouraging. I don’t know how I’m going to get through these next 3 weeks. I don’t know how I’ve ever gotten all this stuff done.
My internet is down, of course, so I can’t post this until later. I really need to figure out a way to make sure it’s p all the time because this just isn’t working. Sometimes I really need to do research and man, what a pain to have to go out somewhere else when I have a computer right here and SHOULD have internet. But anyways…
Monday I skipped Film and English because I wanted to hang out with my family. We went to 5th Ave and walked around to a bunch of stores and it was fun. It was so great to see them! It made me super happy. But these past 3 and a half months have gone by so quickly that it didn’t even seem like I hadn’t seen them in a while, you know? Uber fast, that’s how fast the time has gone. It’s like it wasn’t even there. But yea, of course, we had to go to the bagel shop so that everyone else could try it. We went a few times during their stay. Then on Tuesday I went to the morning of LCD but then packed up and we left around 2, so I didn’t go to the afternoon. As of right now, I still don’t know what the homework is. That’s partially because I can’t get online to ask people. Annoying, yes. I hope hope hope it’s just to finish what we were already doing, because that would make my like so much simpler! I wonder how many people actually went back for the afternoon, and I hope that it was only a few and that would mean that he didn’t really assign any homework. Please? But anyway, I just need to figure it out by tomorrow so I can get it done tomorrow. That’s all.
I also have drawing homework and an essay on propaganda for English class and my film project that’s barely started but due in a week, all along side LCD to get done this weekend. And it’s not a weekend any more. It’s a Sunday. And my drawing teacher is making us all go to an open model session this week, so I have to go on Tuesday, which is LAME because that could be homeworking time, and I really don’t want to go. I haven’t been in a while. But I’ve been about 7 times, so technically, I’m ok. Gar. I’m so fed up with all this.
Moving on to happy things… We drove for 6 hours to get to Ithaca. It was a good thing we left when we did. we were planning for me to go to the afternoon and then leave, but then we wouldn’t have made it until midnight or later! We got in at around 8:30 and ate dinner at the Moosewood Restaurant, which was right by our hotel! It was pretty good, but they have daily menus so you don’t really have much of a choice. It was slightly disappointing, to be honest, but I know it’s still an awesome place, the choices they had that night just weren’t the most awesome they could be. Then we slept.
Wednesday I slept while my family went to visit Ithaca College. I think Tommy liked it, he just doesn’t have an accurate realization of just how good he is with the theater and lighting stuff. The college has a theater and lighting program that apparently only accepts about 20 students, which of course he’d get into with all his experience and knowledge! How many schools have a program like Skyline’s? Very few. And how many people would actually be applying to the college? Same deal. He’d get in no problem with how good he is! He’s a good student and very driven. He’s like me though, he just doesn’t realized how good he actually is.
Then what did we do? We drove up to Uncle Joe’s cabin that he built. It was really nice I liked it a lot! And then we drove to see the summer house he and Elizabeth were going to buy which was right by Lake Catayuga (sp?) and going to fix up and stuff. And we visited bunches of waterfalls because they all drain down into the lake. Then we ate dinner at Joe’s Restaurant, which is where Dad ate every Friday forever with his advisor and the other people in the group. It was essentially an Olive Garden, so it wasn’t super classy, but it was tasty none the less. We ate the leftovers for breakfast, there was TONS of food!
Thursday we went to visit Cornell, where mom and dad went to graduate school. It was HUGE oh man it had so much space! If we had thought about it sooner, we could have stayed in the hotel school’s hotel there, that would have been fun! It was cool to see. More waterfalls, too. Hehe. Then, what did we do? We went back to the hotel because people were hungry at around 5, and we ate Thanksgiving dinner in this restaurant attached to the hotel. It was actually really good. Tommy will attest, the apple pie was the best apple pie I’ve ever had. Mom didn’t want to admit it because she thinks ours is the best, but nope, this was better =) it was really tasty as was all the food. And we were trying to figure out what as win it. We think it was honey, maple syrup, or nutmeg. Or something… That made it so good. Again, we ate the leftovers for breakfast. Then we played 5 crowns with everyone, which is a fun game. I lost by far. I’d lost by far the night before too. I don’t know why! =)
Also, me and Molly watch season 1 of Project Runway like crazy! It was good fun. That’s our show, we like to watch it together. I bought her it for her birthday. We’re going to finish season 1 and watch season 3 when I get home for winter break. We also went in the hot tub a few times. Well, I went once, and they went twice. Yay for hot tubs!
There was also the NEATEST little gift shop in Ithaca Commons, which as just this area of little stores. I bought 5 people’s Christmas presents there, and would have gotten EVERYONE’S there, but it was a tad expensive and I had to convince mom and dad that the presents I was getting would be from a couple of people, You get me? Like, if we all bought cheaper things, it would add up to one big thing from everyone. I can’t say what I got because then people would be able to read what I bought them! I also bought some belated birthday presents for my friends at another little store. And some cute cards. I love Christmas! It’s my favorite time of year, it really is. I love having everyone get together and getting people presents! I LOVE getting people presents! Man, it’s so much fun! I really wanted to get Molly this one thing, but me and mom knew that it was just too expensive. I thought maybe Grama could go in on it with us, but I don’t know if I could have convinced mom of that, so I just didn’t bother. It was really cute though! I can’t wait to come home and finish up my shopping! I’m going to have to do it all in the last few days before Christmas and super rush! But that’s okay. So far I have 6 presents down, around at least 12 to go. It shouldn’t be a problem, especially since I love getting them!
So Friday we drove home. It was faster getting home because there wasn’t the traffic we hit leaving New York City. We left at 12 and got home at 5. Home. Blah. Re-phrase. We got back to my jail cell. Haha. Just kidding. Somewhere in between… we got back to my school. There. Anyway, so mom helped me clean my room up and then they gave me my birthday presents! Yea, it’s a bit early, but obviously I can’t celebrate it at home. It’s in about 10 days. When I get home, I want to throw a birthday party really badly =) that should be tons of fun and then I can get everyone I want to see together in my house! Yay. So they gave me FOUR awesome things! Molly gave me a cd I wanted. The group is called the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. It’s their new cd, and I really really like it! It’s good. And she also convinced mom to buy me an advent calendar from the starbucks that was right in to hotel we were staying in that I told her I really wanted. Advent calendars are my favorite! We had a few when I was a kid and I remember that I always really loved them! But they weren’t as much fun without candy inside of them. So this one is little drawers shaped to look like a Christmas tree and there are 24 boxes, of course, counting up to Christmas day. You pull out a drawer each day, they’re labeled, and eat the little chocolate inside, and then you reverse the drawer and there’s part of a picture on the back and once you’ve reversed all of the drawers it makes a really pretty Christmas scene on the other side! It’s really neat, not to mention a good way to only allow me one chocolate a day. Haha. =) But I can’t start until Friday on the first! Tommy with his awesome self got me a set of colored Christmas lights to put up in my window and he put them up for me and they look awesome! Speaking of which, I need to turn them on. Yay! I loves them. They wanted to get me blinking ones and looked all over but couldn’t find any. But I don’t mind =) they make me happy no matter what because it reminds me of home and all of our awesome lights at Christmas time =) And the last present was this beautiful bracelet that mom and dad got me. I pointed it out like 4 months ago when I was still home. It’s silver… or maybe actually gold, and it’s a cuff bracelet that looks like 4 film negatives! It’s so neat! I’ll take a picture of it when I get a chance. But I know how expensive it was and I’m afraid to wear it because I don’t want to mess it up or break it or anything =( But it’s really nice. I feel spoiled.
We had Bagels for dinner YAY and then Dad helped me try and get moving on my film project. I have this awful anxiety about it and just really don’t want to do it at this point, and that’s why it’s not getting done. Tudor said he’d help me with it, but I haven’t even called him yet, and I really really should. Of course, I should be doing all sorts of homework right now, but that’s just it, I ALWAYS should be doing homework, and that’s just not okay with me because I’m not even really that interested. I don’t really want to write about it right now, but I don’t really want to be here any more. I just want to go home. And I don’t know if I want to come back. I just don’t see the point or what sort of progress is supposed to be happening. Everyone’s telling me that Freshman year is just bad, but really, it shouldn’t be! I should be having a really good time. I came here so positive and with an open mind ready to do anything and I’ve been working my damn ass off and I’m just not interested in what I’m doing and I really think it’s BS the whole Freshman year is bad thing, it should be good, there’s no excuse. And I’m not enjoying myself here. The problem is that, if I transfer, where too? How do I know it wont just be the same crap? And how do I know it wont get better next year? Grama thinks that I shouldn’t wait around because it’s just not a risk I should take, seeing if it gets better. I know what she means. But everyone seems to say it’ll get better later… but everyone also seems to hate this year, which just doesn’t seem right to me. So… I need to talk to mom more about it, but I don’t really see myself staying here, not if I have a choice, and not for this amount of money. It’s just not right that I’m so excited to go home and get away from here and that I’m dreading all of my work and coming back here after break. I shouldn’t be dreading it. That’s just not right. And I don’t see the point in taking a semester off. That’s not the issue. I’ll still be dreading starting up again. Something needs to change. This just isn’t working. They’re weeding out the wrong person with their bullshit.
So today I was really upset because I just want to go home. But, I gotta do my homework. Yup. So I’ve gotten one drawing done, and this was the procrastination for the other one. It’s supposed to be bigger than 18x24, but it’s not going to be because that’s a pain in my butt. Oh well if he’s rude to me about it. Gawd. And then mom or dad is going to help me with my propaganda essay because I don’t have internet. So goal for tonight: other drawing and essay. Tomorrow: Film and LCD. Blah. I need to call Tudor and I need to figure out what the hell my LCD homework is, anyway.
And now I leave you, not too happy. Remember how excited I was when I first got here? They drained it away from me. Leave me your thoughts. I wont be able to post this until hopefully, tomorrow. Akk, I hope I don’t forget about my SDS meeting tomorrow! And I want to practice piano soon, too. I even got a fever blister, most likely because of all this stupid stress. And I’m over sleeping because I just feel tired all the time. And I tried to go to the gym today but it was closed, which is discouraging. I don’t know how I’m going to get through these next 3 weeks. I don’t know how I’ve ever gotten all this stuff done.
posted by Bonnie at 8:30 PM
1 Comments:
i love you, bonnnnniiee!!! this is ANNIE!!
theres so much to say.. but i totally watched the entire first season of runway over break too!!! and im sooo addicted! except i didn't watch the last episode...
i can't wait until i see you! i really, really can't wait. you have no idea how excited i am!!!!
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