be classy, okay?

This summer I worked at Ace Hardware for most of the summer. It was uneventful other than the few days I had pink hair (for Harry Potter because I went as Tonks).





The highlight of my summer, though, was the week I was a Camp Counselor for a group of 83 youth in 7-9th grades. Working with such an energetic bunch of young adults was life changing. It's a tricky age to be in (remember 8th grade? yeah, not fun). The energy that my fellow counselors and I were able to help focus was unbelievable. That one week gave me such a better outlook on the future. The amazing ideas and futures in those youth were more than I ever thought of at that age.

Right now I'm chatting on AIM with one of the girls that was in my cabin this summer. I can feel her enthusiasm in everything she writes.

There is really is hope for the future.


And remember...

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i haz a blog

Even with all the work I have this week and next, I still find time to goof off. Rather, I love the internet and often spend too much time reading dumb websites...

Like I Can Has Cheezburger ---->

College does have a lot of downtime. I seriously never thought I would watch as many 90's movies as I have. Or movies from my childhood (the Swan Princess anyone?). The public library has an amazing selection, as I've mentioned before. If I were a superhero, my power would be able to "call" things (Accio keys!) but libraries would be my weakness.

Speaking of the library, they're building a new one! Currently it's 3 blocks off campus in a decent sized building but they're renovating the old Beloit Mall and putting it in there. It'll now be the opposite way off campus and not much farther. It should be opening in late 2008 or early 2009.

You really have no idea how excited I am for this new library. I love libraries.

In other news, the evening chat is now online! Sunday through Thursday from 6:30 to 9:30 CST you can chat with real, live students -- ask any questions you want! Just sign up here and log in! Once things get hopping, if you just want to sit in the chat and not ask any questions, that's fine too!

half a post...in hindi. thanks blogger.

LAME. I wrote half a post before it switched into Hindi. Blogger can now be written in Hindi but if it gets switched into it it can't go back. Not cool.

It's been nearly a week since I posted because things get crazy all at once. I have two paper and an exam this week PLUS an exam next Monday. This is on top of the regular reading and smaller projects that I have like memorizing a Shakespearean sonnet to recite for class or reading all of Gulliver's Travels in a week.

All I want to do is snuggle in my bed a read The Great Gatsby again. It also doesn't help that my roommate got me started on the first season of Heroes. I finished my paper before I got here so we're going to watch at least one more episode tonight.

Julia and I are in here tonight (along with Tracy from the Admissions Office) trying to get into the new chat module. Emily seems to have gotten on fine early this evening but we've having a hard time. Something isn't loading right and logins aren't working. We haven't gone completely live yet so we aren't worrying too much but Bryan (our supervisor) is on the road and unable to help.

You know how in high school it's really annoying but sort of fun when the fire alarm goes off? You get to leave class, chat with friends and avoid doing work, right? Yeah, it's not all that cool when it's 7 PM, you're writing a 5 page paper and someone burns chicken on the floor above you so everyone has to go stand outside the building. We sat for 15 minute in the parking lot waiting for security to give us the thumbs up before we could enter the smoky building stairwell.

At least it was a decent reason - apparently a fire extinguisher exploded last year during the winter at 4 AM and the alarms went off.

Maybe we can log into the chat module now that it's been half an hour since we got here...if not, it's homework time!