Day 10: 10 Secrets
1. This galls me to admit, but I am somewhat jealous of my younger sister. She’s always had better taste in fashion and was somehow born knowing how to do things with her hair and makeup that I couldn’t do with years of practice. She also graduated from college in the traditional four years and I’m stuck, nearly 27, still pursuing my undergraduate degree.
2. I talk about wanting to live on my own and think about leaving the house to go to grad school — I don’t really want to. I like living with my parents (most of the time) and though I like to spend a lot of time alone, I like having either one of my parents five seconds away. I’m not nearly as independent or self-sufficient as I should be.
3. I’m pretty sure I won’t ever get married because I don’t think I’d find someone who make me happy enough to make that commitment.
4. At my first real job, after over two years of working hard, they let me go to give my job to someone they couldn’t fire, and who had been shuffled through many departments, I spent the last month I was there surfing the Internet and not doing a lot of work because I didn’t see the point. I purposely left the new girl with a ton of backlogged work to make her life miserable.
5. Up until my senior year in high school, I actually thought I could sing and auditioned for solos (a very nice choral teacher took me aside and informed me I was tone deaf)
6. I used to have actual arguments with people on soap opera boards. I remember believing it was worth it at the time, but now–almost eight years later–I know it was a complete waste of time. We spent a lot of time in chat rooms discussing our replies on the boards. I can’t even claim I was bored.
7. I read romance novels constantly, but tend to skim the love scenes, especially authors who are really explicit. I might be a closet prude.
8. I cry very easily. Not just at commercials or like movies, which actually don’t make me cry, but in arguments where I know there’s going to be some sort of confrontation. I’m not good at thinking on my feet in those situations and when I can’t think of how to respond, I get nervous and then I cry. It’s very odd.
9. I tried to commit suicide when I was about 15, but I didn’t take enough pills so I woke up the next morning. I honestly can’t remember what drove me to it, which I guess is odd because it should have been important, but I remember it more for just being incredibly grateful it didn’t work.
10. And to end this list on a somewhat brighter note, I find traditional fiction incredibly boring. I can’t read any fiction that isn’t romance, or any nonfiction that isn’t history-related. I also hate most of the great authors. I feel like people expect me to read more high-brow literature because I’m smart, so obstinately, I can’t bring myself to do it. I love trashy romance novels, but I used to be really ashamed of it.

So yeah. Hm. This was harder than I thought it would be.

1. Being a Mets fan. (I’m feeling annoyed towards them, this shouldn’t be much of a surprise.)
2. Wearing Uggs with either a short skirt or shorts. Either you’re hot or you’re cold. Pick a sensation and go with it.
3. Parking your busted down van in front of someone’s house that you don’t even know and then NOT moving it for three weeks.
4. Making me come all the way to school on a day that I don’t have to so that I can drop my final off in your mailbox. You’re just lucky I only live ten minutes from campus, you torture-seeker. It’s reading week, not finals week.
5. Cutting my hair two inches shorter than I asked so that I can’t even put it up in a ponytail and will therefore be very cranky while studying due to the aforementioned hair in my face. Always wear contacts to your hair appointments, ladies. Then you’re not blind as a bat.
6. Being an idiot kid on their bike in the middle of the street and laughing at a car behind you when they beep at you because YOU’RE IN THE STREET. Should have run them over.
7. Not turning in your paper on time and getting the professor to give you until Monday when I busted my ass to finish the book and the paper by Thursday. Boo.

Boo.

On the plus side, yesterday, the Phillies remembered the best way to win is a combination of the pitcher NOT giving up home runs AND scoring more runs than the other team. Always fabulous. I always say — if you’re breaking out of slump, why not kick a little New York ass at the same time? Yankees or Mets, I’m not particular. I hates them both.

When I list these things like this, I think I was over planning it. Hmm.

OFFLINE
1. Clean closet
2. Clean under bed
3. Vaccuum room
4. Shred old bank statements and pays stubs
5. Organize financial and personal documents

SCHOOL
1. Rewrite French composition
2. Revise Modern Germany paper
3. Rewrite Absolutism paper
4. Read Galileo for Absolutism
5. Reread Coming of the Third Reich up to Chapter 8 to get intellectual developments.
6. Finish GRE Math Workbook up to page 100
7. Get caught up on GRE Vocabuluary book.

ONLINE
1. Move Claire Coffee and Nadine Crowell fanlistings to Claire domain.
2. Move Rebecca Herbst, Elizabeth Webber, Liason and Liason fanfic to Rebecca domain.
3. Roundup at RomanceFan.
4. Convert Scott Clifton domain back to fanlisting
5. Convert Lindze Letherman back to fanlisting

GENEALOGY
1. Nothing scheduled

WRITING
1. Nothing scheduled

I uploaded all my photos to Facebook and will post my scorecard eventually.

NLDS Game 1 Photos

Myers returns to Phillies on Friday

With Hamels pitching back to form and Pedro Martinez kicking ass tonight, I feel so much better about our chances this post season.

SCHOOL — CCC
1. Figure out how Camden County screwed up my brother’s summer loans and fix it so he can get his refund.
2. Figure out how they screwed up MY summer loans so I can get my refund.
3. Find out when bookstore vouchers activate at the bookstore so I can ship Jimmy to get his textbooks.

SCHOOL — Rutgers
1. Confirm my transfer evaluation has been updated.
2. Get student ID
3. Figure out how to get student loan refund to pay for textbooks in time for school.
4. Get parking permit
5. Get aforementioned textbooks.

ONLINE
1. Figure out what I’m supposed to do with all the idiotic fan sites I started. Either close them permanently or do some sort of archive.
2. Finish fanlistings adopted from Brianne.
3. Finish two Phillies FLs August 21 deadline.
4. Maybe a new layout for main collective.
5. Roundup at RomanceFan.

Three weeks. Doesn’t feel like enough time.

Damn them!

It’s not entirely working.

I did finish about 2/3 of my math portfolio and the rest of my final speech for Public speaking today. Yesterday, I did section one of my Modern China paper and about 1/3 of my French paper.

I just can’t find the energy to finish section two for China and the the next third of the French paper. *sniffles* My French paper is planning a vacation to a French speaking country in French, so I chose Tahiti. It is not cheering me up to plan the dream vacation I won’t be able to afford for another decade. Evil. I should have chosen Luxembourg or someplace else I’d never want to go.