It is an understatement to say I haven’t blogged in a while. That Keanu Reeves post was from the Fall semester, and I did just fine afterall. In this last semester I did even slightly better, earning a 4.0. I’m now a student of another SUNY school (Buffalo State College) where I’ll be starting my Junior year in just over a month. Officially, I am a History major until I pass a Praxis “content knowledge” exam to enter the Social Studies Education program. Frankly, the Praxis is a ridiculous requirement for a student to meet, considering they haven’t even begun taking classes in their area yet and have merely completed Gen Ed requirements. Somehow, I will have to pass the exam that even many teachers fail. It is not looking good…

That is what I was crying out on my way to school this morning.

I had an exam today for my Exceptional Education class, which Justin and I had crammed for the night before. We got 4 hours of sleep. I chugged my coffee in the morning and we raced to the train station at our usual time. The train doesn’t come and we remember a flyer posted a while ago in the subway about some movie called Henry’s Crime starring Keanu Reeves, being filmed in Buffalo.

Due to this guaranteed-flop of a film, three stops were closed and unusable right in the middle of the line where they were shooting. There was supposed to be a shuttle bus to take us through those stops but when we got off at the last functioning station, the shuttle was nowhere to be found. We were already 10-15 minutes behind schedule and then we were forced to walk X amount of blocks in 18 degree weather, enduring the ridiculous wind from Lake fucking Erie… it was HORRIBLE!!! We get to class late and are unable to finish the essay question in the time alotted.

If I do poorly on this test, I am sure of one thing: I am going to KILL Keanu Reeves (after I do a few things to him, of course ;) ), all of the Hollywood crew, and the idiots at NFTA who allowed this bullshit to happen in order to make a couple of bucks.

There are less than two more weeks left of the semester – it went fast! I’m visiting my mom in PA for Christmas, but without Justin this time around. He just couldn’t swing it. I’m actually going to be traveling on Christmas eve on a Greyhound which is pretty miserable, but cheap. My feeling is that it will either be really dead or completely packed (hopefully not the latter).

So, this is the first time I’m updating from my iPod. I’m kinda terrible with the keyboard because of my nails, so it’s slow-going. However, I think using this little Wordpress app will motivate me to blog more often. This way I can write whenever I’m bored or waiting somewhere. I just never feel like sitting at my pc and typing when I’m home, you know? So my point is that I am actually making an effort to post!

So anyway, there is a bigger story to the traveling plans: I get back from my mom’s on January 6th, and on January 7th I will be boarding a plane to El Paso (which I now call “Hell Paso” thanks to ATDI) with Justin to visit some of his family. So my break will not be spent at home this year. Seriously, spring semester will start like a day after we get back into Buffalo! Haha we’re really stretching every last hour of the break.

My boy should be home in 45 minutes so I should play housewife a little bit and pick this place up. Hope all of you friends/affies are happy, and you fellow northerners are warm ^.^

I’ve been busy with classes, but also a bit lazy; I just didn’t feel like blogging! Apparently I did have some time to take bathroom photos of myself in my new red hat that I bought on Etsy.

You can't see it, but it's slouchy in the back!

This semester is cool because we get to do a classroom observation project at a school of our choice, which is the first actual “education” type of class I’ve taken. Also, we get to read Kafka in World Lit. Other than that, college is just a lot of jumping through hoops to get a piece of paper in order to teach… it’s not as stimulating as I thought it’d be. Most of my knowledge and enjoyment is derived from simply reading the assigned textbooks (minus my one Education book which is too PC for it’s own good). Next year I will be at a larger college, but it’s still just another SUNY school so I can’t be sure if it’ll get much better.

I have two exams tomorrow, so I should get back to studying. Blogging was just another way for me to procrastinate, it seems! I’ll leave you with a quote:

For disappearing acts, it’s hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work. ~Doug Larson