can you dig it?

so this past weekend was well one of the best weekends ever.
all this past week I was just really stressed out, and really tied.
I have been working really hard, I haven't missed one class & my all the grades
I have gotten back have been really good, so I was happy about that, buttttt.

Its hard to be going non-stop all week, every week & I kind of hit a boring week. I got paid thursday which was REALLY nice just because it was my first paycheck & it was rather large, so it was a relief to finally have it in my hand. As good as school is going I just at the point where im starting to miss my friends from home and as much as I love being here I kind of felt a need to see everyone again.

Friday I have no classes, or work so i figured I could get a head start on some english club stuff I have been procrastinating it was really good because I got a lot done.

Then at noon I got a text from my friend sean asking me if I wanted to see a favorite band of mine Megadeth in Providence... Obviously I said yes. So sarah and I went out and ran a few errands and sean & his friend came and picked me up.

The show was unbelievable. me & sean but his friend andy didn't want to so he just held our stuff and rocked out. It was seans first time in a pit so it was so unbelievabably amusing. I pushed him in and he just turned and looked at me with this what do i do look, but he rocked out.. haha. the downside.. I now have a broken toe. but it was really worth it.

After the show we drove back to eastern and Alec my good friend from home was up as well as my friend sam whoes from plainfield. Sean & andy came up for a while and met all my friends, and then they left.
alec, sam, all my roomates, and I just chilled and partied.

it was such a good night cause I got to see people that I had missed a lot. Since friday I have just relaxed.
this morning I woke up and I have a sore throat but im downing vitamin C so hopefully i'll feel better.

I suppose at least I am ready for the week now.

Today we will be exploring the importance of concert edict

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Concert Edict...

this is in response to the unbelievable behavior I have seen throughout concert this summer...
Primarily for lawn people of hartford,ct yeah i know im a biased person.

1. If you bedtime is before the end of the concert, you SHOULD NOT be there, even if accompioned by a parent. No we will not quite down so your daughter can fall asleep.

2. If you are tailgating at a country concert, you should not be listening to rock, or rap music. That just makes no sense

3. Never ever ever puke on the lawn... if you suck at holding in your vomit, do it on your blanket, or bring a paper bag. Puking on the lawn is just embarassing.

4. If your mom and/or dad dropped you off, you should NOT be drinking to get drunk, you should be drinking to get buzzed and pray it wares off before mom and/or dad pick you up and BRING BREATHE MINTS

5. if you are under the age of 16 You should not be tailgating anyways.

6. Always wear underwear to a concert... i know i should have to say that one. but if you're drunk and dance or your boyfriend puts you up on his shoulders to see... wellll we all just dont want to see that. end of story

7. If you attend a concert, and you suddenly feel big & bad enough to enter a moshpit, please know that we are not 6 year olds who are just going to shove you around, we have aggression and plan to beat you up.. dont get angry when you get hit.. derrrr

8. Concerts are not fashion shows, so cowboy boots and the skimpy dress were a bad idea.

9. Lawn people are supposed to stick together, fights because the guy next you would rather chant about the redsox than the yankees post concert does not give you a reason to beat the shit out of him and stall the line to outside.

10. Why leave before the encoure, you're not getting home any faster... let it go.

11. Dont park in McDonalds you'll get towed.. geyyy

12. Do not pee on the lawn.. security will find you. and if you do, and get away with it please don't talk about it later. grosss

13. Singing along is one thing, but i did pay to see the band on stage....sorryyy

14. I am fully aware you are drunk.... please dance far away from me, i will not catch you if you fall.

15. No one likes the whalers... stop screaming about them after the concert.

16. Never do a bridge walk.. it equals intense rape scenario.

17. If you want to have a nice conversation, you can go get dinner in hartford... but attempting to talk mid-concert bad idea

18. If you BFFL Jill is unable to attend the concert, stay home and hang out with her, dont spend the whole damn concert texting the bitch... its soooo obnoxious to look around and see people texting and texting...

19. if you feel a fight with your boyfriend coming on within 48 hours of LEAVING for the concert, make it a girls night and save us the drama... i dont care if he was your ex-best friends beer pong partner... shuttupp and jamm.

20. CHAIRS should never be high. none of that fold up crap... blocks views. only beach chairs

21. IF your the idiot who caused the banning of blankets to some concerts because you were tosssing girls with them.. just die. end of story.

22. Your shoes should be on your feet through the entire tailgating, concert, walk back to the car experience..... broken glass, puke, piss... do you really want to step in that... i didnt think so

23. the poor man who plays trumpet has been sitting outside the gate since 1992 give the man a spare dime not a highfive you drunk idiot.. he cant buy beer with a highfive

24. the further you walk the cheaper the shirts and water gets... dont be a fool.

25. If you reallly really feel you need that next beer, but don't think you can make it to the stand without tripping over 40 people in the process do us a favor have your buddy go. and if your both to drunk.. you DONT NEED THAT OTHER BEER!

.....anyways thats all for now, just had to get that out

....my family + communication = no solution...

my grandfather passed away on tuesday, and ive been pretty upset about it the past few days. i was mad i was at school and not with my family etc. but nothing angers me more than the lack of communication in my family.

i finished classes today, but it was much to late to have taken the bus to get home, so i called a favor to a good friend to come get me at school so i could meet my sister at home and we could make the drive to new jersey to be with my family... but to be on my way home and find out that my dad and brother are home and my brother is going out. well that just makes me feel really stupid. i mean to have called my friend to come get me because i had no other way home says alot. especially considering he took the time to cancel his evening plans and make the the hour and fourty five minute ride to get me, but then to pull into my house and know that people are home probably sleeping on the couch or out. that just makes me feel really stupid. im just lucky i have good friends.

but then now im home and im sitting. if i was at school id be doing something right now. if i knew this was the plan i wouldnt have come home til early morning. it just kind of makes me angry that i ask again and again what i should do and what the plan is and i get 50 different answers from different people only to just be sitting on a couch watching some stupid fishing show.

i suppose i could do homework. but im so angry now its probably not possible.

not to mention all summer i wanted me & my mom to drive in my car to jersey, but she kept saying no because my car wouldnt be able to make the trip.. but when im not home and i show up and see that shes taken my car, .... well thats just a smack in the face... if you wanted to inadvertantly tell me you don't like driving with me you did an excellent job.

i hate being so upset with my family seeing as how awkward the next few days will be. but ive just been having a hard couple of months and im not one to show emotion to anyone but myself. so although i know everyone will be mad at me for not crying once in front of them. im quite alright with it.

Pop-Pop 9112007 forever in my heart

So live like you mean it && love to you feel it.

I had intro to social work last night, by far my best class this semester, not to mention the only one i can remotly sit through without intensly fidgeting.... the downside.. this woman gets worse every freaking week!!. yesterday we all set down and to our wonderous && happy suprise she did not show up for class. well a half hour into it she struts in and announces she is so late cause her daugters sick... my guess is she is dead because someone told 50 cent she said he was ugly and killed her... anyways 20 minutes later her phone rang and the teacher answered it cause thats what he does.... and then at the end of class she wanted to know if we prefered cookies or brownies because she wanted make somethign for the next class....

huh?! thats funny i could have sworn i was in college....strange..

but on that note. i was reading the times earlier this week and came across and article on healthy eating in schools. i remember when i was a senior and we were calling my atheletic director a cupcake nazi for wanting to band sugary snacks and now his idea of how eating in school seems to have become quite common. Now i for one am not going to lie to myself and say obesity in america is not a problem, nor am i going to say that we shouldnt take action to do all that we can to prevent it. but heres where i draw the line. elementary schools. i am not saying don't update the lunch menus so that the kids aren't eating undercooked pizza, but one of the BEST parts of elementary school is that you celebrate every holiday from christmas to ground hogs day and if you can't bring in cupcakes or other treats you're taking away part of being a kid. what the heck do room parents do now-a-days. it jsut upsets me. i mean were killing the idea of being a youth with all this technology and these parents who are just giving spoiling them or forcing them to grow up to quickly but taking away something so simple as bringing in cookies on your birthday is just another step to taking away childhood altogether.
and I am sure many of you think i sound stupid. but if you're so into your life that you can't sit back and remember how excited you were because the room mom's were bringing in candy for halloween and you were going to go fake tricker treating in school or because i was your birthday and everyone was excited because your mom made the best cupcakes then you need a vacation from work to disney...
VIVA LA CHILDHOOD.

sorry but im a kid advocate. kids are the future.

conflict of interest...

so yesterday I had my first day of Intro to Social Work. I stepped into class and had to take 12 different packets of information. The class will be a lot of work but it looks really interesting.
The first few minutes of class the teacher defined social work for us, he is a loud man, with a really captivating voice which will make the class more interesting considering its 3 hours and an 5 minute break somewhere in between.
In the middle of discussing social work he asks a question whats a huge part of being able to be a social worker. A woman sitting in the front of the class raises her hand and says being able to network. The teacher jokingly says you mean like being hooked up to you myspace.. the woman tells him he is fresh, asks him how old he is (he replys 30) and she says well im turning 50 so were going to clash a lot.

EXCCUSE ME?! i would have kicked her out right then... but we move on...

not even 10 minutes later the teacher (dr. thompson) calls on a girl... she looks around nervously and we all just look back because its the first day of class so staring isnt awkward yet.. and the woman from the previous incident goes OH NO DON'T CALL ON HER SHES MY 16 year old DAUGHTER........

you brought your daughter to the first day of class...??? why and if she is their shove her in the back with a sign that says dont call on my not front row with a notebook and pen to help you take notes!!!!
the class moves on..

We have the choice of either doing a 20 minute present or taking the final. So were discussing the posibilites and what were allowed to have and he says that we can have a guest speaker as long as it is approved and he gives an example of what would be approved... 50 cent if you were talking about the ghetto... so he asks who is 50 cent and the womans daughter raises her hand and tells us he was shot a few times... then starts giggling uncontrollably and the woman tells her to just say whats on her mind. soo then about 2 minutes later while we wait for her to stop laughing she finally tells us ............... hes ugly..

thank god you took time out of my lecture for that......

So then we go over the next part of the class. We are all required to 20 hours of community service with a social work position. so he then goes over dress code... no flip flops no shirts with inapropriate things because your representing him and the university... so then he says no booty shorts and asks someone to tell a kid in the front who has a dumbfounded look on his face what booty shorts are. so the girl next to me says they are really short shorts that your butt usually hangs out of.. then the old woman says they usually go in a V and our teacher gives her a look... so we spend 2 minutes of her ranting about how she lost 110 pounds so she'll wear what she wants....

ohkkk... moving on...

Its the end of class and its in discussion time. he gives us situations and we have to figure out how to help the people. my group discusses a few possibilities and we pick a group leader... she stands up and says we believe the mom should give up the children to DCF and get her feet back on the ground and then take her children back.

THE WOMAN stands up because it HAS to be her turn now then stares my group leader down and says NEVER EVER EVER promote DCF i had cancer and i almost lost my family and blah blah blah dcf is not the answer. she then gives her answer which is okay but its not much better than anyone elses in the class but the teacher can't even say anything because how do you respond to that.

So in closing of the class the teacher tells us our homework and the woman is like i would jsut like to say something ...staring at certain people in the class. SOCIAL WORK IS NOT FOR EVERYONE IT IS VERY HARD....

well.. lets just say I cant wait for next week

Hey Jude, begin, your waiting for someone to perform with.

My urban geography class will be the best class i have ever taken, my professor is french has a very thick accent and well its arch-itekture and he couldn't remember the word bisexual and when he remembered he was quite pleased with himself. and then he couldn't figure out the word for stadium he was like you know lots of seats, watching something. it was amusing...

my psychology class should be equally excellent. im quite excited... but its because of their passion about what they do that i am so interested.. i wish i could feel passion like that about something. when you have it's like impossible to hide. its a thing of beauty...

i think my new major is going to either be social work, or sociology with a minor in urban geography. we'll see i have to research it first.

ahh the joys of major changing.


The average college student will change their major 5 times before qraduating..

THATS ONE.