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| I'm about to have my wisdom teeth cut out, and I"m really nervous ... say me a prayer!
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| Alright, so it's been a while. Let me fill you in -
1) I"M GOING TO CHINA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From Jan 4-Jan 15, I'm going to be in China with Jiaoming. It'll be split b/w Beijing and her parent's BEACH HOUSE IN THE SOUTH SEAS, where I shall be hanging out in my BIKINI. I cannot describe how excited I am.
2) I am having my wisdom teeth cut out a week from Friday. Apparantly my lower one (I've only got one on the bottom) is all sideways and growing a long root that is on the same level as my mandibular nerve. If it's touching it (they can't tell in the xray), then when they take it out, the nerve canal will fill up with blood and I WILL NEVER FEEL ANYTHING AGAIN IN THE LOWER LEFT SIDE OF MY FACE. I am pretty freaked, and really nervous a/b having this done. Keep that in your prayers, please!
3) Matt's moving to Chicago! Well, most probably. He got offered a job with Bank of America, as a Credit Analyst. It pays really well for right out of college, 55k a year.
4) I still don't know what I"m doing next year ... but I'm leaning towards graduating, just because it's so freaking expensive to stay at WashU for another year. If I could find someone to give me 20k, I'd stay in a heartbeat. It'd be cool if I could find a job in Chicago. Anybody know anyone in Chicago who works in PR or law? PR is like my ideal field, but I'd work in a law firm, too, to become exposed to that (If you don't know, I'm planning on going to law school). Alternatively, if you know anybody who works in PR in Paris, give me a heads up a/b that, too. 
Um, what else ... my party was TONS of fun, Mock Trial is uber time demanding, my grades are only so-so, and I'm apparantly violently allergic to something in my apartment because whenever I stay in my room for longer than an hour or so (eg, when I want to SLEEP!) I become amazingly congested, to the point where I wake up unable to breathe and with itchy eyes and ginormeous sneezes - which is why I"m home typing this, I slept like 4 hours last night and have one heck of a sinus headache.
Matt and I had a beautiful, beautiful dinner last night at Cafe de France. We were there for more than 2 1/2 hours. I had fresh foie gras, fresh! It was just marvelous. I adore our waiter, he's the cutest little old French man ever. Matt and I had a rack of baby lamb chops, with a Chateauneuf-du-Pape that was excellent. The meal finished with creme brulee, and it was just a beautiful, beautiful evening.
My brother moved to Mississippi, to join my father. My mom's going down there in January. Keep my brother in your prayers, we really want him to like it down there, and we hope he'll get in a better academic environment and stuff like that. My dad likes his job, but it's pretty stressful and challenging.
My cat is the cutest, smartest cat in the world, and I love him to pieces. I have another Mock Trial tournament this weekend, and then I'm going home to have my wisdom teeth taken out, and then it's thanksgiving, so I won't see alot of you for a while ... don't forget me! | | |
| OMG so forget everything I said a/b not wanting to go to EKU. I went, it was amazing, I had SO much fun ... and - we cleaned up!!! It was a very competitve tournament, some really great mock trial teams were there, like KU, Miami of Ohio, and GA Tech. Each school actually takes multiple 'teams' because each team can only have 8 people. So we took two 'teams,' 633 and 632, even tho we're all the same Mock Trial team from WashU. My team, 633, came in 3rd place in the tournament, and the other team, 632, came in 2nd! We were the only school to have two teams place.
Now the big deal a/b this is we didn't stack our teams - most schools put all their best members on one team. We evenly divided our teams between old and new people, really good and good people. This means that even when we didn't have our best people on the same team, our teams were still good enough to beat the other school's teams who DID only have their best people. See what I mean??? So when we DO stack our teams later in the season, our A team is going to be really freakin amazing. I fully anticipate us sending two teams to nationals this year, and I am uber excited. We have always had a good reputation, and it's only getting better and better ... other schools are even copying our style.
Plus, we had uber amounts of team bonding. We played pictionary and did each of our coaches and laughed, and laughed, and laughed. For Dean Davis, we drew a classroom, a stick figure, and dollar sign with an x through it. Alicia shouted out, 'broke-ass man!' No money man' <gasps> 'DEAN DAVIS!!!' And if you knew him and how he is the CHEAPEST PERSON ALIVE - you'd understand! We stayed up all hours and watched tapes of our rounds and helped each other rewrite crosses and made corny jokes and Clint dubbed himself 'Clinty-poo' and we bonded over chili with too many beans and not enough meat, and Cliff and I set up a scheme where we pretended to flirt all weekend and laughed over sending ripples of rumors throughout the teams, and I had like a 2 hour convo about politics, the NBA vs NCAA, abortion, how to revive social security, and personal freedom vs. social obligation with Zach, Cliff took me to my first captain's meeting when he found out I'd never been, John almost killed us when he didn't tell us until AFTER he was in the driver's seat that he'd just gotten his license back - after having it taken away for running a red light. While speeding. Through a railroad crossing. And then TRYING TO OUTRUN THE COP. After which he said - how do you get this thing out of park? And I said, you have to press the brake.' And he HITS THE GAS PEDAL!!! Whittany and I agreed that we'd marry either Michael Buble or Jamie Cullem if they'd just sing to us every night, Abel wore cowboy boots all weekend, I learned more a/b being kosher, and ACK - we came in 2nd and 3rd place and won witness and attorney awards! I love Mock Trial!!!!!!!!
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| So I've been given a free trial of Xanga Premium ... can I actually DO anything different with this?
Remember my last post with me stressing over QBA? Well guess what? I took the exam and I made an 85! I know, usually SF doesn't cheer over grades beginning with an 8 ... but the class average was a 75! This means I made an A!!!!!
I'm bummed a/b not being able to go to Katie's this weekend ... I think it sounds like a heck of a lot of fun. And I"m missing it to spend 11 bajillion hours in a car going to and from Eastern Kentucky, where the only thing to look forward to is maybe some decent fried chicken. And I'm only playing a witness, which means that I'll only be in 2 of the four rounds of the mock trial tournament. And it's a 7 hour drive, we're slated to leave to come home around 7pm Sunday ... once we stop for dinner we'll be getting in at 3am. And I have two tests the VERY NEXT DAY.
On the other hand, I'm starting to get excited a/b my party. I just love entertaining. Plus it will be the first time ever that I should have friends from all of my different WashU circles in the same place ... I think it's gonna be a blast. I went by Crate and Barrel yesterday and picked up some more wine glasses and some plain white trays to put hors d'oeuvres on yesterday, and another cheese board. I've been sampling things from The Wine Merchant (I'm into cheese) and I'm looking forward to having an excuse to purchase lots of yummy cheese! En plus, I've practiced and I can now make a really good glass of kir. Shannon, if you bring that champagne you were talking a/b, I can make really good kir royal and mimosas. And I'm working on how to make a good pitcher of sangria ... It needs to be as good as I had in Spain! I want to have cultural themes. I will have some hors d'oeurves and drinks like I had in Spain, and some like I had in France ... you get the idea. If I can make Jiaoming and/or Ryan and/or Shannon help me out I might toss some Asian stuff in there. I think it will be alot of fun. Altho I've got like 3 different dresses - two cocktail and one formal - that I want to wear ... how to pick, how to pick, how to pick? And do I want to play the French pop music? Or the French jazz? Or both? Anyways, unfortunately I should probably now leave and go to Accounting ... <sigh>.
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| OMGOSH I am SO SICK of studying for qba!!! That's quantitative business analysis, for all you lucky non-bschoolers ... aka their schmancy word for stats.
And I am SO SICK of BOYS!!! Matt and I got in a tiff over something kinda stupid, but that is really a symptom of something serious resulting from me chaffing in our relationship, and then his feelings were hurt b/c we argued and I felt AWFUL a/b that until I apologized ... but not SO awful than I didn't sneak glances at my 'friend' Alex (while he was over here studying with Jeff and I) and just sorta marvel at how adorable he is. But he is so UNADORABLY vague in how he acts around me. Sometimes he gives off the I like you vibes, sometimes the I like you as a friend vibe. As does Justin. And sometimes I find myself acting in ways that make me wonder if I have a crush on one (or gasp - even Both!) of them. I'm not sure. But I wonder. But WHY do I have (maybe) a crush on someone (ones?) else? I LOVE Matthew! I don't know what's wrong with me. But settling down is sorta freaking me out. I think maybe I'm just like rattling the walls of my cage to see if I can really be happy in them for the rest of my life. And right now I just don't know what I want, when, from whom. I'm thinking a/b reclusing myself from men for a while and just doing me things, like studying and cleaning my room. But then, I rely on Matt for so many things in my life that I just can't imagine how I'd get by without him ... and that in and of itself disturbs me because I don't want to be dependant on someone until I KNOW that they are THE ONE. But this is starting to go in a way different direction than just me ranting a/b my guy frustrations, so I'm going to bed now ...
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