Adventures of a Shockingly Average 30-Something

So.  Remember that time I was writing a book?  No?  That's alright, it's been a while since I've talked about it on here. Here's something REALLY exciting: I FINISHED IT! That book, that one I've been working on since I was 17 and gave up on so many times but kept going back to it because I kept having new ideas for it.  That book I loved and hated and wanted, at times, to just delete the whole thing because it frustrated me that much.  The book that my computer decided, once, before I had it kept on my flashdrive, to delete completely - to the point where it wasn't even in the recycle bin - and I cried and cried and cried and posted on facebook about how upset I was and someone recommended that I try to use Recuva to get it back, and it worked and I cried tears of happiness and I couldn't even explain how happy I was to have it back. Yeah, that book. I finished it. I finished writing a book. You know that girl who doesn't ever finish anyth...

I've come to the conclusion that it's not the school part of school that I miss, it's the people. The plain and simple fact is that I don't fit in here, at home. I've got literally two friends here, and I love them but we really have grown so far apart in the past couple of years. Things are different when we hang out now, and I don't know how to explain it. I miss my Potsdam friends. I haven't known any of them as long as I've known my friends here, but that doesn't mean a thing. I'm so much closer with them. I feel like I can be so completely and totally 100% myself when I am with them. And I can be myself with my friends here too, but it's harder to be. I'm closer to my Potsdam friends; I'm so much more comfortable with them. And, to my friends from here, if you're reading this, I'm not saying this to be mean or to hurt you or anything so please don't take it that way. I miss being just a text message awa...

The first day of Finals Week is tomorrow! (yuck.) I'm actually done with my finals on Wednesday, but my mom can't get up to Potsdam to pick me up until Saturday, so I'll be at school doing basically nothing (watching The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, probably...) from Wednesday night until Saturday morning. But anyway.  My finals schedule is actually really not that bad.  Tomorrow, I've got Literacy Foundations and Math Methods.  Tuesday is just Spanish, and then a review session for Teaching Students with Special Needs.  Then, Wednesday, I have Teaching Students with Special Needs and Spanish. Literacy isn't even really a final.  We had final projects to do, and I've already presented mine so I just have to sit through other people's presentations.  So that's literally nothing. Math... Ok, I'm a bit nervous about math.  I was REALLY nervous, but the teacher did a review session in class last week and then, today, I went to a study session tha...

Back a couple months ago (February), I went to a 30 hour famine to protest world hunger with one of the clubs I'm in at school and a local youth group.  It was a ton of fun, and one of the things we did in the morning was make healing stones.  They're these clear stones with a word glued to to bottom, so you see the word through the stone.  They have words like "faith," "hope," "love," and others like that.  We made just over 200 stones to give to people in hospice, and we each made a few for ourselves.  I made two for my (ex)neighbor's little girls, with their names written.  I sent them down to Candis for her birthday, along with a few books I'd bought for her at the book fair (my college hosted a scholastic book fair back in March).  I also made one for my roommate. The one I made to keep for myself says "Fearless."  And yes, that is the title of a Taylor Swift song and album, but that's not (entirely) what I made it for....

Where did the semester go?!  Somehow, the last week of classes was TODAY.  I mean, wait, what?  Didn't Spring Break just end, like... a week ago?  This semester, especially after Spring Break, flew by exceedingly fast. But first I want to talk about this weekend.  Now that the weather is PERFECT, I've been outside as much as possible.  I don't want to miss a second of the amazing perfection that has been Potsdam's weather for the past week or so.  I'm definitely a few shades darker, thankfully.  I hate being so vampire/Snow White pale; it's gross. Friday night was my school's annual Gay Prom.  This year, it was Disney themed (and called Enchanted Ball).  I went dressed as Rapunzel, in the dress my grandma made me, and my friend Steven (one of my best/closest friends here at school) went as Flynn Rider.  Rapunzel and Flynn won for best couple, which I was so so so happy about!  I was SO determined to win one of the costume c...