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5/08/2001
yes, two tests and two goodbyes later, im here. thats right, only one test separates me from summer. its a great feeling.
today, i had my cal test and NT exam. they both could have been worse. cal was very long and he asked some weird questions. there were two that i couldn't finish, but i think i got most of the credit for them. i think that i can almost say "i think i got an A" but i am not for sure yet. NT, well lets just say i got lucky. he asked the things that i knew the best. the essay wasn't the prettiest thing in the world, but i think i got the 73 i needed to keep my A!!!
i haven't studied much for spanish, and honestly, i probably won't study a lot. i am not worried about all that much. i probably should be more worried, but oh well!. i think that they should give an automatic 5 pts to everybody's LAST final. everyone is just so tired and anxious to go home by that point. no one wants to study more. i am talking like i had 6 finals. but no, i only have 3, but i still don't want to study for my last one.
nonetheless, tomorrow at about 2:00 i will be pulling out of georgetown for the last time in quite awhile. it is very sad. as i mentioned before, i said two goodbyes today. sarah and jennifer mckinney left us today. it wasn't as bad as i thought it would be, but i think it just hasn't set in yet. i kept thinking that i was going to see them again in a couple days or at the most a week or two. but, who really knows when i will see them, or any other of my gtown friends. i have large intentions to visit them all, but you never know what might come up.
im afraid that if tori or alison start to cry tomorrow, i will too. i don't want to break down like that, but it is quite possible. its going to be crazy this summer without all my chicas. see, i don't have that many female friends that i hang out a lot with at home. there is carrie and ranjana that are around some, but usually it is just me and the davids, ben and a matt or two. its going to be so different. i have grown so close to all of them, closer than i ever would have imagined.
tomorrow when i leave georgetown, it is going to be a better me leaving than the me that arrived in august. i'm definitely leaving with a larger heart and a brighter smile! thanks to all of you....its been a great year and even a more special spring semester. I LOVE YOU ALL!!!! don't forget to keep in touch with me. jenny_abe@hotmail.com
jenny 9:51 PM
5/06/2001
so, i'm back. try to keep your excitement to a minimum.
{this blog probably won't be very interesting}
i had a really good weekend, or thurs-fri-sat break at home. thursday i got home around 2. and i went to david's when he got out of school. we really had no fun plans, so our night wasn't very structured. at some point throughout the evening, we ate dinner with his family, went to get icecream but ended up with donuts and cookies, i watched david while he played a game of bball with his buds, we went out to get a movie but ended up visiting with my mom for nearly an hour, and watched some tv. since he had school on friday, i went home around 9:45. when i got home around 10:10, my dad was still asleep. it was really strange b/c i thought that he was suppose to go to work but usually he gets up at 10. and then if he wasn't going in to work, i figured that he would probably still be awake. so i sat watching tv for awhile deating on whether or not to wake him up. about 10:20 i heard one of his 3 alarms go off followed by a loud "shit." it was so funny b/c my friends and i had just had some conversations about hearing our parents curse and stuff. my commemt was that my dad hardly ever did and when i heard him say "shit" i almost started laughing. i don't think that he knew that i was home b/c he came rushing into the living room to look at a different clock and when he saw me he sort of jumped. i was like, "hi" it was hilarious, but i guess you had to be there. so anyway, after he went to work i really didn't want to unload my car so i sat watching this very interesting tv show. it was about this team of ppl who were going to climb some huge mountain, like the tallest one in the world, and i can't remember its name...but that isn't the important part. the reason for the climb was for breast cancer awareness. there were about 5 or 6 breast cancer survivors, and 5 or 6 grad school grads. they all wanted to climb the mountain as a symbol of the fight against cancer that they encountered. it was really interesting b/c they showed how they went through 2 + years of training. this training included climbing three or four OTHER mountains. it was insane. sadly one of the cancer patients was rediagnosed with cancer, this time in her brain. and she wasn't able to go through with the climb. the tc show went through all of the stages of the trip. i think it was a 17 day climb up and down. there were so many details that i won't go into, but to say the least, i don't know how i could ever do what they were doing. they had to carry and pull a total amount of weight that was far above that of their body weights. insane stuff. so, anyway, several had to turn back along the route b/c of sickness or fatigue i guess, but several made it to the next to last stage. but, they ran into some bad weather or something so the rest weren't able to make it to the very top. no one was seriously injured or killed by the attempted climb, however the lady who had the brain tumor passed away shortly after they got back. at the end they said something like "while you were watching this program X number of people lost their battles to breast cancer" and the X was something like 12 i think. anway, it was a very sad program but i'm glad i watched it. now im scared to death of breast cancer!! anyway, i didn't plan on talking about the show i watched when i began the blog, but oh well.
so, after that, i got out of my car what i had to and left the rest to unload for the next day. i stayed up for awhile switching out my closets: putting my summer ones in my room and the winter ones in my old room. while doing this, i realized how many clothes i actually have. i had forgotten how deep my closet went back and it was completely full!!! my gosh, on a sid note, i bet my dad was amazed with all the clothes i had when i moved to his house last fall. i think he planned to make my old room into a closet/storage place for HIM, but instead i sort of took over it.
on friday morning i woke up around 9:00 which was earlier than i wanted. i unloaded the rest of my stuff and organized some of it. and, i HAD to do something about my closet floor. it was covered with shoes, many of which i forgot i had. so, i fixed all of that and realized taht i still have four pairs of tennis shoes...but see, i can't just throw away any of the old ones b/c you know, i might need ALL them sometime at the SAME time. gosh, i am a loser, or maybe just a packrat. this summer I HAVE to go through my stuff.
so anyway, after that i took mammy to t-ville. she still had to get sydney's birthday present(s). she also had to go to the grocery. but i didn't mind taking her everywhere on that day b/c i knew that the alternative was studying. i also enjoyed the ICECREAM i got! one of those brownie earthquake things from DQ. that was a mistake and a half!
so, mammy bought sydney three dresses, a winnie the pooh ball and a little toy push mower. and she promises that she bought just as much stuff for me when i was little. she probably did, but i don't remember it.
so, friday night i left open for studying. well, i didn't get much studying. mainly i just made my NT flash cards. and i went to bed at 11:00 b/c i was dead tired. i didn't set an alarm for saturday but i woke up at 8:30. i think it was b/c my room wasnt' the coolest and the sun was sort of coming in my window onto my bed.
saturday, i studying my NT flash cards and got ready for sydney's bday party. the party was fun. it was so cute. i can't believe how crazy ppl go over a baby. sydney didn't know what to think of all the people. she got so much stuff, and she wouldn't have anything to do with her birthday cake. but it was fun.
after that i went to visit with mom, aunt lynne, uncle michael, hailey and nanny bj. that was ok fun b/c they helped me decide on what necklace to wear and how to wear my hair for prom.
i eventually got to glasgow. i ate a little dinner with him and then we went to get his mom some icecream. always good to get the brownie points from carol! he he! so, then david high and david vance came over for a game of spades! that was fun! it was great finally getting to see david high after 5 weeks or so. they bragged about being finished with finals, but i didn't care too much. david high and i beat the other two davids 500 to -333 i think it was. GREAT FUN! david pike and i just chilled for the rest of the night. i spent the night with my mom and left this morning at 10:30 to come back to georgetown!
i haven't done anything productive all day really. i have studied cal for maybe an hour. but i'll study more tonight and i have no finals tomorrow.
so, that is my weekend, more detailed than i planned, but sometimes i can't stop myself. i really should get busy now! actually i am going to the fitness center, but after the unhealthy weekend i have had, that is a great idea!!! later!
jenny 9:15 PM
5/03/2001
i decided that i better take advantage of tonight and blog. it is my last night here at georgetown for a few days and i don't have a computer at home....so here goes.
i finally finished my english paper... yes that damn paper that my life has seemed to revolve around for the past two months...i am so excited, but scared to death. i just never know how brady will grade my stuff. and the whole issue of failing if i miss paraphrase something is very scary. so, i turn that in tomorrow and have a conference with her at 10. i'll be the happiest person alive at that moment (if everything goes well)
after that i am loading up the rest of my stuff and going home. i packed so much into that car of mine today. i want to take so much more home (like all my clothes) but i don't think it is all going to fit. i am definitely already misisng my comfy chair! this hard back chair hurts me... hehe.
so, yes, i took down all my pictures, the curtains, my beads, my yellow lights, EVERYTHING! it is so sad in this room now. sarah took down all of her stuff, too. so, if you see us crying, you know why.
i am also sad b/c after tomorrow i may not see farrah for a very long time. she is leaving saturday and i won't get back until saturday or sunday. hopefully we will see one another over the summer, but i'll miss her regardless.
im going to miss everyone so much. it seems strange to me how close i have grown to the friends i have made since i came here in august. i can't decide who i'll miss the most. they are all so great! it will be awfully weird not sleeping in the same room as someone....so, that means sarah has the others beat in some ways!!!
anyway, i don't think i have
lets see what else do i know....i found out yesterday that i don't have to take my sociology final b/c i can't bring my A up to a higher letter grade and verburg is awesome like that! so, i only have three finals: religion and calculus on tuesday and spanish on wednesday! i still can't believe that it is finals time already. it seems like yesterday when we came back from christmas! i'm really not complaining. (i think that was a poem...AAAHHH....shut up jenny!!!!!!!)
so, i get to go home and see david tomorrow. i can't wait! i haven't seen him since easter. that seems like a lot longer ago than it really is, but nonetheless i have missed him. he's even taking off work so we can have more time tomorrow together (since he has school on friday i have to leave his house by 9:30...silly parents) oh well. also, i am thrilled that i get to see david high this weekend. i didn't get to visit with him easter weekend, so the last time i saw him was about 5 weeks ago i think. that is craziness! there better be some good g-town fun going on saturday night if i hang around until then!
oh, and mammy got out of the hospital this morning. she has to have surgery next week to have her gallbladder removed. poor woman, if its not one thing, its another. she has such a good heart though...the doctors were going to go ahead and operate sooner but she informed them that her great-granddaughter was having her first birthday party saturday and she wasn't gong to miss it. she said, "what kind of mammy would i be if i weren't there?" is that not the cutest. her and papa are so crazy over that child. moreso than i am!!! i've even heard that papa is going to her birthday party. NEVER would i imagine this. he didn't go to my graduation, if that tells you anything. he just doesn't get out very much. oh, and his birthday was yesterday. i can't remember how old he is now, but up in the mid 70's im sure.
well, im sure that there are many more things worthy of being blogged about, but this chica is ready to go to sleep. i hope my alarm goes off in the morning, unlike this morning.
i hope the FI's don't have too much fun over the next few days without me...i'll be sad. be back to the blog sunday! adois.
jenny 12:47 AM
5/01/2001
It is May; I'm happy.
jenny 8:59 AM
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