///hear me roar///

Friday, December 28, 2001

yeah, i know, it's been awhile. but i'm on semester break, what do you expect?! :P break has been pretty good so far. the first weekend of break dan and i drove up to his place, and we went and saw the nutcracker :) i had never been to a ballet before... it was so beautiful. the dancers were amazing, and they really captured me. it was incredible... i loved it :) the on the 21st we went and saw lord of the rings ... it was great!!! soooooo much better than the book... wow, i never say that about a movie. but i couldn't get into the book, and the movie made it so interesting. it was very cool. the on the 22nd, we all got up early to do xmas. his parents are so good to me, they bought me gifts! and everyone really liked the gifts i got them. it was a nice morning. then they prepared to go to the airport for their trip to chicago, and i got ready for the long, boring drive to ohio...

so i'm here, in ohio. the drive sucked, it was long and lonely, but i made it. i missed my family so much :) it's good to be around them. xmas was cool, spent lots of time with family, stuff like that :) and now i'm chilling, not doing a damn thing. and it's great! :P i've been reading a *ton*. i always do on breaks, since it's hard to find time to while i'm in school.

i'm leaving on monday to go to dan's for a week. i wanna spend new year's with him really badly, so i'm gonna. my mom's upset that i'm not staying longer... i think it's really hard for her to accept that i've grown up. but yeah, and then i'm going back to school a week early so i can work, crashing at adam and aaron's place till the dorms reopen. and then break will be over, just like that.

it's snowing here, it has been since yesterday morning. it's so beautiful, i really love the snow. i just hope it's not too bad by monday, when i'm driving outta here. but they're usually pretty good about keeping the roads clear, and i'm taking all major highways, so i should be ok. :)
Jessica 7:07 AM

Tuesday, December 18, 2001

i'm cranky
i'm irritable
i'm tired and stressed.


i blame it all on finals week :(
Jessica 7:47 PM

Sunday, December 16, 2001

look! jess is blogging!! i know i've been slacking lately, too much work

yesterday was really cool. dan and i went over to squires early afternoon. i had a yummy steak sub for lunch, then we went and played two games of pool (i lost both... i used to be good, but something happened). we also played this silly dancing game. hahaha... we looked like idiots ;)

after that we came here and chilled for a little while, and then aparna was ready to go get her industrial done! i told her i'd go with her when we both had the chance. i got that car from my boss on friday, so we went. on the way i had to stop by the petstore and give them my seven little baby gerbils :( no one wanted to adopt them!! if i had the space and money, i'd keep all of them. but i already have 6 adult gerbils in two tanks.... :( i miss then already *sigh*

anyway... then we went to rendezvous (with a full car -- me, aparna, adam, and adian). aparna was a little nervous, understandbly! she got up in the chair and i held her hand while she got pierced. i find that always helps, to direct your tension elsewhere :) she did really well though! barely even flinched, and that's a pretty painful piercing. it looks so awesome on her, yay aparna!! hehe. i also got some new jewelry for my lower navel piercing, it has jade in it!! oooooooo pretty :)

so then everyone went home, and after some starcraft with luke i went over to dan's. ate some pizza, watched cast away, and passed out. didn't even make it through the movie. and now, it's time to buckle down for finals. :(

i hate finals i hate finals i hate finals.

i just have to keep telling myself that the semester's almost over.
Jessica 9:54 AM

Sunday, December 09, 2001

i don't like writing papers.

ok, so i don't really mind it that much. sometimes i actually enjoy it.

unless i wait till the last day, at 6:40 in the evening to even discover what i'm supposed to be writing about. *then* i don't like writing papers :(
Jessica 3:42 PM

wow, it's been awhile, hasn't it? sorry about that, i really have no reason :P

i don't know if everyone knows, but there's this awesome internship in north carolina, at the CPT that i've been really excited about. a few months back i applied for it online. over thanksgiving break i heard back from them, they wanted to set up a working interview, which basically means you go there and you do what you would do every day on the job. so when i got back to school i planned it. liz let me borrow her car (thanks liz!!), and i drove down there (3-3.5 hours) this thursday to work on friday. i was so incredibly excited about this :) so i went to the place on friday morning, and started my day :) i won't go into detail here, b/c i could write a book on my day! but mainly i helped feed the binturongs, these cute little guys:



they are such sweethearts! i feel in love with one in particular :) his name, oddly enough, is daniel ;) i also got to pet a huge, full-grown tiger. she was so gorgeous. and i got to just watch and observe a lot of other cats, big and small :) needless to say, i had an absolutely wonderful time, this is my dream internship.

anyway -- i got an email today. I GOT THE INTERNSHIP!! hehehehe, i'm so excited, this is the best news i've had in a really long time, this is so amazing. i'm so excited and happy ... nothing could wreck this mood ;)
Jessica 10:21 AM