Is the semester over yet?

Uh, no. Because it started yesterday.

I'm tired, I'm a little frustrated, I'm confused, I REALLY don't want to work right now, I'm...AGHHHH!!!!

Tired is easy to explain. I was up at 6 to exercise. I'll do it again tomorrow.

Frustrated...well, Equine Science had the first class today. Donn talked too long and kept getting off track in the beginning so I had to give three presentations, including my genetics presentation that I spent the summer on, really rapid-fire. I wound up running out of time for my genetics presentation and yet I still went nearly ten minutes over. I know I was speaking fast and there are all levels of knowledge in the class but I feel like no one had a clue what I was talking about.

As for confused, my poor lazy brain hasn't had to work all summer and now it still doesn't want to. Unfortunately, cruel teachers have already given homework, so I have no choice.

Classes...well, my two ag classes were canceled, since everyone went to Tom Smith's burial. He died Monday the 18th. I wound up spending the morning in the office, working.

"Business and Professional Speaking" looks like it'll be interesting. I don't mind public speaking so it'll be easy.

Accounting is going to be my worst class. I can already tell. I think this is a hard teacher.

Tech Writing should be okay. We're writing a resume and cover letter, which we're doing for speech too, so that's killing two birds with one stone, woohoo. And the professor seems nice, and I've heard some great things about her.

Dance is going to be AWESOME! I need to get a leotard and tights though. I haven't had any since I was twelve...

Voice should be okay. I heard a lot of negative things about the teacher but she seems really nice. Apparently she's really hard on music majors, but I'm not one, so I seem to be safe.

Bleh...I really want to go to bed. REALLY want to. But I can't. I need to do homework. Nasty, nasty homework.

No more summer!

I've said this before and I'll say it again; I'm pretty sure this is the only college, in this state at least, where students are actually happy summer is over.

Tomorrow is going to be a lovely, lazy day. I've got to go to physical therapy at 10, and get a couple hours of work in during the afternoon, but I'm going to sleep in, and Linetta and I are going to Silver Dollar City in the evening. Yay! And then Tuesday, I get to go home. I spend a couple days at home, and then we're driving to visit my grandmother. Seven hours, one way...woohoo. And the house stinks of cigarette smoke, and we never eat anything healthy...

I'm really getting into the healthy eating thing lately. The whole healthy lifestyle idea, really. I'm anxious to escape college so that I have complete control over my diet. I feel better if I'm not putting a bunch of junk food into my system and if I'm working out. The only problem is, right now I have shin splints, and it hurts to run. I think I'm going to go for a walk tonight though; I've got a couple wraps and I was going to wrap my legs before I went.

I decided to drop one of my classes today, bringing my total credit hours down to 19 (plus one class I'm auditing). Still going to be hard, but easier than it was. I can take that class with an easier teacher later...one who assigns less homework. Mwahaha!

I can't wait for classes to start. Can. Not. Wait. Animal Breeding is going to be fun, Bryan's teaching it and his classes are always fun. I had Ag Economics with him, didn't pay attention to anything, and still got one of the best grades in the class. Tech Writing will be super easy. Business and Professional Speaking should be really easy. Ag Risk Management will probably drive me insane. Accounting, I don't know, I've heard mixed things.

Just a week until classes start! One week....yay!

Best. Day. Ever.

Summer is over...I am SO glad. I'm pretty confident that this is the only school where students are thankful to get back to classes.

Today has been so stinkin' amazing. Have you ever had one of those days where everything goes right? I was at work, and some of the other students and I were complaining to each other about one of the girls who works with us. She wasn't there, thank goodness, because she's the witchiest little thing. Anyway, we were complaining about her, and Justin said, "Yeah, she sent me a text message saying how much she hated Kate and junk, and then she sent me one, 'Oh no, I didn't mean it,' but how can you not mean a text when you take the time to type it out?" I just rolled my eyes. I know she hates me. "What I don't get," I said, "is why she hates me. I've never done anything to her." "She hates you because she thinks you're better than her at everything," Justin informed me, "and she doesn't want anyone to be better than her."

So, I'm taking it as the backwards compliment that it is...ha! I think it's kind of cool that someone hates me for being better than they are. Yeah, I'm weird.

The day just kept getting better. I went to lunch, and wound up sitting with the guy I kind of like. And I'm pretty sure he likes me. He wound up coming over to the mill with me and talking to me for about an hour, and he brought me some M&Ms. And he said I was pretty! I've never had a guy say that I was pretty before! My sisters are the pretty ones, I've always been the plain one. And then we wound up making arrangements to go running later in the afternoon. Then I went over to the ag dome and sorted through the rest of the papers for the Equine Science class, and I'm getting SO excited about it. It's going to be amazing. And quite frankly, I'm going to leave my mark on it in the future, because I've got such awesome handouts and such that Donn will keep using them.

And then I checked my e-mail, and I've gotten a scholarship! I was awarded a $200 book scholarship. I've applied for it every semester and I've never gotten one until now.

So then I went to change for running, and I went by the post office and mailed off my laptop to be repaired (the power port broke the other day, I couldn't plug it in...=C ) and then went to meet the guy I sorta kinda like (hereafter abbreviated "the GISKL") to run. Unfortunately, my shin splints that developed last week aren't quite healed. So that kind of hurt. But I had a good time.

And then Linetta's mom came and we went to a show. It was a typical Branson show, pretty good though. And that was my day, so now I'm tired and my head aches and I'm incredibly happy.