Below are the most recent 2 friends' journal entries.

Monday, December 21st, 2009
snappleandspam	11:04a	Reminiscing So I am home after a stressful end of the semester. Thank goodness. Now I hang out at home, waiting to go back to New York so I can go to Israel. Hopefully it will be awesome. I got back on Saturday and ended up at Harry's wrestling tournament. He came in second in his weight class and we were all very proud of him. But I actually didn't get home until Sautrday evening, even though my bus got in at 1 PM. Yesterday I went to the Yuleball. I think I've been to every Christmas concert with Harry and the Potters and friends. And this year, it was super-depressing to me. I don't love the music as much (it is really mediocre and I know it) but I wanted to go and help out the HP Alliance and enjoy something I was so obsessed with in the past. But I didn't feel happy about it at all, I felt really detached and nostalgic. The HPA was running really well (my mom doesn't take care of the merch anymore, she gave it up to somebody else) without my help after I had spent countless concerts publicizing it, including the first Wrockstock. They were not entirely playing music I was familiar with. Andrew looked so professional. We had talked a couple times during the concert and he thanked me a dozen times for helping out and how without me it wouldn't be the same as it is today. It just made me really sad. I spent more time hanging at the bar with my mom hanging out with our bartender friend who has seen me every year at this concert. It felt like I had abandoned a huge part of me and left it once I went to college. Which obviously isn't a bad thing, but it still saddens me. It really makes me miss the HP fandom a lot. I'm reading Deathly Hallows right now in an attempt to make me feel better. And now I'm watching a Monty Python documentary now so I can reminisce about my first fandom. I love them dreadfully. Current Music: Monty Python Almost the Truth Part 1 (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
snappleandspam	11:47p	Attempting to De-stress only works for a Moment *So after a hellish weekend, I turned in both my epic baseball essay on the Red Sox and race and my civil war essay. All that work left me no time to study for my German test (unless I didn't want to sleep, which I feel like would have equally screwed me over) which I think I bombed today. I have to get at least 75% of it right, or else I have screwed over my grade for the semester. It sucks, because I actually like German and besides the whole irregular thing, I think I am pretty good at it. I know the basic German rules on how things work and how to speak pretty decently, and how to write and understand what I am reading. The tests test how well I memorize irregular verbs and prepositions. And this test consisted of a huge portion of multiple choice, and I pretty much suck at multiple choice. At least I have a speaking comprehension thing tomorrow, and a reading/writing test on Friday. Hopefully it will manage me a B+ in the class. It just hurts when I like something and I can't do well. *I think my Red Sox essay turned out really well. It ended up being ridiculously long, (it was 19 pages with the bibliography added in and citation) it was at least 1000 words over of the word limit. I really enjoyed researching it, I only wish I had more time to research more and flesh it out more. Find more sources, (although I had over 20) tidy it up some more, etc. I wrote about race, and why the Red Sox have been lacking in African American players. It tied in well with my civil war class, which I am really upset is over--just like baseball class--because I really liked them. *I still have 3 exams--civil war, science (which is by far my best grade because it is so damn easy), and the German test. Then I am home on Saturday. If I do well on the final/last essay I can pull an A- in civil war (definitely a B+), I probably will get an A in bio, and hopefully because of my research paper an A- in Baseball. German is kind of up in the air pending how I did on that stupid test today. I hate grades. I don't know why I care so much. *I am contemplating actually not doing NYU study abroad, but that would mean I would have to go in the spring (April to July) instead of next fall. And with the potential of this summer in Germany, I don't know anymore. More details as that becomes more clear. *Golden Globes noms came out today! A little bad, a little good. The biggest disappointment was the lack of A Serious Man, but it is the Globes, and they are usually cracked out crazy. *I made a veruh pretty duct tape snowflake bag today. It is gorgeous. It should be up on my website: http://stuckonductapeart.squarespace.com/ in a matter of minutes. Current Music: Elton John - Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting | Powered by Last.fm (2 Comments |Comment on this)