Check it!

What a coincidence, yesterday (or rather yesterday and very early this morning) numbers 12 and 13 were completed!

I went swimming yesterday with Erica and the children she nannies. It was totally fun and I was defiantly back to my little gym antics of teaching kids all kinds of crazy stuff. The youngest child who is 4 told me while I was in the middle of teaching him something along the lines of a bird call, "Miss Emily, you are a little weird." Mission accomplished and number 12 completed. (Oh yeah, I also got a bit of sun so hopefully my whole body will start to become the same color.)

Possibly one of the things on the list I wanted most was to have my Mac fixed. Incase you don't know, a waterfall of books toppled down from a shelf last semester onto my new laptop. While I dove over top of my Mac and mostly saved it, one corner of a book slipped through and detached my "/?'" key. It still worked, but you had to press it a whole bunch and it was kinda just barely hanging on. I totally thought that some small metal piece had gone flying away to be lost forever. There being no Mac stores around, I figured it was gonna be a while before it was fixed. However, one of my friends preformed a mini-operation on the computer and found the piece I thought I lost somewhere under the key. Now it works perfectly and I am totally grateful.

Ok, I'll keep everyone updated on what's being checked off.

1, 4, 5

Yesterday I got a few more questions than normal during work. I guess that checks off number 1 on the list. Hopefully it will continue. Also, I can check of number 5 as I went out to a Japanese place with some people for a friend's birthday. I didn't wash any dished while I was there last night so I guess that kinda counts as number 4. If I keep this up, maybe everything will get checked off in the near future.

Sweet!

#4, Halfway

Haven't checked anything off the list yet. I did do my own dishes, so at least they got done, although I can't technically check it off the list yet. I don't think I will ever check some things off.

I Want...

I was just thinking of things that I want last night. I don't care if you think some of them are sad, slutty, or silly. I know I will get some flack for this, but at least I am being honest.

I want:
1) People to come ask me more questions while I am working, then it won't be as lonely and boring.
2) To stop thinking about everything I eat, it doesn't seem to help anyway.
3) For my Guilford College friends to come back now, not at the end of summer.
4) Someone to wash my dishes for me.
5) To go out and have a good meal at a restaurant.
6) To lay with my shirt off and have someone rub my back 'till I fall asleep.
7) To go to camp this summer and be with my JRVC friends.
8) To be able to see the results of all my hard work outs.
9) To be able to see the tv from my bed in my room, 'cause sitting at my desk is not comfortable.
10) Something fun and exciting to happen this weekend, not with anyone specific, just in general.
11) To stop worrying about boys.
12) To go swimming.
13) They "?" key on my Mac to get fixed, preferably for free.
14) For there to be mail in my box next time I go check it, the past few weeks it has been empty.
15) To check things off of this list...

Cool stuff

ok here it is, if you havent already got this email then here it is

_____________
(insert name here)

Go here, buy stuff, be happy

http://malestromind.ispeedway.com

ps, pass it on to all your friends at school

--Jenkins

Ok i know this deserves a little explination, but i'm lazy and will not say why. But i really like this site and have bought some cool stuff here so you should too.
BTW! if you go to the site, where it says "if you want to see a product here write us a letter" type deal. yeah it really works. i asked if they would put up a plasma TV for me and they did. (although i dopnt have $ to buy it) oh well happy shopping.

--Neko

Quick Update

I came all the way to this site and signed in and everything so I could post. But I realized it would just end up being depressing.

Anyway, cheer camp was exhausting. I made it out, but not before teasing all the girls about dropping the spirit stick, answering lots of crazy questions, and cell phone-sitting all kinds of phones that were too advanced for me to work.

Maybe the man of this blog would like to update it sometime soon.

Snakes=Not Safe

I was gonna write about something meaning full like how I realized I just can't love anyone right now. Or maybe how I think that having a kind of "spark" is one of the most important things in a relationship....

but then there was the snake.

Yeah, so all ideas for a heart-wrenching, meaningful post went out the door.

I'm not kidding you guys, it was real. And it was real big. And it really saw me half naked!

If you don't know, I live in a house on-campus at Guilford College. I live in a large room that three people live in and my bed happens to be closer towards the back of the house. I went to bed at 1am, and before going to sleep I made sure the back door was shut correctly as it is right next to the door to our room. I crawled into bed and fell asleep only to be woken up by my roommate who had forgotten her keys, and wanted me to leave the back door unlocked so when she got home she could get in. This call was right at 1:35am as I remember wondering what the heck time she was gonna come home. My classes (as I later found out) had fallen on the floor so I just stumbled out to the door in my undies and some kind of shirt that I had been sleeping in.

I looked at the door and couldn't figure out what was wrong with it. Knowing that I live on-campus just about anything could have caused a huge black line that was running across the middle of the door (a drunken night of paint-fighting?). Not wanting anything to happen I put my contacts on and go to investigate. I find that this isn't just a long black line on the door...

It was a huge snake!

The snake was hanging out on the pained glass part of the door. It was about 3 feet long and black, I wasn't touching it. I didn't know what to do, so I went back in my room, put more clothes on, and called public safety. Surely this is common seeing as rabbits and chipmunks seemingly walk right up to you on campus all day.

Call is placed to public safety around 1:40. I wait, my other roomie wakes up and we look at the snake more. We wait. We can't go anywhere because we are stuck in the room unless we want to go past the snake. We wait more; note that it is now 2:15 am. The snake looks at us, we take pictures, some people came home and we told them about it. They looked shocked and tried to decide how to capture it. Someone else calls public safety to see where they are and then reports back to us that:

They aren't coming!

"Um, what!?" I say "Clearly this is a safety issue." Public safety wouldn't come because they "didn't have the equipment for snake removal." And we do? Heck, we don't even always have toilet paper.

I now make another, very angry, call to public safety and tell them that we don't have the equipment to remove it either, but we can't just live with a snake in the house.

We wait, continue to try and move the snake, we even get the door open so it hopefully leaves. But nothing. Public Safety finally comes around 2:45 am to tell us they don't know how to move snakes.

While public safety watches, us students not trapped in our rooms try to use the kitchen broom and dust pan to move it. The snake continues to move up on the door, somehow sticking to the glass. Finally, we knock it off and (despite trying to go into the kitchen) goes out the open door.

It doesn't just end there, no there's a toper. Instead of heading towards the woods behind the house, where does it try to go...into our basement! First, I didn't even know the house had a basement, apparently it does but the door is locked (however the girl who lives next to me said that she was just down their today [locks, maybe another safety issue they should address]).

Then the snake started to climb up the side of the house. Eventually we (yeah, meaning students who pay for campus safety services) knocked it off the house and it went into the woods.

The scary thing is that snake had to have been already in the house. See, I closed the door at 1 am when I went to sleep. The snake must have been trying to leave the house after 1 am when it found the door locked so decided to just hang out there for a while.

Where the heck had that snake been!?

So, I finally got to sleep around 3:30 in the morning. It was kinda hard because everywhere I looked I was thinking a snake might jump out at me.

Now I am at work at 8:30. And I have to go to cheer camp to coach my team in a few days. Probably won't be catching up on my sleep anytime soon.

Ok, pictures are coming when I get home!!

Whats new

Yeah whatever i dont wanna here it, i know ive been gone a while but now im back (settle down I know, I'm the greatest). No seriously here whats new.
*I graduated
*I going to pfieffer to swim
*I'm working as a lifeguard
*And....um.....well....nothing new

other than that that is all that is new.
Ohh wait i got this picture of one of my friends

Her names Erin.

--Neko

I Could Name This Something Crazy, Just to Get Hits

I just want to tell you guys how much I love my bike. It may be ghetto because I bought it for $5. The brakes might sound like I actually ran someone over when I try to use them. I might be so short that my backpack scrapes the back tire when I ride. But I still love it.

Living farther away from the center of campus I thought was going to be a big hassle. "Oh, how ever will I make it if it takes me 10 minutes to walk to class!?" I thought (what now all you huge-schoolers, 10 minutes for all the way across campus!). I mean, that’s a long way for Guilford. I live way over in a house near Friendly Ave, I work at the library each morning (6 minute walk, 3 minute bike ride) and I have a class way over in Bauman twice a week (10 minute walk, 5 minute ride).

It is so cool living right off Friendly. Across the street is a small shopping center. There is also a deli and a bookstore across the street. At night we can just run straight across the road to the stores, who needs crosswalks anyway? Its not as hard (especially with my bike) to get to the classes on campus, or to go to the gym, or whatever. And I get to live in a house, with no RA. (Don't worry, he's right next door, I saw him last night when I got out of the car after a particularly good dance session with my normal roomie, Erica. He was standing on the porch of the other house laughing at us and probably telling whoever he was talking to on his cell phone.) Basically it just means that we don't have to make sure we are being quite by a certain time or anything, its not like the whole house is just going crazy...

But anyway, I find riding my bike around Guilford's beautiful campus quite peaceful and relaxing, until I have to push on the brakes, that is. It really is nice riding my bike. I have never had a bike for the purpose of actually going somewhere, I had one as a kid but I just rode it around the driveway. I have a feeling this bike likes me much better than the one that just went up and back on the driveway. It likes me so much, it even screams "no" when I try to stop.


Just a side note that I thought was pretty interesting. Writing this post (or naming it as I did) could have been the best thing I have done for this blog in a long time. I went to took at my statcounter account for this blog the other day and I saw that I have received 16 hits from yahoo.com (Google doesn't believe blogs important enough for their regular search, even though this is their blogging company). Searches that have led to this blog (and mostly to that post) included:
girl go wild (7)
girl gone wild (4)
girl wild partying (3)
hair striping (1, and yes it is spelled wrong)
girl on wild (1)

Haha, search engines are amazing things. Maybe I should start naming all my posts something like “xxx,” “hot girls,” or “Jessica Simpson.”

Internet Whore

You know those things you know you should do, but you don't? Everyone has something, some things are bigger than others, but it’s all kinda the same. Anyway, I have realized I really should wear my glasses more often. For those of you who don't know me, I am as blind as a bat.

I'm not discussing the matter of is it good for my eyes or not (screw that), my glasses just make me look pretty darn cute.

Or so I've been told.

Anyway, I don't wear my glasses because I find them a hassle. I'm not sure why they are a hassle; I've just always found them to be. But of course, its not like I don't have contacts. Contacts are better for physical activities, like working out (which I am still doing!). It is not like I couldn't just put my contacts in if I knew I was going to be doing something like working out, the fact is I am just lazy, I guess.

Somehow my glasses all loop back around to me being an internet whore. Last night, I was an internet whore. You might know that I have a yahoo personals account. Mostly, it is just fun to make fun of all the old guys who send you messages, and to try to find the hottest guy(s) in your city. I also have an okcupid.com account. Mostly this is because I already had all those stupid questions filled out from making my yahoo account. Plus, okcupid doesn't try to suck you for money like yahoo does. Okcupid is free, and you can use their little instant messaging program that is on their website.

I'm not sure if I really like this online dating. It is kind of like trying to sell yourself online. I mean, of course I'm not going to put a picture of how I look when I stumble to class every morning. (Or a picture of me soaked and on my way to an interview.) Also, maybe I am old fashioned, but I am also a fan of just bumping into someone and going from there.

Either way, I have yahoo personals because my roommate told me to take a step into the 21st century and sign up for a yahoo instant messenger account (and amazingly you can just transfer your information right over to the personals!).

So last night, I talked to 4 new people, all guys. I know, I know, I am the internet slut. One of the guys I talked to I met on okcupid, the rest just kinda popped up.

Its fun talking to new people online. Its like knowing someone, with a lot less commitment. You get to talk mostly about light, fun stuff. If you do divulge something a little more on the personal side, how is Joe from New York ever going to meet you, or your friends, or your family?

People give meeting people online a bad rap. Not all the people online are creepy rapist and murders, only half. Anyway, AOL instant messenger screen name is in my profile. But if you are a yahoo person talk to me at emonyy87.

PS- picture of my drenching are to come once I am off work.

And the Rain

Yep, here comes the rain. This day wasn't going to badly, but if I have to show up drenched to a taped interview for one of my classes, well, its all down hill. At least my butt will be dry as I thoughtfully placed a plastic bag over the seat when I got back from my work out. By then it had just started to drizzle, now (about an hour later) its a downpour. So the thing is I have to be interview by my professor and video tape it today at 5. He's gonna ask me questions about myself and my last paper and my learning styles and probably why I want to teach. The idea is that by watching ourselves we get a real perception of how we normally look and act. Probably won't be very accurate if I'm soaking wet. At least I will have an excuse...

Anyway, while mindlessly "riding" the stationary bike today I thought of something to write about. Of course I can't remember it now. I know it began with explaining how I go to a Quaker school. I guarantee that there is one person out there wondering how I am blogging, I mean, with no electricity and all. No, see, Quakers are a bit a lot different from the Amish. Quakers believe that everyone has an "inner light." This inner light is also seen as one's inner teacher. Following with the school's Quaker tradition, the education program here focuses on teaching you about yourself so you will understand yourself as a teacher.

Quakerism is really an amazing religion. It offers acceptance and really focuses on the individual. Another aspect that we learn in our education classes is the importance of silence. Reflection time is extremely important to Quakers (or "friends"), often Quaker services are entirely silent; sometimes a few people will speak on what they feel lead to share.

Anyway, I am not Quaker, so I don't claim to know it all, but I do agree with many of there believes. I really should look into it more seeing as I am growing more and more unhappy with my current congregation. Anyway, earlier while I was "expectantly waiting" for my 20 minutes on the bike to be up, I had a good story for you guys to read. I can't remember it now. It will probably come out when I am sitting drenched in an interview about myself.