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06:46 pm
[Link] | mid-terms: gross. past week: 2 exams. next week: 3 exams. friday night: homework. stressed: yes. coffee: delicious. best friend: across the table from me. grey's: callie and haan. miss: home. girlfriend: in love. 10/1: a year and a half. mood: thankful.
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06:46 pm
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Accounting majors have no life. Tax will be the death of me.
But I love it.
Current Mood: contemplative Current Music: Zeromancer
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07:20 pm
[Link] | fall semester needs to start.
Current Mood: frustrated
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11:43 pm
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well, well, well. well, things are looking up.
i am living in chicago this summer and am paying for my rent for the first time in my life (this is kind of a big deal for me). i was freaking out about how i am going to pay for rent since i am living downtown and rent is high. well, beckie and i signed a lease on an apartment about a week ago and the place is amazing, but not exactly cheap. and, i mean, although my parents said i could borrow money from them over summer to pay for rent, i don't know, i guess i would just like to not have to borrow money from them. SO... for a while now, i have been really worried about summer work. my parents really wanted me to get an auditing internship but summertime is not exactly auditing season. aka, no audit summer internships. SO i decided to ask my current internship employer to see if they would be willing to hire a summer intern. i decided it would be great since they pay me enough for me to cover rent, plus i just love working there and it's close to my new apartment. they pondered it for a good month or so, and finally last week told me that they will keep me through the summer. AWESOME.
so not only am i going to be able to pay rent this summer, but i will keep my internship with people i like, while taking summer classes and being on my own. pretty great, i think.
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03:39 pm
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summary of 2007 2007
January: Went on a cruise to the Virgin Islands Thought a lot about prior year’s New Year’s Eve Was still depressed from 2006’s events Pushed the one person away who I needed most Slightly lost sight of myself
February: 20th birthday was on Superbowl Sunday – and sucked. Was the most depressed I had ever been (aka Valentine’s Day’s events) Completely lost sight of myself
March: Spring Break – hung out lots with Jessica, who helped me get back up on my feet again Came to the realization as to what it was that I really wanted Started to hang out with best friend Denham more Started to dig myself out of the dark ditch I had dug for myself in the first place Said something to someone that I had been holding in for a couple years Maggie visited Chicago
April: April 1, 2007 <3 Happiest I had been in years
May: Mom’s and Connor’s birthdays Finished up 2nd semester of sophomore year Lost my scholarship :(
June: Living at home for summer Visited Chicago Pride 2007
July: Visited Chicago again
August: Back to school Decided on a major
September: School became hard Realized that professors do not know everything
October: First big roommate blowout Halloween
November: Caitlin’s birthday Horrible roommate situation that made me more depressed than ever Stayed at Lakeshore every night to avoid Baumhart Thanksgiving Started to really worry about grades
December: Made up with roommate and decided to work on the friendship Whitney moved out :( Took some ridiculously hard finals Examined my major and decided to stay with it Home for Christmas 2007
New Year’s Eve: Chicago with love
Current Music: Radiohead - the National Anthem
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04:38 pm
[Link] | last night, i saw two men bump into each other while walking opposite directions down Pearson, and the thug-looking one tried to start a fight with the business-looking one. the business guy flipped the thug off and then the thug started chasing him down Chestnut.
ah, welcome back to chicago.
Current Mood: happy
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01:02 pm
[Link] | is it fall yet?
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12:21 pm
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sunrise, sunset two more weeks in this hellhole. jessica is in belgium until the night before i leave for chicago, therefore i am lonely. i miss caitlin and all of my chicago friends more than ever. i have been working for the past 5 days in a row and have another 4 before i have a day off. i have to nanny four children, two of which are hyperactive, for 3 days -- shoot me -- but rebecca is paying, so i'll put up with them. i have poison ivy/oak and it's spreading quickly. my foot is numb (not asleep) and i can't figure out why. i want school to start, despite the tests/quizzes/homework/projects. i am never living at home ever again.
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09:26 pm
[Link] | ah, the lovely sound of my parents fighting with my brother.
typical night here at the mccarthy's.
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12:11 am
[Link] | i was just looking through my myspace photos and i realized how many different hair colors/styles/etc i've had over the past two years. my hair has changed a lot. it's gone from very long, straight-looking to really edgy and choppy to really short and now it's starting to grow back out. with no color except black.
i don't know, it just made me realize how much i've gone through over the past couple years. i discovered a lot about myself and accepted repressed thoughts about myself since i've come to college, and it kind of freaks me out. not the getting to know myself/accepting myself, but the fact that i'm having to change so much about who i want to be or who i am just because i'm in business school and have to start looking all professional. i had to take out my eyebrow piercing this past christmas break because i need the scar to start healing. i can't dye my hair any more different colors because it looks unprofessional. it just makes me sad that i can't be exactly who i want. but i do also really want to be in business. it's so weird. i don't know, just thought i'd share with the class.
happy fourth, ya'll.
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09:39 pm
[Link] | omg.
4 days.
finally.
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10:41 pm
[Link] | long day of work today. crazy old japanese woman yelled at me again today. this was the first time she's talked to me at all since last summer. threatened to sue me because she doesn't like me.
yeah. i think it's time for a new job.
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12:58 am
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i am tired and i need advil. all my friends are hanging out in baumhart without me and it's making me sad. but it's finally, FINALLY june.
caitlin demin makes me smile. annamarie chigas makes me laugh. whitney vanars makes me miss guacamole. andrew walter makes me want to dance (and i actually miss the asian/dyke insults).
i need chicago. bad. it's like an addiction that i have to these people and that city. 19 days. whit, start the countdown.
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10:40 am
[Link] | two weeks. i have been home for two weeks.
everyone is gone, and never have i felt so lonely. i wait for 11:00 to roll around every night so that i can go to bed because i think 10 is just too early. i cannot wait to start work on monday. i'm starting to feel my body decompose in this boredom. literally, i have no idea what to do with myself.
come onnnn, june.
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12:03 pm
[Link] | well, summer is only a week and a half away and finals are probably going to kick my ass. this summer is going to be another depressing 3 months, just like last summer, away from friends and the city that i love. hopefully i will be working my life away so that time will pass quicker. but maybe not. i desperately need the money since i mistakingly gave a bunch of it away last summer. sometimes my stupidity amazes me. i really wish i didn't have to go home this summer. this will be the fucking death of me.
however, after that long, drawn-out, depressing mess, i AM excited that i got aim on my mac. iChat just doesn't cut it sometimes.
the rest of this week is a constant headache. i am so ready for school to be over.
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02:39 am
[Link] | why i don't start things until the last minute, i don't know. it is 2:40am, i am on conserta, hyper as fuck yet becoming increasingly nauseous, and frantically struggling to finish my annual report project for accounting which is due today at 5pm.
like i said, why i do this to myself, i don't know. i feel the need to puke. so good night.
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02:51 pm
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i am doing quite well, thank you so i am finally, FINALLY out of the ditch i was digging for myself. i am happier than i've been in god knows how long. i'm actually okay with my life right now, which is quite a huge deal for me considering the state i've been in for quite some time now.
spring break was great. i got to see jessica and hang out with her pretty much every night, which is exactly what i needed. i swear, i will be best friends with that girl until the end of fucking time -- best friend i have ever had in my entire life. i guess moving to kansas was a good thing. oh, life.
the past year and a half has been interesting. it's had its ups and downs, of course, but as cliche as it sounds, everything does happen for a reason. it looks like my life is finally starting to get back on the right track. i got what i've wanted for the past 2 years, which is being content and happy with myself again. i don't know what it is or what's changed, but i am so much better. i guess i'll just have to look back on this time next year (like nanda) and see how everything just works itself out.
CHAPTER CLOSED.
Current Mood: happy
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09:18 pm
[Link] | i am not going to put my neck out there just to have my head chopped off.
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01:22 pm
[Link] | well. last night was interesting...
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07:10 pm
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long update. well i think it's time for a real update.
my birthday is in 1 1/2 weeks, and i am finally turning 20. no longer a teen. that's so weird to me. however, as excited as i am for it, i don't know if my birthday party will be able to top last year's party. last year's party was pretty goddam amazing, not gonna lie.
i realized yesterday how hard i am NOT trying in any of my classes. yes, i know it's only been like 1 1/2 weeks since we started classes, but i'm already falling behind, which is kind of sad and pathetic. i need to kick this up a notch, especially in my business classes. is it bad that i don't care about those as much as history and science classes? oh well, other than my lack of effort, though, classes aren't too bad.
i get depressed every time i think of february 14th. valentine's day is a stupid holiday that the card companies made up. when i think of it, i kind of want to gag myself. sometimes i do. people should act like they do on valentine's day every day of the year, not just one day. it's stupid. and maybe i'm just being cynical and pessimistic because that's who i am these days, but who the fuck cares. i hate it all.
i had a dream last night. i haven't had a dream about this specific person in a really long time, but it kind of made me sad because the dream made me feel things again that i haven't felt in a while. what sucks the most about it all is that it gives me a little bit of hope that for once, fate will work in my favor. but so far serendipity has been a bitch to me, and i don't think that will change any time soon. why do all the good ones get hurt and the bad ones get rewarded? i just don't get it. well at least i have great friends surrounding me. i swear, we're the last of a dying breed.
it's cold in my room. i'm tired and want to go to sleep. i want to go to california. as of late, i like bologna again, which is weird because i hate bologna. i wish you would understand. i wish you felt the same way about me as i do about you. i used to be so sure about myself and everything in my life. i used to be so happy and content. what the hell happened to me? oh yeah, now i remember.
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