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So. Update, huh? Here goes...

I got a job. Traffic Manager for the Garfield Group, an advertising and public relations firm in Newtown, about 20 minutes from my house.  What's a traffic manager, you ask? Well, I'll tell you. The Traffic Manager prioritizes, sets deadlines for, and schedules all aspects of each of 10-20 campaign processes while also ensuring that the flow of the process is consistent and efficient, ensuring that everyone has something to do and that it's getting done on time...in a nutshell.  So I lead meetings 3 times a week to get everyone on the same page.  I make schedules for every department based on prioritized deadlines for particular tasks.  I walk around the office and check up on people, asking them what they're doing, how long it's going to take and reminding them of due-dates and obligations.  Basically, I'm Little Miss Organized and everybody's Personal Assistant. Here's the catch: it's just me. The entire Traffic Department is one person - me.  20 campaigns I need to know the ins and outs of so that if the client calls me up and wants the background retouched for their 4 color print ad in the next half hour, I can say, actually I'm sorry but that sort of job can take up to at least 2 hours so please plan accordingly. Yikes...

I guess it's good though...$28,500 good. Which compared to someone I know seems like chicken shit (express) but when you're still living at home it's pretty good. Although now it seems my financial obligations have also increased. I'm now paying my car insurance, student loans, credit card, gas, "rent" and the car payment and gym membership which I already was paying. Yeah. I get a job and all of a sudden I've gotta pay rent...whatever I don't really mind. In all honesty, I don't.  I can afford it, and it's good for me. I mean so as long as I'm not $6000 in debt and scrambling for gas money it's all good :-)

So to make sure I at least look like I know what I'm doing, I spent $300 on business clothes last night at New York and Company. Yay.  So if you go here: http://www.nyandcompany.com/trends/index.jsp you'll see one of the one's that I bought. It's the one all the way on the left - the brown one with the vest :-D so cute! I got a ton of other stuff too but b/c I'm a tard-face, I forgot to get shoes, so that'll be next. Alright I'm bored with typing. Yay for new jobs and sparse updates.

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So I'm leaving for Arizona on Friday...just for a vacation so nobody panic. Yeah like anybody cares...Anyway, I can't freaking take how cold it's been recently so I'm super excited to go where it's at least 85 degrees every day.  Thank god. I told my mother not to make me do anything in Arizona. I'm not going on any stupid car tour trips or to any gay Native American Museums. All I'm going to do is sit by the pool, read the DaVinci Code and soak up the sun. If I don't come back tan somebody's gonna get it.

I got a raise at work the other day so now I'm up to $9.00/hour yay! That's b/c I make good food and it looks pretty too. I'm a good worker :-) 

Except I hate everything and everyone right now.  Everyone in this house is pissing me off, ugh and then there's my mother who won't shut up about getting me to tell my boss at work that I want to bartend. Hey genius, there's no bar!  So yeah...I'm way bored. There's nothing to do here except go to work, watch tv and clean my room.  But I don't clean my room. Once again my mother thought she was doing me a favor by "straightening up" in my room and all she did was just totally fuck up my system. It's a mess and I'm too unmotivated and discouraged to do anything about it. I need my sister to help me. She'll get my ass in gear and get me to clean it up. But I hate her too b/c she won't pick up her phone.  Way frustrated tonight... :-(

Sorry for complaining but since the only people who ever read this are those who hate me to begin with, (and Rhian) I'm not really sorry at all. Mothafuck

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Not gonna lie, I really really like Van Halen. Always have. For real since about.....4th grade? Probably always will. So I ask you, does this make me a loser? Probably, but it also makes me frickin' awesome. Because as we all know, I don't need no instructions to know how to rock! Ok so that's not a j9 original, I have to thank Carl (ATHF) for that one haha! I'm currently having a rock session. Rockin out...Iggy Pop, Deep Purple, Ozzy, Van Halen, GNR...it's like when VH1 plays that all day marathon of metal stuff. Like the top 100 Most Metal Moments - my favorite I dunno why it's just pure awesomeness. I think had I been pointed in the right direction or at least born like 10 years in advance I definitely could have been a metal head. Like in the summer with the radio on and all the windows down and some song comes on and you turn it up waaaay loud so you're sure everyone on the sidewalk can hear what you're quite clearly and ridiculously rockin out to. Love it. Loooooove it.

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Well Thursday was my birthday...good and bad.  I went out to the Saloon the night before and ended up calling my mother at 3am all drunk and upset that I was old.  Poor John - I woke him up for no reason other than to pass the phone to my mom haha! So she consoled me and hopefully didn't realize I was drunk b/c she was half asleep. But the next day was better. My mom sent me gorgeous flowers and a basket of junk food from the flower shop on Allen Street and my dad sent me a little package with a book (Bartending for Dummies) and a pretty hair clip thing - one of the ones that has a half circle thing and a pin that goes through it. It's all Celtic looking and matches a necklace he gave me a while ago. Yay.  I got to go shopping and got taken out to dinner and went out to the Saloon where the band sang me happy birthday! Yay! Got drunk again (damn those Monkeyboys are good) of course so it was a fairly successful birthday.

Mom, John, Paulette, Lise and Lexi came up on Saturday for the Blue and White game and I got more presents yaaaaaaaay! Flip-flops, adorable purse, necklace, subscription to Rolling Stone, an addition to my CowParade collection (I know I'm a dork) and this stuff called Skin Milk which is all milk based skin care stuff like facewash, skin toner and lotion. It smells really good...kind of fresh and clean but also kind of sweet. Like milk, duh. Mike, Jack, Manning and Alex came up to the tailgate too so it was good to have everybody there.

So at half-time during the game (which I payed absolutely no attention to) the THON people got to go on the field and do the line dance. I was in the front and I dunno how or why I got there...just lucky I guess but as a result, I'm famous!!!! Check it out: http://gallery.gopsusports.com/Photo_Gallery_Display.cfm?imageNum=53&startRow=46&gd=0&searchstring=&sp=9&dir=&game=&season=2005 woo!!! And I don't look like a retard!!!! How rare... :-P

I'm going to Arizona for a few days in May with Mom and John to pick out stuff for the new condo. I simply cannot wait. I have this image/ideal in my mind and I'm just dying to have come true. I want to be warm all the time and I want to be all balanced and holistic and all Arizona-esque. I'm going to get up in the morning and practice yoga on the balcony in the morning sun, eat all healthy and organic and be tan and happy. I'm so excited! I just hope I get a good job and meet people and all that jazz...as much as I'm not looking forward to actually graduating I'm really anxious to be home with my friends and be in Doylestown. Still scary how things move on though...

Oh well, bedtime for sleepy girls.

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So, to get you all up to speed:

Saturday night my fantastically wonderful friends threw me a surprise party for my birthday which is on Thursday. How fucking cool is that????? I've always wanted a surprise party but it always seemed like something that only happened on TV but yay!! They told me we were going to go to the Phyrst for a little bit and then Pete was going to have some friends over at the apartment for his birthday which was last Monday. And I was all oh ok that'll be chill, just a few people and we'll hang out and it'll be good. Nice night. So before we went out, Mike, Pete and Nate came to my room while I was getting ready. It didn't seem weird at the time but I guess now that I think about it that was kind of shady. Anyway Mikey gave me my present then which was aaaaaaaaabsolutely unfuckingbelievably the perfect gift. Ideal. What is it, you ask? A yellow tee shirt with a green rooster on it, under which is the word "Block" I'll just let that sink in..........COCKBLOCK!!!!!! HA!!! Oh yeah it's just perfect. So even though I had a cute little skirt outfit all picked out for the night Mike made me wear it. Good call.  :-) So anyway we left the Phyrst and walk back to the apartment and the door's locked. So Pete unlocks it, walks in and then I get into the doorway and I hear "SURPRISE!!!!!!" I really didn't get it. I looked up and I was like, "For me?" And some smart ass goes, "No for Mike!" And I, being the gullible idiot that I am, went with it trying not to seem disappointed until I looked around and saw that my friends were there. Ah...it's for me!! Commence the tears. Oooooooooh it was fucking great. I had soooo much fun and my friends are just the best ever. Thank you guys so much for doing something so sweet for me!! I don't deserve it but it's more than I could have ever asked for. I looooooooove everyone who came :-) Thank you!!!

The Whiplash show was on Sunday and it went pretty well. My solo was good even though I think I improved most of it. I swear the pitch was up on that stereo b/c it felt soooooo much faster than when I would rehearse in the White Building. No worries though 'cause it looked good - I think. I wanna see the video.

Yesterday I woke up with a raging headache but I dragged myself to class anyway b/c I'm a good girl. On the way I stopped in the Commons to get some headache medicine 'cause I have none in my room somehow and they were out. How are you out?? All they had was Tylenol Sinus so I just took that. I helped a little but I still felt nauseous and pained by the time I got to class. I was late as usual so I walked in quietly only to notice that no one else from my group was there. Sucks. The class is a lecture for an hour and then the groups work on their projects for the remaining hour so there really wasn't any point in me even being there b/c the lecture is worthless. We have no tests, no homework no nothing. I was slightly pissed. Whatever though; good for me for going to class.

...except today I bailed out of Art after our lunch break and sat on the HUB lawn for 3 hours, skipping Soc. I couldn't help it! It was soooooo beautiful and sunny and breezy and warm I just couldn't go anywhere. So I had some Panda, read the paper, did the crossword and a lot of drawing so I kind of made up for not going to the second half of Art. I drew the people sitting around except they kept moving so that made it hard, I drew my feet and I drew my jeans. Looks pretty good too. Then I came home and sat outside in the quad and drew my building. I'm just a drawin' fool!

Ok I'm starving so I'm peacing out. Sunny love! Oh shit except it's raining all of a sudden...shitty. Ok well previously sunny love!

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Well I suppose this is what I get for still living on campus my senior year. Fuckin Penn State...the dorms close on May 7th, but graduation isn't until May 14th. Hello senior week? I'm not about to go home for that week, miss out on everything and then schlep back up here for graduation. But I can't live in my own god damn room b/c Penn State is inconsiderate enough to schedule stupid conferences during the week b/w finals and graduation. And of course the conference people need to stay in Eastview so that means that I get the boot. Ah but wait, there's more. Because the Housing office is sooooooo generous, they're letting graduating seniors stay in Heister Hall in Pollock for free during that week! Yippeeeee! Note heavy sarcasm. I haven't had a roommate for two years, what would make them think I want a randomly assigned one now? I just hate how this university always seems to be out to get the students. I hate that they put so much more stock and effort into alumni, and silly conferences and things instead of taking care of the students who need things here and now. We're paying through the nose to be here and all they ever do is shaft us. I'm tired of it but I guess there's no use in bitching now seeing as how I'm graduating. Sometimes I really love this place, but other times I really hate it.

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So I'm not going to the Whiplash formal. Too bad, so sad.  But come on, I mean it's on my birthday, I have no money to buy the tickets and it's too much of a hassle to find a date I'd actually have fun with. I mean yeah I could take Mike but whatever...anyway I'm not going. So now I need plans for my birthday.

I'm mopey and depressed for some reason. Something hit me hard in Soc today and sort of stuck with me for the rest of the day. I've been relatively blue ever since. I know what it was but I think I'd rather not get into it for fear that I'll just get mopey again.

The Whiplash show is this Sunday and I just changed the music for my piece. Normally probably not a good idea but it works so much better now. It's not like I had been considering changing it either...I just was bored with my music all of a sudden and listened to what else was on the rest of the CD...it just kind of happened. And if you're a dancer you'll understand on a more personal level, but quite obviously the more you like something the better you'll do it. So if you feel more connected to a piece, if the way the music fits with the movements makes you feel good it'll look better. My only concern is that since I didn't choreograph to this particular piece of music, it might not flow the way it should but it's working out ok so far. Wish me luck.