• Oral Communication
• Survey of Astronomy/Astronomy Lab
• Constitutional Law
• Survey of Astronomy
• Media Writing (Journalism class)

And I found out David, one of the guys who is going with me on my road trip, is in my Constitutional Law class! That’ll be awesome because he is hilarious. I also declared a minor in Political Science, which should be fun considering my involvement and very high interest in politics. I can’t wait for the spring semester.

It’s weird though, it seems like I just started school and I only have two weeks left before the break. You probably won’t see much of me as finals creep up (just kidding — they are getting here so quickly!), but I will be around.

I plan to take my laptop with me so I can do some blogging on the road, although I imagine I will be doing much of the driving.

I’ll keep you updated, but the trip is planned around the New Year, close to my birthday. But right now, I’m making a road trip playlist for us, do you recommend any songs?

(Yes, that’s me in the upper-right corner.)

School makes my life busy, especially trying to juggle new friends, old ones, dates, and time to myself. I promise I’ll blog soon.

P.S. Charles is a fag.

College, on the other hand, is fantastic and sucky at the same time. It’s fantastic because I’ve been wanting to go to college since I was thirteen years old, I love being in college and going to classes. It sucks because I’m taking eighteen hours of classes, which is kicking my ass. It’s not excessively hard, nothing that I can’t handle, but it just requires a lot more effort than I originally thought (which was naïve at most).  I still get to see Charles and Hannah on more than one occasion, and I’ve been working out like crazy (two hours, four times a week).

Now that I have a leg up on my peers — I have yet to meet one that is taking nearly as many classes as I am — I can take it easy next semester, maybe only take fourteen hours. It would still be a lot more than my peers, most of the girls in my dorm are only taking about 10 to 12 hours.

Anyway, must get off to my Survey Mass Communication class. I promise I’ll blog about something way more interesting than my life.

I’m super stoked though. It’s SOE’s Fan Faire, a game convention for their MMOs. So I’m gonna see tons of Storm Troopers, Jedis, and Princess Leias, I’m sure, due to SOE’s Star Wars Galaxies (regardless of how much it sucks now). I’m going to have tons of pictures with me posing.

I have no wiggle room for time, though. Five days after I get back from Vegas, I move into my dorm, and three days after that, I start classes. I am so nervous — mainly that I’m forgetting something, that I’m missing an item from my list of must-haves. I’m pretty sure I’ve gotten everything on my list, including the small, last-minute things like toothpaste and laundry detergent. Any tips on something I should bring to my dorm, something most people don’t think of until they get there? Throw it out there for me!

I’ll be sending my love in Vegas, and much posting will ensue.

Thursday night, before we left for DC in the morning, I went and saw the Dark Knight with Corey and Michael. It was absolutely amazing. Heath Ledger played an excellent Joker, and in my opinion, he overshadows the Jack Nicholson’s Joker. Christian Bale was, as always, fabulous, and Gary Oldman was a dream. This has to be my favourite movie of this year.

I also scored some DVDs in the $5 bin at Wal-Mart. (I h8 h8 h8 Wal-Mart, but what can you do?) I got Knocked Up, Hard Candy, Harsh Times, 20 Films by Alfred Hitchcock compilation, Spaceballs, American Psycho, and Dracula (1992). Sweet balls! Can you tell I love Christian Bale?

So now I have two more trips planned before I head off to college (oh my God, college, oh my God): Pembroke, GA to visit my sister and Las Vegas, NV for a video game convention. Yay for staying busy!

After hearing my relationship issues, she said to me, “That’s nothing ipecac can’t fix,” and schooled me in the way she keeps her husband in line: “It makes them throw up all day long.”

I laughed, because it was way over the top and I figured she was kidding.

She nonchalantly placed a candle on the shelf.

And that’s how I learned about ipecac.

Charles came along with me (no surprise there), and we visited my family, most of whom I haven’t seen in about six years. We went to Six Flags for about twelve hours one day, but we also went to the JFK Museum on another, and I purchased a reprint of one of the newspapers that announced his death. (I want to start collecting those too!) Then the Dallas World Aquarium, where most of my pictures take place. And — here’s the big one — Zero Gravity. Oh my God, Zero Gravity. I am terrified of heights, if you haven’t learned already. Terrified. But we did all five thrill rides, surprisingly: the free fall (”Nothin’ But Net”), the Skyscraper (with Charles), the Texas Blast Off (with Charles), the Skycoaster (with Charles), and the bungee jump.

Bungee jumping doesn’t seem hard. In fact, we thought it would be the easiest thing. But, to be honest, it’s the hardest. On everything else, someone else lets you go, drops you, or lifts you up (in the Skycoaster, but you rip your own cord). On the bungee jump, you have to climb the stairs yourself and leap off the edge yourself. Being terrified of heights, I couldn’t fathom jumping off a ledge like that willingly — and in fact, I almost backed out. You’re told to cross your arms and jump, but I kept crossing and uncrossing my arms. I nearly jump off and catch myself, but I eventually suck it up and just lean forward.

Charles, on the other hand, got to do it twice, for free. We got videos of us bungee jumping, and she didn’t film him the first time, so he got to do it a second time for the camera. And he looks so ballsy, ’cause he just jumps off the second time with no hesitation.

I am so glad I was able to go down to Texas and see my family, especially since it’s been so long. Texas will always be home to me.

I’m outspoken and I share my feelings, good or bad. For the past three years, I’ve had a dark love energy. She asked if I had gotten out of a relationship recently; I said yes, back in October. She said that I’ve been unhappy or depressed since the breakup. She said that there’s been a female surrounding my ex; I clarified that he cheated on me with another girl and he’s still with her. She said that this relationship won’t last long between the two; he only wanted something fresh and new, but he will want to enter my life again after I’ve long moved on and getting involved with my career.

It’ll take three years for my dark love energy to go away, but I will meet my soulmate this year. He’ll be in his twenties, business-oriented, and the initials J and T are important. (Hey JEM TURNER!) Oh, and to stay away from any Ms. She asked if I was making a big move. I said yes, I was moving to San Francisco after college. She said that the move will be very good for me, that Memphis is bad for me. She asked if I was going into the medical field, because I am surrounded by it. I said no, maybe a long time ago, but my dad works at St. Jude, my best friend wants to be a nurse, and his sister is going to be a doctor. Weird.

So yeah, $30 well spent, maybe.