Coffeebration

My dinner tonight is consisting of a box of stuffing and a nice cold Honey Brown. Not very healthy, but I only have about 20 minutes until I have to leave for work, so it will have to suffice.
Today was long and boring. If any of my professor’s pile any more work on to their already insane list of projects that we are supposed to do, I am going to scream.
Group projects are annoying. Luckily, I have group projects in 4 of my 6 classes. It isn’t really group work that I hate, it is semester long projects that aren’t due until the last day of class that I HATE. That is how two of my classes are. I guess professor’s seem to think that this will make us form some type of commitment to the class. In addition to the project being 40 years long, we have to turn something in every week, making it impossible to put things off until the last minute. Seriously, it is just a complete pain in the ass. Emailing back and forth constantly, having to find times to meet, blah blah blah. I would be so much happier if it was like a month long project.

So in other news, I was sitting on the 500 today, hoping to get home fast so I could sit around and be lazy before work. I was sitting on the smelly bus thinking “Damn is this bus freaking loud.” And like a higher power read my mind, the bus suddenly stopped all of the loud noises it was making. Oh yeah, it stopped moving too. The bus driver was like “Well, I’ll try to drift you all to the next bus stop!” Keep in mind we are in the middle of 5th Ave around 3:30. Not fun. So I stood outside in the mist and the magical 74B that wisks me away to my front door appeared. I’m glad the bus broke. I hate walking when I want to get somewhere. And I really really wanted to get home so I could eat my huge bowl of stuffing!
Anyways, my stuffing meal is now complete and I am going to lay around for 10 minutes until I have to scurry off to the place that makes your clothes smelly like salty fish. Bye!

First, I would like to apologize for the very watermelon-ish color theme I have going. I am too lazy to fuck around with the colors and try to customize this damn thing, so it is going to be watermelon for a while. You would thank me if you saw the other built in color themes.
I will make this as quick and painless as possible, meaning I will try not to ramble on too much. I’ll save that for later posts so you have something to look forward to! So my summer can be summed up in one word: boring. I basically worked every day and did not do anything exciting. Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t slaving away at work 24/7 with no time for fun. I only worked about 30 hours a week. My lack of life was primarily due to the zero money factor. In late June I woke up one day and was like “Yeah, I need somewhere to live in August.” Courtney decided to move home one day after she compiled her list of pro’s and con’s about staying in the city. That was ok though. I found somewhere to live in less than a week, thanks to roommates.com. So now I live in a house in Highland Park. I have three roommates that are boys. I don’t see them or talk to them much.
Roommate1 owns the house and is not here often. Roommate2 is here all the time and lives on the couch with his girlfriend. Roommate3 just moved in like last week so I haven’t seen him too much. I doubt we will ever be friends because I am anti-social, my boyfriend would get mad at me if I hung out with them, and I just don’t have the time.
School started last week, so I am trying to get my sleep/school/work/eat schedule balanced out. I have class every day from approximately 9-3:30, work every day from 5-11 except Weds. I have no class on Friday, but I am working from 10-3. I work Saturday too, so the only day I truly have off is Sunday.

That is my life right now … it is actually not quite that boring, but I am tired and I don’t feel like doing this later.
So here is a more recent update:
Yesterday I went to good ol’ FC for a fun day with my entire family at my uncle’s house. I haven’t been to my uncle’s house in … well, I don’t know if I’ve ever been there. He lives in the Fairgrounds of FC, and due to the fact that he was either blackmailed or brainwashed, he held a pre-Labor Day picnic there. He has a very nice house … destroyed by the recent tornado that hit FC last week. There was apparently $50,000 in damage. I expected it to be a lot worse, but other than plastic all over the floors to protect feet from the glass embedded in the carpet, everything seemed fine. One thing about my uncle’s house that is awesome is his 8 cats. I only managed to find 5 of them, but they were all so cute! I heart cats, one thing you are STILL going to have to put up with. While we were there, my dad discovered a foreign object in one of my uncle’s trees. They pulled it out and it was this huge piece of metal that was bigger than me when they got it all straightened out. Tornado’s must be cool. Too bad I missed it.

Jaime and I are going to Chi Chi’s on Wednesday. I am probably working every other night this week. I have to stop in at work tomorrow morning to find out when I work. That didn’t happen last week and since my schedule is all different now, I’m not sure when it is going to become normal. Yeah, that made sense. You can interpret it. I’m really tired despite the fact that I just drank coffee a few hours ago.

Oh yes, one ramble for the night won’t hurt: coffee.
So I think it was around mid-july that I gave up drinking pop. At first I refused to drink anything but water. I have kind of eased up on my strict diet though. Since my no-pop awakening, I have probably had pop 5-6 times. I drank a can of code red mt. dew yesterday at the picnic, but trust me … I would REALLY have preferred water over that crap. I’m a pepsi gal. And Mt. Dew is ok, but code red is pretty much like drinking horse-shit with some sugar in it. Last week Todd and I went to Primanti’s and I drank some Cherry Coke. And I crave orange juice and grapefruit juice once in a while. I had some orange juice yesterday too. But on a normal day to day basis, my liquids are limited to water and coffee. I drink a lot of coffee when I am at work. Giving up pop really had no physical side effects at first. I was like, “Wow, not drinking pop rules!” Well, I did have one side effect: peeing. I was peeing like once an hour. I didn’t want to go anywhere that didn’t have a bathroom close by because one minute I’d be fine, and the next minute my bladder felt like it was going to explode. I guess the lack of pop and the abundance of water was having a dual effect: water makes you pee, pop makes you retain water. So more water + no retaining water = pee pee pee! I still pee a lot, but I think my body is getting used to it.
ANYWAYS, school started last week and my work schedule changed. I had been working at either 10 or 11am every day, so I drank coffee EVERY day. Last week there was no coffee. There was no pop. I think I got a headache 5 out of 7 days last week. My Tylenol is almost gone now.
On Friday I didn’t have class, but I worked. I didn’t drink any coffee at work on Friday because it was really busy and I guess I just got used to not drinking it all week. After work I was in a really bad mood. My mom called and I was really mean to her. My boyfriend called and I was really mean to him. Then I felt the need to punch something, then I wanted to cry. It was not PMS time. My clothes all smelled like ass from work and I wanted to throw them out the window. It was humid and disgusting in my room and it smelled like salty fish garlic everywhere. I gathered my clothes and took them to the laundromat. The laundromat had a coffee machine, so I got some coffee and felt much better.
Today was the rainiest grossest tiredest day ever. I was crabby all day, with a dull headache. Around 4:00 I layed my head on my pillow and closed my eyes. I had a dream about witches and demons. I woke up and my head felt like it was going to explode. I ate some soup, took some tylenol … but I didn’t feel better until that big steaming cup of coffee (and a doughnut 🙂 ) from CrossxRoads.
I think my body needs caffeine or it will die. Anyone else have caffeine withdrawal symptoms?

For anyone reading this, which is probably not many …. I’m back. As you probably know, I abandoned my old journal. I am not resuming it either. Don’t look for it. It is gone. If you are wondering why … my answer is plain and simple. I cannot be consistent in anything I do. It is not possible. Keeping an online journal is not an easy task either, but since I’m back to school and working, I might actually have some semi-amusing stories to tell. I suppose that did not really answer the question about my abandoned journal. Well, I guess you can refer to the last few sentences to get your answer. My consistency can be compared to wind … um, did that make any sense? No. Who cares?
So, a fresh new journal is here. besides BrokenDuck is much more interesting than (edited). BrokenDuck will be sure to cater to your needs 24 hours a day. Actually, that was a lie. Do not expect a ton of updating. I’m working and schooling it a lot for the next few months. I really won’t have that much time or motivation, but I’ll try.