January 6th, 2012

"Woke up.

Got out of bed.

Dragged a comb across my head."

I woke up late, on purpose. I didn't need to be up very early at all, since my first class wasn't until 10:40am. What a nice time for a class. Seriously, its great. However, once I get into "school mode", my body refuses to stay asleep any later than 8:30am. So, weekends will be hell for me...

I made it to Theory on time, sat in there for an hour. I realized as we were flipping through the anthology (the one that costs $180 used, that I got for $7 on amazon... (later, we realized it was supposed to come with 10 CDs... and didn't.)) that the previous owner had written A LOT inside of it. And it is one of those books that you have to write in, since this whole half of the class is about analyzing music, and marking it, and stuff. So, I need to run to Wal-Mart tonight, more than likely, to get a huge eraser (there was a big eraser at the school store, but it was $3... I can find a bigger one at Wal-Mart for $1.) so I can make the pages clean for me to write on. That's one reason I probably won't ever sell my Tonal Harmony textbook for theory, because there are "self-tests" in the book, that we have to write on the pages, and I was a dumbass and did half of them in pen. I should remember the first rule of musicians: Pencils. Always pencils. Never pens. Oh well.

I ran to Wind Symphony, as I only have about 10 minutes to go up a floor, grab my instrument, go down two floors, set up my instrument, and be ready to play. Wind Symphony went fine. I feel like I just kind of zoned out a lot there today. But I was hungry...

Danae, Sarah, and I went to the OC for lunch (Vandenberg cafeteria stops serving warm lunch at 1:30 (which is when Wind Symphony lets out...), and you're limited to whatever sandwich stuff, soup, or salad is left. Or cereal.) and I tried the "Chop'd & Wrap'd" station. The Shanghai Chicken Salad seemed really good, as my friend Kaitie had eaten it the day before, and so that's what I ordered. I was kind of bummed, though. It was a  mixed greens salad with lo mein noodles, scallions, chicken, and a sesame ginger dressing. I feel like it would have been a million times better if the chicken wasn't freezing cold, and if there was less dressing... Next time I'm in the mood for a salad though, I'm going to try the Chicken Caesar Salad Wrap, on a spinach wrap, or honey wheat. I've been told that's really good. 

I went with Sarah to the bookstore, as she had to get more of her books for classes, now that she has money. She got the two books she needed there, and we tallied up how much it would cost her to buy books off of me. She's taking the history class I took last semester, now, and I offered to sell her my books for Oakland's used book price, minus the cost of a small book for my history class that she has. Total, minus the book she owes me, its going to cost her $250.30. That includes a heavy ass textbook, two anthologies, and two packets of 8 CDs each that go with the anthologies. I think I'll just be giving the money I get from her back to my mother, as she paid for my other textbooks for this semester, as well as the previous semester. I want to feel responsible for more of my schooling, even though I can barely afford to.

I came back to the dorm, and just hung out. I organized some stuff for school, updated my handy dandy whiteboard with homework assignments, and all. 

Not too much to do, but still needs to get done. This looks so different than how it did during finals. yeesh.

I munched on some chips and salsa from Chili's, and tried calling the bank to inquire about a $500 held deposit on my credit card that I'm allowed to claim after 6 months (aka, now), and I'm waiting for some woman to contact me about that. Which, probably won't happen until Monday. At about the time I'm in class, I'm willing to bet...

Danae's off to Varner to rehearse for Cosi fan tutte (which I can't wait to go see!), and then she's going to the gym after, (more than likely). I would go, but Jake doesn't have to work tonight, so he's coming over instead. I definitely intend to go tomorrow evening, as a distraction while Jake's at work... He can't spend the night tonight, though, unfortunately, because Danae is staying overnight so she can attend an 11am rehearsal for Cosi tomorrow morning. 

But its okay. Because Danae and I were talking, and we're most definitely going to figure out how to make forts out of our beds, and we've agreed to have a MaryJakeDanaeAndy sleep over party some weekend soon. :) Hopefully they can be regular occurrences!

Obviously, I'm not writing this at the end of my day. I still have stuff going on, but I'm willing to bet if I were to write it all out later tonight once I'm about to go to sleep, it would have been far less filled, and the size of yesterday's entry made me sad.

So, I'm sitting here, waiting for Jake to come over. We're going to go to Outback for dinner (I'm only about 500 points away from being able to get an outback reward! FREE FOOD! WHEE), and hopefully Wal-Mart for a bit. There are a few things I want to pick up.

• sticky notes
• sticky tabs
• pens
• giant eraser
• febreeze
• folders
• notebooks/pads
• bookmark
• glitter glue?
• markers?
• stickers?
• "girly stuff"

Should be able to get all that there for a pretty cheap price...

Tomorrow, is my "get shit done" day. I have these days all the time. But tomorrow, these are my plans:

• Do all my homework
• Do all my laundry
• Clean the fuck out of the dorm room
• Disinfect the dorm room
• Go to the gym
• Along with the typical "facebook, tumblr, be bored" nonsense

Hopefully, it will work out, and I'll be not stressed. I like being not stressed.

That's all for now. :)

~Mary