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I am officially the worst updater in the world, and I apologize to my maybe 3 or 4 loyal readers. I'm currently in Princeton, NJ, visiting Amy and we were talking about my webpage and my sitestats and all that, and I decided, hey, maybe a quick little update, since I haven't updated in about 6 weeks, would be in order. To be fair, I tried to update last Saturday when I was up until 5:00am for no good reason, but my computer crashed on me, as it likes to do lately. I'm wondering if I can convince that my parents that I need a nice new laptop for Christmas, but I doubt it. Car and rent payments are a higher priority right now.
My time in NJ has actually been a lot of fun. It's Fall Break right now, and I just had a mini "midterm" session (I had 4 tests in 3 days, *shudder*), which is why I have time to be in New Jersey. I'll be back tomorrow, when I'll be working on some lovely treasurer stuff, trying to get caught up in my reading, hopefully getting a tattoo and spending some quality time with my friends, including going apple picking, which is definitely something that I have to do this year before I graduate and possibly leave Ithaca.
The drive here was not so fun. It rained for the entire drive, and apparently, along with other problems, my windshield wipers are in need of replacement. In fact, Amy does not plan on letting me leave until I get them replaced. Needless to say, I was unable to drive very fast yesterday because I couldn't see out my window, and NJ highways are not the best designed highways in the world. My first experience with a NJ jughandle was not exactly pleasant, and believe me when I say that the last thing I need right now is another car accident!
The rest of the trip, though, like I said, has been enjoyable. Amy took me to this nice little Italian cafe last night with her friend Valerie. We ordered a bottle of wine (a nice full-bodied sangiovese-cabernet blend - yum - I love knowing more about wine now!), I had pizza and soup, uum. And then we went to this ridiculously cheep ice cream place, where I got a very large cone of delicious cashew and caramel ice cream for less than 3 dollars. Today, we got up really late (I got to sleep in! I really needed sleep!), then went to Starbucks and Panera (ohhh, how I love those places), did some shopping and then drove all the way up to the Meadowlands to see a NJ Devils game. The Devils won! Amy and I agreed that just hearing the fans yell "sucks!" after each of Columbus's players were announced was worth the trip to the game, and I can't wait for hockey season to start at Lynah! We had corner ice seats, but they were far enough up that we could see everything and our view was not obstructed. Now we're here, in Amy's room, relaxing.
It's been really nice to just calm down for a little while. I'm taking so many credits and just so busy with PSP and CPC and finding a job that I haven't had time to stop moving. I've been getting really little sleep and the littlest things have been getting to me because I've been so stressed. Thursday after my last test it was like 10 pounds had been lifted from my shoulders because I got to not worry about all the stuff I needed to do and I was looking ahead at such an easy week. I'm still looking ahead to such an easy week, yay.
Now let's just hope that Helen is still willing to get into a car with me after the bad trip down to Princeton, and that it takes less than 6 hours to get back to Ithaca tomorrow. I am going to try desperately to give a comprehensive update about what I've been up to since classes started by the end of Fall Break (Tuesday night). Maybe I'll even divide it into sections because there's so much to talk about!
Until then, thanks for those who actually read this and have not given up on me! =)
- Lizzardie, at 1:17 AM
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