The half-mad ramblings of a university student majoring in psychology and spanish.

The past several weeks have been stressful and at times hellish.  I was sick on and off for three weeks, and during that time, had roommate troubles.  Now those things are done and I am attempting to get on with my life.  Today is one of those days where I truely wish that I had nothing important to do, not for the sake of being able to spend the day in bed relaxing, but so I may go outside and rejoice in the beauty of the day.  Its in the 70's today in Maryland, and the sun is shining and the clouds are rolling by, and I'm beginning to believe that Spring is actually on her way.
I've been all sorts of inspired the past couple of days, but have not given into inspiration because of duties to classes, etc.  I think I might take a few hours today to just sit in Nature and draw. I should be reading my Learning Psychology chapters, but it can wait, because Today needs to be enjoyed in all manners possible. Unfortunately I do not have a scanner nor a digital camera, or I would share whatever I produce today with you... perhaps I will find a sympathetic friend.
A friend of mine has started seriously talking about making a webcomic and I am excited for him, because I love you support artistic endevors. I've often toyed with the idea myself, of a webcomic, but do not have the skills nor the equipment avaliable. Still, I'll share the links to the artists who have inspired me to actually get out and draw again, in hopes of improving upon my skills.  The picture that I have in place of an actual picture of myself is from Sarah Ellerton's webcomic Inverloch.
William Li
http://www.fenyx.com/index.html
Sarah Ellerton
http://www.seraph-inn.com/index.html
Crystal Yates
http://www.earthsongsaga.com/
Well, I would write more, but the great out doors have been calling to me and I want to get some concept sketches done for my next "I'm bored" project.  The last "I'm bored" project resulted in a psychadelic Gecko on my wall.  Again, I'll have to see about getting a picture of that posted here.

Well, just finished filing my taxes, well, sorta. I still have to wait to find out if the IRS has accepted my taxes or not. I think that I'd rather just be three again, and not have to worry about this stuff. I mean, who doesn't want an existance where my little ponies, pop-up books, and "when is mommy coming to pick me up from the day-care?" are the biggest concerns? Being a full blown adult sorta sucks sometimes. But then it has good and wonderful points too.
My boyfriend and this weekend being one of them. It was fantastic! This past Saturday we had a full out snow storm. Not quite a blizzard, but it was the first big storm for the season, so everyone was excited and panicky at the same time. In case you don't know, Marylanders are notorious for not being able to deal with snow competently, so there is always the stereotypical rush to the grocery store and the news coverage about how much salt the state has. The snow was beautiful to watch coming down, and Saturday evening good friends gathered and we made lasangua (however its spelled). Sunday was devoted to reading Coming Home by Rosemund Piltcher (favorite book for a chronically homeless person like myself) and feeling slightly guilty about not doing homework. Then I got my butt in gear and started to work on Homework only to remember that I hadn't made any dinner plans for my boyfriend's birthday! Needless to say I felt like a total heel, but things worked out alright and we had a shepard's pie like thing. It was really just ground beef with onions, mashed potatoes, and green peas layered like lasangua, with sharp cheddar and colby-jack on top, but it was quite delicious, if I do say so myself.
Well, as the weekend ended, I hadn't gotten any of my homework done, so you can predict how my monday went... sorta. Work was fine, but classes didn't happen because I'm too ashamed to go to class without my homework finished. So I've been working on my homework since I got out of work at 2pm EST with a 2 hour break for some more work stuff (advertising a major fair) and once I got home from that, I did my taxes. Which brings me to now. Now I'm tired, sore (the snow wasn't plowed the way I came up, so was taking big steps in the snow with a heavy backpack and clutching the advertising materials to my chest), and hungry because I haven't had a proper dinner yet.
I still haven't gotten my lovely boy a b-day or a v-day present yet, so perhaps some online shopping will come to my rescue tonight and it will be a bit belated. I'm not sure what we will do for dinner tomorrow night since we both don't get back to my aparment until late. Perhaps we'll just order some yummy chinese and watch Boondock Saints. I know, not the most romantic movie seemingly, but it was the movie we watched the night we became official, so we're both in love with it.
Oh! I get to give blood for the first time in my life tomorrow at 5:30pm EST! I'm so excited! I've never given blood before because I was under an anti-malarials ban. You aren't allowed to give blood for three years after visiting a malaria country and taking anti-malarials. I visited Tanzania with my parents in Jan 2003 for a safari. There is a blood shortage in my area right now, so I'm really glad that I can help. I think my blood is O+, so that will help, but I'm not completely sure. Either way, they need blood and I've got plenty. I get to save lives! lovely nice warm fuzzies!

Ah, what a day it has been -- yes, i know that sounds incredibly cliche.  Was in my contemporary spanish literature analysis class, and it was blatently made clear to me by my lack of comprehension that it was not a smart idea to try to analyze the literature when still trying to be able to read said literature.  While I am interested in the material and I do have to take the class for my spanish major, I'm frustrated and stalled because I have trouble following what actually happens in the short story. I think that I am going to try to hold this class off until next semester and re-build my vocabulary....assuming that I can make the switch with the classes I want to switch. I won't be a bore about this anymore, because it was upsetting me earlier today, but then I formulated a plan and am now just waiting for approval from the finacers a.k.a. the parents.
have started hunting for new roommates, at least one more for next year. One is leaving for another apartment, and the other, well, not sure if she's going to stay or go. I dislike roommate friction.
in other, more exciting news:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4686830.stm  Apparently the man was able to break three concrete slabs with his groin... the question is How?

*sigh* tried to put in a blog quiz thingy, but I can't get it to work right.  those things are a bit addictive btw, even though I know that there can't be any sort of real validity or reliability to them.  Ah being the psychology major that I am, these tests are like junkfood for my brain.  I do wish however that real personality tests, etc. were avaliable to the public, but then the APA wouldn't make any money, ah well.
I'm starting to get bored with school. Well, frustrated is more like it. My psych lab is difficult to coordinate and assimilate into my schedule and my spanish classes are intimidating.  Maybe I should take a semester off and do some sort of international service, or something like that. *sigh*  Sometimes I feel like I just want to run away from it all and explore the backwoods somewhere, but I lack the training in woodcraft and the knees.
I still don't know whats wrong with my knees, and the military insurance has been finicky at best. Hopefully the paperwork will be straightened out soon, I'd like to be able to row again.

Well, never was much for blogging, etc. but I'll give it a shot.  The real reason I set up this account was to be able to reply to my old roommate's blog tammycamera now that she's studying abroad in Costa Rica.  Must admit am a wee bit envious of her galavanting off like that because I'd love to see Costa Rica and be able to practice Spanish in a native speaking country. 
I'll have to write more later today, because breakfast and classes are calling.