My little week of vacation is winding down, and I still have a few errands to run. I've pratically been a lazy bum all this week with the exeption of staying out until Monday evening away from home. I celebrated the end of my first co-op quarter, plus went to my friend Desarae's wedding shower, and go to a party Saturday night! I partied hard at my friend Simi's 20th b-day party. Well, I did most of my drinking before I went out there, but shouldn't have continued to sample some drinks when I got out there. All I had was a Mike's Hard Lemonade and a Strawberry Daquri wine cooler. Well, that mixed with two cans of beer and a few shots of Canadian liquor did me in later on! Around 4 in the morning when everyone was basically out I had to go to the bathroom (the beer made me do it)- little did I know that I was going to hug the porcelain soon after that trip. Yuck. It happened pretty quick, so I had no time to cry until after the fact. I had to tell Dave that it was time to go since I got sick. By that time it was 5am. I did leave Simi a voicemail to let her know what had happened. I know for the next time that I drink- just stick to one type of drink! Just can't sample everything known to man in one night! Bad Shamekko!
The rest of my week has been average, spent some time with David on Wednesday, just hanging out or whatever, just enjoying some time with each other. Around this time next week we'll be finishing up our first "week" (3 days actually) of classes at good ol' UC. I'm starting my 3rd year, he's starting his first as a transfer student. Let's just see how things go. I have a feeling now that I am going to be a busy lady this quarter. I'm taking a 4 business courses and another physics course. Here's my basic schedule for the fall quarter:


Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays:

9am: Business Finance

1pm: Writing for Business



Tuesdays and Thursdays:

8am: Intro to Quantitative Analysis

9:30am: Physics of Light and Color

11am: Operations Management



I am predicting this to be a heavy load, just based on the fact that I am taking 4 business classes. Let's just see how things go. Before I forget, I have to factor in hours at the library, plus time for studying, sleep, and maybe joining an organization(?) I keep telling myself this is the year for me to join an organization, and try to stick to it I LOVED BEING IN CHORUS last winter. I had such a ball singing 3 times a week- what a stress reliever it could be. The energy and the people were wonderful! Maybe I should join- or at least crash the class the first day to say hi to the director- to see if he remembers me. He should- I was such a lovely person. LOL, let me quit with the b.s.!
Classes begin Wednesday, September 25th. My summer is officially over! I shudder at the thought...

Have a good weekend everyone! If any of you are in Cincinnati, may I suggest that you go Downtown to go to Oktoberfest-Zinzinnati, check out the Reds, or see the Bearcats battle the Buckeyes at Paul Brown Stadium!

Yesterday felt like an (almost) ordinary day, but I found out later that evening that my Mom's cousin (which makes her my second cousin) just had a baby boy on 9-11. It's ironic because I recalled browsing an article about some school kids writing to babies born on 9-11-01.

Here is something that I just found while looking up news articles on The Cincinnati Enquirer site.

It's been a year already. Hard to believe. Does anyone think that it went by pretty fast? I believe that it has. I still remember that day going to work and stopping at Walgreen's on my way there. The associates were saying "Hurry up, cut on the tv! I heard something about a plane crash in New York!" I really didn't think much of it as I payed for my snacks at the register- that is, until I got to work. Just about everyone in the Admin office had their eyes glued to the television, watching the events unfold before there very eyes. I just looked in total confusion as they showed the first tower falling into large clouds of dusty smoke. It just didn't seem real watching that on the television- it was like, watching a movie with special effects. Except these weren't special effects, this was reality. That's what caused the confusion. Maybe as people we are so desensitized by all of these action films with big explosions and such, that when something similar to a movie plot is played out in reality, that it's hard to grasp, difficult to understand, and uncomfertable to watch. By the time that I made it home from work, to hopefully find some salvation in finding something to watch on television, I discovered that many of the networks, especially the ones that had their studios in New York were off the air. All the channels that I flipped through were showing non-stop coverage of the "Attack on America". It's crazy how they had a name for it already within the same 24 hours of the event occuring. Then for the news coverage to continue for the next week almost constantly began to have its take on a lot of people. It came to the point where I had to find other outlets for means of driving away the boredom, like browsing the internet, talking to my parents and friends, or just listening to music. Well, I don't want to make it seem like I am some sort of tv junkie, but it was depressing and bothersome to see the same video of the airplane crashing into the twin towers. I was basically sick of it, like many people around were. We all just had enough, and wanted to regain some type of normalcy in our lives, just to bring back some level of comfort.
I hope that this year we as people will regain greater levels of comfort as we celebrate the first anniversary of that fateful day.

With the first 9.11 anniversary occuring tomorrow, seeing this headline scares me.
My heart, thoughts, and prayers goes out to all of those who were affected by the attacks in some way, shape or form. Lets pray that peace will prevail and justice will be (someday) served...

These entries are getting few and far between. I don't have much to write about these days, life has been pretty steady, busy, and hectic. But its the same old routine unfortunately. I'm just anticipating the start of the new school year, which begins September 25th. Maybe the excitement will begin again when fall quarter starts. The only out of the ordinary thing that is occurring to me right now is the fact that I am having sinus/allergy problems, but then again, that's an annual occurance. Eh. There's no need for me to complain about my boredom, so I will resume with my tasks at work. Later.