Camera made it.

Packing is making me anxious. I keep forgetting things, running around like a chicken with it's head cut off, and moving things around. I have no idea if my suitcase is less than 50lbs. I've found a boatload of crap I forgot to pack for storage.

AND I FORGOT TO PRINT MY TICKET.

I can do that in a second.




... So there you have it folks, my sophomore year of college.

empty

This is a very empty closet.

Not to imply that everything from my closet has gone into storage. Just all of my HANGERS have gone into storage. All of my pants are now in the bottom of my dresser, where my sweatshirts used to be.

I was right about this week. It is crawling.
But at the same time, I only have a day and a half left.
I think it's because everything I've done for the past two days has been meticulously (damn, spelled that right on the first try!) ordered: Get up, go to work, take a test, run back to my room, start laundry, pack blankets, switch laundry to dryer, dinner, waitwaitwait for sheets and towels to be dry so I can put them in storage, call Mara, finish trying up bags and taping boxes, meet Mara and pack her car, hug Mara for five minutes because her family is storing my stuff over the summer, SIGH and relax for ten minutes, start studying again.

My two hardest finals are tomorrow, one right after each other, so I have no time to study for Therapeutic Modalities after Strength and Conditioning. Of course I need to do well on these tests, but I'm getting to the point where I just don't care anymore.
Which is bad, cause I still have three finals left.

Also, my camera batteries are dying. Come on camera! Just one more day!

Also, as my blankets are gone, I'm kinda worried about being really fucking cold tonight.

I was given this locker at the gym two days in a row. So that.... cool? I guess.

My bones are tired today. Today was my first day of work. I was over at the Union, but the cool thing was I didn't have to do the actual buying back or talking to other people part. I got to be in the background putting USED BOOK and security stickers on all the books we bought back and then put them all in boxes to go back to the actual book store, which is not in the Union. I kind of enjoyed myself, making the books fit was like getting paid to play Tetris for three hours.
Tomorrow morning I go back for an 8 hour shift. I learn the computer system for buying back the books. My feet are going to hurt, even though I'm going to wear sensible shoes.

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Yep. That's my printer, all boxed up and ready for storage. The box is also full of small pictures, markers, and cords; as my printer is not a perfect rectangle in the back and thus allows space for small items. Which is good, cause I'm really hoping I can fit all my (non-clothing) things into one moving box. Fingers crosses on that one, especially with all the books that I have to find somewhere to put.
I also took all my posters down and have them rolled up in a tube.

...Don't judge me! I'm so bored!

ctrl+C is my savior

So I may have, sort of, kind of, maybe, perhaps started to PACK UP MY THINGS!! I know I should try to hold out as long as I can, because last year I started getting organized about three weeks before school ended and that was not a good move. Granted, I made it a lot longer than I did last year, mostly cause I have so much more to do and keep me busy this year, but I'm still weary that packing up my sweaters today will make the next five days drrraaaaggggg oooooouuuuuttttt instead of flying by like the last week did.
At the same time, I have almost no free time next week. I originally scheduled myself 30 minute breaks every 2 hours of studying, and I scheduled myself to study from 6am when I wake up until 9pm when I go to bed. That plan was, of course (did Spring Break planning teach me nothing?) screwed up when I found out that I would be working an 8hour day on Tuesday before my 5:45pm final. The SIX HOURS I had planned on studying that day would have to be rearranged somewhere else so I can sit in the Union and buy back people's books for way way less than they bought them for.

...my sentences get way too long when I actually have something to say...

Anyway. I get the feeling I'm going to have very little free time next week while I'm taking finals, studying for finals, working at the book store, and trying to get ready to go home.
Would it be smart to start packing things I know I wont need next week? Like my printer that is out of ink? And my winter coat? (Too bad the weather went from 70* last week to "possible snow storms" this week, and I have no idea if I'll need to have access to my sweaters).

The original plan was to pack on Tuesday at 2pm, but now I will be working at that time. I can always just pack AFTER my final, but I really need that time to study for my Strength and Conditioning final and Therapeutic Modalities final on Wednesday. I mean, not that pulling sweatshirts off hangers and out of drawers to stuff them in a garbage bag is really all that time consuming.
I just don't want to make Mara wait on Tuesday. Her parents are letting me put my things in their storage unit over the summer (so nice of them!!) and Mara has a car, so we're taking my stuff over after my Modalities final ends at 3pm. She's even more scheduled than I am, cause she is an RA, so she has to deal with checking people out of their rooms as well as deal with all her finals. She's in almost all of the same classes as me, so I know she's just as worried about studying as I am. It's such a huge favor her family is doing for me, so I want it to all be on her time and schedule.

I RAMBLE TO MYSELF WHEN I AM STRESSED OUT.
I'm not writing any of this because I think you are actually interested. I just need to write down lists and schedules and alternated schedules and have a Plan A-F for my own benefit. I did this to Drew in my last letter too. Wrote him THREE PAGES (front and back) last teusday outlining the last week and a half I'd be at school. When I got done I was like "... hmm... he probably doesn't care that I'm planning on studying Medical Terms from 5-6 and from 8-9:30 on Monday night as long as I don't miss my flight."
Which I wont. Miss my flight I mean.
My last final gets over at 9:00am. My flight leaves at 11:48am. I told my RA that if she's not there to check me out exactly at 9:10am (which is the time I signed up for) I will put my keys on my dresser and I AM GONE at 9:35am when Airport Connection gets here, whether or not I've been cleared out of the room or not. The lovely loop-hole that keeps me out of trouble if I just leave is I SIGNED UP FOR NINE-TEN. So if there's not an RA in my room at that time, they get in trouble, not me. If they try and fine me for it or something, I'll just be like "Look, I told her at least three times that I had to leave and that if she wasn't going to be there, to make sure someone else would." Luckily though, one of my Exercise Science Family members, Jared, is an RA on the 7th floor, and I can just call him.


RAAAAAAAAAA!!

ALSO!
I got offered an official position at Hand and Ortho Physical Therapy. I'll be working from 9-2 on Mondays and Fridays. Ten hours a week isn't nearly what I was hoping for, but it will make trading shifts so I can go on vacation to Darby and Bear Lake (and hopefully Disneyland- fingers crossed) much easier. Plus, a lot of the regular full time Aides go on vacation in the summer, so I'll be able to pick up extra hours. I hope the fact I already know how to use E-Stim and Ultra Sound (not the imaging kind... the Deep Tissue Heating kind) will make them like me so much they ask me to come back and work while I'm home for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Spring Break, and again next summer. Hopefully, hopefully, hopefully.

I should stop tying and go study now.

We had our end of the year AT BBQ yesterday. Granted, it was more of a cook-in, than a cook-out cause the weather has been crummy, but Chris (our program director and professor) cooked everything up last night and brought in brats and burgers for everyone. Real food was great!

We're close

My Exercise Science class. There's only 56 of us in the class, and it is wonderful having that be my largest lecture. All of my teachers know my name, and they will all say "hi" if I see them outside of class. We took this picture yesterday after our last day of Strength and Conditioning because our professor, Dr. Bill Ebben is going to teach at UW-Parkside next year and we are all going to miss him.

The sophomore Athletic Training family. (minus Michael) From the top left: Kayla, Alicia, Me, Carrie, Michelle D, Nichole, Jared, Katie, Lisa, Tim, Ryan, Ben.
We really are a family (we take stairs pictures worthy of Xmas cards!) , and while I'm only really good friends with Nichole, it's nice to have that sort of connection with our small group.

Also, this is my 201st post.

poster making

I enjoy coloring.
I enjoy it more when I am stressed out, despite my complete lack of artistic ability.

Did you know that only 5% of the human race is bio-mechanically built to be efficient runners?
I am not part of that 5%
Sometimes I wish I didn't have to tape my arches, ankles, and knee before I run. But then I think about how there could be something wrong with me that can't be fixed with tape, and I am grateful that I only have to deal with high arches and a slightly off center knee. Those are the sort of things you can just kind of ignore until they go away, treat with ice after you run, and not worry about. I'm so glad there's nothing really wrong with me, like a stress fracture in my femur or a torn ACL.

"It's not having what you want. It's wanting what you've got."

I love that it is 7pm and still sunny.

My roommate is kind of funny when she's drunk.

I am almost out of gum.
This can only end badly.