The month of December has come upon us which leads into several scary but exciting things. The most important thing is that finals have arrived and I am almost to the end of my first semester as a graduate student...now to only pass those exams. I took my first one yesterday and while I'm pretty sure I failed it, I think I will still be okay on my final grade in the class. After all, all I'm shooting for is "B"s, just can't get any of those pesky little minuses next to that B or I lose my graduate assistantship.
I have my HUGE tax final tomorrow night, therefore I've been studying that stuff as fast as I can consume the information into my head. I haven't cooked, slept, or had social time in over a week. All I do is go to school, learn more in my classes, go to work and enter all the professors grades into Blackboard as they have procrastinated giving my this work until the last week of class, I don't cook because it takes way too much of my time so I usually end up at a restaurant with some friends with our textbooks spread out all around us. Last night that place happened to be IHOP, on Wednesday night, the local IHOP gives all college students 50% off of their meal, thus we went and took up a couple of tables. After listening to ourselves talk for a couple of hours though, we started making fun of us and how rediculously smart we have to sound for anyone overhearing our conversations. We call it our nerd talk. My friend Keron was the first one of all of us to break down which happened last night. Devon's pretty sure its going to happen the minute she walks out of that exam Friday night. I can't afford to break down and lose those precious 20 minutes of studying therefore I keep plugging along.
I'm also old enough that the concept of pulling allnighters to study for these finals or even finish all of these huge projects due for each of my classes is a foreign thing. To those people such as my brother that will pull the classic allnighter as a college student, good luck.
On an upside, its Christmas season! Music is playing all around me and I love it. I have presents under my 9' Christmas tree. My parents thought they would be funny and sent a present home with me from Thanksgiving. You don't know the temptation it has been sitting upstairs. The positive thing is that I'll get to open it next week as I am leaving until January to come home. Kansas home that is. To those of you who are reading this from Kansas, I miss you all and am very excited to come and eat at the Kitchen every Friday morning. I will warn my cousins that I sent some of your children Christmas cards and I might have mentioned Santa. Therefore if we don't believe in Santa or you simply have children that are too smart and know that Santa is really mom and dad, well, sorry to make you have that conversation with your child!
I know you already all know this but my parents did bring me the Toyota Matrix which has replaced the Alero. I shall do a memory post for the Alero at some point for those of my friends reading this who have their own memories! I decided on Trixie as the new name of the car :)
As a side line, back to that Christmas music thing that I was talking about, if you are looking for an amazing Christmas music CD to get you and your family through this holiday season, get the Glee: Christmas CD. I have had it on repeat and I love it. Even if you don't watch the show, their voices are amazing and blend perfectly together.
Well I am going to go as I keep shooting side glances towards my closed tax book sitting next to me and keep feeling guilty.
I miss you all and wish you all happy holiday shopping!!
Ashley
