Three Years

WELP I did it again.
My bad.
I'm going to do my very best to keep up with this again.

Okay, just a quick run through of my life up to this point.

1. Shawn and I broke up. It was terrible and I'm much better now, but that's something that I don't think I'll quite get away from for a while.
2. I live in an apartment now (: with my Big and her Big (see Facebook for photos)
3. I am currently dating Mikel, one of my best friends from High School
4. Recruitment is next week, so more on that!
5. My Little is studying abroad in England and she leaves in a couple weeks :(
6. I work at the Lee Honors College as an office assistant. What do I do?
    *phone rings* "Good afternoon, Lee Honors College and ATYP, this is Samantha, how may I help you?"
     Mostly appointments, transferring calls, and pulling and putting back student files.
7. I need a second job, probably a night shift, at either a hotel or restaurant. Gotta pay those sorority dues (and go home now and again) and the 7 1/2 hours a week at the LHC isn't gunna cut it.
8. My classes are pretty easy. Two are classes I am retaking (dumb) and one is just easy because it's all about opinions and application. STATS will be the stress for the semester as far as classes go.
9. Working on getting some volunteer hours. Not sure how I'm going to do it this year, with my awkwardly full schedule.
10. I just went to the Fall Out Boy Concert with Katt last night (pics on FB) and met a new friend! He was wearing our new Bronco shirt for the year and I used it as a starting point to chat with him. Haha.

He is a freshman and I may have talked him into going Greek (: GO ME! Haha.

He said he wasn't a huge FOB fan, but his high school friends were and they wanted him to come. He definitely decided they were pretty awesome. <3 he="" i="" knew="" p="" would.="">

We plan to meet up again here at Western, so I can show him the ropes. 

Well, that's all I've got for now. 

I promise I'll try to be better about this blog. I've kept it up for over two years, so there's something to be said for that.

Taking Forever

SORRY!

I have been so busy and unmotivated and I'm a terrible blogger. Haha.
Okay, so a TON of stuff has happened.
First, here's the picture of the car I promised you all those moons ago:

Cool.

Also, MY LITTLE.

It's Shelby <3 p="">

It was an awesome Big/Little reveal. She knew it was me but that was okay! Because she was so happy. (: Our little family is growing!

She got this awesome opportunity to study abroad in London, though, so she won't be around next semester. :( I know.

Other cool things:

1. I took a trip to Michigan City with Lindsey to visit the Vera Bradley outlet. She wanted so badly to go! It was an awesome road trip and we had a ton of fun hanging out. and we got lucky and the entire store was 50% for the day!

2. I made a new friend. Of course, though, with my luck, he's graduating this semester, most likely. HA. So, he probs won't be around, but hey Facebook is cool because it helps you talk to people you don't see anymore. :P

3. Greek Week started yesterday. I'm not as excited as I should be, but that's due to the bad thing that happened recently (which I will get to). Either way, it's awesome and I know it will fun for everyone!

4. This coming weekend I am going up to MSU to see my very best friend Ciana, because I miss her dearly and also because she wanted to be an awesome friend and help me through this bad thing (I'm getting there).

5. On Saturday night, the Pi Kapps are having a huge Foam Party, where we basically all hang out to celebrate the end of Greek Week and there is foam everywhere. lol. idk. It seems kinda fun.

OKAY so the bad thing, before I tell you about how happy I am that I only have two and half more weeks here.

Shawn, my boyfriend of 3 1/2 years, and I, broke up recently. It was my decision because there were some things in the relationship that were missing and some things I could have done without. I had been trying to work out these problems for some time, but with little success. At this time, I'm not ready to consider getting back together with him.

Just know that it wasn't a huge fight and it wasn't all that messy and awful. I just need to be away from him for awhile, and maybe for good.

Of course, even with it being my decision, it still hurts me to be without him. I still care about him, even if my feelings aren't what they once were. And hurting him doesn't make me feel good.

I won't say anything more about it, but I just wanted everyone to know that I'll be fine and that nothing absolutely terrible happened between us.

SO YEAH:

The end of the semester is pretty much here. I have, like, two more chapters to read for one class. I've finished both my project and the two papers I had to write for the end of the semester. I have another small project that I have to do for physics, but he hadn't even given us all the papers we need for it yet, so I've done what I can.

Then, I have two finals, one of which is online. So no big deal. But the one final I have to actually go to the class for is on WEDNESDAY. So I'll be here until halfway through the week before I can scurry home for the summer.

I don't start working until the end of May, and even then that's just training. But I'm still antsy to get home, kind of.

I want to go home because I miss my family and who likes schoolwork? haha. But I'll also miss my friends here and being a college kid. Haha. It's different when you go home!

Anyway, that's all that's really going on/has been going on.

I'm sorry it took me so long to crank this out. Hopefully the family has been keeping up with my Facebook posts. Those generally tell you what cool things I'm up to.

LOVE YOU!

Packing Up

While we're technically only a month and a half into the semester, we're also halfway through. Halfway isn't very far, when I think about it long enough, but when you add in Spring Break and the shortness of February, it's GREAT NEWS!
Another good news:

1. I won Miss Personal and Intellectual Growth 2013 for Pi Phi. It was our value of the Month. Thanks Sistas!

2. I have somewhere to live next year! Kristine (my grandBig), Rena (my Big), and myself (my Self) have signed a lease for a three bedroom at Copper Beech. It's a beautiful townhome: it's big, it's pretty, it's great. I have room to craft, I have room for furniture without having to scoot around things...Rena is bringing her kitty Lizzie, so I'll never be alone :)

3. I finally got a car! (Pictures to come) Mom is supposed to bring them the money today!! Yeah! It's a 2003 Ford Escort. 2 door (passengers--deal with it, there is plenty of leg room still). A few bumps and bruises, but it's old, so you know.

4. I learn who my Little is Friday and then next week is Big/Little and I'm SO exciteddddddddddddd :DDDDDD    I've already started buying gifts, hahahaha!

So, needless to say, with the end of the semester fast approaching (though not fast enough) and my excitement about moving into Copper Beech (July 26) I am beginning to pack up my room and take home all  the useless stuff I have.
    ~that is, dishes I don't use, decor, clothes I don't need here, etc.

I'm not sure that anything else has really happened lately. Just working hard to do my part for Pi Phi, going to class, doing homework, and will soon be crafting for my Little! :)

More on Big/Little week next month :)

Getting Better

This past week...really, this semester, has been really difficult.
I wasn't feeling inspired. Sure, I felt motivated enough--I worked out, I went to class, I'm doing relatively well I think. But I just didn't feel happy.

But yesterday was the best day I've had since I got back to school and maybe things will keep getting better from here on out.

I know a lot of people have been trouble this past week, at least, if not longer. So, it makes wonder if the universe is just trying to upset everyone.

Hopefully it's over and I can work hard and be happy and get good grades and learn some cool stuff.

So, the FYS instructor position I mentioned last blog isn't going to work out. I would have to be here for training the week before classes and the fam is going on vacation this week.
Sorry, but I'd much rather be doing this:

 Or this

 Or this

 Or this

 Or this!

Haha. I think you get the point.

Hm. What else did I want to talk about?

AH! I got into the Upper Level Professional Program for Elementary Education!

That means that I can now take all the upperclassmen courses and I am cleared to actually get my minor.

Of course, this will only work if I get into the Speech Pathology program here, since my minor is "Elementary Education minor for Speech Pathology and Audiology Majors." :/

If not, I'll see about making my major Elementary Education with a minor in Speech and Hearing Processes because my adviser tells me that I can still apply to grad school with that minor and she'll be sure I get into important Speech Path classes that will make my transcript look better to the graduate schools.

I think that a lot of the classes I've taken for this minor, though don't work for the major. I can't find a program guide for Elem. Ed. majors though, so I may just drop my Elementary Education minor and keep the Elementary Education Language Arts minor. Then, I'll make my major Behavioral Science Psychology, instead of having my general psych minor.

But everyone keeps telling me that I don't have to worry and that I'll get in and I won't even have to worry about what kind of switching to do.
I sure hope so, because I'll have wasted a lot of time and money otherwise.

But, sad news...even if I do get in this time and I'm on track, I still have to take some summer courses and I won't graduate UNDERGRAD until, like, 2017. *sigh*

Anyway...on to happy things!
So, I'm way ahead on homework. It's kind nice to have the big gaps between classes because I just do homework (and work out) to keep myself motivated. And then I don't come home from class and say "school's over for the day, I'll just do my homework later." Haha.

Me and my Big did some of our homework yesterday while we were hanging out, before Chapter.
Then, later, we went to the Pi Kappa Phi house, because they had an "I Have A Dream Pajama Jam" in honor of MLK day. Haha. It was kinda cool. There weren't A LOT of people there, so it was nice not to have someone running in to you every second. But, it was cold, so that was kinda crappy.
We stayed for a little over an hour, maybe two, and then we went back to 1517 and just hung out until we were too tired.
I like going to the Pi Kapp's parties, because they aren't crazy hardcore partiers. I can actually enjoy myself and talk to people and actually make friends, instead of trying to hear myself think over blaring music and being stuck in one room packed with people I don't know. *cough*Sig Ep*cough*
:)

 We took the pajama thing seriously :)

Back to the Grind

Well, it's Thursday already and I must say I'm impressed I made it so quickly through the week.
I've waited this long to blog because there were quite a few things that I needed to get worked out before I had anything to post that wasn't me freaking out. :)

SO!

I have successfully fallen into my new Executive Vice President of Communications position for Pi Phi. At first, I had a lot of questions for the lovely lady before me, but now I think I've got everything I need and I understand how things work! I went to my first Panhellenic meeting--nervous-making, but cool enough. Omo (the VPC previously) came with me, to help me figure out how things run. I THINK she's coming to the next one too,  but I'm unsure.

OKAY! So, my classes...
Yeah.
This semester is going to suck.

Not only is my schedule painful...

MW: 10-10:50, 6-7:40
T: 8-9:50, 10-10:50, 5-6:15
Th: 10-10:50, 5-6:15
F: 10-10:50

THEY ARE SO SPACED OUTTT!!!!! AHHHH!
Yes, that's a class every day. and it's PHYSICS, nonetheless! My prof spends the entire class period prattling on about whatever, supposedly connecting it to something Physics related, and then gives us h.w. problems from the book that confuse me. >.<
My other classes are just boring: Nature of Language (he reads from the slides and it's SO sleepy-making) and Psych (which I am going to the first REAL class of in just a bit, so I'll let you know. But I'm told it's a lot of work, which is fine, as long as the work makes sense to me :) haha.)

Then, Tuesday nights at 9, I have Panhel. Wednesday nights at 9 I have an exec. meeting. Sunday nights, I have various Pi Phi activities that could begin anywhere from 4 to 7 and go until approx. 9.

Alas...I will do my best to get this all to work out.

Tonight, I am going to an info meeting for FYS student teaching, which I am hoping I will like and then I will apply to be one and it will be so cool and I'll have a job! Yeah!
Also, I turned a lot of applications around town, but everywhere said "we're not technically hiring right now, but we always take apps" ...so, who knows!

Well, I think that's all I have right now.

I hope I won't get overwhelmed, but I probably will do it to myself because I will worry and worry when I don't really need to. Oh well!