Well Overdue

I can't stop thinking about Food. Inc. I'm really upset. I haven't been eating much. The only protein I ate was sushi. To be honest I hate that I watched that movie. I was blind and naive about how the meat industries are treating animals, but as selfish as this sounds I was happy living that way. I was talking to one of my friends who has been Vegan for a good portion of her life and she is a strong activist and has been showing me videos of poorly treated animals. There is a documentary called Earthlings and the video is on Earthlings.com. I couldn't finish watching it. I saw a man stand on a dogs head to kill the dog and he bled through his nose and his skull was crushed. Is this really the world we live in? It's disgusting and unforgivable. Animals were put on this world to live as we do and yes I believe in the circle of life, but we don't need eggs, milk, and meat to survive. I barely got through the preview of Earthlings before I closed my laptop and burst into tears. I'm a big animal lover. I've rescued baby bunnies in the woods behind my house and set them free without imprinting and I have two dogs I play with every day when I come home from school. I grew up being allergic to chicken, pork, beef, milk and eggs and it's probably because of all the drugs and hormones that they inject the animals with. I outgrew most of my allergies except milk, but even if I was allowed to eat things with dairy I wouldn't. All day I just thought about how those chickens have never seen daylight and can't run around like a normal chicken would. I'm so shook up by all of this. I don't know what else to think...

Movie Marathon!

I think I watched five movies today and now I'm watching The Perfect Man, don't judge me. I watched Coraline twice this weekend and I watched A Knight's Tale twice, Legally Blonde and Nancy Drew. I love the Nancy Drew movie, it was pretty good. It reminded me of these books I used to read when I was younger about a girl with a photographic memory and she solved mysteries. I forgot the name, but I'm sure I still have the stack of books upstairs.

I finally was able to get on the Language Lab Center Website. I have been trying to download the recording for my Spanish 3 class for two weeks now and a small miracle happened today, kidding.

I wish the miracle was carried over to actually finishing listening and writing the recordings for the lab, but that didn't happen. Half-way through the lab I got frustrated and walked away. I replayed one part about 50 times and still had no idea what the lady was saying. Of course in the examples the speakers speak so slow an idiot with only one semester of spanish on their belt could understand it, but then it went on to the questions and the woman spoke so fast my head was about to implode. I used to love spanish class in high school. I had one of the highest grades in the class and now I feel like I'm taking 10 steps backwards. I'm doing terribly and that's not like me. It's so frustrating because every time I try to talk to my teacher he cuts me off in class and embarrasses me. I've been debating whether or not to talk to the dean or someone who could talk to this guy. I have never done this bad in a class. Well I'm going to get back to my movie.

Never Punctual With This Thing

I'm always late with this blog. I'm not used to describing every detail of my life on the internet. I would write something opinionated, but to be honest I don't want to because everything I write in college is usually a blend between facts and opinions. When it comes to this blog I just like to sit down and take in my day and think about everything I did during the week. This week was terrible. I had to wake up 4 hours earlier to be driven by my friend because I have no car for another two weeks. All my friend's classes are early in the morning and all of mine start after 10. I usually go to the library and catch up on my reading for classes because I can't read when I'm home because my dogs always bark and my Dad watched UFC and my Mom constantly nags me about my day. I also can't read at work because I babysit a two year old 3-4 days out of the week for a couple of hours and she needs my attention while I am there.

This weekend both my sisters came home. Jackie came from Philadelphia and Jessica came from New Hampshire. Jessica, who is 3 months pregnant wanted to go to BuyBuy Baby to register for her baby shower. There are two things I hate to shop for, which are baby stores and dish and silverware shopping. People often tell me, well that's just because you don't care much about this stuff at the age you are at now, but truthfully I don't think I will ever like to do THAT kind of shopping. It's boring and uninteresting. I am, however, excited about my sister's baby. I've been wanting to be an aunt since I was 14, a year into Jess and Tony's marriage.

Anyways, the baby shopping was worse than I expecting with the constant, oooo's and aaahh's from my Mom all that was on my mind was how my feet hurt from standing and how hungry I was. Luckily we were only in there for an hour because any longer and I might have run out of the store screaming as if my hair were on fire. We went to Panera Bread after and we sat and ate a late lunch and then I came home to finish shooting my roll of pictures for my photography class.

I still have some homework to do for tomorrow's classes. I should probably get started on that before I fall asleep. I'm sitting near my bed and I am so tempted to bury myself in my sheets and not wake up until next friday.

It Can Only Get Better

Busy, would not even begin to describe these past four days. I had to coach a High School Rowing team this weekend on top of my other job and school work. I did have some time for myself though, which was nice. Saturday, Sunday and Monday I coached. Saturday night I went to the movies with one of my good friends from my old rowing team. We saw Dear John. I didn't cry, which was surprising because I'm a sap and I cry about everything. It wasn't sad to me because the man playing the father in it was from Step Brothers and every time I saw him on screen quotes from Step Brothers flowed through my head and I would start to smile or laugh. Channing Tatum was good in the movie, but didn't strike any emotion from me. Everyone around me was hysterically crying. Sunday was valentine's day and I worked and coached and then later that night I went laser tagging with the Rowing Team I coached. It was a lot of fun actually and we weren't the oldest people there. Yesterday, however was an extremely bad night. I didn't want to make this public, but I got into a car accident on my way to syosset with one of my friends, gabe and I was making a left on to 25A and a black cadillac going around 70 or 80 mph in a 40 mph zone sped up the hill on 25A and side swiped the front of my car. The other man's cadillac was completely totaled because after he hit me he lost control of his car and hit into a tree. My car was pushed in a bit in the front and had a minor leak from the radiator. Luckily no one was hurt and the other driver isn't coming after me money-wise or blaming me for the accident, but now I am without a car and my parents have to deal with all the financial issues with the insurance. Before my parents and I had two cars to share and now we have three drivers and one car, but we are getting a rental car that the insurance is paying for. It was a terrible night last night, but I am very blessed to still be standing and walking because if the other driver had hit my door there's a good chance I wouldn't be sitting in my room writing this right now. There are so many What If's that I am trying not to think of and this being my first accident will hopefully be my last accident.

Uh.....I Got Nothin'

Not really sure what to write. My life is pretty boring these days. I get my work done during the week, go to school, go to work, workout, then homework and then sleep. As of right now I am watching Wizards of Waverly Place, don't judge me, and I just finished writing an e-mail to my Dad. He is in Shanghai, China right now on a business trip. He works for a company called Exegy. I'm not really sure what the company does besides international business, so that's the end of that topic.

Last Semester I joined the Hofstra Rowing team, but ever since I joined they are very strict about attendance and I can understand why they would be because on the water if someone is missing from the boat you are in then the boat line ups are all messed up, but as of right now we aren't on the water. I haven't been going to practice because I am a busy person. I get up around 7:30/8 AM I work out for almost an hour, then I make myself breakfast, go to school where I have 3 classes back to back or 2 classes back to back, then straight after school I go to work for 3 hours and then I either have my second job, babysitting (weekly) or I run errands, get gas for the car and then I go home. I usually sit and relax for an hour and then start on my homework and then go to bed. Things come up all the time and it's frustrating that no one seems to see that I babysit for 3 different families during the week and I am a part-time Nanny (sounds weird, but I do that 3 times a week) for this one family. Once the weather gets warmer and Rowing season comes it is going to be even more exhausting because I will be getting up at 5:30 to be on the water at 6 AM rather than getting up at 7:30/8 AM. The team practices every morning at the Hofstra Pool at 7 AM and all my classes start after 10 AM. I come home every night at 7 or 8 PM. I would like to enjoy the beginning of my semester before kicking myself in the butt for rowing when I can workout on my own. I'm sorry I seem like a complainer, but I have nothing else to talk about. The point was that I feel like the one sport that I love is turning into an obligation and soon it won't seem like fun anymore. I would rather buy my own boat and enter into my own races rather than dealing with people who are making me regret joining this club. But then again, it has its ups and downs. I just hope it gets better because it can't get any worse!

I do have one thing to look forward to. I am going into the city Sunday with my Mom and we are going to my favorite restaurant and we are going to walk around the city together and go shopping. It should be fun, I just hope it doesn't snow too much so that it is still possible to go.

How funny is it that Wolfman is coming out Valentine's Day weekend.

Groggy Bloggy

I'm not really sure what I would want to talk about on here. I used to keep a diary when I was younger, but I only bought pretty books that I just liked to look at and I would write down what I did that day that I bought and maybe a few more days after that. Usually though I am terrible at updating things, especially now. I keep a facebook, but I think that is more of an obligation because there's nothing special about it and the idea of it is overrated. I didn't do much today. I woke up late, around noon. I was so tired and I couldn't sleep last night so I stayed up until 3 AM watching Shrek. I ran errands with my Mom today and we picked up my Basic Photography supplies and then we went around town. After that wasn't much. I had a family dinner at my Nana's house with my Mom's side of the family. It was a lot of fun. My Mom was trying to tell stories of when her and my Uncle Rob were kids and he used to go out on the balcony of my Nana's house and yell the George of the Jungle call and neighbors blocks away used to hear my Uncle screaming at the top of his lungs, that weird animal call. I'm not sure how old he was, but young enough for that to be funny and not weird. After dinner I came home and watched the Grammy's as I did my Spanish homework. I hate that I have to take spanish after taking it for six years. I think I have enough Spanish to practically live in Spain. I feel like almost all the classes I'm taking besides two are pointless because I am a photography major, when will I ever need to know about cultural anthropology or algebra a.k.a. writing in chinese numbers and hieroglyphics. Yeah, that would be a negative. Anyways, I am just hoping I do well in all my classes and I have a great semester. I'm so tired and I am going to go to bed. =]