Facebook Fails...

*MY* facebook account is unavailable due to "site maintenance". WTF?? I am now desolate. :P

Anyway, this leaves me time to blog. :D

I am too busy. Waaay too busy. Sadly, I say this even though I'm less busy than I was last semester. Nonetheless, its true. I don't have time to hang out with my boyfriend. :( Bleck. Oh well, life is what it is.

This website is awesome. :D On the homepage there is a yellow button. When you click the button, sponsors donate 1.1 cups of food to charity, at no cost to you. I've signed up for their email newsletter and their daily reminders. So every day I get an email reminding me to click the button. This site also has an awesome shop with all kinds of free trade goods and organic clothing. They're all really reasonably priced. And unique. And gorgeous. So check it out.

Last week I tried out for All-Region. I didn't make it. But thats ok, because I didn't really expect to. It also served as our chair tryout, so I moved up to fourth chair (from seventh). That pretty much rocks. :D Especially since I still get to share a stand with Christie. (In band we take our stand partners pretty seriously...)

Oooh! More news. I met (via wonderful facebook and wonderful Setheran) a ninth grader at my school who is interested in starting a group to raise awareness about humanitarian crisises. Her initial idea was Darfur, but nothing is settled yet.

I got my first History Day interview! Jennifer Lusk was in town for the holidays. She is serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Moldova. She keeps a blog about her experiences and was delightful in person. Definitely a lot of fantastic footage for my documentary!

A few weeks ago, I discovered a degree program that I never knew existed. Rural Sociology. University of Missouri, Columbia has quite the graduate program in Rural Sociology. They offer a Master's degree and a PhD. So my current life plan, brace yourself, is to get an undergrad degree in Sociology from UCA. Then I would love to spend two years with the Peace Corps. After that, I'll return to the real world and enroll in the Rural Sociology graduate program at University of Missouri, Columbia. Parts of this plan make my family happier than others.

I would still prefer to go out of state and get out of Conway. I'm not a Conway fan, but whatever. It doesn't look like its going to work out that way... Life will go on. I'm sure a dorm room and a car will give me any freedom I need.

Goodness, third post in one night!

So now for the stuff of interest to those who actually know me and might be reading this in order to find out whats going on in my life....

Today was pretty nice. I slept in! After waking, I read The Great Adventure: Voluteer stories of life overseas which was both entertaining and pertained to my History Day project. My morning was spent relaxing. No personal conflict since I didn't check my email or Facebook. The lack of communication with a certain person certainly helped. Later, we went grocery shopping in Little Rock, which was fun in its own way. There's always something new and exciting going on at Sam's Club! We ate dinner at La Huerta's, which is a fantastic restaurant, and then we came home and watched Beetlejuice.

The low point of the day was when I had to email the person that I am definitely not getting along with. Our friendship had been tense for a few months, but it was not a big deal. The problem was that she was growing steadily more controlling until it erupted the first time over plans that I made that included someone she disliked. That made me insensitive. Similar incidents continued to occur. The issue is now to the point where we are not on speaking terms. Unfortunately we are still forced to communicate.

On the bright side, this particular relationship has put other issues into perspective. One particularly needy friend that drove me nuts last year is now a paragon of friendship. I plan on calling her up and planning some time to hang out. Other friendships that hadn't been as close to since high school for whatever reason are now being renewed. Aside from the one blemish, my social life has really improved.

Since it is now 4:15 a.m. and I attend the 8:45 traditional service at Salem UMC when I am awake for it, I am going to go to sleep. If I don't, we might end up going to the contemporary service at 11:00. Its fine, I just don't like it as well.