Currently Listening Me & Bobby Mcgee By Janis Joplin see related

Hi

College is great.  Hope it's treating my fellow '06ers equally well.  And I hope life's treating everyone else really REALLY well.

My friends are awesome; most of them fun, intelligent, and gay.

I'm a gay men magnet this year.  Awesome, no? 

Six friends and I went to Chicago--$25 round-trip train tickets, baby!--where we saw the hilarious musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.  I highly recomment it, Lesa.  We were in the third row--we won $25 lottery tickets for the show that day!  It was pretty funny--when they were drawing the winners in the lobby, they announced that 22 people would win--and there were 21 people in that lobby .. .

It was in the bag!

We then went back to our hotel rooms where some of my friends got drunk and wanted to have a singing contest and play naked card games . . .   I never got around to learning *how* the game might be any different, but it was kind of funny.  I made sure they were safe and didn't get into too much trouble--until, by 3 AM, I just kicked them out--with one of them sober--and went to bed.

Chicago without a scheduele, without a school, or without parents was a great experience. So. fun.  SHyeah.

If any of you go, I highly recomment Food Life--which is a "buffet" by the Water Tower movie theatre.  And Jamba Juice--which is a smoothie company that makes smoothies with *actual* fruit chunks in them!

Everybody limbo!

First of all, BRAVO to the cast of Joseph!

It was a wonderful ensemble, guys--it really was.  And Joseph's coat was the shiny-nizzle.

I saw it twice.   *nods*  You've got a fan.

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Some of you asked about that guy I talked about in the last entry.  Didn't exactly blast off like I hoped it would.  I was rude and didn't cancel our date until that night because I was worried about finals.

I got him to give me a second chance, but the night before--online, of course--he gave me the "It's not you, it's me," talk.

So, I was bubbling up, ready for a requited romance--if only for a while (I mean, a little longer than two weeks!).  But, it was cut short, so since then I've been really mushy . . .

I mean, if hearts could bubble up from behind my head, they would.  I cry during sadish romantic parts in movies (Jane Eyre PBS special==Delicious!) and have a perennial urge to read the romantic parts of my books and gush.

So, I'm in a romantic limbo . . .  Just kind of waiting to use all the goggly-eyedness I had prepared for him.

We message back and forth with sill quips like we did before things screwed over, so we're not too awkward.  Neither one of us is heartbroken, I don't think.  I just don't think he wants to face me personally right now.  He used to hang around in the lobby during lunch, but now I notice he's never there . . .

Well, my urge to write here is slaked.  I'm going to do homework now!  (Cripes, I love all my classes this semester!)  Got to go read the Bible!  (Yep, Emily the Insufferable Pagan is in a Bible as Lit class.)

Giddy!

I really like a boy(Or maybe I should say man since he's 22).  We went on a pathetic, random date on Saturday night.  I still like him.  That's a first.

Fun!

Unis, unis, and more unis

I don't know if people around here refer to universities as "unis," but a friend from Australia does, and I think it's cute--so I'll use it.

I've been looking at a lot of Unis to transfer from Black Hawk to--so I'm smothered with information, fees, and claims that I will fall in love with their university. 

I mean, with all of my back-to-the-basics classes, I have enough down time.  And exercising's not been an option since about June because of perpetual pain in my joints--my mom now thinks I might have Lyme disease, so I'm going to be tested for it.

Thus, there is plenty of time to sit around, surf, and read . . . .  Which is, actually, kind of cool--just dreaming about the future in other colleges . . .

After looking at every other university English department website, I decided most colleges will be a very good English experience for me; it's just my B.A.--a very common program, so not really specialized.  So, I began choosing colleges to visit based mostly on their study abroad programs, dork that I am.  (I mean, that's the only real difference that matters to me when I'm miles away.    Bloodyhell, I want to live in England!)

So, to seniors:  don't worry too much about getting a good education--all State universities are good--the government wouldn't give them money if they weren't.  Public schools are so much easier money-wise, too.  Loans are not the answer; just plan.  Debts are bad.  Fresh out of college, the companies you took loans from can do whatever they want with you; they name the price you have to pay and how often.  Most times, graduated students' jobs can not pay what the companies ask.

Choose a college with a study abroad program you want!

Yay study abroad! 

That is my advice/yes-I'm-alive post.

Take it easy, everyone.  Feel free to e-mail me (look at my profile).

The Amazons of the Clan Bilyeu:

Left to Right: Chelsea, Elaine, Emily, Rebecca

"We all look alike!" said Elaine.

Hmmm, I wonder if that's because we're all cousins . . . .

"And we're good-lookin'!" added Rebecca.

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I got back from visiting my family in MO., and it was great!