"I'm free-wheeling it tonight. Usually, I jot some notes down during the week so that when Friday rolls around all I have to do is put things into coherent sentences and -- BOOM! -- instant entry."

"Mom's gone into Super Mom mode, has once again gone above and beyond the call of duty, and has been looking up classes for me at other schools."

"For all the griping I do periodically throughout the year about this person or that person, I can't imagine spending the holidays with 15 other people (yes, even the Idiot-In-Law)."

"If I'm not careful, I'm gonna drool on my keyboard, so on to less delicious topics."

"The Tutition Goblins came today and robbed me of nearly 2k and now all I'm left with is a sinky feeling in my tummy."

"It wasn't for nothing though; I could have spent it on booze and male strippers."

"It's like a million degrees below zero lately so snuggling up with my fleece blanket and moving as little as possible has been my Latest and Greatest Excitement."

"Combined with my "I'm homeless" attire, and I'm looking very shlubby."

"Seriously, my biggest beef lately is the fact that I decided to grow my hair out and it's taking on a personality and life all its own."

"If I had no sense of self-preservation at all, now would be the time to dye it red again and I wouldn't mind daddy being justified in calling me Bozo (something he does occasionally regardless of my hair color)."

"Not that I completely dislike living with Mom and Dad... but it's those three words combined with my age and unemployment status that plunge me into the I'll Never Be On My Own Pit of Depression."

"When I was leaving campus yesterday, I was walking into the wind going through the parking lot and by the time I got to my car, I was wondering if I still had ears."

"For all the bullshit I go through with this woman, she does help me tremendously. She always means well and has my interests at heart, and I can't fault her for that."

"Explain me this: why is it at the beginning of every academic year I fork over $105 for a dinky little sticker and no promise of a decent parking spot between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.? Where does my $105 go? To whose home improvement project am I contributing? To whose purchase of a swankier car than mine am I aiding (not that there's a stitch wrong with my 1998 Pontiac Grand Prix SE, thankyouverymuch)?"

"My attention span today is about the equivalent of a loaf of bread."

"I found that walking from the Union to where I parked my car on the other side of campus, no one was eager to help the girl-turned-pack-mule and open a door for me. I had three bulging bags of books and walked behind and past a number of people and only one person, when I was nearly to the parking lot, was nice enough to hold a door for me. Is common courtesy and politeness lost on everyone? Are manners a thing of the past? I just don't get it."

"I've already got the dentist out of the way, and they promptly robbed me by upping their fees for a simple cleaning."

"And now that I've either bored everyone or skeeved ya out, I think I'll enjoy myself for an hour or so before I hit the books again."

"My week wasn't particularly fascinating. I think the highlight of it was buying Dr. Pepper today."

"Since I'm going for high school students, I basically had to lower my IQ for an evening."

"Sad that I'm gonna be 23 in April and I've never ventured to the grocery store myself."

"All I've done since January 26 is read (well, I've goofed off a lot too, but that doesn't count because I'm supposedly trying to be the 4.0 student Mom tells me I'm capable of being even though I'd rather read diaries and play online games. But that's beside the point). "

"I know it was a snore in high school, but everything was a snore in high school."

"I don't think I'll ever be ready to stand in front of 20-some teenagers and try to get them excited about English when I can't even get out of bed before noon on my days off to do my own reading assignments."

"After all the drama at the end of last semester and a Christmas break riddled with anxiety, I like knowing what to expect of my days."

"Come, wander my musical history with me."

"My best friend L and I absolutely adore Sugar Ray's bassist, Murf, who we met after and HE HUGGED ME!"

"I was pretty heavy into rap and hip hop then, so I was definitely feeling like The White Girl."

"My sister's team won Section VII!!!"

"I went to pick up my glass of Pepsi and my fingers must have been greasy or the glass was sweaty or, ya know, I was awake, and I dumped my half full (I'll be optimistic) glass of soda on my mother. Well, most of it went on the table, but she got the run off. So now I'll be known as The Sister That Spills Things. Little does MF know that I'm just a spazz and this incident isn't all that unusual."

"It was gray outside when they left, but it's the North Country in March -- it's always gray here."

"Don't confuse this break with spring break, that comes in April for 6 days. Fairness has left the building."

"Really, it was a collosal case of forgetting what my main course was. I made a macaroni salad."

"I was doing pretty well, till I broke a glass. It fell in the sink, so clean up was minimal, and it broke in large chunks. I've nicknamed myself Butterfingers in honor of the occasion."

"I have learned a very valuable lesson. One that I will be taking with me and passing on to my children in the hopes that they pass it on to theirs. And that lesson is: don't let dirty dishes sit for too long cuz they get funky as hell."

"Did you know if you leave milk in the bottom of the bowl you had Honey Bunches of Oats with almonds, it'll go from a liquid to a solid? I didn't know that!"

"But -- and this is going to sound super cheesy and right off the Lifetime television network -- despite all our ups and downs I'm glad we're still friends."

"Now I need to go hunt some lotion down. I have a roaring case of dishpan hands right now."

"Guess who has a huge case of midterm blahs?"

"I hope I'm not getting sick again, because I really don't have time for this."

"That's not the kind of news one likes to hear right before taking a test one has been freaking out about for 2 weeks."

"I'll just be the Little Spazztastic Engine That Could."

"The irony of all this stressing out about the two tests in this class is lately we've been talking about the meaningfulness of testing, what to test, what they really measure, and so forth. But you need to know it for the test. Lord help me if I become one of those teachers that is known as the Test Nazi or something."

"I'm definitely the "go out, kill it, bring it back" type."

"3 words: drunken frat boys. Ha! I kid, I kid. The sober ones are good too ::wink::"

"In my mother's words, "You have too much crap." Amen, mom. Amen. The best part is I get to channel Thom Filicia while I work. That makes me ridiculously happy!"

"It will warm up here in the sticks eventually."

"Such is the dilemma of a soon-to-be English teacher."

"Talking with him over dinner, I didn't want to beat him severely with a rusty pipe about the head and shoulders."

"On the bright side, yesterday was my birthday. And, in what seems to be the new trend, hardly anyone remembered."

"I've never been a nosy person, so asking things like "What's your favorite color" make me feel silly."

"How about digging in my heels, nope-can't-make-me, freaking out, paranoid slow?"

"To say that I'm a wreck is to say that Lewis Black might want to consult a doctor and get some Prozac (by the way, I love Lewis Black, so don't take that as a negative thing)."

"One of mom's sisters came by this morning and the dog went nuts, so who needs an alarm clock when you have a paranoid and very vocal toy poodle?"

"Honesty is better than nothing and even though a little voice in my head is currently yelling at me, I think I'd rather be honest with Mom and deal with her criticism than have deception bite me in the ass later."

"I feel like I'm in middle school again. But in that good, happy way."

"This test and the midterm are our only grades, so needless to say "freaking out" doesn't quite cover my feelings about this test."

"And, much to her disappointment, eventually (I hope) this relationship will progress to the point where "overnight visits" are standard operating procedure."

"When DBF was here, I sounded like I've been a 20 year smoker and one pack away from a trach ring."

"Question: is it hot?"

"So instead of going to Shakespeare like a good little educational automaton, we went and played mini golf."

"The kids were 4 and 2 at the time, at those cute ages where you want to encase them in celophane to preserve the Just Too Adorable-ness of it all."

"Apparently, all the other women in the area with size 10 feet had got all the cute shoes and left me with the Unwanted Shoes."

"I did, however, find out that the dress that I absolutely just have to have even though I have no where to wear it is on sale."