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| This past semester sucked. I managed to pass all my classes but I had been working on this project as an internship. Last December or November my advisor asked me if I would be interested in putting an herb garden in the arboretum. It would be paid for 75 hours. I figured 75 hours spread over 14 weeks wouldn't really be that bad. It should have only been 5-6 hours a week. I also thought it was going to be mostly manual labor.
The semester starts and it turns out I'm supposed to plan it all out. I'd never really planned out a garden before but I thought I could handle it. I started going through these lists looking for seeds to go in the garden based on the kinds of plants she wanted. I ended up giving it to her. Then the waiting began. There was administrative issues in getting a hold of the money to order the seeds. Classes got into full swing and my attention was elsewhere. Next thing I know I'm supposed to be planting. My advisor told me to work on it after 1 and that this other girl would be there after 2 to help. I thought that also meant that she would be the one to help me figure out where stuff was in the green house. I got in trouble for being late since I showed up closer to 2. We couldn't work that day anyway cause we didn't have any dirt to play with. A few weeks later I was in trouble for not watering. I didn't know I was supposed to. I had thought someone else was doing it. There was this string of misunderstandings and mess ups. Toward the end, when half the seeds didn't sprout we got plants from a local nursury. I was supposed to do that originally but I didn't know that. I planted what we got from there, but the beds were still pretty empty. At that point my advisor asked the woman for what ever she could give us. So I was planting things without a whole lot of knowledge about what I was getting. Did not end well at all.
The last day of school rolls around. I woke up at 5:30 because someone pulled the fire alarm. Going on 4.5 hours of sleep I ate what was left of my chinese, packed a bit and then headed out. Worked in the garden till about 10 and then I went and took care of last minute errands. At this point I'm feeling pretty good. Everything we've gotten so far is planted. The plan was me and this other girl were going to meet up at 10:30 on main street, eat, and then go get the rest of the plants. I forgot my wallet so I waited until I got back from the nursury to eat. That was about 1:30. At 2:00 my advisor showed up and pretty much told me I had done nothing right and needed to pull everything out and replant it. I did the best I could but that was over 4 days worth of work. My parents helped me. After the car was packed we stayed out in the garden past 7:30. Banged my leg up on the guard rail at one point. It bruised pretty bad. When we left town it was 9 and well after dark. Half the plants weren't in the ground but there was nothing I could really do about it. Planting in a wooded area after dark wasn't safe or productive. I felt really bad about it too.
We head out and a while later stop at a rest station. This is when I discover I've gotten blisters from my underwear. Really, you'd think we'd have a way to avoid this things by now. After that we drove home. I dozed a bit in the backseat. I think I actually feel asleep too. I never manage to do that, not even on long car rides out of the state. I took off my boots at one point and it stuck up the whole car. Mom didn't want to believe it was my shoes. We get home and I grabbed my tooth brush and floss. Everything else was gonna stay in the car. I get inside and go to the bathroom. This is when I discovered there was a tick sucking on that brusie on my leg. Icing on the cake right? Nope, I go to my room and unearth my bed. I had left a lot on it the past weekend including clean laundry. Turns out someone had used my pillow as a litterbox. 
After sorting that out I konked out. The rest of my week was good. I've hung out with Sean and lot and caught up on my sleep. I had been really behind. I was a bit snappythe night we all got together at his house. I was probably still tired. I'm doing better now though. Hopefully, tomorrow I can finish unpacking. Yesterday we went in to Annapolis with his family. I saw some candles I'd like to go back for if possible. We'll see.
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| School sucks. Really and truely it does. I'm hanging on by a thread in 3 of my classes and I really don't like it. On top of that i have a massive project, a test I absolutely can't do badly on, a book report, and internship stuff all going on at once. FAB is getting on my back too. Haven't gotten any knitting done and 2 weeks and now I have sunburn.
This is why you guys haven't heard much from me. Crazyness everywhere.
Gave blood on Thursday->Work in sun for 2.5 hours->Work other job 4.5 hours->Sleep->classs->Food->Work 2.5 hours in sun->Work 4.5 hours->Sleep->Homework->Food->Homework->Work in sun 3.5 hours->Food
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| Today was one hell of a day. Woke up shortly before 8, had some oatmeal. After than I puttered for maybe an hour. From 9-10:30 I did math homework. Then it was lunch time. I went and ate as soon as the cafe opened because this weekend was an open house. It was really fricken crowded, even at that hour. Certainly won't be the case tomorrow.
From 11-till 12:40 I worked on more math. After that I met with people from the knitting group to do a yarn exchange. No one wanted the yarn I took but I got a few scraps. Mostly stuff that was too small for the sort of projects the others do. I got back to the dorm around 2:15. Girls Scouts met at 2:30 to work on stuff for Thinking day tomorrow. Left that at 3:30. Made it back to the dorm 7 minutes before I was supposed to be at work. Got there late but no one cared since I wasn't supposed to work today originally. I don't think anyone noticed.
I got off work around 7:45 and picked up some milk. Splurged on some reese's cups too. Now I should be studying but my nose is acting up. I don't want to take any cold medicine now though cause I don't want it to make me fall asleep before I want to or keep me away. Bugger
Tomorrow and Monday won't be much better.
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| I felt I needed to post something. Don't know what though. Aside from this weekend, all I do is homework, work, and running around. Today we played with pick chemicals in chemistry. That was fun. If it had been a concentrated solution I would have burned myself about three times and set fire to the lab at least once. But it wasn't, so it's all good.
Had meetings all over the place this evening. I was carrying my dinner around for an hour before I could eat it. I still have a paper to write. Don't like philosophy papers. 5-6 pages of bullshitty goodness.
This would be so much more coherent if I could breath through my nose and got more than 5 hour of sleep last night. T'was really less than that. Fricken rugby air butts. I shall pop them. Air will spread out quickly with a fair bit of force. Yay! Pretty!
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Oh, and I dyed my hair a bit red.
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| I have a spacebar once more! Now I just have to get used to this new keyboard. The really cool thing is that even though it has to use up one of the USB ports on my computer, I actually gain one with this thing. It has two on it and is almost indentical to the ones we used in Desktop Publishing over at CAT-South. The only difference is that it's green. And by green, I mean Drew's pant's green. The only thing I don't like about this keyboard is that it's so clicky. I do a fair bit of typing in the morning before my room mate wakes up and I dont think she's going to like this. I'll have to learn how to type quietly on here and probably cut my nails. A fair bit of the noise is them scratching on the keys.
It's been a fairly quiet day otherwise. Woke up to some really weird dream about going to walmart to get honey for the frogs I was living with honey. There was this scary bridge too. No idea what that was about. Why would I be living with frogs and what to they want honey for? To attract bugs or something? I had pop tarts for breakfast, but I'm pretty sure a certain furball stole half of one. After that I did dishes, took care of Valentines Day stuff, and read for a while. Now I'm waiting to see if I get to watch more avatar today. I hope so. ::puppy eyes::
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