Well, two weeks of school are now complete! Time flies. I have more homework that is nice to give at this point in the semester and 90 percent of it comes from Nieber's class! The dork! You'd think he'd realize that he is not the only prof we have. I can't believe how much time he's making us put into lab and homework for his class. Then ontop of that, I have a rhetoric class which wants a bunch of writing to happen. Ecology had reading to do, and so does safety. Senior design is just loads of work. I don't care though. I have a life for once this semester, well I did last semester too, but it was mostly just a weekend life, and this life is an all the time life, and I'm not giving it up!


So two weeks is a short amount of time, but with everything that has happened, I feel like it's mid-semester already! Here's to crazy lives, I'll sleep when I'm dead!

"If wishes were horses, then dreamers would ride,
But, that's not for me 'cause life passes wishers by.
Life's an adventure, you've gotta try something new...
I opened the door to my heart, and you walked into the room."
...
~~~Tricia, January, 2003~~~

Goodbye, Tracker. How I enjoyed you and your ability to know who came to my site. Though you were a usefull friend and I am saddened to part with you, it must be done. You have caused to many runtime errors in your day, and always in mulitiples of three. So, to thee, I say, goodbye, and goodluck tracking other peoples traffic. :(

Second day of classes is over, and yet more homework was given. I have to work on it, but I think I'll take a nap or something first. I have to clean the house again, and I have to work on work for work...(wow, yeah...um, wow), I was up late last night working on my journal, which I've promised myself I would write in everyday even if it's to say "I'm tired and can't write more than these words".

My whole body aches. I was skating last night, and I am good at falling! I think i managed to bruise something vital. I woke up this morning very sore. It was the good kind of sore though. The kind where you are happy to be achy cause you know that you were working out and getting in shape. (the bruises are pride wounds, and I'm happy about each of them! And yes, I realize I'm a bit off my rocker for thinking this!) I'm going to go skating again tonight, even though it is more than a little cold! It will make me stronger. And I will probably fall even more. This time though, I will have done 10, count them, 10 turns from frontwards to backwards off of my left skate in a clockwise direction!!!. (I'm not all that specific, really) I am going to work on stopping on my left skate too. I don't ask for much. Speed skating and power turns will probably be worked on as well. Not that you care what I'm goign to work on, or the play by play of my cold evening outdoors, but it's my blog and I can write what I want!

So far, classes are nice. Senior design won't be as hectic, Neiber's Water Management Engineering seems to be a lot of stuff I've seen before, and Ecology has a cool prof and not to hard of material, even though it's a lot of reading. I don't know about Rhetoric yet....we'll see from 5:30 to 8PM tomorrow night! I talked to Prof. Shutske about the Safety and Ethics Special Problems for 3 credits I'm taking with him, and we'll meet mondays from 1-2:30 so that is nice, only an hour and a half and it will probably be really independent. A few others from the dept. are going to take it with me so we can facilitate discussions and the like. Should be interesting and fun (I hope). So, this semester isn't going to be as bad as I feared. Oh, I'm sure that it won't go as fast as I want it to, and way faster than it should, but that happens every semeseter, expecially in spring. I can't believe I'll be done in 2 semesters. I think I'll pull the blankets over my head, and shut out the world. I don't want to think about a real joba nd a non college apartment and the rest of my life at this point. It's depressing. So I'll just pretend I'll be a student with my summers off forever as long as I can.

Well, I'm in a writing mood and I have so much I could say, but I think I have written enough for right now. I am going to work on some poetry, and see if I can't figure out the last two lines of lyrics that I wrote down...somewhere,...and I know the idea of, but just can't THINK of right now!!!. There is also a new poem or song floating about my head just itching to be written on paper. I'll keep you updated.

First day = complete!!!

It went rather well, and fast, and I know it will get harder. I got homework today! SUCK! I don't like homework and not on the first day. I have done that kind of plroblem before, hydrology, soil analysis water stuff, but grrr, I don't want to do it yet. I think I'm going to go ice skating here in a bit. It's cold, but it will be a good workout and I want to workout! I gots to go get ready for that.
Later!

It's the night before classes begin, and I'm really confused. I don't feel like classes are going to start tomorrow. There is none of that anticipation, the feeling that something new and different is about to happen. There is no picking out my outfit for tomorrow, no caring who new will be in my classes. None of it. I suppose I've been so busy these last two weeks with work and friends that I just didn't notice the day sneaking up on me, but it'd be pretty hard to miss. I think I've begun to reach my school saturation level. This is a bad thing. I usually get this way about 3/4 way into a semester not the first day. I'll have to make sure I work hard at school and don't let my grades slip at all. I have a lot to get done this semester, and maybe that is why I feel this way. I have senior design to finish, and I feel that it will be hard to do. I have my Rhet class to work on, and I have an IDL class I have three months to finish, and I won't have too much of my weekends to work with. I have a directed studies class which will be much out of class work. I still have 4 jobs I'm working at and between them I'll be putting in about 30 hours of work a week. Good for money, bad for studies. I also have a couple groups of people who I'm friends with who differing things on the weekend and I have to be able to do all of them! I go to shows with Chris and other people we both know. I go to hockey games with Beth and other people we know, and Now I go climbing and skating with Will and Lance and Erin. Then there is hanging with the roommates, and chilling with Katie when I go visit her, which I will this semester, and chillin in Green Bay with people there, and I have to get to Madison this semester, and there are other people here in the cities that I chill with. I know that if I'm not careful I'll end up burning out this semester.

So here's to this semester, may it be good, and great, and may I find the time to get everything done! Happy Tuesday everyone!

Well, I am supposed to write about what I did over the last month so here it is:
At home:
Slept a bunch. I hung out with Katie all the time wich was super cool. We finished our game of Baulder's Gate on PS2 and then worked on our Baulder's Gate 2 game on PC. I saw the family a bunch over the few days around Christmas time. For New Years Katie and I went to Hinterland Brewery to listen to Scotty play, and then we met Joe and went back to my place, nothing exciting happened. I went climbing twice and Rachel was up for the last weekend.

Here:
Working mostly. I can't believe I've been back and working for a week and a half. At the PCA mostly, but I did put in about 5 hrs at the helpline (ooh five hours) I know I know (I'm actually typing this from the helpline cause I can't seem to find any other time to make entries). I have a busy week. I worked from 8-8 on Monday and Wed. Tuesday I went out, Thursday I'm going out, though where and with who I'm not yet certain. Friday I'm going out, Saturday I'm going out, and Sunday I'm not sure again. Monday is a holiday and so I don't have to go to work (yay!!!) and then Tuesday is the first day of class :(

I have been climbing a lot more lately. I'm really excited. I liked climbing before this year, but I lost my climbing group, so until just now I haven't really been doing that much. But I'm back at it, and have been building up my hand strength and getting better. Erin climbs now, so I can climb with her when we're both in GB and around here otherwise.

Spring semester starts on Tuesday, in some ways I'm not ready for it, but in others...it's time. I have a year left, and I'd rather just like to start. There are only 15 weeks in this semseter, and I forsee it going very very fast. I have 4 classes that I'm going to be in, and two that I don't have to actually go to, but I have to finish. I have three jobs for sure that are going to occupy a lot of time, and people to see and concerts to go too. I am going to be one busy Tricia! That is it for now, I have to leave work and go get the cleaning done at home, and then go to THE BED!

Sweet Dreams

OK, so it's been almost a month. I finished finals and then went home for break, and then I came back, and it's already wednesday and I haven't updated. I plan to talk about what I did over break and what classes I'm taking and what things I did for fun soon, but I don't have time just yet. So for now. I'm back, I'm alive, and I'll be writing a lot more in the future. Look for updates on yet another blog...coming soon:)