2010 clean slate

One of my resolutions this year was to be better about recording what I did during the day, so that when I write it down and see it in front of me, I can see how I've spent my time. Doing this, I hope to not spend so much time procrastinating with school work or wasting my time on useless activities. I think blogging is a fine way to spend time, so I don't feel guilty about this.

I am back to school and loathing my courses (excluding Swedish and Psychology). We continued the same term, which we started 5 weeks before Christmas vacation. My Art History professors don't make any effort to get me interested in their classes and, therefore, I have completely lost interest in the subject. Thankfully, I'm at a liberal arts college where introducing students to new areas of study is the norm, and I have found Swedish (which I absolutely love) and Psychology, a new-found interest which I hope to make my minor study.

As far as school goes, I have a lot of deciding to do in the next couple of months as far as trying to schedule everything into the 4 terms I have left at Augie. Not to mention, I have money to save and things to organize before leaving the country for Sweden for 6 weeks starting May 30th. This trip is very exciting to me, but as I learn more information and the date grows closer, I am getting nervous about traveling so far and for so long. I will certainly miss my friends and my family while I'm away, but I think that it's an experience I will not want to pass up.

School is my least favorite topic so I think I will move on to something of more interest to me. Today, my only class (for Tuesday/Thursday schedule) got canceled, and I didn't have work. I did some reading in my current book, Dear John by Nicholas Sparks (Maggie hates that I am reading this, but I want to see the movie, so I have to read the book first!), and then I went out for dinner with Laura and Gisela. They convinced me to leave my phone number for our waiter, but he never called. Oh well, it was funny and a good memory to share with my girlfriends. Later, I saw "Youth In Revolt", a new movie with Michael Cera, who I loved in "Superbad", with Kirsten and Laura, but I didn't love the movie as much as I anticipated. Good thing Tuesdays at 53 are only $6.00. A good day to try out a new movie. At the movie theatre I saw one of my customers from Von Maur, she was on a date and they hadn't decided which movie to see yet. I told her she should see Avatar, and she said that since I was so good at selling shoes, she believed me when I said the movie was good, so they saw that. I hope she liked it.

Tomorrow I have school all day and work. I am not looking forward to the long day, but today was so easy and fun that I don't think it will be too bad.

A couple of side notes:
- I finally have a working car again, thanks to one of my mom's friends :)
- Maggie and I started a puzzle. It's the perfect way to end an evening.
- I am completely ready for it to be Summer.


More tomorrow, Janie.