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Finals scare me

I really hope I'm stressing out over nothing, but I have this awful feeling that my finals are going to be as difficult as they are in my dreams. Yeah, I'm already having finals nightmares. I'm a dork. I wish I could just fast forward to Christmas and be done with it, but that's not going to happen so I'll stop wasting my time thinking about it. On a happier note, I got into all the classes I wanted at the times I wanted without having to bug my advisor. I still have to go talk to her about my A.P. credit mess, but at least I won't have to gravel this time. Have I ever mentioned how much I hate graveling? Maybe that's what I should ask Santa for- a year with no graveling. And world peace. And candy. The end.

I have a cold.

I have a cold and I'm sooo bored! I wanted to go to the Baylor game, or maybe go home, but I can't do anything until I get better. In the meantime I have the worst case of cabin fever ever. I keep driving through fast food places so that I can get out without actually "getting out," but it's really starting to show so I'm going to have to find something else to do. Today I actually had to lie down to get my fat jeans on. Yeah, I know, disgusting. Maybe I can go and just get a diet coke or something. Send suggestions and cold remedies if you know any.

On a happier note, my calculus and econ tests are over so I can relax a little more this weekend. Maybe with all that rest I'll feel up to going to Java Wesley and Halloween parties. I really don't want to miss anything and it's driving me crazy that I didn't get to do SOS last night. A whole week with no cute little kid quotes or stories to cheer me up, what am I going to do?

S.O.S. say what?!! Yay for my first night at S.O.S.! The kids were too cute and they were so good. I was prepared for craziness and these kids blew me away. I didn't hear anything disrespectful or very negative at all. The worst problem we had was that some of the kids were shy and a little hesitant to participate and for the first night I think that's pretty understandable. It was kind of hard for me to see the differences between these kids and kids in Katy and not want to go chew out their parents, but I guess I'll get used to it. Really, there is such a difference between the kids with "good" parents and the kids with absentee parents it would shock you. For example, one of my kindergarteners can read and write better than the third graders I met and he's way ahead of the first and second graders. When I asked one of the leaders about him they were just like "Oh, his mom works with him." I wish parents could come and see this. I don't know if it would make much difference to some of them, but to see that these kids have the ability and aren't being taught really upsets me. Oh, and I want to be clear that I don't think it should be up to the teachers to drag these kids through school. Time for my cliche of the day: you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.

Why do I start out all my posts with "ok" or "ok so"? How boring is that? I'll try to come up with something clever, or better yet why doesn't someone else write something clever and send it to me.