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Hooray it’s blog 69! Right now I am watching Losers with my boyfriend Drew. I never heard of it before today but it’s actually a pretty good movie. It’s an action movie but it also has romance and comedy. What more can you ask for? My big black lab Buddy is curled up on the bed and bein’ super cute. I had to do two labs in one lab period today but I hauled ass and got everything I needed to done (yay me!). I lost the earring from my cartilage piercing two days ago so I went to the mall yesterday and got a new one. I really like it; it’s a spiraled sterling silver ring with spike ends. Only problem is, they only had a certain size left. So it’s a little bit big for my ear and it hurts because I had to gauge it in order to wear it. The cartilage hurts a lot worse to gauge than the lobe. I accidentally smacked it when I was brushing my hair and I screamed sooo loud. My   boyfriend has an xbox that he used to share with his little brother. His brother added a bunch of little kids as friends on xbox live so now they send Drew voice messages. It’s always so funny listening to these voice messages little kids leave. They do weird things like sing or yell “Invite me to that battle please Please PLEASE!” And back to this movie, some crazy stuff just happened. The good guy accidentally killed the other good guys father who was going to stop all of these nuclear bombs from going off. Well I’m gunna go watch it so night! J

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We hit a lot of traffic driving to New Jersey. Holiday traffic is always stop and go, which gets really tiring after hours on end. Also, semi’s don’t seem to understand the fact that they cannot drive side by side and slow down miles of traffic behind them. However irritating this was, my dad, brother and I did get to see some cool stuff. My father pointed out Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania (we drove over the bridge). The little island has a giant previously nuclear power plant sitting on top of it. Years ago this power plant was in danger of blowing up and gave America a pretty huge scare (I’m sure we’ve all read about it in history by now). We also got to see all of the mountain scenery, especially in West Virginia. Giant red, black, and grey jagged rocks towered over the car and led up into a forest atop the mountain. I noticed that the deer painted on the deer signs in West Virginia are much bigger than in all of the other states! That’s because the deer there really are a lot bigger. So that was really cool, but then we saw something even crazier. There was a dead mountain lion sitting on the side of the road. Traffic was so slow we got to inch past it and get a good look. The thing was just a huge hairy beast with black markings on its face, huge paws, and a long thick tail. As an animal lover, I felt really bad seeing it lying there on the side of the road. I felt like such a powerful majestic creature should be laid to rest in the woods in its own habitat. It didn’t look like it had been hit by a car, more likely shot by a hunter. Anyway, my dad obviously refused to let me go touch it, so that was that. It was a really intense thing to see though.

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This is my blog for Sunday! I’m going to have to do all of these early because I have a ridiculous amount of other homework and family events to deal with also. Forgive me if these get boring, but I have stuff to do. Sunday I am going to begin the ten hour venture from New Jersey back to Ohio, and simply won’t have the time or energy to write these. The journey consists of an hour trip through New Jersey, a five to six hour trip through Pennsylvania, an hour trip through West Virginia, and a three hour trip through Ohio. I also just recently found out that Wiz Khalifa is from Pennsylvania, so I listened to his music all the way through Penn. State (my dad was very unhappy). I also figured out that when I made the trip alone last summer it only seemed to take me about 7 to 8 hours. However when I go with my dad and brother, it always takes at least ten. Part of that is because I never make rest stops and they make at least two, in which they of course have to eat and lounge. The second reason is because my father drives incredibly slower than I do. He goes exactly the speed limit if not less, and he stays in the right lane like a good driver. I have nothing against that. I don’t use the same driving tactics. If I am on the same highway for literally seven hours, I am going to stay in the middle if not left lane, and for the majority of the time it is almost guaranteed that I am going ten miles of the speed limit. Granted, this is only if I have a broad view of traffic and hills in front of me, and there isn’t much traffic. Either way that’s a whole two or three hours I cut off the trip!

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Can anyone please tell me what the hell we are doing in English? I know I have a group, that showed up in my buckeye email. I also know what paper we are looking at because it is attached. The packet says that our individual memos are to be done by Sunday. Is this the individual memo that we should be writing about the paper our group received? If so, aren’t we supposed to email these memos out to our group members by this Sunday? It doesn’t specify in the packet. So here’s my plan since I don’t know what’s going on. I’m going to read this paper she sent me, write a memo about that, then look through blogger .com to try and find the people who are my teammates. Maybe we can contact each other that way. Also, it says something about printing each other’s memos out and making changes to them. Is there any reason why we are doing this over thanksgiving break? I have to go find a printer somewhere in New Jersey now because my poor Gram doesn’t have one. Apparently my last memo wasn’t up to par, so I redid it and resubmitted it but got no feedback. I’m not sure if this new one will be any better, especially since I wrote my last one using the exact format that one of the CP samples used. Oh Ohio State University, you have complicated yet another one of my intended peaceful weekends. Booooooo.

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Despite my sickness, I am still expected to drive the ten hours to New Jersey to visit family. My dad has an irrepressible knack for guilting the hell out of me until I have to do something. Reasons for not going? 1. I’m too tired; I’ve had a very stressful past couple of weeks and just want to relax. 2. I am now very sick and don’t know if I can even be confined to a car for an hour, much less 10 hours. 3. Now that I have received all of the wonderful homework for break (I already had a lot), I will basically be doing homework for the entire break. My dad’s response is, “You’re selfish and you’re gram is going to die if you don’t go see her now. You don’t have time to mess around she is very old and there will be no second chance.” After hearing something like that and considering that consequence, how could I not go? Sick or not, I know if that happened I would just be miserable as hell and hate myself for not going. So now I am going to wake up at 7am, go to the two lectures I have that my doctor has strictly ordered me not to go to, and then drive home to Dad’s house so that I can get in another car by 1pm and start the 10 hour journey to New Jersey, during which he expects me to drive most of the way because I am younger. Then once I get there I am going to continuously and monotonously work on chemistry, English, and math almost the entire time I am there. I will get frustrated and upset, and won’t be any fun during the festivities. I don’t really even have any idea what we are doing in English. The packet isn’t clear.

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When I started getting really sick I panicked. I was already leaving an hour later than usual and stuck in traffic. I was missing a very important lab. I honestly don’t even know how I was managing to drive. This lab would literally make or break my grade in chemistry. I somehow found Dr. Tatz number and hysterically explained my situation to him. He was perfectly reasonable, told me to go home and that I was crazy for driving, and that I could do both labs next Tuesday. Slightly relieved, I settled down and slowly drove home. Once I was back in town I immediately went to the doctor, where they told me I had a very bad case of the flu, prescribed me medicine, and told me not to go to school for three days including today. Now, Dr. Tatz said he would handle things. Dr. Tatz, who is my T.A’s boss. I get home from the doctor to find a nasty email from my T.A. about how I didn’t come to class (as if I was actually skipping) and how she was going to fail not one but two of my lab grades as punishment. She also ranted about how the entire class didn’t do lab 7 correctly when the directions were obviously unclear (hence the entire class not understanding, idiot). So of course all I could do was politely respond that I had spoken with her superior and he had directed me not to come to lab and that everything would be ok. An apology? No, none. I’m just another number, not a real person. Then I get the ever so lovely email that I had to get my ass back to campus by 8pm to pick up my English packet, no excuses. So I had my poor friend drive me because I couldn’t drive. Luckily my math teacher just assigned me more homework and left it at that. He was even polite (shocker). I hope to God my T.As next quarter is not so self-consumed.