PIXIES CONCERT!

Pixies concert is tonight! I am sooo psyched! My friend Genny and I are going! I can't wait! AHHHHHHHHHH!

I have A LOT to do today though:
-wake up at 7:00
-commute downtown
-go to the Clare at 8:45
-interviews for ethnography until 2:30
-commute back to lakeshore
-interview for assistant newspaper editor at 4:00
-get ready for the concert: print off ticket!
-CONCERT!!!!!!!!!!!

Breakfast:
1 banana
1 spinach wrap with eggwhites, mushroom, spinach, and cheese
12 oz. carolina honey tea...

Lunch:
1 serving cobb salad (romaine, tomato, egg, bleu cheese, avocado, and dressing)
1 piece of bread with butter

Dinner: planned
1 smoothie

Water:
40+ oz.

Exercise:
old people exercise class, walking
concert
100+ crunches
up and down 14 flights of stairs

Love In a Trashcan

To do: November 19th, 2009
-wake up at 8:00
-go to Spanish
-meeting with Eric
-go to ethics
-go to politics
-work out
-turn in surveys
-RA meeting
-dinner with my RA friends
-homework, homework, homework
-prepare for interview tomorrow

Breakfast:
1 cup mulgrain cheerios (110) (1.5 g fat)
1 medium skim latte (130)
1 banana (110)

Lunch:
1 cup yogurt (140) (1.5)
1 cup soup (80) (2 g. fat)

Snack:
1 apple (55)
1 naked juice (230)
1 fiber one bar (140) (3 g. fat)

Dinner:
1 serving eggplant (116) (7 g. fat)
1 serving brocolli (75)
1 serving beets (50)
1 cookie (210) (9 g. fat)
1 small scone (310) (13 g. fat)

Water:
40+ oz.

Exercise:
100+ crunches
up and down 14 flights of stairs
30 mins. on treadmill (-430)

Total:  1766-430 = 1336 calories, 37 g. fat

Restless

I can't go to sleep. It's a combination of various things... stress/anxiety, too much caffeine, and worrying about the little things in life instead of looking at the big picture. I can't wait until next week when I get a break from all of this. I can't even tell everyone what has happened about this situation on my floor because it is too confidential and very very upsetting. It happened last Thursday but it's still a big issue on campus. There's so much gossip/rumors.
Not to mention my residents won't shut up even though I write them up and tell them to be quiet. They're so disrespectful. And the survey results present ME in a bad light. At least there are a few residents who appreciate me. This job is so stressful at times... especially now. I have to keep telling myself it wasn't my fault and there's nothing I could have done that would've helped the situation. It's in the past and nothing is going to change now. Still, here I am at 12:30 am after tossing and turning for an hour in bed. I wake up, crave coffee, drift through class, come back to my dorm room and I am so lazy about starting homework. I used to be motivated. What happened? I do a lot when I look back on it, but going through the motions is so painful it seems like it's taking forever to get everything finished. I am not doing so well in school. I am getting two Cs: photography and ethics. Photography is no excuse! I am good at photography and the teacher just doesn't like my work I guess. Ethics, I have unfortunately not done so well on the exams and quizzes. I study though. I want this semester to be over. I am not liking it at all. There have been some good times, but mostly I just need to work on self-improvement and goals for next semester. But I still have a month exactly until Christmas break.

I can't wait for Thanksgiving though! That's another reaosn why I couldn't sleep: I was hungry. I didn't exactly have 535 calories. I ate a banana (110) and yogurt (140) and a handful of cheerios. Not bad--- very healthy. I needed the energy after the workout. But while in bed, I kept thinking about pumpkin pie and turkey and all those delicious yet disgustingly fattening and high-calorie foods. I found out on the news that the average American consumes 4500 calories on Thanksgiving. Yuck! Hopefully I only eat half (or less) of that. Anyway, I'm also excited to see my boyfriend (I miss him and it's only been five days!) and my family! I have a love/hate relationship with my family. At times, I love them a lot and I really look forward to seeing them and then at other times, I just can't stand their voices and the way they treat me.
My birthday is on December 5th too. The weekend before finals. I'll be 20. Yes, I have two weeks left of being a teenager. It's very strange. I feel very old. My dad is coming out to visit me but I kind of hope my family has a birthday celebration for me at home like last year. Last year I got carrot cake on Thanksgiving (YUM! CARROT CAKE IS MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE!). I also LOVE putting up Christmas decorations on my birthday. I hope my dad gets the tree over Thanksgiving break and we can decorate it!
Also, I NEVER crave listening to Christmas music before Thanksgivign.. but for some strange reason I really am this year! I listened to it on Tuesday and it put a HUGE smile on my face.

I am thankful I haven't gotten sick this year. With this H1N1 flu along with the normal flu and the common cold, I am surprised that I haven't come down with anything yet. I usually catch things so easily. My immune system is pretty weak. But I think since I take Vitamin C and I try to eat as healthy as possible and take a multivitamin, that it's strengthening my immune system.

It's been such a long time

Why am I so lazy???? I can never seem to get motivated to do anything. Shit what the hell am I talking about? I do a shit-ton but I dont know? I feel weird....

To do: November 18
-wake up at 7:30
-commute downtown
-inteviewing class
-commute to lakeshore
-photography, proposal due
-work out
-shower
-research for ethics
-spanish meeting
-tunnel of oppression 8-9
-ethics meeting at 9

Breakfast:
1 cup dry multigrain cheerios (110) (1.5 g. fat)
1 small skim latte (90)
1 serving raisins (150)

Lunch:
2 slices country hearth wheat bread (160) (2 g. fat)
1 chicken breast (120) (1.5 g. fat)
1 slice muenster cheese (100) (9 g. fat)
with avocado (35) (4 g. fat)
1 apple

Dinner:
1 fiber one bar (140) (3 g. fat)
1 serving raisins (130)

Water:
40+ oz

Exercise:
100+ crunches
up and down 14 flights of stairs
30 mins. on treadmill (-450)

Total: 1035-450 = 585 calories, 21 g. fat

Things to do, people to see

More to do! OH! I registered for classes for next semester yesterday! I got all the classes I wanted. Here it is:
Monday/Wednesday:
Layout and Editing (Downtown): 10:00-11:15
Writing For the Web (Downtown): 1:00-2:15

Tuesday/Thursday:
Intro to Fiction (Lakeshore): 10:00-11:15
International Politics (Lakeshore): 11:30-12:45
Modern Art History (Lakeshore): 2:30-3:45

Soooo last night's dinner was not exactly a pack of sushi. Haha. Instead I went to a really fancy dinner with one of the residents at a high end retirement facility. I am doing an ethnography on retirement homes. MMMM my dinner was delicious! A house salad, a half a roll with a tiny bit of butter, salmon, creamed spinach, rice pilaf, and fruit for dessert. I think I did pretty well considering I only had half the roll and I chose salmon over gnocchi and beef. And fruit over an ice cream sundae! Soo.... it was delicious! Yet expensive; $26! And I just met the lady today. These folks are loaded!

To do: November 17, 2009
-wake up at 7:15
-study
-Spanish class, quiz
-work out
-shower
--ethics class
-poltics class
-soup kitchen? if time...
-edit/print RA paper and photography proposal  
-research for ethics class
-on duty at 7, office. 10 and 12 rounds

Breakfast:
1.5 cups dry multigrain cheerios (165) (2.5 g. fat)
1 medium latte (130)

Lunch:
1 fiber one bar (140) (3 g. fat)
1 apple (55)

Snack:
1 special K bar (90) (2 g. fat)
1 serving raisins (250)

Dinner:
1 pack of sushi (360) (5 g. fat)

Water:
40+ oz.

Exercise:
100+ crunches
up and down 14 flights of stairs
35 mins. on treadmill (-450)

Total: 1190-450 = 740 calories, 11 g. fat