All smiles!

Hey everyone! Thanks so muh for all the love yesterday! I am pretty sure I did well on the exam! It was tough but it for sure didn't swallow me whole! Y'all are the greatest blog friends out there! For real! I am so thankful to have y'all... This small little family has such a big heart and I am so blessed to have y'all around! Anyways I hope everyone is having a great Thursday!

What did everyone give up for lent? I chose fast food(aka drive through joints which exempts bruggers and starbucks)


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survival of the fit with a little fist pumping on the side.

i am not a morning person...or a night owl... and this week i have been both.  i have successfully stayed up until 3AM or later (last night-5AM) every night this week!  not only stayed up late, but gotten up at 7:45 AM too! there are only 2 tests scheduled this week... so i really don't remember how i got through weeks when i had 3 in the same day!

Why does it always seem to happen like this? 

Life just gets going, i get caught up in it, and just it just keeps getting faster and faster.  i know i will crash eventually...

Has anyone ever felt like this?  

 

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my body really is for real running on Dunkin right now and any other coffee shop's crack coffee i can get my hands on! 

hopefully it won't be before this exam i have at 1:30 today... and it is for that class that the professor accused me of cheating, and then tweeted about it! he has tweeted about the case study he made up for the exam though... i wonder if that's cheating?  maybe he will tweet the questions of the exam too! probably not because according to J he is surpassed the title of D-bag and now is known as D-Lord when spoken about in our presence.  Needless to say, i feel that this exam may just jump up out of Hell and swallow me whole!

on a brighter note, at younglife tomorrow night we are doing a Jersey Shore Skit about hair styling... this could be interesting! maybe blonde guidettes will become all the rage and fist pumping will come over the whole east coast!

week

 Tuesday night i ended up hanging out with three of my lovely high school friends k, a & s.  we went to Chili's.  one thing these ladies did was leave a note for our waiter. My first thoughts consisted of: creepy, weird, he's way too old for y'all, etc. etc. but then they told me that they do it for every waiter they have.  They think it is a nice way for a waiter to know how much they were appreciated since being a waiter/waitress is an exhausting job.  I though it was so sweet!

for those of you who follow me on twitter, you may have seen that i was wrongly accused of cheating on a homework, yes a homework assignment by one of my professors! Not to mention that he posted about it on his PUBLIC twitter account, I mean jeez! so that was not a fun thing to deal with this week, but i will say that all is well!

Last night preston and i went on a date to pei wei (top 5 restaurants).  we picked up some awesome work clothes for him for his "business casual" days at school, then proceeded to the gym.  Now let me preface this by saying that i am not a good runner...but terribly wish i had endurance to do things like run/bike/swim.  cheerleading did me in and short sprints of working out are more my style.  but last night i rode the bike for 33 minutes! and i went 11.68 miles! i have never in my life gone that far in a work out! i was so proud of myself! I may have looked extremely slightly ridiculous though, because i had a rockin playlist and was dancing & singing to keep me entertained.

anyways, sorry for the long post.  I do that a lot, and i am working on shortening them... but if you got all the way here good for you. If not, i forgive you! but if you do get all the way down here let me know what you think of this: I was considering doing a confessions thread of posts.  maybe every other week or something posting things i have done to confess them, and if people wanted to e-mail me theirs as well, we could all get a good laugh out of what each other has done... thoughts? let me know!

oh me oh my!

a special thanks to Laura Loo, Jennifer and Katy Mary for the advice on the friendship ordeal. just an update... she invited me to go rock climbing (something i absolutely love, even though i am super scared of heights) on friday but i can't make it.  so hopefully we will be able to get coffee soon and catch up... i'll let you know if anything changes.

as for now, it is only tuesday but it is the stress of a thursday. 

Dear College professors,

why do you find joy in making impossible syllabuses, when you know how much time goes into a full course load of classes. and then continue to add assignments that aren't on the syllabus just for fun.  it isn't cool.  it makes my body stress out, and i get overwhelmed. college professors, you frustrate me sometimes. today is one of those days.

love,

alexandria

*lets go wolfpack!*

btw

(this post may be long, it will be like three days packed into one!)

over the past few months of doing this, i have grown to love it! blogging that is. you ladies mean so much to me, and i love checking up on what you all are doing! it may be silly, but i feel like i have accomplished something with my 28 followers who are so sweet and genuine! it is like a little family for my little growing blog...and i love it, every second of it.  although i do get a little overwhelmed when my reader shows i have 50 unread posts from all the your fabulous blogs i read! but i just wanted to make sure all you ladies realized how much i truly care about you and how much you all mean to me!

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now back to the obsession general liking of other blogs. i have a problem. especially this semester.

i only have one class out of all five of them where i don't have my computer open...so that means that in all four of the others, i have blogs open constantly. my friends think that all i do is blog/read blogs but i promise i pay attention sometimes! like this instance today in our shakespeare class...(still not sure why i am still enrolled in this little gem)

professor: rambling about how the word "expense" in sonnet 129 is equal to orgasm and how shakespeare was probably gay, had an affair with not only some high status young male, but a black lady as well.  oh and he didn't live with his wife... we learned all of this about him by reading the sonnets.
me: This may be a stupid question, but how long did it take him to write these sonnets? They seem pretty complicated.
professor: basically speaking french with the occasional condescending: "a 7th grader with a decent vocabulary can figure these out, they are so simple and straight forward" blah blah blah (not answering my question) continues to blab.
c: (speaking to my friend j) i have no clue what's going on, how did alex know what was going on, i thought all she was planning on doing in here was blog?
j: (speaking to c) me too, since when does she pay attention in class?
me: (in my mind) why are you still talking about how anyone can understand what shakespeare is writing when i asked how long it took him to write them?
professor: did i answer your question? good.
me: .... (maybe blogging is the better alternative to attempting to learn shakespeare)

so essentially what i learned today in class is that shakespeare is really hard to understand unless you break it down bit by bit with a college professor who is obsessed with it. but really, who has hours upon hours to do this? we only got through 10 of the 154 sonnets in two class periods which = 3 hours total... really shakespeare? fact: obviously you didn't write that to the point if it takes that long to break them down and get the meaning down....

back to reality. i have had a really hard time keeping up with everyone's blogs recently because i have been trying to learn shakespeare, pr, more pr, writing and food science...but i pinky promise i will finish reading them all by the end of next week! 

tomorrow (or i guess, technically, today) i am leaving to go skiing with younglife.  we will be back late saturday night which will be followed by a short and sweet hang out with preston and an overnight babysitting job from sunday to monday. so i will be back probably monday.

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but i thought this would be fun-

how about leaving some questions for me to answer? 

anything is game, i'll answer it. pinky promise. ask one or as many as you'd like!

2nd award

so lots going on! today has truly been a busy day!

so anyways an update on the outfit... i did steal my friends camera today and took a pic of my feet

then tonight since i am just totally self absorbed, i made my dad take a picture of me while i stopped by for a hot second

So back to reality. i ate dinner/am eating dinner right now 9:41 p.m. wow, so much for the no eating after 9:00 p.m. rule... i am also eating typical college kid food... ramen... and i love it!

my favorite kind of ramen is the creamy chicken kind. i don't like it just any way though.  i like it when there is hardly any water in it so the noodles are less soupy...

what about y'all? favorite kind of ramen noodles?

 Jennifer gave me my second award!

The rules of this award are as follows:

1. To accept the award, you must post it on your blog with the name of the person who has granted you the award, and a link to their blog.

2. Pass the award on to approximately 15 other blogs that you recently discovered, and think are great!

3. Contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.

so this is a perfect time for me to pass along this award because over the weekend i spent hours looking up new blogs and i found quite a few i have fallen for and feel they definitely deserve this!

Juliana from A Blonde Walks into a Blog

Marcela from The Joy of Enjoying  

Mrs. Preppy from Mrs. Preppy 

Chloe from My Favourite Things 

Lauren of The Little Things We Do 

Katie from Color me Katie 

Legally Fabulous from Legally Faboulous 

Kristyn from The Rise of a Novelist 

Lindsay from La Belle Vie  

Kitchen Bellicious  

Holler from Puccini & Pearls 

Sweet Everythings a collection of love

i'm aware that this isn't even close to 15 ladies, but i thought these ladies deserved this award! 

days go by

this will be a quicky...or hope so!

Jennifer from I'm Just A Girl gave me an award this week! I promise I will pass it along as soon as I get out from underneath this work load and find some free time to do it justice....If you haven't seen Jennifer's blog, run to it right now to check that puppy out, it is so wonderful!

it's beautiful days like today that i wish and throw i mild tantrum that i don't carry a camera with me everywhere. 

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Today I am rocking a shirt from a designer consignment shop called Dress. the shirt is a grey/silver silk by some designer named Walter. Walter designed a $165 (beautiful, yet overpriced) shirt which I purchased yesterday for $70.03 after tax.  This is by far the most expensive shirt i have ever bought, yet i love it. and i am glad for my purchase. Along with this shirt, i am wearing my dark denim skinny jeans with black flats that have gigantic bows on them.... i will admit that i am a sucker for shoes!

Today between classes I had some time to sit in what we call the Court of Carolina's on State's campus.  IF you know naything about NC State, it is known for the ugly brick everywhere.  But I still stand by the fact that the oldest part of campus, surrounding the Court of Carolina's is beautiful.  I love sitting there on the hill basking in the sun, hoping someone comments on my new shirt. It is so warm here that i was able to shed my shoes and enjoy the sun, and with the lighting, i am sure i could have gotten a few real cute pictures of my toes and adorable shoes! but until then...

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this is the court of carolinas. I was lying in front of that beautiful building called the 1911 building.

stress: physical, mental, or emotional strain or tension

today ladies was a wake up call

yesterday my one class for the semester seemed super exciting--grated if i actually am able to enroll in it.

today is a different story so far.

class number 1 PR Application

one group project for the entire semester

rough

with a group that has two different opinions on what we should do

class number 2 Shakespeare's Late Plays

since when have i loved or understood shakespeare?

oh yea, never

and since when have i been able to keep up with a 100 miles an hour teacher

oh yea, never.

yet i still have a 3rd class of the day Media and News writing

maybe it will be better

but after looking over the syllabus, may be close to impossible.

i am trying to look at this semester as a challenge

i want to find the good in it.

i am pushing my boundaries and taking real college classes with hard professors who think the world of themselves

i want to learn about these subjects, even grow to possibly love Shakespeare

we will see how it goes

i can't afford to drop any of the classes either so a challenge it will be

last semester i worked hard and it payed off with great, outstanding grades

this semester may be a different story

hopefully if i keep organized, stay motivated and keep up with my work load we will be OK.

(we as in my mind, body and soul)

i will keep you updated...

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hopefully the seemingly impossible will become possible!

ciˡeco

so this morning was the first day of classes

i tried so hard to be excited for my 9:10 which i am not even enrolled in yet! 

so this morning was hard, especially when i realized there is a chance i won't even need that class. bummer.

then i was thinking about how much i love being on campus.  

one of my most favorite things, although odd, is being on campus in the morning when no one else is really around.

it is nice to be here and breathe without anyone really getting in your way running to class.

while i was thinking, i was completely humbled by this guy

i have seen him before but never really realized how strong of a person he was

i have never met him before or spoken to him, let alone even gotten the courage to say good morning

but i remember because i see him.

the hard thing is that he would never recognize me because he doesn't see

he is blind.

our school is known for its non-handicap-accessible-ness.

this man is blind and uses a walking stick to get around.

this morning i watched in aw as he walked down stairs without a hitch

then he used his walking stick to move up the side walk.

his stick followed the grain of the brick on the side

when his phone rang he detoured to the wall and answered it

i take for granted being able to recognize someone in order to be able to say good morning

i also take for granted being able to watch where i am walking without worrying about walking into things

i also take for grated being able to look at my phone to see who is calling...

most of all i take for granted the beauty around me, of the earth in nature, the uniqueness of individuals walking all around,

this unknown man inspired me today

inspired me to notice the little things that i don't notice every day...the beauty of this world we live in

i hope i don't forget this feeling i have because it is extremely humbling

we need to thank the Lord each and every day for the simplest things... *

{this was taken on Sanibel Island at the lighthouse}