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| Miss drum corps during the school year?
Take a dance class.
I started the morning with stretching and across the floors, and even some pushups (well not really, it was like one push-up and hold it there, but it still made me excited).
This is the best day ever.
OH OH! And Lost is getting good again. I just watched last week's episode last night.... AAHHH! It was crazy. I liked it. Hooray.
Bye.
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| This week was officially the worst week of my life.
No, really.
I don't complain all that often
But this week SUCKED. Like a vaccuum. No. A black hole. No. I dunno. Something really really sucky.
It was bad news.
Lets try and remember all the awful things that happened.
Monday: Oddly enough I can't remember a SINGLE THING that happened on this day. I have been trying to remember anything about Monday since like Wednesday, and I can't do it. Weird, yeah? I was real sick that day, but thats all I remember. ooh but I did watch 24... and ate pizza for dinner and wings, and let sam use my computer for economics. There's an hour...
Tuesday: I had a presentation in Aural Skills on a pop song that I had to write in a group. That was okay, considering they wrote the song without me and I had to just write a verse and hope that it fit into the song. Good thing I am sweet at improvisation. Hmmm. Tuesdays are always the worst because I have a mad amount of classes. I left for class at 9:30 and came back at 3:30 and then I had a staff meeting that night. After that I got to start worrying about this paper I had due the next day in theory (After me and Joey and Matt the other RAs planned our program that happened Friday night). The paper is when hell started.
We had to analyze the form of a Brahms Sonata. Our teacher put the mp3 online, but it wouldn't work on my computer when I tried to listen to it. So, I logged on to Noxos, an online music library that OSU subscribes to. The piece is 10 minutes, and Noxos basically sucks. It took about 25 minutes on there to get through the piece because it would play 10 seconds and stop, and it wasn't the kind of thing where I could sit there and let it load and then it would play straight through, oh no. So I was real agitated. Then my friend Andrew came up to try and work on it with me, and we tried to google the piece and find any info on there, but its too obscure of a piece and we found nothing. I was still real mad at Noxos, and so I got onto iTunes because I had all these gift cards and I figured I could just go and buy the piece for 99 cents.
There were 3 albums on itunes that had the song on it. However, in each case, the piece i needed was one of like 3 or so that you could only get by buying the whole cd. One of them was 99 dollars. But I found one that was 5.99, and first off let me tell you that I REALLY hate any project or thing for a class where you have to spend money to get a good grade. You shouldn't be able to buy grades. Anger. But I folded and bought the cd for 6 bucks. It said that my transaction went through and it started downloading. Hooray, said Marie. Until a little friend popped up on my computer called an Error Message, telling me that oh sorry, we can't download your cd. I freaked out. Then Andrew came back and said his friend got the mp3 to work using realplayer. Which I deleted earlier this year. So, I went to download realplayer. It said it would take 20 minutes. So, I decided to put a load of laundry in since it was 1:30 and I hadn't started the paper yet. I picked up my huge bag of laundry... as the strap broke off and the bag fell all over. I burst out laughing as sam laughed at me and then I curled up on the floor in a little ball, and then I got back up and did laundry. After I put it in the washer I came back upstairs to find that realplayer had downloaded 55% of the way and was no longer progressing. I flipped out a little more, and then Sam was like "alright, let me just mess around on your computer for a sec." and he closed firefox and opened internet explorer, the worst internet program ever. And he went to our class website and said "where is the mp3?" and I said right here. it doesn't work. and we clicked on it. and it worked.
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I worked on the paper until about 4 and woke up again at 8 to finish it. Now its Wednesday.
Wednesday: That freaking Brahms cd loaded early wednesday morning, of course. I turned the paper in, and then went to engineering graphics to do a team presentation. That went alright. I think I skipped history that day cuz basically I decided I deserved it. That night I had to go to this "study bucks auction", and I brought my study guide for my comm test with me. I was there from about 7 until 9, and then I went and got a burrito and came back and watched Lost (which is going downhill as much as I hate to say). I studied comm a little more and went to sleep.
Thursday: I had a final in Comm thursday morning at 9:30.
I woke up at 9:54.
I got to class, which is usually a 10 minute walk... at 10:05.
I powerwalked so fast I think I was flying.
I took the test and I think it went okay. Usually Thursdays are my fave, but that one just sucked. I skipped history again, and also ended up missing my (last) aural class because I had to go to Roy G Biv that day. I still don't know which day my aural final is because we changed it on Thursday. I went to Roy G Biv, where 2 people came in (the first two that have come while I have been there) and the phone rang twice, one time it was even the right number. I did MacGamut the whole time I was there, because basically I didn't do it all quarter. I came back to campus and made a poster for the program I had on Friday... and got back 1) to see that Joey had already made a poster, and 2) to see 2 RAs at the front desk... one of them was on the phone and says "oh nevermind, her RA just got here." Turns out one of my residents gets really bad migraines and had to go to the hospital (no, she's not just lame... her arms and fingers and part of her face go numb. Like its bad). So I went with her, and was there from about 8 to about 9:30. I left when they put an IV in her (they have done this before I guess and she felt comfortable after that) and then when I got back, I got some food for the second time that day, and then right after that got a call from her that she was done. Then I called the student safety group on campus that gives people rides places, but the guy was a huge jerk that I talked to, so I ended up calling her a cab. Then I called her back to tell her, and we learned that neither of us had cash... so I said I would find some and meet her downstairs. Then she got back and we payed the cab driver the 4 dollars we owed him, and then I went to jim and sam's room and plopped down on the futon jim was trying to study on... he wasn't too glad. Then I left them alone and came back to my room and went to sleep pretty quickly.
Friday: Woke up early to do a theory review. Went to theory. Then I had to go to an experiment for 5% of my aural grade. Then I showered. Then I went to the last day of EnGraph and History. Then I went to Roy G Biv, and no one came in and I did 3 more hours of MacGamut. Then I came back to campus, and since all my residents were drinking, I stayed in my room... and Zach ended up coming over and hanging out and we just acted real dumb and it was fun and good to see Zach.
Now its today. I woke up early for brass band, and got downstairs and realized A) my instrument and music was in Megan's car, B) I put my contacts in the wrong eyes, and when we got outside I realized C) I left my mouthpiece upstairs in my room. We were only 2 minutes late... but Megan was late too so I didn't have an instrument for a little while. Tonight I am going to see Cory's band play at this big show... tomorrow I am going shopping... Monday I am studying... Tuesday I have 3 finals. After that, maybe my life will stop dropkicking me in the face all the time. We'll see.
Sorry, that was by far the most pathetic thing that has ever gone in here (and there's been some pathetic stuff... you should set the way back machine). I'm done. Cruise in 1 week from today...
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| Cruise: 16 DAYS.
yeah buddy.
 That's Cozumel. That's Grand Cayman.  That's Haiti.  That's Jamaica. That's where I'm going.  That's about how excited I am.
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| I need to clean my room.
Instead I reorganized my Xanga page.
At least I made something prettier...
I'm hungry. Who wants to come get food with me?
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right.
well, bye then.
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| Ohio State is on lockdown.
Okay not really, its just a snow day... but being on lockdown sounds way more awesome. Now I have all day to write a huge paper thats due tomorrow! sigh. but hey, I got to sleep until 11:30... I'm still angry I had to get up then. I'll get over it.
Happy Valentines Day! I hope you all find someone sweet, funny, and amazingly attractive to share it with. 
What? You want to know how things are going with ME? Oh, they're fine. I have Southwind camp this weekend and I'm really excited, and its Valentine's Day AND a snow day, and I am going on a cruise in 31 days, and my bank account drama got mostly figured out, and I just took a shower and feel all clean, and I'm about to call the eye doctor to see if I have an appointment to get the sweet bump cut out of my eye (its actually more like them taking an exacto-knife and cutting a tiny slit in there so that the weird bump thing can drain--> HOT!, but both of the Lauten parents are apparently flying out to be there for the highly non-climactic event), and I miss my dog, and I have decided its way too cold to do ANYTHING today but unfortunately I am going to have to get a few things done. Thats roughly whats going on in my life. Roughly.  That face is too cool for school! Get it?? Cuz its a snow day and we don't have any school! YAY!!!!!
Alright thats enough out of me.
 Have a great day
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