Long time, no write. Well I have been uber busy this semester. School is crazy and work even crazier. Not to mention the social life playing a big part. I find myself wondering when its all going to be over and then I realize I have only 3 more weeks of school and that scares me to death. I mean 3 weeks is hardly enough time to write my papers, study for tests, and bring up my grades. I really need more time! But thats not the way things work so I cram things in the next 3 weeks and try to then regulate my breathing afterwards and maybe by the time we come back for spring semester my life will be completely calm! Ha I don't think so. With the holiday's comes more stress but whatever. I can deal with it I hope.

Winter break will hopefully be as fantasic as I imagine it. I will be teachin snowboardin at sierra at tahoe for 5 glorious weeks. What a way to rejuvinate the body mind and soul! I am so stoked. It shall be glorious. And hopefully it will be the exact break I need to prepare myself for next semester so I can come back ready to go and give it my all again. I really need to use next semesters classes to raise my GPA because after next semester I only have 1 more semester and I will be done...at least until graduate school.

The fall semester has begun.

It's absolutely crazy. I am commuting from Lodi to Merced, my three hour drive, three days a week. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday! Monday's aren't so bad since I don't have to be in Merced until 11am, but on Tuesday's and Thursday's I have an 8am class so I leave Lodi at 6am meaning I am up at 5am. It really sucks. The nice part about my schedule is that I only have things to do three days a week. The other days I am home studying or doing homework or enjoying time with my family.

Family is definately something I have missed living in Merced for the past two years. I never realized how important they were to my emotional well being. I love getting to attend family functions and be there to see my younger cousins growing up. It's so rejuvenating to have my younger cousin Macey (who is four) to play with after she gets home from preschool. Something about watching cartoons and coloring that just refreshes one after a long morning of studying.

Today I am completely tired because I didn't get to bed until one this morning and I had to be up at five to get to school. I found that if you eat sunflower seeds you stay awake, so rather than increase my heart rate with caffeine I increase my blood pressure with salt. I suppose it doesn't matter considering the end result for both. I just like the idea that the reason I stay awake from eating sunflower seeds is because I am concentrating on a specific function that my mouth is peforming. I like to think that by using my brain rather then just injecting coffee into it, I might be doing a slightly more beneficial thing. But who knows?