This Lady is About to Quack...

     The end of the semester brings about mental and physical exhaustion for pretty much every college student. People outside of the college life would figure that finals are the things students dread the most. Well they would probably be partially correct, but finals are just the last nail in the coffin. We have just entered into dead week. Students start to panic as semester projects begin to come due. Those assignments that were explained at the beginning of the semester and that were believed to have plenty of time to complete before their due date: THEY'RE DUE THIS WEEK! Those tests that are over the information you covered in the last few weeks, you know the weeks that all you could think about was the fact that summer was coming: THEY HAPPEN THIS WEEK! On top of all of the assignments and tests, all of those organizations and activities you are involved in want to honor you or celebrate the end of the year during THIS WEEK!
     So let's see here, this week you need to: complete all of those last minute projects, study for all of the tests for which you forgot to take notes, attend all of your regular class periods, make sure you get in all of your work study hours so you don't end up owing money for school, attend all the events for your extracurricular activities, and start packing to leave for the summer.
     Then next week you have to: attempt to study for the tests that will determine whether you pass or fail the semester, receive little sleep because of the studying, survive on excessive amounts of caffeine and sugar, and then actually take the tests.
     After you have completed all tests and assignments for the semester, you have to say bye to the friends you haven't seen for at least 2 weeks because of dead week and finals week. Then you have to shove all your stuff into storage and take home the small amount of stuff you will actually use over the summer.
     Finally, if you make it to that point, you can just BREATH. In and out. And then sleep for about 10 weeks before you have to return and begin it all again.

Hello Dead Week. Goodbye Social Life and Sleep.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Part One

Lately, I've been reading a book entitled, The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness: A Complete Handbook for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society. Sounds like loads of crazy fun, right? Okay, maybe not, but I do find it kind of intriguing. I have to admit that I just downloaded it onto my kindle app on my iPod because it was free, and I only started reading it when I was bored. However, I am only in the second or third chapter and it has already made some really good points. So I am intrigued to keep reading this book from the 1870s. Maybe it will make me a better lady, or maybe it will just annoy me, or maybe I will just continue to find small nuggets of wisdom. So I'll keep you updated on what happens, but before I sign off, I'll share a few of these thoughts with you.

“A lady is never so well dressed as when you cannot remember what she wears.”

“It is, unfortunately, too much the custom in America to wear any article, or shape in make, that is fashionable, without any regard to the style of the person purchasing goods.”

“If neatness, consistency, and good taste, preside over the wardrobe of a lady, expensive fabrics will not be needed; for with the simplest materials, harmony of color, accurate fitting to the figure, and perfect neatness, she will always appear well dressed.”

“Adaptiveness—Let each dress worn by a lady be suitable to the occasion upon which she wears it.”


Think about it...

Content in Being Alone

In our culture today, I seem to be an oddball. I am twenty and single, and I like it that way. I've never had a boyfriend, never been on a date, and I don't really care. Don't get me wrong. I don't want to be single forever, but I definitely don't mind that I haven't been in a relationship or "fallen in love" yet. You see, I am waiting for the one God has for me, and I will wait--content in God's arms--until my prince appears. However, I have gained a lot of wisdom from watching others. So while some people may think I am insane, I don't mind. I'd rather be right where I am supposed to be in God's story line of my life than in the arms of the wrong guy. So lean back and watch where this path leads me. This blog will probably contain crazy rants and possibly mundane moments in my life, but overall I hope it shows you that being single isn't all bad.