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Jan. 21st, 2003 12:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terrypurple73Arg, that makes me frustrated. I’ve typed a few journal entries in the past week since I’ve been back, but Jeff’s computer has eaten two of them right as I was about to post. So now you all have to get abbreviated abbreviations of entries I’ve been meaning to post. Let’s see how things go.
I’ve been mood-swinging lately, and I don’t know why. I had a really good evening, and now I am starting to feel cranky. Maybe it is because that headache is returning- the headache that I have been finding in the same spot very frequently for the last three days. I never get headaches, so this seems really bizarre.
I’m really, really glad to be back at the Community. Things are going to smoothly, in so many ways. A few frustrations, as always, but better than I had anticipated. The things I was anxious about are fading away. The biggest concerns were Peter and Lucie. Petey is probably not going to go to jail; his plan of late is pleading guilty, which left another Creighton student with probation time and a fine. That is relieving to me. (The other Creighton student, though, most likely will have jail time because he is planning to plead not guilty.) And things with Lucie are going great. I REALLY like her, and I can understand why E fell in love with her. She’s an amazing girl. She came over tonight after Mana left, and we just talked for a while, some chitchat, but deeper than that, too. I’m so, SO glad. It was really nice to spend time with Mana, too. She doesn’t often spend hours at a time over here, so we had a good time. We had fun playing with Jeffy, and some talks too.
In other excitement, KP, Nick, and I went sledding on Thursday night, and we had fun. :)
The next day, Neal-bo and I flew home to the wonderfulness of Minnesota, so that we could leave Saturday morning for a day of protesting in DC! That’s right, folks, T-Dawg protested in three states in eight days! DC was a really good experience, and I’m really glad I went. I get so encouraged by the huge amounts of people that show up at events like these. I kept comparing the rally to the ones in Georgia, but that makes sense, because those are the only things I have to compare it to. It was a lot bigger, but also a lot colder! Neal and I had a ball, though. I also really liked getting to spend some time with just him. So many of my memories of little house fun are based off of Jeff’s shenanigans, and I didn’t have as many specific memories of Neal. But we hung out all day, and learned some very important things. Such as, “This country is going to hell in a Bush-basket”!! (That was my favorite sign.) I think part of what was so refreshing about this trip was that it was so much less work than the SOA trips are. For once, I didn’t have to be responsible for a flock of other people. I didn’t have to arrange transportation, or navigate maps, or collect money, or any of that. Neal and I hopped on planes and we beamed to DC. We protested, and then we were beamed back. (Okay, the beaming is mostly my feeling, since I slept all of the plane rides. What else does Theresa do on long trips?) It was nice to be able to experience the protest for myself, without having that parental instinct keep kicking in n response to having all these other people with me. Of course, it wasn’t nearly the same as a Georgia experience (the faith aspect was nothing in comparison), but it was a good trip, nonetheless. (And, at our layover in Minneapolis coming back to Omaha, Neal took me to the Northwest WorldClub to hang out. He poured me a little glass of Bailey’s Irish Cream and ice, and then he watched me sip my first alcoholic drink. It tasted better once the ice melted, though. Then, the next day, he wrote on the grocery list, “booze for T-Dawg the alky.”)
In other news, let’s see here…. Classes are going really well. There will be two boring ones, but three really good ones. History of the Asian World is looking to be even more boring than Modern Western World was, but not nearly as likely to incite me to anger. Statistics is the continuation of Research Methods- I have fallen asleep in both history and stats already, and we have only had four days of classes. But my other three classes will be good. My social work class, Individuals and Families, is taught by John Witchger, who is Maria Teresa (my boss from the CCSJ)’s husband. This is further proof of why I need to marry into the Witchger-Gaston family. (While Phillip is in Ecuador, I have told the rest of his family that we are getting married. I think its okay that he is only sixteen.) John is just really cool, and he’s got a lot of enthusiasm for the class. I know it will be good. I also have Honors God and Persons, which has great potential to be boring, but I happen to be taking it with Dr. Stephens, whom I love. And I’m also taking what I like to refer to as JESUS CHRIST SAVES THE WORLD!, but which the university calls Jesus Christ and the Salvation of the World. But we’re going to learn all about liberation theology, which I’ve always wanted to know more about, and now I have the chance.
Nothing else a lot new around here. Boys smell a lot, and (I can’t believe I am saying this), Jeffy is about the only boy I feel like hanging out with these days. We’ve been on a good wavelength recently, and I like it. I feel like there’s a deeper trust these days than there often is, and I’d like to take advantage of the opportunity to talk with him. It’s not that we are usually untrusting of each other, but there are often so many other things happening, and we never have time to build that up. So I am enjoying having him around.
I haven’t updated in a while before this, and I haven’t responded to many emails at all. There have just been too many of them, and too many other things to look at, that I pseudo-ly stopped my internet addiction for a few days. I might get back into it, we’ll see.
And now, my headache is getting a little worse, so I should go to bed. I might have to get up in six hours for class. Pew.
I’ve been mood-swinging lately, and I don’t know why. I had a really good evening, and now I am starting to feel cranky. Maybe it is because that headache is returning- the headache that I have been finding in the same spot very frequently for the last three days. I never get headaches, so this seems really bizarre.
I’m really, really glad to be back at the Community. Things are going to smoothly, in so many ways. A few frustrations, as always, but better than I had anticipated. The things I was anxious about are fading away. The biggest concerns were Peter and Lucie. Petey is probably not going to go to jail; his plan of late is pleading guilty, which left another Creighton student with probation time and a fine. That is relieving to me. (The other Creighton student, though, most likely will have jail time because he is planning to plead not guilty.) And things with Lucie are going great. I REALLY like her, and I can understand why E fell in love with her. She’s an amazing girl. She came over tonight after Mana left, and we just talked for a while, some chitchat, but deeper than that, too. I’m so, SO glad. It was really nice to spend time with Mana, too. She doesn’t often spend hours at a time over here, so we had a good time. We had fun playing with Jeffy, and some talks too.
In other excitement, KP, Nick, and I went sledding on Thursday night, and we had fun. :)
The next day, Neal-bo and I flew home to the wonderfulness of Minnesota, so that we could leave Saturday morning for a day of protesting in DC! That’s right, folks, T-Dawg protested in three states in eight days! DC was a really good experience, and I’m really glad I went. I get so encouraged by the huge amounts of people that show up at events like these. I kept comparing the rally to the ones in Georgia, but that makes sense, because those are the only things I have to compare it to. It was a lot bigger, but also a lot colder! Neal and I had a ball, though. I also really liked getting to spend some time with just him. So many of my memories of little house fun are based off of Jeff’s shenanigans, and I didn’t have as many specific memories of Neal. But we hung out all day, and learned some very important things. Such as, “This country is going to hell in a Bush-basket”!! (That was my favorite sign.) I think part of what was so refreshing about this trip was that it was so much less work than the SOA trips are. For once, I didn’t have to be responsible for a flock of other people. I didn’t have to arrange transportation, or navigate maps, or collect money, or any of that. Neal and I hopped on planes and we beamed to DC. We protested, and then we were beamed back. (Okay, the beaming is mostly my feeling, since I slept all of the plane rides. What else does Theresa do on long trips?) It was nice to be able to experience the protest for myself, without having that parental instinct keep kicking in n response to having all these other people with me. Of course, it wasn’t nearly the same as a Georgia experience (the faith aspect was nothing in comparison), but it was a good trip, nonetheless. (And, at our layover in Minneapolis coming back to Omaha, Neal took me to the Northwest WorldClub to hang out. He poured me a little glass of Bailey’s Irish Cream and ice, and then he watched me sip my first alcoholic drink. It tasted better once the ice melted, though. Then, the next day, he wrote on the grocery list, “booze for T-Dawg the alky.”)
In other news, let’s see here…. Classes are going really well. There will be two boring ones, but three really good ones. History of the Asian World is looking to be even more boring than Modern Western World was, but not nearly as likely to incite me to anger. Statistics is the continuation of Research Methods- I have fallen asleep in both history and stats already, and we have only had four days of classes. But my other three classes will be good. My social work class, Individuals and Families, is taught by John Witchger, who is Maria Teresa (my boss from the CCSJ)’s husband. This is further proof of why I need to marry into the Witchger-Gaston family. (While Phillip is in Ecuador, I have told the rest of his family that we are getting married. I think its okay that he is only sixteen.) John is just really cool, and he’s got a lot of enthusiasm for the class. I know it will be good. I also have Honors God and Persons, which has great potential to be boring, but I happen to be taking it with Dr. Stephens, whom I love. And I’m also taking what I like to refer to as JESUS CHRIST SAVES THE WORLD!, but which the university calls Jesus Christ and the Salvation of the World. But we’re going to learn all about liberation theology, which I’ve always wanted to know more about, and now I have the chance.
Nothing else a lot new around here. Boys smell a lot, and (I can’t believe I am saying this), Jeffy is about the only boy I feel like hanging out with these days. We’ve been on a good wavelength recently, and I like it. I feel like there’s a deeper trust these days than there often is, and I’d like to take advantage of the opportunity to talk with him. It’s not that we are usually untrusting of each other, but there are often so many other things happening, and we never have time to build that up. So I am enjoying having him around.
I haven’t updated in a while before this, and I haven’t responded to many emails at all. There have just been too many of them, and too many other things to look at, that I pseudo-ly stopped my internet addiction for a few days. I might get back into it, we’ll see.
And now, my headache is getting a little worse, so I should go to bed. I might have to get up in six hours for class. Pew.
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Date: 2003-01-21 08:40 am (UTC)you are too, of course, but he made me laugh.
can i go to a phi delt function, please?
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Date: 2003-01-21 01:12 pm (UTC)love you.
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Date: 2003-01-21 06:38 pm (UTC)M to the ana
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Date: 2003-01-21 08:39 pm (UTC)Would you mind letting me or someone read the story before it goes to print? I just want to make sure she's got the right impression.
See you at lunchie tomorrow- hooray!
love,
~T-Dawg
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Date: 2003-01-21 08:54 pm (UTC)sex.
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Date: 2003-01-21 11:28 pm (UTC)i'll be excited to see the first issue with you as an editor come out! woohoo!
sweet dreams!
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Date: 2003-01-22 06:31 am (UTC)Dammit, maybe no sex.
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Date: 2003-01-22 03:25 pm (UTC)Poor Reception
Date: 2003-01-23 07:37 pm (UTC)Despite the fall-out I hope you feel free to call on me for anything. Us Neo-Hippies gotta stick together! No guarantees that I'll be of much help in every situation but I'll do my best. We should sit down and swap DC protest stories some time. I miss the big protests. Nebraska is just too spread out and complacent for me.
laterz--Pat
P.S. I missed freezing my appendages off with you on Wednesday. It was kinda fun with the two Marys there though. Strange situation having two Hawaiians and a lifeguard out on a freezing corner in Nebraska. I'm sure there's a joke in there somewhere but I can't think of it at the moment...