What’s Your Region Like?

30 09 2008

Things are starting to fall into place… alittle. At least I am getting my scholarship application sent out, I’ve had converstions with naval officers about my future. Which, I still don’t know what that will be actually. I feel like I have alot of traveling to do. How can I decide what area I want to be in, or where I want to end up if I know nothing of what areas look like. I grew up in a small town and honestly have not traveled much at all. I can’t start my real world job yet. In fact I can’t start it for awhile. There’s other things I can be involved in right? Just what are they?

I’m on a mission to figure it out. In the meantime I’m going to continue living up my senior year, getting through all of my tests, and figure all this business out. Although I can honestly say testing out of intermediate Russian 203 is not going to be nearly as easy as it sounds. That is going to be a bit of a bitch actually. I need to get on it.

[Confessions of A WRITER]

P.S. I’m going to NYC this weekend for a day out on the town with all of my friends from previous college years. My roomate freshman year is turning 21 on Wednesday and we are going to celebrate this all weekend long.





Cicilic Circle

24 09 2008

So, I thought I would share this story with you because its too funny and my friends and I are crazy and I love it. haha.

About three years ago, over easter break, six of my friends and me decided to go camping at my friend E’s campsite. We had two cars because there were 7 of us all together and we packed everything we needed, Food, Lanterns, ALCOHOL, more Alcohol, sleeping bags, blankets, the works. Because it was still early spring the electric up at the camp site was not turned on and we had to prepare for all of these things.

Now let me tell you alittle bit of something about getting into the campsite. At the gate there is a 24 hour watch, in which you have to stop and present your pass to get into the site. We arrive, drive up to the gate and Liz (my Bestest friend) and I are in the second car, both in the backseat. E is ahead of us in her bright red eclipse and we are stopped much more than usual on a Friday night around 1 am.

We are waiting back there thinking, “what the heck is going on?” and all of a sudden E throws the gear shift in and spins out and turns around, breaks squealing. Wow. We follow her back down the road, where we stop at a small country church parking lot to see what happened.

She is livid. Apparaently she is carrying her dads owner pass and Perry (the chronic mastrubating guard) will not let us in because she doesn’t have a guest pass and her name is not on the owner’s list, becuase it is her dad. E’s lot is now a hot spot and we can’t use it to get in because he checked it on the map.

We are all very pissed at this point and do not know what to do because we drove all the way up to camp and we better be camping. We think things over and decide that the best way to get through the gate is to minimize the number of people we have, use the second car that is not the red eclipse and hide everything we need in the trunk.

After making all of the arrangements, we decide to put K in the trunk with all of the stuff, I will drive. Liz will sit with me in the front seat because he did not see either of us in all of the confusion, and the other four will walk through the woods a short distance and we will pick them up on the other side of the gate on the main road. This time we are going to use E’s cousins lot number as our target seeming that she was with us. Although she has a very long name and its kind of hard to spell I had to pretend to be her and get this man to let us in with the only pass we have which is an owner’s pass.

We slowly drive down the road, back to the gate, in J’s white honda civic, we had to leave half of our stuff behind in the eclipse and so basically our only priority at this point was us and the alcohol. We stop at the gate and wait for Perry (the chronic masturbator) to turn on the light at the gate house and walk out. I look at him, smile and hand over my owners pass.

“Good evening,” I say confidently letting my hands rest on the steering wheel. I tell him the lot number of where we are headed and then I tell him its located in Cicilic circle.

He asked me if I have my driver’s license with me. I say yes and hand it to him, and then he takes the license and goes into the gate house to look me up. While he is gone I slowly grab liz’s arm, barely moving and whisper, “we are so screwd.”

In my head I was absolutely freaking out! He had my license that did not match the name of the person on the list and I had nothing else to show him. We were only thinking the worst.

He slowly walks back outside and hands me the license saying that that name is not showing up, and that he has no record of it. Spur of the moment I smile my biggest smile, calmly, and look up to him. “I know why its not on there.” I say still smiling. “I’m just recently married and my license is changed now. I go on to spell out E’s cousin’s last name and he turns to go back inside and check that.

When he leaves the second time, I turn slightly to Liz and she gives me a look of terror. I said “what, what is it?”

She says. “you spelled her name wrong and its citka circle not cicilic circle. OMG.”

“shit.” Here he comes we can’t talk. He walks back to the car and we hold our breath.

“How do you spell the name again?” He asks. Liz silently tells me the letters and I spell the name again this time telling him the lot is located off of Citka Circle.

He nodds and walks back into the gate house.

A minute later he comes back and says, Ahhh, I must have spelled it wrong. I found it. Next time you come make sure you bring a gas bill or something that identifies who you are so its much easier. Have a great night ladies.

Slowly we drive off from the gate smiling and thanking him. Just around the corner I floor it and we just start laughing hysterically. We stop on the side of the road and let K out of the trunk then we speed to the campsite to drop everything off so when we pick up the other four people there will be enough room.

After we pick them up, we tell them the whole story and add that Liz flashed him to get us through the gate. We are all in hysterics and drive back to the campsite where K is setting everything up. We barely have anything now, most of our stuff is back at the eclipse on the side of the road, so we make due with one tiny lantern, and immediately start chugging the alcohol, no extra clothes.

The rest of the night was priceless, the entire time we talked about Cicilic Circle and how ridiculous we all were. Here’s to one of the best nights with some of the best friends :)

[Confessions of A WRITER]





Bar Fights are Embarassing

21 09 2008

SO for the first time ever, I got kicked out of a bar, which I’m pissed about. I never thought I would be involved in a bar, but apparently its not something you can predict. My friend and I decided we would go out on Thursday night and have some fun, because we can, so we did.

There weren’t many people at the bar we went too because it was Thursday and WVU lost the game in overtime because Pat McCaffey missed the field goal. So we’re just chilling having some beers and G my friend, sees this boy that she knows and he’s with a group of people. We joing thier group and start hanging out with them. They’re all pretty good looking and it was fun.

Soo I’m standing their talking to this one guy when I turn and I see G put up her hands and tell one of the guys we were with to forget about it let’s just go over there. Immediately I’m like ut-oh, not good. And from around G this [Very Ugly] boy pulls back his hand and punches the guy we are with. He immediately grabs G and goes to move her out of the way but couldn’t get her out of the way fast enough and ugly boy punches again, catching her right in the stomach. My jaw dropped and I stepped forward grabbing for her, but missed.

In literally seconds, it became a six on six fight between our guys and ugly boys guys. It was pretty obnoxious and in the whole clutter of everything I lose G and am standing there watching it play out. Minutes later she calls me and says that she got kicked out with three of the boys and they are standing outside waiting for me and the 2 other boys that made up our group. Gay.

We finsih our drinks [because who can just throw a beer away?] and walk outside looking for them. They are standing at the end of the street making plans to continue the fight. What a BAD IDEA. Is that serious? I would never do that, I hate fighting. G is laughing because she was caught in the middle and we laugh about it together as we start walking back down the street and past the bar we just got kicked out of.

They stop and are looking around to see if they can find ugly guy and his friends but apparently I was the only one to notice the six policemen that were eyeing us up as we waited. Then, the cupid shuffle starts playing and I’m pissed because I like that song and I want to dance. Seriously, I’m just trying to PartAy. So to break the tension I start doing the cupid shuffle out on the street and G joins in with me.

The boys are still stewing but we get them to walk away. The policemen follow us all the way down the road. wow. Never thought that would happen, but it definately did.

[Confessions of A WRITER]





Rock Bottom.

20 09 2008

What is left when you lose everything? Can something that is so devasting make you become someone else. Someone you had wished you were, someone who was able to start over fresh? I have never personally hit rock bottom or been anywhere near it, but I’m afraid that it could happen to me. It happens to people more often then you might think. And if they don’t hit complete rock bottom, they definately come close.

Nothing is worse than getting cheated on. Nothing. So why does everyone do it? Why can’t you just end it beforehand and although that is devastating, its not as devastating as finding things out the hard way. Plus that’s bullshit.

Hitting rock bottom is most obiously the lowest point of suckiness. It means you’ve gone so low you can’t possibly do any more damage. But it also means there’s no other way except up.

Since I am an optomistic person, I have to see the oppurtunity that can come from hitting rock bottom. With a fresh start, you can move in whatever direction you like. Try new things, pursue old dreams, take the time to appreciate the little things. Do something, anything you have never done before.

Being at rock bottom, gives you an oppurtunity to fly.

[Confessions of A WRITER]





Corn Hole Time Line.

19 09 2008





Which Country Makes You as Happy as Russia Make Me?

15 09 2008

Right now I am in the process of applying to an intensive langugages scholarship program, and if I get it and am able to study abroad to Russia, I will FREAK OUT. I’ve been intrested and involved with all things Russian since high school when I took an introductory course offered at my high school.

In college I wanted to get into it right away but I’ll admit I was nervous. I felt like signing up for Russian my first semester freshman year would have been like Corey from boy meets world who signs up for all the same classes as a really hot girl and then finds out he’s in Turkish or some crazy language. The fear of failing kept me from signing up early, because I didn’t want to bring my GPA down unnessisarily.

In my Junior year though, I figured it was time to try it out. I was able to take Russian 1 for one of my general education courses. And I loved it! It turns out that high school actually prepared me enough to get an A+ in Russian 1 and I’ve gotten in A in every Russian class I’ve taken since then.

Being able to study abroad there would be an amazing oppurtunity. Obviously they are not in the best prediciment right now and are at war with Georgia and how can we forget Chechyna, but you can’t let the little things bring you down. Besides I won’t be going to Moscow or St. Petersburg, I’ll be going to study at a smaller town where there is less activity.

If I am able to master the Russian language (which I hope to do) then it will be able to help me in the road of life. I’m going to make it happen.

[Confessions of A WRITER]