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I'm soooooo sick of it. I HATE my floor. I've had patience all year and I've really enjoyed getting to know some of the girls, but I'm so fed up!

It's an all girls floor so we only have girls' bathrooms on the floor. At the beginning of the year we voted that guys could use one of the bathrooms as long as his escort checks to see if there are girls in there first, and he can only go in if there are no girls and then his escort has to stand outside the bathroom so that she can tell other girls that there is a guy in there. This is not just our rules - it's university policy. And it's perfectly acceptable to me.

What is NOT acceptable is when I am in there and guys barge in saying "I'm a bitch but i've gotta piss" and shove their way past me into a stall or when guys come in, look me in the eye, and then go into the stall and pee and puke all over themselves. THIS IS NOT OK!!!!

I really do like it here, and I've really made a lot of good friends, but right now I'm so sick of the dorms and I'm so homesick. My roommate is out of town, and I stayed home tonight to work on projects so I feel really lonely. I'm not - I know - and I just called my friend Becca to complain about this because she was with me the last time this happened - and she's so great - I really can't complain about my life in general. I just think right now I'm stressed out with my projects and fed up with the disrespect I feel from people who think it's ok to do anything if you're intoxicated.

So... I turned in my English portfolio for 101 and my fictionalization of history for 100. I feel so free and light. Only three finals - and only 1 challenging final. It feels so good. This has been a really good semester - and I really feel like I've learned a lot. This thing called life is a pretty good idea!

I NEED to write my paper - Worth 15% of my grade and due tomorrow. But I can't. I'm so distracted! GRRRRR!

Today was wonderful. I got a lot done, and I had my "field trip" to look forward to tonight. That's right - field trip. My English professor took the whole class (or at least whoever wanted to go) out for dinner followed by a play that corresponded to a lot of the material we covered in class. Free food with fellow English majors with a professor who actually cares and is quite brilliant. His wife, who is also a teacher/ associate dean at ISU, came as well. It was really awesome to meet her after hearing about her all of the time in class. They met when she cast him in a play in college, and they seem to have such an awesome relationship - the best friend type. They just celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary. I think I told some of you that I was auditing a class next semester and this is the professor of that class. For those of you who I didn't go on and on about this class to, here is a description:

"The focus of this course will be Postmodern American Musical Theater,
with special attention to the work of Stephen Sondheim. We will look
briefly at an aesthetic history of the American musical and explore the
ways that postmodern theory provides lenses for us to engage the musical
plays of the post-Rodgers and Hammerstein era. We will read and discuss
a number of essays on postmodernism, found in Natoli and Hutcheon's/ A
Postmodern Reader/. Among the Sondheim plays we will read and discuss
will be/ West Side Story/,/ Gypsy/,/ Company/,/ Follies/,/ Pacific
Overtures/,/ Sweeney Todd/,/ Merrily We Roll Along/,/ Sunday in the Park
with George/,/ Into the Woods/,/ Assassins/, and/ Passion/. Other plays
we will look at include/ Floyd Collins/, by Adam Guettel and Tina
Landau,/ Parade/, by Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry,/ The Last Five
Years/, by Jason Robert Brown,/ Rent/, by Jonathan Larson, and/ See What
I Wanna See/, by Michael John LaChiusa."

Can we say a perfect class? I'm so very excited about it. So anyways, we went to see the play, which was very unique - I can't say I enjoyed it too much, but I definitely appreciated it. It was "Othello's Passion" which was Shakespeare's Othello done in a traditional Japanese style of theatre called Kabuki (sp?). We had studied Othello in the class as well as "Pacific Overtures" which is a Sondheim play about the opening of Japan to trade which adopted a lot of Kabuki styles.

Anyways, after I got home from that I continued the wonderful evening by stringing up Christmas lights in my dorm. I'm not usually a Christmas before Thanksgiving type of girl, but since I only have 2 and a half weeks of school afterwards, and my friend gave me some Christmas lights, I thought I would get started. Another bonus is that I don't have my 8 o'clock meeting tomorrow morning. Oh life can't get much better. (and my professor liked my paper today when I came into office hours). Well I should probably get to bed so that tomorrow can come and so that next week (when I'll be driving to Florida at this time) will come.

About to go take a midterm exam involving the Pooka and the Good Fairy. Just thought I'd let everyone know. Miss you guys!

Hello to all!!! So I know it's been a long time. I think all of you know I'm now up in Illinois. It's taken a lot of adjusting, but I really do like it up here. I love having family close by! I just miss UF and home more than I thought. My parents are coming up next week - I'm soooooo excited! I miss them like crazy. I do keep busy here though. Besides school I now have a job - and I love it! I'm working in the admissions office answering phones and giving tours and such fun activities. It's a great way to get to know people and get to know campus- it's also amazingly convenient and I get breaks off. So between classes, job, trying to be social, church, english student association, and volunteering I feel a little over-committed at times. I actually got my first C on a paper too - but most of the class did and for the first time in his teaching career my professor is letting a class rewrite- we're so lucky! So... I hope you all are doing well - I miss you all greatly - sorry that I haven't done a great job keeping up - I think about you all often and love reading your blogs. I can't wait to see you all Christmas break!

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