So I ended up quitting the Boys Down the Hall last night. There had been many issues leading up to that point, but last night was the final straw. We auditioned off the solo for Prayin' For Daylight, a song that had a lot of sentimental value to me and I desperately wanted. We auditioned it off and they gave it to Bryan. He sucked, I sounded so much better than him, it's ridiculous! Jeremy auditioned too, but they didn't give it to him because we needed him on tenor I. I wasn't very good when I auditioned, but that was because Scott had Frank play me the first chord for reference, and the chord was WRONG, completely screwing me up.

I got so pissed off. This was the only solo I cared about. I've auditioned for every solo we have so far and haven't been able to get one. I wanted this one so bad, and I couldn't get it. The group members are terrible at choosing soloists. Scott to this day still doesn't know the words to One, when I know them all by heart.

The whole group plays favorites and it's all every man for himself. Scott and Jeremy run the damn group and undermine me at every step. I even asked some of the group members the other day if they thought I was being a good president. They told me no, it seemed like I didn't have any power, it was all Scott and Jeremy.

I was sick of babysitting everyone. I made sure everyone was always at rehearsal and tracked everyone down. I was sick of people making up excuses why other things were more important than rehearsal.

It always seemed as though no one cared about the group. Everyone had other things they cared more for.

Last night I just finally snapped. All this trouble is not worth the stress. All this work isn't worth performing a couple of times. It just isn't fun to me anymore. When I first joined BDtH I anticipated something like when I first saw them sing during accepted student's day (Prayin' For Daylight). The group I joined was not even close. I tried my hardest to get the group back to that point, but I'm sick of my efforts going unnoticed.

So I quit.

I've been having major economic problems and for once, it's not my fault. My boss for CTS forgot to file my timesheet so I didn't get paid last Thursday. This has been causing all sorts of problems for me such as not being able to pay the insurance money to my dad, my account went negative and I was charged $50 for it and I don't know if i'm goign to be able to pay my credit card bill in time which would in turn charge me even more!!! I'm trying to get ahold of the person who is supposed to be giving me a check but she isn't responding and I'm trying to get ahold of Denise at Bank of America to remove the charges because they aren't my fault. Unfortunetly I'm in class right now so I can't do anything!


And to make matters worse, Chris locked me out of the room this morning when I went to go take a shower and didn't take his cell phone with him. I was late to class and didn't get a chance to eat breakfast because of the douchebag (and this time it's not a nickname!) I had to get Spencer to get me a lock-out key.

I have two more projects I have to get done this semester in addition to all of my finals. An essay for ENG and a statistical project for MAT. 

I just want this semester to end! I don't particularly want to go home, I just don't want to work anymore! I wish I could go from today to Christmas back to January 21st.

Oh and before my parents start getting mad at me not wanting to go home it's because of the condition of my room, not you them. I don't feel like going back to that dusty, moldy, horrible place to be. I can't breathe there and it's just miserable.


AHHHHHHH!!!

So I have way too much to get done for the next two weeks. My ISC professor just assigned a 5 page research paper due next Thurs (12/11) and on the same day gave us ANOTHER assignment to be done by tomorrow. ALSO, I have to do an assignment for Math in which I have to do a statistical study on people and that's due the last day of class (12/12). There is also going to be another essay for English before the end of class, but she hasn't assigned it yet.

Chris was complaining about all the projects he has to do instead of finals, well I have to do all these projects AND I have finals in every class! I don't know how I'm going to make it to Christmas!!

AHHH!!!!!

Oh and I'm working in the Snygg lab right now and it's crazy busy. There is only one printer and there is about 10 or so people standing around it trying to get their papers. It's kind of funny watching people scramble through stacks of paper and getting angry about it. I'm just sitting here typing away lol.

Sigh...and my Ambie is very very sick. Everyone wish that she gets well soon!!


It'll be a miracle if I make it to Christmas without killing myself!

Wow, the lab is busy today! People rushing to get their end of semester projects printed. I feel more like a Printing Assistant today rather than a Computer Lab Assistant!

Thanksgiving weekend went ok. I'm really starting to hate my bedroom though. For all the positive aspects of being at home, the condition of my room takes away three. First off, it's dusty and moldy which drives my asthma insane, I wasn't able to take a full breath all weekend long. Also, because of how dry the air is, I wake up every morning with a totally dry mouth, tongue, and lips. Sorry Mom and Dad but I'm beginning to hate coming back home! :)

Amber made a tofu turkey which I really enjoyed, but she didn't like too much it seems. The whole nation got Rick Rolled during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade which was really funny.

Black Friday at Walmart was crazy. People running everywhere grabbing things. I'm glad I was behind the register and not acting as crowd control! Some TVs actually got broken in all the madness. People really will do anything to get a deal...sheesh.

I spent the rest of my Friday with Amber and her Mom installing my new car stereo. My old radio was shot, so Amber gave me the stereo that Dusty gave her to save for when she got her own car. The parts to install the thing cost me quite a bit, but I finally have a working radio again, and a CD player too!

On Saturday we went to visit Uncle Dan and Aunt Tracey to surprise Grandma Akers for her birthday in Morrisville. I was so happy to see them for the first time in YEARS! My cousins Max and Clare (although I'm sure they didn't remember us) seemed glad to see us as well.

Nothing important happened yesterday, all I did was spend the whole day packing and getting ready to come back here. Amber and I watched The House Bunny after we got everything done and put away.

This morning my first class was canceled. I was glad to get the e-mail last night about it. I only have 5 more ENG 220 and MAT 158 classes left and 4 MET 100, ISC 220, and CSC 120.

I've got a math test Wednesday. It's the last test before the final and if I don't do well (not GREAT, just OK) on it I might not get the minimum C+ to pass the class. I REALLY don't want to take this course again. I have to study tomorrow, just refresh my memory on this stuff. I understand a lot of it in class, but I never retain the information when I leave. As soon as I walk out of that classroom, I forget about everything. Sigh...

Well that's about everything....

23 Days Until Christmas!

Yeah I realize that I haven't updated in a long time but there hasn't been anything interesting at all going on recently. I spent all day yesterday working on my paper for English 220. I successfully proved that you can do a 5 and a half page research paper in one day with no previous knowledge on it. I changed my topic right before I even started. I was going to write about Sarah Palin but after realizing how difficult that was actually going to be, I changed my topic to be about how maps are beneficial to presidential elections.

We're going home tomorrow for Thanksgiving break. I can't wait to finally have access to WiFi again. Oh and see my family too I guess...>.>

This will be my first thanksgiving as a vegetarian, and I'm excited about it. Amber can't wait to cook a whole bunch of vegetarian dishes and I can't wait to eat them lol.

I'm at work right now with an hour left to go. I'm so bored and have nothing to do. I brought my DS with me to play, but I don't really want to for fear of getting strange looks by the students here. It's bad enough I'm sitting in the lab with my Nerd Herd shirt on typing in my Livejournal, to see me playing my DS, and Pokemon Ranger 2 nonetheless, is bound to get me ridiculed.

At least the TalkRadar podcast keeping my entertained on my iPod.

We have practice tonight for Boys Down the Hall. We have three upcoming performances and we're working hard so we sound great. We're currently working on learning a new song, Irish Blessing. Jeremy found a new guy who wanted to join us and was supposed to come tonight, but because of a family emergency, we won't see him until after break.

I really don't want to pack up my stuff tomorrow, it's such a pain to unhook my Wii and stuff to bring it home. Especially my Guitar Hero World Tour set. The guitars are easy to carry around, but now I have this big drum set to bring home with me as well along with my laptop, clothes, the gerbs, and whatever else I need....AHHH!!!!!

I'm not being allowed to be the late-night DRO next semester at Lakeside. Even though I'm one of the best ones they have, apparently because the managers have it out for me, they've requested to Shannon that I not be DRO. That's ok, I'm applying to be a Computer Technician in Scales hall for next semester which is the exact same job I already do for CTS. If I get that, I'm quitting lakeside. If not, I'll still have all my CTS hours for next semester, and I'll have to be a late-night server for lakeside which I'm really sick of working late-night. I never have time to get anything done when I'm working at late-night. All time evening time is sucked away by working then and it really sucks.

Anyway, I'm sick of ranting and I'm done now.

BLAH

Extremely tired...kind of stressed about Boys Down the Hall, kind of but not really. Just really wiped out. I need to sleep. Ugh

Oh, GameFly sent me Wii Music and Pokemon Ranger: Shadows of Alma today on the new subscription that I have in Amber's name now lol.

We have two upcoming BDTH performances:

December 7th - The Feast of Carols
December 13th - Christmas Cabaret

Be sure to come see us perform!

Well it's official. With John McCain's concession speech, Barack Obama has been elected the 44th president of the United States of America. YES WE CAN!!





I went home to vote yesterday for the first time. The voting booth was a lot more complicated than I expected, but the only thing that mattered to me was my vote for Obama. I haven't been in Auburn for months so I had no idea who the people running for all of the other offices were. I picked up my winter clothes (which were covered in mold from the closet...) and movies from my house after I voted and I brought Amber to vote afterwards. We stopped at her house when she was done to wish her Mom a happy birthday (this Saturday) and give her the cake she made and present she bought her. We got fast food for dinner before heading back to Oswego  so I could make it to work at 8:30. Other than Thanksgiving at the end of the month, I'm pretty sure there's nothing else exciting happening for the rest of November.

We've had two opportunites to perform for Boys Down the Hall and we haven't been able to do either of them. We were originally supposed to sing at the open house next Tuesday, but Todd Graber (our staff advisor) doesn't feel we're ready yet. Instead he gave us the opportunity to sing Friday before the choir concert, but we're not doing that either. Jeremy's busy with something else and Scott's going out town. Without our two soloist, it's kind of hard to perform (Jeremy: Run Around Sue, Scott: Take You Back and One). The only other chance we're going to have this semester to sing is at the Feast of Carols on Dec. 7th but we'll have to learn a festive song by then, meaning what we're doing now won't have purpose until next semester. I'm working on setting up auditions to get some more people before next semester but I'm still waiting on the response from my room reservation before I can put up the advertisements.

My free trial membership with Gamefly is almost up and instead of sending me the games on my list that I want to try out, they're sending me ones that I don't care about that much. I wanted to try out Wii Music as bad as it is, but instead of sending me that, they sent LittleBigPlanet for the PS3. LBP is a really interesting game and I'm glad I get to play it, but I still want to try out Wii Music. They are also currently sending me Samba De Amigo for the Wii instead of Ninjatown for the DS which I wanted more. When my subscription runs out, Chris bought the same pack of air heads I did so we can get the subscription again, but this time in his name. I just have to make sure I cancel it before the end of the school year otherwise he's gonna get charged for another month!

Well I'm at work and have about a half and hour left of my shift, so I'm gonna wrap things up here.

KayThanksBye...2!

Since I'm really lazy this is all you get:

Wednesday: Rocky Horror Show. Wasn't as good as last year.

Thursday: Drag Ball, some performers were awesome, some were better last year.

Friday: I dressed up as Dr. House, pics on Myspace/Facebook and we went to Bryan Westling's party for a little while before getting bored and getting Enzo's pizza and eating it at home.

Saturday: Work: I got to do DRO instead of serving. BDtH practice: We auditioned off the solo in One, Scott and I auditioned, Scott got it. We also reaudtioned off the solo in Run Around Sue, Jeremy, Bryan, and I auditioned, Jeremy got it. I'm kind of upset about it.


Like I said. I'm feeling lazy.

I don't know what to do anymore, I'm sick of math. After getting such a low grade on my last test, I tried to work harder for the next time. I did all my homework and paid better attention in class. I really understood the concepts of these few chapters. Well apparently I didn't because I got to the test today and I'm pretty sure I bombed it. All that work I did learning the concepts was useless because it was never used on the test as far as I could tell. I could be wrong, but it was not the same as we did for homework. We might have learned the stuff on the test, but it definitely wasn't what I've been working on. So I wasted my time and I probably failed it. I need this class for my major and I really don't want to retake it again. 

On a brighter side, Dome was yesterday. Auburn came in 3rd place which everyone I spoke to was disappointed with. I would have loved to get 3rd place when I was in the band. It was Jenn's last time with the band and I recorded the whole thing. I haven't gotten around to editing it and uploading it online yet but I'll do it eventually.

I got Guitar Hero: World Tour Sunday morning at midnight. Amber, Chris, Jess and I took a trip to Walmart in Fulton to see if I could get a copy of the game. When we got there, there was a big line and I was heartbroken when I heard they only got one copy of each system's band kit in. Somehow, amazingly, I was the only one there who wanted the Wii Band kit, so I went from the back of the line right to the front while everyone else fought over who was getting the only PS2/PS3/360 versions. Until this morning I was convinced my drum set was broken. Many many people have been reporting that the red drum pad on the set didn't work all the time and when I was playing my set I noticed this to be true.Apparently I was just being a hypochrondriac because after playing around with the set for a couple hours this morning I realized it was the pad, it was me. It's tough to hit the yellow cymbal and the red pad at the same time as is required in almost every song. It's tough, but it doesn't mean the set was broken. I finally figured out the technique to make it work. Now I can happily report that the only glitch I'm having with the game is the occasional hiccup the guitar has where it will strum with you doing anything causing it to break your combo and mess you up.

Saturday we had BDtH rehearsal at Garrett's house. I lost my Run Around Sue solo because of a freak occurance where I couldn't hit the high notes. I've been perfectly fine every other time, but for some reason I couldn't do it. Instead they're having Frank do it which is insane considering he's a bass and I'm a tenor II.  We got a new member as well, Rob Kristal, a tenor I.

Friday was the Ball in the House concert. Those guys are amazing. They sang a lot of stuff I don't remember from last year. I got almost the whole show on tape but my battery died 57 mins in so I missed the end of the concert. Their VP guy, Johnny wasn't there on account of his wife having a baby three weeks ago and the replacement's name was Steve. They sang us a couple songs off of their upcoming Christmas album, due out mid-November. Afterwards we went to Bridie Manor and hung out with them there like we did last year. How many award winning bands will hang out with you after their show? That's what makes these guys so great. On the way to the bar, as we were walking to Garrett's car, Amber fell and sprained her ankle. She went to the hospital on Saturday and she's on crutches now.

Earlier in the week we had a "chat" with Chris about all his baby stuff. When I say we, I mean Amber, Scott, Jeremy, and I. Steve, Scott's roommate was there too but wasn't talking that much. We were basically lecturing him about what's going to happen if he doesn't get his act together and get a job. We talked outside for quite a bit until Jeremy went back to Riggs and we went inside. Scott and Chris left while Amber, Steve, and I continued talking in the stairwell until Scott came back and we moved our discussion into the main lounge. Chris eventually came down to the lounge and we basically went back to what we were talking to him about before. You'd think after all the yelling we did and lecturing we attempted to give him he would have gone out and tried to get a job right? Well he didn't and isn't. Apparently his parents think it would be stupid for him to work now because he needs to focus on his classes. For a few days I was extremely pissed and hostile towards him for completely going against what we advised but I've gotten over it. I've tried to help and he's not having any part of it so I've stopped caring. So has everyone else. I'm not yelling, but I don't support him. I can't possibly support him if he's not going to listen to us and take our advice.

I'm having major car trouble. My battery died again. We tried jumping it before and it worked but we assume the reason it died in the first place was because of my Sirius radio. Well it died again and my radio wasn't even plugged in. I need to find a place in town to buy a new battery and a place to install it for me (hopefully one in the same) because I have no idea how to do it.

I've still got a ton of time at work left and nothing much else to do. I like how livejournal's calling itself Undeadjournal this week in honor of Halloween. I still don't have a costume yet...

Schedule of events this week: 
Tuesday: Working at Lakeside
Wednesday: Supposed to work at Lakeside but going to try to find a sub because there is another Rocky Horror Show being held in the campus center like last year.
Thursday: BDtH practice and the Drag Ball. Probably going to have practice earlier so we can go.
Friday: Halloween! I'm invited to a party at Bryan's house (he's in BDtH and I work with him at Lakeside) so that should be fun.
Saturday: Lakeside work and BDtH rehearsal.

Well here's a new place to be updating from...I'm in Meteorology class right now being bored to tears by Professor Steve Skubis. I was awoken by Amber calling my cell phone and waking me up this morning. It was annoying at the time, but I'm grateful because I probably wouldn't have gotten up otherwise. She wanted to go to Cooper for breakfast. I got dressed a went off the Cooper (in the rain) to meet her. Now I'm sitting here on my laptop in what is pretty much the most boring class I'm taking this semester. It's amazing, Skubis is so loud and excited about this stuff, yet I'm still bored and it puts me to sleep lol.

I spent all yesterday working on my ENG 220 essay. It's due Wednesday and because of my procrastination, I hadn't started it yet. I've got the rough draft done, I just need to edit it for tomorrow.

We had Boys Down the Hall practice last night, it went alright, but we had a rude awakening by Emily. She's the girl who basically comes in and tells us how much we suck. We're stopping work on One for now, and we'll be coming back to it after we make Run Around Sue (which I'm doing the entire solo for now) and Take You Back (the new song we started on Saturday).

This past weekend was Family and Friends weekend and Amber's mom came up to visit us on Sunday. She took us to the movies and we saw Sex Drive. Afterwards we went to Price Chopper and got some groceries.

Last friday was the first home hockey game of the season. The US National Team took on the Oswego Lakers. They were assumed to be much better than us, but we did pretty well considering their skill. We were tied until the end of the game when it went into overtime. During overtime the visitors scored within 12 seconds to win the game. There is another game this friday, but i'll be attending something much better. Ball in the House is coming back for another concert on friday! There is also a statewide acapella conference being held here all day friday which leads up to their concert at night.

I won a free 1 month, 2 games out at a time subscription to GameFly (the video game equivalent to NetFlix) out of a pack of airheads the other day. I got my first two games yesterday: Wario Land: Shake It!  and Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood.

Class is almost over so I might as well wrap this up.

Kay
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