Jessy

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nobody@vox.com(So Jessy) — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:38:12 -0700

I suck at coming up with interesting titles for my blog posts. Yesterday I chose hola and today I'm using hi. So original. Maybe tomorrow (yes tomorrow!) I'll use ciao.

I'm trying so hard to update almost everyday. Because skipping several months is bad. I've been blogging since the beginning of highschool (but on livejournal) and it is fun to go back and read my entries. So I must write more often.

Nothing particularly interesting ever really happens in my life, but I'm sure I'll find something to yack about on here everyday. I wonder, is everyday one word or two?

I just got done writing an article for the school newspaper. My journalism class this semester isn't how I thought it would be. To put it simply, I've found I don't particularly like the journalistic form of writing.

For one thing, you have to follow a strict format. Grammar and punctuation is different from, say, essay or blog writing. You can't include your opinion (!), and if you do it's called editorializing.

The biggy for me is editorializing. I have lots of opinions, and it kills me to have to suppress them and portray an unbiased point of view. I've lost many points on articles for editorializing-- but I will admit it is getting easier, the more I write articles, to suppress my urge to tell the world what I think.

The reasons above are why I decided to drop journalism as my minor. To me it's a very dry form of writing. Dry and boring. I can't imagine having to be a journalist. It's not for me.

However, the class is beneficial because it is interesting learning about these things. It's also fun to read newspaper articles now and see how the journalist made a mistake in the format and stuff like that.

Oh, and I've decided that I want Obama to be the democratic candidate for President. I would love a female president, but I really do not like Hilary. At all. If she ends up being the democratic candidate, I won't vote in the election. Because the republican candidate will most likely be McCain, and I get a bad feeling from that man too.

I do think that whoever the democratic candidate ends up being will be the president. I have an inkling that most people are sick of Bush, sick of republicans, and thus will vote democrat regardless of who it is.

But it better be Obama. Or I'm moving to Canada.

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Hola

nobody@vox.com(So Jessy) — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:30:29 -0700

I write this entry while listening to the Prague Symphony No. 38 by Mozart, courtesy of youtube.

I'm being tested on the darn thing in my music class this Friday, so I have to torture myself and listen to it constantly.

Look how ca-yooooot Hamlet is!

EW. So today Hamlet and I were lying on the couch, watching the finale of the Biggest Loser (go ALI!) and he proceeded to throw up all over me and the couch. Big chunks of food! I don't understand why he doesn't chew his food thouroughly.

I almost had a heart attack yesterday. So I was in at school in Turlock, and before going home I remembered I had to feed my dad's cat because he's in Vegas this week. I jumped on 99, got off the freeway two exits early so I could deposit my very last check (tear* still no new job) and then proceeded through the back roads to get to my dad's house. Well I had this complete and utter idiot in front of me, he kept on braking for absolutely no reason! I decided to pass him up instead of dealing with him, so I sped up, passed up the stupid car, and got back in my original lane, and was going nearly 50 mph in a 35 mph zone, when a cop decided to pull me over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was nearly in tears, no joke. Here's me, no job, just put her last measly little $150 check in the bank, and I get pulled over! All I could think of was a $200 ticket, how can I PAY for that? Plus traffic school, which is bound to be at least $30.

The cop comes strolling over, and I roll down my window and say, "Hi" like I just won the lottery. I was nervous and freaked out though! I show him my driver's license and registration, and then he notices that I'm not wearing my seatbelt the 'correct' way. LAJSDFLKJSDLFKJ.

Luckily, the cop thought I was nice (finally my goody-two shoes personality pays off) and only gave me a ticket for the seatbelt!!!

Woo hoo!

So I am still going to have to pay some sort of fine, but it should only be around $20. Also, a seatbelt fine doesn't put any points on my record, so insurance won't go up or anything.

And NO MORE SPEEDING FOR ME. At least until I get a job, haha. That was just too freaky for me, I don't know if I could bare it again.

I just felt completely sick to my stomach after that. I know it sounds crazy, people get tickets for speeding all the time. I just felt sick I suppose because of the money issue. And, well, I hate getting in trouble. Truth be told, I like the idea that everyone thinks I'm perfect. =D lol.

To top off everything, on my way home I witnessed an accident, but from fairly far away though. I still had to drive right by it, and the drivers side door was all smashed in and there was glass everywhere. I had lots of cars behind me so I couldn't stop and be nosy, but once I got passed it an ambulance and police drove by me, so the people in the car must have been in some sort of critical condition.

So yeah. That must be a sign that if I keep speeding I will end up in a horrible accident.

On to happier things now.

My birthday is in (counts on fingers...) fifteen days!! No more teenage-erhood!

Ah, and also yesterday I went and bought my mom a carton of cigarrettes, and I got carded. WTF. I have bought cigarrettes for her many, many times and not once have I gotten carded. I did get an early happy birthday from the cashier though. Made me smile. I lurrve birthdays.

You know, I really like the third movement of the Prague Symphony best. Listen here, if you care.

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nobody@vox.com(So Jessy) — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:38:12 -0700

How have I only updated twice this year??

It's not like I've been busy or anything.

I guess I should do a little recap of my life since the beginning of January.

At the end of January I finished my philosophy class. I recieved an A in the class (yay!), and even though I hated the essay writing, I really did enjoy the class. In fact, I enjoyed it so much I changed my minor from Journalism to Philosophy.

Then I had a little two week break off of school, and during this time I found a new job. The new job was at a restaurant called Etouffee, and I was hired as an assistant server. They opened at the end of February, but business was slow from the very beginning. Last Wednesday I got laid off because they weren't getting enough business.

So the job hunt is still on.

I'm kind of pissed about losing the job because we were required to wear nice clothing, kind of like the kind of clothing one might wear to a club or something. Because I don't really own clothes like that I went out and dropped $120 on two outfits. So now I've got to try to sell them on ebay or something.

In mid-February school started again. School is BORING. If I don't get all A's, it'll be because my classes were too easy so I slacked off.

Since mid-February, nothing special has happened.

Hamlet started and finished puppy school, and he passed his CGC (Canine Good Citizen) test just two weeks ago. I was proud =).

Along with me losing my job this week, my mom also lost her job. Yes, the driving school finally went out of business.

I've been feeling really stressed the past few days, because with both of us without jobs how are we going to pay for anything!?

Mom isn't stressed though. She went today to go take this state test so she can be an office technician. If she gets hired by the state she will have good pay, benefits, and paid vacation. She seems to think that she will be hired, but what if she doesn't??

Stress, stress, stress.

Not only that, but I've recently decided that I really would like to study abroad my last year of college (which would be the 09-10 year).

Which brings me to more stress.

Financial aid should cover the vast majority of my expenses, including tuition and other fees. But I still need a job to save up money for airfare, living expenses, etc.

Where I want to study abroad is in the UK. But the universities that are apart of my school's study abroad program do not offer a Communications major. So I would have to study primarily my minor and GE courses. Which means that over the next year I will need to complete all of my major requirements. And added up they are equal to 14 classes!

So I will be very, very busy over the next year.

Tonight I am going to see the play "Picasso at the Lapin Agile" on campus.

And tomorrow I am spending the day with my dad.

And hopefully Best Buy will call me back with a job offer on Monday... I went in for an interview yesterday!

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