Okay Mrs. Green, I'm really sorry to do this to you, but you said this was a place where we could vent. Well, I'm about ready to scream because of all this work we have to do for the book. I have been working so long on all of this stuff and I'm still not done. It's currently 9:03 and I am first eating dinner - while I'm doing my essay writing homework though. I still have to write more dialogue journals and skim the book again to make sure I didn't miss any major annotating sections. This is so frustrating because I have so much homework in every class. Yesterday, I did homework for 6 hours! That's ridiculous. I'm sorry, it is partially my fault - actually, mostly my fault, but at the same time, I didn't realize the one part of the packet was due Thursday so I haven't even started that. Plus, I want the extra credit, and most of the study questions couldn't be answered until the end of the book. The rough driaft is going to kill me. I have no time to sit and right a paper. To make things even worse, the books that I put on hold at the library were no help to me. I'm basically skrewed for this class.

I did the walk of shame toady…in a Patriots jersey. I lost the bet to Mike. I avoided him as long as I could but he eventually tracked me down during essay writing. I couldn’t believe that they lost! It was awful walking in the hallways. People are so cruel in our school. I mean honestly, did someone have to yell “F--- you. F--- The Patriots”. Was that really necessary? It’s just a jersey and people were really upset about it though. I mean, it was a tough loss though. I had everyone over to watch the game and it was really intense at my house. I was just frustrated because I honestly thought the bears would pull away with a victory on this one. It stinks because now we’ve seen what they can do against a good team. The future isn’t looking so good right now for them. However, we shouldn’t be complaining to much, they are only nine and two. It’s sad how much pressure we are putting on them and how much we are analyzing one lose. We are way to tough on our sports teams.

I’m going to set the record straight – I am a RED SOX fan. Not a NEW ENGLAND fan. I hate it when people say that I’m a fair weather fan. They have no idea how long or how much I have loved the Red Sox for. Some people assume that I’m obsessed with Boston, but I’ve actually never even been there before. All this weekend, people have been assuming that I’m rooting for the Patriots against the bears. That’s totally not true. I’ll fill you in on the scoop for why I like the Red Sox. See, when I was a kid, my dad was a die hard white sox fan. My mom was a die hard cub fan. I cannot even begin to describe how frustrating that is. You don’t know who to side with because either way you’re going to make one of your parents mad. So eventually, I’d say about the start of middle school, I decided to pick a new team to root for. It works out well because now we all root for different teams and get along just fine.

For the first time in my whole high school career, I went to a basketball game at Central. It was a lot of fun. Unfortunately though, the girls lost. Actually, I don’t even think that’s the right word. They were crushed. I felt so bad for them. It wasn’t like they were bad; the other team was just amazing. And the fact that the other team couldn’t miss a shot wasn’t helping. At halftime they were already down by fifteen points. It seemed at first like they might come back and at least make it close. They ended up losing by more than twenty. The girls went out there and showed honest effort, but it just didn’t play out well. One girl almost go a technical foul too, because she shoved someone. It wasn't the greatest moment of the game. I think Nuesbaum yelled at them in the locker room for a good fifteen minutes after the game. Boy am I glad I wasn’t in there.

Matt and I have this bet going on with our friend Mike. He’s a really big Patriots fan and we’re betting the bears will beat them on Sunday. The loser has to wear the opposite teams jersey Monday at school. I am fully expecting Mike to be geared up in orange and blue in two days. I’m going to have everyone over to watch the game (minus Mike coincidently – his family from New England is in so they are going to watch the game together), and it is going to be one heck of a game. I’m super excited because this is actually a team the bears could lose to. I don’t think that they will, but it definitely will be a challenge and a really interesting game for us to watch. GO BEARS!

Babysitting last night was so much fun! Seriously, I haven’t had that much fun in a really long time with little kids. When I got there, they were so excited to see me I swear they almost peed in their pants. After eating dinner, which consisted of the previous days thanksgiving dinner (which was amazing), we sang karaoke. Not little kid karaoke like old McDonald or anything but really stuff by ac/dc and aerosmith and Kelly Clarkson. It was so much fun. We just goofed around dancing and singing for more than three hours before it was time for them to go to bed. I really wish I could do stuff like this more often.

My dad bought us Dance Dance Revolution a while ago. It’s basically one of the few games I can actually play on playstation. I love playing it because your not sitting on your but playing video games, your up dancing (actually its more of a stomping game, but you get the idea) and you get exercise doing it. Well, I played this game that is similar to it recently. It’s called Guitar Hero. This game is amazing. You have a guitar that you hold and you have to strum along with it and try and keep up with the game. This game is to addicting. How did someone ever come up with that idea? It’s simply amazing. I played it for almost an hour straight before I had to stop because my fingers were tired. I can’t believe I’m going to say this, but I love video games.

Ahh…the day after thanksgiving. It’s so nice to wake up after stuffing yourself full of food. We had a really good time last night. We just went to my cousin’s house. Actually, second cousin, but does it really matter? Anyways, so it was just my family and a few others. It was very quiet but we had a lot of fun just catching up with each other. Usually there are ten kids under the age of 8 running around which makes it really annoying. I ate so much food, I almost threw up. Luckily that didn’t happen. Today we are getting ready to put up Christmas lights, which I don’t really like doing. It’s so boring. Plus, we had to cut down most of our trees, so we don’t have that many lights. Our house tends to look pretty goofy but trust me I’ve seen worse.

This is the last time I'm going to have to study for finals. After this semester, we don't really have finals as seniors. I remember when I was a freshman, I was so nervous the first time around. I studied religously for three weeks before hand and still didn't do that fantastic on my finals. I got all B's but I was like, if I studied for that long, how come I don't have better grades? It went downhill from there. I've been studing less and less each semester (with the except of biology last year) ever since. But I work hard enough during the school year that I don't really have to worry too much about my grades. I'm so ready for this semester to be over. I don't want to sit through another day of marketing, its really starting to make me mad. I almost hit a sophomore in class today because he was too busy talking to bother paying attention to what my teacher said. I'm so ready to get out of here.

Happy Feet = the movie of my life. This movie is seriously one of the best movies I have ever seen. I went with my entire family to go see it, which is rare because we never are home at the same time. Everyone in my family is obsessed with it. I was so happy to see this movie come out because its actually a movie that the whole family can go see. I feel that lately all the movies that come out have to deal with sex, drugs and violence and that they are really only targeted towards on audience. I hope that I start to see more of these movies coming out because I loved spending time with my family. After the movie, we went to Chili’s for dinner, which was kind of awkward because they had to spilt my family into two groups of two and four but it all worked out in the end. It was such a nice end to my weekend and I hope that this good spirit continues over to thanksgiving.

I got tickets to the Red Hot Chili Peppers this morning. I am so excited. I woke up at 8 oclock so I was sure I would get them when they went on sale at 10 and I still didn't even get that good of seats. We are in the second level of the allstate arena. I'm not complaining though, because I love the chili peppers. What I'm upset at though is how my friends and I aren't all going to get to sit next to each other. When I got on the computer this morning, I found out that we could only buy four tickets and we needed six. It was really annoying because I had to call my friends mom to buy the other three tickets. It stinks because if we would have known about this, we could have planned better and not had to deal with this early in the morning. I'm afraid my friends are going to get mad at me though because we aren't sitting next to each other. Oh well, hopefully we'll still have fun at the concert.

Just a two day weekend this time around, but next week will be amazing. It's so weird when we have two day weeks. It happens once a year but it's the one week everyone looks forward to. When we were in kindergarton, there used to be school on Wednesday, then in middle school the shortened it to an early dismissal, where we got out at like 1:30. But too many kids were leaving to go on vacation that day so they decided to give it off as well. Now the problem is that parents think, "Oh, just two days of school. My kids can miss that and we can go on vacation for a week instead of five days." Seriously, half my classes aren't in school during this week. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that by the time my eight year old brother gets to high school, we will be getting a week off for Thanksgiving. This is getting out of control.

I think that I might be one of the weirdest teenagers on the earth. I love to clean. Whenever I don't have a clean place to sit and watch tv, or do my homework in, I physically cannot function. As soon as I get hom from school, I can't help but clean up whatever mess was left that morning because I can't get anything done until its gone. My favorite thing to do is clean the dishes. I love washing dishes, for some reason I think that it is so much fun. Another thing I love to do is organize things. I have files for every piece of paper I get and color code all my school stuff. I'm anal when it comes to my laundry-I have to do it. If anyone else touches it, I get really mad. I organize it by color and iron everything (except socks). Is it just me, or am really the only kid that does this stuff?

It's offical. I have Senorities. All the time I think about graduating and going off to college. For example, I spent a good hour yesterday going through my ISU course description book finding all the classes I have to take for nursing. I'm not even sure where I'm going next year and I'm already deciding what classes to take. It's really frustrating being in school right now because I want to move on with my life. I feel that it's time to start something new and see a different place. College just seems like such a fun experience that i just can't wait to begin. They only thing that I'm worried about is missing my friends. My friends are a huge part of my life and I don't know what I am going to do without them. We are all going to go to different schools and it's going to be really sad without them there. I seriously don't know what I'm going to do without Rachel, shes my best friend. Aghh! Too much sad stuff. I'm going now to help with the dishes....

Yesterday was awful. I went home from school halfway through first period with a migrane and upset stomach. I didn't do anything all day. I basically sat on my couch and watched season 2 of friends on dvd, which i purchased at target for fifteen bucks...what a steal. I have so much work to make up now, I don't know when it's all going to get done. I hate missing school. I try so hard not to because in the end, it's really not worth all the extra work. If I am going to miss a day though, you have to make sure you take a good day off. I mean for me personally, I don't like it when my mom is at home because she just bugs me all day about laying down and going to bed. It's awful when you can't fall asleep and your mom won't let you do anything else. I really wish that there was a senior ditch day though, I'm not gonna lie. I think it would be so fun to just goof around one day and miss school. Just wait though...I'm sure we'll find someday to do one just to spite Mr. Caudill...

I just bought myself season 2 of friends on DVD. I typically don't buy stuff like this because it's really expensive, but it was on sale for $15. Watching the episodes make me laugh so hard. I have seen every episode at least twice, but somehow I still find them amusing even though I know what is going to happen. It's amazing that a show like that has captivated so many people over the years. I mean, I know of at least twenty people who are beyond obsessed with that show. Without that show, I would be lost. There are so many classic parts to that show. Sometimes, I can really see myself and my friends in the same situations. I feel that sometimes, we are the people of Friends. For example, my best friend Rachel is like Monica, so obsessed with organizing and staying on task. Carolyn is a lot like Phoebe. She is the crazy one who likes to go out and do whatever. I guess I'm kind of like Rachel. Not in the fashion or popular way, but because I tend to make a lot of stupid comments. For the guy, George is definetly Joey. He has all of the intentions of doing good, but just goofs around to much to get anything done. James is Chandler because he tags around George all the time but works hard when he needs to. He's also going out with Rachel so it works well, as Chandler and Monica got married on the show. Mike is the Ross of the group, because he's smart and fills our heads with useless information. George's basement is definetly the coffee shop of our lives, because we don't go a weekend without hanging out there. It's so weird that in a couple of months, just like on the show, we will be going our seperate ways.

We went to George's house today where we discovered that there is going to be a Red Hot Chili Peppers concert down at U of I. We were all talking and think that it would be so much fun to go down. The only problem is our parents. We would have to spend the night down at U of I because we don't want to drive back home at midnight. However, I would be the only girl going which would present a major problem if we stayed at Mike's brothers apartment. That doesn't look like that would be able to happen. It just stinks because we are so responsible and our parents just won't let us go down for one night. I understand where they are coming from, but honestly what are we going to do? If we did anything stupid, we would have to pay the consequences anyway because we'd all be 18. I don't get what the big deal is. Huh, life sucks sometimes.

I saw Borat for the second time last night. It was still just as funny as the first time. But this time, since I already knew what was going to happen, I looked at in a different way. I never knew until this week that the majority of that movie was unscripted, and now many of the people featured in the movie are sueing because they believed they have been portrayed in the wrong light. For example, a bunch of the drunk college students are sueing because they were caught saying racial and sexist slurs while under the influence of alcohol. They claimed that the producers liquored them up and didn't explain what was going on fully. Okay, now if that happened to me, I'm sure I would be upset, but at the same time you have to take some responsiblity for saying those things. I mean, what do you honestly expect when someone is filming you, that they aren't going to ever show anyone the footage? Seriously, I think they should just apologize and move on. Look at Mel Gibson, he did that and know everythings alright. Actually no, but you get the point.

Academic Endocrine, Metabolism and Nutrion Inc. - probably one of the most flexible places to ever have a job at. They let you come in whenever you want, for however long you want, and pay you way more than you would be getting working at Jewel. But it sucks a lot of the time too. First of all, there is no space anywhere in the office. There are charts all over the floors, or shoved in random places because we don't have any room for them. To make it even worse, there are piles of paper up to the ceiling that have to be filed. The doctor's and nurses come in everyday and complain that we aren't doing our jobs because the stuff isn't getting filed away. It's so frustrating because we have so many patients that there just isn't enough room or time to file all this stufff away. I'm just getting really sick of getting yelled at everytime I come in to work. It's so frustrating.

I am ready to pass out. I am so exhausted and I have no idea why. It stinks because I didn't get to go out last night and right now, it doesn't look like my friends are going to be doing anything tonight. The first four day weekend in over 2 months and my friends can't thieri acts together to do something. It's really frustrating. To make matters worse, work has been awful the past two days. We've been working so hard to file away randoms that I am beyond sick of the alphabet. Plus, I was the only one there this morning so it took me a long time to gets stuff done. I created a group on my facebook dedicated to the workers at the office. Let's just hope that the Dr's don't see it and get mad.

So last night we finally went out to celebrate my birthday…two weeks late. No, it was actually the best birthday I’ve had in a really long time. We went to TGI Fridays, which I had never been to before and it was really good. I had a cheesy bacon cheeseburger, meaning there was fried cheese on top of my burger. Healthy right? Well after we went to James’s house to hang out, or so I thought. When I got there, my friend George was waiting for me at the stairs and walks down with and yells “Mufasa”. Everyone keeps telling me to sit down and I’m getting really suspicious. All of a sudden Chris starts playing the party boy song and my friend (who shall remain nameless in case he doesn’t want this leaked out), comes out of the closest and does a fake strip dance. It was the funniest thing I had ever seen considering the fact that he is about 6 foot and weighs 130 lbs. Don’t worry, there was no nudity at all, but he just kept taking off layer after layer of sweatshirts. It was the funniest present I had ever gotten for my birthday.

I can't believe the bears lost. Especially because they lost to the Miami dolphins. It was awful. Sexy Rexy was not struting his stuff and they lost miserably to the lowly dolphins. The season has been going so well so far, I almost can't understand why they lost this game. At the same time though, you can't ber perfect. At least, it's very hard to be perfect. I don't whats going to happen in the next three games though, considering they have to play some really tough teams on the road. I have a bet with my friend Mike though that if the Bears lose to the Patriots, I'll wear a Patriots jersey, and if the Bears win, he'll wear a bears jersey. I really hope I don't have to be seen in the halls with that on.

So Friday night was a blast! We saw Borat, that new movie about someguy from kazigzstan or something. It was absolutely hilarious, except for one scene that was beyond disgusting. Anyway, that was amazing. Yesterday was the Fox Valley Dance showcase inwhich we went to Wabonsise to perform. If was a lot of fun. I always love hanging out with the girls on my orchesis team, they are all so much fun. We get along so well and just tell goofy stories the whole night. Our coach told us that if we did well, we wouldn't have practice on Wednesday, but she still won't tell us if we did well enough or not. Well, I'll definetly be writing back later because I've got to start finishing these blogs up. I did so good in the beginning but now I always forget. Oh well, I think I'll be okay.