Welcome to the town of Procrastination...

Population: ME

I have 4 days of class until I'm on spring break. In those four days of class, I have 1 weekly reading reaction paper (1-2 pages), 1 weekly reading reflection (1-2 paragraphs), 1 critical analysis paper (3-5 pages), 1 quest (longer than a quiz, shorter than a test), and 1 test.

THEN I HAVE 10 DAYS OFF OF SCHOOL!

Then I have 7 weeks of school until I graduate!

Spring break is going to do one of two things to me:
1. I'm going to be super dedicated to school and get everything done and not skip class and be a perfect student until I graduate.
-OR-
2. I'm just not going to care anymore, and literally count every single day until I graduate because I'm ready for it to be over.

Let's hope it's the first one.

I suppose I'm off to get to work on all that homework...

<3 Amber Marie

p.s. 63 days until graduation!

The Tradition Continues!

Oh. My. Goodness. I cannot believe it is happening again.

Heather is another year older.

Were you not just nine years old??

Seriously, this is not cool.

You are making me feel old.

I do not like that feeling.

Such is life, I suppose.

So, Heather. Happy birthday.

Congratulations on being another year older.

I am glad to have been a part of your growing up.

I just cannot believe how old you are.

Anyway, love you, my beautiful friend.

<3 Amber Marie

p.s. Ashley and I was just discussing how old certain little kids that we used to watch in children's church are getting, so it's not just you who is making my 21 years of life seem like so much longer. :)

p.p.s. This one was a lot sappier than past years...I guess that comes with old age... ;)

Well...

...I got my first grad school rejection. I'm not going to Virginia. I thought I'd be more upset. But I'm kind of just like, eh.

So, yeah. That happened.

I don't know what to say.

<3 Amber Marie

A Day in the Life of a Senior in College in Chicago

6 inches of snow.

5 hours of studying.

4 hours of sleep.

3 tests.

2 instances of catastophizing.

1 day from hell.

I'm Proud of Myself

I'm sorry, I can't help it. I am proud that I have managed to keep up with the blog for the past month. Sure, I'm not posting every day, but this post makes half as many as I did the whole year last year, so I think that's progress. :)

Anyway, so the real reason I'm posting today is because it's February! It means that I have 1) survived the first month of 2014, 2) survived two weeks of my last undergraduate semester, and 3) made it one month closer to graduation! (88 days, by the way.)

I think I am getting back into the swing of school, and I am managing okay. It's not perfection, and it could be better, but I feel a lot better than I did three weeks ago.

One thing that I feel the same about now as I did three weeks ago is the weather. Okay, I understand that I live in Chicago. I understand; it gets cold, and it snows. But this whole 'polar vortex' thing needs to go back to Canada. I am sorry to my Canadian friends, but I just can't handle it anymore. I'm tired of 20 degree weather, like today, being a heat wave. This is NOT a heat wave. I want the light jacket weather that we skipped back in September and October. Seriously, it was over 90 degrees on my birthday and by Halloween, we had freezing temperatures. That's not fair! :(

So, basically, I want winter to end now because we were cheated out of fall.

<3 Amber Marie