I have the attention span of a small rodent.

That is all.

Today is “Study Monday” here at St. Thomas.   To some that means 24 hours of nonstop cramming in the stacks, to others, that means free food.  I fall in both categories.

Today I wrote two Philosophy papers in about two hours (no thanks to the people in my study group who were giving me crap about not having turned in the papers yet. I turned them in before midnight, which is when they were due, so you can all suck it).  I also went to a Philosophy study group as I just mentioned, and then wound up in the library studying for Econ with Phil.

At 10pm on Study Monday, St. Thomas has a “Late Breakfast.”  The school makes a big deal about it because the staff is serving the students the breakfast or whatever, so they spend my tuition money to pay for photographers to walk around snapping pictures of stressed, cranky students scarfing down soggy eggs while the mascot wanders around awkwardly high-fiving everyone in school colors.  I was just glad it was free 1) because I only have three meals left for the next two days and 2) it cushions the $41,000 blow of tuition.
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I hope all this shit fits in my van.

I cannot believe my first year of college is almost over. All my classes are done. Finals on Tuesday and Wednesday. This has been such an amazing year. The best part has definitely been my radio show. I cannot believe all of the amazing people I’ve met through my show.  I love the exec board.  So much.  I really hope I get to hang out with them more.  Hopefully the feeling is mutual.  I’ve also met a TON of really amazing bands.  My top three favorites are Kyle Dee from The Frantic, Justin Kwan from Isle of Thieves, and JD Perry from Valencia.  LOOOOOOOOOOVE.  I also got to interview Dan from Last Fast Action, Boone and Ebee of A Kidnap In Color, Bretty from The Frantic, and Japeth of Isle of Thieves, AND Danger Is My Middle Name even came into the studio.  I’m beyond stoked, and I hope I can stay in touch with as many of these guys as possible.

I am going home on Wednesday and…IIIIIIIIIIIII could not be more excited.

College has been great, don’t get me wrong, but my heard belongs in Chicago. Yeah, whatever, I’m from the suburbs, but the entire Chicagoland means the world to me.  No matter how far I travel or how long I’m gone, Chicago will always be my home.  I plan on moving back as soon as I’m done with school.  It trumps any city I’ve ever been to, and yeah, I’ve been to New York.  Chicago is better.  Sorry.

There are like ten million concerts I have to go to this summer.  OMG!  I’M GOING TO IRELAND THIS SUMMER.  FOR LIKE A MONTH.  Be prepared for better blogging and lots of pictures.  Also, I will do my best not to delete all my posts again.

love,
annie

Two weekends ago, I went to my friend Haley’s house in Northfield. I spent the weekend there, and, just before leaving, we watched it. IT WAS FANTASTIC.

I got this idea from Maia. I’ve always had lists of goals or just things I wanted to do, but they were always like “Things to do before I die” which is stupid, because I don’t know when I’m going to die. Now I’ve got an actual deadline with reasonable goals.

1. Inspire a song.
2. Learn to cook five new meals (0/5).
3. Walk from my house to the loop.
4. Go somewhere where I don’t know a single person.
5. Make a new friend at #4.
6. Finish a book without skipping pages.
7. Go on tour with a band and sell their merch.
8. Learn to let go of the things I cannot control.
9. Get a 3.4 GPA.
10. Go to Europe.
11. Buy flowers for my mom.
12. Drink a pint of Guinness in Ireland.
13. Date a man with an accent.
14. Have a five minute conversation in another language.
15. Sketch my brothers.
16. Take a photo a week for six months.
17. Understand how to use public transportation in the Twin Cities.
18. Go camping with Teeg and Adam.
19. Get involved in a political demonstration.
20. Cause havoc.
21. Live a day with no regrets.
22. Go sky diving.
23. Kiss in the rain.
24. Write a love song.
25. See a really shitty movie with my best friends.
26. Guerilla gardening in Action Heights.
27. Explore an abandoned building.
28. Ride on top of a train.
29. Graffiti something.
30. Knit a sweater.
31. Crochet a blanket big enough for my futon.
32. Invest in a Tempurpedic mattress.
33. Know what it’s like to really be in love.
34. Be comfortable with my body – get healthy.
35. Get a tattoo that really means something to me.
36. Win something.
37. Publish a book.
38. Identify 100 things that make me happy – with photo documentation (0/100)
39. Get lost in a corn field.
40. Tip a cow.
41. Straighten my hair and walk around like that in public.
42. Take pictures with someone I care about in a photobooth.
43. Swim in a fountain.
44. Later fill that fountain with dishwashing soap.
45. Touch an emu.
46. Conquer my fear of heights.
47. Hike up a mountain.
48. Sleep on the beach.
49. Record a song.
50. Do 100 random acts of kindness (0/100).
51. Stand front row at a house show.
52. Go to a show for some bands I’ve never heard of.
53. Cause a drunken scene (when I’m old enough to drink…).
54. Hitchhike to another country.
55. Kiss the blarney stone.
56. Have a FAF marathon with Kathleen.
57. Go somewhere in Chicago I probably shouldn’t be.
58. Eat a weird fruit.
59. Work as a waitress.
60. Ride a motorcycle.
61. Re-learn stick shift.
62. Find that one shack in Beaver Island again and actually go inside this time.
63. See a band play in another country.
64. Start a business.
65. Make an app for a cell phone.
66. Learn to salsa dance.
67. Sing at a karaoke bar.
68. Fall in love in Ireland.
69. Go to a Bears game.
70. See the Princess Bride movie.
71. Have a Star Wars movie marathon with some of my man friends.
72. Try a weird food when I’m abroad.
73. Get into a physical fight and win.
74. Mosh.
75. Join a random club at school and actually attend meetings.
76. Do a photoshoot involving calligraphy and old buildings.
77. Create an unconventional piece of artwork.
78. Make a quilt out of my high school t-shirts.
79. Visit Sam.
80. Have a tea party with my cousin Katie.
81. Go to Mahoment to chill with my cousins down there.
82. Go to the zoo with a bunch of my friends.
83. See all the bands at Frontier Days.
84. Make pancakes at someone else’s house.
85. Attend mass at a cathedral.
86. Volunteer at six places that make me a little uncomfortable (0/6).
87. Complete a song in Rockband on expert.
88. Spend a day playing videogames with my brothers.
89. Learn to throw a frisbee well.
90. Learn to whistle.
91. Play a hackey sack game without getting laughed at.
92. Hold hands with a stranger.
93. Do something my grandmother would be proud of.
94. Do something I will never tell my children.
95. Live at home without a curfew.
96. Stand in the middle of a highway.
97. Tell someone I dislike how I REALLY feel about them.
98. Let go of a balloon with my email address on it so I can find out how far it got.
99. Plant wild flowers along the road in Michigan.
100. Make a noticeable difference in someone’s life.
101. Do all 100 and not change or skimp out on any of them in the 1001-day period unless something insanely radical prevents me from doing so (i.e. emus become extinct before I can touch one.)

Updated: 12/13/2010