Yikes for the weather, which is trying to blow the east coast away!

It was nice to get out of my first class anyway! ~_^ The lights were flickering and suddenly the projection screen switches off with a flash that can't be good for it. The professor looks at it and says how the computer still works. There is a slight beeping sound along with slightly dimmer (but still on) lights. We're on backup power for the building. It is one of the newer ones & luckily, it has a backup generator to protect the computers. She let us out early, and we all went bouncing on different ways.

I'm in the middle of getting the basics of the documents I must analyze and do a memo on, but the website for the documents is being just a little slow. Heh, at least that means I have an excuse to write a short journal entry. I'll give my POV on the Spring Break FL trip a little later.

I'm not that stressed, but with the end of the semester, things are starting to get a little crazy. I'm already bouncing off the walls and slightly overreacting to everything that's happening. I'm being good at hiding it, but I swear, my internal dialogue would be hilarious and a little offensive at the same time. Oh, well, you can't fight your own subconscious, and my mind is a little different than the norm.

Anyway, this is getting a little long, so I'll end this for now.

God Bless those who care to read,

~Karen

Ah ha,

A little stressin' (I've been doing that ALOT lately-I'm freaking out and probably should be taking deep breathes or burnin-ah let's not have fun with fire-listening to soothing music), so this is a drabble...


I have a German Quiz tomorrow & a bunch of Hausaufgabe (homework-translation for everyone but Ale! ~_^) on Chapter 5 (which the quiz is on) still to do. I need to finish a lab write up too BUT I'm too distracted. ^^U

My God, I should be listening to German audio and answering questions, yet I'm listening to Breaking Benjamin, Ana Johnsson (yeah, only 1 'n' in Anna, whoops for previous-should edit that), Alice in Chains, Linkin Park and The Fray. Yeah for ITunes player...XD

Anyway, I'm wasting time I don't have-well at least one quiz can be dropped if I completely bomb it, but I must do the workbook questions then correct them with the answer key.

Oh well, I'll get it done, though I don't think I'll be getting alot of sleep. Haha...T_T

I should go do that now, hm?

God Bless,

~Karen

Ah,

It's our birthday actually since I'm a triplet as you all know. ~_^ Wow, I'm 22 years old now though I don't look it. I think I'll amuse myself by making people guess my age (hey, they should be nice since it's my birthday).

Hmm...I was born a little after 1 am in California, though it's 1:13 am over here, it's eastern time. Technically I have not quite 3 hours until I'm physically 22 but hey, that doesn't count.

I'm 22 years old and it's in the middle of the week. grr...have to wait until the weekend to have some sort of a party. Oh well, I don't care really.

I'm just happy!!! ^_^

~God Bless
~*Karen

Yeah, I need to actually write about what's been up with my life but I'm having fun doing quizzes. I'm continually getting the wind element/angel/emotion...my eyes should be blue (hey they got it right!), I'm the light angel & when looking through a darker world I'm magical being that's not really evil (I already knew that, thank you). The first one is what I should look like. What is with the LONG hair? *stares at her neck length hair* ( What I'd look like-Anime Style ) ( What fairy type are you? ) ( true eye color ) ( Are you the light or dark side of what element? ) I'm WHAT?! ( What elemental angel are you? ) Not the wind but my result is not surprising (not much anyway)...XD And this is enough quizzes for now!!!! ~God Bless, Karen

Ahahahahaha, I am totally stuck in lalalalalalalaalalalalalalalalala land! And I found also interesting quiz. Does anyone agree with the results~man we all need to get together since ppl are already disapppearing on us!!! Anyway here the quz result just for me:

What would you be in your anime? ( Read memo!!Sequel to Genres girls, pics)

You would be the heroine!! You are brave and tough. You let nothing stand in your way. You are nice and loyal to your friends as well. Loyalty means alot to you! Only message if you want too!!!!
Take this quiz!

~AWESOME, I'm a kick @ss girl with an incredible swords and outfit. She even has my blue eyes (minus my exrta uniqe silver rings)~
God Bless &  mtfbwy
Karen

Aha,

In my next journal update I'll detail the four day trip to California for my granpa's funeral (he died on June 8, 2006 T_T I swear to God I'm totally disliking the year 2006)...

Right now, I'm obessed with Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children-probably because I love Final fantasy VII. Yes, I actually played that game since my brother bought it. It was fun and my brother refused to let me watch him over his shoulder. It made him so mad that I was getting the storyline without actually playing. So I was forced to play it myself if I wanted to know the ending (yes he was evil to me even smirking in the background as I tried not to die in the very beginning).

I took a quiz (yes, what is it with me & quizzes? It's really early in the morning, I'm just bored and crazy & it makes life interesting)...







Which FF Character Are You?

Yay, I got Cloud. He is my fav character of all Final Fantasy games (though I had only played 3 of them-watched my brother over his shoulder for the rest. Yes, Scott almost killed me when I accidently responded to some of the situations...had to duck alot of pillows coming my way at ramming speed XD ).

Wow another quiz a few hours later (can't sleep & I didn't feel like making another entry)...I'm Cloud again (and I put down that I was indeed female & yet....)!!!

Which Character Are You? Find out Here!

To be melodramatic, today was the bane of my existence. T_T

I swear, I should have known things were going to be bad when I had to get up very early and then forgot my watch and metro ticket (I wish I had lost that ticket rather the Smart Trip card). To make it worse I am kinda sick and just stared that lovely time of the month. Cramping and tired is NOT a good combination.

I make it to school, the bus is fine and I have my bag on my lap. I buy a muffin for breakfast and go up to the third floor of the main building on George Mason University's Fairfax campus. I've come up, eaten, and relaxed like this for years. I finished and laid down on one of the couchs-cramps therefore a whole lot of pain.

I put some headphones on, drop my bag next to the couch with the umbrella and rain coat on top. I laid down, trying to ignore the pain, and accidently fall asleep. I wake up at 11:44am and ran to my 12pm class and I'm there for two hours.

Starving and having little time before my Lab, I reached into my bag for cash and...

My wallet was missing.

I know I had it when I sat down and only I touched my bag during class to grab a notebook. Someone stole my wallet out of my school bag like ninja style. Resting not even a foot away, I didn't even notice. The umbrella and jacket didn't deter the thief at all and he/she even put them back nicely (oh wonderful I got a neat thief).

Understandably I was freaking out...I had $100 in cash in my wallet since I was planning on shopping for a bit. I have no job so that cash was extra money for food and any side trip/group get together, whatever. On top of that I lose two ATM cards and a debt card along with my Driver's ID and my GMU ID. Heh, I even lost a medical card.

Luckily I calmed down enough to run up to the third floor of the Johnson Center to check before calling my mother to tell her my wallet and all my important items were stolen. I went to the Info desk got the police number to call. I first went to my first ATM card (which has a bank on campus) and cancelled it.

Quickly, I called my sister to give me the numbers to my other ATM bank and to the debt card bank. Then I called the police number and they said an officer was coming to me. I see some of my classmates nearby having their dinner/lunch (we have almost hours worth of Lab three days a week (3-5:45pm) and lecture four days a week). Immediately I tell them what happened and they said they'd cover for me in Lab.

They also looked upset and sad for me. Man, even when I was in the bank, two ladies gasped when I said my wallet-and therefore bank card-was stolen. It kinda of startled me since I was talking to the branch manager.

Anyway back from that tangent, I thanked my classmates and immediately called the debt card bank and had them cancel my card. I was like "cancel my card! Cancel my card NOW!!!" T_T I then called my other ATM bank which I've had for years. These people were so slow and I was ready to strangle the person helping me because she was trying to make sure that I was the right person and not shutting down someone's card.

C'mon, if it wasn't my card why would I ever call to cancel it?! About half way through I flipped out (I have thousands in that account) and nearly yelled at the lady. I literally screamed if she wanted my to spell out my full name, address, social security again then tell her what I look like and I kept out yelling until she said "Okay, Miss Barrett, I'm taking care of it right now." How nice of her to finally do so!!!

The police officer made it over to me and I told him my story of how been 10-11:44am I was asleep on a couch on the thrid floor of the building we were presently standing in. He got my information gave me a card that said what my case number was and went on his way as I went to get another ID card. It turns out I need a photo ID, of course both of my IDs are in the stolen wallet. I get to get another Driver's ID then go back and get my school ID. Luckily I still have my birth certificate, social card, and an update passport so I'll live.

The only thing that makes me cry is the lost of one hundred dollars. T_T

To save me from any more bad luck, I ran into a friend of mine who had her purse stolen a few months ago. She lent me some money so I could get some food and get home. Of course when I headed to a shuttle bus, it wasn't in service during that hour and the driver was an annoying jerk who was offended that I was questioning the summer schedule (which I had never seen!) where the next bus doesn't come for another hour. I got off and waited until the next one came.

Of course during all of this I was continually talking on the phone to Darius, my mother, my sister, and Stephanie. Anyway, that was irony getting me again. Haha, the fun never ends.

To end off, my sister still got me at the later time and I'm at home lamenting the lost of so much cash. My mom though said she'd take me shopping this weekend and spend at least one hundred on me as we go shopping together. *siiighhhhh*

Anyway, a little rant of my bad, bad day. I have to do so much stuff to fix the fact my wallet was stolen. The only bright moment was talking to my friend who had the same experience and her loaning me some cash. I have to get new cards and new IDs. Another thing that I really don't have time for. Oh well, such is life, eh?

Thanks anyone who read this & of course...
God Bless you,

~Karen

GAH!

I have three papers, an exam, three assignments, and then finals. I have a major paper due this week & it just had to be on the same day as a hard astronomy exam. Excellent timing, I must say. I'm having horrible writer's block-I can't write the papers or work on my fanfictions! T_T

Stress is horrible & I found out I had to take two more semesters of a language than I thought I did. Now I'm off to summer school-one class at Mason and another at NVCC (that's the language class since Mason does not offer 100 level language courses in the summer (grrrrrrrrrrrrr...). The NVCC class probably won't count since GMU usually refuses students taking classes at other colleges (because the Dean sucks-grrrrrr...) but it'll prepare me to test out of the two 100 level courses so I can actually attend the 200 level courses that I've already signed up for (well the first one for the Fall, anyway).

Ah the paper due this week...it can ONLY be 6-10 pages but must include everything that would be in a major research paper (that's usually 20 pages). Intro, lit review, method, analysis/results, and conclusion. Great, I have 8 pages at most. It's called concise, concise, oh did I mention concise? XD

Mason Day, which was 4/20 (heh...heh...heh), was excellent but I'm too depressed and stressed (ooooh, rhymining)to write about it-next time perhaps.

Good night, sleep well everyone, and God Bless!

~Karen

Aha,

There was huge thunder/lightning storm this afternoon and evening-rather impressive I must add. Suddenly it was this weird orange gold mix where the gray blue color was. I look outside and didn't notice the sunset shining through the clouds or the lightning flashes...I noticed the rainbow.

The rainbow was HUGE-I mean I could look out my window and from where I was standing I could only part of it! I immediately looked downstairs and then through the living room window and saw that it was a full sized rainbow. I went outside with my sister, Laura, and we walked into the middle of the road and looked up at the sky.

Beyond the trees behind our side to two houses over and beyond the trees far behind their house, the rainbow spanned the sky.

The rainbow was huge and absolutely...beautiful. I cannot describe how beautiful it was-all colors of the rainbow visible and easily identifable and we were standing in the rain! I was getting soaked but it didn't matter as we stood looking at the huge full sized rainbow. A few minutes later we headed inside as the sun disappeared completely under the horizon the storm clouds turned back to a blue twilight. The rainbow disappeared at that exact moment.

I'm glad I went outside to look at that beautiful rainbow-I wonder if there was a pot of gold at the end of that one, ne? XD

~Good Night & God Bless

~*Karen

Ah,

George Mason lost to Florida...oh well, I really didn't think we could go all the the way. Youch on the score difference (15 point difference, could have been worse) though. I was kinda hoping we'd lose a little more gracefully-the players just couldn't make their shots go in. I was getting depressed seeing the ball roll over or strike the rim but rarely go in. T_T

Moving on, school is about to get more tiresome again, but at least I'm not going crazy or drowning in my work. Still neck deep but I'm slowly getting out of it. Hmmm...there's always next year for sports & we actually made it to the Final Four. Go Mason, and think about next years-we had one hell of a ride!!!

Okay I got work to do, stories to attempt to write, and Anime to watch! XD

~God Bless

~*Karen