One shitty birthday

It seems I haven't written in my blog since January! Whoops!
I'm back today to talk about how shitty my birthday was. My birthday was Friday, the 22nd.
I had a great night planned: I was going to go to a New York nightclub with my friends from school and my friend who was visiting from London.
It was going to be a lot of fun. Unfortunately, life sometimes likes to take your itinerary (I actually wrote one) and rip it up in front of your face!

Sooo on my 20th birthday, it was thunder storming, I spent the day inside coughing, sweating, shivering, sleeping and getting taken care of by my London friend because I ended up getting bronchitis, my phone ended up dying, my charger broke AND I got a fortune cookie with NO fortune in it -_- There was literally no piece of paper in my fortune cookie!
My life. Well, one day I'll look back on my 20th birthday and think "Wow, I must have had some shitty karma," and then I'll laugh.

The Bachelor

So right now I'm feeling like Cookie Monster having his cookies replaced with fruits and vegetables.

He's pissed, he's confused, he wants to punch someone in the neck...
And it's all from watching The Bachelor.

I have never seen The Bachelor, or The Bachelorette for that matter, before tonight, and it's definitely something I could have gone without seeing, for the sake of my WTF face.

Now, growing up, I was always a fan of those dumb dating shows like Flavor of Love, Rock of Love, A Shot at Love, etc. (really clever titles!,) but I don't remember ever getting as angry over them as I got over The Bachelor tonight.

* First off, let me just say how ridiculous the concept of the show actually is.
A bunch of girls who are head over heels for the same dude. ONE dude. One dude who gets to walk through a crowd of drooling girls, pick one, chill with her for a bit, send her back out into the crowd, and then do it all again!? And how are those girls so cool about sharing a man who they know has been kissing all however many of them, yet so excited to have that "one-on-one date"!? You're not special to him and he really doesn't care about you any more than the others.

Which leads me to my next point....

* Those poor girls
I'm sorry, but if those girls are cool with sharing their man with a bunch of women just to have the satisfaction of being alone with him and have his attention for one day, then they must be perfectly fine with actually getting cheated on in real life.
That SCREAMS "pathetic"...
They let their man go out with a bunch of chicks and when he comes back for a little "you" time, they slap that dumb, naive smile because they're so excited to be alone with him, after he's been with all of those girls. "Oh, honey, you're done kissing all of those girls and you're finally ready to spend time with me?! YAY <3!"
Again, pathetic -_-

BUT I must admit, the show is really addicting and I'm looking forward to watching it again so my room mates and I can talk about how much we hate Courtney.

...bitch

Neighbors and Foreign Exchange Students

So, it's been a while.

The end of Fall semester kept me busy, and then I went home for winter break where work, friends, boyfriend, and family kept me busy.

The Spring semester began about a week ago so now i'm back, and with an actual blog theme!

I've decided that this blog will be all about my day to day experiences living with a foreign exchange student from China and having four loud and obnoxious black girls as neighbors with nothing but a paper-thin wall between us.

For the record, I am not a racist. I am simply someone who is surrounded by people who live up to their stereotypes.

I'm not sure if this blog will gain any readers, but if you happen to come across this blog, I can assure you that you won't be disappointed and will leave this blog with a chuckle and probably a form of empathy towards me.

Read about my ethnic sandwich of a life here!

- Lauren

Gastritis

I have it, and it sucks :/

For the past four days, I've been eating nothing but Cheerios and Premium crackers and drinking nothing but water and ginger ale.

The doctor on campus told me that it usually takes 1-2 weeks to go away with medicine.

That really upset me because Christmas is next week. If I can't eat normal food on that day, I'll be so sad :(

So here I am, waiting it out with my meds and crackers...and finals. Le sigh.

At least i'll be done with this semester on Monday!

First Final Is DONE!

Just finished my first final!

Four more to go!

Eight more days until I can go home!

Yaaaaaaaay!

It's late and rainy and I wanted to write!

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It's currently 2 a.m.

I'm reclined in bed as it is pouring outside.

The reason why this post is being done so late is because this week has been a wee bit busy.

Between studying and preparing for speeches, i've had no time to care about anything else than getting all of my crap done by Thursday night!

I just felt like writing.

The weather lately has been craaazy.

The week of Thanksgiving was beauuutiful! Now it's cold, windy, and rainy. Bleh. I've had no desire to wear anything but my glasses and sweat pants.

I guess the weather shares a mutual feeling of hate towards me because as i was walking home tonight, the wind flipped my umbrella inside out.

I tried to push my umbrella towards the wind so it could be flipped the right way, but the wind was TOO strong, making it impossible for me to even move my umbrella from its "frightened" position above my head.

Well, i have to be up at 9ish to prepare for my speech.

Good night, moon

The 1st of Decemberrr

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Happy December 1st! I'm so glad it's December because now i only have 2 weeks.

2 weeks

That's how much longer i have to be here.

In 2 weeks, the fall semester will over and i'll be going home for a month for winter break!

I literally cannot wait, and for these reasons!:

* I'll have my car again!

* No classes!

* No loudasfuckannoying neighbors!

* No(t as many) stink bugs!

* Home-cooked meals <3

* No Asian room mate. (I like her and all, but she doesn't clean her hair out of the shower drain, doesn't replace the toilet paper when she finished the roll, and always does this weird throat clearing noise that i wouldn't mind being without for a month!)

* My own bed<33

* I won't have to wear flip flops in my own shower!

* And lastly and most importantly, my family and my boyfriend and home town friends <3

Ahh, winter break is so close i have almost taste it :)

I just have to get through a speech and four final exams. Bring it on!