Tired

I worked from 8 to 8 today. What a miserable way to spend a Friday :(

Blog Tag

So, Teresa tagged me. I'm going to try to fill this out. I always have a problem with them, especially 'favorites' things. I don't have a lot of favorites, or maybe I just can't remember them :)

FOUR JOBS I'VE HAD:
1. Human Resource Administrator at HBMG, Inc.
2. Accounting Assistant at HBMG, Inc.
3. Admin. Assistant at Guide One Insurance
4. Student!

FOUR MOVIES I COULD WATCH OVER AND OVER AGAIN:
1. Grease
2. Footloose
3. Gone With The Wind
4. Dirty Dancing

FOUR BOOKS I COULD READ OVER AND OVER AGAIN:
1. The Bible
2. Five Love Languages
3. Modern Girls Guide to Life
4. I can't think of another one.

FOUR PLACES I HAVE LIVED
1. Cleveland, TX
2. Austin, TX - on campus
3. Austin, TX - off campus
4. New Zealand (for 2 months when I was a baby)

FOUR TV SHOWS I WATCH
1. The O'Reilly Factor
2. Whose Line Is It Anyway?
3. The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
4. Late Night with Conan O'Brian

FOUR PLACES I HAVE BEEN ON VACATION
1. Cozumel
2. Vera Cruz
3. Progreso
4. Almost every tourist attraction in the western and southern US

FOUR WEBSITES I VISIT DAILY
1. Facebook
2. MySpace
3. credit card and bank account websites
4. UT homepage

FOUR OF MY FAVORITE FOODS
1. chicken and broccoli with soy sauce
2. cornbread
3. chile con queso and tortilla chips (bad, i know)
4. salmon

FOUR PLACES I WOULD LIKE TO BE RIGHT NOW
1. in bed
2. home, in Cleveland
3. Hawaii
4. any place warm all year around!

Planning

I finally have a meeting with my advisor tomorrow morning at 9:30. I have to talk to her about studying abroad, graduating early, and grad school. I'm hoping by 10 when the meeting is over I will have some answers, mainly whether or not I can graduate early. I've been thinking about all this stuff in my future, so I've been pretty disconnected from the present. As Heather said, "You've been really out of it lately." It's true. When I finally get some semblance of a concrete plan for my next few years I can finally settle into this semester and realize I'm way behind! Oh well. I have to plan don't I?

Classes So Far And Life From Now On

So, I've been to all my classes now. I really like them all. The professor in industrial psychology is a little boring, but I think I'll like the material. Leadership Issues will be fun. My professors in Motivation and Human Resources Management are funny. This should be a good semester. Lately I've been arguing with myself about several issues, including studying abroad in New Zealand this summer, what to do with the rest of the summer, whether or not to graduate early, whether or not to go to grad school, and if I do go what school to go to and what degree to pursue. All of these decisions are very intertwined and I need to decide fast. As you can see I've been very busy thinking lately!

Pictures!!

Here are some pictures I took on campus right after the Rose Bowl :) They're all pretty blurry because I took them with my phone. Sorry. Let me know what you think about my excellent photography-by-phone skills. Haha.

I don't know what would be worse in this situation: the driver of the car being drunk or the guy standing on top of the car while it was driving down the road being drunk. What do you think?

I love this picture. I managed to catch a guy waving an orange rose and the tower all lit up in the same picture.

Another pretty picture of the tower.

This is a news van filming all the crazy fans celebrating. While they were filming on the ground, I heard helicopters flying by catching it from the air.

I don't know if you can see this very well, but it's just a huge group of people in front of the Co-op. The rest of the picture are of the same thing.

Grrr...

I hate the roads in Austin! I accidentally explored some new areas of Austin while trying to find the new location of the bank we use at work so I could make a deposit. A simple exit and U-turn off of Mo Pac became a weird series of stop signs, lights, connecting roads and neighborhoods right in the middle of everything. It makes no sense at all to me.

Terrible Day

#1 - I did absolutely nothing except sleep, eat, and wash clothes today. I didn't even go outside.

#2 - Vince Young is going to the NFL next year. That really, really sucks.

The Magnitude of the Win

...in case you didn't already know!

The Austin American Statesman sold out of newspapers yesterday, printed 11,000 more, sold out of those, and printed more of yesterday’s newspaper today. I bought one on Ebay.

The Co-op sold over 30,000 Rose Bowl Champion shirts in less than 48 hours. That doesn’t include the other places selling shirts.

There were newspaper articles about the lack of productivity at work in Austin yesterday because everyone was so tired from the night before and still talking about the game.

President Bush called Coach Brown at 6am yesterday morning to congratulate him and invite the whole team to the White House.

A few funny things…

This sign was seen taped to the front desk at the district civil clerk's office at the Travis County Courthouse: "$500 Reward for Missing Heisman."

The audience at The Tonight Show last night was mostly Texas fans (there to see Vince Young). Jay made a joke at the beginning… “UT hasn’t won the National Championship in 35 years. This is the best thing to happen to Texas since the invention of pork rinds.”…upon which the audience fell quiet and then started booing.

Details

As I promised, here are the details of the chaos on campus after the game last night. Right after the game I grabbed my keys and left. As I got closer to campus, the traffic got heavier and everyone was honking and yelling out their windows. I got a couple high fives out my window from people running down the middle of the road. There were tons of people hanging out of car windows and sitting in the backs of trucks, but I saw one guy standing on top of a car yelling as it was driving down the road. They had the drag blocked off because that's where most of the people were. While I was walking around on campus I heard at least 6 helicopters fly over in about 30 minutes. There was a line to get in to the Co-op and it was shoulder-to-shoulder on the whole first floor. They were already out of shirts though. They were supposed to be getting a new shipment of shirts at 2 am. There were news cameras all over the place recording all the craziness. Anyway, needless to say I didn't get much sleep last night. When I finally did go to bed, I couldn't go to sleep. I was really tired at work today, but it was definitely worth it! In honor of the win I had to wear burnt orange to work today, but I didn't have anything other than burnt orange t-shirts. So, I wore black dress pants, black high heels, and my Rose Bowl t-shirt. It was awesome. It was all awesome.

National Champions!!!

Austin is the greatest place in the world to be right now. I'll describe the festivities on campus in my next post. It was crazy!!

I Love Texas!!

Reason #1: It was 70 degrees outside today...in January.
Reason #2: The Rose Bowl!! There's an electricity in the air. Everyone is wearing burnt orange. They just interviewed a first grade teacher on the news and she said it was harder to keep the kids focused today before the game than it was before Christmas! The teacher and almost all of the kids were wearing UT stuff too. The local weather on the news covered Austin and Pasadena. The Co-op is staying open all night to sell Rose Bowl gear. This is so awesome.

Christmas, New Year's, etc.

Well, I'm back in Austin to work for 2 weeks before class starts. Christmas was good. My dad's family came to our house on Christmas day. We spent Christmas Eve with my mom's family. I spent 2 nights with Heather when she went back to Beaumont. I got to see the nice part of Beaumont. I was surprised there was a nice part. I had never seen it before. I spent all my gift cards while I was there, so we did a lot of shopping. Parkdale Mall brings back lots of memories. Fellow RBB alumni know what I'm talking about. I spent New Year's at my house with Christiana, Ellen, and Travis. Christiana and I went to Troy's house for a little while to say hi to her sister. Overall, I had a good break. Now, I'm just waiting for tomorrow...Rose Bowl!