Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Thriving.

So yesterday, almost all the way through, was quite possibly the best day I have had in Morgantown since school started. Actually, I'm sure it was. I learned that if I persevere and set my mind to something I really can accomplish it. Oh,yes, loyal readers, your Sarah knows just how trite and cheesy that sounds, but it's the truth.

I also discovered that I officially WILL WILL WILL!!!!! see my Danielle this weekend!

And, at home this weekend, I had not one, but TWO pulchritudinous dates with a certain someone. And, they were also uneventful in the driving over logs field--even though I drove for one of them! yay for not flying over logs! Every time I pass that spot along the road, I edge away from it and shiver. You can still see serious indentation where The Beast crushed the foliage.

Even though I have all these wretched tests to study for, I am content.
I have not been this happy with my life in a long time.
God is good.
Friends are also nice. = )
And the boyfriend isn't too bad either. ; ) heh

Study time for this Sarah.
Arrivederci....(prep for my Italian exam tomorrow!).

New words: loquacious, penetralia, periphrastic.

Saturday, October 20, 2007

Wishful Thinking.

Sometimes I think I want so much more out of life than what it's giving me, or what I'm taking from it. I wish that I lived in a way that would be blissful, carefree--but not to an unhealthy extent. I worry too much. I don't go out of my way to stay in touch with enough of my friends, particularly those in Morgantown. Okay, so I talk about missing my friends so damn much, but what the hell do I do about it? Nada. Not a damn thing. It's stupid and pointless. Why should I hang out so much with one friend--who often causes me as much trouble as he helps me with, if not more--when I have other friends I miss dearly?

It's a shame I have 3 huge tests next week.
It's a shame, but I have got to start somewhere.

So, there's more to this wanting more out of life thing. However, if I elaborate, I feel as if I am just being redundant because I still have done nothing along the lines of changing it.

This is a totally pointless entry, and I apologize to those who wanted more out of it---but that's kind of how my whole semester has been thus far. Fun, huh?


God helps those who help their selves, right? I ought to get on that.

Monday, October 15, 2007

Spanish Class today

Profesora Jocelin "I Kill You" Tolvar : De que te disfruta, Sarah? (Sarah, what do you enjoy?)

Sarah "I Pretend I Speak Spanish and Italian" Corra (planned answer): Me disfruta pasar tiempo con mis amigas muy buenas. (I enjoy spending time with my very good friends)

George "I Pretend I'm From Spain So I Mutter With A Lisp" Corley: You always say that.


Yeah. It's kinda cause I miss it a lot.
Today I saw Jane Eyre in Japanese, in the WVU hidden library shelves. I almost died from shock.
My life is complete.

I talked to a shy Colombian man today. I don't think he likes speaking to me. *shrug* I made him do it anyway. It was rad. The Arabs also tried to accost me at the International Fair. Again, fantastic. And, I get a max of tres puntos of extra credit on my next Spanish test, for a 5-8 line paragraph. Hmm...I think I'm getting the short end of that deal!

Today could have been better, but I've had worse lately.

In other news, Jordan Trumble called me yesterday and brightened my day. Therefore, when I added her in my phone, I put an exclamation point after her name, because she's pretty awesome. = )

Saturday, October 13, 2007

goals and stuff.

So in this one time, I saw this movie that had a girl who wanted to be a traveling doctor. She had a map of the world on her wall and had little pins in the countries where she had traveled, and where she wanted to travel.
After I first travel, and return (alive hopefully, hahaha), I want to do that. I want to visit as many countries as I can before I die, and I want to meet people in all of them, and help someone in all of them, and at least learn a few words in their language.
I want to be able to identify the flags of all the different countries instantly.
I want to somehow be able to afford to do all these things I want to do in countries I want to do them.
I have always imagined having a family someday, but how would they feel about my traveling constantly?
Apparently I almost had to do the [not] Heimlich maneuver on Molly's boy.
O.O
haha.

Oh, dearie. I had quite a shopping adventure today. It was fun, I guess, after waiting all day for the bus. However, I believe I made a new friend in the process, so that's cool.

Me sittin' at home on a Saturday night.
Surprise, surprise.

Friday, October 5, 2007

***El cielo***

In the lovely Spanish language, el cielo means sky, but it also means Heaven.
In class today, we discussed our own versions of Heaven on Earth, and it made me feel really wonderful to think about it.
Tastes of Heaven (El sabor del cielo), to me, include:

  • Anything at Peterkin, particularly being alone on Prayer Hill
  • Candlelight services
  • the day I got my ring = )
  • sunny days in the chapel, when voices are loud and joyous, and God is near.
  • quiet, calm campfires, on the Hike and on our counselor trip
  • days in the park
  • when I go driving, crank up my music, and think about nothing but the road(<--emphasis)
  • hanging out with my friends, no matter for how long, or where, or what we're doing.
  • watching csi shows with my mom
  • playing video games with chuckie
  • watching family guy with dad & chuckie
  • anything where I can close my eyes and relax in the sunshine
  • sitting on the porch swing and listening to the creek
  • the times in the morgantown park, watching the ducks and the people
  • arguing with dorian
  • nightly chats with jordan trumble and (sometimes) sarah braswell
  • the A Ha moments--where I realize that even though life is complicated, God knows just how far to push me.
  • daytime naps in a comfy room & comfy bed, and waking up refreshed

I'll definitely add more later.
I really love life right now. Maybe I have drastic ups and downs, but it certainly makes the ups seem much higher. *contented sigh*

*PS Anyone else noticing my freakish pattern with numbers of entries per month? creeeeeeepy!

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

The Game of LIFE.

Write term paper. Lose next turn.
No kidding.

Today I discovered that caffiene does not turn you into a miracle worker (*...Tries to avoid Helen Keller/Anne Sullivan jokes...*). In fact, it did nothing but turn me into a hyper (temporarily) and easily distracted mess. And, I ended up writing quite possibly the shortest "5-7 page research paper"--EVER. Seriously, it was literally 2.5 pages long. Thankfully, I have a teacher who is fantastic, and lets us out early. He is amazing because he probably won't even yell at me when it comes time for conferences on Thursday. He is really cool because this paper I turned in doesn't actually get a real grade until time for the actual portfolio to be turned in.

Anyway, I accomplished like half a paragraph last night, but still stayed up til 530 trying to write it. Then I crashed until I got a wonderful few minute phone call at 9. Then, I was like, "Oh, shit!" and I tried to do some work, was suuuper drowsy, and kept falling back to sleep.

Quite the dumb but eye-opening experience. Sarah cannot rely on caffiene alone to help her magically BS a research paper the night before it is due. She wants to be Jasmine for Halloween, not Superwoman--for rather obvious reasons (besides the sweet costumes...haha).

So I learned stuff.
And I am EXTREMELY WARY of that Full Throttle stuff....yuuuuuuuck. *makes terrible face*
Terrible stuff. *shudders*

I have 2 monstrous tests tomorrow, and I am supposed to study tonight with a girl from my Religion class--who brings snacks to our study sessions--it's so cute/sweet. = ) She's an interesting kid. Not a bad one, either.

Ummm....so Chuckie got poison ivy from my car incident...and I have really weird/horribly annoying red bumps on the back on my leg, but I'm nearly positive it's not poison ivy, because it doesn't spread the way poison ivy is supposed to do. I think some damn bugs keep sneaking in my sheets or something equally wretched. Wicked little creatures.

I think I'm going to collapse into nap mode for a bit. I have a feeling tonight will be a struggle to study for both of my damn tests.

However, good news is that I might (I hope, I hope, I hope!) see at least Danielle and maybe Christa this weekend--if I survive that long!

Ahora es tiempo para la siesta mia. Now it is time for my nap.
Hasta luego, amigos mios.