Am I supposed to write blog entries all summer long? I get the feeling I won't have much to say. Plus I can't say it until I get home from work, and then I am tired.

So today I will talk about my brother. He bought a bb gun the other day. So he could shoot the cicadas. Brilliant plan. If ever there was an occassion to give warnings about someone losing an eye, this is it. But there are a lot of them, so shooting a few shouldn't hurt, if he actually manages to hit the cicadas and not his friends. Not that that would be a great loss to society, either. And those bugs sure are noisy. They sound like water running from the inside, and then you go outside, and they just sound loud. They shut up at night, though, which is odd, isn't it? It's backwards from the regular, every year cicadas. They also shut up when it storms. But then the storm is loud instead. And then in the morning you have to scrape dead cicadas off the windshield, which is gross.

But I was talking about my brother and not bugs. Let's update the list of casualties since he got his driver's license over Christmas:
1. Neighbor's mailbox
2. Our garage door. That's right, he backed into the garage door. I don't know how bad it was, but it was old and rotting to begin with, so it got replaced. But now the new garage door openers don't work very well at all.
3. The new pickup. As far as I know, no real damage done, but scraping up my father's week old truck does not make him happy.

So that's all. He's also failing math, which has been the subject of most of the conversations the family has had with him since I've been home. And this weekend, the day after he's done with school, he's coming back to St. Louis with me to move my furniture across the street. He is not looking forward to this. But I sure am. Woohoo, southern Illinois! This will be my first time driving back and forth in one day.
- posted by Darcey @ 7:36 PM

 
I don't think I like the new blogger. It seems to take longer to publish. And now everyone's comments from all blogs have disappeared from my computer. Otherwise I would comment on Beth's blog and tell her that I was reading her blog and that I updated mine.
- posted by Darcey @ 8:42 PM

 
My First Day of Work

I went to work today. This requires waking up in the morning and getting in a car and pulling out of my neighborhood in front of a continuous stream of cars that I just have to hope will slow down and not kill me, and then getting on the interstate and going from 60 to stopped several times very quickly.

Then I found the building and they gave me an office. It is in the basement, in a hallway, outside the doors where the rest of the business is located, where completely unrelated people go walking by, but not the people I work with. It is centrally located, well away from any windows. So this really makes me quite lucky, if there is a tornado, that is. I will be set right where I am; I'll just go right on working while the rest of the building flies away and lands on the wicked witch. Because that's how such things work.

Starting Monday, I will share my fantastic space with two other interns. They are sisters, one in high school, one finishing her freshman year of college. I suspect that two sisters only get internships at the same place if Mommy or Daddy is also employed there. From this baseless assumption, having not met them or having any idea what they will be doing, I have decided that they really lack any qualification or motivation to be there. In my image, these two are decidedly blonde, and while I am working, they will spend the day staring at each other and having arguments consisting of statements like "You are totally wearing my jeans." But hopefully not. I don't know why I have constructed this image. I actually hope that they are nice people whose company I will enjoy. We're not supposed to wear jeans anyway.

Then I was taken out to lunch, because the people I have actually met are actually quite nice, and then they decided, while at lunch, that I should spend the rest of the afternoon in their Broad Ripple office. I am to be located downtown most of the time, which is much less convenient, involving a longer commute with many more obnoxious commuters. But I didn't have my car, so after they took me to the Broad Ripple office after lunch, they had to drive me back downtown, and I had to drive home from there with the crazy commuters.

And, so that we have 3 cars, my daddy bought himself a new pickup truck today. In my head I am saying this with a country accent, but you can't hear the voices in my head, so I don't know how to get that across other than to tell you.
- posted by Darcey @ 8:10 PM

 
Bye bye, school

They're coming to get me. They're in the alley and they have drills and sledge hammers or something, and the way everything is vibrating, the only thing I can think that they are doing is burrowing a hole into my wall to come and get me. So much noise... What could they possibly be doing?

I have one more final in an hour, and then I will be done. If I did the last problem correctly, I think my marketing research test might have gone okay. Not that that would necessarily stop him from giving me a bad grade.

Blogger has a new website. I am flustered by this change and unsure how to respond, so I will stop typing and see what happens.
- posted by Darcey @ 11:50 AM

 
Now it's Friday. But it will be Saturday by the time I'm finished with this.

And then the people on the radio will start saying things such as "Good morning" and "Thanks for starting your day off with us" and they will say such things a lot, even though it is only midnight, and clearly the people listening to the radio have not been to bed and do not consider themselves to be starting their day. Also, on the subject of the radio, why is the station that calls itself "101 The River" broadcast on like 4 different frequencies? Is this just my radio? The strongest one besides the one where it is supposed to be is around 92, seriously overlapping with the country station which calls itself 92.3 and presumably has the right to be there first. And then sometimes it comes in around 96, messing with the innocent rock station that's just trying to mind its own business. And a lot of times it comes in pretty much all the way up through the 100s. Soon the River will have taken over the entire St. Louis FM dial, and from there, it's just a short hop and a jump to taking over the world. And do we really want the world to be controlled by an endless cycle of five or six mediocre pop songs? They must be stopped.

So, yeah, I still don't really have anything interesting to say. But unlike Tuesday, it is now time for me to be studying. I am finished being a TA. And I discovered that I indeed do not have the authority to tell people to put their pencils down at 12:30, but then again, I didn't really try too hard. I never really understood why time should be a factor in your grade if it doesn't have to be. I, for instance, write slowly, and exams involving several short answer or essay questions, such as the forthcoming evil of my marketing research exam, are seriously hampered by this factor that has nothing to do with my knowledge of the material. Anyway, grading exams goes much, much faster when the professor helps.

Tonight (or should I say last night, as it is indeed now Saturday) was the board dinner at LCM where we signed the seniors' Ted Drewes hats. But seniors are busy people, so then they all left. And that's pretty much it.

In conclusion, I would just like to comment on a few of the reasons why the George Washington statue outside the library is pathetic. Is the fact that we are so unoriginal as to name ourselves after George Washington for no particular reason really something we need to draw attention to? And then there's the fact that the bunny is three times George's size (as far as the body part of George goes) and is obviously a more respected, established member of the community. The bunny at least adds some character to the campus. But George is just standing there, pretending like he somehow belongs in Missouri, trying to look all high and mighty and brown. And that just clearly clashes with the bunny's black.
- posted by Darcey @ 12:37 AM

 
Hi. It's Tuesday.

I haven't typed anything here for almost a week, and I finally don't have anything better to do, so it seems like I should type something now, but I'm not feeling very inspired. I had today set aside to do a lot of nothing. When I have a lot of something to do, it always seems like there's a lot of fun nothing to do that I would be doing if I could, but it turns there's really not so much. Or there probably is, and I just won't remember what it is until I have something to do again.

Let's see... Have I mentioned how I don't like my marketing research class? I think I have, several times, so I won't go into my latest reasons. Um... yesterday I went to two movies in one day! That was cool, unlike marketing research, which is why I skipped the last 15 minutes of marketing research to go to the movies. And then I came home and I slept for 12 hours or so, and that made me happy. I had not slept so much the night before, because I spent the weekend writing a paper, but now that's over, and so are classes. And then I did the laundry. And then I went through my papers, and put together a nice big pile of paper that I would recycle if I could. And then I organized the My Documents folder on my computer, which was getting too big to scroll through. Feel free to take a break if the excitement of this blog entry gets to be too much for you.

Technically, I could be studying for my finals, since I do have three of them all right together, and it is going to be difficult to study for them all at once, but what good would it do to start studying now? They're six days away! I can't be expected to retain information for almost a week! I could also start to pack, but that would be silly too, since my leaving is also a week away. I need to use stuff for that week. And I could also finally get around to cleaning the bathroom, but that would be even sillier, since my leaving is a week away. It's just that whenever I try to do nothing, I get this feeling there are things that I need to be doing, not necessarily work like studying or cleaning, but things I would want to be doing if only I could think of them. I also think there are things I would like to write on this blog at times when I have done nothing interesting to speak of, but I can't think of those either, so here I am typing this. But I suppose I have the whole summer for whatever I'm not thinking of. (Because I will be working, and somebody else will divide up the time I am supposed to work and the times when I'm not, so I don't have to think about it, which is good because then I don't always have to feel like there's something I should be doing, like with school. But it's also bad, because I have to go along with whatever somebody else decides, and wake up in the morning and all that. Know what I mean? Probably not, because I could say more and make that idea make sense, but I just really don't feel like it.) Anyway, now it's almost time to go back to bed. Happy days.
- posted by Darcey @ 9:58 PM