Forever 21.

Summer '08 Highlights:
* Sex and the City: Last night out with the ladies of the Dill
* Cafe Venice Wednesday night dinners
* Making all A's in my summer classes
* BBBBBEACH!
* My brother, Ryan, visiting for 2 weeks
* "Leavin'" by Jesse McCartney-- Amy and my summer jam
* Ending one job and beginning 2 new ones
* Atlanta, Hotlanta + IKEA
* Cassey's 21st
* Visit with Victoria, Jefferey, and the soon-to-be Jack Ness all the way from Idaho
* Lots of NEW friends :)
* MY 21ST!! FINALLY!

Broken Hearts.

Albert Camus once wrote, “Blessed are the hearts that can bend, they shall never be broken. " But I wonder, if there’s no breaking, then there’s no healing. And if there’s no healing then there’s no learning. And if there is no learning, then there’s no struggle. But struggle is part of life. So must all hearts be broken?

Take Action.

We are all aware of the U.S’s troubling dependence on oil. We’re not alone.

As many of you already know, in Sudan, oil is literally a matter of life and death.

Ninety percent of Sudan's export income comes from the oil industry. Most of that money funds military spending that has fueled five long years of suffering in Darfur. You can help stop the Darfur crisis.

http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/site/lookup.asp?c=jhKPIXPCIoE&b=4325261

Young people are calling on large American corporations to think twice about the impacts of their investments, and some key investors with ties to Sudan have already begun to listen. Thanks to Amnesty International activists, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, and a few other firms are waking up to the calls for corporate social responsibility in Sudan.. But some big businesses still need convincing. Tell top U.S. investment firms that socially responsible investment in Sudan is important to you.

The most powerful investors in the world can choose to tolerate widespread murder, torture, rape and forced displacement, or they help end the human rights catastrophe in Darfur.

Reasoning?

Reasoning.

It goes out the window when it comes to matters of the heart.Love calls us to do things we wouldn't normally in our right minds do, but once the spell has been cast, your life is no longer your own. When you allow your guard to be put down, and you open your heart up, all that logic gained prior is lost.

Farewell logic.
Farewell reasoning.

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so you can appreciate them when they're right, you believe less so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."
~ Marilyn Monroe

Funk.

That's funk, ya weirdos.

That's exactly how I've been feeling for the past week or so. I am in a complete funk. I am too embarrassed to say why or how bad this funk has gotten. But it involves hours of television, lots pizza, and Ben & Jerry's. I can't seem to shake it. Don't worry, I have to work tomorrow so I have to take a shower and all that. I should be feeling better then.

Thanks for all the phone calls, I will be returning those shortly.

On a lighter note, my friends Rachel and Jonathan got engaged last night! I am SO excited for them! Congrats!

I found this quote today, and it made me feel better. Slightly.

"I believe in pink, I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles."
- Audrey Hepburn

School Sucks.

I decided that it would be a great idea to take summer classes to try to make up for the past 3 bad years I've spent at UA. Okay, so they all haven't been bad, but not as good as I had hoped. This summer I have taken a physics class that I did well in. Before you blow a fuse, it was a physics class for educators, so it was equivilent to physics for fifth graders. I am an English major, give me a break. I don't even use that side of my brain. Much like I don't use the math side of my brain that I am attmepting to do now. I don't understand how I took AP Calculus in high school, but I can't manage to pass a freakin' pre-cal class on the computer. Oh wait, yes I do... its called the University of Alabama's math department. I have a plethora of names for it, but it's most commonly referred to as the firey pitt of hell. I loathe the math department at UA. It is worse than morning breath. Boo!

Anyway, so I am truly unsure if I am passing my math summer class or not. I'm crossing my fingers that I make an A on my final so I can just get some credit. On the lighter side, I made an A+ in my TH 245 class. Yay! *claps* (inside joke) Luckily, I do use that side of my brain. I am glad to be registered for the fall and taking classes toward my SELA major! Currently, I am signed up for 17 hours. Yikes!

I can't wait to be finished with school and teaching little ones about the importance of literature!

I will post about my exciting 4th of July from a retail point of view this weekend. Everyone else, enjoy your fireworks and your barbecues and your vacation time. I will be squeezing 24 hours of work into 3 days.

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways , but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.
We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much , and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.
We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things. We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.