the world of allie

so i'm back from my weekend in syracuse and here are the highlights:

1. the campus is so cool
2. the beta eps are super fun
3. "thats ok baby, you can go now"
4. 3 delta alphas threw up this weekend hahahah
5. "made by kids for kids" service event
6. the mafia game
7. falling down attempting to take a picture haha
8. we are such camera whores... i believe we took like 300 pictures this weekend
9. my world got really small
10. we missed our garbage plates
11. that jungle juice was really really strong
12. points baby
13. the boy to girl ratio was a little off.....
14. "fuck!!!!!!"
15. some of those photos are a little...... we can def amuse ourselves with a camera

thats the major things that i can think of right now.... but i'm still a little fuzzy actually hahahaha

what a crazy ass weekend.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/01/30/adirondack.sky.ap/index.html

this has been a random couple of days.

yesterday was preaty basic, did the whole class thing, sat in the sau trying to get people to sign up for a poker tourney. that night, i went to the gym with my friend dana, who reminded me about the debate that night between the college republicans and the anti-war group.

so while she was at her areo-boxing class, i went down to the ritz to get some food. i went and sat in one of the comfy chairs by a tv to eat. the guy sitting in the chair next to me started chatting, about his day and life and whatnot. i chatted back, having no one else around, and because he was kinda cute. he was socialible, nice smile, clean cut, and played the trombone (i always had a weakness for guys who were muscial). i learned that he was a third year ME, that buys cars like i buy purses, but then he dropped the word that every single girl hates to hear when they meet a new guy... "my girlfriend". now, i'm fine with having tons of guy friends... but that is the thing, i have tons of guy friends. i don't need anymore guy friends just to be friends with and do friendly things together. yeah yeah the conversation was nice, and it filled the time... but that is also why i sat in front of the tv... to fill the time i was killing till the debate. i continued being friendly but skipped out a little earlier than i would have.

i went up to the ben and jerry's area in the sau, and i sat down just staring off into space, when i see my friend carson. he was strutting through with his taxes in hand. we started the typical, oh your graduating at the end of the year, conversation. he got lucky i think, he got a great job, with great pay and benefits, and located at virgina beach. it gave me some hope that they could be a prize at the end of this college ride i'm on. but. but. again, the one thing i keep hearing out of a lot of my classmates' mouths, is that, they don't really want to be an engineer, they want to go do something completely different and maybe, occasionally, touch on the engineering side of life. this just of course, makes my chest hurt a little, knowing that i'm racking up a debt that is too much to mention from my loans, that i need to start paying for in a year or two.... and that i probably will hae to take some god aweful job to pay for it because i don't have the luxury or talent to do what i want to do (but i don't even know what that is either).

luckily dana came to meet me and i said goodbye to carson, saying that hopefully we'll see eachother soon. we headed into the debate, which had already started. i knew the moderator, and two people on the republican side of the stage. i heard the same arguments that i'm sure all of the amercian public have heard, and i heard the same narrow mindedness and idealistic views on the situation that i hear with every debate and every conference, meeting, and model UN mock up. i guess i just got a little cynical at a young age... but it just seems pointless to me to stand up on that stage, voice your opinon thinking that people are listening and agreeing with you and even changing their side to yours. that never happens to you, maybe they will listen, and maybe some people will agree, but overall no one changes their points of view... it won't happen. so what is the point, you are preaching to the choir. some of the most outragious comments i heard was from the republican side... such as:

"they are loving it" - refering to the iraqies to the american occupation
"it's only happening in 4 of the 18 provencies" - refering to the battles and shootings... even though those are the most populated areas in iraq...
"and it is safer than washington D.C" - refering to the murder count in iraq...iraq on iraq murders they said later.... ignoring all the other killings but whatever.

i did hear some productive ideas though, from the anti-war side of the stage... that we should leave iraq but have another country to in and finish what we started. the only problem is that, who can we trust to stay neuteral. who can we trust with all that oil in the group, and who won't use it against us..... it's a mess.

after such an intellectual evening, talking about the war, i went home, sat around with y friend malika, and watched project runway. i love commenting on the designs, how they could possibly think that that looks good, or that guy is such an ass. it makes me want to change my major.... oh wait i already want to do that.

now today, it was a little slow.. not having any classes till 1... which was my frist test back from winter break. i think i did ok, but we'll see, i probably missed something somewheres. but before that, i went to lunch, not knowing anyone's schedule, i ate alone... till my friend aaron walked by. we sat, we chatted, he ate, and then, i look up and i see someone staring at me. they look familliar but it takes me a while. it's my friend JJ. i had no idea she was going to be on campus, i had no clue that i was ever going to see her again. she graduated right when i came back from coop... i didn't even know she was gone till i had to ask around. so we sat and caught up with eachother about what i new in our lives. she apparently missed an important test before she left school, so she had to drive back from vermont to take it so that she can graduate. it's so wierd though, just when you think that you would never see someone again, never hear from them, they pop back up in your life. never burn bridges people... because one day you will need to cross them again.

so that is my long post for today, i've been neglecting this blog since i got back to school, but nothing too exciting has been happening... hopefuly this random week continues.

i just realized that i haven't written in a long ass while. thats mostly because nothing much is going on with me besides school. since i got back from break i've been trying to spend time with my wide variety of friends. it's been a crazy week that i can't really remember what i've been doing hahaha. last weekend though was my first time out in rochester hitting up the bars. there were so many people out it was crazy... it's wierd to me because the bars i usually hit up were in like small towns.... all i have to say is that i need to get more confident if i want to meet some new people. also, because everyone seems to be getting a coop for this quarter or next quarter, there is going to be a lot of celebrating for the rest of the week.

well christmas is over with. it seems like a shame that all the sales happen after christmas. it's almost like we should out smart the stores and exchange gifts after christmas, that way we can buy twice as much!

it was a nice a quiet christmas this year though. ever since we've been getting older, it's been getting quieter and quieter. i remember when i was younger, we would drive up from newburgh to saratoga to spend the weekend or close to a week at grandma's. my mom is the youngest of six kids, so you can imagine what christmas dinner was like. there would be a minimum of 5 grandkids for dinner itself, then for desert, another 6 grandkids would be added to the mix. 12 grownups and grandma. it was always crazy, but so much fun because there was always someone new to talk to or play games with. i always enjoyed it. now adays, we are so far away that it gets so dull after a while. so if anyone is about to complain about the craziness of the holidays, where there are people sleeping on the floor because you ran out of room.... remember how nice it is to have such a big family that spends the holidays together.

today i flew home...

after two hours of sleep i got woken up by my ride calling me telling me that she was outside my apartment. luckily i slept in the clothes i was going to wear and had everything packed and by the door ready to go.

i got to the airport really early (7 am for my 930 flight) so that i can just walk right in and not really wait in line. sure i was killing time for like an hour and a half to 2 hours but who wants to wait in line to check your bags when it was that cold out right next to the doors.

i passed out on the flight, loving how i can catch up on my sleep. after my lovely hour nap i land in detroit, knowing that i had an hour and a half to kill on my lay over. i walk around, look at the shops, eat a snack, and started reading my mags by the gate.

We get called in, i get squished next to the window by a guy who seriously had a curled mustache. the plane was smelling a little wierd... like the fuel. but i really just am so tired that i fell asleep again. next thing i know, they are making an announcement that they are pulling back into the gate.

first they say to sit put in your seat. then they say to wait outside the gate for a half hour. then for another hour. then, after coming back with my lunch, the flight is cancelled. it was cancelled because the crew just left... they didn't even try to fixt the plane. luckily i chatted with some of the passengers earlier so i didn't feel wierd asking them what would the options be. they tell me that there is another flight at 5 to appleton which ends up being an hour and half away from my home.

i had to bounch to 4 different gates to be able to get rebooked to this new flight... and luckily i was alert enough to read the ticket before i wandered away from the gate to realize that they accidently booked me on a flight to allentown, PA.

luckily, for some odd reason i had a feeling that i was going to be held back so i was well stocked up on things to keep busy.

after my 6 hour lay over in detroit i finally was in wisconsin.... but then after like a 2 hour dissapointing dinner at the outback and an hour and half car ride home, i was finally back with my puppy dog.

now lessons learned people...
1. get sleep before you have to fly because you are going to need the energy
2. listen to your intuition
3. don't let your parents convince you to go out to eat when you get back because it might take forever, pushing your day later and later.
4. make nice with the people on your flight because in some situations you are going to have to count on them for support (this wasn't a situation but it was something that i figured out if something worse had happened).
5. flying home for christmas is still worth it.

well i'm going to be flying home in a couple hours or so.... maybe i'll be at the airport a little bit too early but at least i won't miss my flight... unless i fall asleep at the gate..... but at least i'll be there on time and that is what matters. it's been quite a while since i've been in wisconsin but i have an accent to match. 3 weeks of being with my family... the longest i've spent with them for a year so we'll see how this goes about.

so today, i read in the newspaper that bill clinton was coming to campus for a tour and a speech. since i had class at the time i didn't really think that i would be able to. about 15 minutes before class i decided to wander up to the building where he was speaking (which was down the hall from my department) to see who was around. i find my professor who i was taking the one o'clock class with... figured if i was late with him it wouldn't matter. standing around i see my best friend becca, our friend sarah and becca's boyfriend chris right infront of me. chatting, we realized that all of these black suv's and luxury cars are pulling up. then all of a sudden i hear "he's wearing a red tie!". i stand on my tippy toes and i see him walking up to the building. i pull in a little closer to the front.. i'm about the third person back fron the yellow tape. he walks in, we all start clapping, and he's saying hello to the upper people of campus.

then he decided to go shake hands. he starts a couple people from me... moves down the line. he shakes chris', becca's, MINE, and sarah's hands!!!! I totally lost my breath, i was just smiling as big as i could and in complete awe that he was shaking my hand and that he was standing so close to me.

eventually he made it to my professor and to everyone else he can get to. people were lined up on the stair well.. on the upper levels of the attrium and all around. people of course did not have digital cameras with them so all i saw were cell phones pointing at him from above. it was a site.

This was one of the coolest days of my life. plus i think i did well on my history exam, and my office has holiday goodies so i'm on cloud nine right now :-) :-)