that time of day

there comes a time in every semester when you wonder how you'll survive. everything seems like it's piling up on you (and it really is) but you just aren't sure you'll live until midnight the following monday when everything is finally due. 

when that time arrives, you're left in this woe of homework and distractions galore. Devious Maids marathons and the new pandora update just get a lot more interesting. then the cleaning bug bites and before you know it, you're entire room is torn up and there are sacks and sacks of old papers and clothes that I no longer feel like I need. but in all honestly i'll prolly be wishing I had that "one shirt that's a little too short and has a hole because it was cute with that one skirt i wore once"

case study? check

math homework? check 

math test? check 

research paper? working..

ethics paper? you're kidding right?

don't even ask about my reading. blah. 

one of these days i'll catch up on blogging. 

and sleeping. 

because blurry pictures and curls are so hipster. here's to day 3 without washing my hair.

done and done.

hi..my  name is Ali and I cater weddings and I love it. 

I get to plate food and judge people's weddings and eat all the over-frosted chocolate cake i could ever want. it's really kinda great. 

everyone I've worked with so far has been really super nice and the job itself isn't hard. it's a lot of down time and a lot of travel time too. but I get paid for that so it's really okay. the other day we did a wedding in Richfield. Taytater said it was up north so I really was sorta excited. turns out it was 2 hours down south. lemme tell you, anything past springville is gross. and ugly and there are more cows and sheep than people. and all the church buildings are generic copies of each other. everyone was so rude and kept walking through the kitchen and coming in and complaining that they were in dire need of knifes and that the lemonade wasn't strong enough. can you say totally rude??

the reception the night before was totally different. everyone kept talking to us and saying how amazing everything looked and they even did half the bussing when we were cleaning up. 

I almost expect people from so far down south to have these ghetto, nasty, camo wedding dress weddings but then I realize that they're spending around 2-3 thousand dollars on food alone... it's prolly a pretty nice wedding. and so far they have been. this week i'm catering 3 all in orem at Sleepy Ridge. i sort of have high hopes for those. i'll let you know how it goes. 

and today!! i work at sweeto burrito!!:) it's a food truck, and normally I hate food jobs but everyone so far seems super nice. i kinda dig it. hopefully they're willing to work around my catering schedule. if not, then i'm totally going to a summer camp to make monies. but lets keep 'em fingers crossed!! 

here's to a new beginning

yesterday I was laid off, and today i have an interview. 

holler. it's a hosting gig at station 22 but hey, an interview is an interview right? i've applied to jobs all day today and most of yesterday. I sort of knew it was coming. 

yesterday i also signed on my car with a newer, lower interest rate! and my car payment went down by 70 bucks! when you're unemployed, that's a lot and luckily i saved a car payment before i got laid off. 

it's a little funny how things work. fingers crossed that I get a well paying job soon!

so there's lots.

my lover/best friend has been gone for almost a month and in a weird way, i feel like we're closer than ever really. we're both making mutual efforts to stay in each other's lives and it's great. i love having someone always there who i can call when i'm upset about people raining on my parade. a whole ocean has nothing on this dynamic duo. oh and for spring break, guess who's heading to the island?!?! :) holla!

school has officially started. 

my math class so far has been going great. my teacher is a developmental math teacher, so really she's  used to teaching dumb kids. and i love it because when it comes to math, i end up on the silent floor of the library during finals week sobbing on my table (true story).

international relations seems like it's going to be a toughie but Sonya is going to love me. the first day went like this..

Sonya: "You are all COLLEGE SENIORS. I expect collegiate level work and will accept nothing less. If you're missing a comma, you'll get docked. If you're missing a period, you'll get docked. If your header is half your page and you have the audacity to count that towards your two-page paper, YOU WILL BE DOCKED. You are all going to be looking for jobs and grad schools in the near future so I expect you to write like so."

and all i'm thinking is "oh shit.. um.. some of us, well maybe just me, want to transfer just for UNDERGRAD. no one said ANYTHING about grad school...that's why you get married...(hahahaha totes kidding) oh shit. " 

I feel like she's going to the the Drachulich of my college experience. Mrs. D was my sophomore  english honors teacher and her class was SO HARD. i"m pretty confident is saying it was the hardest class I took at MV. but to this day, i love it. I feel like i took SO much from it that I got from no other teacher. I feel like Sonya Conrad will be in the same boat. 

International Terrorism. the book is a hard read. i'm already a chapter behind and we have like book report tests. So there's no bullshitting this one. i made a friend in that class. i think she's like 50. but hey, a friend is a friend. 

ethics is good. the reads there are a lot like my philosophy class last year. long and dry. but my professor is really animated so that keeps things lively. 

work is work and my days are so long with work and school. i get up at 5:45 and i don't get home until 9. thankfully that's only on monday and wednesday's. my tuesday and thursdays are a lot more relaxed and my fridays are weird. 

tayter and i went on a double (it's like we have real friends!!!) with sierra stoppa and spencer vogel TO THE ZOOOOOOOO. SO MUCH FUN. I just LOVE the zoo!!! it's an awful place though, wild aminals locked up for my enjoyment?? sad,but i'll take it in case i never make it to africa to see a wild lion or a giraffe. the zoo is the next best thing:) and i love it. for dinner we went to street tacos! the ones where you think you might get like swine flu from going to, but here we are! a week later and healthy as can be! they weren't bad either!
i like to think that the boy and I are sort of like rock stars. I mean we made it through an entire summer of working literally opposite schedules, football season, a school year with him working, and now we're taking on a school year with both of us working. so far so good! i knew he was a keeper.

here's to good grades, acceptance letters, and chai!