Well, right now I am supposed to be reading for Art Appreciation, but I need yet another study break.

I recorded some of my B-roll footage for my music video. It's our next project in my video class. I am doing the song "That's Not My Name" by The Ting Tings. Today in class we were given half an hour to go around and shoot at different locations so we could remake the All-American Reject's "Move Along" video. It was hectic, but fun. I had to change clothes and sing, which I'm sure wasn't pretty, but we are putting the actual song to our movements, so that's good.

I'm so excited for Friday tomorrow! But, I have to go to bed super early cuz we are leaving for our track meet at 6:30 am! Hopefully I can sleep on the bus..

Another track meet today. It had its ups and downs.

I did the hurdles first, which was definitely the down part of the meet. I scraped the entire back of my right leg on the fourth hurdle which messed me up and slowed me down for the rest of the race. And my leg still hurts right now from that huge scratch.

BUT! the day got a little better. I ran the 200 meter dash, which is something I have not done since high school. I tried to remember some times I got back then, but today I ended up getting 30 secs. Its an okay time for me.. nothing special. I think the winner of the race got 26 or 27, so I was really far from that. But it was good to run something different.. and to have a race in between the hurdles and 4x4, because I usually just sit around and do nothing for four hours.

The 4x4 went a lot better this week. We were actually in the competition this time, instead of trailing 50 meters behind. I ran two seconds faster than last week and we didn't get last! I basically sprinted until my legs wanted to give out. The home stretch was terrible because my legs and arms felt like jello and I let the girl I was running with get away from me. But I honestly had nothing left in me.

I think I need to do some more endurance workouts along with my speed workouts.. then maybe I won't feel like collapsing until AFTER my race. :)

First week of school = crazy.

My classes are gonna be pretty hard again, like last semester. I have class at 9 everyday til 3 or 3:30.

For my video class, our first project is a news story. Mine is on the "Teddy Bear Killer." It's about somebody who attacks innocent stuffed animals... its pretty funny. I am going to shoot some of my "Yankton footage" today to use in it. Then tomorrow and Tuesday I am going to video my reporter, expert on the crime, and victim of the crime. I am excited, but also nervous that I'm going to screw something up. Since I am busy with so much else, I am crunched for time. And basically, I have one MAYBE two opportunities to shoot my story.

The first project for my technical design class is a directional poster. Using type and only images we create, we have to express directions from or to MMC from or to someplace. I really need to get that project finished.

Yesterday, I had my first meet of the season for track. The hurdles went well.. I placed approximately 10th. However, the 4x4 did not go so well for me. I ran the slowest split of my life in that relay. I don't know what my problem is, but I need to figure it out fast if we ever want to get close to nationals.

I got a letter today from my friend Lucia. She was a foreign exchange student from Germany. This summer I did a photoshoot with her and she was so photogenic.. she could definitely be a model! In her letter she said that she is saving up her money to come back to the US this summer! I am so excited and I really hope it works out that she can come back.

This week on top of classes and practices, I have pep band too. Only three left though, so I guess I can handle that. Then another track meet at USD on the weekend. Hopefully I can get my act together and get my time down to where it should be.

Well, it has been quite some time since I've blogged. Today was the first day of classes. It went well except for the fact that I am going to be just as busy this semester as last. I am taking Art Appreciation, Critical Thinking in Ethics, Technical Design, Literature of the Holocaust, Video, Band and Choir.

My last two weeks of break went really fast, even though I didn't do a whole lot. I got to see some friends that I hadn't seen in a long time, so that was nice.

I worked new years eve and on new years day some friends and I went to see The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. It was so good. When it was over I went to see what time it was and the movie had been three hours long. It didn't even seem like it. After that, we went out to eat and then went to one friend's house and played Partini. Its a party game that is made up of a bunch of different "games." You could draw a card that requires you to mime something, sing something, have others write something about you, etc. It was very fun.

Last week, I had to take down the xmas decorations at work and put up the Valentine's Day decorations. It was pretty cool because the two other people and I got to decorate however we wanted. We also started to clean out one of the storage corners in the basement and found lots of crazy things down there. We found a stash of plastic forks, still in their boxes, from 1996. We threw them out.

The first track meet of the season is on Friday/Saturday. I really need to work on hurdling. I'm going to do that today. Gotta get back into it.

The past few weeks have definitely had their ups and downs, their busy parts and their lazy parts.

I've worked a few times, but not many hours. I've been trying to work out but I just wish I had the time and motivation for it. If I did, I would be doing speed training three times a week and distance training two days a week. But for the most part, I have just been doing a little speed and a little distance here and there. But alot of abs, which is always good.

For Christmas, I got some movies, the new Fall Out Boy cd, a sweatshirt and some other clothes, a couple of pairs of earrings, a new hairstraightener, a massager, some candy, and some ornaments.

At Christmas at my grandmas, I got to see alot of my cousins and aunts and uncles. Dogs Ike and Juny were also there. I got a sweater from my grandma and a necklace.

I went to a Christmas party/welcome back for a friend that studied abroad in England this semester. We did a white elephant gift exchange and I got the movie Wedding Crashers. The gift I gave was a smelly candle and two diaries. We played card games and it was a really fun time.

Today a friend came over and we played four games: Sorry, Stratego, Yahtzee, and Life. I only won Yahtzee.

Tomorrow is New Year's Eve, but I am working, so no big plans. It's gonna be a really busy night too. On New Year's Day, the powwow girls are getting together to see a movie and go out to eat, so I am pretty excited for that. Also, it's a friend's birthday on Saturday, so we are going out for that too.

Even though I have plenty to do here at home, I am getting sick of being here. Too much time at home isn't good for me and I am ready to go back to school. Only 12 more days...

Boredom is the word to describe the majority of my break so far. All of my friends didn't have finals until this week so they are home now, but all week I had no one to hang out with. And my brothers both had school still so I was home alone for the most part.

I went gift shopping with my dad one day tho, which was fun. We went to this new coffee shop/cafe and I think it would be awesome to work there. So definitely this summer I am going to apply there. And many other places because I am sick of the job I have now. So far I was supposed to work four days and I have only worked one because the restaurant closed due to the bad weather on the other days.

And speaking of bad weather, today is really really cold and windy. The past couple days it blizzarded (is that a word?) and now we have soo much snow. The drifts come up to our porch but I think we actually have about a foot and a half. The wind chill is ridiculously cold.. I think the news said -30.

I guess my boredom lead me to be kind of productive. I made at least ten different kinds of christmas cookies this week. And we are still baking more today. I found an awesome cookie cook book at my house and I am so excited to try some of them. I'm gonna get so fat from all the cookies. Good thing I'm working out. Yesterdat I did 2.5 miles of speed work on the treadmill and did 17 mins of abs and core. I wish I had the motivation to workout like that everyday, but I just get so lazy and would just rather lay on the couch and watch a movie. I wish it would warm up so I could run outside. But I don't think I will be that lucky.

This week I went to see my youngest brother's holiday program at school and then that night he was in the Christmas pageant at church. He was a wiseman. Tomorrow night is my other brother's band concert, so I will get to go see that as well.

I think we are finishing our Christmas shopping on Wednesday, so that's cutting it close. I think my dad should be home that day too (he is a trucker), which is exciting. On Saturday, we are going to my grandma's house for Christmas with all my aunts, uncles, and cousins so I am also excited for that.

I sure hope this New Year is good. I've been waiting for a while for it.

FINALS ARE OVER.

It feels amazing to be done. I had my last final this morning at 8 and I honestly think I did well on it. I studied for three days for it and I am really hoping it paid off.

Last night I ran the 4x4 at the track meet. We didn't do so well. I ran a 67 split and the other girls ran 65, 67, and 70. We need to be around 61/62 if we want to make it to nationals, so we have ALOT of work to do. I am going to try to train really hard over break so I can get into really good shape to run that race. Coach said that since we have such a good shot at going to nationals in the relay, that race has to be my main focus. So I guess I won't be doing much hurdling this year.

Even though I am done with the semester, I am waiting to go home until tomorrow. I still need to pack and then tonight I will get to hang out with my friends and boyfriend before we all part for break.