Assalamu'alaikum....

Hmmm.... orientation's done.... met a lot of new people, which is cool :). My student account is finally settled (sorta), I've registered for classes, met with some of my future professors, and things are really beginning to shape up. I have a new job lined up for the semester at Baits, but I'm really going to miss working at Pierpont. Today was my last day, boo hoo.... (seriously, this is sad, I'm not being sarcastic). Merry, Michael and Angela gave me this really, really sweet and wonderful card as a going away present, which I really, really adore :). I'm really going to miss them a lot. It sucks that my position during the fall is going to be a work-study position, or else I would have applied for it in a heartbeat. It's a really great office, I've had a really great experience, no matter how emotional it was, LoL.

So Panda Express is finally open in Pierpont (Panda sells Chinese food.. slightly bland and overpriced for my taste, but hey, it's actually a pretty decent eating place compared to everything else Pierpont has to offer... sorry catering people :)~ ). Noticed quite a few of my friends are working there, LoL. I guess the outfit isn't that bad, even though I split my sides the other day laughing at Salah and Din for their green and yellow Panda t-shirts, respectively. But hey, there are gonna be way richer than I will ever be.

It's gonna be weird going to school as a grad student. The moment that the SI faculty said "Welcome to SI, master's students", my heart skipped a beat. Omigod omigod omigod... I'm doing my master's.... and I'm still in Michigan!! Holy crap! Now that the novelty of it all is wearing off, I have to say... I miss home a lot. I miss my little kiddies and my mom and my dad and my brothers and my sis-in-law and my cuzzy...... I miss the shopping, the food, the ability to walk around in just jeans, flip-flops and a thin cotton top without having to worry if the temperature is going to drop sub zero.... Given a choice, yeah, I'd pick home, but you gotta do what you gotta do. I wanna do my master's now, 'cause I might not get the chance for it later.

This is my second night spending in my room by my lonesome, watching a few DVDs and basically devouring everything in sight. I'm just in my down time, relaxing a bit before all the craziness of school starts. I'm trying to fit dance somewhere in my schedule, which is gonna be tricky because I wanna do well in school and I know there's no room for much dilly-dallying. We'll see how things go, I still might be able to do some of dance. No more ballet though, I think my body never really forgave me for trying to force it to do some really funky shit. No kidding.

I'm feeling strangely relaxed and at peace... and all without the help of weed. I'm a 23-year-old woman living in Michigan, the capital of Hash Bash... and I've never had weed. Yes, I am a dork. So far I haven't had the guts to experiment with pretty much anything. Oh weed, why art thou delude me? (or something like that)

I was watching TV when I realized that I was actually missing someone really badly. Wherever you are, you're always in my thoughts hon :) .

Wassalam....