In other news...

Admist all that anger I am happy about two things:
1. The DePauw production of "Much Ado About Nothing", starring Lemlia of course! I am so proud of them and wish them the best of luck in every performance!
2. Wifey's senior dinner. I hear they are doing a Harry Potter theme and I'm sure they are having loads of fun!
love,
ktv

Serious Business.

Ok, now I am angry. I am angry that I am missing my first semester of my senior year. I am angry that I can't see my friends everyday. I am angry that I am missing all the events going on at school. I am angry that the school can not help me. But most of all, I am angry at myself for not doing anything about it. As Fannie Lou Hamer would say I am sick of being sick and tired (I may have paraphrased that). So now, I am done being angry and I am making plans to be re-instated at school. I will of course keep you posted!
love,
ktv

From nothing to something

Well, never will I say that sitting around not actively looking for jobs doesn't work, because within the last week I've had three! They all kind of fell into my lap via my various great friends here, but now I'm back to being jobless, but as you know that never bothers me. Other great things that happened within the last week:
1. I went to see the Social Network and For Colored Girls Only, both were great in their own interesting way.
2. My Monon ticket came in the mail + Monique is coming with me down to school + I'm driving!
3. The Lecrae concert tomorrow! This one of course hasn't happened yet, but I'm expecting great things!
4. Helping out in my church kitchen while wearing my KAA shirt inspired some great flashbacks of all the good times I had there. (added bonus I found my KAA cup! I didn't even know that I had lost it! extra added bonus I got to do a cheer!)
5. Mixed emotions being cleared up (but now that they are clear I'm not sure of the next step so I'm now in a different boat of confusion, but I've always liked boats.)
6. This picture (on the side of the post) found on frkncngz.com just made my Saturday!
7. The power of prayer.
I hope that you had a wonderful week and continue to have a great weekend!
love,
ktv

This is Halloween!

Well actually it is November 1st, but this post is going to talk about my wonderful Halloween weekend down at school! The residents of Warne 3 (well, most of them anyway) dressed as Where's Waldo? and had a fun time frolicking around campus and popping awkwardly into the background of people's photos! It was an interesting weekend filled with scary movies, mixed emotions, snuggling, eating, tickling, giggling, nakedness, strange people making out in weird costumes, and above all loads of love! As always it was so much fun seeing people and just a reminder that I need to work that much harder to get back into school, because I miss them all terribly! No seriously it's like I'm missing a limb (yes, that serious).
Since it is November 1st here is a list of things that needed to be done in October that I'm still finishing up:
1. Make the final corrections to my resume
2. Really start seriously looking for a seasonal job
3. Buy my Monon ticket
4. Call Chase
5. Write in my journal
6. Update my blog more
7. Touch up my tattoo
8. Work out more (which I did today! I worked out to a cassette of Micheal Jackson's "Bad" it was what I like to call "My old school work-out swag") Hopefully I'll be able to get all of these things finished in November! I can only hope : )
love,
ktv

Rocked.

*My weekend was absolutely rocked by Jesus. He just kept sending reminders that I should be so appreciative of my life. This weekend was a great but tiring one. I got to go to a creepy corn maze in the middle of nowhere (life lesson for this week kids, bring cash when you are going to the middle of nowhere, because if you don't you have to go to the middle of nowhere town and search for a ATM), then Justin came in for his birthday and we did some "shopping".
*This all happened on Friday and for some reason Friday night I just couldn't get to sleep and then I woke up super early on Saturday and did some more "shopping" with Liz and Charlotte, visited Aisha and the rock'n'rolla, all throughout this I'm in communication with people trying to make dinner plans for Justin's birthday and it just wasn't coming together like it should. So long (frustrating) story short I was really tired by Justin's birthday dinner and in a bad mood. Now, I'm not the type of person to put on a brave face and pretend that I'm not in a bad mood (that's silly to me! I'm not going to pretend to be ok when I'm not. I feel that's deceptive) when I'm in one, but since it was Justin's birthday I tried to be friendly (but failed miserably).
*So we are finally heading home on the train when all of a sudden it comes to an abrupt stop (I'm talking brakes burning kind of stop) and they cut the power off. So now we are sitting in a semi-dark train car at one in the morning with no clue as to what was going on. So Q, Monique, and myself just start praying and before I'm even done praying we regain power and make it to our stop safely. Apparently someone was on the tracks that's why they had to cut the power. So that was lesson number one on why I should be appreciative. I mean anything could have been going on during that time we were stopped (and trust me I went through all the scenario's in my mind), but God allowed us to get home safely. Awesome.
*My second lesson just came from an amazing church service about Jonah and how he never stopped focusing on and praising God, even when he was at his lowest in the belly of the fish. It was just a reminder that I should never stop praising God, because He is forever faithful
*And my third and final lesson (well final fr omthis weekend, because God is continually teaching me) came from watching an amazing documentary titled "Very Young Girls". It was about prostitution in then United States and how many people (myself included) view that as an overseas problem, when really it's happening right here. It was a really emotional movie to watch, because that could have been me or one of my sisters or one of my friends if our home situations had been different. But it made me so thankful to God that no one I know has ever had to experience that and I'm going to work to make sure that those girls that are involved with it have a way out.
Well that was my wonderful weekend and I won't apologize for this post being so long because my God is an awesome God and He deserves so much more than this.
love,
ktv

Haunted.

Things this non-working girl did today:
1. Stopped by Water Tower and gazed longingly at things I couldn't afford.
2. Ate at Kung-Fu Panda (according to Justin, but just known as Panda Express to the rest of us folks).
3. Went to a Haunted Corn Maze and acted a complete fool.
Things this non-working girl should have done today:
1. Update my resume.
2. Find a job and/or internship.
love,
ktv

Re-vamped!

Well since Q has not written on here in forever I've officially decided to take over and be sole writer of the blog (Q never was a big writer, so hey we tried!). And I've sort of/kind of now have a journey I want to take my (3) readers along, and that is my adventures in not working/sort of looking for work (trust me it a. is not as boring as it seems and b. sounded better in my head).
Now, I've loved not being in school (correction I've loved not doing homework, but I would kill to be back at school) and not having a job. I love lists so now let me present you with why I've loved not doing any productive work:
1. I've been actually able to get up in the morning and read my Bible! It has made all the difference in my day.
2. I've been able to sleep in!
3. I've been watching obscene amounts of anything on Netflix.
4. Evening chats with my younger sister (she is hilarious!)
5. I've gotten to read books that I want to read and not have to.
6. The weather has been wonderful and I've just gotten to lay outside and roll around in the leaves all day.
But, finally enough disparaging looks from my mother has prompted me to at least look for work (plus she has purposefully moved my bed into a position where when the sun comes up it shines directly on my face so I now have no choice but to get up at the crack of dawn), and this is where you come in and get to read all about my exciting madcaps in looking for said job. I suggest you hold on to your hats kids, it's going to be a roller coaster ride into minimum wage (I promise!)
love,
ktv