A Rose Between Two Thorns

This phrase is usally used to discribe a small group sitting in boy, girl, boy order, however I feel like it describes my past weekend well. It all started when I got back to Kansas City Thrusday morning. At the time was expecting to help perpare for a big APO conference that was to be held on the Rockhurst campus. However about 4:30pm what was to be simple preparions became a crisis as Rockhurst backed out on letting have the event on campus. So my Friday- Sunday was spent solving one crisis after another with the help of two of my feinds Mel and Deena. What was supossed to be a fun confernece turned into a nightmare of issues, little sleep, and a lack of balanced meals. In my case these were the throns of my weekend. I have memory of most of sunday night and monday becuase I slept through them trying to recoperate. My Rose from this past weekend was, tuesday, going to hang out with one of my freinds that I don't often get to hang out with. She has a house full of cats and an awsome wii and wii fit plus system. I had an amazing time looking silly playing games with her. In fact I haven't had a chance to laugh like that in along time. I left her house with the biggest smile on my face. I should have had a camera with me, and told her to capture the look on my face. I hope I get to do it again, just with out the few days before it.

Wild Canid Center

Sucess. Today I finaly was able to meet up with Pam Rout at the Wild Canid Center down in Ereucka, Missouri today. With any luck this summer I'll get to sepend some of my free time down there earning my place on the volunteer roster. Plus I hope to get to know come of the keepers and Pam better. They may even be able to put a good word in for me at SIUC, which I hope to apply to this spring for graduate school.

Kennelwood

So if any does read this blog and they live in the st. Louis area and have a cat or dog that are in need of boarding, baths, or doggy day camp. You should check out Kennelwood. I've worked there for the last two summers and the past and current winters. It's a pretty neat place. Although as a dog walker it can be a bit hecktic especially during summer. Winter is pretty slow except right around Christmas so it makes it more fun to go to work because you get to spend more time one on one with the dogs or visit the cats. It is nice to work in a place where anyone that's been there for a year or more really enjoys working with the cats and dogs.

Last Christmas at Rockhurst

It's sad and exciting but this will be my last winter break, last christmas party, last tree decoration, last skb mail stuffing, and last good bye for christmas break. I know I'm going to miss it next year, but at the same time I wonder what I will be doing at this time next year. Maybe I'll have my hands full doing all though things at another job, maybe I'll be in grad school taking finals still, maybe I'll be half way acroos the county getting ready to board a plane to come home, who knows. But I'll never forget my time here at rockhurst.

lifes not fair

As amazing as college is, they is one draw back besides the learning and tests. When I'm at school I'm constantly sick. Headaches, allergies ???, muscle aches, low regrade fevers, reverse fevers, migraines???, and sore throat. It is so wrong that I have to miss out on so much because I can barely move, sleep way to much, or even think straight. I Just wish some one could tell me what is going on with me and help me find a way to get through this.

First Hard Bar

Yeah, I'm 21 know so on my birthday my freind made sure that I had my first drinking experience , at a texas road house. They were nice enough not to make me get in the saddle though. But this past weekend I had my first real experience at a bar. The Bar is called Angles and it located in the power and light district of Kansas City. I will dare say it was an experience like none other. Not bad or Good just an experience that one should have in there life time. The bar was as close to a strip bar as I think you can come, with out being a strip bar. The guys had basicly boxers on and nothing else, the girls had on panties and bras and nothing else. In fact one group they that night was celebrating a batchelers party. As the DD I say it would have been more fun if could have drank, but then again went for the experience and with an open mind so it was good to see it with unclouded eyes for what the bar was like. I will say it is defenity not something I will every week or even every month, maybe once a year.

more life experience and the hedgehog

I ment to add this earlier by the biology deparment at my school got a new pet this past week. He's a little over weight and not very social but he's cute in his own way.
-> this is petea the hedgehog

but my most resent adventure was a mixture of stupidy and pride, never a smart combination. So in art today it was pick on the county kid that hasn't been in a situation before were they could walk to a store and get something they needed. Where I'm from the closest store is a hour walk, through a questionable neighborhood. This something I've never dreamed of doing but today I let my hurt pride and a bit of stupidy take me off campus on a 3 hour outing to get rubber stamps. needless to say I made it back okay, but man am I going to hurt tomorrow. I did get some great exercise through. Lesson learned here, don't let your hurt pide and stupidy mix and make you do stupid things, becuase one of these times your regret it. Right now I have to many people that need me around to make bad chioce like that.