Alright, so I FINALLY heard back from Lane, and I made it into the dental hygiene program here in Eugene as well as the one up in Vancouver.  Now I don't know which one to pick :(
So I'm going to make a list of pros and cons for each school and based on that you guys have to help me decide, okay?  I'll start with Lane..

Pros-
1) It's here in Eugene.  So I could stay living with Jesse, Dustin, and my animals.  I also know the area really well, and my family lives here.
2) It's cheaper.  Only about $10,000/year, and considering how much financial aid I get on top of the fact that I could keep my weekend job at guaranty, I would come out with a pretty small amount of dept to pay back.
3) I know the school really well.  I know the best places to study, where to get my books, where the resource centers are, etc.  Oh!  And where to get parking even on a busy day...I never get freaking parking tickets like I do in Vancouver! 
4) The school has a really nice gym :P  I know I know, it's not really an important one, but I'm adding everything I can think of.  Plus the gym is right by the dental hygiene building

Cons-
1) It's a relatively ghetto school compared to Clark.  There equipment leaks, they have old gross scrubs, etc.  It's also pretty unorganized there (I mean, they did take until late June to notify me of acceptance to their program!)  I can never get ahold of anyone at that school, whereas Clark always has someone to answer my questions right away.
2) If I graduate from Lane, but decide I want to work in WA, then I have to take an extra class, whereas if I graduate from Clark then I can work in either OR or WA.

Okay, and for Clark...

Pros-
1) It's a nicer school.  New equipment, highly organized, etc.
2) I know a lot of people in the Vancouver area.  Or, at least some people.  There's Bobbie-Jo, Matt, Jordan, Chelsey, Danielle, Amanda, and possibly Josh and Lucy.  Not to mention that I'm just a two hour drive in either direction to everyone else I know. 
3) I plan to live with Dustin and Jesse forever once I get out of college, so leaving for 2 years won't really mean too much. (Ps-any future boyfriend of mine better get used to the idea of living with those two :P) And a new experience could be kind of fun (so long as it's temporary)
4) I would meet lots of new friends, which is always really fun.  Yeah, I would probably meet some new friends at Lane too, but that program doesn't really focus as much towards the group learning atmosphere like Clark does...when I went to orientation at Clark it felt almost like a sorority.

Cons-
1) It's hella expensive!  I mean, if I factor in having to quit my jobs down here in Eugene, we're talking an extra $20,000 in student loans! 
2) I would miss my animals.  I think I could come home on most weekends, but there would be times that I would have to stay up there and study, in which case weeks could go by without me seeing them! :(
3) I don't know the area at all.
4) I don't feel good about leaving Jesse and Dustin to their own...um, what's the word?  Ah, I just don't feel good about leaving them unchecked ;)  I don't want to come home from Clark one weekend and have something illegal being produced from our home :P
5) No one would be here to clean the house, or keep the animals vet appointments...and what if our cats have kitty aids!  Then I'm wasting the few years I have left with them gone!
6)I have to go to summer school at Clark, with Lane I don't.


Okay guys, I really need help with this one!  Let me know what you all think asap! :)

Okay I'm trying to do something different with my hair but I can't decide what to do!  I posted some pictures up of what I think are cute hair colors (Jesse and Dustin highly disagree :P)  But if you guys have any suggestions or like any of the colors I put up let me know!  I have to decide within a day!  Or if you don't think I should change it, then let me know that too.

I hate making decisions :P

Thank you Smash Bros for making conversations like this possible

PS-I was playing kirby, a character that can eat other characters in order to steal their powers.

"He's just not that into you"--the book!  It's so funny!  I loved it, finished it in one night, and want all of my girl friends to read it!  It's kind of sad that 80% of my girlfriends are in long-term commited relationships, because this is such a great book for anyone who is dating (casually), but even if your not, it's still fun to read :)

The chapters are as follows:
     He's just not that into you if:

          1) He's not asking you out...This chapter talks about how women make a bunch of excuses as to why a guy might not be asking her out.   Like maybe he just got out of a serious relationship and doesn't want to officially date right away, or maybe he doesn't want to ruin the friendship, (or in my case, because he doesn't want to lose his job as a prof. at my school :P lol), etc.  And a lot of women think that they should take the initiative to ask guys out...According to the writers NEVER ask a guy out, EVER!  Haha, so they think that if a guy doens't want to go through the trouble of doing the work then he's not worth it. 

             2) He's not calling you.  This includes not just when you first start dating, but even years down the road if he is out of town and he doesn't call or write, then you have a serious problem.  One of my guy friends says that he texts his girlfriend every morning telling her that he loves her, which is how it's supposed to be! (And he's not even out of town!)  The stories in this section were fun to read, but I don't want to spoil them for you all :P

             3)  He's not dating you.  Haha!  This one is kind of obvious, but a lot of women don't get it :P  Even I fell for this one a few times back in the day ;)  This is one where women again think that their guy just got out of a serious relationship, and they just don't want the title of "boyfriend"  On of the writers wrote, "You know, I had to check my relationship dictionary just to make sure, but I was right, 'I don't want to be your boyfriend' really does mean 'I don't want to be your boyfriend'"  It doesn't matter what the situation, if I guy is really into you as much as he should be, he could have gotten divorced yesterday and that wouldn't stop him from wanting to be your boyfriend.  Back when I live with Kaci, Christina and Emily I kind of pseduo-dated this one guy named Colt.  I thought he really liked me, but he just didn't want me to be his girlfriend becaues he had just gotten out of a long-term relationship...oh little naive girl :P

           4) He's not having sex with you.--This is obvious, to anyone, so I'm going to skip the commentary on it :P

          5)  He's having sex with someone else.  Lol, okay REALLY obvious, but this chapter talks about how women make excuses for cheaters, and the truth is, no guy would ever cheat on you if he was into you as much as he should be.  It doesn't matter how mean you were, how unattractive you had become, how little sex you were having with him prior to cheating, etc.  If a guy really doesn't like you he should dump you, not cheat.

              6)  He only wants to see you when he's drunk.  Okay this one isn't always obvious to people.  Sometimes you just don't realize that the only times you see your boyfriend are when he's drunk and/or you are drunk too.  Anyways, this is so not good!  This chapter also includes if he is high or any other form of being "checked out" when your around.

                7)  He doesn't want to marry you.  I didn't love this chapter so much.  It seemed like the writers were kind of obsessed with the idea of needing long term commitments, and I personally don't see anything wrong with wanting to take your time to get married (The writers seemed to be set on everyone getting married after 2-3 years of dating)

             8)  He's breaking up with you.  Lol, so how many of you know someone (not including me!!!) That has gotten back together with an ex after they were dumped?  I know...well A LOT!  And honestly, how many happy endings do you hear from people who have broken up and then gotten back together?  I mean, it can happen, but it's really rare.  If a guy calls you a few weeks after breaking up saying that he misses you and that he made a mistake.  Truth is, he went fishing for something better and when he couldn't find it he realized that being with you was better than nothing.  But you don't want to just be "better than nothing" to someone, you want to be the best thing in their world, you know?  Sure, it feels nice to have a guy say he misses you (especially if you miss him too), but under NO circumstances should you date someone who looked into your pretty little face and said "I never want to see you again" :P

          9)  If he's dissappeared on you.  Okay this is SO my biggest problem.  If a guy just stops calling, texting, writing, etc.  IT IS NOT BECAUSE HE WAS HIT BY A BUS!  Lol (I may or may not be referring to when that Colt guy stopped talking to me randomly one day :P)  Anyways, yes of course there is a chance that there was some catastrophic distaster with him or his family, but it's far more likely that the guy you thought liked you is a total douche bag and just doensn't want to have the break up conversation with you.  No, his diling fingers didn't get smashed in a door, he didn't lose your number, he's not "too busy" (the writers HATE that phrase)  He just really doesn't like you :P

             10) He's married (Or some other variation of being unavailable).  Okay my math class starts in 15 minutes so I'm going to be brief.  It doesn't matter how "horrible" his wife/girlfriend is, if he is okay with cheating on his significant other. RUN!  Also, no circumstance should be worth puting you on the back burner
  
                11)He's a selfish jerk, bully, or a really big freak.   Okay, it doesn't matter how nice he is to you "sometimes"  if at any point he makes you feel bad, dump him!  Also, if your friends hate him, it's likely a big indication that he is a douche bag...and really, why would you want to date someone that all of your friends hated anyways?  Some of the stories in this section were really crazy!  This one guy would always make fun of his g/f for not going to a good college and he would call her stupid infront of her friends..."but he's really great when we're just alone!"--CRAZY!  This other story was about a guy who always called his girlfriend fat (seriously, not jokingly), and she didn't seem hurt by it, but her friends hated the guy (hense, don't date someone your friends ALL hate!)

Anyways, my class starts in ten minutes, so just curious, has anyone else read this book?  If not, do you agree in general with the summary of it?  I'm kind of interested in the guys perspective.  And if you like Sex in the City, so should totally read this (also if you liked the movie--the "I called 50 Tracy Smiths until I found the right one" story is really true!  What a sweet guy :D)          

Dude this sucks!  I studied for like 30 hours for my last A&P exam, and I got an 85%!!!  Now, I have to get a 99% on the final and do an extra credit power point presentation to get an A in that class...the perfect score on the final shouldn't be impossible.  I've heard that the next section of material we are covering is WAY easier than the renal section. So if I start studying this weekend for that section, I may have a chance.  However, I REALLY didn't want to have to do that extra-credit assignment. I hate talking infront of people! :P 
Anyways, it looks likely that I will be getting a B in that class, so you were right Aaron, I probably won't make it into any dental hygiene schools this year ;)  Which sucks pretty hard core, but it's not the end of the world.

On a completely separate note, my dad has been bringing us boxes of our old things since he is moving out of our childhood home to a new place.  So the other day I found a stack of my old CDs and there was an N'sync cd in it!  So I've been listening to that on my way to school and today I realized that one song on there has the worst lyrics ever!  They sing "You'll never cry unless I am there...and I will always be there, blah blah blah"  Now it's *supposed to be a nice sweet song, but unless I'm mistaken they are actually saying that she's always going to be crying right?  Anyways, that bugged me :P

So I was out at Lane all day today.  I had my first A&P exam of the term at 6 (although I ended up doing it in the earlier class, so really it started at 3).  Anyways, at around noon I decided to take a break to let myself relax and help me to refocus.  So of course I checked my myspace account, checked my e-mail, and how could a break be complete without checking craigslist? 

Now apparently Aaron didn't know what craigslist is, which really shocked me!  Everynight...or at least almost everynight I go through the same routien.  I eat dinner, watch some anime with the boys, get online to check my messages and chat for a bit, and then when all else is finished, right before bed, I log onto craigslist to read the missed connections.  I've ALWAYS wanted to read one about me!  Not because I'm interested in meeting anyone to date, but rather because I think it would be freaking awesome to have stood out in someones day enough for them to actually come home and want to write about you! 

But today was no different than any other day.  I logged onto craigslist at noon, looked through the missed connections..."What's that?  You say you saw a blond girl Sunday night at the burlesque show?  I'M A BLOND THAT WAS AT THE BURLESQUE SHOW!  Oh, what's that?  Red sweater?  Damn, I was in a purple sweater"  I didn't even care that it was a women for women add, my hopes had been raised, and then immediately crushed! 

So, even though I felt defeted, I still read through the rest of them, hoping to entertain myself, and that's when I came across this: 

An explanation to the unfortunate waitress who had my table. - m4w - 34 (Downtown Eugene)

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Reply to: pers-1001093444@craigslist.org ^[?]
Date: 2009-01-20, 6:27PM PST


I entered your fine eatery alone today. You greeted me with a great big smile and I was smitten immediately. You are gorgeous and exactly my type, down to the perfume you so delicately shared with me as you passed by. I'm really a normal guy and I'd like to explain myself. Perhaps we can put today's unfortunate events aside and start over in a few weeks, should I be lucky enough you read this.

Men are pigs. This is a simple fact of life. I'll be the first to admit it. That said, I was admiring you work for a while and was becoming more and more attracted to you. The more I watched, not all stalker like mind you, the more I was sure you were in fact as beautiful as I had first observed. When you came back to my table and offered to top off my coffee, I was so focused on being close to you, so enamored, I failed to recognize what was going on in my pants. I could not be more sorry.

What I FELT was something foreign moving in my pants. What was ACTUALLY happening was, I was getting an erection. My first gut reaction was to immediately, without hesitation, rain death down upon this uninvited intruder. Kill it before it killed me.

What you SAW, was me grab my fork off the table and stab myself in the dick.

I was as shocked as you were. BELIEVE YOU ME! I'm not one to go around stabbing myself with forks all the time. Especially in my groinal region. This was a simple case of my "fight or flight" mechanism working overdrive. I was also as shocked as you at the sheer volume of blood involved.

I reached for a napkin to fashion a tourniquet with. You ran screaming for the phone to call the police. To say the least our time together did not go as I'd hoped. I did the only thing a self respecting guy could do. I tossed 40 dollars down on a 5 dollar tab and ran like a bitch.

What I'm looking for from you is just some information and perhaps a second chance.
Are the police still looking for me?
Do you want your napkin back?
Are you single?

I should be all healed up in a few weeks... Drinks?



Lol, Anyways, thanks super creepy guy for making me remember why it's maybe not such a bad thing that there are no missed connections about me ;)

Alright!  I've commited about 30 minutes to these videos so you guys should watch them!

The first one includes Irene, Jesse, Nathan, Dustin and myself.
http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/5wYsuZDXx793O4fp


This next one is the Washingtonians and me! 
http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/PDxx8KceZggxM05BmGFn

PS-Sorry your head is kind of cut off Branden :P

My name:

Summarize me in three words:

Where did we meet:

Take a stab at my middle name:

How long have you known me:

When is the last time that we saw eachother:

Do I drink:

Do I smoke:

Am I happy:

Am I a good person:

What was your first impression of upon meeting
me/seeing me:

What's one of my favorite things to do:

Am I funny:

How do you make me smile:

What's my favorite type of music:

Have you ever seen me cry:

What
is the best feature about me:

Am I shy or outgoing:

Am I a rebel or do I follow the rules:

Do I have any special talents:

Would you call me preppy, average, sporty, punk,
hippie, glam, nerdy,
snobby, or something else (what):

Have you ever hugged me:

Kissed me?:

What is my favorite food:

Have you ever had a crush on me:

Am I dating anyone:

If there was one good nickname for me, what w ould it
be:

What's your favorite memory of me:


What is my worst habit:

Have you ever had a dream about me? If so, what?:

If you and I were stranded on a desert island, what
is the one thing I would
bring?

Are we friends:

Do I believe in God?

Am I family oriented?

Who is my best friend?

Will you repost this so I can do it?

 

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