Woo-hoo! We're getting yummy Mexican food tonight. I *love queso fundido. I'm quite sure I spelled that wrong. LOL My best friend from elementary school, Griselda, her family owned a restaurant called De Colores. Probably spelled that wrong, too, I'm German girl. LOL Anyway, we obviously went there very often, because they have the best food EVER and because it was Gris's family. One day when I was about 8, we were ordering there and her mom included an order of it because she thought I would like it. Boy, do I ever. LOL I haven't found a restaurant yet that could make it so well, but it's a little too far to drive to now. When we lived in Chicago, it was about 4 blocks down the street, but then we moved and then they moved. <.g> But this place in La Grange is one of the best we've found since.

I really don't want to pack. LOL It's somewhat lumped together, though. I'll dump my shelves into one tub, my closet into another, drawers into a third, and leave the fourth for misc stuff. But I should really do my dishes now. LOL

Wow, this feels so very early! LOL But the sun is shining. And somehow, Dore got my r@ address, so I have woken up to several Angel birthday wishes. Both are very nice things. <.g>

Okay, I wrote the above before my final, at 6:35 am. <.g> Maybe now blogger is happier. Anyway, I don't think I failed the final. Most definitely didn't get a C+, unless my gut responses helped me more than I thought. LOL As we were walking back, Lauren stopped suddenly. And seeing as how we were crossing a street, this is bad. <.g> Anyway, she was like, "Oh, my GOD! I just realized you're twenty! You're not a teenager anymore! You're so old! I'm going to be twenty soon. I don't have any more excuses!" LOL

Then I got back to my dorm, and Jen had my presents waiting for me - Harry Potter pencil case and address book! <.g> She said she looked for West Wing stuff, but couldn't find any. <.giggle> I'm really excited about the pencil case - I kinda have this huge collection of pens lying around everywhere. LOL She also sent me a HP card - Hermione dreaming of Ron! LOL Then she sent me a "whippersnapper" card with an ancient rooster rollerblading down the street. <.giggle>

Now I must pack, because my Daddy will be here in a few hours to get me, and I don't really have a lot packed. <.g>

But hey - I'm in my *twenties* now!

<.whimper>

ARGH! I should be excited about spending my last few hours as a teenager, and instead, I'm feeling sick over this final. Literally sick. And tonight's ER didn't help much. I loved Abby and her mom, but Bonnie and that little boy made me want to cry. Next week should be excellent, though.

I just want to do so good on this test, and I don't think I will. I really want to think positive thoughts, and I can't manage to get any out. <.sigh> That makes me sad.

Joy just e-mailed me my SAC final exam grade - 78. Not bad, I guess. Certainly could have been a lot worse.

I'm checking my mail for the first time in over a month. I was rather surprised to see a message from my friend Bess, a Gangster babe, entitled "Gotcha!" She's stalking me through my school website. <.giggle>

I've been sitting on my bed, doing math for the last 20 minutes. I know it all! I love math. Math is wonderful. Math will help me not fail the test tomorrow! Beautiful, beautiful math.

I called my mom back (this was, like, our third phone conversation of the day) to tell her Hello, Dolly is on at 7. She laughed at me, said I was weird. <.g> We talked a little about how her mom is insane, then we started talking about tomorrow. She reminded me that it's going to take at least two hours to load the van before we get on the road, so we're talking not being home until about 6:30. Icky. <.g> BUT she said that we had to watch WW tomorrow. Then she turned that into, "We'll kick dad upstairs (they'd been sleeping on the foldout couch to be near Josh) and stay up and watch hours and hours of West Wing." <.giggle> I'm really excited about that. Granted, she breaks 95% of any plans she makes with me, but the idea is still really cool and fun! So I might get to stay up with much coffee and have fun with her. She hasn't seen Joey Lucas' first episode, and she loves the cartographer episode, so those two will be on our list. I hope she doesn't back out on this. I'd love to watch with her. Lots of fun things to talk about.

Lauren just IMed me. She said her friend figured out that she currently had a 78% in Hearing, and needed an 83% on the final to get a B-. I have a 83% right now, so I'm guessing I need around a 78% to get a B-. LOL I don't know how doable that is, but the test is curved. I got a 74% on both the first and third tests, and an 86% on the second, so maybe I can pull off a C+ on the final. I'd like that.

Just got off the phone with mom. She's making me feel a lot better. I really am upset that I won't be getting any As this semester, and she was like, don't be. The students who are getting As right now are the ones who are doing almost nothing but studying, and there's no way I could ever do that. I have too many interests, between the listservs, sib stuff, friendships, etc. My grades are showing that I worked hard in my classes, but I worked hard at other things in my life that I consider to be important, too. I still don't quite believe that, though. All I can think is that I could have put so much more effort into classes and less into, say, West Wing. She's trying to tell me that I'm being "intellectually stimulated" by WW, though, and that it's fostering my already existing interest in politics. Which I guess is true, but not exactly helping my current classes, you know? ARGH! I just wanted to do so much better this semester than last, and I'm not going to! After all this work, I may even do worse, and that makes me just want to cry. I'm so frustrated. I want to do well, but the more I try, the less well I do. I don't even want to bother trying anymore.

And this is me feeling a lot better. Scary, huh?

Uh-oh. Jennie's going to kill me. Let's hope she doesn't read this until my birthday. <.g>

I have OLTL on while I pack. The new Sam started this week. He's not Kale Brown, no one could ever equal him. But, uh....<.sigh> He's really cute, all right?! And he can act well. He has chemistry with Nora. I think OLTL did okay.

Please don't hurt me!

I. Hate. Packing.

I hate it. With a passion. It's just not GOING ANYWHERE! I threw out a bunch of papers and notebooks, but I still have SO MUCH. It'll be easy to pack into tubs tomorrow, but until then, there's so little I can do! And mom keeps stressing about wanting me home ASAP, and while I want to be home, too, I want to watch AMC with Jennie. I want to cry after I fail my final. I don't want it to be run and go, because I want to have a little more relaxing time and say goodbye to Jen.

I should have sold my books back. At this point, I'm ready to throw most of them out just to get rid of them. I'm getting ready to throw a LOT of things out, including food and stuff that I'm sure I'll want next year but don't want to hang onto until then. <.sigh> This sucks.

I do not want to pack, I do not want to study.

I need to take a shower. <.sigh>

Took the Life colors test from Kristine....11 sensitive tan, 10 crystal, 10 violet, 9 green, 9 blue. Pretty cool! I think that all actually sounds pretty spot on. Especially since the blue page has Sleeping Beauty and Prince Phillip dancing. <.giggle> Some of them seem rather at odds, but they all have elements of truth, I think.

Someone at the Bartlet campaign is going to have to be sacrificed, like this story says. I don't want to lose any of the cast members!! It canNOT be Josh. Leo would be hard, but it's not the show without Josh. I bet it's Leo, though, and that will nearly kill the administration. He does too much. Next season is going to be pretty damn rough.

I love West Wing. Oh, shut up, I know you know. But I love learning new things! Like CJ's Cartographer's for Social Equality and their Peters Projection Map. Germany's not where we think it is! Africa's huge! Europe is nearly insignificant! Alaska is smaller than Mexico! Just look at that map. This should be changed! Britain uses this map exclusively in their schools, and the US should do the same.

I think I'm getting a little wound up. LOL But this is fascinating!

<.sigh> West Wing made me cry. I had heard the rumor and still, I cried. I'm so sad. I'm happy mom and I are watching it next week though - we can cry together. <.g> It's just....wow. Huge wow.

Twisted crust pizza ROCKS, BTW. We totally devoured it. <.g> Room's a mess, though. LOL I really do need to study, too. Review session was a waste of time - it was exactly what we did yesterday. <.sigh> I don't know how well I'll do on the test. I just don't want to study. And when I get there, I won't want to do anything because it's my birthday. It's a lose-lose situation.

I'm not looking forward to the review session this evening. It's not so much the actual review as it is the getting there - I had this huge blister on the back of my foot. It has now enlarged to also be under my foot. It hurts to walk, and it's driving me insane! Totally urgh in a huge way.

Kate's coming over tonight for pizza and West Wing. Jen and I have been planning on getting that twisted crust pizza for a while now, and time has pretty much run out. LOL So, we're getting it tonight for Dawson and West Wing, and Kate's going to join us. I really wish Jen would just give in and admit that she likes WW, although we're having a lot of fun fighting about it. <.g>

GH sucks, I think I'm going to rewatch Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail. <.g>

Yay, Carol said she recommend me for a clerical job at the speech clinic in the afternoons. That would help immensely, not having to move to a different location for two jobs a day. <.g>

I also saw Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail - I LOVED it. New top five favorite episode. LOL CJ and the cartagrophers for social equality - I have to find the transcript of that somewhere. <.g> It was even better than Pluie and the wolves-only highway from last year. I do know that I had something else to say, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was. LOL Ooops.

Woo-hoo!!!! Meg wrote a XF-WW crossover story called Dead Tape. Mulder and Scully visit Pres. Bartlet because Mulder's having some problems becoming legally alive after being legally dead. <.g> It's laugh-out-loud funny in places, and teary-eyed sweet in others. Characterization is spot on, and oh, I love this story!

So I have three more eps on the season 2 tape, only one of which I haven't seen yet. So I'll watch that one today, and be done! <.g> Buffy and Angel rocked last night. I missed about 20 minutes of Buffy because Erin called - she's the one person I'll miss Buffy for. LOL I love talking with her. : ) But Angel kicked ass - I loved seeing Wes and Angel poking at each other, and Angel was so cute and gleeful. <.giggle> Oh, and Wes has handcuffs. LOL Love it. <.g>

Wow. Okay, I talked with my mom a lot today. (She's really excited I love West Wing. <.g>) Anyway, she was talking to her friend Carol, who works at the SLP clinic where I'm going to be working this summer. They're doing this morning summer camp for kids with special needs and their sibs, and it combines speech and occupational therapy with camp stuff. So mom asked Carol if her son Bretty would be going to Janet's camp, and Carol was like, "Well, yeah. Only around here, we call it Janet and Rina's camp." Somewhere between my calling Janet and saying, "I heard you're looking for staff" and now, I got promoted into RUNNING THE DAMN CAMP! It's my freaking camp! I don't know anything about camps. I never even went to a camp. ::whimper:: Everyone's like, "Oh, it's going to look so good on your resume," and mom adds, "You know Janet's gonna offer you a job after you graduate. This is practice. It'll look good." Which is all well and good, but I think it would look better IF I KNEW WHAT THE HELL I WAS DOING! Which I don't!

I'm a little nervous.

Ah, what a morning. LOL After my 1am post, I headed over to Yahoo, checking out what other WW groups I could find. Nothing for Josh and Joey, but I did find Josh/CJ and Josh/Sam, so I joined them. <.g> I also found CJ/Toby, which I think I'll join today. Yes, I realize the idiocy of joining more lists right before I go home. LOL That's the joy of OE - I can sign on for a minute and download the mail, then read offline. <.g>

So, I went to bed at 2am. Briefly woke at 9:30, hearing Jen leave. Went back to bed, despite my original plan of waking up in time to get to breakfast, which ended at 9. <.g> Woke up again at 10:36, and decided that it was time. Sat down in front of my computer, confronted with messages from Lauren. "I'll meet you at 10:40. Are you there? Gooler at 11? I'll see you in the lobby in a few minutes." I stare, dumbfounded. The phone rings. "Where are you?" ACK! I seriously thought our review session was tomorrow! LOL I got dressed in 3 minutes, dragged a brush through my hair and ran. <.g> Got my last two tests back, though - B+ on one and a C on the other. Yay! I might pull off a B in this class after all. That'd be awesome.

But I think I've studied enough for now. <.g> I do believe I hear the call of season two. LOL

Ryan O'Neal is 60? I just can't believe that. He doesn't look much older than he did during Love Story! I hope he's able to fight his cancer.

Gangster Babes are apparently systematically getting spammed by some idiot who doesn't like us anymore. Karen got a note calling us all bitches (bitc*es, actually), and now I got a note telling me and two others in the group to "F off." Obviously we're dealing with a highly mature person. Wouldn't you think there are better ways of saying you want off a list than anonymously spamming people and calling them names? I bet it's Ann, but I hadn't thought she would do something like that. I never liked her very much, though. She was against inclusion.

Only took me three days to get through all of season one. <.giggle> Not bad, huh? I realized shortly into the season finale that I had seen that ep before - mom had made me watch it. I knew I had remembered a scene about which way the eagle faced during a war, because there was no way I would think of that question on my own. LOL It was amazing watching the last scene, knowing what happened. I saw Sam pushing CJ to the ground. I saw Josh with that look of shock and horror on his face as he was propelled into the gate by the bullet. I could just cry about it. I also realized that while I am definitely a Josh/Donna fan and always will be, Josh and Joey are just awesome. I loved when they were all waiting for polling results in the oval office, he asked her this rather long and ridiculous question, ending with, "What do you have to say to that?" and she blew a raspberry at him. LOL So I guess Josh is my Willow - I'm really quite happy no matter who he's with. Which isn't to say I'm not glad that Joey is setting him up with Donna nearly as much as Donna's settng him up with Joey. LOL

And now I think it's time for me to go to sleep. Maybe tomorrow I can start talking about things not related to a TV show. Things people might actually be interested in reading about.

Or maybe I can watch season two.

Just got back from Kate's - took a break from the great WW marathon of '01. <.g> Anyway, we had a very yummy dinner, a chili dip. Spread cream cheese on the bottom of a dish, dump and spread beanless chili on that, and then put shredded cheese over that. Microwave 5 minutes or until the cheese is melted, and dig in. Horribly fattening and yet so very very yummy. LOL

Now taking a break for Boston Public and possibly Ally before restarting WW. I only have about 5 more episodes in season one, after all. <.g>

Finished episode fifteen of West Wing today. <.g> Amazing, amazing, amazing. Take this Sabbath Day is now on my list of top five. Joey Lucas' first episode - I know that I am a die-hard Josh/Donna fan and I do honestly believe they belong together. But I seriously, completely love Joey Lucas!! I want her to stay on and be their friend, because she is one of the most kickass characters I have ever come across on any show! I laughed so hard my stomach hurt - Josh and Donna, Josh and Joey, Josh and Kenny. Josh in Sam's yellow hip waders after waking up in champagne soaked clothes after a bachelor's party. <.giggle> I was also laughing hysterically during Celestial Navigations with CJ's root canal and Josh as the stand in press secretary. And don't let her fool you - so was Jen. <.g> She's all, "Oh, this show is okay, I suppose, but nothing special," and she was laughing more than I was. LOL But depsite how much I laughed at these episodes, those aren't the scenes that make me love the episodes. In Sabbath, the whole capital punishment subject was dealt with in such an amazing way, with all of the religious takes and confusion, and there is no easy answer. And with CN, the best scene was with Toby and Mendoza in the cell...I mean, wow. Really wow. No wonder my mother still remembers that scene so clearly.

Anyway, yes, this was my day so far. LOL Woke up at 9:30, read my mail, took a shower, settled into West Wing. LOL I'm taking advantage of this - there's no way in hell I'm going to get ten minutes to myself once I get home. I'll start reviewing hearing tomorrow - Lauren and I are meeting with Dave to go over our tests on Wednesday, and that will help. But in the mean time? DC, baby!

LOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!! Oh my GOD Jen and I are dying, laughing over here!!!!!!!!! The whole XF is all continuity, right? And Leyla gets all the continuity lines. So she's in the hospital at the very end and says she has a question for M&S - when he went to Antarctica to save Scully and the sno-cat ran out of gas, how did they get back? Which is the question people have been asking for 3 years now! LOL And then M&S start bickering about whether or not it was a speceship and Scully's like, "And then I hugged you until you warmed up," as Doggett is watching them and laughing softly, and it was SOOOOOOOO cute and funny and I love love loved it!!!

LOL!! Kate just called me. That is so funny, because I'm seeing DisneyK right here on my buddy list. LOL But it was fun, I like talking on the phone sometimes. <.g> She agreed with me and Jen - we'd happily watch XF next season if it was Doggett and Harrison. They had great chemistry, and she was a fun, interesting, intelligent character. I liked her a hell of a lot more than I do Reyes.

Last episode before XF started was the first season Christmas episode. It kicked ass. I love when Donna opened up her present, and Josh said he had it inscribed and she started crying and hugged him! He totally hugged back and buried his face in her shoulder, and was totally all serious because he SO loves her. LOL That was a great scene for them. And it was made J/D perfect by Donna asking, arms still clutched around him, if it would have killed him to give her skis, and he said yes, still hugging her. <.g>

Anyway, so I'm watching XF now. I love Leyla Harrison, and I love that there have been no less than six continuity lines so far. Continuity! On XFiles! I'm going to cry. How beautiful.

Just spent 45 minutes on the phone with my family. See, I get all "I don't want to go home" and then I talk to them. <.g> Mom and I analyzed West Wing and GH, she told me about Josh's new room, etc. Oh! She also told my about my friend Julia's brother Chad. Chad's graduating on Sunday, from here, with a major in computer something. His thesis is on artificial intelligence, and that's also what his master's is going to be on. He's really into the research. So when you have this major and are looking for a summer internship, where's the place you want to go? Yes, that's right, Microsoft. <.g> They're paying to fly him out to Seattle, setting up his housing, etc, and he gets to do a summer internship researching artifical intelligence. Not only that, but he's getting paid twice as much per week as his mom does as an SLP consultant. Can you believe that? How totally awesome for him! He gets to meet Bill Gates and everything!

I think I have a another favorite for my top five WWs - The Crackpots and These Women. I find it unusual that so far, my two favorite episodes don't really have anything that could be construed as Josh/Donna. Hell, there's nothing CJ/Toby, CJ/Sam, or any other couple, either. This episode was about big block of cheese day - groups that normally don't get an audience at the White House (the crackpots) get a day to talk about their things. Sam talked with a UFO guy, CJ got the wildlife group, and both were unwillingly affected by what the groups had to say. Then there was Josh who was genuinely upset that he was the only one of his friends to get a card with instructions on where to go in case of nuclear attack, and ultimately gave it back, saying, "I want to be a comfort to my friends in tragedy. And I want to be able to celebrate with them in triumph. And for all the times in between, I just want to be able to look them in the eye. Leo, its not for me. I want to be with my friends, my family, and these women." These women being the women who work in the White House, who just amaze Leo and the president every day with everything they can do. And not in a patronizing sense, but in full out actual awe and admiration.

Okay, and seeing Josh's extremely well-defined muscles in the teaser when everyone is playing basketball didn't hurt. <.g>

Since my first episode was In the Shadow of Two Gunmen, my first couple was CJ/Sam. He saved her, after all. They had this cool thing going. Sadly, it seems like no one agrees with me. LOL I've found one story for them, and then this one. I think I like this one best - when she needs to get rid of the dreams that still haunts her, she takes Sam with her and they talk and share. I love them. Even if she is so much taller than he is. <.g> They're cute and sweet.

I love CJ and Toby. Add in Sam and Josh, and it's just too cute for words. <.g> Even if Toby does disparage Chicago and then they all badmouth the Braves. Despite this, I love them still.

The blissful day of doing NOTHING. I could get used to this. <.g> Anyway, the fall schedule for WB will be out Tuesday, but this is the summer one:

MONDAYS
8:00 - "7th heaven" (1)
9:00 - "7th heaven" (2)

TUESDAYS
8:00 - "the wb's night at the movies"

WEDNESDAYS
8:00 - "dawson's creek"
9:00 - "felicity"

THURSDAYS
8:00 - "gilmore girls"
9:00 - "charmed"

FRIDAYS
8:00 - "sabrina, the teenage witch" (1)
8:30 - "sabrina, the teenage witch" (2)
9:00 - "popstars" (1)
9:30 - "popstars" (2)

SUNDAYS
(no changes were announced)

<.sigh> No Buffy. Which leads me to believe that the rumors are true - WB canceled Angel, Roswell, and Popular. If WB did cancel Angel, UPN is contractually obligated to pick it up. Movies to air on Tuesday nights include ``The Breakfast Club,'' ``Ferris Bueller's Day Off'' and ``I Know What You Did Last Summer.'' But hey, UPN has a Buffy banner up now. We'll ignore that it's on top of Chains of Love, okay? <.g> But their show sites don't seem to be all that bad. The Voyager one, anyway. Bios of cast and characters, videos and wavs, etc. I've seen a lot worse. LOL

Now I have to scrounge around and find breakfast. I can't believe this is my last Sunday in the dorms. I'm not ready to go home yet!