ABOUT TO GET SCHOOLED

Soooo school starts in almost a month and I'm anticipating quite the world load (even though I'm only taking 3 classes).

I'm taking Women in Literature from the same professor I took my Comp. II class with. I'm excited but if she's anything like she was in Comp. II, I will have to read a ton, write a ton, and do a lot of projects. However I'm hoping the class will be small so we can have some really good discussions.

I haven't taken History yet, so I'll be taking U.S. History before 1877. I'm guessing this is going to have a lot of reading as well. But hopefully most of it will be vocab, which I kind of have a nack for. Hopefully not too many papers but you never know.

The third class I'm taking is Philosophy. I really have no idea what to expect from this one. I looked up the booklist on the campus website and it included works from Ghandi, Rene Descartes, and Mary Wollstonecraft. I think this could be a class I will really enjoy, but its one of those that really depends on how passionate the professor is. Believe it or not professors at CC aren't always rotten. So cross your fingers!

P.S. Is it sad that I already want to buy school supplies? I think that's my favorite part about school. I could collect pens and notebooks all day long.

P.S.S. I am that pony on top of the books. Number 1 student pony!!!!

TO DO LIST..

I probably should write this down.. but I am super unmotivated today and am still in bed (I did however eat breakfast.. but it sadly consisted of fig newtons seeing as I am out of milk).
LAUNDRY
PACK
DISHES
REPLY TO E-MAILS
GROCERIES
PRINT OUT DISCUSSION ?'s
GET OFF OF FACEBOOK (better still I should just delete it for awhile)
MORE CLEANING/ORGANIZING
WORK ON MY ESSAY
GET A COPY MADE OF MY PASSPORT
PICK A DAY TO GO TO HCC TO SPEAK WITH A TRANSFER COUNSELOR
MAKE PAPER BOOKLETS FOR CAMP

I this is it..if I have time I might make some more banners for etsy. Oh yea that's right I'm re-openeing my etsy store! (Eventually that is..)
Have a good day, I may be back later..

Hilary

I've really started to like this band, especially while driving in the car. I couldn't find a vid for one of my favorite songs they wrote called Indian Angel, but I highly recommend you look it up. I did find one vid I thought was interesting, a tad contrived but interesting none-the-less.

Enjoy :]
Hilary

I'M INCLINED

TRANSLITERATION

DEAR MR. SCHWARTZMAN

...I think I love you



Hilary

BOOKMARK: HOMER AND LANGLEY

I heard about this book when I attended the Margarett Root Brown reading series hosted by http://www.inprinthouston.org/ . E.L. Doctorow is a creative genius and this book has actually been in the back of my mind for far too long. The book is Doctorow's depiction of how the famed Collyer brothers lived preceding their gruesome and unsightly death. For those who are unfamiliar with their tale, the Collyers lived in New York in the early to mid 1900s. They were known for their snobbish upper crusty lifestyle, but their story hit its peak at the discovery of the two brothers dead in their Harlem brownstone amidst tons and tons of collections, newspapers, and heirlooms. I'm mid-way through and loving it! Can't wait to finish it though.

I LOVE

when you want something so much that it hurts. That it scares you to death. That the thought of it makes you feel excited and alive. That you are so close you can taste it. That it makes you dream of not only who you will become, but what it will make of your life here and now and in this moment.

I'm really praying to get into the college in Cairo. As I'm writing my essay I find myself getting a bit teary-eyed. To be honest I don't think I've ever wanted something so much as this in my life. I have big dreams and a big heart to learn and love and be, and with that said I feel like this could be an experience of a lifetime. I feel vulnerable because I want to make sure that in 500 words or less I gut myself on this paper so that those who will be evaluating me cannot say no. All of this is really strange, and the day I send my application in I will probably have to take off because I'm sure the stress just might be too much for me to handle.

I want to eat koshary in the streets of Cairo and be minutes away from the largest museum of Eqyptian antiquities in the world. I want to study and be immersed in thought. Ughhhh I just get so excited! I know it seems I'm only looking at the fun side of this, but the truth is.. if I get accepted and enroll, this just might be the hardest thing I have ever had to face. Obviously Egyptian culture is vastly different from our way of life here in America, and in particular Texas. Like I said, I am excited.. but I am scared to death. Please pray for this, that my essay is complete and that those reading it as well as the rest of my application feel as confident as I do. Hey world are you ready to jump? I am..


HILARY