Entries from August 2007

August 31, 2007

Bonjour

Senior year has started, and all the busy-ness has commenced.  I never thought this year would be as nuts as it has been, but then again, this year has felt about a trillion times longer than the week and a half it has been.
Besides classes, which are going well, thanks, I’ve been busy spending inordinate [...]

August 20, 2007

MIA

… as in “missing in action,” which is what I’ve been for the past … week?  And then some?
Anyway, I finished my very last day of Orientation today, and I’ve been a wreck all day.  Granted, I still have eight more months at school, but the thought of never getting to be loud and crazy [...]

August 12, 2007

Summer’s Over for the Both of Us …

Yep, I definitely just quoted Justin Timberlake.  One of the girls on my Orientation staff saw him at a Chili’s in the Memphis area a while ago … pretty jealous.
Anyhow, Orientation training starts tomorrow, so people are slowly but surely moving their way back to Jackson, and I am PUMPED.  It’s been a lonely summer, [...]

August 4, 2007

Update, Part Deux

I got a voicemail from the car dealership where my car is being repaired the other day.  When I returned the phone call, the woman who has been helping me throughout this entire crazy experience — We’ll call her Charlotte because that’s her name. — said to me, “Miss Allie, did you know you had [...]

August 1, 2007

Update

I’m having my car towed in and checked out today.  Keep your fingers crossed, say a little prayer, think happy thoughts … something, please.  I want this to be it … and not cost that much money because I do have to pay for school.  And somewhere to live.  And something to eat.
On a more [...]