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Oh. Em. Gee. I freaking love Glee. Kirk dancing to Single Ladies. Haaaaa!

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Oh, hello cdj. I have not seen the likes of you in quite some time, have I? Thar be TL;DR ahead, mateys.

I feel like my life the past semester has been one huge fucking blur. It feels horrible for me to say this because I know that there's still SO much left to do, but I cannot fucking wait to be DONE with Hall Council. I'm so frustrated by it and just--here goes the explanation.

1) I am the president of the smallest student body on campus, which means that the pool from which I can draw interest is small at best. On top of this already small pool, let me give you the demographics of my buildings:
* Todd: upperclassmen, designated singles. These kids moved here for the nice, big bed and the privacy. I don't get shit out of them.
* South Todd: international students. They are here to experience America and take classes and learn english and all that happy fun stuff. They are not here to make the halls better, and they don't really turn out for programs that often. I don't get shit out of them, either.
* Yeater: all girls, freshman/upperclass mix. I get some help here, but since our UC floor consists of about 12 people, the pickings on more experienced leadership is slim. As for the freshmen? Oh, yeah, there are about 40 of them and I have maybe 5 that have shown any remote interest.
So, in conclusion, it is VERY hard for us to get any sort of involvement because we are very diverse and have other things to do as a constituency.

2) My advisor, the RHD for the building, had his last day of work on March 1st. It was for personal reasons and I understand completely, but. Gah. (A note for Bec more than anyone else: UCM has a somewhat unique CSPA program in that we place grad students in charge of buildings, so the GAs get to learn on the job, yadda yadda yadda all that jazz) So we're being juggled around a little bit and I still start crying when I think about the fact that I've really lost a sense of comfort about the position. I knew I could go to Jake about ANYTHING and it would be taken care of, or that he would know exactly what to say to smooth things over and stop me from stressing. He's also the reason that I applied the third time for the CA position and the reason I stuck with that endeavor. Because of him, I'm going to be able to do what I've wanted since I got involved on campus (something that, in his opinion, is a job I should already be doing...but whatever). I love my new advisor and I think she is amazing, but at the end of the day she's not Jake, she doesn't live in-building with us and we don't have that 6 month bond that Jake and the rest of the e-board had created.

3) On top of going through all of this turmoil, we have a shit ton of programs planned for this semester:
* STTY Dye (STTY= S. Todd/Todd/Yeater) on the 1st, where we are providing tye dying for residents.
* My Milkshake Brings all the Mules to the Yard on the 14th, where we are (along with other west side buildings) providing milkshakes for the residents of on-campus housing.
* Quad Squad on the 21st, where we're working with Houts/Hosey hall council to beautify and clean up a shared quad in honor of earth day/arbor day
* Popcorn with the Stars sometime during the weekend before finals, where we are showing a movie in previously mentioned quad on a huge fucking screen. We have not gotten the rights for the movie, we have not rented the projector, I have no fucking idea what to do with this OMG.
* USHA week events (week of april 13th), which includes a Hall Olympics. We need to get a team together, we need to work on our team colors and spirit cheers and a banner and picking out a country. I'm pretty sure we all decided that we're going to be tie dye since our program is earlier in the month, and that's what we'll do with our banner. I'm also talking them into having our country be Djibouti so one of our spirit cheers can be 'JUMP! Shake Djibouti! JUMP JUMP! Shake Djibouti!' so we'll see how that goes.
* We still have to get the piano in our lobby tuned. Which means figuring out how the hell to pay the professor to do it since our hall council does not have a physical check book.
* Hall Council of the Year bid, which is due on April 3rd. I had a ton of inspiration for it back in February and it's all GONE now. But we're hoping to give it a Real World: STTY theme...we'll have to see.
* I still have to come up with gifts for my executive board for the STAR banquet at the end of April. E-board still has to choose out who they want to give our annual awards we created last year to...GAH!
* Executive board 2009-2010 elections. I don't even know how this is going. I sent things to my new advisor but she hasn't let me know that she received it or anything for it to be printed and copied.

SO that is kinda the shit I'm dealing with re: Hall Council. On top of all that, I also have 16 credit hours which includes the hardest fucking math class I have ever been in, an internship with the math department to teach in the schools, I work an average of 15 hours per week as an office assistant, and i have the world's neediest set of friends.

And yet, despite all of this, I have 14 characters at Valesco, 1 at six degrees, and 2 at paradigm. My brain gets so many new muses that sometimes I feel like the majority of my own personality is made up of these different voices.

Please, oh please, oh please, can it be SUMMER??????????

God, I love my uni. We should be getting a David Cook concert, because he's a school alum. Which is kinda cool. My current RHD (ie until Sunday because he put in his 2 weeks) said he was coming back down, but is childhood biffles with David, and he kept jokingly telling this girl who is OBSESSED with DC that he would introduce them after the concert, lol.

Also. I'm going to Utah/Arizona/Las Vegas for spring break, and I'm uber uber UBER excited about it. I'm gonna show my friends my old uni and visit some old friends, PLUS I get to go to a Royals spring training game in Phoenix on the 18th which will be shown on tv in KC, so that's exciting! I'm also trying to buy season tix of some type, but we'll see how that goes. Bugger.

It's been one of those days, bbs. One of thooooose dayssss.