I must say, I am so freakin' proud of myself right now. I aced my SOCI 1520 paper! I didn't even really put that much time nor effort into it! That's because I am an OUTSTANDING paper writer. I never put effort into my papers, but I always get good grades! Yeah! Speaking of aces, I am the ACE of my line! I am an official member of SIGMA GAMMA RHO Sorority, IIIIIIIIIncorporated! Yea!!!!!! I feel no different, really. I am exhausted from all the freakin' work I've been doing, but other than that, I don't feel that much different. This summer, I have alot on my plate, also. Well, not really. I will be working at this camp, then I will be going to Chicago. I'll just be somewhere other than home. I guess I wont really get a chance to relax. But hey, this is the way I pictured my life. Very busy. I can start relaxing when I turn 50. Until then, I want to be so busy it will make no freakin' sense. Well that's what's been going on with me, except for these checkouts. My first checkout was okay. But that girl had such a bad attitude. I don't think she understood that I am not cleaning up jack. I put a note on my door right next to the sign up sheets, letting my residents know that I am going to be VERY hard on them when it comes to checking out. Plain and simple. They have GOT to clean! That's prolly why no one has really signed up to check out with me. Well, I am going to find something else to do now. Adios

Tia 

Currently Listening The Very Best of the Spinners By The Spinners Rubberband Man see related

Yea!!!!!!!! I had so much fun yesterday! I went to Clark with Landeia and Marisa and hung out at the front desk for a little while. I talked to KeeKee and Cotton for a while about a rat he found in Kerr Cafeteria. I'm sure he was exaggerating slightly, but a rat is a rat. Ugh. Gross. Anyway, I then turned my conversation to Jesse, who has a habit of invading personal space. I mean, yeah, we're cool, but dang. As I like to say, "Personal bubble, and you're in it." But, he's still cool. He then went to study, and I started to talk to Geoffrey about how I never come around when he's around. Then I told him that I was there then, and now, everybody's happy. Right after that, Les, Andrew, Josh, and David came and talked. They decided to play baseball in the hallway. Of course, I said no. But, of course, these crazy friends of mine insisted. They were so determined that they carried me to the freakin' hallway! It was rather funny, because I knew I was heavy, especially for Andrew, so I started using some psychology on him. I kept talking about how heavy I was and how he should just drop me right there. HIL-AR-IOUS! for me at least. Well, I ended up playing, but hey, it was fun! I wouldn't have traded that time for anything. Then again, that's a lie. But I still enjoyed it. Well, unfortunately, I was late to the Money Management program because of it. Ooops. After that, I went to a few meetings and now I am sitting at the front desk doing nothing. I just figured out that I have to work until 5pm. The problem is I have somewhere to be at 5:30 and I haven't eaten anything today. Plus, I have to go to Brittany's Hall of the Year program. Not only will I arrive late, I will have to leave early. So sad. *tear drop* Then I am going shopping with a friend and then I will be attending Brittany's baseball game. Darn. I am so freakin' busy. But I will seriously not be available for the rest of the freakin' day! And then I have my performance in about a week. I still don't want to do it. I hate it! I didn't want to do it when I joined, and I still don't. That's prolly the only nerve-wrecking thing I have to say. Ugh.

Oh well, I still in a fantastic mood, and I plan on staying this way until after my performance, which is when I will be really happy becuase it'll be OVER!!!!!!!!!

Tia

P.S. What is with these people and their attitudes? Some of these people walk around the hall all day with a frown on their face. Sometimes I say hi and try to be nice, but they ignore me. I mean, dang. Show some manners! Oh well.

Currently Listening The Singles 1992-2003 By No Doubt Excuse Me Mr. see related

Okay, what a time I've been having lately! I am so excited and I have no idea why. I am just in a great mood! Forget Cloud 9, I way above that. I feel so great! Everything seems to be going pretty well. I have a test tomorrow in COMM 2020 and I got several papers back yesterday and I made an A on every last one of them! I'm back! For a second there, when I kept getting Bs and a C (yep, a C) on assignments, I was highly disappointed in myself. I wanted to withdraw. Seriously, I was calculating how that would affect stuff like my scholarships and financial aid and everything over some assignments. But I got an A on my research paper for COMM 2020 that kept me up til 6am and an A on my paper for SOCI 1510 paper. In my Spanish class, I received As on all of my assignments.

This brings me to another point, I am so freakin lost. I don't know what I want to do with my life. I will be a Junior next semester and I am really procrastinating with Teacher Education program application. I just don't think I want to teach. Maybe when I'm alittle older, but I am so freakin young that I don't want to get into a career that I will be tied down to for the rest of my life. I mean really, what can you do when you get bored of teaching? There's no way I am going back to school to major in something else. Once I'm out, I am OUT! Pray for me. On to something alittle more pleasant...

I have a VIDEO IPOD! I am soooo happy about that. Do you realize how long it took me to save up for that? Not long, but still. I am so happy. I don't even really need the video one b/c if I want to watch TV, I can do that in my room. I just wanted something on which I could put ALL of my CDs. But, I decided to put my pictures on there also, in case I wanted to reminisce. I don't think I spelled that right but oh well.

This little section is going to be as vague as I can get it for reasons I wont say, but I have to get this out: I have been reading these books from which I am learning something. I feel like I am alot smarter when dealing with certain people, now. I want to learn so much more, but I am alittle afraid about letting other people know what I know. Not really what I know, but that I am actually taking the time to READ to learn this stuff. Honestly, almost everything I know about alot of stuff that other people seem to just know about or they have actually had conversations with other people (parents), I have learned from a book. I always read about things of which I have no knowlegde. This is probably what makes me a geek/dork/what ever people are calling people like me. My mother told me that I can't learn everything about everything from a book. I understand that I can't learn EVERYTHING about everything but I can learn alittle about most things. The only thing about the majority of these books that makes me not believe everything that is being said in these books is the majority of the books are written by the opposite of what I am trying to learn about. Get it? How can you be more of an expert on something you are not? I have always had a problem with stuff like that. An example is a man teaching a women's studies class. How could he really grasp it? He's not a woman. See? I have been stressing myself out about what I am reading, but I am getting better because I am starting to practice what I have read. Most people probably wont notice the difference in my actions. Oh well, it's probably best that they didn't.

One last thing. I think I may be smitten with someone. What the heck am I supposed to do about that? I mean, I have had a crush before but usually I just wait them out and keep myself busy. Maybe I should continue to do that. However, crushes are fun! You don't even realize how bored I have been since the last one. I am busy, but when I get a break, I don't have anything to think about. Now, I do. But I think I need to get rid of it so it wont take up too much of my time. Never mind. I'll do that. Just get rid of it. I am seriously in a magnificent mood right now! Gol-ly! Yeah! lol

Tia

CRASH WON BEST PICTURE!!!!!!! I am sooooooo very happy about this year's Oscars! This proves to me that God still exists in Hollywood! I would like to thank the Academy for showing the world that there is a right and a wrong. And (as you guys already know) it is WRONG to practice homosexuality. And for those people to actually make a movie glorifying something that is stated in the Bible as being wrong, it is like a slap in the face of God. He said it in Lev. 18:22, I Cor. 6:9-10, I Tim. 1:9-10, Gen. 19:1-13, Lev. 20:13, Rom. 1:21-32, AND Jude 1:6-7! How in the world could it be right when God clearly states it IS WRONG all throughout the Bible?!?!? So, I, being a Christian who believes the Bible is the Word of God, must say that Brokeback Mountain is a movie that goes entirely against what the Bible has to say about homosexuality. It's not right and I don't support it and I am happy the Academy didn't either! [By the way, if you don't believe in God or you are not a Christian, I am not talking to you. I am talking to the 90% who say they are Christans/Catholics in this country.] Besides, Crash was one awesome movie.

Tia

Currently Listening Power Jams By Various Artists see related

The only reason people would read this entry is if they were completely bored out of their skulls. So here goes:

FIRSTS
1. First best friend: Believe it or not, I have NEVER had a best friend.

2. First love: Jesus! (as in the Christ)

3. First screen name: lachica0007
4. First pet: Tigger, my sister’s evil white cat. Actually, I think I was evil to her.  
5. First car: 1999 Oldsmobile Alero courtesy of my extremely rich grandmama!

LASTS
1. Last cigarette: I don’t smoke and if I did, I’d die. Seriously, my doctor told me I was allergic years ago.
2. Last kiss: I’ve never been kissed; I do share a kiss or two with my baby nephew every once in a while.                                                              

3. Last good cry: Hmmm, considering the fact that I hardly ever cry, it would have to be back in 2000 when I thought we were all going to die from Y2K. 
4. Last beverage drank: water!!!!
5. Last food consumed: a little personal Red Baron pizza. Yum, but not very filling.

6. Last crush: Actually, it’s been a while since I have had a crush on anybody. Wow, maybe I should get a crush on somebody. No, not a good idea. Focus on your work, Tia.
7. Last phone call: To: Sasha, From: Kyle

RELATIONSHIPS
1. Who is your best friend: I don’t have one.
2. Do you have a girlfriend/boyfriend: Sure don’t.

FASHION STUFF
1. Where are your favorite places to shop: Ross
2. Favorite item of clothing: Any one of my many button-down shirts! They’re so awesome really. You can wear them as casual or as business. Two-in-one!

SPECIFICS
1. Do you do drugs: Nope, just uppers! And when I need sleep, downers, and sometimes I take them together. Is that bad?

2. What kind of shampoo do you use: Isoplus
3. What are you most scared of: getting to heaven and it being a ghetto
4. What would you change about yourself: Probably my hair or my height, but if I had the right hair, I wouldn’t have to worry about the right height because I would like my hair.

FAVORITES
1. Color: Orange
2. Foods: Chicken and noodles                                                                                       

 3. Subject in school: Spanish
4. Animals: Tigers
5. Sports to watch: Snowboarding – half pipe
6. Movie: Undercover Brother

HAVE YOU EVER
1. Given anyone a bath: my niece and nephews when I used to babysit them
2. Smoked: Didn’t I say I would DIE if I smoked? Gosh, listen.
3. Made yourself throw-up: Nope, but my body has rejected food a few times
4. Skinny dipped: No
5. Been in love: Who am I gonna be in love with? I mean, let’s be serious, this is Tia you’re asking.

CURRENT
1. Clothes: A brown shirt that says “Modest is hottest: the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty… - I Cor. 12:23” and some beige pants and some brown shoes. 
2. Music: Alone – Sanctus Real
3. Make-up: Most of it has probably worn off by now, but I put on foundation, blush, eyeshadow, eyeliner, and coloured non-glossy lip gloss
4. IMs: no body

LAST PERSON
2. Hugged: I don’t really hug people outside of my family, but I was hugged (can we say violated?) by Alison

3. IMed: Terresa

4. Last person who slept at your house: My sister’s friend, Ebony
5. Last persons house you slept at: Years ago at my cousin’s house

RANDOM
1. In the morning I am: ready for the day to begin… after 15 more minutes of sleep.
2. Love is: GOD!
3. I dream about: situations that usually end up coming true.

PAST/FUTURE:
1. 7 years ago: I was 12 and home schooled.
2. 4 years ago:  I was a 15 year-old sophomore who was on her way OUT of high school.
3. 3 years ago:  16 and a senior in high school! Almost there!
4. 1 hour ago: started working the front desk.
5. tomorrow: thank GOD for sleep!
6. college: CTC, TSU, UNT

GENERAL
Name: Tia
Nicknames: Tia, Teeta,
Age: 19

Birthday: 02/18
Sign: Aquarius
School: University of North Texas; GO MEAN GREEN!
Natural hair color: black                                                            

Current hair color: black
Eye color: brown
Height: 5'3"
Shoe size: 8 and a half

FAMILY
Parents: Stanley and Inez Edwards
Siblings: 2 sisters and a half brother
Live with: the rest of the West Hall housing staff.                                                   

FAVORITES
Number: 714
Day: Thursday
Month: February
Season: Spring
Flower: Red rose

FRIENDS
Who have you known longest?: Elizabeth
Loudest: Les and Kay (a tie)
Funniest: Me and Damian (a tie, but I think I might be a little funnier)
Sweetest: Janna
Most caring: Trinity
Most likely to be a stripper: Alison

THE PAST
What is the one thing you would change about your past?: I can’t really tell you about that.

What is the biggest mistake you've made: I don’t really make mistakes. I usually just do what my mother dear tells me and so far, my life has been smooth sailing.
Last thing you heard: “How do you get to room 326?”

Last thing you saw: “Last thing you saw”
Last thing you said: “Go through those double doors and that brown door behind it. And go all the way up to the 3rd floor and turn that way.”
Who is the last person you saw?: The girls who asked me where room 326 was.
Who is the last person you had a fight with?: I haven’t really had a fight with anyone, lately. It’s been years. Nothing bothers me enough to make a big deal out of it, so I only get in debates. Not even arguments.

THE PRESENT
What are you doing?: Filling this thing out, working the front desk, and listening to music, and thinking about the sleep I am not going to get tonight because right after I leave here, I will go to my friend’s BOB that will last FOREVER! That is if somebody takes the rest of this shift!

Where are you?: The front desk
Who are you with?: nobody
Are you online?: Why no, I magically filled this thing out on notebook paper and faxed it to the internet!
How are you feeling?: Sleepy as h*ll

THE FUTURE
What are you going to do after this?: Do some communications homework, go to ROT’s BOB and then sleep or if nobody takes the next shift, I will be stuck here, working a shift I did NOT SIGN up for.
Who are you going to talk to?: Probably nobody
What do you wanna be?: I have no earthly idea.
Where will you be in 25 years?: Hopefully, I will be doing something I love, whether it by my husband or a job! Lol *I bet nobody would expect Tia to say something like that.*

HAVE YOU EVER
Stolen?: yep, but it was only a car.
Done anything illegal?: yep, every time I get on the road… It’s called speeding.

Wanted to die?: yes.
Hit someone?: yup, but all charges were dropped.

OTHER
Do you write in cursive or print?: I have a handwriting called curint. A mix between cursive and print.
Are you a lefty or a righty?: Righty!

What piercings do you have?: regular earrings and a cartilage piercing.
Do you drive?: only above 70 mph.

Your friends
Do your friends 'know' you?: I don’t think so. They might think they know, but they have no idea.

How many people do you tell everything to? I tell the little people inside of my head everything.
How many people tell you everything?: The little people inside my head share everything with me.

Love
Are you in a relationship right now?: Why yes I am, even though I have no freakin’ boyfriend as I answered in one of the above questions.

Have you ever loved a person so much that it hurt?: Seriously, how can loving someone hurt? Do you mean queasy? Because I don’t know if hurt would be the right word. To answer your question, no.

How many people do you say 'i love you' to on a daily basis?: None

Other Questions
Do you consider yourself lucky?: Nope, just blessed.
Choose one word to describe how you feel most often: Sarcastic