Just so you all know

Just so you all know, Kenneth Michael Libben is madly in love with me.

Ha! Serves you right, Sugar Lips. Now the whole world knows your little secret.

That is all. Peace out.

Katherine

I REALLY DON'T WANT TO CONTINUE WORKING ON MY PAPER!

Since Sunday I've basically been procrastinating with a little bit of work here and there. My 7-10 page paper for British Literature is due Thursday and I'm trying to concentrate, but this is seriously the worst paper I've EVER had to write! Even more worse than that horrid Research paper in Mrs. Lingenfelter's 11th grade English class (If you could possibly imagine something worse).

So here I am trying to work, yet being completely distracted by AIM, e-mail, blogging, and of course the wonderful (addicting) world of facebook...In an attempt to screw myself over even more than I already have I found this in someone else's blog. I hope they don't mind that I borrowed it...it's for a worthy cause...I REALLY DON'T WANT TO CONTINUE WORKING ON MY PAPER!

Here goes...

::51 things you didn't know about me (Or maybe you do...)

1. What is your middle name? Marie
2. Last person you kissed? That would be my last boyfriend...that "wonderful" four day relationship...sigh.
3. What are you listening to right now? My roomate's country music
4. Last two digits of your phone number? What? That's a weird question...41
5. Last thing you ate? Some soup that Mallory brought back from home
6. Last person you hugged? Let's see...Marissa and Mallory when they went to Mal's home last weekend.
7. How is the weather right now? Dark, cold, and snowing!
8. Who was the last person you talked to on the phone? Marissa telling me to come to her room.
9. The first thing you notice about the opposite sex? Physical quality would have to be their smile. I like guys who look genuinely happy when they smile.
0. Favorite type of food? Type? What, like desert? Yes, definitely desert...specifically cheesecake.
11. Do you drink? I'm assuming this means alcohol. I have drunk a few select times, but only one drink, and it certainly wasn't beer. Yuck.
12. Do you smoke? Ew, no.
13. Ever get so drunk you don’t remember what you did? No, I have not become a hypocrit in college.
14. Hair color? Red, But in my opinion, the worst color of red possible.
15. Eye Color? I like to call it blue/gray
16. Do you wear contacts? Nope, thank goodness.
17. Favorite Holiday? Christmas all the way
18. When's your birthday? May 6, 1987
19. Have you ever cried for no reason? Yes, sometimes it really feels good to let a good cry out
20. Last movie you watched? A Lot Like Love
21. Last time you were at work? Oh geeze...sometime towards the end of summer.
22. Last time you were out of your town? Thanksgiving break. I went home to my REAL town.
23. Last time you went bowling? Oh my...I don't even remember. It's definitely been a long while.
24. Something unusual about you? Um...I can't wink. I try and try, but just can't do it...
25. Favorite breakfast food? I don't really eat breakfast very often, but I do love pancakes!
26. Favorite color? Definitley blue.
27. What are you afraid of? Losing someone I love very much.
28. If you could take a trip anywhere, where would it be? England or Greece
29. What books are you reading? Well, I just finished reading Written on the Body for British Literature and it was awesome!
30. Piercings? I have my ears pierced and that is all.
31. Favorite movie? It is impossible to pick just one movie since I have MANY favorites. But Pirates of the Caribbean is most definitely WAY up there. Johnny Depp AND Orlando Bloom....need I say more?
32. Favorite basketball team? Last year's LHS Boys Basketball team! They rock!
33. What were you doing before you filled this out? Reading some stuff for my EDL class.
34. Any pets? My baby, Anna. HE is an inside cat. I also have some outside cats.
35. Instant Messenger name? If you're reading my blog you should already have it.
36. Butter, plain, or salted popcorn? Butter popcorn! Butter=Better!
37. DOGS OR CATS? I'm a cat person myself. Big dogs drool and little dogs bark all the time.
38. Favorite Flower? Chrysanthemums
39. Have you ever been caught doing something you weren't supposed to? I'm sure I have, but I can't remember at this moment something specific.
40. Are you single or taken? Single, but not by choice.
41. Have you ever loved someone? Yes.
42. Who would you like to see right now? Honestly? My mom...
43. What's your occupation? Well, my major is English Education...but as of now I'm just in college.
44. Have you ever fired a gun? I think it was a real gun, but it didn't have real bullets in it. I don't know, it was at one of Matt's bonfires.
45. Do you like to travel by plane? The only plane I've been on was for a short trip to Put-in-Bay across Lake Erie since the boats weren't running, so I can't really say...
46. Right-handed or left-handed? Right.
47. If you could be with someone right now, who would it be? Probably my girls from back home. How I do miss them...
48. How many pillows do you sleep with? I sleep with one pillow, but when I'm laying on my bed doing homework I use one to lay on and another to prop my feet on.
49. Are you missing someone? All of my family and friends from home.
50. Do you have a tattoo? Nope.
51. Do you still watch cartoons on Saturday mornings? Lately I have been sleeping in on Saturday mornings...

So there you have it, the result of more time wasted by yours truly. And now I'm off to get some work done...

Katherine

God help us all...

It has commenced...finals week is upon us in full force, seizing what sanity I have left after a menacing term. The thought of a pure, utopian society has faded while Miami University has captured the last breath of any rational existence and conquered our self-worth. In coming days it is likely to see a plethora of unpleasant faces staring into an oblivion that can only be experienced by the Miami University society. The underlying prolifigacy in which this institution so loves to put forth has taken a toll on our already feeble carcasses, in result of consuming repulsive dining hall rations. The possibility of survival is a distant notion...God help us all...

Enough said.

Katherine

Rent!

Oh my gosh! I just saw the most amazing movie ever. RENT! I had never seen the show or even heard anything about what it was about really. But it is just so awesome! The actors! The singing! It was just so amazing! There are no words to describe how awesome it was, you just have to see it! Of course, as soon as I got back to my room I looked up the lyrics to all the songs, but unfortunately I can't remember the tunes! This sucks. I must have the soundtrack so I never forget! Just amazing!

Also, after the show we stopped into the swing dancing contest and it was also very awesome. Wow! I want to learn how to swing dance. I am so serious. It's got to happen sometime in my life. Hopefully sooner than later!

Wow, just...awesome! Peace out!

Katherine

It's the cliches that cause the trouble.

Rarely do I thouroughly enjoy reading the texts assigned to me in my British Literature class. I mean, I love to read, of course. But who likes to analyze text to figure out what it's really about? Okay, so maybe those smart people in my class do...Those five students who always have a theory about a poem or a short story, who actually disagree with the professor, who actually understand everything. How I wish I were one of those people. Then maybe I wouldn't be so scared about my 7 - 10 page paper due this Tuesday.

But anyway, I have finally found a piece of writing in this class that I really love, and of course it's our very last reading assignment before the final. Go figure. It's called Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson. It is brilliant! The narrator of the story has no name or gender, and it's beloved is a married woman. The story is all about stripping love of all the cliches, categories, and stereotypes that are often placed on it. I am totally in love with this novel!

Written on the Body quotes:

Why do human beings need answers? Partly I suppose because without one, almost any one, the question itself soon sounds silly.

Sometimes the best company is your own.

You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so how could we take it back without asking?

I wasn’t happy but the power of memory is such that it can lift reality for a time. Or is memory the more real place?

She’s a nice girl, he’s a nice boy. It’s the clichés that cause the trouble.

It seems that due to the peculiarities of the event horizon we could watch history pass and never become history ourselves.

Why is the mind incapable of deciding its own subject matter? Why when we desperately want to think of one thing do we invariably think of another?

Why bother? That’s a question the whole human race isn’t it?

You should totally read this book! Peace out!

Katherine

Did you miss me?

So it's been a while since I updated, but I was totally home enjoying my Thanksgiving break. I can literally describe my break in two words: Freaking Sweet! I had the best time ever. Tuesday I saw Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. It was good, but left out A LOL of stuff from the books. I mean, they left out Winky. Come on! Wednesday I went to the McMullen school and helped with Cosi. It was cool, I got to see some of the kids who were in my mom's kindergarten class last year that I helped out with.
Also Wednesday night we had a girls night at Ashley's house. It was so much fun. We watched a video we made from our first movie night October of last year. It. was. hilarious. And then we watched a video of Ashley and her sister when they were young dancing to a Britney Spears' song at Cedar Point...wow, I almost cried myself I was laughing so hard. But luckily the laughing stopped long enough for us to play the Ha ha game...or did it?

Thursday was Thanksgiving Day! I spent the entire day at my grandma and grandpa's house, as usual. It just wouldn't be any holiday without the Henleys. It was so great eating all that yummy food, seeing my cousins, eating all that food, playing games, and eating all that food. Did I mention how great the food was? Friday was a nice relaxing day. I went up to grandma's again to hang out and eat leftovers. We had two 22 pound turkeys (Yeah, we're that big of a family).

Friday night I went to Matt's bonfire and it was really nice seeing all my friends. I really missed them. After a while I went back to my house, but returned later to see Seth David Young and watch the Family Guy movie. I don't know how into the movie I was though, considering we were in the garage and it was freaking cold. Saturday my Aunt Jean and cousin Tanya came to Loudonville for the day. We got the great news that Tanya is pregnant and my other cousin, DeeDee is able to go to Russia and bring back the two boys she and her husband are adopting. Yay! It was really nice because I don't get to see them very often. But thankfully we get to go to Put-in-Bay sometime over Christmas break and see everyone.

Saturday night I went to a party thrown by one of the boys I graduated with. It was nice seeing all of those crazy guys again. got to see all those crazy guysAgain, it was nice to see everyone. Then after that Matt, Marissa, Will, and I went to Seth Ramsey's 21st birthday party. We parked at the bottom of a HUGE hill and walked all the way up the drive. That was not fun...especially on the way back down. Will accidentally elbowed me in the side and it was rather dark and spooky too. Sunday I went to church and then out to breakfast. My boss at Broken Rocks said that they might not need me much over Christmas break or the summer. They better need me over the summer. I need money and lots of it!

Marissa and I basically relaxed all day Sunday. Then we finally left for Miami around 6:20. We went a different way then usual due to traffic on 71, which resulted in us missing an exit and driving a while out of our way. That was fun...we finally got to Miami around 11. It only took us two loads to get all of our stuff out of the car (big surprise considering we had a lot). So now I'm just trying to get through these last two weeks of classes and finals. I really don't think it will be that bad...I'm keeping a positive attitude. How can I not keep a positive attitude when I know I'm going home in like 2 1/2 weeks?! Yay!

Until next time, peace out!

Katherine