I've been home since last Friday. Labor Day weekend, ya know? It was relaxing for the most part. I go back to UPG tomorrow since I don't have class on Tuesdays, or else I would have gone back this morning.
    The weather is finally growing more damp and less warm. I like it cooler because I can wear my favorite outfit of the hoodie, jeans, adidas tennies, hair down, makeup on. I should dye my hair again. I don't feel like messing it up, though. Time to spend money and let the pros do it for me. I'm not good with foil anyway.

    I read this poem by e.e. cummings called "l(e" and it was the most interesting poem I've read in awhile. It can be interpreted in so many ways and I enjoy it mostly because of its ability to be so flexible. I put it in my AIM profile because I like it enough to share it with the world.
    I found one of my old livejournals and I realized that my writing skills have changed severely from when I was a sophmore/junior in high school. There's quite a difference in my use of words for the most part. It was quite the interesting comparison. I almost want to update it so that I can read the entries top and bottom for an even better comparison of how much my writing has changed. Listen to me, obsessed with my writing style. It's what Eng. Wrt. majors do, I guess. Speaking of ENGWRT, I should do homework for Intermediate Fiction. I have to write a short story and turn it in to a publisher so that it can get ripped apart. It really is an intimidating class, but this badass can handle it.

I think I'm too sure of myself for once.

Greg picked me up in his sweet new car! That thing rocks this earth like you have no idea. Danielle, Greg, and I met Annie and Julie at Max and Erma's and we ate like kings. We went swing dancing after that in Squirrel Hill, listening to Imogen Heap and The Rent original Broadway Cast soundtrack all the way there and back. It was so much fun...I wish that I would have known more of the dancing, but I was told that I learned it quickly. After I got used to the steps and the lindy hop, it was exhilarating. I would dance each day of my life if I could. Well, technically I could...

I'm going to be quite lonely when I go back to school. It'll be refreshing to get away from the norm, but I won't be able to leave the empty feeling behind. Hopefully I'll find great people to fill the void.

No work at K-9 design tomorrow...thank you jesus. I can't wait to sleep in. I just hope that I fall asleep. I'm kinda upset since Julie leaves tomorrow. I'll miss her like whoa.

Well, I'm living in University Court apartments this year at Pitt. I'm uber psyched because the campus is so pretty and I love the curriculum they have set up for the major/majors I want. If I decide to double major, I'll start school year-round, meaning I'll take summer sessions as well. I want to get out in 4 years so I can start my life.

My so-called life right now consists of working. I'm done at Subway...I stopped working there a few days ago. I'll go back over long breaks because I enjoy working there. It's easy money, if I do say so. If I end up not having the other half of my tuition payment, I'm going to work there full time until Spring when I can either go back to Pitt or start at CCAC. Things are very up in the air right now and it's quite depressing. My parents didn't come up with their half of the tuition payment. I can't get a loan through my parents because of my dad's credit and my mom can't cosign because he ruined her credit, too. I have no credit because I'm scared to death to get a credit card. By next week, If my dad doesn't have the money he owes, I'm dropping out of Pitt and taking the semester off. I'll work full time, buy a car, start back up at CCAC, then go to Pitt main when the time is right. I'm very upset and I hope that things don't turn out this way. I want this tremendous weight to be lifted off my shoulders....somehow.

No matter the way it turns out, I still have my first month paid for at Pitt, so I'll be there, guaranteed, for a month. That calls for some excitement!!

I'm glad and sad that this summer is coming to an end. I'm glad that it's ending because there are some things at home that will be left at home. If I come home next summer and the same bad things are here or if they come back, I'm going to leave for good. I'm sad because I'll miss my best friends and my puppy. I'll miss having a car and my own room with a big TV...but most of all and ultimately, friends and puppy. Yeah, they're pretty much my whole world. I'm also glad because hopefully I'll get to meet some nice boys...all of my guy friends have moved on to greener pastures.

I'm off to make "The Shit" list with annie and julie. We're making a list of things that are "the shit", like our three green machines, school bus demolition derbies, smores, etc. WORD!

 Ninja dog, or coincidence? Read.

A couple weeks ago, my dog learned a new trick, called "roll over". She's really good at this trick and she rolls over all the time, even when you don't tell her to do so. today, I said to my dog "Scarlett, roll over.", and so she did just that.

Here's the good part: Something interesting happened after that. Scarlett rolled over one more time and proceeded to spit a silver dollar-sized rock at my face. She got up and ran away while I sat on the ground with my mouth gaping in amazement.

She could be the next Rin-Tin-Tin...with spots and a bobbed tail.

This is the last week of class! I'm officially transferred to Pitt Greensburg now and i'll be there in the fall. I don't really have time to write in here anymore. Sorry.