word(s)

Well, so, once again I have a shitload of work to be doing so obviously I felt immediately moved to write on here.

It’s officially autumn, which is probably the greatest season ever minus maybe winter (at certain select times), and I am officially settled into the GROOVE here at school, which would be great except that I feel like it’s a less than perfect groove.  The biggest issue with the new groove is that every time I have work to do, I run away from it and harvest my farmville crops, or visit the boys at Club 701 (which isn’t a club at all, it’s actually a four-room suite, but somehow they got us calling it Club 701, and as idiotic as it is none of us can stop and they even made a sign that says it, and they’re threatening to make tshirts, and it has all kind of spun out of control) or make a phonecall to one of my long lost high school friends, or start a letter to the fam, or clean the bathroom, or pretty much do ANYTHING else besides the actual work there is to do.  And then I end up doing the work at some ungodly time in the early morn. So it’s really a horrible groove in that regard.  But other than that (minor) flaw, it’s a highly enjoyable and groovy groove.  And I really need to stop using the word groove on here because I’ve noticed that I use it way entirely too much, and it isn’t even that great of a word.

Anyway, so.  This weekend.  Let’s discuss.

On Friday I went HOOOOOOOOMEEEEE and saw my precious and adorable and wonderful siblings whom I MISS so MUCH.  Seriously, I really do, I mean college is fantastic and everything, but every time I picture my beautiful little brothers and sisters–Dominic with his rawkin sk8 gear, and Roc with just his built-in aura of COOL, and Rosa with her soccer skillz and sweet disposition, Lisetta with her glasses and sort of scary but still great people skills, and Olivia with her wild curls and cute accent–I literally just want to CRY.  For real, it’s kind of pathetic, but if I think hard enough about those kids I just totally stop breathing with how much I miss them.  I even sort of miss Maria.  So I went home to see them and I brought my roomie Alex, and we had a great. time.  Olivia painted a wooden doorstop for me, and Lisetta made me a card that says:  HAPECMBACCRDTOJULE<3LISETTA,  (Which clearly means “Happy Come Back Card to Jule <3 Lisetta”) and we played Beatles rock band, and regular rock band, and went on the zip line, and watched an old western, and had a piano/guitar playing sing-along, and played Harry Potter SceneIt (I won), and it was just GREAT.  And now it’s only been a day but I still miss them just as much.

LAST night I had a typical West Chester Saturday night, though I will admit I’ve actually had better.  I don’t know, this whole going buck wild every weekend thing is kind of losing its sparkle for me, and plus I’m pretty sure I saw a girl who was like an inch away from being dead last night and it was fucking scary.  Seriously.  And I just kind of wonder, why are people so stupid?  And a more frightening and pressing question, am I equally as stupid?  Something to ponder.

I forgot to mention that while I was home, I went to Panera to pick up my paycheck, and I had a thrilling encounter with my boss, who, despite the time we’ve spent apart, remains my number one true love.  We had a great chat, and he told me to stay away from the boys at West Chester, which was both wise (seriously, he didn’t even need to tell me. so far: gross) and also a huge indicator that he’s madly in love with me.  So, yay.

SPEAKING of my hometown loves, I also went to Blockbuster and saw my bald guy, whose name I have confirmed is Steve, which I feel like I knew but I wasn’t positive.  He also seems to be thriving, and he still calls me ‘Charlie’ because of our embarrassing “Charlie Bartlett” encounter, so glad to see nothing’s changed on that front.  And also glad to see that Blockbuster is still in business.

In other news, I got my nose pierced, which I said I was going to do many entries ago (see: 1/24/09) and now I finally did it.  I like it, and I got it past Mom&Pop so all is well there.

Today I did not go to church.  I’m kind of bummed about it actually, because I’ve been trying to go, but I literally just forgot about it today, and now I feel lame and I feel like if I really wanted to remember I could have and that I really should have. SIGH.  Next week though.

Today also we had OUR MAIDEN VOYAGE in the Allegheny Hall MOVIE THEATRREEE!!! Woohoo! We watched “Forgetting Sarah Marshall”, and the movie theatre experience was everything I dreamed it would be.  And now as long as we reserve it in advance, we can all go watch whatever movie we want whenever we want in the comfort of our personal theayyytuhh. I’m pretty stoked.

OHemgee, big news on the topic of involvement.  So, my major club that I’m involved with is the speech and debate team, which is actually called the Forensics Team.  At first I thought this was sort of strange, but apparently it’s a really common thing for college speech teams to be called that. Forensics comes from the Greek word for “to pick apart”, which is what forensicators who make speeches as WELL as those at crime scenes are trying to do I guess.  So, kind of makes sense, although I tend to just say speech team to avoid that explanation.

But ANYWAY, so that has mostly been my main club, but I just RECENTLY signed up for TAG, which is through the Honors Student Association, and TAG stands for “Traveling Across Generations”, MEANING that I get to go visit a nursing home every weekend!!  And not only that, but they are ASSIGNING me to my very own senior citizen buddy, who I get to visit on the weekends, and also attend socials with such as Bingo night and Sing Along night, and whatever else the nursing home may throw at us.  (Hopefully my buddy will mostly be interested in Bingo and Sing Alongs though, cauuuse that’s pretty much why I signed up).  I AM SO EXCITED THOUGH!!!!  If there’s one thing I love more than people, it’s OLD people!  It is going to be so great.  I will most definitely keep you posted once I’m assigned my buddy.

Well so that’s basically the rundown of the events and items of importance in the Life of Jule Coppa at the moment.  Things aren’t majorly (ahh!! not a word!!) exciting, but they have been pretty nice and I am just sort of rolling along and trying (and sometimes failing) to stay afloat academically and morally. I mean, what more can I do.

…probably a lot more haha. I’ll work on it.  Anyway guys, it’s been nice talking. I actually have a pretty intense date with the written works of Desmond Tutu so, would notttt want to be late for that.

Have a wonderful night.