Whee...I have GMail. Stores more than my AQ address, and easier to check than my AOL addy. IM me if you want the addy. If you don't know my IM, odds are I wouldn't give it to you anyway.

Um.....Mom's leaving for Vegas with Aunt Gina tomarrow evening. I leave for Veritas Campout (http://www.catholic-church.org/veritas) this Friday. Still need to pack. I get back Monday morning/afternoon, and have until Saturday to pack to return to college. I'm not as nervous going to AQ this time as I was last summer, obviously, but I'm starting to worry that that will translate into sloppy packing, and I don't come back to Illinois again until October. Oye....

I'm really excited about this fall semester. I love my schedule. My first class of the semester will be Theology: Contemporary Christian Morality. Last class of the week: World History I. I'm usually bored stiff by the pre-history-1500 AD that is a first semester world history class, but I need it for my major, because I'm getting teacher certification. If I was just a regular history major, I wouldn't need to take world history; that part of my requirements would have been satisfied by AP US History, but now I have to take the World History class, and I get to take fewer electives than a regular history major. Next semester, I'm taking World History II and the class on the Holocaust. I was looking at AQ's course catelogue, and I want to take the History of Germany class for part of my European requirement. I'm also taking a 400-level Education class, but it's in an area I've always been really strong in: Language Arts. I got 5's, the highest score possible, on both of my English AP exams, which allowed me to get out of I & E, thank heavens. From what I gathered from the other AQ students, it sounds like the class would have been a massive waste of time anyway, and I got Hummanities out of the way instead, which means I have 3 hours open spring semester that the other second-year students won't have, and that can't hurt. AQ knows I can write, and I haven't had trouble with any of the writing, except that research paper for Humanities, but I still got a B on that, and I didn't think that was half-bad, considering it was the first research paper I had ever written. (We never did that stuff in high school because, in a school with 3,700+ students, the teachers just do not have the time to grade that kind of thing.)

Blah blah blah....wish I actually had something worth while to say. No one's on-line; they're either away or just not talking to me, even if I IM them. Boo.....I wish we hadn't gotten home from Janet's house so late, (yes, I am named after this Janet,) in Elgin, or I might have caught a few people on. Dang.

Tomarrow is my last Mass at St. George. I don't plan on ever going to St. Julie's again, unless someone dies or something. I regret putting up with the trash that goes on there for so long. Anyway, next Sunday, besides being the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven, I will be at Veritas Campout, and we're going to St. Margret's. I would think Veritas would have made sure the parish is good, but does anyone know anything about it otherwise? IE, Mass times, so I know what the crud is going on.

I miss Megan. She's not due back from WA until Wednesday, so that really just leaves us my birthday, but she needs to pack and I have a dental appointment. Dangit.

Ehh...need to sleep.

Guten nacht!