I do belive I have lost my mind...

Uuuugh. This is all I can really say.

PSH. JUST KIDDING!

Okay, well...still not internet at home, but I am at the University Library (I think...) so I figured I could update while I am here...

well...actually kinda pointless to update if I have nothing to say...BUT HERE WE GO!!!!!!!!

We are going to divide this post into three categories: School of Doom, Social stuffs, and HOLY GOODNESS TAYLOR DID WHAT?!

School of Doom

Well...nothing super fun here...My accounting class is painfully easy...although I was late to my tutorial (apparently, whenever I need a bus SUPER FAST AND RIGHT NOW I get there just as the bus is driving away...so in a way, I got what I needed and it was my fault I did not arrive in time, but then I get to stand at the bus stop and wait much longer than I should until the next bus comes around, and that bus is generally running behind schedule by about five minutes...five precious minutes of MY time. :P )...anywho...I was late, and it sucked.

We are staring on the "Information Management" portion of the class next week...so I guess I get to learn how to manage information? wooooh. fun times.

Economics is going lovely...I like that everything going on in this class is relevant to just about anything else. Honestly, I could probably relate how people make lollypops to this course. A.K.A. skillz.

Nothing else fun...waiting for my group to come to the library and we will work on our paper...once again...wooooh.

I seem to question every day why I am studying what I am studying...my brain cries when I open these books. It goes '"Why Taylor? WHY!!!!???!?!?!?!?" and I tell it..."no freakin' idea..."

oh life.

Social Stuffs

uh...golly...One day, maybe, the weather will be lovely (and not grumpy and rainy like it has been all week) and I will frolic about in the park and find a good book and do Dutchy things...eventually.

hmmm...Sebastien went to the sea with his family the past few days, and along the way he said he saw SUPER AWESOME TULIP FIELDS!!!!!!! so, this means that I will now force him to drive me to see those and I can braid my hair all Dutchy-like, put on a dress and skip through the fields in a chimerical moment of joy. (not.) More likely, we will drive, see the fields, I will be unreasonably bouncy and excited and a massive amount of picture-taking will occur. Yup yup!

OH! There is a large, frightening carnival going on currently. These silly Dutch people turn the ENTIRE city-center into a carnival...hehehehehe. I have yet to decide if it is something I want to go see or not...clowns. eh...loud noises, crowds, money wasted...maybe just some pictures, and only when the weather gets nice...

IT'S MOTHER'S DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so...HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO ALL THE MOMS WHO READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yup yup...

HOLY GOODNESS TAYLOR DID WHAT?!

Prepare yourself... (not really...)

I GOT A BIKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

but that's not all folks...I also....

TALKED TO A STRANGER AND MADE HER MY FRIEND!!!

I know, I know, you are all thinking...NO freakin' way is that possible. But it is true. Perhaps it was because I had to wake up at some ungodly hour to go and wait in line outside in the cold rain for two hours waiting to get a bike, and I was so delirious that I made the person up...oh dear. This could actually be true. I am going to hope that it is not though.

Yes...but anywho- that was the news...I am more excited about the bike than the person, because I honestly don't expect to ever hear from her again which is fine, but if my bike runs (or rolls) away from me, I would be greatly dissatisfied.

Yes...but I got a bike, and it was for quite the cheap price. It is super ugly (some funky green-grey color) but I am going to spray paint it once the weather gets nicer. PREPARE for before and after pictures. :P



Well golly family...I wish this blog was full of random exciting adventures, but it seems like I keep failing at that game. I will work on it. Here's the game plan: adventure to tulip field. Hilary and Taylor's Euro-extravaganza. Other random Euro-journeys.

Okay. Yes. You got it.

One of these days I will update with some pictures if I ever remember to put them on my USB stick when I go to the library...oh well!

I have got to do some reading now, as well as other classy things (classy as in "classy lady" not as in studies...duh.)

Darned Internet

Well howdy-do?

This is a SUPER SHORT post to say that I have not had internet for over two freakin' weeks, so one of these days I will put up a legit new post...until then...be grumpy like I am (not really- that would suck.)

MISS YOU!

85 days and counting!

Here We Go Again...

Well, it looks like my moment of asylum from the evils of academia is coming to an end.

Yes, that is right- classes commence on Monday.

Plus side? I thought today was Sunday…so, I get an extra day of reprieve to prepare my weapons for battle.

Part of this preparation involves reading the first two chapters/lecture slides for two of my classes (so, two chapters per class… 2 + 2 = copious amounts of torture)

While attempting to wrap my head around my new economics class (will explain about the course later) and realizing that I have not had a math course in two years, I had a mild brain aneurysm- the vessel’s walls were bombarded with hideous logarithmic artillery. The volley was endless, horrifying, painful and… I digress.

But here, look:

Beveridge Curve. Noun. The result of a child's, or PD patient's, work regarding the relation of unemployment to job vacancies.

It actually makes sense, so that is at least a good sign…or a sign that I have fallen down the rabbit hole.

Where was I? Ah…yes. Termination of Joy, Revival of schedules, course work, sleepless nights, etc.

Gotta love college.

Has anything interesting happened since my Wal-Mart post?

That would be a heck no.

So…I guess I will just inform you about the classes I have this quarter:

Labor Economics
Description: A course involving economics in relation to the labor market (in particular, the European labor market). Mass amounts of equations, bleeding eyes, and graphs.

Managerial Accounting and Information Management
Description: A course about accounting from a manager’s perspective. It involves figuring out assets, expenses, cost of goods sold, etc. for the subunits of a corporation. My ears will probably go deaf after the lectures, and my eyes will go blind (although due to bleeding from economics or blind from boredom…I have yet to discover).

OH! There is this adorable puppy a few houses down. I have no idea what kind it is, a mix of a pitbull and something else. But it looks like it got into a fight with a paint can and lost…anyways, I am going to steal it and call him Phillip (Phiona if it a girl). We will frolic through the park and go on epic quests to battle the rogue geese near the pond. It will be lovely.

That is all from the N’lands. I will update when I have my first classes and my interpretation of imminent life or death is in more perspective.

LOVE

Home Sick?

I was feeling a little home sick today, so I decided to reunite myself with America's greatest pastime- our trips to Wal-Mart.

Turns out…not so homesick anymore.

Enjoy.

(Save a horse, ride a...?)

YYYESSSSSSS!!!!

awesome. I want to be this guy's friend.

Remebering my nationality after seeing these images put quite the smile on my face.

Sometimes, I am super proud to be an American.

Dashed Dreams

(title sounds kinda 'emo'- rack it up to my bottled teen-angst issues)

Hola Mi familia!

Last day of exams was today...and the horror that was my grades being smashed up against the wall like a little rag doll, helpless for assistance (too much?) seemed like it was put on hold...until I got home.

Let me explain:

...I literally sat down at the exam, and wrote non-stop for two hours and fifty-nine minutes. Holy goodness. 8 pages, top to bottom, front to back, covered in ink. Started with one pen, changed to another, then another...my test was a beautiful multi-colored (if black (technically not a color) and blue count as multi-colored...which it doesn't...just sayin') creation, handed down from the gods.

Or so I thought.

Once I returned home, and was resting in my lofty tower (a.k.a. bed) I realized something horrible...I forgot NPV. I freakin' forgot about NPV!

Thus, my beautiful creation is now a dripping mess of nonsense.

*melodramatic tear*

What I thought was going to be a glorious triumph may perhaps end in a perilous failure. NPV, for today, you were my Achilles heel.

Yet, I am sure I passed. So...yay for that. (Although the exam gods were out to make it difficult- last night my internet decided to commit suicide. Thankfully I have a wonderful person here who goes by the name of KNIGHT SÉBASTIEN who printed out my class’s lecture slides, and brought them to me upon his white steed (a.k.a. car)…thank goodness…would have been completely doomed had he not saved the day)

I will now cease the drama, and await my actual test scores…
At least I know I did not do this bad:




Always a bright side!

Thus ends the tale of Taylor's Exam Freak-Out.

And as always, I love you all. Without your support, I most likely would have made friends with a roof-top and a sidewalk…

(are you thinking of me jumping? Silly people. No…I would have just lost my mind to the point where I would literally have befriended an inanimate object)

Okay! LOVE YOU!

EXAMS = CRUSHED SOULS

So...I am currently sitting in the glorious Economics and Business building computer lab. I have just survived (barely) my Managing International Business Organizations exam...

How did it go, you might ask?

Well...Let us all be grateful for a little thing called "resits".

resit. noun. When a student screws herself over by not understanding the material/being prepared, the university waves their magic "grade" wand, and allows the poor student to try again.

This will be happening at the end of June, I plan on partaking fully in it.

So...one exam down, two to go. My next one is Statistics for International Business and Management, which is in two hours. So...I have two hours to panic/try to see if this building has roof access as a last-ditch evasion maneuver.

Problem: Taylor's brain = mush that once consisted of helpful information yet now is a pile of pretty purple goo.

Hopefully it will solidify and reform in time.

Yet, after my Statistics exam (which will go from 2pm - 5pm) I must rush home, and begin studying (for the first time) for my Business and Supply Chain Marketing exam, which is tomorrow.

So...new question: How does one fit an entire semester's worth of information into 5-7 hours of studying?

answer: ...the three C's. Caffeine, Careful planning, and CRAMMING...



yet if those do not work, you can fall back on the 2 C's: Cry and self-Combust.

yikes.

Yet, after exams, I will celebrate! How, I do not know yet...but...somehow...perhaps with PANDA BREAD?!




Or perhaps I will steal a puppy for the day...

Or better yet- sleep.

Glorious idea. I know. Thank you.

Anyways- Uncle Bob and Aunt Carol- I saw your house!!! It looks SPECTACULAR! Can't wait for Christmas to see it!!!

Alright- I have procrastinated enough. Although my saturation point has been reached, I will perhaps nap upon my Statistics book and pray for osmosis.

As always, I love you all very much, and am counting the days until I can see you all again!!! (if you wanted to know, it's 101 days)

UPDATE: Just finished my Stat exam...it was painful. 3 of the 8 questions were of things I did not know...oh dear, oh dear, oh dear...

But I cannot focus on my already completed exams (as sad as they may be) right now, for I have another exam to study for...yes, evil Supply Chains, meet your maker!

Groningen Museum Visit...

So...while most museums have realist/impressionist art, the Netherlands marches to its own lil' messed up drum...

Which one of these is not like the others?

Susi and I are going to go to a Chinese restaurant for dinner, and then wake up at 4:30 to get her to the train station on time...(no worries Grandy...we will be safe!)...then it is study, study, study for me until the 19th and 20th!

yikes.

LOVE!