Actual conversation with 24-hour drive-thru Starbucks guy

Me: Do a lot of people come through here at night?

Him: Yeah, actually. We've gotten a lot of business lately. I think it has a lot to do with prom season.

Me: Ah.

Him: Yeah, I–are you still in high school or college or. . . ?

Me: I'm in college.

Him: Okay, I'll just say this then–I hate teenagers! I cannot stand them! Like, have you seen Drive? That Ryan Gosling movie?

Me: No, I haven't.

Him: Okay, well, there's this one part when Ryan Gosling just snaps and kills this guy in an elevator. But he doesn't just kill him–he, like, snaps his neck and then smashes his face in. Anyway, this kid came through tonight–scrawny, little, peach fuzz, not even a beard at all!

Me: Oh, that's bad.

Him: Thought he knew everything. He was trying to tell me how to use the cash register and I was just like I WORK HERE. I just wanted to pull him through the window and smash his face Ryan Gosling style.

Me: *laughs*

Him: I hate teenagers.

Me: Well, luckily I turned twenty a few weeks ago, so I'm no longer an annoying teenager.

Him: Yes! I like you now!

-Maggie

Yes, yes, I know. I only had two days of BEDA left, and I fell off the face of the planet. Let me explain. As I had discussed multiple times in my BEDA posts, I have been insanely busy with school and work and worrying about school and drinking coffee to get through school and crying in the corner about school. My last two posts were set to be dinky little paragraphs apologizing for not having anything good to say or any time to say it in, so I saw little purpose in posting them at all. I know BEDA is a quantity over quality sort of thing, but my OCD kicked in and I just couldn't do that to my blog. So you only got twenty-eight days. Close enough.

School is still trying to squeeze the little life I have left out of me, but there is a light at the end the tunnel. I have turned in my last papers, and now I only have to study for finals and that's the easy part. By no means have I done well this semester, and that is disheartening, but next semester will be better. There is no point in fretting over things that have already happened and are now beyond my control, so I won't do it. As Melany said during one of the many breakdowns I've had these past few weeks, "Whatever happens may suck, but it isn't the end of the world. That isn't until December."

For now, I will study as hard as I can for my four finals and look forward to my few weeks off, which includes a short trip home and Apocalyptour with my best friend. Then a month of summer classes, including yoga with Jacob, which will be a trip, I'm sure. After that, I'll fly to Seattle at the end of July to meet the Blogger Family, and then soon enough I'll be starting what will hopefully be my last year at Texas Tech.

Here's hoping this next year will fly by.

-Maggie

April 28: Question Saturday!

-Maggie

April 27: Sometimes

Someone covered my eight hour and forty-five minute shift tomorrow, so I have given myself the rest of the night off to relax a little before tomorrow's full day of paper writing. I should, honestly, still be trying to get some work done, but sometimes you just have to watch the Sex and the City movie and cry, you know?

-Maggie

April 26: Under the Weather

I stayed up late last night or early this morning working on three papers. Unfortunately, since I still have longer, more difficult papers to write, there was no sense of relief upon finishing those three papers. Just constant, growing awareness of my imminent doom.

When I woke up this morning, I didn't feel well. It only got worse as the day went on, so I left my last class early and called into work. My plan was to work on upcoming papers and read Dracula for my British Literature class, but the lack of sleep these past few days soon caught up with me and I woke up four hours later.

I'm feeling a little better now, but I still have much to do, so I have to leave you with this sad excuse for a post.

-Maggie

April 25: Bits

Today, the high was 102 degrees. Summer is fast-approaching, and I am not pleased or prepared.

After I got off work, I drove to the Starbucks on Quaker and picked up a venti nonfat no whip white chocolate mocha in preparation to stay up all night working (again). While waiting at the window for my coffee, I was struck with a random story inspiration that I will hopefully get to write after these next few weeks are over. If I am actually able to finish it (because I am not good at the finishing part of writing stories) and it doesn't suck (it probably will), I will share it with you.

There are these new Dinamita Nachos Picoso Doritos and they are really good. New unhealthy addiction alert.

I am scheduled to work an eight hour and forty-five minute shift on Saturday–fifteen minutes short of getting a lunch. This is the second time this has happened. I am now on a mission to kill all the things.

Last night, I found out the entire series of Star Trek: The Next Generation is available on Netflix Instant. All I want to do is snuggle up and watch Captain Picard be awesome, but I must finish these next three weeks first.

-Maggie

April 24: Vlogbrothers

I was going to do a question vlog today, but I got home from school about ten minutes ago and have to work from five to eleven, so I don't have time today. So instead, I will leave you in the hands of vloggers much more talented and hilarious than I–the Vlogbrothers.

Here are three of my favorite, more recent videos from them. (All of their videos are fantastic though, so you should just go start at the beginning and work your way to the present.)







-Maggie

April 23: Tough

This semester has been really hard on me. This was my first semester of upper-level classes, and I had not anticipated how difficult they would be. There have been many times that I think I have done well on a test or paper when I haven't, and it's very discouraging and very scary. This is also the first time I have ever truly disliked school, and that is a frustration all its own.

I know just by reading posts from my Blogger Family that they have it much tougher than I do (or ever did), and they are still getting by and doing well. I know that I can do it too, but since I never really had to try in high school or at Cisco, I am having to teach myself how to study and realizing that good papers cannot be written in the wee hours of the morning the day they are due.

It's hard to break the long-established habits I have formed, especially that of procrastination, but I have reached the point that I realize it is imperative for me to do so. Since I have found that I am capable of graduating next May–in only a year–I have become very conscious of my grades and work ethic. I guess that I have had this subconscious thought that there would be more time to remedy a bad grade or bring up my GPA, but now there isn't. If I want to graduate next May so I can be in Austin next summer, I will have to work harder and stick to the plan I've laid out.

I have laid out day-by-day to-do lists in my planner for the next three weeks of school, and I will have to work everyday in multiple subjects in order to accomplish everything I need. I've also written due dates and test dates on my dry erase board so that I will always be aware of what's coming next and how much I have left to do.

Hopefully this and my two countdowns at the bottom will help me to keep everything together and not get too overwhelmed. I'm just trying to focus on what's to come at the end of this grueling three weeks. I can do this.

Good luck with the end of the school year, everyone! Not much longer now.

-Maggie