Date:	2005-06-20 03:07
Subject:	003. It's so confusing!
Security:	Public
Mood:	bored

Really, between keeping my grades up and work, I think I lost track of this thing completely!

As such, you may have noticed, I have stopped heading the entries (as of now) with "Mom," because it just isn't fair to pretend I'm making some super accurate, super updated account of my time at school, if I don't ever update it! And anyway, my mom gets plenty of letters from me. When I forget, she's always quick to nag me.

I don't have the energy to go back through everything, but I'm sure it's all been crazy enough that I won't (much) regret having had my head stuffed in my books for it!

In other news, a plant I left between the rooms somehow got knocked out the window. I'm not pointing any fingers, but the pot's been pretty well destroyed and there's nothing I could do for the flower. So, I'll be buying from the Gardens again! I've had my eye on a seedling of the Greficcus for awhile now.

I finished my paper for my Materia class, and I'm now thoroughly bored. Which means I'm boring, which I cannot stand! Anyone want to play a game? I suppose I could make some jewelery out of the pot shards, if no one's up for anything. Earrings might be nice, if I blunt the points.

Mom,

Gosh, everything seems to have gotten so hectic around here! I am being good, though, and resisting the compulsion to read every single thing on the network and focus on my studies instead. But, as a brief run down of at least my .. in comparison unimportant.. things;

Someone pulled the fire alarm, and apparently there was no fire. This would not have been so bad except it was 2 AM! I had not been able to sleep so was trying to make a snack at the time, though that was foiled by the alarm. There was someone in the Hall who quickly went to check on someone, but other than woken and irritable students, nothing really important happened. It's good there was no fire and no one was hurt, but whoever pulled that fire alarm has some nerve! It was such a rude time to do it!

I am allergic to a boy in my Geology class. Well, allergic to his perfume. Vincent Valentine; he had been very nice in approaching me, which unfortunately let the scent irritate my sinuses, and I was a mess really quick! He was nice, though, and found someone to escort me back to the dorms. It's funny to look back on; I wonder what he would have done if I'd sneezed on him?

Everything is fine. Work at the Gardens is going well and I should be getting some pay soon, which considering my lack of money, is a very good thing! Classes are entertaining and challenging, which reminds me of the Philosophy paper I have to get back to.

That's that! Keeps me amused, however bored the rest of you would be with it.

Mom,

I wasn't actually in the dorms when the shaking happened, but I came back to find my flower pots on the floor and shattered! I have a lot of pots, which I of course don't need to tell you, but anyone else reading might not know. Apparently there was an "earthquake," or, sibling rivalry taken WAY too far (come on, how old are we? This is university!) So I had to try and keep the poor things in heaps of dirt and run out and lose a whole lot of gil on new pots.

My plants are okay, though I'm annoyed. Is it a sign that you've got too many plants, when you end up blowing over two months of spare gil on replacement pots? Plus, of course, extra birthday gil which I had managed to save until today.

However, I suppose I'm lucky in that I didn't lose a car. I can't drive, and if I did I probably wouldn't have a car here, so maybe it's lucky that I didn't lost anything more expensive than a lot of pots. She can afford a new car, right? Hm, but it's the principle of the thing

I'm seeing that people aren't signing these. So, I won't! Gosh, all my pots. I'm going to have to subsist on the cafeteria's breakfast and dinner meal plan... and skip lunch for awhile. My wallet's so empty! It's almost depressing.

Date:	2005-03-30 03:40
Subject:	001; Introduction to ..Elmyra?
Security:	Public
Mood:	chipper

Mom (Elmyra),

Yes, I did just address my journal to a woman who has yet to figure out how to work a computer, never mind one of these! However, I've been urged by a girl in my Philosophy class (we share notes) to "check this out." I finally did, as anyone reading this can see. Since I spend most of my "writing" time writing to mom, and since I often end up writing pages that she feels obliged to try to reply to entirely but can't, I thought, oh! I'll just continue writing her, but letters of a more manageable length, and meanwhile, dedicate this little place to her. I'll show her at Spring Break! It's her own "e-book" of Aerith, and come on, who wouldn't want one?

I bought a new potted plant today. The window ledges are getting crammed, but I can't help it! It's a spider plant. They're really neat; the leaves grow out from a center very splayed-like, and what often happens, is the leaves grow their own little off-shoot buds. You can cut these off and put them in just small containers of water, and they'll grow like that until they're big enough for a pot. When the weather gets rough, the plants are fine inside!

Was the ski trip fun? I had waaay too much work to do to even consider it, and besides, I'm laughable on any slope! My dad once took us to a resort and I crashed into a rope diving a bunny hill from the rest- knocked the air right out of me! I had a bruise on my stomach for a week! They said I was too enthusiastic for my lack of skill and I'm not so good at stopping. The next day, when I'd tried to tackle an advanced-beginner's slope I had to be rescued by the patrol, as I became too careful, and kept falling down besides. So, mom forbade me to go on this one. I could have anyway, but she claims she's getting gray hair, so I decided to be a good girl and do my work.

I think I should be disappointed if I hear the trip wasn't any fun! Which probably doesn't make any sense, I know, but let's call it empathy-pains. Or is it sympathy-pains? I don't know what to tell you, if it was boring. People say if you're bored, then you're boring, but of course I'd never imply that! ..Well, much. Only in the nicest, most well-meaning way!

My nails look disgusting! That, I suspect, is my cue to go pick them clean. So, there! I've got one of these. I'd feel accomplished, except, this will probably end up being a way for me to avoid work. Hee, I'm so counter-productive. I deserve it, though; I didn't go skiing!

Do you sign these? I suppose it's not signing if you're typing, but, anyway, why not? I like my name! It won't hurt anyone to see it.
-Aerith Gast