Hello and Oh, my God!! The Miss Cincy pagent (er, scholarship competition, to be P.C.) is tomorrow! I'm so excited! (hehe, Stephen quote!);) Mommy and I are leaving tonight to stay overnight at a hotel (we got a special deal since I'm with the pageant), then I get to wake my little butt up around 7:30 tomorrow morning to be at Hughes Center by 9:00am! UGH!! But, I got all my dresses, hats, pantyhose, and yesterday I bought my gift basket. (In case you're not familiar with that one, we have to buy a gift basket of a minimum value of $40.00 to be auctioned off at the pageant.) Well, I think I safely met the minimum value. In fact, I tripled it! I think I just might try to buy my basket back! If my basket gets the highest bid, I win a special prize. Yeah, that's nice but I wanna win Miss Cincy! Not that I expect to. I just want to have fun and be able to look back and say I did it, ya know? Oh, and *of course* I want World Peace! (Yes, I'm going to be using that one for the next several months!) OK, I just wanted to drop that news on everyone's shoulders. Bye now! (Imagine me smiling and waving good-bye in that cheesy Miss America style)

hey children! It is now about one week away from the miss cincy pageant, and I feel like a little ball in a pinball machine, bouncing around everywhere trying to decide what to do or where to go next! I got soooooo much to do before next week. not all pageant-related either. Je dois ecrire mon troisieme travail ecrit, et j'ai un examen de mis-session lundi. (Yeah, i got a couple french classes on my schedule.) If anyone wants to go to the pageant, please do! Hughes Center, 730 pm in Cincy next Sat. Mar. 30. Tickets are sold at the door and there's a lot of ways to win fun prizes! I'm freezing now and I have a tanning appointment in 15 minutes. (Yes, I'm tanning! And, no, I haven't burnt yet!)
So long, all you loyal people of Norfsburgh!

I'm afraid this will be a depressing entry, so do not read if you wish not to be put out of your good mood. Well, many of you have probably heard by now about the 6 BGSU students killed on their way home from spring break. Some of you even knew them. I didn't, but it's tragic nonetheless. This past year or so has really sucked! Everyone seems to be dying. First my great-aunt Alice back in Jan. 2001, our family friend Tim the following March, my brother's friend a few months later, another family friend, my grandmother, one of my brother's best friends (poor guy!), then the Sept. 11 tragedies, now these 6 young girls. Plus, Kirsten just wrote in her email that one of her professors in Austria saw her friend plummet to his death while hiking in the mountains, and had also lost another friend fairly recently. My God! What is wrong with the world? Is there no where safe from any of this? I'm afraid not. Well, the rest of you had better stay healthy. There's already too much death in the world for you to hurry it along by means of smoking, drunk driving, or whatever. OK, now that I have officially bummed everyone out after what should have been a happy return from spring vacations, I shall sign off, leaving us all with the grim reminder of our own mortality.

Hey, what's everybody doin'? I hope you enjoyed your spring break, if applicable. If not, well don't feel bad because I spent most of mine on the couch feeling like I'd been run over by a steamroller. But, I'm better now! I just went shopping and, of course, bought more than I originally planned. "Hi, I'm April....and I'm a shopoholic."
Anyway, I bought Creed's latest CD "Weathered" and my fave song is playing right now! God, I love Scott Stapp. Looks and talent...so few guys like him out there!
Anyway, (that's the second time I said "anyway") that's pretty much all that's up. Oh, except for the NCAA but my picks are not panning out as I'd hoped, so I don't want to talk about that. I think I'll go sulk in a corner now. Bye-bye.

Hello to all of my loyal subjects! I'm still sick, but my mood is a little better. I gotta remember to keep popping the happy pills. I'm in the middle of printing out lesson # 14 in my vet's assistant course. They have they actual books and stuff on backorder, and I'm sick of waiting. I'm going crazy not having any diseases to study! Haha. Actually, this unit is on pathology so maybe I can figure out what's wrong with me. That may take a much more in-depth course, though. (Ooh! The self-battering side of me strikes again!) Ok, well, now for the "What's News": I'm doing one of those basketball pool things where you try to predict the winners and win money if you're right (thanks, Matt, for bringing out the gambler in me!);) My health seems to be taking its sweet old time getting back to normal. This is not good for my degree. My throat feels so small, I can barely hum! When I try to sing I sound like a frog dying (yeah, yeah, I can hear you all now: "What else is new?" HAHAHA! That was funny!!) Anyway, I can't think of anything else that's new so I think I'll go now and kick back a few Excedrin with a bottle of Jack Daniels...or not! HAHAHA! I'm on fire today, huh?:P Allllllrighty then, buh-bye!

OK, my life officially sucks. I've been home sick since last Wednesday and I don't feel like I'm getting any better. Needless to say, I didn't make it to Kathleen Battle last Friday, so there's $112 I'll never see again. Plus, all these telemarketers keep calling me and trying to talk me into stuff and I'm too weak to argue with them. I now have a French Lit mid-term to make up (if I can make it up, that is), but at this rate, I'm probably going to spend the next six months in a hospital bed with IV's sticking out of my arms.
Yeah, I'm not in a very happy mood right now. I want my health back, I want to graduate, and I wanna get out of this town!!! But, none of that is likely to happen. Anyone got a little beaming device you can use to transport me someplace happy? Can I bring my kitties, too? Well, I gotta go before my head explodes.

Apparantly, I haven't been posting enough blogs to satisfy certain readers' needs, so I'll do one right now to make y'all happy! k?
Anyway, this is the third time in less than a month that I've been sick. Ohio sucks this time of year. Everyone I know is getting sick and they keep giving it to me. Make them go away! Go away, sick people!! You suck!
Well, I better be ok for the Kathleen Battle concert in Columbus this Friday. That's all i can say. I'm supposed to have a French Lit mid-term tomorrow too, but i don't know how that's gonna happen. I can't get a doctor's excuse either cuz, as of my 23rd birthday last week, I'm off Mommy and Daddy's insurance. If anyone is willing to make a donation to the "Keep April Alive Fund" please be my guest! Well, I'd write more but all this typing is making me dizzy. I need a nap, a shower, and I need to watch Tom Cavanagh on "Ed" tonight 'cuz he's freakin' hot! Buh-bye, toodles!

Hey again. I don't think my last blog (the one from my birthday) ended up getting published, so I'll try another one. Well, if anyone was curious, I had a very nice birthday. Got some loverly jewelery, CD's (like the Ring Cycle! whoo-hoo!!) and lotsa cash! Used that go out that night to see the SB boyz play, and have some B-day shots. Yummy. And, of course, dinner at Mancy's Italian, after the High School hockey team lost 4-0 to university school. What happened guys?!
Anyway, that's all for now, but be sure to tune in next time for..."Lakiamia's Diaria!" (play cheesy organ music, fade to black.)