AHHH!

There is no other way to put it - I'm very, very confused.


This may be due to the date. In twelve days (crud, only twelve??) I move out of my house and into a dorm.

I'm excited.

And I'm flipping out.

Is it any wonder I'm confused? I don't know what to think. I have a million things to get done, one of which includes renewing my driver's license, which I do not care for because it involves paperwork (I hate paperwork like Voldemort) and the creepiest DPS office known to mankind. Ack. But then there are a lot of things I can't do until the last minute - grocery shopping, figuring out how to configure furniture (new dorm - I've never seen a finished room in it, but that's another story) and packing. Okay, so I can pack some stuff now, but the things I'll be using every day (iPod speaker, toothbrush, running clothes, retainers) - that's all last-minute stuff. I plan, a couple days before, to throw a bunch of stuff in an oversized suitcase and pray it's all there.

I'm not that disorganized with everything else. There is a plan, kind of. I'll get everything there, because there are certain items I will not (or can not) live without. My iPod. My computer. (Noo! I'm going to have to deconstruct my whole stinking desktop!) The bare necessities of life, as it were.

So. I am sending up flares. This is my cry for prayers. I'm praying a lot. My family's praying a lot (I'm the first kid off to school). I appreciate any prayers you might give.

Now, for my randomness. What would this blog be without that? I've been pondering the subjunctive mood lately. Here's the Wikipedia definition: In grammar, the subjunctive mood (sometimes referred to as the conjunctive mood) is a verb mood that exists in many languages. It is typically used in dependent clauses to express wishes, commands, emotion, possibility, judgment, necessity, or statements that are contrary to fact at present.

I struggled to understand this - until I took Spanish 2. And it clicked. In the Spanish language (Q can back me up on this), there are certain occasions when you change the verbs. So if I wanted to say 'I hope you sleep well', I'd say espero que duermas bien. If I just said 'You sleep well', it would be Duermes bien. The verb form changes under these circumstances.

That's when I realized that subjunctive in English is dying. People used to say 'I wish it were raining'. Most of the time, people say 'I wish it was raining' or 'I wish she was here' instead of 'I wish she were here'. Things like that.

Anyway, enough rambling. Espero que tengan un buen dia, y que me escriban rapidamente! (For those Spanish speakers, lo siento que las palabras no tienen accentos.)