A rumor has been traveling around. Apparently, Brian and I are engaged. Now, as wonderful as that would be, I type this with a small chuckle to tell you that this is not true. A promise ring lay waiting on my finger to one day be replaced with an engagement ring, but not yet. One year and 10 months (plus almost a year of swooning over one another previous) is a bit soon for two college juniors to be planning a wedding.
We do talk about it, though. It is in the talking stage, I suppose, if we want to go that far; but there is no diamond on my finger, or moonrock, or even 25 cent 7-11 rings(which will hopefully not be the case when the time comes.)
But when the time comes, count on my to use up all of my minutes on my cell phone to call everyone and let them know the good news. I'll try to refrain from texting you becacuse that is a bit less exciting (but I do have free texting, so who knows.) Point is, though, you will all know plenty in advance, trust me.
But thank you for making Brian and I smile a bit. It was a nice rumor.

And in case there are any others going around, I wish to dispel those as well: I am not pregnant, I am not a lesbian(although it does sound like fun), I am not really a man, I do have a belly button, No I have not killed my beta fish, and I was not in Playboy (although, a small chest is getting to be quite popular these days).

Things that ARE true (aka, updates on my life):
~ Brian is 20 today. He's so old. But I'm still older. 21 this November. woohoo.
~ I got a job today! I'm going to be working at Lowe's. I'm thoroughly excited. Actually, I pretty much got hired on the spot today. I was told I will probably be working the Customer Service desk because of my experience working with people (especially with Student Security. So I would like to thank all of those intoxiated teenagers and semi-adults for making this possible.)
~ I am going to New Hampshire in a week and a half with my family and Brian.
~ My laptop is officially dead. I'm going to be getting a credit card, ordering an HP instead of a Dell this time, and enjoying that much.
~ I'm a junior in college now. And my sister has just graduated high school. I'm a bit weirded out by all of this. The thought that I am practically halfway done with my undergraduate career makes me thrilled beyond belief. I do believe I'm going to be adding psychology in as a double major with my English, and THUS I will be staying for a 5th year. Crazy things, I tell you.
~ I cut my hair. It's much shorter than it was, which is definitely a change seeing as I've been growing it out for about the past year and a half.

•  I am now in the final stretch of my sophomore year of college, which incredibly strange to me. I went through and changed things to say "Junior at Umass" instead of Sophomore. I'm half-way through college.
•  I went through all of my grades to see what I would be getting in my classes... the lowest grades I will get in them are:
  Psychology: B  
  Social Problems: B 
  Dean's Book: A- 
  Color In The Cage/Concert Band: A 
  Musical Theater and Popular Culture:  B? (no idea) 
  American Identities: B+/A-  
  Thus, in all, I think I faired pretty well for this being my rough, slack-off semester. I could have done a LOT better though.
• Color in the Cage was incredible. It's hard to believe that I picked up my very first flag this past summer... and now I'm, dare I say, good? The show was so much fun. The twirling show was interesting. I was set for the very first section, waiting for the music to start and what do I see crawling on the floor in front of me? A spider! Things went peachy after that until the flat toss... where Rachel's baton landed on top of my head. Great thing was, though, that I caught my own baton and kept spinning, all the while, pretending nothing happened. The look on my parents face at that moment was perfect. And Intermediate Cage... oh man. *smiles* I didn't drop my sabre. Actually, I didn't drop anything. I was on time. I loved it. Yay for adrenaline rushes! =) I'm excited for band camp now. No longer a rookie. I took out 2 flags (one for myself, and one for Aimee) and a sabre to make all of my skills stronger.
•  I've been RPing my life away. Harry Potter, of course. I can't help it. So addicted... not that I want to help it much. It gives me a place to write and play with my muses a bit.
• I'm currently trying to find a job for the summer. We'll see how that goes. Depending on how my Sears interview goes, I may be putting in some apps at restaurants. I'm also going to be getting my bartending license this summer. (woohoo!) Seeing as I'll be 21 this coming fall, I could be raking in the tips.
• As of right now, I don't have much packed in my dorm. I'm finally going home on the 26th. Why so late?
  1. My last final is on the 23rd. It's an optional final, but I'd like to see if I can pull up my Social Problems grade a bit more.
  2. Student security has me on a bunch of shifts up until then. AND Brian and I both decided to work Commencement on the 26th, which is great pay and easy work.
• I seriously need to do laundry.
• I'm hoping a LOT of people leave campus tonight because starting tomorrow night I'll be working every night up until the 24th for student security and really don't want to deal with drunk people.
• Stamp prices = $0.41? Excuse me?
  
  That's all I have for now... More at another time.
  Enjoy and good luck on finals.

~Samantha~

This is the post that everyone's been waiting for. Both on Facebook and on Livejournal, people put in their own names and the names of people that we both know. I took all of these names and mixed them up in a big list. Now, before you try and guess what your own secret tidbit is, just know - they aren't as obvious as they may seem to be, but then again they aren't things that I've quite shared with you all either. And no, I won't tell you which one is you. I probably don't remember. I went with what I felt at the moment.

I don't know you that well, but you seem pretty cool.

You've changed a lot, and I'm not exactly sure that it's for the better.

We always got along so well.

I think that you don't try enough.

You're a follower.

You are sometimes quite embarassing to be around.

You make me very happy. And I'm very thankful to have someone like you in my life.

You're a great person and I want nothing more than for you to be happy.

I'm glad to see a smile on your face.

It's wrong of you to talk about people behind their backs the way you do. It makes people feel like shit, especially when they find out.

It's so awesome that we're getting to be good friends. You're great to talk to.

I know you know what happened.

You've made some really bad decisions thus far and I'm pretty sure the bad decisions will keep coming. As far as I know, you haven't tried to fix them.

I don't know you very well, but that's alright.

You make things a little quirkier.

I don't know why you do the things you do. I don't even know if YOU know why you do it.

I'm glad I had you in my life for the time that I did. You made me very happy and I will never forget that.

You make late nights so much more interesting.

You make me smile sometimes.

I don't know what to make of you.

I haven't talked to you in a while, but I'm glad things are going well.

You make really stupid decisions.

I haven't talked to you in a long time, and I really don't have an interest to.

I'm glad things are going well for you.

You are nice.