Hallow's Eve

Fact: in my three years of college, I have never celebrated Halloween!

Tonight, as a Junior, I will celebrate October goodness for the first time as a college student. It's kind of cool. The last time I celebrated Halloween was my Senior year of high school and I was a "Catholic School Girl". It was probably the easiest costume in the history of my life considering I attended a Catholic high school and already had the uniform. This year, I will be Annie Oakley because the theme is American History. I had to actually get a hat and two toy pistols (I don't want to carry around a rifle). I'm gonna curl my hair, I'm pumppeddd.

Speaking of hair...

Guess whattttttttttt. I cut my hair today! Eek. The lady cut too much and DIDN'T give me the face frame I asked for...but my mom says that the back of my head looks pretty. Can't have everything I guess..

I'm really hungry, but don't know what to eat. Not in the mood for dinner yet, but totally could use some comida.

Quote of the day: "It is all straw." --St. Thomas Aquinas

<3
~Esa Cita

The Month of Pumkins and Roses

I’m surrounded by October blue skies and autumn leaves. Long sleeves aren’t necessary, yet multi- colored scarves follow me throughout the campus as I contemplate the pros to neoliberalism and free trade for my anti-capitalist class. Nothing can stop me because I’m drinking white pomegranate tea and my favorite iTunes playlist is playing.

October in this area is a beautiful time for color changes, classy outfits with brown boots, and comfortable cool weather.

May the last few days of this great month of October be awesome.

~Esa Cita

Avoiding Econ

My cousin is a funny kid.

Since today was the feast of St. Luke, he posted a Facebook status saying, "Happy feast of St. Luke! The gospel is strong with this one..." Leave it up to a family member of mine to love on saints and Star Wars in the same Facebook status.

Cannot wait until Wednesday at 12! My midterms will be over then, and I'll be able to start catching up on homework....

Okay, stop getting distracted.

Go back to studying.

~Esa Cita

Mid.Terms.

This Looks So Awesome to Me Right Now


I still have ears full of sticky yucky medicine....a few more days and my ears should be back to normal!!

Midterms are upon me.
[insert death music here]

I am currently taking one as I type. It's one of those take home exams that are really in depth and take up a lot of your time...so much that you can't see your friends unless you're doing homework together. My goal is to finish this midterm by tonight because I won't have time to do it tomorrow before 5PM. Eeek! I got this.

I'm getting coffee tonight, and that should be my motivation. Also, music practice is at 7:20 tonight, so I am aiming to get dinner beforehand and finish the paper. Ahg. I can do this, yes I can.

I just got a phone call of this recorded lady speaking in Spanish telling me that I was going to receive a present if I did something....I hung up. Gotta love it when people waste your time.

Ahhhh, can't wait for this paper to be finished. Gotta go do it. A huge hunk of stress will be gone once I do. Then I two other midterms that I need to study for. One that I NEED to ace, and really work for. Another that I just need to work hard for. It's going to be an interesting weekend. So yay, yaahhhhoooo.

OK, time to go. Off to talk about homogenization and hybridization of culture, deterritorialization, and the shift of fordism to flexible accumulation. Boom, let's roast them.

I got this, I got this....

~Esa Cita

Dumbo & Government Employees

Infection!!! Don't worry, I don't have pictures...haha.

My last needles from acupuncture fell off on Friday, and that night my ear got really swollen and bumpy...infection! Yahhooooo. I put some stuff on it and went to the doctor today.

Since my hospital didn't have any appointments for the day and they weren't going to be working on Columbus Day, they told me to go to an urgent care near my house, assuring me that they were currently sending the referral for my insurance. I got to the urgent care with my lovely Dumbo ears only to find out that the referral didn't get through. Gotta love free healthcare. Anyways, after calling again, going through 3 different people in the system, I finally got to a nurse and passed the phone to the urgent care technician who assured them that they needed to actually do their job, I was able to get admitted and was taken care of by this really great doctor. Luckily, my ears are only in the early stages of an infection so as long as I use my meds he gave me I should be good.

I can only imagine what it's like in places where you have to walk miles to see ONE doctor whenever your body parts are the size of Dumbo and infection is way more a big deal and will probably lead to death because it isn't treated until terrible. It makes me really grateful for living close to a doctor, but at the same time I can't help but remember what my economics professor said about government employees versus in the private sector.

I was supposed to get my OMT referral for my back on Wednesday...I'm gonna call Tuesday morning.

Dang them government employees who don't like to ever do their job and give me my referals...grrr. Of course I say this while I get a college education on the GI Bill...gotta love being a hypocrite, haha .

~Esa Cita

Little Decorations

I have.....little decorations in my ears!




Today I was scheduled to have trigger point injection for my back problems,

buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuttttt....




I was given the option to get acupuncture.



The side effects of that were more appealing than my lungs possibly popping with trigger point.

It was kind of intimidating: I was in the room with two doctors, a medical student, and a technician who were ALL looking at me and giving me about 5 different options of ways to go about with my treatment. I felt like I had a ton of power because these medical people wanted know MY opinion. Oh my my my! In the end I chose acupuncture. I'm gonna get an OMT appointment soon and then they may possibly get me one of those zapping machines whose name escapes me right now. Good times, good times. I may be blessed with chronic back problems.

So it felt like getting an ear pierced. I actually wouldn't know because I was about 2 weeks or months old when I got my ears pierced, but if I were to guess what it felt liked...I would guess it to feel like acupuncture in the ear. After each pair of piercings, Doctor Titus had me get up, stretch, and walk around to make sure I wasn't too dizzy. It was no Procecet, but I was a bit lightheaded.

There are 4 needles on each side to be exact. They should be falling off within the next 1-3 days, maybe 5. I can't wait to show my friends my needles tomorrow at school. They look like a bunch of earrings in awkward places on my ear, but it makes me feel special now.

I don't remember if he originally pierced 5 or 4 in each ear, but I know that when I looked in the mirror in the car I only found 4.

Although the help has been temporary...I appreciate this new experience. Now I can say I've received alternative medicine!


~Esa Cita

Madly In Love With You

I know you wish you could see me
That’s the way it has to be
Someday you’ll understand,
Don’t you lose your faith in me

I know you wish you could hear me
Sometimes it’s so hard to do
But every morning sunrise it says
I’m madly in love with you.

Love, God



http://www.lyricsmania.com/madly_in_love_with_you_lyrics_sean_mcconnell.html

Brothers

Lil Carlos


At dinner today, my brothers were telling the table how "deuces" is the way to say "bye".

So my three-year old brother Javi shouted "DEUCES!!!" after my mom told the older boys to stop saying that slang...


It was adorable, and hilarious.

Okay, time to go back to reading about what Mr. Harvey has to say about neoliberalism..and write a paper pretending that I value his opinion. Hah just kidding, I value his opinion...sorta.


~Esa Cita

Sunday, the day of rest

Blue


This weekend marks official OVER A MONTH of being back in school. It feels like I've been here FOREVER!!! Not that it's necessarily a bad thing, but sometimes I get the big reminders that the day of rest is totally and completely necessary. After Thursday night, I totally flopped... and been passing out of being able to make legitimate conversation by midnight every single night without fail. Sorry to everyone who wanted to talk to me any night for the past few days...

Friday night, I celebrated my girl's feast day....it was nice times. Good fellowship, good cookies. I'd say quite the lovely night.

Saturday day: Matt and Carmen date day...Yaahhhhooo! Saturday night: family dinner. I miss having dinner with the fam, so good times.

Today is Sunday, and although it's supposed to be a "day of rest" I've been homework-ing it up while trying to ignore this annoying dizziness that's been bugging me all day. So I may just go running in a few minutes to get my head to stop killing me. Don't feel well enough to go to Mass again tonight. :/

But fear not, Matt Maher is playing in the background, and Love has come to show the way.

Off to attack this grumpy body of mine.

~Esa Cita