Tonight, my roommate and I have literally spent all day studying. Ever since I got back from class earlier, we have honestly been studying all day. I'm so ready for a break and I am beyond ready to have no responsibilities for a little while. Christmas break will be so nice. As long as I can make it through finals, haha. I don't know how much longer I can spend literally every second of my day looking at study guides or previous quizzes or doing homework. I'm so ready for break.

Yesterday, my friend and I took a break from studying and decided to take a trip to the mall. We went to the Tanger Outlet right near Grand Rapids, about 40 minutes away but it was well worth the drive. They have the best stores there, from H&M to Kate Spade and JCrew. It was a nice little stress reliever and break from studying. I'm freaking out about finals, so I needed something to take my mind off of school for just a little bit and that was the perfect place.

I am getting pretty anxious about my finals and last papers/projects over the next two weeks. As excited as I am to be back home for Christmas break, I feel crazy stressed for everything I need to get done. If I just manage my time well, I think I will be fine. But it's just the making myself sit down and get as much work done as possible. It definitely won't be fun, but as soon as I have everything done and turned in, I will feel so much better about everything.

Recently I've decided to officially move in with my best friend. I started out at Western by going in blind. And my best friend, Madi, and her friend were rooming together. Her friend ended up leaving the school two weeks in so I spent the majority of time over at Mads anyways. Things weren't really working out with my roommate at the time so I just decided to start living with Mads. Over the past couple weeks, we officially moved all of my stuff in and it's been the best decision of my college experience so far.

I'm so happy I was able to spend this past weekend at home with my family and friends. I loved seeing everyone, I loved eating delicious food, and I loved shopping all of the sales. Black Friday was craziness, but so much fun. I'm grateful for the amazing time my family and I had together. And over this break, I realized how thankful I am for the fact that all of my friends have stayed in touch. It was just a really great time. As much as I enjoyed being home though, it is nice to be back here as well.

It's finally Thanksgiving break and I couldn't be more relieved or excited. I feel like with all of this work and stress building up over the past few weeks, I am in need of a nice break. I have a feeling everyone is. I am super happy to go home and spend time with my family and friends. I love that everyone's going to be home. It's gonna be really nice to see people that I haven't seen since the summer. Don't get me wrong, I  am loving college, but going home for a few days will be extremely nice.

I thought the logical fallacy assignment was kind of interesting to me. I thought it was fascinating how so many extremely experienced editorial writers had a few logical fallacies with in their pieces. You'd think that people writing that high up would be more skillful in that area and try to avoid those. I was just shocked that in just about any article I read, I was able to spot at least one. I will admit though, it is super hard to write without using those I have also realized.

I have realized it's extremely hard to focus with Thanksgiving break just five days away. It's like all of my motivation to get everything done as just totally left me because all I can think about is break. It also doesn't hep that everything is super stressful right now. I feel like I have so many assignments due right before break, which also makes this a really unfortunate time to have absolutely no motivation. I am forcing myself to get my stuff together and figure all of my stuff out.

For this assignment of researching a conspiracy theory, I decided to chose the theory of whether Princess Diana was purposeful or a complete accident. I chose this because both my grandma and grandpa are from England. They are very proud of their home country, and that has made me interested in it as well. This whole theory has me really intrigued on what really did happen. I think this will and has already been a very interesting assignment.

Recently I have realized just how badly I am in need of money. I feel like just being on a college campus, I go through cash way too fast. So lately I have been looking for a job. I don't know if I am necessarily going to get one for this semester, just because it's basically over so there really would be no point. But I am definitely thinking that next semester I am going to need a job. I am one of those people that spends money like crazy, so if I want to continue doing that I am going to need some type of income.

The past week has been extremely stressful with all of my classes. I have been really sick so that has kind of been the icing on my cake. It seems that things aren't slowing down either, it's so hard to keep up. I thought I was doing pretty well with all of my classes and staying on track with all of my homework, but everything just sort of seemed to hit me all at once. I have literally spent the entire day doing homework assignment after homework assignment. So I am really hoping that all of my work eventually pays off.

This past weekend it was Halloween and my birthday. It was a pretty fun weekend all in all! I spent Halloween at MSU with two of my best friends, which as first was sort of a disaster, but it ended up to be a really fun time. Then Sunday was my birthday and my family drove two hours here from Milford to surprise me and take me out to eat. It was nice to see everyone and I am really lucky it was such a good weekend. It definitely made going to back to class Monday a little harder than usual, but it was nice.

I thought the assignment we did in class last Friday was also super interesting, just like the one two Fridays ago. I will admit I definitely liked the movie assessment better, but I thought the song one was super interesting. I've never read that much into song lyrics or even a music video before so I was curious to hear everyone's perspectives on the songs we did. For example, the Weeknd song we did, I never even thought about it being about drugs, so I found that really interesting.

This past weekend, I went to Ann Arbor for the Michigan vs Michigan State game. I can happily say I was super excited about the outcome of the game. It definitely seemed like Michigan had it up until the very end. But all in all, the weekend was a blast. Michigan's campus was so insanely big I never really knew exactly where I was. But it was a fun weekend and the atmosphere was great. I will admit I like Western's campus size better because everything was so confusing there, but it was a great time for sure.

So I really liked the assignment we did in class on Friday. I liked watching a movie and then doing an analysis on it. It's interesting to me how much depth is in a movie, or even a movie character that you don't even realize unless you ask specific questions. It's also interesting to me that you can have two totally different outlooks on the movie. And you can also have two completely different views on a person. Looking at them in one way, they could be a good person. However, looking at them in a different way, they could be a total villain.

The other day, my friend Madi and I got a bunny. We had been wanting one for while, but just hadn't actually gone out and got one. So the other day when we found one, we were beyond excited. He was only a couple months old, and so tiny. He was brown and adorable. We named him Benji. Unfortunately, it turns out Madi is allergic. We were already attached to the little guy so we were trying to figure out a way around the allergies, but it got so bad that we had to take him back today. It was extremely sad for sure.

I've been working on my second narrative for this class and I am beyond stuck. I already wrote my personal one and somehow that came pretty easily to me, but this one is definitely going to be harder. I can be creative when it comes to some things, but writing is not really one of them. So coming up with an entire new fictional narrative is going to be pretty difficult for me. I do think that the one page dialogue we had to write in class a couple weeks ago will help with the rest of my story though.

So I started watching One Tree Hill on Netflix like forever ago. Then I stopped because I got kinda bored of it, but my best friend Madi told me I needed to try it again. So the other day, I started watching it again and I've been hooked ever since. I love it. It's so addicting, which probably isn't good because I have plenty of other things I could be doing with my time instead of watching Netflix. But I love the show and I'm kind of happy I started watching it again. Every now and then it's nice to be hooked on a tv show I think.

Today in class, we talked about the Face by Alice Munro. In the discussion, we talked about the setting of this story. Someone said that it was probably a long time ago because no one ever got divorced in the town of this story. And even though, the mother was pretty much being abused along with her child by her husband, it wasn't even a choice for her to leave. It makes me grateful how far women have come from then. If someone is in an abusive relationship, now they're encouraged and helped to get out of those situations.

So this weekend, I get to visit my best friend Anna! I miss her way too much. This summer, we literally spent every day together, living only 15 minutes apart from each other. She goes to Calvin so now we live an entire hour apart, which compared to others isn't that bad. But still, I want to be able to see my best friend more than just every other weekend. She's one of those friends that always picks   up where we left off every single time we see one another. I'm so excited, I'm counting down the days.

Introduction:
My name is Kendall Packer. My favorite things in life are my little brother, shopping, my best friends, and any thing chocolate. My little brother, Grayden, is nine years old and my favorite person in the whole world. He's the funniest and sweetest person I have ever met. I love shopping. A good mall trip can always turn my day around. I love my two best friends, Anna and Madi they mean the world to me. And lastly, I love anything chocolate. Whether it's chocolate ice-cream or a chocolate candy bar, it's my favorite.