Today has been a day full of writing papers (and having a great burrito for lunch) and I've listened to every iTunes playlist that I've made since December. Actually, make that last August. So instead of hearing the same songs over and over, I've been pulling out old records (haha, that sounds much better than "clicking on old(ish) songs that I haven't listened to in a long time) and re-enjoying music that I loved years ago.
...like Lifehouse's "No Name Face" album. Do you remember this one? Solid, thought-provoking lyrics and nice melodies (sorry I can't come up with a better description right now. If you had asked me to describe how Afghanistan's history affects its politics now or about America's internal and external spheres of influence...I probably could do that decently well. ...let's hope my professors think so!)
But anyway, here's one of those songs that I have re-loved today.
"I am falling into grace
To the unknown to where you are
And faith makes everybody scared
It's the unknown, the don't-know
That keeps me hanging on and on and on to you"
(I didn't know they played at the Olympics! Any idea what year?)
What music have you re-loved recently? Anything I should know about? (after all, I DO have a 12 hour drive coming up in a week and music suggestions are always welcome! :) )
So last Wednesday morning I went to the library to print some documents before class. I downloaded what I needed, set it to print, picked it up, and began to scan some other documents. My computer was fairly close to the printer and all of a sudden I noticed that the printer was frantically spitting out pages and pages of something. Oh well, sometimes people have large documents to print, so no problem, I thought. But after more than 5 minutes of frantically printing?? I was beginning to wonder. So, I went back over there to see what was up. Every piece of paper that it printed had only one word on it at the very top, centered, and in size 12 font: "CHEST." Huh???? Weird. But who knows. Maybe it was someone's anatomy project and they had to draw pictures and they wanted to print labels?? (maybe...?) Anyway, while I was trying to decide what to do (would YOU want to call out loudly in the library to see if "chest" is anyone's homework?) the printer kept going. Chest, chest, chest, and on and on and on. A couple other people had come up to the printing station by now and confirmed that no, it wasn't their homework, and yes, it was weird that the printer was printing so many copies of "chest." But stopping it?? Maybe I could just press "cancel." No, that didn't work. This printer was SET on printing all however many copies of "chest" that it was supposed to! It would print maybe 10 copies, pause for a moment as if catching its breath, and then begin with some more. So, during one of its breaths, I opened the paper drawer. Good thing, too, cause there was more than a ream of paper left in there!!! Who knows how long it would have kept going. All I know is that there was a two-inch stack of "CHEST" in the printer tray when I left for class. And I laughed about that for a long while. :)
The best use of resources?? Not at all. But kind of funny? Sure thing.
The best use of resources?? Not at all. But kind of funny? Sure thing.
Yes, I know I'm new at blogging. But I've learned one really important thing already...
Don't start a blog right before finals. Yes really, wait til they're over! Cause either the blog won't get enough attention or your homework/studying won't get enough attention. You can see which option I've chosen....
One week left! In 7 days, I will be free for 4 months!! And in 10 days I will be on my way to Mississippi and therefore will have something interesting to write about. Stay tuned for that. :)
And by the way, if you have any Katrina recovery related questions, questions about my trip, about New Orleans, Mississippi or the like, feel free to leave them here and I'll try to answer them soon!
So lacking something actually interesting to write about, I decided to blog about some weird things that have happened recently.
1) I had a dream about ranch dressing last night. Weird, huh? The even weirder thing is that I don't really like ranch dressing. It's okay, but I would much prefer blue cheese any day. So why ranch in the dream? Well, all I can remember is that someone needed something to eat and no one had any food. She was really hungry and everyone was sorry that there was nothing. But then suddenly, I remembered I had some ranch dressing in my fridge (which is true in real life, cause some came with my celery last week) and was running to go get it when the girl was gone and I woke up.
2) My bruise is still sore sometimes. Maybe you know the story of my incident with the ski lift chair over spring break? Or maybe you know my past history with lift chairs?? Anyway, one hit me pretty hard at the bottom of the mountain and I got this wonderfully dark purple bruise for the next 10 days or so. Lovely, I know. It's gone now, but sometimes I'll still feel it. Ouch. Weird, cause spring break was nearly 6 weeks ago.
3) American Idol was on tonight and I didn't exactly love it. Last week, so many of the songs were awesome and this week was just okay for me, dawg. haha ;) Four weeks til the finale! Four weeks til I'm crowded around a 6 inch TV in a tent in Mississippi with friends, all of us dying to see which David wins the whole thing. (cause dontcha think at least ONE of them will be in the finals?) (And by the way, I am so incredibly excited about going to Mississippi I can barely stand it!! :) )
4) And the fourth weird thing of the day: I got assigned another Latin America paper today--even BEFORE I turned in the last one! Are you surprised? Oh okay, me neither. Oh, how I wish paper writing was weird to me. But 30 papers this semester and writing's not weird or uncommon or anything. And with only 4 1/2 papers to go, they don't seem so bad anymore.
What weird things have you noticed recently?
Oops, no blogging in several days. I spent Friday clarifying info for my Latin America paper and researching about Afghanistan for my English paper. Then, (at least) 15 hours of this weekend were dedicated to the Latin America paper, which turned out to be really loooonnnng. (I still have no idea how you can write a thorough paper about the Spanish colonization of Mexico and Central America; the relationship between Anglo-Americans and Mexicans in Texas, social, economic, and political characteristics of Mexico's dictatorship and the Mexican revolution; the significance and consequences of NAFTA; the advantages and disadvantages of Mexican immigration to the US; and Hispanic migration to Indianapolis (whew!!) in a 6-8 page paper, double-spaced. yeah, I have no idea how to do that. So mine's...um, ...a teensy bit longer. But the exciting (?) thing is that I listened to nearly my entire iTunes library while writing this one paper. Yeah...)
Maybe I'll post something more interesting tomorrow. Something other than writing papers is bound to happen!
Thursday, April 17, 2008
pictures,
spring
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Pictures: hot off the press......um, I mean phone
So I finally just downloaded pics from my phone from the last several months. And my favorites are.....
1) Back in the winter, my dorm room was pretty hot. No problem, cause I could usually just open the window.
But during the below-freezing
nights, I couldn't leave it open so I "installed" this little fan (with command hooks. don't worry, no dorm room walls were damaged) so I could sleep soundly on my top bunk.
2) Another pic of the fan.
If you ever need to hook a fan to a wall, feel free to refer to this (almost) "do it yourself" guide. haha (But see, I used my geometry skills to figure out at what angle the second hook needed to be.
and here I thought geometry was useless...... ;) )
3) A little Prius awesomeness for you, taken as Dad and I were leaving Snowshoe Mountain. Yep, 99.9 mpg for more than 15 minutes!!
4) Another one on the way down the mountain. Isn't this funny? (can you tell that it's a scarecrow?)
5) Such a lovely day! I took this one today on my way to Latin America class. Don't know if you can see it or not, but there are a lot of people out on the mall studying, playing, and just enjoying the sunshine. AND, the trees are starting to bloom! My English professor decided to have class outside today and it was super nice. 74 and sunny. Indiana's kind of nice in mid/late April. I think I like this month :)
And in other news, I got to talk to one of my Psych professors today about the possibility of being in his research group in the fall!
these kittens! I got to spend all last week with them, and now I'm back at school and... no cats. :( Yes, they were often in trouble. Yes, they often interrupted my homework cause they wanted to eat (like 20 times a day...literally). Yes, they frequently wanted to share my dinner (and usually I let them, haha). Yes, they kept walking on my computer when I was trying to do homework. Yeah, I had to scoop their litter box lots of times. Yes, life alone with 4 cats was interesting. But at the same time, I loved it. They are so sweet and certainly entertaining! Funny, too, and CUTE!!! I wish they were here to "help" me with my homework now. I miss them a lot. Gracie and I got to be good friends last week, so I know she misses me too. :)
(I discovered it's hard to take pictures of 4 cats when there's no one else around to help...)
(and what? no pictures of Kiwi? I'll see if I can remedy that this weekend.)
Lots of iced tea days coming up :) I love this sunshine and warm weather!!! Warm-ness makes walking to class so much better. Okay, I'm off to Chemistry. Be back later. "If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." -Anne Bradstreet
Wahoooo!!! I have a schedule for next fall! 18 hours and no permission numbers needed!
Here's what I'll be taking:
Organic Chemistry (and lab)
Experimental Psychology (and lab)
Developmental Psychology
South Asian Civilizations
Health
Tennis
I think it looks manageable. Developmental and South Asian Civ will be a lot of work (reading and papers, perhaps), Organic will be a lot of memorization, I've heard that Experimental's not too bad, and Health and Tennis are P/F, which will be nice. With the labs, I'll actually be in class more than 18 hours a week. Also, Health and Tennis meet twice a week and are only 1 credit each. So it comes out to 23 hours of class, I think. (So in theory, I could go to school ALL day for one day and have 6 days off to sleep and cook and do homework and catch up with friends, etc. haha) Then, I'll need two more semesters of 16 hours each and I can graduate early!
So glad to have scheduling all done! And it wasn't too bad this time. Yay for being a rising upperclassman (that is hard to believe!) and getting to schedule towards the beginning of everyone.
Today was fairly typical: get up, have French toast with Dad, then classes, lunch with Megan, class again and then reading. I actually got all of my Latin America documents read before dinner (!!!). Had dinner with a friend I hadn't seen in weeks, which was great. We reminisced about our camping trip last September and our great plans of camping again this spring, which sadly never happened. (Next fall, hopefully?) And now I'm back to homework. Tonight I only have reading, which is nice. No more papers til this weekend!
It's getting to the point in the semester where everyone's shocked about how few class days are left. This is an awesome feeling, except when you realize how much you have to do between now and freedom (which happens to come for me on May 2 at 4 pm!). 9 class days left. 8 papers to write. 500 pages to read. I can certainly make it.
And this lovely cool spring weather??? AWESOME! Yeah, I'm more of a fan of 70+ degrees, but when it's sunny and 50, I'm cool with that. And it's definitely easier to think of wanting to go to Alaska this summer when it's warm outside. And you know what else? When it's above freezing outside, people don't look at you weirdly when you get iced tea. That's always nice.
It's getting to the point in the semester where everyone's shocked about how few class days are left. This is an awesome feeling, except when you realize how much you have to do between now and freedom (which happens to come for me on May 2 at 4 pm!). 9 class days left. 8 papers to write. 500 pages to read. I can certainly make it.
And this lovely cool spring weather??? AWESOME! Yeah, I'm more of a fan of 70+ degrees, but when it's sunny and 50, I'm cool with that. And it's definitely easier to think of wanting to go to Alaska this summer when it's warm outside. And you know what else? When it's above freezing outside, people don't look at you weirdly when you get iced tea. That's always nice.
I finally emailed Ed and Irene a couple of weeks ago to ask about coming to serve at DVF in May and got this reply within an hour:
"Absolutely!!!! We would count it a privilege to have you! And your friends!!!!! Stay in touch and we will plan to see you early May!!!!
Blessings and Love,
Irene & Ed"
So I guess I'm really going!! To say I'm excited is an incredible understatement...I can't wait to be there! Two more weeks of classes, 2 days of final exams, a few days of unpacking dorm stuff and doing laundry, and then repacking bags to be gone for a month.
But for now, homework's a reality... Another 3 page "overnight write" about America's external empire in the 20th century. It really is actually interesting stuff, but I just keep thinking about the summer. I have to remind myself that all the reading and writing will be done soon and summer will be here. :)
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