chiller

Okay, so now it's pretty frickin cold out. I get to sport the double-sweatshirt look now... and socks-with-sandals... even in the halls, since apparently administration can't get a clue that we should actually heat the buildings on campus.

I'm serious, I think it's about 45 degrees in my room right now. It sucks.

The last few days have been kind of meh, as far as exciting things go. Same old school stuff. It snowed today a little. I get to see the house I'll be living in next semester tomorrow. (Sorry about the format of that sentence, it probably doesn't make much sense, but you'll just have to deal with it. Yep.) Lin Alg test was moved back to Friday, so now I really should be studying for it. But it's hard to study for something when you don't know what to study.

I need to kick myself out of this out-of-it mood. Tomorrow's going to be a lot of running around, which I'm not looking forward to. But it's necessary.

This weekend should be fun, though :) Friday the 13th!!! I'm excited for the pizza party and scary movies... I haven't watched a scary movie in forever... it's a good thing we're going to be watching them at like 7, instead of the middle of the night. I'm such a wimp sometimes. ;)

Take care of yourself. Relax a little. Re-examine your life right now... is it the life you want to be living? Or are you too tired, too rushed to even realize that you're driving yourself into the ground? I spent two years here pushing myself to defy time, but it didn't get me anywhere. In the words of Citizen Cope... let the drummer kick. Trust me.

Goodnight, stinky town.

autumn rolls around

It's officially fall in stinky town. The sugar beets litter the road, our steam-heating system has fired up and has started spewing rotten marsh smells all over campus, and the refreshing winds of change have blown down most of the leaves from the orange-tinted trees.

I'm happy with it. Truthfully, if I don't have to run another meet in 80 degree weather, I'll be grateful for this cooler weather. Just don't bring in the arctic air for a few more weeks, please.

Anything new? Homecoming 2006 has come and gone. At least I don't have a bunch of extra things to worry about, now that it's over. And I'm finally done with my neuroscience midterm, and a 98% at that! Pretty excited. Although the fact that it was a take-home exam did make quite a bit of difference... after about 6 cumulative hours of working on it. Bleh.

Time to put away clean laundry and hit the hay. Goodnight :)

satisfaction

Mmmm... good 3 day-old dining center cookies, cold from the fridge... while I sit, relaxing after a long day, stretching out my socked-and-sandaled toes (yes, flip-flops and white ankle socks, they're such a good fashion combination for the season)...

Yes, it's true. Nothing could be better.

My parents are coming soon for family weekend!! And my first traveling meet... ooh, I'm kind of nervous. It'll be fun, and it's probably good that it's a down-and-back instead of an overnight trip for my very first. I was looking forward to the 6k, but I think I'll be okay with rockin the 5. Not too entirely distraught.

The weekend is sure going to be busy. Homecoming parade, football game, hockey game (well... just kidding. I guess I missed out on tickets for that one...), homecoming dance (woo yeah!), and being with mom and dad :) It's going to be good.

Life as of now? Busy. But not so much that I want to cry, so that's good. School hasn't been too hard on me. Extracurrics are kind of kicking me, and I could be doing a better job with those. I wish I had more time to apply for a real job... cause I need to do that eventually. Working at Altru in the ER would be pretty awesome. I finally have a house that I might/probably will be moving into this December!! My favorite cousin is finally getting married (after, like, 7 years or something crazy) to his amazing girlfriend, so that's rocking my world as of late. And... well, love life up here has been developing into something pretty great, so I'm excited about that too :) Cross is good, the workouts have been tiring, my muscles ache like crazy and there's absolutely nothing I can do to get these dang knots out of my calves and quads... but the girls are encouraging and the team is a lot of fun.

Time for some pretty satisfying sleep... and then a nice early morning run, perhaps. Have a great night, world :)