Friday, October 31, 2008

"i love to laugh...

...loud and long and clear." -uncle albert from mary poppins

so there was this pep rally type thing my school had tonight for our men and women's basketball teams called "midnight madness" (yet it ends before midnight begins). The cheerleaders and spirit team come out and do their thing and each basketball player gets announced and they have dunk competitions and silly games to show off how good(or bad) they are and get us all excited for their season.

but before all of that the first 500 students to enter got a free t-shirt and free ice cream. TOTALLY WICKED! i had pumpkin flavored ice cream and it was delicioso for sure.
also when we were waiting for the actual festivities to begin my friend told me if you sleep in a certain position your body will automatically wake itself up in 20 minutes. so if you're sitting in a chair with a table or desk in front of you what you do is lay a hand on the flat surface and rest the middle of your forehead on the middle of the back of your hand. she said her nursing friend does it all the time to take quick naps but i have never seen this theory proven. maybe you should test it. but i tried it for a while and then it felt like the blood in my fingers was lacking and the bone in my hand was jabbing into my forehead. apparently i had the wrong technnique...

and now i'm excited for basketball to start because 3 of the guys are my neighbors! haha one of them helped us open a jar of sauerkraut and he's from new zealand, another one won the dunk competition this year, and the other is extremely tall and quite big(in the non-fat sense)

then afterwards my roommate had been washing her laundry while we were out and when she came back her clean load of underwear(including several things) was out in the open on top of a washer instead of inside of one. she came back telling us there were 2 boys and a girl working on a film project in the laundry room(don't ask me why) and she was embarrassed to move her unmentionables in front of them. so...i said i would do it for her because i wouldn;t mind and they aren't really mine. she also had another load in a different washer which i needed to find and dry along with her load of undies.
ok, so i walk in and say hello to these people whom i recognize/sort of know and i was "looking for my laundry" as if i forgot which washer i had put it in but really i had no idea and kept looking in the wrong ones(even in the out-of-order ones i didn;t know were out-of-order) and as i was looking one of the guys(Ty) goes of to the panties sitting on top of the washing machine and says, "This is explicit!" HAHA...not. So i find her other load and try to scoop everything together and finally place it in an empty dryer and leave. wow. quite an eventful day in the laundry room.

factoids:
  • i like the smell of rain
  • i enjoy playing soccer for fun
  • i don't know how to do a cartwheel

make a great day.

Thursday, October 30, 2008

"lalalalalalala...

...life is wonderful." -jason mraz

so it's been a pretty fantastic morning so far. my first class of the day was cancelled because the professor is sick...not that i'm happy he's sick. just that we don't have class because of it. and i don't have to take the quiz i didn't do the reading for.
so then i went to the library and borrowed several books i need for this 20 page paper i haven't started on due november 20th. and i got to thinking...libraries are amazing. i LOVE libraries. think about how much information is in one place. a single book holds tons of information about so many different subjects. but a library has thousands of books of almost any subject. rows and rows of books. full of pages of stuff i may never know or learn. and it's all organized. the smell of old books has always been a favorite of mine. :)
then after the library i was fortunate enough to have time to get a blueberry bagel with cream cheese and still have time left to study for my midterm at 11:25.
life is so exciting and thrilling. there's so much out there i still ghaven't discovered or experienced. i am just in love with life.

a few more random facts about me:
  • it really annoys me when the toilet paper roll spins away from you if that makes sense...
  • i've never been stung by a bee
  • i'm a fan of musicals

"i'm just a little bit...

...caught in the middle." -Lenka

sleep. schoolwork. sleep? schoolwork? hmm...

sleep is sounding really delightful right now. if i don't know this stuff for my test by now, it's too late anyways, right? haha

a little more on me:
  • i'm still trying to find my direction in life
  • i like mellow music
  • my favorite season is fall. especially with the lovely weather. cool enough for a sweater and scarf but not teeth chattering cold. and the beautiful falling leaves. *sigh*
  • i love food. of any kind. mostly.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

"i want to wake up kicking and screaming...

...i want to know that my heart's still beating." -switchfoot

i'm enjoying life as it comes and trying to stay positive in every situation.

how about a glimpse in the day in the life...
  • mass comm midterm tomorrow
  • annotated outline due tuesday(as in this past tuesday)
  • tea time with my roommates in an hour

my philosophy to living life: keep an open mind, love everyone, don't complicate things, and trust in the love and goodness of Jesus

grace and peace