It has been a most excellent week :D
Monday I did make it to orchestra in time, and the only thing I forgot was my coat (heh, oops :] ). The drive was great - the only time I took off cruise control for more than just to pass people was when I was getting off the highway in Hoffman Estates :D
Tuesday I got to hang with Nicole! We watched the Muppet Christmas Carol (I love that movie :] ) and made pumpkin spice cookies. That was fun :] Then I went to get information about having my wisdom teeth removed. I'm having the surgery on the 19th, fun start to my winter break :D After that appointment, I watched Muppet Christmas Carol again, this time with my mom (she loves that movie as well, and I didn't mind watching it again at all :] ).
Wednesday, I went to lunch with my mom :D It was fun to spend some time with just her. Then I got to go run errands. I picked up my race packet for the Turkey Trot and colorful bread and oreo turkeys from the bakery. The oreo turkeys were fun, and yummy :] That evening, my mom and I started getting the food ready for Thursday as we waited for the Bogdas to arrive from St Louis. They got in kinda late since Kristin had to drive from Oklahoma City first. But they got in fine, and it was good to see them again (I'd actually seen them the most recent of my family, since I went to St Louis a few weeks ago).
Thursday, most of us were up fairly early to finish the food stuffs. We were joined by Ed, one of my mom's coworkers. He was going to spend the day by himself, so my mom invited him over. We ate and watched football and played Buckets - it was super fun :] My mom has this Thanksgiving book where we put a group picture and everyone writes what they're thankful for each year. This year, I wrote that I was thankful for my 'friends, family, the life I've led and that IU sucks' :D
Then the women were planning out our Black Friday shopping. Kohl's had a really good sale on something Kristin wanted, so we went out there when they opened at midnight. It was me, my mom, Aunt Kelly, Kristin and McKayla.
And it was a madhouse there. There were so many people! But I got to see Hannah Worman, from my high school cross country team, so that was good :] And we got the hair straightener Kristin wanted, so we went home and slept before going out again to other places.
The crew for the main chunk of the shopping was Melissa, Aunt Kelly, McKayla, my mom and myself. We Got some good shopping done - Target was one of the ones that opened at midnight as well, so it wasn't too crazy when we were there at about 9. I got 2 cds, a dvd, and sheets for myself, and discovered that pretty much everything I wanted to get for people as Christmas presents were out for the day, so that was a good trip for me :] Then, at Hot Topic, I got a blink 182 shirt for myself - so much for shopping for presents ;]
We continued our tradition of going to Cheesecake Factory for lunch and getting the peppermint bark cheesecake - it's so yummy! And so sad that it's only available during Christmastime. A friend asked me if we were done shopping around that time, I told him he was so funny :D
After lunch, I needed new jeans so we went to find some of those and American Eagle was rather crowded and hot as well. The mall got exponentially more crowded while we were eating - it was crazy. But, hey, it's Black Friday :]
We got finished in good time, it was 5 or so when we got back to my house. Then it was time to put new music on various computers, Melissa, Kristin and I all like the Twilight movie soundtracks so we all shared cds :]
Melissa had gotten a dice game called Farkle during the day, so the girls all played that in the evening. It was a game where you got points based on what you rolled and it was all about risk. So the first game, I was having fun and going for the long shot rolls, so I had 600 points for the longest time (to put it in perspective: you need 500 points to get on the board and then you need 10,000 to go for the win). That was fun :D
Saturday, I ran the Turkey Trot 5k. And I didn't do too badly, seeing as how I had to walk the whole second mile because my back was on fire. I ran the first mile and third in their entirety, and I got to get it massaged and stretched out after I finished so that was awesome. Melissa, Aunt Kelly and my mom and dad came to cheer me on, so that was cool :] They were cheering 'Go Turkey go!' and 'IU sucks!' at me, so that was entertaining :D
After the run, we all watched some college football. The Purdue v. IU game and Virginia Tech v. Vriginia games weren't until the afternoon, so we watched the Michigan v. Ohio State game - that was a good game. The Purdue game wasn't pretty by any stretch of the word, but they did win so I'll take it. I was also glad that they won, since I wrote that I was thankful that IU sucks. It would've been a different effect if we'd lost ;] Virginia Tech dominated, so that was good :]
I got to hang with Kylee again after way too long of not seeing each other. A bunch of other people came over too, so it was a party :] It was awesome to see all of them again, I miss them. And DJ was playing Skyrim (that was hilarious - he died so many times because he just wanted to kill everyone :D ) while Jon and Shugo fought with Jon's lightsabers, so it was a pretty typical gathering of all of us :]
After that party, I got to start decorating our Christmas tree with my mom. I love decorating for Christmas, so it's sad that I'm not there during most of it. At least I get to do some - my mom understands how I feel, and she should since I got it from her :D
This morning, I had to leave relatively early because I needed to get back for praise band. It was rainy, so I was prepared for a nasty drive. Driving around Chicago wasn't too bad but about 30 miles onto I-65 suddenly traffic was stop and go (which is slightly backwards from what you'd think it should be). That was fun O.o At least I had some Christmas music in my cd player - and Buckbeak stayed nice and warm for me.
I got to the sound check about a half hour late, so not too bad. I played violin and bass today, and I even sang one song - the other two vocalists weren't comfortable with it and I didn't mind so I did the verses and they joined in on the choruses. It was a small crowd, but it was fun :] And then I came back to Aldersgate and have been watching football, writing this and talking with friends instead of unpacking or doing the homework that's due on Tuesday that I didn't do over break. Oh well.
Boiler up :D
-Carly
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Monday, November 21, 2011
Sleep Deprivation, part ii
It's been an interesting week. And, like the title suggests, I didn't sleep very much.
Wednesdays I have classes 8.30-9.20 and then 9.30-10.20, so when I woke up at 9.24 on Wednesday it was the first time I'd unintentionally slept through a class. At first, my brain thought it was Thursday, when my first class is at 10.30, so I just thought that I'd have to get up and get going pretty quickly. Then I woke up further and remembered that I had a statistics lab in 6 minutes. I was only 10 min late, though, a feat which I am rather proud of, seeing as it usually takes me about 30 to get ready and leave the house, much less get to class.
Then Thursday was my second Linear Algebra midterm. I was really nervous, and really my whole week had been in anticipation of it so once it was done it felt like the weekend :] Walking back to Aldersgate, I talked with Jonathan so that was cool, it was nice to actually talk with him again.
Friday I had originally planned on going rock climbing with Wesley people, but I was feeling nauseous (since the previous day) and I felt that climbing up things would not help my situation at all. So Seth and I hung out that evening - we had some french toast and tea for dinner before he rented Skyrim and I watched him play. That game is so cool! Catherine and Ben were with us as well for some of it, and we all decided that the area Seth was in was one of the creepiest places we'd ever seen. We stayed up pretty late, Kyle joined us after his Christmas Show rehearsal. We were all up until about 2 before we decided that we should probably go to sleep seeing as how Seth and I had to get up to winterize Aldersgate and Kyle ad a President's Council thing to go to in the morning.
We got the leaves all raked up and cleaned the gutters - and some of those gutters had turned into planters with all the leaves that had been there, there were plants growing in some of them.
Then it was time for football :D Thankfully it didn't rain - I probably wouldn't've stayed for the whole game if it had started.
And what a mediocre game. There were some good plays, but what really ticked me off was how, on our last play, Marve tried to get the touchdown rather than just running out of bounds - thus stopping the clock and setting up a first and goal on the 1 yard line. Instead, he fumbled it and it went to Iowa.
Andrew, Ben and I were venting about that the entire way to Andrew's parents' tailgating. It was nice to sit and talk for a while after the game.
After that, a few of us Wesley sophomores got together for dinner and bonding. We went out to a Mexican restaraunt and then back to Aldersgate for a game. However, a bunch of guys were in the house planning for the Thanksgiving dinner the following night, so they made the four girls walk somewhere else so they could take their things over to Wesley to get it all set up. Once we were allowed inside, we got a game of Taboo going. I think the numerous games of Buckets with my family helped me - I was prett good at describing the things and guessing what others were trying to say :] That was a lot of fun, it was nice hanging with all of those guys.
We split up after the game was done, the guys going to Wesley to help set up and the girls went to Shilpa's apartment to plan for the Christmas dinner. The men and women of Wesley (MOW and WOW) switch off every year preparing a themed dinner for Thanksgiving and Christmas. The men had Thanksgiving this year, and the women have Christmas. I'm really excited for our dinner, we've got a pretty cool theme :D
After the planning session, I went back to Aldersgate and realized that my voice was dying, it's the first time I've lost my voice from a football game :] I watched some of the late college games with Kyle for a bit, then we were both tired enough that we just went to sleep at like midnight.
Of course, I was lying in my bed half asleep three hours later wondering why my nose felt so weird. I went to rub it, then saw the blood and was suddenly wide awake. My bathroom is down a flight of stairs, and I'm so glad that I forgot to turn the light off when I went to sleep because I swear those stairs are going to be the death of me. I got my nose to stop, then saw how bloody my hand and shirt were. Then I went to check on my sheets and there was blood there too. So I couldn't just go back to sleep, annoyingly. I got my shirt and sheets changed, and as I was putting the new sheets on, Ben, Pat and Seth walk up and were surprised to see that I was still awake. I told them that I actually had been asleep, but woke back up and Seth commented that it sounded like I'd just woken up since my voice was about an octave deeper than normal - it had gotten worse from the three hours before.
Finally, at about 4, I fell back asleep and when I woke up at 8.30, I decided to go back to sleep since I had to deal with that :]
During the day, Andrew was getting the food ready and the whole house smelled like pumpkin pie - it was great :]
I played violin with the praise band during service yesterday, so that was fun. Then it was time for the MOW dinner.
Ben sat up at the front of the Great Hall and read us a story (from a dictionary :] ). The first one was about knights, and there was supposed to be people coming in from the side door, only it was locked :D That was pretty much hilarious. Then he said that was the wrong story, and instead owls (of which Pat made an awesome one :D ) flew in and delivered Hogwarts letters to us all :]
We indicated what we wanted to eat, and then Hagrid (Matt Rogers, my Winterization Supplies partner) took us all to be Sorted. I was in Gryffindor :] (which told me that they just randomly assigned us houses - I'm so not a Gryffindor :] ). After the Sorting, we went to a class. The one I went to was Divination, others went to Potions. Our class was really funny, Christian and Pat were trying to avoid ad libing and passing it off on the other :D Then it was time to eat. They had tables for each House and the area looked really spiffy - there were lights on the ceiling. They also sang Do You Believe in Magic? to us :D It was super fun, and Andrew's pumpkin pie was really yummy :]
The praise band for next week practiced after the dinner, since it's Thanksgiving and we won't really have time to practice otherwise. I'm playing violin and bass - two on one and two on the other. So for one song, I might have to sling the bass around to by back and play violin since I won't have all that much time in the transition. Should be interesting. I'm also going to play with Shilpa for hymn of the week.
When I got back to Aldersgate, I joined Pat and Kyle watching the Purdue basketball game. Once the Eagles game started, we were switching back and forth between the two. However, once Purdue decided to suck it up, it turned into a fight between Pat and Kyle - Kyle wanted to change the channel and Pat wanted to watch the end of the game (I have no idea why - it was disgusting).
It turned into a party in the second floor common room. It started with Kyle, Pat and me, then Ben joined us, Matt Milligan and Hannah came down from the third floor (they're dating), Seth came up to wait to use the xbox (he hadn't known I was an Eagles fan before, so he was wondering who I was cheering for), Andrew was there once he was done at Wesley and Michael came up to hang for a bit as well. It was pretty fun with everyone there :]
And it was even better because the Eagles won! Woo! Once the game was over, it was just Seth, Kyle, Ben and me in the room and Seth ook over to play some more Skyrim. Kyle and I were attempting to do homework, it went marginally well. I had Spanish class at 7.30 first semester last year, and I thought that was hard until I was trying to watch a video and write a review about it in Spanish at 1.30 in the morning O.o I was up until 2 again this morning, and the others were even up after me.
Though, staying up until 2 may or may not have been the best life choice I've ever made, seeing as how I had an 8.30 this morning, as well as a bunch of homework. (It was worth it, though :D ) I got up in time for class, though, so that was good.
Then Stat was a short class, so I just went to a lab to get the homework started. I got everything I needed to do on the computer done in my time between Stat and Spanish, including my Accounting homework, and I aslo got the Spanish book work done. That was a nice feeling :]
After Spanish, I went to Wesley to finish my Stat homework and I got back to my room at about 2, discovering on my way up that my Gungor CD arrived :D
And now it is 4.30 and I still have not packed at all for this weekend. I'm driving home right after orchestra, so that means I've got about an hour to pack and wash my dishes (I really don't want to just have them sit over the weekend) and eat dinner. I'm not a procrastinator, I'll just do it later.
Peace.
-Carly B
Wednesdays I have classes 8.30-9.20 and then 9.30-10.20, so when I woke up at 9.24 on Wednesday it was the first time I'd unintentionally slept through a class. At first, my brain thought it was Thursday, when my first class is at 10.30, so I just thought that I'd have to get up and get going pretty quickly. Then I woke up further and remembered that I had a statistics lab in 6 minutes. I was only 10 min late, though, a feat which I am rather proud of, seeing as it usually takes me about 30 to get ready and leave the house, much less get to class.
Then Thursday was my second Linear Algebra midterm. I was really nervous, and really my whole week had been in anticipation of it so once it was done it felt like the weekend :] Walking back to Aldersgate, I talked with Jonathan so that was cool, it was nice to actually talk with him again.
Friday I had originally planned on going rock climbing with Wesley people, but I was feeling nauseous (since the previous day) and I felt that climbing up things would not help my situation at all. So Seth and I hung out that evening - we had some french toast and tea for dinner before he rented Skyrim and I watched him play. That game is so cool! Catherine and Ben were with us as well for some of it, and we all decided that the area Seth was in was one of the creepiest places we'd ever seen. We stayed up pretty late, Kyle joined us after his Christmas Show rehearsal. We were all up until about 2 before we decided that we should probably go to sleep seeing as how Seth and I had to get up to winterize Aldersgate and Kyle ad a President's Council thing to go to in the morning.
We got the leaves all raked up and cleaned the gutters - and some of those gutters had turned into planters with all the leaves that had been there, there were plants growing in some of them.
Then it was time for football :D Thankfully it didn't rain - I probably wouldn't've stayed for the whole game if it had started.
And what a mediocre game. There were some good plays, but what really ticked me off was how, on our last play, Marve tried to get the touchdown rather than just running out of bounds - thus stopping the clock and setting up a first and goal on the 1 yard line. Instead, he fumbled it and it went to Iowa.
Andrew, Ben and I were venting about that the entire way to Andrew's parents' tailgating. It was nice to sit and talk for a while after the game.
After that, a few of us Wesley sophomores got together for dinner and bonding. We went out to a Mexican restaraunt and then back to Aldersgate for a game. However, a bunch of guys were in the house planning for the Thanksgiving dinner the following night, so they made the four girls walk somewhere else so they could take their things over to Wesley to get it all set up. Once we were allowed inside, we got a game of Taboo going. I think the numerous games of Buckets with my family helped me - I was prett good at describing the things and guessing what others were trying to say :] That was a lot of fun, it was nice hanging with all of those guys.
We split up after the game was done, the guys going to Wesley to help set up and the girls went to Shilpa's apartment to plan for the Christmas dinner. The men and women of Wesley (MOW and WOW) switch off every year preparing a themed dinner for Thanksgiving and Christmas. The men had Thanksgiving this year, and the women have Christmas. I'm really excited for our dinner, we've got a pretty cool theme :D
After the planning session, I went back to Aldersgate and realized that my voice was dying, it's the first time I've lost my voice from a football game :] I watched some of the late college games with Kyle for a bit, then we were both tired enough that we just went to sleep at like midnight.
Of course, I was lying in my bed half asleep three hours later wondering why my nose felt so weird. I went to rub it, then saw the blood and was suddenly wide awake. My bathroom is down a flight of stairs, and I'm so glad that I forgot to turn the light off when I went to sleep because I swear those stairs are going to be the death of me. I got my nose to stop, then saw how bloody my hand and shirt were. Then I went to check on my sheets and there was blood there too. So I couldn't just go back to sleep, annoyingly. I got my shirt and sheets changed, and as I was putting the new sheets on, Ben, Pat and Seth walk up and were surprised to see that I was still awake. I told them that I actually had been asleep, but woke back up and Seth commented that it sounded like I'd just woken up since my voice was about an octave deeper than normal - it had gotten worse from the three hours before.
Finally, at about 4, I fell back asleep and when I woke up at 8.30, I decided to go back to sleep since I had to deal with that :]
During the day, Andrew was getting the food ready and the whole house smelled like pumpkin pie - it was great :]
I played violin with the praise band during service yesterday, so that was fun. Then it was time for the MOW dinner.
Ben sat up at the front of the Great Hall and read us a story (from a dictionary :] ). The first one was about knights, and there was supposed to be people coming in from the side door, only it was locked :D That was pretty much hilarious. Then he said that was the wrong story, and instead owls (of which Pat made an awesome one :D ) flew in and delivered Hogwarts letters to us all :]
We indicated what we wanted to eat, and then Hagrid (Matt Rogers, my Winterization Supplies partner) took us all to be Sorted. I was in Gryffindor :] (which told me that they just randomly assigned us houses - I'm so not a Gryffindor :] ). After the Sorting, we went to a class. The one I went to was Divination, others went to Potions. Our class was really funny, Christian and Pat were trying to avoid ad libing and passing it off on the other :D Then it was time to eat. They had tables for each House and the area looked really spiffy - there were lights on the ceiling. They also sang Do You Believe in Magic? to us :D It was super fun, and Andrew's pumpkin pie was really yummy :]
The praise band for next week practiced after the dinner, since it's Thanksgiving and we won't really have time to practice otherwise. I'm playing violin and bass - two on one and two on the other. So for one song, I might have to sling the bass around to by back and play violin since I won't have all that much time in the transition. Should be interesting. I'm also going to play with Shilpa for hymn of the week.
When I got back to Aldersgate, I joined Pat and Kyle watching the Purdue basketball game. Once the Eagles game started, we were switching back and forth between the two. However, once Purdue decided to suck it up, it turned into a fight between Pat and Kyle - Kyle wanted to change the channel and Pat wanted to watch the end of the game (I have no idea why - it was disgusting).
It turned into a party in the second floor common room. It started with Kyle, Pat and me, then Ben joined us, Matt Milligan and Hannah came down from the third floor (they're dating), Seth came up to wait to use the xbox (he hadn't known I was an Eagles fan before, so he was wondering who I was cheering for), Andrew was there once he was done at Wesley and Michael came up to hang for a bit as well. It was pretty fun with everyone there :]
And it was even better because the Eagles won! Woo! Once the game was over, it was just Seth, Kyle, Ben and me in the room and Seth ook over to play some more Skyrim. Kyle and I were attempting to do homework, it went marginally well. I had Spanish class at 7.30 first semester last year, and I thought that was hard until I was trying to watch a video and write a review about it in Spanish at 1.30 in the morning O.o I was up until 2 again this morning, and the others were even up after me.
Though, staying up until 2 may or may not have been the best life choice I've ever made, seeing as how I had an 8.30 this morning, as well as a bunch of homework. (It was worth it, though :D ) I got up in time for class, though, so that was good.
Then Stat was a short class, so I just went to a lab to get the homework started. I got everything I needed to do on the computer done in my time between Stat and Spanish, including my Accounting homework, and I aslo got the Spanish book work done. That was a nice feeling :]
After Spanish, I went to Wesley to finish my Stat homework and I got back to my room at about 2, discovering on my way up that my Gungor CD arrived :D
And now it is 4.30 and I still have not packed at all for this weekend. I'm driving home right after orchestra, so that means I've got about an hour to pack and wash my dishes (I really don't want to just have them sit over the weekend) and eat dinner. I'm not a procrastinator, I'll just do it later.
Peace.
-Carly B
Monday, November 14, 2011
How can you tell a extroverted engineer fron an introverted? When He's talking, he looks at your feet instead of his.
(Courtesy of Jake Ohlemiller, Recovering Engineer.)
So on Tuesday I went to Barnes and Noble to get Inheritance - the last book in the Eragon series (finally! :] ). The store opened at 9 in the morning, and when I got there at 9.15 the rack of books was already half empty... :] I was good too - I went to the checkout with only the one book I'd planned to buy :D The man that checked me out was nice too - he said that a bunch of people had come for those books and he asked if I knew how many pages it was. I didn't but I said that it was nice and thick, which I was excited about. He laughed and said 'So you won't be done at 10, it'll be more like 11.30' and I laughed as well.
Thursday I had to pack for class the next day as well as the weekend, so that was fun.
Then it was time for the weekend. Friday between classes I had a meeting with my advisor and I'm officially a Mathmatical Statistics and Mathemetics double major with a minor in Spanish.
Jake, Liz and I were at Wesley at 12.30, the time we'd planned to meet, and we were just waiting for Julia. Who, I'd like to point out, didn't have a class ending at 12.20 like Liz and I :] Once we were all there, we decided to get on the road and stop for lunch in Crawfordsville - about an hour away. As we were driving through, we didn't see very much until the edge of town - there was a gas station that had pizza (it reminded me of Kauai :] ) and it was actually really good pizza. Our next stop was at a rest stop near U of I - Jake just wanted to move his wallet but there was a playground so Liz, Julia and I all went over there and he joined us. There was a tire swing - that was fun :D
As we got closer to St Louis, Liz's excitement grew - she was really excited that she might be able to see the Arch. So then we could actually see it in the distance and she was taking pictures left and right. As we got closer, she realised that our hotel is right next to it and hoped that she would have a view from her room. When we checked in, Julia and I were rooming and Jake was in the room right next to ours, but Liz was 15 rooms down - which is funny because Liz, Julia and I requested to have rooms near each other and Jake didn't have a housing request at first, he was going to stay with his family. However, Liz did in fact wind up with the Arch room, so I was happy for her :]
Later on that night, we were waiting to go into worship when I saw a guy with a shirt that said 'Do or do not... There is no try' and I complimented him on it :] He said thanks and stayed to talk for a bit since he was there by himself - his name's Jonathan and he's from Tennessee. We all clicked pretty well - we wound up hanging through the whole weekend. That was pretty cool - he was a great guy.
That night we got to hear Rev Adam Hamilton speak - Liz and Jake were fangirling and Julia and I understood why, he was good. After, there were small groups and then Jake left to see his family and the rest of us were all tired (we were still on Eastern time) so we crashed.
Saturday was a pretty packed day. I wanted to be the cool kid and wear my John Wesley credo shirt that I got from Manos Juntas in Mexico - it was in Spanish :] We had breakfast together and went to worship and small groups, then the workshops started up. My first workshop was Music in Ministry - basically what I really want to do. That was really cool to go to - and I got some ideas for books that I want to read.
After that first workshop I got to go out to lunch with Aunt Kelly, Uncle Mark, Melissa and McKayla :D That was fun, it was great to see them again. We went to this nice little Mexican restaraunt that Melissa knew about (since she lived in that area) and I had some delicious vegetarian fajitas :] I also got to go see Melissa's new place, and the new puppy :]
When I went back to the conference, the last workshop I did was with Liz - we did a leadership styles analysis. I scored even in two of the three categories (Spiritual Shepherd and Systems/Task Organizer) and Liz scored high in the Vision Crier (the one I got zero in) so I said that together we'd make the perfect leader :D
We had been all split up during the workshops and lunch, so it was kinda funny when we all happened to meet up again in the room to eat dinner. That night we were eating with Jonathan again and we had a really good conversation - he's really passionate about what he does and that was cool to see. He's also slightly manic, so that was fun as well :D After dinner was worship - and the Saturday night worships of weekend events like these are almost always the most emotional one, so that was fun. Small groups after that was really neat, though, my small group was pretty cool.
And then this morning we had breakfast in our small groups. I was wearing a Virginia Tech shirt (there were other people from Tech, but I never really got to meet them) and that confused some of the people in my group since I'd introduced myself as being from Purdue previously.
We had a closing worship and then it was off to get gas and then get on the highway.
That is, we drove in circles around downtown St Louis trying to find a gas station, only to find one that was cheaper and right next to the on-ramp after we'd filled the tank. Go team :D We got a nice little tour of St Louis though...
We weren't overly hungry, so we didn't stop to eat lunch for a while. We found this little Indian crafts store and ate our boxed lunches there and looked around. We killed a half hour and had no hopes of getting back in time for the COM meeting (Council On Ministries - Wesley's leadership team) so when we were in time it was nice. I'm not in COM, so I went to the kitchen to get some food and I was going to start looking up classes for registering tomorrow (the hotel didn't have free wi-fi in the rooms, I'd planned on doing it there) when Glen came down looking for someone and informed me that they were going to be talking about the weekend fairly soon so I should join them. I did, and they were still going through nominations for this semester's election. When it got to Vice President, Shilpa said that she'd be stepping down and nominated Erica and me. I said 'So I shouldn't've come up here, thanks Glen,' but Julia pointed out that Shilpa probably would've nominated me anyway, so at least this way I had a heads up.
And now it's midnight, so much for being in bed by now. Yay for 8.30 class tomorrow morning! O.o
Night.
-Carly B
So on Tuesday I went to Barnes and Noble to get Inheritance - the last book in the Eragon series (finally! :] ). The store opened at 9 in the morning, and when I got there at 9.15 the rack of books was already half empty... :] I was good too - I went to the checkout with only the one book I'd planned to buy :D The man that checked me out was nice too - he said that a bunch of people had come for those books and he asked if I knew how many pages it was. I didn't but I said that it was nice and thick, which I was excited about. He laughed and said 'So you won't be done at 10, it'll be more like 11.30' and I laughed as well.
Thursday I had to pack for class the next day as well as the weekend, so that was fun.
Then it was time for the weekend. Friday between classes I had a meeting with my advisor and I'm officially a Mathmatical Statistics and Mathemetics double major with a minor in Spanish.
Jake, Liz and I were at Wesley at 12.30, the time we'd planned to meet, and we were just waiting for Julia. Who, I'd like to point out, didn't have a class ending at 12.20 like Liz and I :] Once we were all there, we decided to get on the road and stop for lunch in Crawfordsville - about an hour away. As we were driving through, we didn't see very much until the edge of town - there was a gas station that had pizza (it reminded me of Kauai :] ) and it was actually really good pizza. Our next stop was at a rest stop near U of I - Jake just wanted to move his wallet but there was a playground so Liz, Julia and I all went over there and he joined us. There was a tire swing - that was fun :D
As we got closer to St Louis, Liz's excitement grew - she was really excited that she might be able to see the Arch. So then we could actually see it in the distance and she was taking pictures left and right. As we got closer, she realised that our hotel is right next to it and hoped that she would have a view from her room. When we checked in, Julia and I were rooming and Jake was in the room right next to ours, but Liz was 15 rooms down - which is funny because Liz, Julia and I requested to have rooms near each other and Jake didn't have a housing request at first, he was going to stay with his family. However, Liz did in fact wind up with the Arch room, so I was happy for her :]
Later on that night, we were waiting to go into worship when I saw a guy with a shirt that said 'Do or do not... There is no try' and I complimented him on it :] He said thanks and stayed to talk for a bit since he was there by himself - his name's Jonathan and he's from Tennessee. We all clicked pretty well - we wound up hanging through the whole weekend. That was pretty cool - he was a great guy.
That night we got to hear Rev Adam Hamilton speak - Liz and Jake were fangirling and Julia and I understood why, he was good. After, there were small groups and then Jake left to see his family and the rest of us were all tired (we were still on Eastern time) so we crashed.
Saturday was a pretty packed day. I wanted to be the cool kid and wear my John Wesley credo shirt that I got from Manos Juntas in Mexico - it was in Spanish :] We had breakfast together and went to worship and small groups, then the workshops started up. My first workshop was Music in Ministry - basically what I really want to do. That was really cool to go to - and I got some ideas for books that I want to read.
After that first workshop I got to go out to lunch with Aunt Kelly, Uncle Mark, Melissa and McKayla :D That was fun, it was great to see them again. We went to this nice little Mexican restaraunt that Melissa knew about (since she lived in that area) and I had some delicious vegetarian fajitas :] I also got to go see Melissa's new place, and the new puppy :]
When I went back to the conference, the last workshop I did was with Liz - we did a leadership styles analysis. I scored even in two of the three categories (Spiritual Shepherd and Systems/Task Organizer) and Liz scored high in the Vision Crier (the one I got zero in) so I said that together we'd make the perfect leader :D
We had been all split up during the workshops and lunch, so it was kinda funny when we all happened to meet up again in the room to eat dinner. That night we were eating with Jonathan again and we had a really good conversation - he's really passionate about what he does and that was cool to see. He's also slightly manic, so that was fun as well :D After dinner was worship - and the Saturday night worships of weekend events like these are almost always the most emotional one, so that was fun. Small groups after that was really neat, though, my small group was pretty cool.
And then this morning we had breakfast in our small groups. I was wearing a Virginia Tech shirt (there were other people from Tech, but I never really got to meet them) and that confused some of the people in my group since I'd introduced myself as being from Purdue previously.
We had a closing worship and then it was off to get gas and then get on the highway.
That is, we drove in circles around downtown St Louis trying to find a gas station, only to find one that was cheaper and right next to the on-ramp after we'd filled the tank. Go team :D We got a nice little tour of St Louis though...
We weren't overly hungry, so we didn't stop to eat lunch for a while. We found this little Indian crafts store and ate our boxed lunches there and looked around. We killed a half hour and had no hopes of getting back in time for the COM meeting (Council On Ministries - Wesley's leadership team) so when we were in time it was nice. I'm not in COM, so I went to the kitchen to get some food and I was going to start looking up classes for registering tomorrow (the hotel didn't have free wi-fi in the rooms, I'd planned on doing it there) when Glen came down looking for someone and informed me that they were going to be talking about the weekend fairly soon so I should join them. I did, and they were still going through nominations for this semester's election. When it got to Vice President, Shilpa said that she'd be stepping down and nominated Erica and me. I said 'So I shouldn't've come up here, thanks Glen,' but Julia pointed out that Shilpa probably would've nominated me anyway, so at least this way I had a heads up.
And now it's midnight, so much for being in bed by now. Yay for 8.30 class tomorrow morning! O.o
Night.
-Carly B
Sunday, November 6, 2011
A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having.
Well, it's been an interesting week.
I had tests on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, annoyingly. However, they were for Statistics, Spanish and Accounting, so it wasn't too bad. And with the Accounting one, I actually felt more confident on more problems than I had expected to feel confident on, so that was nice.
Then Winterization took over. After my accounting final on Thursday, I went over to Wesley to sort and count supplies. The others had gotten everything sorted by groups by the time I got there, but I had to go around and count how many things each group had so that I knew what they should be checking back in on Saturday. (By the way, our rake count is up to 260.) After counting and recording everything (plus rearranging things for another group that was made) I helped some of the mapping folks at First Church with copying and putting driver packets all together. That was fun, and we were there till midnight, then Pastor Glen and I stayed a little later at Wesley to figure out why there were extra house sheets left over once everything was put together. We got things sorted and agreed to meet up to finish it at 12.30, after my last class (and less than 12 hours later...).
Friday, Glen and I got everything worked out and then we had another prep at St Thom's - St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, they let us use their building since 556 people would never fit in Wesley all at once - and I joined the registration group, my other task for the weekend. We actually finished fairly early, then a bunch of us in A-gate got a game of Bang! going. Our first one went really quickly, so we started another when more people came over after a SAG meeting. The toughest position in the game is the renegade - basically, you want to be the last one alive at the end, and you want the last person you kill to be the sheriff. And that's what I was for that second game, and I won! It was pretty exciting - I've never actually won before.
So, on Saturday morning, I set three alarms with a snooze of 3 minutes each - basically, starting at 5.12 there wouold be an alarm going off every minute, I wanted to shower and have time to fully wake up before going over to Wesley by 6.30.
So, when Stephanie called me at 6.38, I was pressing buttons on my phone, trying to figure out why the alarm wouldn't turn off when I realized that Hula Girl at Heart was playing - my ringtone. I managed to either sleep through a half hour of alarms every minute, or I turned them off in my sleep. Swearing slightly, I jumped up and went to check on Kyle - that's what Stephanie had called about, evidently he had overslept as well. We were both ready in about 2 minutes and went on over. Luckily, we were there by 6.48 - still on time based on Wesley time. Things went pretty smoothly from there, the only thing that made me want to freak was when 2 groups said they didn't have supplies waiting for them. I knew they did, so I went down to see what had happened. Well, another group's stuff was still there and they had already left so we just gave that pile to once of the groups. Then the other group said that apparently their other half had already collected the stuff.
I helped set up the eating area for a little bit until I had to set up where Shilpa and I would be working at checking people back in. I brought my phone so that there wouldn't be just one phone for Shilpa to use as the home base, and it was pretty funny to watch her juggle three calls (2 on her phone and one on mine) at one point :] And I decided that I was the self-proclaimed Supplies Queen of the day - I had the master list and was checking in supplies and then organizing where everything was going to be put away. It was a fun day, even though it was super long.
And that wasn't even the end of my day. It was the fifth of November yesterday, Guy Fawkes Day. I got together with some people from orchestra and we went to a Chinese restaurant for dinner and then over to a house to watch V for Vendetta, an excellent movie :] I was incredibly tired and almost fell asleep multiple times during the movie, but it's one of my favorites so I managed to stay awake the entire time.
This morning I woke up at 9.30, thinking that I had slept in nicely before I remembered that it was Daylight Savings last night, which meant that it was actually 8.30. I decided to just curl up on a couch downstairs and read. I had to make a grocery store run, and after that I went to Wesley to play with the Praise Band. I was originally going to play the bass, but at practice on Friday I said that, considering that the songs we were playing were slower, more mellow, I thought bass wouldn't sound the best, so I played violin. I had a mic set right up next to my violin while I was playing and Dale had that mic cranked all the way up, but people said that it sounded good so I guess it worked :] I also got to exercise my improvisation skills - I've had a rather sheet music-based musical education, so I'm not entirely comfortable improvising parts. But, like I said, people liked it. And Jake helped me out beforehand, so that was good.
After dinner, we had our first Bikers For Jesus meeting of the year. We decided that it's either going to be the first week after graduation in May or the week before BGR in August. Unfortunately, the August week is also going to be the Boundry Waters canoe trip, so if they wind up overlapping, I'm going to have to choose. Our location choices are exciting - if it's in May we'll either go from here to Nashville, here to Appalacia, or along the Gulf Coast. Or, if it's in Auguat, we'll either go from here(ish) to Niagara Falls, around Door County in Wisconsin, or drive to Niagara falls and bike a trail to Toronto. I'm excited for any of them :D
After Wesley, I watched the first half of the Steelers v. Ravens game - it's pretty funny when Kyle and Ben are playing each other in the fantasy league and they both have players in the game :] And it's a close matchup between them too.
One good thing about having a bunch of tests last week is that I don't have any homework due tomorrow :D
Night.
-Carly
(who already has trouble staying awake in my 8.30 accounting class, much less with the sleep deprivation I've got going on right now. Tomorrow morning should be just so much fun...)
I had tests on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, annoyingly. However, they were for Statistics, Spanish and Accounting, so it wasn't too bad. And with the Accounting one, I actually felt more confident on more problems than I had expected to feel confident on, so that was nice.
Then Winterization took over. After my accounting final on Thursday, I went over to Wesley to sort and count supplies. The others had gotten everything sorted by groups by the time I got there, but I had to go around and count how many things each group had so that I knew what they should be checking back in on Saturday. (By the way, our rake count is up to 260.) After counting and recording everything (plus rearranging things for another group that was made) I helped some of the mapping folks at First Church with copying and putting driver packets all together. That was fun, and we were there till midnight, then Pastor Glen and I stayed a little later at Wesley to figure out why there were extra house sheets left over once everything was put together. We got things sorted and agreed to meet up to finish it at 12.30, after my last class (and less than 12 hours later...).
Friday, Glen and I got everything worked out and then we had another prep at St Thom's - St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, they let us use their building since 556 people would never fit in Wesley all at once - and I joined the registration group, my other task for the weekend. We actually finished fairly early, then a bunch of us in A-gate got a game of Bang! going. Our first one went really quickly, so we started another when more people came over after a SAG meeting. The toughest position in the game is the renegade - basically, you want to be the last one alive at the end, and you want the last person you kill to be the sheriff. And that's what I was for that second game, and I won! It was pretty exciting - I've never actually won before.
So, on Saturday morning, I set three alarms with a snooze of 3 minutes each - basically, starting at 5.12 there wouold be an alarm going off every minute, I wanted to shower and have time to fully wake up before going over to Wesley by 6.30.
So, when Stephanie called me at 6.38, I was pressing buttons on my phone, trying to figure out why the alarm wouldn't turn off when I realized that Hula Girl at Heart was playing - my ringtone. I managed to either sleep through a half hour of alarms every minute, or I turned them off in my sleep. Swearing slightly, I jumped up and went to check on Kyle - that's what Stephanie had called about, evidently he had overslept as well. We were both ready in about 2 minutes and went on over. Luckily, we were there by 6.48 - still on time based on Wesley time. Things went pretty smoothly from there, the only thing that made me want to freak was when 2 groups said they didn't have supplies waiting for them. I knew they did, so I went down to see what had happened. Well, another group's stuff was still there and they had already left so we just gave that pile to once of the groups. Then the other group said that apparently their other half had already collected the stuff.
I helped set up the eating area for a little bit until I had to set up where Shilpa and I would be working at checking people back in. I brought my phone so that there wouldn't be just one phone for Shilpa to use as the home base, and it was pretty funny to watch her juggle three calls (2 on her phone and one on mine) at one point :] And I decided that I was the self-proclaimed Supplies Queen of the day - I had the master list and was checking in supplies and then organizing where everything was going to be put away. It was a fun day, even though it was super long.
And that wasn't even the end of my day. It was the fifth of November yesterday, Guy Fawkes Day. I got together with some people from orchestra and we went to a Chinese restaurant for dinner and then over to a house to watch V for Vendetta, an excellent movie :] I was incredibly tired and almost fell asleep multiple times during the movie, but it's one of my favorites so I managed to stay awake the entire time.
This morning I woke up at 9.30, thinking that I had slept in nicely before I remembered that it was Daylight Savings last night, which meant that it was actually 8.30. I decided to just curl up on a couch downstairs and read. I had to make a grocery store run, and after that I went to Wesley to play with the Praise Band. I was originally going to play the bass, but at practice on Friday I said that, considering that the songs we were playing were slower, more mellow, I thought bass wouldn't sound the best, so I played violin. I had a mic set right up next to my violin while I was playing and Dale had that mic cranked all the way up, but people said that it sounded good so I guess it worked :] I also got to exercise my improvisation skills - I've had a rather sheet music-based musical education, so I'm not entirely comfortable improvising parts. But, like I said, people liked it. And Jake helped me out beforehand, so that was good.
After dinner, we had our first Bikers For Jesus meeting of the year. We decided that it's either going to be the first week after graduation in May or the week before BGR in August. Unfortunately, the August week is also going to be the Boundry Waters canoe trip, so if they wind up overlapping, I'm going to have to choose. Our location choices are exciting - if it's in May we'll either go from here to Nashville, here to Appalacia, or along the Gulf Coast. Or, if it's in Auguat, we'll either go from here(ish) to Niagara Falls, around Door County in Wisconsin, or drive to Niagara falls and bike a trail to Toronto. I'm excited for any of them :D
After Wesley, I watched the first half of the Steelers v. Ravens game - it's pretty funny when Kyle and Ben are playing each other in the fantasy league and they both have players in the game :] And it's a close matchup between them too.
One good thing about having a bunch of tests last week is that I don't have any homework due tomorrow :D
Night.
-Carly
(who already has trouble staying awake in my 8.30 accounting class, much less with the sleep deprivation I've got going on right now. Tomorrow morning should be just so much fun...)
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