-Ryan Hossler, regarding Sunday's games. I enjoyed it :D
This week has been an annoyingly long week, it's good to finally be home again.
Monday was entirely consumed by Linear Algebra O.o I went to Wesley in the morning and studied until 6.30, when I left to take the exam. Relatively early on in the day, I was starting to freak out but a friend called me - he had said that he would sometime over the weekend to help me calm down, and felt like he should at that specific time time :] It was really nice though - Seth was there for most of the day and he helped me not to freak out too badly as the test got closer and closer :]
Tuesday I got up and went to brunch right before my Stat final. Which was a lot easier than I had anticipated - I finished in about 45 min. That was good though, because Kyle was having a Lord of the Rings marathon in the Wesley basement and I wanted to watch :] I was managing to study for a bit, then my back started hurting (I was sitting in a plastic chair - more comfortable than a folding chair, but not for the 11+ hours of the movies). So I switched to a more comfortable chair and it was game over. I didn't even get up to eat dinner - oops :] We finished the movies right at 9.15pm (they were started at 10.30am or so - it was the extended editions), just in time for Tuesday evening sommunion to start. Kyle, Julia and I were the last ones downstairs, waiting for the final fade to black. We wound up running up the stairs to join everyone else and had to sit in some chairs behind the circle :D
Wednesday was another brunch - this time at the Baptist Student Foundation - a bunch of those students are friends with Wesley people. Then it was time to study for my accounting exam - it was at 3.20 and I wasn't sure how it was going to go as I walked in. However, I felt more confident on more of the questions than I had expected, so that was nice :]
Neither Seth nor I had an exam the next day, so wht do you suppose we did that night? ;D Yay Skyrim :]
There was another Wesley brunch on Thursday. After, three of the four COM exec members were there so we had a mini meeting, just going over some general things.
That day, I decided to do nothing - not worry about the final the next day or the previous three, so I read and watched Skyrim all day :D It was a most excellent day - aside from the headache that developed. Yay for Target brand Aleve :D
Friday I got sucked into the 'I've got all this time to study, and I really don't want to... or need to...' mindset, so I mostly read that day as well. The exam was for Spanish, and I feel like I did pretty well. Unfortunately, it wasn't until 7 at night so I had all day to think about studying as I read my book.
One nice thing about college is all the crazy stuff that goes on :D In my macro class last year, Gumbi walked in during the middle of a lecture. People have had Darth Vader walk through lecytures without the professor realising. And, during my Spanish final, a gorilla chased a banana in the front of the lecture hall and out the back. It was hilarious :D
After the final, I went to the Robyne's house - they were having an open house of sorts for Wesley people. We were hanging for a while before having a White Elephant gift exchange. Julia, Matt and I didn't bring presents so we were a team :] The best present of the night was Jake's - it was the apple, mustard and mayonnaise in the lunch box from Exploration - back in mid November. I was sitting with Julia, and we were cracking up when someone opened it :D Then some people had to leave, so Seth, Dale, Matt and I played Hearts. And boy did I suck. I must have gooten the bloody Queen of Spades 7 of the first 10 rounds O.o Eventually, it started evening out, but not before I informed the three of them that we were no longer friends. They got nicer after that ;]
Saturday the sophomores had a spontaneous lunch gathering before everyone left. It was pretty nice :] We all dispersed around noon, so that's when I started my trek home.
And I got stuck in traffic again O.o This time it was at miles 215-222 (for perspective, I get on the interstate at mile 178). That was annoying, especially when the entire block of traffic seemed to suddenly start moving again. But I had my Christmas music playing and some peanut butter cookies from Colleen, so it wasn't too bad :D I made it home in pretty good time, and got to help my mom start the mass amounts of cookies that we make every Christmas :]
Today we got up relatively early to go to tea at the Drake Hotel downtown with Nicole and Mrs Cihock :D That was super fun, it's great to hang with the girls.
We got back in time to watch some football :] However, we also discovered that the league seemed to have rolled over and everyhing got shaken around. The Packers lost, the Colts won, and the Eagles are 'In the Hunt' for a playoff berth (by the way, they're 6-8). I wish I could've seen some of those games.
I had dinner with my family and then went with Nicole to Steven's house for a bit. That was fun, I got to see a bunch of people :D And we've made plans for the week: I'm getting my wisdom teeth removed tomorrow, Mason's getting his taken out on Tuesday and Steven's having surgery on Thursday, so Wednesday night we're going to see the Muppet Movie (only Mason and I will be in a Vicadin-induced state) and then on Friday Steven, Mason and I are going to enjoy the company of other drugged-up friends :D It should be some fun times!
Well, I'm tired so I'm going to sleep. I don't know how often I'm going to update these next weeks - I go to St Louis on the 25th, then Colorado on the 30th and I get back to school on the 7th. So I guess that'll be when I write about Colorado and share stories.
So Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! See y'all in 2012 ;]
Till then,
-Carly B
Monday, December 19, 2011
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Happy Dead Week!
It's the most wonderful week of the year.
Heh, or not O.o
Monday was the beginning, and my day started off with seeing a desk in a tree on my way to my first class. That was fun :]
Tuesday I had my day at Wesley. And I discovered that, while it was nice to not have any homework or projects due this week, I got sucked into the 'I've got time' cycle. I said that I had plenty of time to study - finals didn't start until next week - only I said that until Thursday... Oops :]
At 8 that evening, I was elected vice president of COM while I was in Armstrong (across campus) at a meeting about rushing Kappa Kappa Psi - the band fraternity. Next semester's going to be a fun one O.o :] And multiplle people told me that they had talked about me too in the COM elections, apparently I have brown hair, play the violin, live in Aldersgate, and I'm nice :D
Wednesday morning I woke up to my phone calling my mom. I don't know how I managed to pull that one off - evidently I enjoy pushing buttons on my phone when I'm asleep. Then I was feeling nostalgic and decided to make a video - Beautiful Things. It's one of my favorite songs right now, and I was looking through scenery pictures. All the pictures in the video are taken by me (except, obviously, the one I'm in ;] ) and are from the Alaskan cruise or Great Britain. The unfortunate thing is, I now really want to go back...
I then spent 3 hours in Hicks - actually studying :O Crazy, huh? :] After getting back to the house, at 11, I watched some Phineas and Freb on netflix :D
Thursday I had a meeting with Erica, Shilpa and Heather - the new COM president, the previous VP and previous president respectively - to talk about Wesley and they (Shilpa and Heather) gave us (Erica and me) some pointers :] It was nice to get to hang with them.
We had our last house dinner and afterwards Seth, Payton, Catherine and I went ice skating with Dale and 3 of the Robynes. Catherine and I watched as the others skated, and that was super fun :] Payton was trying to spin, and I got some good video of him spinning and falling down :D
After the rink closed at 9, we all dispersed and the Aldersgate crew went home. I went downstairs and studied with Payton and Seth until Seth discovered cracked.com - none of us got much studying done after that :]
I got Christmas cards for people, and I decided that Friday was a good day to distribute them. I put all the Aldersgate cards in people's mailboxes - so I can tell you who doesn't check their mailboxes every day :]
During the day, I was hanging at Wesley - reading, of course. Seth was there as well - still looking at cracked.com - I had to bat away his hands to exit out so he would do something productive :] At about 3, I left and came back to A-gate to study for a little while before I went to Colleen's. We had dinner and watched Horrible Bosses (I'd seen ads for it all over London, and it was a pretty funny movie :] ).
I went to badminton (for the first time in about 3 months... O.o ) that night and managed to not actually bring my badminton stuff... So I had a nice bike workout instead :]
Seth was playing Skyrim, which is pretty much the story of my nights this week. I watched till 2, apparently he was up till 3.30.
Yesterday I got to sleep in - I woke up at 10.15 :D I also hunkered down - Michael was sittting at the kitchen table and I joined him with my Stat stuff and studied. Andrew joined us as well - we had fun :]
I only took a couple breaks during the day too :D I had to eat and return some books to the library. Then my dinner break expanded into a Skyrim and Starbucks break - Kyle was taking a walk and I joined :]
After Starbucks, I did get some more more studying done before the movie night.
Seth and I had been talking at one point, and we decided that the house should have a movie night to gather together once more before we all split for break. So, I got it set up and we filled the second floor common room watching the Muppet Christmas Carol :D It was really fun. And a few people had seen it before, but they learned last night that Michael Caine was Scrooge :]
After the movie, I had intended to study more, but that wasn't happening. Seth and Michael were thinking along the same lines, so we looked up old school cartoon videos on youtube :]
Then there was more Skyrim :] At 10.30, I said 'I'll just watch and read for about an hour or so'.
So at 3.30, we all went to bed. Seth was saying 'guys, why are we alll still up?' To which Kyle responded 'you play therefore we are.' Seth said 'But, you are, therefore I play.' So I decided 'ok, time to break this terrible cycle' :D
Today I woke up at 10.15 again. I think this is the latest I can sleep in. I went downstairs and Andrew and Michael were at the table again - the circle was back :D Seth even joined us later on. Today was Linear Algebra - as will tomorrow. The final is 7-9 tomorrow night.
I didn't take as many breaks today - my first real one (like not just to stretch or get water) was going to Wesley. And it was weird for me - I didn't have to be there early or do anything during the service or after, it was actually kinda nice. The dinner was delicious - West Point UMC, one of the sister churches for Wesley, made dinner for us. They had a vegetarian spinach lasagna - it was yummy :D
Back in Aldersgate, I finished up what I wanted to geth through in Linear Algebrafor the day :] And quickly developed an awesome tension headache O.o One way of alleviating the pain (I've gotten these before) is holding a cold hand (which my hands are usually cold, so that helps :] ) across my cheek, eye and forehead. Unfortunately, this leaves me with only one hand. Luckily I needed my left hand for my face, so I was still able to do the Linear Algebra work with my right. However, it's considerably harder to type one-handed, so I apologise now for whatever typos or unintelligible words there may be in this post :]
We were watching the Giants v. Cowboys game. Being an Eagles fan, I just wanted the stadium to explode :] Kyle requested that Eli would be allowed to get out first, I granted that :]
However, now Seth is back to Skyrim :D It's a wonderful study break tool :D
Tomorrow starts the finals. Here goes...
-Carly B
Heh, or not O.o
Monday was the beginning, and my day started off with seeing a desk in a tree on my way to my first class. That was fun :]
Tuesday I had my day at Wesley. And I discovered that, while it was nice to not have any homework or projects due this week, I got sucked into the 'I've got time' cycle. I said that I had plenty of time to study - finals didn't start until next week - only I said that until Thursday... Oops :]
At 8 that evening, I was elected vice president of COM while I was in Armstrong (across campus) at a meeting about rushing Kappa Kappa Psi - the band fraternity. Next semester's going to be a fun one O.o :] And multiplle people told me that they had talked about me too in the COM elections, apparently I have brown hair, play the violin, live in Aldersgate, and I'm nice :D
Wednesday morning I woke up to my phone calling my mom. I don't know how I managed to pull that one off - evidently I enjoy pushing buttons on my phone when I'm asleep. Then I was feeling nostalgic and decided to make a video - Beautiful Things. It's one of my favorite songs right now, and I was looking through scenery pictures. All the pictures in the video are taken by me (except, obviously, the one I'm in ;] ) and are from the Alaskan cruise or Great Britain. The unfortunate thing is, I now really want to go back...
I then spent 3 hours in Hicks - actually studying :O Crazy, huh? :] After getting back to the house, at 11, I watched some Phineas and Freb on netflix :D
Thursday I had a meeting with Erica, Shilpa and Heather - the new COM president, the previous VP and previous president respectively - to talk about Wesley and they (Shilpa and Heather) gave us (Erica and me) some pointers :] It was nice to get to hang with them.
We had our last house dinner and afterwards Seth, Payton, Catherine and I went ice skating with Dale and 3 of the Robynes. Catherine and I watched as the others skated, and that was super fun :] Payton was trying to spin, and I got some good video of him spinning and falling down :D
After the rink closed at 9, we all dispersed and the Aldersgate crew went home. I went downstairs and studied with Payton and Seth until Seth discovered cracked.com - none of us got much studying done after that :]
I got Christmas cards for people, and I decided that Friday was a good day to distribute them. I put all the Aldersgate cards in people's mailboxes - so I can tell you who doesn't check their mailboxes every day :]
During the day, I was hanging at Wesley - reading, of course. Seth was there as well - still looking at cracked.com - I had to bat away his hands to exit out so he would do something productive :] At about 3, I left and came back to A-gate to study for a little while before I went to Colleen's. We had dinner and watched Horrible Bosses (I'd seen ads for it all over London, and it was a pretty funny movie :] ).
I went to badminton (for the first time in about 3 months... O.o ) that night and managed to not actually bring my badminton stuff... So I had a nice bike workout instead :]
Seth was playing Skyrim, which is pretty much the story of my nights this week. I watched till 2, apparently he was up till 3.30.
Yesterday I got to sleep in - I woke up at 10.15 :D I also hunkered down - Michael was sittting at the kitchen table and I joined him with my Stat stuff and studied. Andrew joined us as well - we had fun :]
I only took a couple breaks during the day too :D I had to eat and return some books to the library. Then my dinner break expanded into a Skyrim and Starbucks break - Kyle was taking a walk and I joined :]
After Starbucks, I did get some more more studying done before the movie night.
Seth and I had been talking at one point, and we decided that the house should have a movie night to gather together once more before we all split for break. So, I got it set up and we filled the second floor common room watching the Muppet Christmas Carol :D It was really fun. And a few people had seen it before, but they learned last night that Michael Caine was Scrooge :]
After the movie, I had intended to study more, but that wasn't happening. Seth and Michael were thinking along the same lines, so we looked up old school cartoon videos on youtube :]
Then there was more Skyrim :] At 10.30, I said 'I'll just watch and read for about an hour or so'.
So at 3.30, we all went to bed. Seth was saying 'guys, why are we alll still up?' To which Kyle responded 'you play therefore we are.' Seth said 'But, you are, therefore I play.' So I decided 'ok, time to break this terrible cycle' :D
Today I woke up at 10.15 again. I think this is the latest I can sleep in. I went downstairs and Andrew and Michael were at the table again - the circle was back :D Seth even joined us later on. Today was Linear Algebra - as will tomorrow. The final is 7-9 tomorrow night.
I didn't take as many breaks today - my first real one (like not just to stretch or get water) was going to Wesley. And it was weird for me - I didn't have to be there early or do anything during the service or after, it was actually kinda nice. The dinner was delicious - West Point UMC, one of the sister churches for Wesley, made dinner for us. They had a vegetarian spinach lasagna - it was yummy :D
Back in Aldersgate, I finished up what I wanted to geth through in Linear Algebrafor the day :] And quickly developed an awesome tension headache O.o One way of alleviating the pain (I've gotten these before) is holding a cold hand (which my hands are usually cold, so that helps :] ) across my cheek, eye and forehead. Unfortunately, this leaves me with only one hand. Luckily I needed my left hand for my face, so I was still able to do the Linear Algebra work with my right. However, it's considerably harder to type one-handed, so I apologise now for whatever typos or unintelligible words there may be in this post :]
We were watching the Giants v. Cowboys game. Being an Eagles fan, I just wanted the stadium to explode :] Kyle requested that Eli would be allowed to get out first, I granted that :]
However, now Seth is back to Skyrim :D It's a wonderful study break tool :D
Tomorrow starts the finals. Here goes...
-Carly B
Sunday, December 4, 2011
It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas....
It is too. On Tuesday we got our first snow of the season (it went away quickly). That was a weird day too - when I left the house, it was kinda raining a little. I wore my rainboots - mostly because I was wearing my new blue and white blink 182 shirt and my rainboots are blue and white :D - and I was really glad I did, seeing as how the weather went from fall (rain) to winter (snow) to spring (slush) in one day O.o It was kinda gross by 5 that afternoon.
On Wednesday, I got to take a break off campus since I needed to go to Target. I went there to get some Christmas presents and decorations for my room - lights, some ornaments, and a mini stocking for my door :] I didn't actually get to decorate that night because I had orchestra that evening and homework due the next day.
Then, that night we ('we' being Seth, Kyle and me) stayed up until about 2 again with Skyrim. It's such a cool game :D
Thursday I got to decorate!
My lights go across my windows and closet - and you can kinda see one of the ornaments at the end of the string - it's a red star (and it's in front of the Hogwarts acceptance letter that I got at the MOW dinner :] )
And my stocking for my door :D
Thursday was a great day - I spent it decorating my room, watching Disney movies and hanging with friends. It was fun :]
Friday I got to enjoy my lights - and a bunch of the guys on my floor were enjoying them too :] There were about 5 of us in the house, and all of us were doing homework. It was a crazy night ;] I got my Stat homework done, though, so that's pretty awesome :D
I spent quite a bit of my Saturday at the Long Center. We had a rehearsal at 10.30 in the morning, then the concert was at 8. In between, I went to see the PMO Christmas Show with Kimberly. That was really cool, Kyle was in it, as well as Ryan Hossler - another Wesley guy. It was a fun show - all the PMO groups (PMO=Purdue Musical Organizations, all the vocal groups) sang some cool songs, and the Varsity Glee Club (the one Kyle is in) sang a really cool version of Carol of the Bells.
Then it was time for orchestra once more. Our part of the concert went pretty well. Totentanz was really spiffy :] I wish I played piano. I stayed to hear Philharmonic play Mahler's 4th. They're really good.
Today, I got to sleep in - it was 9.30 when I woke up :D And I woke up to find that I'd somehow managed to take my bottom retainer out and put it in the bedside pocket thing where I keep my retainer cases in my sleep (only it wasn't actually in the case - I definitely scrubbed it pretty good...). I really have no idea how I pulled that one off. During the morning, I watched a movie and then it was time for the WOW dinner. Our theme was Grandma's House :D Most of the women were dressed as grandmas - I got to be the rebellious teenager in my red corset and black skirt and heels :D Shilpa and I played some Christmas carols - me reluctantly ;] - and Stephanie was setting me up with all the various 'grandsons' in the room, including the ones that have girlfriends already :] Then Erin somes up to me and says 'You used to be such a pretty girl.' I responded 'Gee, thanks Grandma.' :] It was super fun, plus I didn't have to get silver sprayed in my hair, so I don't have to wash it out :D
So now I'm watching football with Kyle, Ben and Jake. It's really nice not to be worried about the Stat homework that's due tomorrow :D
Peace.
-Carly B
ps - I just looked over this post - it's short, it's been a rather laid back week.
On Wednesday, I got to take a break off campus since I needed to go to Target. I went there to get some Christmas presents and decorations for my room - lights, some ornaments, and a mini stocking for my door :] I didn't actually get to decorate that night because I had orchestra that evening and homework due the next day.
Then, that night we ('we' being Seth, Kyle and me) stayed up until about 2 again with Skyrim. It's such a cool game :D
Thursday I got to decorate!
My lights go across my windows and closet - and you can kinda see one of the ornaments at the end of the string - it's a red star (and it's in front of the Hogwarts acceptance letter that I got at the MOW dinner :] )
And my stocking for my door :D
Thursday was a great day - I spent it decorating my room, watching Disney movies and hanging with friends. It was fun :]
Friday I got to enjoy my lights - and a bunch of the guys on my floor were enjoying them too :] There were about 5 of us in the house, and all of us were doing homework. It was a crazy night ;] I got my Stat homework done, though, so that's pretty awesome :D
I spent quite a bit of my Saturday at the Long Center. We had a rehearsal at 10.30 in the morning, then the concert was at 8. In between, I went to see the PMO Christmas Show with Kimberly. That was really cool, Kyle was in it, as well as Ryan Hossler - another Wesley guy. It was a fun show - all the PMO groups (PMO=Purdue Musical Organizations, all the vocal groups) sang some cool songs, and the Varsity Glee Club (the one Kyle is in) sang a really cool version of Carol of the Bells.
Then it was time for orchestra once more. Our part of the concert went pretty well. Totentanz was really spiffy :] I wish I played piano. I stayed to hear Philharmonic play Mahler's 4th. They're really good.
Today, I got to sleep in - it was 9.30 when I woke up :D And I woke up to find that I'd somehow managed to take my bottom retainer out and put it in the bedside pocket thing where I keep my retainer cases in my sleep (only it wasn't actually in the case - I definitely scrubbed it pretty good...). I really have no idea how I pulled that one off. During the morning, I watched a movie and then it was time for the WOW dinner. Our theme was Grandma's House :D Most of the women were dressed as grandmas - I got to be the rebellious teenager in my red corset and black skirt and heels :D Shilpa and I played some Christmas carols - me reluctantly ;] - and Stephanie was setting me up with all the various 'grandsons' in the room, including the ones that have girlfriends already :] Then Erin somes up to me and says 'You used to be such a pretty girl.' I responded 'Gee, thanks Grandma.' :] It was super fun, plus I didn't have to get silver sprayed in my hair, so I don't have to wash it out :D
So now I'm watching football with Kyle, Ben and Jake. It's really nice not to be worried about the Stat homework that's due tomorrow :D
Peace.
-Carly B
ps - I just looked over this post - it's short, it's been a rather laid back week.
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