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