So much to do, so little sleep...

That seems to be a theme for me this year...
Tuesday I had class and another CS lab. In he lab, we wrote a program in python, so it's a good thing we learned about it the next day... But we got it! And it worked! :D
During the exec meeting, we started going over and revising the bylaws. Yay bylaws...
And then it was time for homework. Like none other...
Wednesday was Ash Wednesday. I was going to give up sweets for Lent, but I need my motivation to do homework (like, if I do homework then I get to have a cookie!), so I decided that I'm giving up candy - basically, if it's mass produced then none for me for 40 days.
I had class and a break at Wesley like normal. And today I got to talk about New Orleans with Heather - we're both going and we've decided that we're going to Cafe du Monde for begniets, whether the rest of the group wants to or not ;]
Then I had my CS lecture - oh, look, python O.o
And I love orchestra, but I have to say that not having orchestra meant that I actually had time that evening :D It was so exciting!
Instead of orchestra, some orchestra people went out to dinner at Fiesta :] That was really fun, we're an interesting group ;D
Then came the conundrum - do I stay up to work and wake up at normal time tomorrow, or go to sleep now and get up earlier?
It didn't really help either way - Thursday morning I woke up obnoxiously tired. I still had class, though. However, we got out early so that meant I had more time to work on the project and paper that were due the next day O.o This call for some tea! (Plus hopefully it'll help my sudden back pain.)
At noon, I went to get some chili for lunch with my big and grandbig, Lauren and Jason. That was fun, we had some good conversations - I love my Psi family :D
On the way home I stopped by the library - I love the Ender's Shadow series and a new book came out recently. I was excited - I haven't read those books in a while and they're some of my favorites. But then I got home again and I actually had to work...
During a slight break, I found that I still had some Reese's in my desk from my parents when they came down for my birthday last weekend. I should've eaten them on Tuesday but I'd forgotten about them >.<
I wrote for most of the time I had before we had the family dinner. I had a baked spud - it was yummy :D
After dinner we had a BIT class meeting - we needed to practice Fighting Varsity for Sunday.
It was a fun meeting - it went something like 'Here's the fighting varsity! That wears... Hey guys, let's have a BIT class trip to the Dunes!' ;D
I was up till about 2 doing homework, and somewhere around 12.15 I had my 4th bloody nose in 4 days - I'd thought they were done seeing as how the day before nothing happened. Methinks I need a humidifier, but that I'd need to have the money for one, as well as have the time to go get one...
Staying up till 2 meant that I woke up rather tired on Friday. It was nice, though, I didn't have Stat (we had an evening exam - professors are required to cancel one class period for each evening exam). That meant I got to eat lunch and finish my Com paper at Wesley during that time :]
Heather and I wanted to work on our CS project together, and we got Seth (a CS major) to help us out :D We started at 2.30 and worked till 5.10, when we decided that it would take us 10 min to walk to class anyway so we might as well just skip it :]
I had anticipated staying up till midnight working on the paper and project, so it was nice to be done at 5 :] I got to eat pizza and watch NCIS with Seth and Kyle.
Seth rented Captain America from redbox, so we watched it that night. I wanted to see it, so I was excited.
I like Chris Evans, so I was sure that I was going to enjoy the movie. He started off as a pretty scrawny guy, but then this happens:

My jaw dropped and I said 'Ooh, I like this movie a lot more now...' :D
Payton and Seth laughed at me, I'm not sure why...
:P









It was only 10, but I was ready to go to sleep. So of course, Seth, Kyle and I stay up and talk for another 2 hours... Oh well, I didn't have anything to do early Saturday :]
When I woke up (at about 9, like usual) I did some laundry and played Kingdom Hearts :D I beat my game in the first one, then started a new game in the second.
Two hours and 43 min later, I got to the point where Sora finally changes his clothes (out of a Micky-esque outfit that I don't like so much) and then another hour later I stopped. It only took me 4 hours to get it started O.o I knew that it was going to take a while - I remember that from before - but I'd forgotten just how long. You can skip the cutscenes in the second game, but it's been long enough that I wanted to watch it all.
Once I finally got that started up, I had errands to run. I badly needed groceries, and I really wanted a humidifier (the bloody noses were getting annoying). I got a Walmart giftcard from my parents for my birthday, so I also got Tangled while I was out :D I love that movie :]
When I got back, Seth had taken over the TV and was playing Skyrim so I watched him and studied for the Psi quiz on Sunday.
Jacob and I planned to go to The Vow (take 2) on Saturday evening, so we got there rather early to make sure we'd get tickets this time and went to watch the ice skaters in the rink and then to Starbucks to kill time. It was fun :]
Goodness, I enjoyed the movie, but it was so sad in the middle...
But it was fun to hang with him again :]
When I got back home, I tried to do homework (I swear!) but I was so obnoxiously tired that I decided to call it a night.
This morning, the BIT class had brunch together :] We're a fun group :D
And I'm so glad i'm not in GABS - the women's basketball pep band - because they had a game at noon and then we had Psi stuff all evening.
So instead of the game, I got to watch Tangled with seth (he's never seen it!) and do some homework. I also got to talk with my mom :D
Then it was time for our Brotherhood Bonding Experience. We have to get all of the active's signatures on a board, so today we walked around campus to find out what we needed to do to get their signatures. By the time we finished, most everyone was at Five Guys getting dinner before chapter. I was going to go, but I wanted to get my car home and since I was going home, I figured I'd just have a sandwich at home rather than going out an spending money.
This week, chapter and the lesson didn't take nearly as long as they did last week - we were done at 8.45 - which was awesome because I still had Spanish homework to do. I volunteered to compile all the lists of requirements together for everyone, so I also did that.
And now I have class once more tomorrow - so I need to sleep.
Good night!
-Carly B

If Panera can do it, so can KKPsi!

These have been some hectic weeks.
Monday I turned 20 :D And at some point during the morning, I had to write the date. I got the 2 and 13 down easily enough, but then I took a few seconds since I almost immeditely wrote 1992 - that's not the year...
It was a pretty relaxed day - I just went to class and read all day :D After my troubles with the year in the morning, I was writing the date on my statistics notes and thought 'what's the date today?' Then I looked at my watch - which has the date on it - and laughed at myself...
After Stat, I went and read in Wesley for a bit and my friend John met me there. He got me Dragonfly in Amber for my birthday :D
Orchestra was fun, my friend Jacob gave me a Yoda card :D And then back at home Andrew offered me a birthday cinnamon roll - that was yummy. I love my friends :]
I decided that I wanted to watch a movie to finish off my day, so I watched The Lion King :D
All in all, it was quite a good birthday :]
Though it really shouldn't've been. I had a lot to do for the week, so Tuesday was when I started stressing.
Thankfully, the CS lab wasn't too bad. In between that and exec, the deposit forthe New Orleans trip was due so I went to pay that. I'm so excited! :D
As we were sitting around and talking, Lisa Jones and I were having fun with Disney Princess valentines and discussing how we didn't have time for boys. Jake and Mario insisted that if some great guy came along we'd make time - and we agreed - but he hasn't shown himself yet to either of us so for the time being we're too busy :] And Mario, while wishing me a happy belated birthday, asked why I didn't like people singing to me, like in a general context. I corrected him - if someone were to serenade me I'd be very happy (hint to that unknown guy that I'm going to make time for once he shows up ;] ) - I just don't like it when people sing happy birthday to me. Jake asked if I had a traumatic experience or something to give a reason for my dislike. I said that one birthday when people started singing I started crying, so that was a good enough reason for them :]
When I got home, there was a package waiting for me and I made a Valentine's Day playlist - Disney love songs are the best! :D
So a few days ago I got this email from the USPS that apparently my mom sent me something. My initial thought was - 'Yay!!' Then, 'she does remember that she's going to come see me in a week, right?' :D I guessed that it was most likely the Mary Kay stuff I'd ordered. Then, Tuesday when I opened it I saw Creative Memories papers and a gift bag, so I was slightly confused. I picked up the papers and saw a note fall - it's a Valentine's Day care package!! Yay! And perfectly on time too :D It was complete with: Darth Vader pez dispenser, soup bowl and plate, lemon cake balls (yum!) and papers for my magnetic thing on my wall. I love my family! :D I kept the bag with 4 cake balls and put the one with 9 in the common room - that's the nice thing about living in a house with 6 guys :D And everyone that had one of them really enjoyed them.
I decided against going to Wesley for the evening because I needed to get some homework done.
On Wednesday I had an extra half hour to get ready in the morning - my Spanish oral interview was at 10 rather than the normal class start time of 9.30 - and it felt like I had so much extra time! It was pretty nice.
Unfortunately, my tattoo was itching like a fiend, so I had to ignore that somehow.
Classes were... well, classes. And homework was... well, homework. Like I said, Monday shouldn't've been the day that it was...
Thursday I had a class and then went to Wesley rather than Aldersgate so that I would study rather than sleep for a day and a half in my room. As it was, I still took a nap on the floor of the conference room (yes, I was that tired).
And even after my nap, my thought process was something along the lines of: I should study formy midterm tonight, but ooh Lisa's looking at Hunger Games stuff and ThinkGeek :D My Star Wars keychain on my keys broke, so I was looking to see if they had any good ones. They have a LED lightsaber keychain that was nifty but unfortunately out of stock.
After my probability exam (which I bombed, by the way, but so did most of the rest of the class), I worked on my annotated bibliography for my com class and then had some fun on ancestry.com. The 1930's US Census was free to access this weekend and I actually found some people on it - I found the report of my Grandma's family in North Dakota :D
As I was playing with that, I was listening to celtic music. I like bagpipes :D And I can sleep in tomorrow! I don't have Spanish since my oral interview was on Wednesday.
Since I didn't have Spanish, my classes on Friday didn't start until 11.30 :D
After my 2 classes, I went to Wesley - Steph was back from Texas :] It was great to see her again.
After CS, I decided that I was going to let myself play Kingdom Hearts and not think about all I had to do that weekend and how little time I had to do it. It was quite nice - I love those games :D
Saturday we had our orchestra rehearsal. Andy told us to be there at 8.40 so I picked up Julia and one of my fellow BITs, Geoffrey, and we got there at about 8.35 - I live under the 'if you're on time, you're late' mentality, so I tend to be really early.
However, out concertmaster evidently woke up at 8.40 so he and the people he had to drive were all late. I felt really bad for all of them - Andy told them to leave the rehearsal and that meant they couldn't play in the concert.
After rehearsal, I had just enough time to do nothing before my mom and dad got here :D It was awesome to see them again, I love my family :] They gave me a teapot and I really want to use it, but I can't remember where I put the rest of my tea leaves so I can't have my English Breakfast tea from my fun new teapot yet...
That evening, Jacob and I had planned to go out and see the Vow. Back over winter break, Kristin and I were watching trailers for movies coming out this year and we saw a trailer for The Vow - we decided that we were going to get boyfriends to take us to see that movie :] That night, I got a message from Jacob saying that if I didn't have a boyfriend, he'd go see it with me - he wanted to see it too. It evolved into dinner, a dance at his church and then the movie.
So, Saturday night we went to Olive House - a Mediterranean resturaunt - and felt rather overdressed, I in my red homecoming dress and he in a shirt and tie. Oh well, it was fun :] And yummy :D
At the dance, we were mostly hanging with another girl from orchestra and having fun dancing. He kinda knows how to swing dance, so we had fun with that :]
And then we went to the movie, which was sold out :[ The next showing was midnight, so we decided to reschedule. Instead, he decided that I needed to watch Jurassic Park. And we weren't overdressed at all anymore :D
Unfortunately, it wasn't until I remembered that my mom had asked me to take a picture. Heh, oops, story of my life.
Sunday morning was time for more Kingdom Hearts :D Then I had my orchestra concert, and I stayed for the Philharmonic concert so I didn't get to go to Wesley.
I did have chapter, though. Plus there was a BIT quiz and lesson afterwards. Evidently Panera's international now - they've expanded to Toronto. Jason said that KKPsi should become international now too - if Panera can do it so can we :D
Unfortunately, it was a long lesson so it was 10 when we finished. And I had homework due today, so I didn't get much sleep last night.
You know your week is going to be a long one when it's already a bad week and it's only Monday.
Today I had class and then went straight home to study for my CS midterm.
At some point while I was in my room, I thought to myself 'why does my nose feel so weird?' I reached up to scratch it, then looked down and saw the blood on my hand. 'Oh, maybe because there's blood coming out of it, I guess that would be a good reason...' O.o
Orchestra was shorter today - since our concert was yesterday, and then the exam was as bad as I thought it would be so that was nice.
I was watching Seth play Skyrim and then Family Guy with Kyle, and now it's midnight and I haven't been getting enough sleep lately as it is. Like I said - it's going to be a long week...
Night :]
-Carly B

My last days of being a teenager...

It's weird to think that I turn 20 tomorrow...
So on Monday I mostly just went to class and did homework. I did make my appointment to get my tattoo :D I was super excited :]
Tuesday was more class, and another bloody lab where we had no idea what was going on O.o However, the email that my professor sent out at 4.15 helped >.<
We had our exec meeting and I had to leave so I could have an interview at CD Land. I hope it works out, it would be nice to have moneys...
After the interview, I went to Panera - I had a thing for a free smoothie so I got a mango smoothie and chocolate chip cookie. It was rather delicious :D
I was out, so I went ahead and made a trip to Walmart - Lady and the Tramp came out so I got that. I also wanted to get some hydrogen peroxide, only I totally forgot. That's what lists are for, after all, to not look at them while you have them in the bloody store O.o
Unfortunately, that night was the last night of the FFF study :[ We talked about Star Trek and Star Wars though, so that was good :D
Wednesday basically went like this:
+class
+class
+lunch
+class
+fellowship meeting and reading at Wesley :D
+class
+orchestra
Then Tangled :D I love that movie.
Yeah, it was a long day.
Thursday was pretty awesome. I didn't have my 9-10.15 class, so I got to sleep in a bit. It was nice :D
I got some homework done before I went to get my tattoo :D

Here it is :D
I like it :D
Bugger, it hurt O.o





I had to go get some fragrance free soap and lotion for it, then it was time for CS recitation O.o So I wrote a story :D
For our house dinner, Andrew had a bunch of stuffs to make sandwiches. I actually had to leave early because I was going out to dinner with big and grandbig. That was really fun - we had a nice Skyrim conversation :D We were talking for about an hour at the resturaunt - I like my Psi family :D
My Friday was also pretty great. I had class, chilled at Wesley and wrote more of my story in CS :D I also made my pesto and feta cheese pasta, yum!
Now, Julia had never seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail before. I decided to remedy that, so Friday evening we watched it :D She said that quite a few jokes now make more sense... :D
The Wesley Friday Fellowship was a Valentine's craft night. It was pretty fun :D I got a valentine from 'a camel with a rug and all your wildest dreams and statistics and books and Star Wars and sports and Harry Potter' (aka Liz :D ) We also watched Lady and the Tramp :]
We stayed up kinda late, which was unfortunate since I had to be up at 5.30 yesterday - we were meeting at Triple XXX at 6.45 to drive to Butler for KKΨ West Block. I had grits for breakfast, Jason Mlady, the person whose car I was riding in, said my southern roots were coming out :D I do say y'all... (which entertained Mike Sheehan, the other peron in Jason's car).
On the drive down, we talked about various fraternity things - apparently OSU's chapter is kinda... weird. I said 'well, OSU students are kinda weird so I guess that fits' :D They appreciated that one.
We got there kinda early because Jason had to be - he's a District officer.
Part of the scheduling was these one on one talks - between the District officers and individual chapters. I went with the group from Gamma Pi (my chapter) and we talked about the recruiting and interview process - my BIT class is 20 large - and it was interesting to hear from the other side of the process.
The workshop I could go to (the other one was dealing with stuff that you find out about after you're initiated) talked about apathy and how to help keep your chapter from having cliques and internal troubles.
We had a while for lunch - there's nothing really near Butler, it's in the middle of a residential neighbornood. I went to Applebee's with some of my brothers and it took an annoyingly long time to get our food. Half of us had to order to go - they had to be back for more of the one on one things. The rest of us got our food and wolfed it down so we could get back not too late - we were already 5 min after when we had to be back as we were piling into the car...
Next up we split up into groups to talk about Relationships, Education and Musicianship, and I was in the musicianship group. We had an interesting conversation about the various ways different chapters are promoting and working to improve. After everything was over, we hung out and watched most of Up while playing Uno :] And I may be voted off the island next week - I kinda made both Mike and Jay Rodriguez slightly angry... :]
We went to Steak n Shake on the way home and I had a heath shake - it was so yummy! I love Heath :]
After I got back to Aldersagte, I went over to Eric's place for a Halo party :D I really don't like first person shooters, so I just played a few games and watched others. Kyle and I played a team match against Eric and Amanda, and we won! I actually got 19 kills, so that was pretty awesome :D Kyle and I were there till 2 am, I was rather tired.
So I got to sleep in till 10.15 this morning :D That was pretty nice :]
Julia and I were signed up to make dinner for Wesley today, so we went shopping for the stuffs to make our spaghetti bar. We got most things set up with plenty of time, so Julia went up to listen to the sermon. I wanted a headcount so I went up to count and then decided to chill for a little since I had some time. Well, Erica was making announcements and she said 'we have a few birthdays...' so I said 'peace out' and fled - I don't like it when people sing Happy Birthday to me.
So I ran away and started making the spaghetti and garlic breadsticks and sautéeing (is that a word?) mushrooms. People seemed to like it - they complimented Julia and me.
Tonight was a COM meeting, and after the meeting Jake and Kyle sang to me, as I ran away. I debated making them walk home, but I was nice.
And now I have to finish my homework as Kyle, Seth and I watch Family Guy and Van Helsing. Block was great and I'm so glad I went, but it did take up quite a bit of my weekend... Eh, who needs sleep? ;]
Peace :D
-Carly B

Fifty Frenchmen can't be Wrong!

Yay for busy weeks...
Monday after I finished my last post I had orchestra and a badminton officers meeting. After the meeting I was in the common room and reading when Seth walked in with Real Steel - that Hugh Jackman movie about boxing robots. I was going to leave about halfway through, but I wound up staying till the end, which was like 1 in the morning. Oops.
Tuesday it was actually a pretty easy CS lab - it's nice to have a lab where we've actually learned it all before.
I didn't have much food, so I got a sandwich from the cafe in LAwson - Seth is in there a lot and said that their snadwiches were good, so I went ahead and tried it out. It was yummy, and it was the first time I haven't had to make my own lunch in quite a while so it was even better :D
Then it was time for the weekly exec meeting. Glen informed us that the Girl Scout cookies had arrived, we were all rather excited about that :] The annoying thing is I like Thin Mints frozen but I live on a floor with three guys so I don't really want to put them in the freezer...
The FFF group talked about The Matrix. It's a pretty interesting movie and raises a lot of quesions - like what is real? What is destiny? That kind of fun stuff.
I was rather tired, so I didn't stay for the devo and communion. Unfortunately, I also couldn't find my cookies so I wasn't able to take them home.
I did some homework, but eventually 'doing homework' turned into 'watching Beauty and the Beast' :D
Or at least part of it. I was about to pass out and I didn't really want to sleep with my laptop in my bed so I turned it off and went to sleep.
Wednesday I woke up and looked at my phone to see 7.53 - it's later than I normally wake up and I figured it was a good thing it wasn't a Monday or Wednesday since I'd only have 30 min to get ready.
Then I got to my desk and looked at my phone agian - this time it said 7.36. My number dyslexia strikes again...
I went to class and had a subdued lunch - I still needed to go grocery shopping.
I was really tired, so I took an hour nap at Wesley :] It was amazing.
As I was waiting to go into the CS lecture, I saw Julie- the badminton club president. It's a class of 200 people, so I seem to see new people every day :]
After orchestra that evening, I had to drop off things to people at badminton so I had a workout in between when I got to the TREC and when badminton started. Unfortunately, there were a number of other people so I had to use an elliptical. I'd forgotten how much I hate ellipticals - I can't use my full stride and so they throw me off about every 5..
When I got home, I took a (kinda long) shower :D And I take really hot showers, so by the end the water was pretty much scalding - I was rather pink when I got out :]
Then I got to watch the rest of Beauty and the Beast (after going through the songs during my shower). I realised that I (as Belle) am one of the few princesses that doesn't speak to animals. Then I thought more and said my firiends are a clock, candleabra, teapot, cup and wardrobe, so maybe I shouldn't talk... ;]
It's a good thing I have two alarms in the morning, because on Thursday I slept through the first...
Then I got up and went to my computer to see an email from my Aunt Cindy. It was about my Spring Break Mission Trip to New Orleans and she said that she was proud of me, and that my Grandpa Andy would  be proud of me for 'carrying on his tradition of helping others'. I never really knew my grandpa, so reading that made me happy :D
I was still tired that morning, so I made some hot chocolate to take with me to class :D And after class I had to return a book to the library so I also stopped to get a bagel from Einstein's Bagels. It was yummy :]
Then it was grocery time! I have food again! And 96 valentines later... it's pretty sweet to have friends :D Psi was doing a Valentine's Day thing like in grade school where we decorated an envelope and got valentines to put in everyone's. That alone was 55 of the valentines.
My CS recitation is still boring - we keep going over the material that I understand from lecture. Once we start getting to things I don't understand, maybe it'll be better...
Jake made a stir fry dinner for our house meething that night. It was very yummy :]
And then my night went to hell. I had homework to do, but then I rememered three other things I had to do for the next day and so I was up until 3 in the morning doing homweork that I either didn't understand, really didn't want to do, and/or couldn't do in a room of English-speaking people (my Spanish homework). That was rather less than enjoyable...
Because of that, I only got 4 hours of sleep and I kew that Friday was going to be rough.
I was about to pass out pretty much the entire time through Spanish. Then I got an adrenaline rush for COM - we had to give our 60 Second Science presentations and (in case you hadn't realised by now) I hate public speaking. So that was fun.
I ate my lunch, but I was still about to pass out again in Stat. I need to pay attention in that class, so I managed. During my break, I read at Wesley so that was nice - just sitting on a couch for my 2 hours.
After CS, I went home and sat down at my desk - my chair is too comfortable, I didn't want to get up again. I got to talk with my Mom and cousin Kristin though, so that was fun :]
I managed to get up because I wanted to go to the bonfire/hike at the Robyne's. There I realised that I'm almost not a teenager, I need to so some teenage rebellious things in this next week! So it's kinda nice that I was already planning on getting a tattoo :]
There was an option to have a sleepover at the Robyne's, but I was tired enough that I wanted to sleep in my own bed, and actually get some sleep that night, so I went home.
Saturday the BITs had a morning meeting (kinda last minute, but there were a good number of people there) and after we went to brunch at a dining court. There were two non-Res Hall people there (myself and one other girl) so they offered to swipe us in :]
I worked on some homework in between that and when I was going to meet Julia for the IU game.
Speaking of which, gag me with a spork. That was an ugly game. There were some really obnoxious IU fans right behind us, so I spent half the game plotting whether I could making convincing enough that I tripped and just elbow them in the balls. Julia was planning physical harm to them as well, but we decided to be nice...
Sunday was Tapout - we finally found out who our bigs are! And we got to meet the Tau Beta Sigma (TBS - the band sorority) sisters for the first time (for me anyway).
I got a big and a twin! And my twin has a little - apparently this doubled the family size.








This is me and Carla, she was the one that walked me around during interviews :]
Yes, it's Carly and Carla :D

The family :D Left to right: Billy (twin's little), Brent (twin), Lauren (big) and me :D






We all went out to Hotbox Pizza after the ceremony, that was fun. Brent was saying something about Lauren leaving (she graduates in May) and she said that's why she got him a twin, so we wouldn't be alone after this semester :]
After Hotbox I did some homework before it was time to practice for Wesley band. I haven't played in a while, it was fun :]
Then it was time for the Superbowl! I watched the first half at Wesley - they have a big tv ;] However I wanted to go home before the game was over and I didn't really want to watch the halftime show, so I decided to drive home then.
It was a good game, too. I didn't really care for either team, so I appreciated the down-to-the-wire atmosphere. And there were some good commercials, not all that many but a good number.
My favorites: Matthew Broderick, Mr Sandman, The ending of the VW one (Darth Vader!), Bridgestone Football, M&Ms, Chevy Graduation, the Hyundai cheetah, and the Avengers. That movie looks like it's going to be so cool!
After the game, Kyle switched the tv to ET - so now I've seen the ending :] I haven't seen anything before that, but that's beside the point. And I was enjoying listening to the music - I played that music! :D (in the Halloween concert last semester)
And now it's once again Monday morning and I need to go to class.
Peace.
-Carly B